King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 5th Battalion, Service no. 24143
Died of wounds: 13th September 1918, aged 26.
Buried at the Sunken Road Cemetery Boisleux-St.Marc, Pas de Calais, France
Story
Thomas Edward Harrison was born in Moorgreen, Nottingham in 1892, and was the son of John and Esther Harrison. Thomas enlisted in Doncaster with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was promoted to the rank of Corporal. He would have trained at Sandbeck Hall, Maltby, South Yorkshire, and served in France. He married May Candow (1898-1973, pictured below right with one of her grandchildren) in Doncaster in June 1916. Thomas and May had a son, Edward H. Harrison, in 1918.
Corporal Harrison died of wounds and was buried at the Sunken Road Cemetery, France (above left). The day after May received news of her husband’s death, her son passed away at the age of 6 months. May re-married Michael Logan in 1921 and had 11 children with her second husband, and they lived at Rosa Cottage, Norton, Doncaster. One of her children, Mary Logan, lived at Upton, near Pontefract, and her children have Kippax-links.
Pictured below: soldiers in the 5th Battalion in France in 1916.
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