GORDON HARRISON was serving as a Private in the 1st/4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry when he died of wounds received during the Battle of the Somme on 23rd November 1916. He was aged 24 and is buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery on the Somme. 

He was the son of Henry and Georgina Harrison having been born in Witney. in 1911 he was living with his widowed father at Park View Charlbury. He had worked as manservant and joined the 4th Territorial Battalion of the Ox & Bucks in 1914. The 4ths were absorbed into the 1st/4ths and sent to France on 29th March 1915.As part of the 145th Brigade in 48th (South Midland) Division they took part in various actions in the Battle of the Somme. Private Harrison died in the 1st/1st South Midland) Casualty Clearing Station in Dernancourt.

Steve Kingsford