Scowcroft, Harold Beddow –

Son of John Thomas and Matilda Ann Scowcroft, of The Waterloo Hotel, Blackburn Road, Bolton, Lancashire. An old boy of Bolton Municipal Secondary School. Succumbed to his injuries, a gunshot wound to the thigh, at the 4th General Hospital in Versailles.

Personal details

  • Surname: Scowcroft
  • Forename: Harold Beddow
  • Date of birth: Not known
  • Birth place: Bolton, Lancashire
  • Place of residence: Bolton, Lancashire
  • Gender: Male
  • Age of death: 22
  • Place of death: Not known
  • Date of death: July 5th, 1915
  • Casualty type: Not known

Service details

  • Rank: Private
  • Unit: 1st/5th (Territorial) Battalion.
  • Service number: 2398
  • Regiment: Not known
  • Enlistment date: Not known
  • Enlistment location: Bolton, Lancashire
  • Conflict: Not known

Decorations

  • Service medals: Not known
  • Silver War badge: Not known
  • Awards: Not known

Memorials

  • CWGC Memorial: Les Gonards Cemetery, Versailles, Yvelines, France
  • CWGC reference: 4. 11.

Local newspaper entries

  • Bolton Journal and Guardian entries: 24/12/1914 09/07/1915 06/08/1915 25/08/1916 25/08/1916
  • Bolton Journal and Guardian references: 7d 6h* S1c* 7d/g 8k*
  • Farnworth and Worsley Journal entries: 09/07/1915

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