Service no. 19893
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 26th Battalion
Killed in action on 15 June 1917, aged 21
CWGC: "Son of Francis Charles and Clara Harding, of 115, Hambalt Rd., Clapham, London."
Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Charles Henry Harding, then a 14-year-old schoolboy, was living with his family at 115 Hambalt Road, Clapham where they shared eight rooms. Francis Charles Harding, 39, was a compositor, born in Islington, north London; Clara Harding, 37, was from Upper Norwood, south-east London. There were six children, of whom five were on the census return for this address:
Eleanor Maud Harding, 17, a milliner, born in Vauxhall
Charles Henry Harding, 14, born in Camberwell
Hubert Frank Harding, 11, born in Camberwell
Marian Frances Harding, 3, born in Clapham
Alfred Edmund Harding, 1, born in Clapham