239253 Pte. David Harradine British Army 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.21st October 1916) I have recently found out about David Harradine and his sacrifice from researching my family tree. He was my great uncle, my grandmother's brother. David lived most of his life in Northwich, Cheshire. He went to school at Dane Bridge and was enrolled there by his father, Thomas Harradine. He came from quite a large family, nine children in all.
His name is on the Thiepval monument, which is for soldiers missing and killed in action, with no known grave. The inscription is, Here are recorded the names of officers and servicemen of the British armies who fell at the Somme battlefields July 1915-February 1918. But to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial, given to comrades in death.
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