Harold's Story.
Birkenhead News 19 May 1917“TIME EXPIRED” SOLDIER
Killed in Action.
Official intimation has been received of the death in action of Private Harold Lee, third son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Lee, of 68, Deveraux Drive, Seacombe, and husband of Mrs. Lee, of 475, Borough Road. Private Lee was a territorial and when war broke out he was embodied with the King’s Liverpool Regiment, with whom he went to France in February, 1915, returning home a “time expired” man in May, 1916. After a short home stay he was recalled to the colours and went out again with the Lancashire Fusiliers, being transferred to a Trench Mortar Battery last February. On leaving school the late Private Lee entered the service of Messrs. J. C. Goold and Company, Cotton Merchants, with whom he remained until he was called up. The flag of the Cotton Exchange was flown at half-mast as a tribute of respect.
Three brothers of the deceased soldier are serving with the Forces, John is with the Cheshire Regiment in India, Edmund with the R.G.A. Siege Battery in Italy, and Percy, after being in France with the K.L.R. for twenty-one months, was invalided home, and is now attached to the Hampshire Regiment stationed at Colchester.