A 1917 conscript who served with the 1/7th and 1/6th Battalions

Harold Herbert Pagett was born in January 1899 and was from Derby. His father George was a congregational minister and his was mother Sarah Ann. Both the 1901 and 1911 Census place the family at Avondale Road in Derby. Harold attended Derby School and won a scholarship to Hastings Street Higher School.

Harold was conscripted in Spring 1917 – most likely into the 3 (Res) Battalion. He would have arrived in France in late 1917/early 1918. Harold only served overseas with the 7th and 1/6th Battalions. It is likely that he joined the 7th Battalion after the 1/7th Battalion merged with the 2/7th Battalion. He was later transferred to the 1/6th Battalion probably in the Summer of 1918.

He married Dorothy Whatmough in Surrey in 1934 and they settled at Frimley where Harold was a tutor “for Army, Navy and Air Force”.  He died in Surrey in 1971. 

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