OC 841 Cpl William Harold Quarry entered Campbell in 1904.

After school he worked as a marine engineer at Harland & Wolff, Belfast and in 1914 he was a member of the Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) Officers’ Training Corps (OTC).  Harry Quarry enlisted in Belfast and he served with the 20th (Public Schools) Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).

Corporal William Harold Quarry made design improvements to the Lewis machine-gun and these were acknowledged by the Ministry of Munitions.  He was 25 when he was killed in action at High Wood on 17 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.  The Battalion sustained many casualties as they tried to make progress through heavy entanglements of wire and were raked by enemy fire.

He is buried in Flatiron Copse Cemetery Mametz

Old Campbellian