Harwood, William Pharo

SOLDIER DETAILS:

Harwood, William Pharo
Trooper Canadian Light Horse 227028
September 19, 1917
Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France
Son of June who remarried and resided in Milton.
Maple Leaf Legacy Project

Victoria Park Cenotaph
R. Laughton

Aubigny Communal Cemetery
Commonwealth War Graves

Maple Leaf Legacy Project

Trooper Harwood is remembered on the Victoria Park Cenotaph in Milton ON.

Trooper Harwood is buried in the Aubigny Cemetery in pas de Calais, France.

III. F. 8.

Other Links:

	CEFSG Matrix Unit Information - CLH
	Library and Archives Canada - War Diary CLH
	Canadian Light Horse / Alberta Dragoons

SOLDIER SUMMARY:

Trooper Harwood was the son of June Fennell and stepson of George Fennell, "Commercial Hotel", Milton. He attested to the Depot Regiment of the Canadian Mounted Rifles on October 26, 1915. On February 22, 1917 he joined a "unit to be known as Canadian Light Horse" (see Matrix details).

Trooper Harwood was wounded by a gas artillery shell on September 5, 1917 and he died from the wounds on September 19, 1917.

His medical records note he was "dangerously wounded" from shell gas wound but was improving on September 14, 1917 (30th Canadian Casualty Clearing Station - transferred to 42nd).

The war diary for the September 5, 1917 reports one soldier was evacuated from Divion (north-west of Arras), France due to wounds to the head. On September 6, 1917, 1 officer and 14 O.R.'s ("other ranks") were gassed and sent to hospital.

I suspect Harwood was the man wounded on the 5th as he was reported as "dangerously wounded" not just gassed. The Canadian Light Horse had been providing repairing and fortifying trenches and acting as stretcher bearers for the 1st Canadian Division.

The soldier pages contain information that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks are active where the information is available:

	Soldier Name: Veteran Affairs Canada, Canadian Virtual War Memorial
	Soldier Number: Library and Archives Canada, Attestation Papers
	Cemetery: Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register
	Remembrance: Maple Leaf Legacy Project, Remembrance of Canada's War Dead

The summary of the service is taken from the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is available in electronic and paper format in the Alex Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society. Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared. The research information available is as noted on the Canadian Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line War Diaries.

A summary of all the soldiers is contained on the Web Blog "Great War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb.

Milton Historical Society

William Pharo Harwood