Name
Harry (Henry) Brace
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/03/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6873
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
III D 35
France
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Lychgate, Widford
Not on the Hunsdon memorials
Pre War
Born in1895, in Hunsdon, to parents Henry and Mary, he had five brothers and two sisters and in 1911 they were living in Nether Street, Widford. His father was employed as a farm labourer as was Harry.
Wartime Service
The battalion was stationed in South Africa at the outbreak of the war, on arriving back in England they were fitted out for European warfare and arrived in Belgium on 7th October 1914 as part on the British Expeditionary Force (The Old Contemptibles). They first encountered the enemy on October 18th on the Ypres-Menin road. They fought at the first battle for Ypres and stayed at Fleurbaix until the following February. On 10th March 1915 they took part in the battle of Neuve Chappelle and were involved in heavy fighting for the next four days, during this time Harry Brace was wounded and died in hospital at Boulogne.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Terry & Glenis Collins
