Harold Shillaker
View Harold on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission websiteService number:
2497
Rank:
Private
Service:
Lincolnshire Regiment
Origin:
Date of birth:
1893
Date of death:
13 October 1915
Age at Death:
22
Known information
Harold Shillaker from Pickworth was born in Uffington near Stamford in 1893, the son of George and Georgiana Shillaker. He was a member of Nottingham University Officer Training Corps and enlisted at Luton on 28 August 1914 aged 21 into the 1st/4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He was killed in action the following year on 13 October 1915 in the Battle of Loos during the fighting for the Hohenzollern Redoubt. Harold is remembered on panel 32 of the Loos Memorial, and on the plaque inside Pickworth Church.
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Rutland and The Battle of the Somme
More than 90 Rutland soldiers died in the Battle of the Somme which lasted from 1 July 1916 until the middle of November. Today they lie in cemeteries across the old battlefield in northern France or are remembered among the 72,000 names on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. By using our interactive map, you can find out what happened to them.
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