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Pte. Harold Frederick Lindsell
British Army 12th Battalion Notts and Derby Regiment
from:Nottingham
(d.25th Jun 1917)
Harold Frederick Lindsell was my Great Uncle born in Nottingham on the 4 February 1896 and dying in the field at Ouderdom, Belgium on the 25th June 1917.
He enlisted on 6 October 1915 with the 12th (Pioneer) Battalion ‘The Sherwood Foresters’ Private number 22614. Formed at Derby on 1 October 1914 as part of Kitcheners Third Army and attached as Army Troops to 24th Division. Moved to Shoreham in April 1915 and converted into Pioneer Battalion for the same Division. On the 29 August 1915 landed in France. In June 1917, he was based at Sherwood Park Camp near Ouderdom in Belgium where they were used to repair roads and railways and dig trenches mainly at night to avoid snipers. On the 25th June “B†Company were digging a new trench in the early hours of the morning when Harold was killed along with his officer by a direct shell hit. Four other men were wounded. Harold has no grave as he was rent asunder by the blast but is remembered on the Menin Gate, Ypres Panel 39 to 41 and at The Castle in Nottingham.
