Private
Harold Edgar Furnival
Service Number: G/37620
Regiment & Unit/Ship
The Queen's
(Royal West Surrey Regiment)
7th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 23 March 1918
Age 19 years old
Buried or commemorated at
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 14 and 15.
France
Country of Service
United Kingdom
Additional Info
Son of Mrs. A. A. Furnival, of 65, Langham Rd.,
Wimbledon, London, and the late Mr. F. Furnival.
Family History
Harold Edgar's father Frederick, was born about 1857 in Kingswinford, Staffordshire, to a mine agent named
William, who was born about 1820 in Llansaintfraid, Montgomeryshire, Wales, and his wife Sarah,
born about 1832 in Ovenbridge, Shropshire.
Harold Edgar's mother Anne Agnes Price, was born about 1859 in Much Wenlock,
Shropshire, to brick agent Thomas, and housekeeper Martha Price, born about 1826 in Callaughton,
Shropshire. Anne was baptised on the 21st of August 1859 in Much Wenlock.
Frederic and Anne married on 18th September 1880, at St Martin's church in Birmingham.
At the time of their marriage the couple lived in Essex and Frederick was working as a schoolmaster.
Frederick and Anne had seven siblings: Agnes Elizabeth born about 1882; Alice May born about 1884; Frances Eleanor
born about 1886; Annie Isabel born about 1888 and Frederick William born on the 4th of August 1890;
all in Marshfield, Gloucestershire. Leonard Thomas born on the 25th of June 1896, Harold Edgar Furnival
born 1898, and Alfred Edward born about 1901, all in Broadwas, Worcestershire.
At the time of the 1881 Census, the couple lived in Maukin Lane, Marshfield, Gloucestershire.
Frederick was working as a schoolmaster and Anne Agnes as a schoolmistress.
At the time of the 1891 Census, the family lived in Main Street, Marshfield, Gloucestershire.
Frederick and Anne were still working as teachers. The household further comprised of their
children: Agnes, Alice, Frances, Annie and Frederick.
POZIERES CEMETERY - SOMME, FRANCE.
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The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth
Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields, and the months that
followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918. The Memorial commemorates over
14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and
who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely represented
are The Rifle Brigade with over 600 names, The Durham Light Infantry with approximately 600 names, the
Machine Gun Corps with over 500, The Manchester Regiment with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and
Royal Field Artillery with over 400 names. The memorial encloses POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, Plot II of
which contains original burials of 1916, 1917, and 1918, carried out by fighting units and field
ambulances. The remaining plots were made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the
battlefields immediately surrounding the cemetery, the majority of them of soldiers who died in the
Autumn of 1916 during the latter stages of the Battle of the Somme, but a few represent the fighting in
August 1918. There are now 2,758 Commonwealth servicemen buried or commemorated in this cemetery.
1,380 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 23 casualties known or believed to
be buried among them. There is also 1 German soldier buried here. The cemetery and memorial were
designed by W.H. Cowlishaw, with sculpture by Laurence A. Turner. The memorial was unveiled by Sir
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