War Memorials Elsewhere, - Harrow School

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The War Memorial Building for Harrow School
Photo : Guy Collins-Down the Chief Commercial Officer of Harrow School Enterprises Limited

The Vestibule of the War Memorial Building for Harrow School
Photo : Guy Collins-Down the Chief Commercial Officer of Harrow School Enterprises Limited

The Harrow School War Memorial Building on the High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, was opened in 1926 in remembrance of 644 Masters and Old Harrovians who died in the First World War. The names include 5 Officers who served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

The names of those who lost their lives are commemorated on wall plaques situated inside the building in the vestibule.

Guy Collins-Down the Chief Commercial Officer of Harrow School Enterprises Limited has kindly given permission to reuse the photos of the building and the vestibule.

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Major Wilfrid Harry Dent.
10th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the Rev. Canon J. J. D. Dent and Laura M. Dent, of Red House, Hursley, Winchester. Born at Hunsingore, Yorks. Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 48.
Buried CABARET ROUGE CEMETERY.
(Harrow School 1881)

(Born at Hunsingore 5 June 1867, the son of Revd, Canon Joseph Jonathan Dent, MA, Vicar of Hunsingore, Wetherby, Yorkshire. 2nd Lieut 10 November 1888......... Retired 8 June 1907.
Appointed temporary Major in the 10th Service Battalion Yorkshire Regiment 20 November 1914. Killed in action at Hill 60, Loos, 25 September 1915.)

Colonel Arthur de Salis Hadow. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 26 September 1915. Aged 57.
Buried LOOS - ST. PATRICK'S CEMETERY.
(Harrow School 1872)

(Born in London, 12 July 1858. Son of Patrick Douglas Hadow, B L, of Sudbury Priory, Middlesex.
2nd Lieut. 4 December 1878. Lieut. 11 October 1879. Captain 8 November 1885. Major 4 December 1896. Lieut.-Col. 29 September 1906. Brevet Colonel 29 September 1909. Retired 29 September 1909.
Served in the Nile Expedition, 1885, and with the Soudan Frontier Force in charge of regimental Camel Corps, 1885-86. Appointed to the command of the 10th Service Battalion, 21 September 1914.
Killed in action at Hill 70, Loos, on 26 September 1915.)

Lieutenant Frank Cooper Ledgard. 2nd Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Armitage and Helen Ledgard, of The Manor House, Thorner, Leeds. Killed 23 October 1914. Aged 23.
Buried HARLEBEKE NEW BRITISH CEMETERY.
(Harrow School 1905)

(Born at Scarcroft, Leeds, 15th October, 1891, son of Armitage and Helen Ledgard, of The Manor House, Thorner, Leeds.
2nd Lieut., 25th March, 1911 ; Lieut.. 27th October, 1913.
Proceeded to Belgium with 2nd Battn. in October. 1914.
Killed in action near Ypres, 23rd October, 1914. He was in charge of the machine gun detachment of the battalion.)

Captain John Cecil Morgan. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of J. H. Morgan, C.V.O. husband of Truda Morgan, of Fearn, Claygate, Surrey. M.A. Trinity College, Oxford. Served in the South African War. Killed 7 August 1915. Aged 39
Buried AZMAK CEMETERY, SUVLA.
(Harrow School 1889)

(Born in London, 24 October 1875, son of John Hammond Morgan, CVO, FRCS. 2nd Lieutenant 20 December 1899...... Resigned 8 September 1909. Appointed to the 6th Service Battalion 4 October 1914. Killed in action at the taking of Lala Baba, 7 August 1915.)

Captain Alexander Morton Shaw. 12th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of John E. and Ella G. Shaw, of Brooklands, Halifax. Died 10 April 1918. Aged 30.
Commemorated on Panel 4, PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL.

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