HARPER J
HARPER John Hirst
Died 13 April 1915 Age 21
Remembered Ypres Memorial Gate Panel 12 Belgium
Family grave scroll photographs to show father's grave at Scotforth Cemetery Lancaster
NAME John Hirst Harper
Service Record
Lance Corporal 999 Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment C Company 1st and 5th Battalion
He was the son of Alexander and Ellen Harper of 29 Wellington Road, Lancaster
On the 1901 census it shows him living at Aberdeen Road, Lancaster with his parents and siblings Elsie Palmer Harper (9) James Palmer Harper (5), Alexander (1).
The 1911 census shows that his occupation was a warehouseman and living with his parents at Wellington Road with his siblings as the 1901 census with the addition of a brother Arthur who was 6.
His brother James Palmer Harper was also killed in the WW1 he was with the Black Watch and died of wounds on 25th October 1915 aged 20.
On his war pension record it shows net of kin as his mother but his guardian as Ellen Drake.
His father died in 1926 and the gravestone references the death of his two sons.
The data is the editor's interpretation of documents from:
The National Archive
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Find My Past (this can be viewed free of charge in local UK libraries if you are a library member).
Ancestry.co.uk (this can be viewed free of charge in local UK libraries if you are a library member).
Everyone Remembered
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