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Private Henry Harold Coard
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Private Henry Harold Coard Veteran

Birth
Raheny, County Dublin, Ireland
Death
8 May 1915 (aged 26)
Ypres, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium
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Ypres, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium Add to Map
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
COARD, HENRY HAROLD, Private, No. 13245, B Company, 1st Battalion King's Own Yorkshire L.I., 2nd son of John Henry Coard, Postman, Raheney, co. Dublin, by his wife, Annie, daughter of the late Henry Moore, of Dundrum, Dublin; b. Raheney, co. Dublin, 2 April, 1889; educated Howth Road School, Clontarf; was foreman gardener to the Earl of Mar and Kellie at Alloa Park, but on the outbreak of war left and joined the Colours, 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front in January, 1915, took part in the fighting at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60 and the first and second Battles at Ypres, and was killed in action during the latter, near Hooge, 8 May, 1915; unmarried.
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
COARD, HENRY HAROLD, Private, No. 13245, B Company, 1st Battalion King's Own Yorkshire L.I., 2nd son of John Henry Coard, Postman, Raheney, co. Dublin, by his wife, Annie, daughter of the late Henry Moore, of Dundrum, Dublin; b. Raheney, co. Dublin, 2 April, 1889; educated Howth Road School, Clontarf; was foreman gardener to the Earl of Mar and Kellie at Alloa Park, but on the outbreak of war left and joined the Colours, 1 Sept. 1914; went to the Front in January, 1915, took part in the fighting at Neuve Chapelle and Hill 60 and the first and second Battles at Ypres, and was killed in action during the latter, near Hooge, 8 May, 1915; unmarried.

Gravesite Details


Note from GN: 13245. 1st Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. 8th May 1915. Age 26. Son of John H. and Annie Coard



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