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BEDLINGTON STATION

Harris, A., Pte., 1915

Ypres Menin Gate

On Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial is the name of 17040 Private Abel Harris, serving with the Northumberland Fusiliers who died 16/06/1915.

Carole Fife has provided the following:

The CWGC entry gives his age as 39 but census and enlistment records show he was born 1889. He was the youngest child of John and Georgina Harris, a mining family living in Ashington in 1901 and 1911. In 1910 he married Maria Harding and went to live at Cowpen New Town, Blyth, while working as a miner.

He died in the Second Battle of Ypres and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres.

He is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04


The CWGC entry for Private Harris

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk