Name
Harold (Dick) Summerfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
777046
Royal Field Artillery
'C' Battery, 282nd Army Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY
I. B. 13.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin,
British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
His home was at Basing Villas, 30, Union Road, Hitchin and his parents were Mr and Mrs J. Summerfield. He had been born in Hitchin.
Before joining the army, he had been employed at Russell's Tanyard in Hitchin and had been a boy chorister at St. Mary's School. and enlisted there in May 1916.
Wartime Service
Harold received the Service Number 777046. He went to France in August 1916 and was killed instantly by a shell bursting when his Battery was in action in Belgium. The shell came within 50 yards of the gun and killed the Serjeant, Dick and wounding others.
At the time he was a Driver in ‘C’ Battery of the 282nd Army Brigade on the opening day of the Battle of Langemarck. The Battery was equipped with 18 pounder guns. His death occurred probably in the vicinity of Wieltje, approximately one mile north of Ypres towards the front line between St. Julien and Frezenberg in support of XIX Corps.
He was buried in Plot I, Row B, Grave 13 in Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery, Ypres in Belgium.
Additional Information
His brother Arthur was killed in action on the 6th June 1918.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
