Private George Harold Harlow

Army Number: 200393 (formerly 2177)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of George Henry and Mary Elizabeth Harlow, of 66, Werburgh Street, Derby. He was Boot Finisher for Messrs Jackson Davies & Co, Derby, prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to France in March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 19, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 1, Row H, Grave 19.

Private George Harold Harlow is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Luke’s Church War Memorial, Derby.