Private Harry Harrop

Army Number: 20301

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Son of Police Inspector James (of the Police station Carlton, Nottingham) and Ellen Harrop, of Bestwood Park, Nottinghamshire. He was an asylum attendant and enlisted on 27th November 1914 at Nottingham. He went to Gallipoli on 1st July 1915 and received shrapnel wounds in his left arm on 28th August 1915. He was treated at No. 26 Casualty Clearing Station at Imbros and returned to his Battalion. He went to Egypt on 3rd February 1916 then on to France on 26th June 1916. He died of wounds at 2/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station at Warloy-Baillon, France. 23rd September 1916, aged 23.

Buried: Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 2. Row B. Grave 5

Private Harry Harrop is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
St. Pauls Church War Memorial, Carlton, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Sergeant William Harrop 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards also fell in the Great War.