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L/Sgt. Harold Elijah Frith
British Army 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Oadby, Leicestershire
(d.11th April 1917)
Harold Frith was killed in action on 11th of April 1917 and buried initially in the Lincoln Cemetery, St Martin Sur Cojeul, 8km south-east of Arras, France alongside 21 comrades killed on the same day. He was reburied after the Armistice in the nearby British Cemetery, Wancourt.
He was born on 22nd October 1893 in Rowston, Lincolnshire. His father, Robert, was a shepherd.
Harold was the 6th child (12 in all) of Robert Frith (1862-1930) and Mary Ann Simpson Wainfer (1866-1939) of Hemingby, Lincolnshire and Wrangle, Lincolnshire respectively.