Name
Harry John Merrifield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/12/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/32251
Rifle Brigade
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 145 to 147.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of George and the late Alice (nee REDRUP) MERRIFIELD.
His parents married 6 May 1888 at St Jude’s, Kensal Green, London. Alice died 1906 in the Southampton, Hants, district aged 39. George remarried 1928 in the Woolwich, London, district to Sarah J DRIVER, and died 1943 in the Rochford, Essex, district aged 77.
Harry was born 25 November 1898 in Chelsea, London. He attended Victoria Junior School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 1 September 1908 to 6 September 1909. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 3 he lived in Kensington, London, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, at school aged 13, he lived in Watford, with his widowed father and eight siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Whitehall, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Harry’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
