Noel Harvey

Noel Harvey

Service no. 532514

Private, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles), 1st/15th Bn.

Killed in action on 7 October 1916, aged about 20

Lived in Clapham; enlisted in London

CWGC: "Son of Alfred and Joice Julia Harvey, of 13, Old Town, Clapham, London."

Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Noel Harvey, aged 16, was working as a commercial clerk for a shipping brokers. He lived at 13&15 Old Town, Clapham, with his widowed father, sister, two cousins and a servant.

Alfred Harvey, 58, was a grocer, from Iwerne Courtney, near Blandford Forum, Dorset

Noel's sister Evelyn Joice Harvey, 18, was a book-keeper for her father's grocery business; born in Clapham

Noel's cousin Ivy Maufield Harvey, 27, kept house for the family; born in Clapham

Another cousin, Gladys Ada Harvey, 25, was a book-keeper for an estate agent; born in Clapham

Alice Foster, 19, from Battersea worked as a live-in servant