Harry Amos Egle

Born: 1886

Died: 10 March 1917

Rank and Regiment: Private 14028 in the 8th Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment.

Resting Place: Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension, France

Memorials: St. George’s, Hardingham, United Kingdom

In early 1906, Harry married Frances Mary (“Fanny”) Hall and in the 1911 Census they are living with her widowed father and their two oldest children, Dorothy aged 4 and Florence aged 2.

According to the Hardingham Memorial Register, when he was killed in 1917, he and his wife had four children; certainly Winifred was born to them in 1913.

The Hardingham Memorial Register records that he was a farm worker.

He enlisted in the 1st Norfolks in September 1914, shortly after the outbreak of war. He was sent to France in May 1915. He was wounded in January 1916, but was able to rejoin his regiment in May of that year. He died of wounds in hospital in France on 10 March 1917, and is buried at Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension. The wooden cross which originally marked his grave has been returned to Hardingham Church where it is on display.

Fanny survived her husband. She is recorded as marrying widower Robert Duffield on 3rd March 1920 at Hardingham. She appears to have died in Norwich in 1962, aged about 76. Robert, who was rather younger than she was, survived to 1973, dying in Dereham.