Send a Message via the The Wartime Memories Project Website
Send a Message via The Wartime Memories Project Website
Your message will be forwarded to the last contact details we have, your email address will not be passed on, they can reply to you via this messaging system.
Please scroll down to send a message.
246032
Pte. Harold Romilly Garnault Agassiz
Canadian Expeditionary Force 15th Btn.
from:Bedford
(d.26th September 1916)
Harold Agassiz was born 3rd August 1878 son of Jessie Agassiz, husband of Eugene Agassiz of 126 Silver Birch Avenue, Toronto, Canada. In 1891 census he is shown living with his mother in Clarendon Street, Bedford. He served with 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry and was killed in action on 26th September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme just beyond Courcelette and is buried in Courcelette British Cemetery, France. A pupil of of Bedford Modern School 1890-93, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923, The Old Boys of this School who, as in duty bound, laid down their lives in a great cause. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.