Year of birth: 1898

Place of birth: Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Last known residence: 5 Hanging Birch, Rhodes, Middleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Country: England, United Kingdom

Force: British Expeditionary Force

Rank: Private

Service number: 34098

Enlistment place: Middleton, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

Units:  —  Lancashire Fusiliers, 11th Bn.  (Last known unit)

Date of death: 06/09/1917

Place of death: Westhoek, Zonnebeke, Belgium

Cause of death: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Age: 19

British War Medal Medal

Victory Medal Medal

Harry was born in 1898, the third of four children of Thomas and Eliza Nugent in Rhodes, Middleton, Lancashire. At the age of 13, he worked as an errand boy, in a bleacher and dyer in Manchester, Lancashire.

Harry joined the 11th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in June 1916.

At 7am on 6 September 1917, a raid from the Division on the left of the 11th Battalion provoked a heavy German barrage on the Fusiliers' positions on the front slope of Westhoek Ridge. German shelling then continued throughout the day and at 7.30pm there was another heavy barrage that lasted until 9.15pm.

14 Fuseliers were killed.

Harry has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

11 Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (The National Archives, Kew (TNA), WO-95-2246-2_3). https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Sources used

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911 (The National Archives, Kew (TNA), RG14). https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Sources used

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=4cb257af-29ca-4d7c-a7d8-883c9131a110

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/832443