Lieutenant Harold Charles Daffen

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: Mentioned in Despatches.

Son of Charles E. and Annie Daffen, of 29, Park Street, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford and Sheffield University and was commissioned into the 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters on 3rd October 1914. He was killed in action in Dublin on 26th April 1916, aged 22, leading “B” Company in a charge across Mount Street Bridge to attack Clanwilliam House during the Irish Rebellion.

Buried: Grangegorman Military Cemetery, Republic of Ireland. Plot CE, Officers 4.

Lieutenant Harold Charles Daffen is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Anne’s Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. John’s Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St. Cuthbert Priory Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
King Edward VI Grammar School War Memorial, (Retford Oaks Academy), Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.