Rifleman Harold George Eggleton

Date of Birth c. 1894
Age at Death 21
Date of Death 2 April 1915
Service Number 3749
Military Service 9th Battalion Queen Victoria's Rifles London Regiment
Merton Address 92 Cromwell Road, Wimbledon
Local Memorial Rutlish School, Merton

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Born in Wimbledon c.1894, Harold was the middle child of George and Julia Eggleton. The couple had two older children, Hubert and Evelyn, plus three younger offspring – Leslie, Edith and Constance. The family lived at 92 Cromwell Road, Wimbledon and George Eggleton was a civil servant employed at the Probate Registry Office, Somerset House.

By the age of 16, Harold had a job as a junior clerk for a clock company. He enlisted in February 1915, and was killed in Flanders less than two months later.

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