Private Harry Lionel Carver

Army Number : 102759 (formerly 77555 Northumberland Fusiliers)

Battalion : 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Cleckheaton, Yorkshire. Son of Albert and Tabitha Farrow Carver, of Victoria Terrace, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire; Husband of Maria May Carver, of 24 Gladstone Street, Cleckheaton. He was an iron monger’s shop assistant prior to enlisting on 24th February 1916 at Liversedge, Yorkshire. He went to France on 13th July 1917 and was transferred to the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 30th March 1918 and was killed in action on 18th April 1918, aged 29, in the German attack on the British lines near Kemmel, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Private Harry Lionel Carver is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Cleckheaton War Memorial, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire.