GRACE Harold Edward

  • First Name(s):
    Harold 
    Edward 
  • Surname:
    GRACE
  • Service Number:
    34685
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • Battalion:
    2nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    23rd August 1918
  • Age At Death:
    19
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Gomiecourt South Cemetery, France, Grave I. A. 5.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of John Edward and Martha Grace, 6 Ridge St., Wollaston, Stourbridge

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

GRACE Harold Edward Is Named On These Memorials

Stourbridge War Memorial
Wollaston St James’s Church

Further Information About GRACE Harold Edward

Harold Grace was born at Wolverhampton, but came to live at 6 Ridge Street, Wollaston, with his father who was a railway worker. He enlisted in the Ox and Bucks and joined the 2nd Battalion in the 2nd Division. This Division experienced a total reversal of fortunes in the five months from March to August 1918. It was in the second line of defence on the 21st March when the Germans’ first Spring offensive struck the Allied line. It fell back heroically for six days before being taken out of the line. On the 21st August it led the attack on the same German army in the battle of Albert driving them back some five miles in three days. This was the start of the Advance of Victory. Private Harold Grace was killed in action on the 23rd August near the village of Gomiecourt.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society.