Guardsman 18966 Harold William LOCKYER
3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Killed in Action, Thursday 27th April 1916, Belgium, Age 21
Home address:
76 Lumn Street*, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1895, Barnstaple, Devon
Parents:
Maud Lockyer and William Lockyer
332 Stockport Road, Gee Cross, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
Cotton Weaver
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, row C, grave 2.
Link to Hyde:
Lived in Hyde
From the Manchester Evening News, 5th May 1916, page 4, column 6:
He was killed when a shell hit him and his comrades, while they were heading to the trenches on a fatigue party.
A Message of Remembrance, written for Werneth Low Cenotaph Unveiling, 25th June 1921:
Baptist Church and Sunday School, Chapel Street, Hyde.
In ever-loving memory of Edwin Eyre, M.M., Harold W. Lockyear, Harold Slater,
John S. Pursglove, Jesse D. Schoolden, Andrew Leech, Fred Moores, and William Booth.
In ever-loving memory of Edwin Eyre, M.M., Harold W. Lockyear, Harold Slater,
John S. Pursglove, Jesse D. Schoolden, Andrew Leech, Fred Moores, and William Booth.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his father:
WHERE OUR SON IS LAID
DEAR IS HIS MEMORY
THAT NEVER SHALL FADE
* Lumn Street is now part of Lumn Road. See our notes on Old Place Names.