Private Walter Bernard HARRISON (1914)

20th (Service) Battalion (3rd Public Schools), Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Born 25 January 1896 in Bolton, Lancashire
Killed in action 20 July 1916, aged 20
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Walter Harrison was the second son of Revd Frank Wesley Harrison and Louisa, née Allen, of Patricroft, Manchester.

He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and won an open Classical Exhibition to Merton.

He enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers from the Oxford University Officer Training Corps in July 1915, and went to France in November.

He was killed in action by shell fire in the early morning of 20 July 1916, during an attack on the Foureaux Wood on the Somme, and buried near High Wood in an unmarked grave.