Lance Corporal Victor Harrison

Army Number: 200412 (formerly 2238)

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

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Son of William and Ada Harrison, of Brook Road, Borrowash, Derbyshire. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 21, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.