Guys Terrace
(off Blue Bell Hill Rd)
THE GREAT WAR
HARRISON, ARTHUR
Rank: Private Service No: 53068 Date of Death: 1/02/1918 Age: 28 Regiment/Service: Manchester Regiment 23rd Bn. Panel Reference: Panel 120 to 124 and 162 to 162A and 163A. Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL Family History He was the son of Joseph and Mary Harrison and the brother of Thomas, Alice, Beatrice and Harry Harrison. In 1911 they lived at 31 Lowdham Street and later 10 Pym Street (both St Ann's Nottingham). He was the husband of Mabel (née Henry) Harrison and the father of Joseph and Sidney Harrison. Mabel married Samuel Love in 1919 and they lived at 18 Guy's Terrace Blue Bell Hill St Ann's Nottingham. Employment/Hobbies He was a general fruiterer. Extra Information Nottingham Post notice (abridged) 5 March 1918, 'Harrison. Accidentally killed on February 1st 1918, Private A Harrison. Wife and children.' Sources: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
BARNETT, George
Rank: Private Service No: 1510 Date of Death: 31/01/1917 Regiment/Service: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 7th Bn. Grave Reference: III. C. 5. Cemetery: FONCQUEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY Family History He was the son of Thomas and Maud Barnett and the brother of Elizabeth, John and Gladys Barnett. In 1911 they lived at 18 Guys Terrace, Blue Bell Hill, St Ann's, Nottingham. Employment/Hobbies He was a labourer in 1911. Extra Information Nottingham Evening Post notice (abridged), 23 February 1917: ‘Barnett. Killed in action January 31st 1917 Bombardier (sic) George Barnett, Sherwood Foresters, age 21. Father, mother, sisters, brothers, fiancée.’ Nottingham Evening Post notice (abridged), 30 January 1919: 'Barnett. Private G Barnett, 1/7th Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters, killed in action January 1917. Father, mother, brothers, sisters. 85(?) Seymour Street, Nottingham.' Remembered on
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Nottinghamshire Great War Roll of Honour |
DRESHER (Dresher) Leonard
Rank Private Second Class Service number 309680 Employment/Hobbies In 1911 he was an apprentice electrical engineer and a packer upon enlistment. Date of death 09 Nov 1918 Age at death 21 Family History Leonard Dresher, known as Leon, was the only child of Adolph and Mary Jane Dresher (née Cook). His parents married at Nottingham and Leon’s birth was registered there (J/A/S/1897). His father died prior to the 1911 Census which recorded Leonard living with his widowed mother who was then a 34 year old dressmaker born at West Bridgford. The pair lived at 21 Guy’s Terrace Blue Bell Hill Nottingham Address given on enlistment 19 Ferris Street Nottingham Military Unit Royal Air Force Extra Information Death notice published 13th November 1918 in the Nottingham Evening Post : ‘DRESHER. – Died in military hospital, November 9th, Gnr. Leonard Dresher (Leon), R.G.A., the dearly loved and only son of Mary Saltinstall, Carisbrooke-terrace, aged 21. Over four years service in France.’ Remembered on |