Date of Birth
23 August 1880
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Teacher in Manchester
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Second Lieutenant
Royal Garrison Artillery
Theatre of war
Europe
Date of death
16 April 1917
Buried/memorial
Mindel Trench Cemetery, Arras, France
Biography
Second Lieutenant Edward Harrison attended Borough Road College for three years, leaving the college with an intermediate arts qualification. Little is known about his time at the college. After Borough Road College he became a teacher in Manchester. Harrison joined up in late 1915, and served with the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was 32 when he was killed.
Sources
Borough Road College 1898 applications, 1902 Annual Report, BRCSYG35, Secondary source information provided by Douglas Craik (taken from Commonwealth War Graves Commission), The O.B.’s War Hum and Roll of Service (1918, 4th Edition)