Current Information:

Age-42

Distinguished Service Order

Laventie Communal Cemetery, France

At the start of the war the 2nd Rifle Brigade battalion were in India but they soon returned to England where they joined 25 Brigade of 8th Division. The division landed in France on 6th November, 1914 and on 17th November 2nd Rifle Brigade moved into the trenches for the first time when they took over the front line at Chapigny near Laventie. There followed a period of three days in the trenches and then three days in billets at Laventie and it was while in these billets on 28th November that George Harman was killed by a shell.