Corporal Harold Drake

Army Number: 90015 formerly 24315 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Charles William and Elizabeth Drake, of 61 Macualay Street, Grimsby. He was a plasterer prior to enlisting 12th March 1915 at Grimsby. He was appointed Laqnce Corporal 7th April 1915 and promoted Corporal 25 th January 1916. He went to France 1st February 1916 and suffered shrapnel wounds to his head and arm23rd August 1916. He was treated at 1 Australian general Hospital, Rouen before being transferred to England on H.S st. Andrew 28th August 1916, He was transferred to the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. 29th June 1917 and returned to France 30th June 1917. He was killed in action 19th September 1918.during the attack on the Quadrilateral, near Holnon

Buried: Savy British Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row N. Grave 25.

He is also commemorated on the Minster >church of St. James War Memorial, Grimsby.