Date of Birth
Unknown
College
Borough Road College
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Second Lieutenant
Norfolk Regiment, 1st Battalion
Date of death
23 April 1917
Buried/memorial
Arras Memorial (Grave/Memorial reference: Bay 3.)
Biography
Second Lieutenant Harry Norton Fox was the son of Josiah and Frances Fox. Before he went to Borough Road College he went to Paston School, North Walsham. According to Arthur Adam Taylor Crosse, the vicar of St Mary’s Hickling “he was a promising boy, and hard work and a good intellect enabled him to fulfil the promise of his boyhood.” He attended Borough Road College for two years, and competed in both cricket and football for the college. He graduated the college with an Intermediate Arts qualification and is listed as being destined to go straight into service as a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Fox had a fiancee, Ella Margaret Howes. She was a nurse during the war. Fox enlisted into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before being awarded with a field commission into the Norfolk Regiment. He was killed on 23 April 1917. Arthur Adam Taylor Crosse describes how “he was a fine soldier, and his colonel and brothers officers speak most highly of his courage and the excellence of his work, and they most sincerely mourn his loss.”
Sources
Entry on p.87 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, BFSS/2/9/12/10 [BRCFB010], BFSS/2/9/13/10, 1916 Annual Report,http://ww1.one-name.org/ww1_stories/eleanor-margaret-howes/, https://www.flickr.com/photos/oldpastonians/13137745173/, Commonwealth War Graves Commission