HAROLD ELSWORTH

RANK: Lieutenant.

REGIMENT: 4th Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers

BORN: Leeds.

ENLISTED: Leeds.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 21/08/1918.

AGED: 26.

CEMETERY: Bucquoy Road Cemetery is situated on the D919 heading south from Arras to Ayette.

GRAVE /PANEL : VI. K. 24.

LEEDS MODERN: Unknown.

LOCAL MEMORIAL: Scholes near Leeds.

Harold was the Son of Henry a Printer by trade Born Leeds 1867 and Mary Louisa Walker Born Leeds 1866, they married at Leeds in 1891.

Harold left Leeds Boys Modern to join his fathers and uncles printers firm, and then went onto Oxford University and then onto Lincoln College where he took his B.A degree.

In August 1914 he offereed to enlist but was turned down on medical grounds. However he reapplied in January 1915 and was given the rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the Border regiment.

He was promoted to Lieutenant in September 1915, and in december 1916 was transferred to the 2/4th Royal scottish Fusiliers.

In the April of 1917 Harold was posted to the 1st Battalion and attached to the 8th Trench Mortar Battery.


In August 1918 Harold was involved in the attack on Courcelles Station where he lost his life and lies in peace at Burquoy Cemetery Arras.

The CWGC shows the following details.

"Son of Henry and Mary Louisa Elsworth, of Iris Villa, Scholes, Leeds."