APPEAL FOR RELATIVES - Harold Marsh

14/5/2015

This Saturday Pudsey and Farsley Royal British Legion Branch members will be laying a wreath in memory of Gunner Harold Marsh. Harold was only 17 when he died at Leeds Barracks and is buried in Pudsey Cemetery. If you are or possibly know any members of Harold Marsh’s family or any of his relatives: Parents George and Mary, brothers John, Percy, Norman Fred, George, Len, Lawrence, sisters Sarah and Hilda can you please get in touch. The Legion will have a stall and can be contacted at Pudsey Carnival this Saturday, the intention is to hold the service after the Carnival is finished, EVERYONE is welcome to come along and remember Harold.

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Neil Webster

15/5/2015 09:26:11 pm

Harold Marsh was my great-uncle (my grandmother's younger brother).

Harold was born in Pudsey in 1899, the fifth child and third son of George and Mary Marsh. He joined the 2nd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Gunner 32477), but caught pneumonia while in training at Strensall Camp, York, and died at home on May 16, 1915,aged 16 ('in his 17th year')

My grandfather, John Robinson, also from Pudsey, joined the Machine Gun Corps later in 1915, leaving my grandmother at home with a baby daughter (my auntie Florence), just months after losing her brother.

John won the Military Medal in 1918 and survived the war.

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