Name
Harry Pritchard
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/06/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13624
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
'C' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LARCH WOOD (RAILWAY CUTTING) CEMETERY
I. D. 14.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary Magdalene Church Plaque, Flaunden, St Mary Magdalene Church Scroll, Flaunden
Pre War
Harry Pritchard was born in Flaunden, Herts in 1896, the son of Amos John Pritchard, a farm labourer, and Elizabeth (nee Wallington).and baptised there on 10 May 1896. He was one of seven children, although two died in childhood.
On the 1901 Census Harry with his parents, elder brother Edward and sisters Minnie, Alice Mary, and Annie were living in Flaunden, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. They remained in Flaunden in 1911 and were then living at 125 Mobcroft. Harry, his brother Edward and his father were working as farm labourers.
Wartime Service
Harry enlisted, at the end of Aug 1914, in Watford as Private 13624 in the Bedfordshire Regiment and after training was posted to 1st Battalion, which had been with the BEF since Aug 1914.
Harry arrived in France on 1 Apr 1915. Joining his Battalion at Ypres. The war diary for April records drafts of 99 and 89 men arriving on 22nd to 24th Apr. The Battalion were in trenches at Hill 60, near Ypres, at the beginning of June 1915 and virtually every day there were small numbers of soldiers reported killed or wounded. The war diary for 14 Jun 1915 reported that one soldier was killed (almost certainly Harry) with another being wounded.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £6 10s 1d. He also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk., www,bedfordregiment.org.uk.
