GASKIN Harold

  • First Name(s):
    Harold 
  • Surname:
    GASKIN
  • Service Number:
    74200
  • Rank:

    Sapper

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Engineers
  • Corps:
    Corps of Royal Engineers
  • Regiment:
    Royal Engineers
  • Unit:
    S.X. Cable Section
  • Former Units:
    Formerly 1306 Worcestershire Regiment.
  • Date of Death:
    2nd December 1915
  • Age At Death:
    28
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Ari Burnu Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey, Grave I. 15.
  • Place of Birth:
    Manchester, enlisted Evesham, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Henry and Mary Gaskins, 33 Bolton St., Hyde Rd., Gorton, Manchester

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

GASKIN Harold Is Named On These Memorials

Badsey Council School
Badsey St James’s Church

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Badsey St James’s Church with the information: Sapper R.E.

Further Information About GASKIN Harold

Additional information on the memorial: Sapper R.E.

Surname spelt Gaskins on Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Market Gardener of Badsey, Worcestershire.

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Harold Gaskin was born on 9th February 1889.  In the Badsey parish magazine of August 1915 he is reported to have been slightly wounded.  In the April 1916 he is reported as dying in hospital at Alexandria.

Source for additional information:
http://www.badseysociety.uk/world-war-one/war-memorial-badsey-church

Harold’s grave has his surname spelt Gaskins as per the Commonwealth War Graves database.

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