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Sgt. Harry Scargill
British Army 13th (1st Barnsley) Btn. A Coy. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:10 Eldon Street, Barnsley, West Yorkshire
(d.1st July 1916)
Harry Scargill was a draper by trade in Eldon Street, Barnsley at the age of 27. One of the first to join the newly formed 1st Pals Battalion on 21st September 1914, he put a notice in the Barnsley Chronicle newspaper advising customers that he had joined Kitchener's Army and that his sister, Annie, would look after his trade and that he hoped to be back before too long.
On 1st of July 1916, aged 29 and a Sergeant in A Company of the 13th (Service) Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment, he went over the top into No Mans Land with the clearing-up party following the second wave of the Accrington Pals attack against the German trench defences at Serre on the Somme at 07.40am.
Amongst the murderous shellfire and hail of machine gun bullets Harry was killed in action and is buried today in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps. His parents are buried in Barnsley Cemetery and their headstone is inscribed recording his death.
