Lieutenant Christopher René HARRISON (1895)

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
Born 27 April 1877 in Kensington, London
Died 23 May 1915, aged 38
Buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France.

Christopher Harrison was the youngest of the four sons of Frederic Harrison and his first cousin Ethel Bertha, née Harrison, of 10 Royal Crescent, Bath. His mother was a positivist and an essayist, and she and her husband were prominent opponents of women's suffrage.

He was educated at Clifton College, and came up to Merton in 1895.

Harrison worked as an architect before the war in England and then in Argentina, and was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He returned to England to enlist and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 16 September 1914.

He died on 23 May 1915, of wounds received whilst carrying out a night attack on 15 May, during the Battle of Festubert. His father was at his bedside when he died.