Private Harry Breedon

Army Number: 57826

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Lowdham, Nottinghamshire. Son of Charles and Eliza  Breedon, of Prospect Villas, Lowdham, Nottingham. He was a carter’s assistant prior to enlisting at Lowdham. He died of wounds 3rd November 1917. aged 20.

Buried : Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 15, Row D, Grave 18.

Private Breedon is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lowdham War Memorial, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire. 
St Mary’s Church Parishioners War Memorial, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His 2 brothers, Private Amos Bredon, Australian Infantry and Private John Frederick Breedon, 7th Battalion (Prince os Wales), North Staffordshire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.