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Name John Harrison No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 819 Awards VC MC
Regiment East Yorkshire Regiment, 11th (Service) Battalion, No. 6 Company
Later Prince of Wales Regiment
Now 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Temporary Second Lieutenant
Place Of Birth 20 Williamson Street, Drypool, Sculcoates, Kingston-upon-Hull, Humberside, England
Place Of Death Oppy, France
Buried/Location Ashes Location unknown, Pas de Calais, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Named on the Arras Memorial to the Missing (CWGC) Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 14 June 1917
VC Presented 2 March 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Lilian
Memorials
P Named on Arras Memorial to the Missing (bay 4-5), Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
P Named on Regimental War Memorial, Beverley Minster, Beverley, East Yorkshire
Named on War Memorial, St Marys Church, Lowgate, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
P Bronze Plaque from Lime Street Boys School, The Guildhall, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
Memorial Plaque, Malet Lambert School, James Reckitt Avenue, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
P Memorial, outside K.C. Stadium, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Paragon Square, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
Portrait, Citation Plaque and Named on War Memorial, York St John University, York, North Yorkshire
P Jack Harrison Court, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire
By The Way…
Always known as Jack, he scored the winning try in the 1914 Cup Final at Wakefield
The Bronze plaque unveiled in May 1921 at Lime Street School, later moved to the Guildhall when the School was bombed during the Second World War
VC Held By
Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire Museum, 3 Tower Street, York, Yorkshire, England
BORN 2 November 1890
DIED 3 May 1917 AGE 26
VC Won 3 May 1917 AGE 26
Place VC Won Oppy, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917
