Private Simon Peter Harris
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Harris,
Simon Peter
Date of birth: 1892-08-15
Place of birth: Barton Blount Derbyshire England
Next of kin: Miss Ethel McClary, friend. 63 Murray Street, Brantford, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farmer
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Religion: Baptist
Date of death:
1918-09-27
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Sains-Les-Marquion British Cemetery, I. A. 8.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 772281
Highest Rank:
Private
(1st Battalion)
Rank detail
Private, 1st Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
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RESEARCH INFORMATION
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CWGC ID: 259496
LAC ID:
442909
Service file: B4096-S029
Uploader's Notes:
The following appeared in the Lethbridge Herald 02 May 1916:
Pte. S. P. Harris, 125th battalion, stationed at Brantford, has been notified by British lawyers that owing to deaths in war he is the next heir to an English earldom. According to the story he tells, the earldom with 900 acres, is now held by his maternal uncle, seventy-six years of age. Harris was a Barnardo boy, and with slight prospects until the war came and the heirs met their fate.
Uploader's Research notes: [Private Army Canadian Infantry 1st Battalion ]
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2021-04-25