Harold Todd

Harold was a private (no. 822) in the 12th Service Battalion, otherwise known as the Sheffield Battalion of the Yorks and Lancs Regiment. He had been a bank clerk before enlistment, and joined many of like occupation who found themselves in the 'Sheffield Pals'.

Harold lived with his father Thomas Wilkinson Todd, his stepmother Annie and sister Louisa at Newlands on Chatsworth Road. Father Thomas was a tramways cashier, having previously been a letterpress printer.

Harold died of his wounds on 3rd May 1916 in France. He was with the British Expeditionary Force in the Mediterranean in December 1915 having embarked at Devonport, disembarking at Alexandria on New Year's Day, 1916. By mid-March, however he was re-embarking in Egypt in order to join the BEF in France, where he arrived a week later. He died of wounds received there only a couple of months later, and is buried at Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps.

Despite all this information we have no picture of this man, only 25 when he died.