Lieutenant Harry Vernon Gerrard

Regiment: Border Regiment
Attached: Army Service Corps
Panel reference: Panel 35.
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 02/11/1914
Cemetery: Ypres (menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information: Lieutenant Harry Vernon Gerrard, Border Regiment, was killed in action on November 2nd. He was the fourth son of the late Mr. Thomas Gerrard, Crown Solicitor, and Mrs. Gerrard, of 5 Appian Way, Leeson Park, Dublin. He first joined the 4th Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, and was subsequently attached to the Army Service Corps. He was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Garrison Regiment on its formation, and served as Adjutant of the Battalion at Malta and in South Africa. When the regiment was subsequently disbanded, he was appointed to the 2nd Batt. of the Border Regiment. Being seconded, he served in the Southern Nigerian Regiment (West African Field Force), but rejoining the Border Regiment on the outbreak of hostilities he proceeded with it to the front. He was promoted to Captain's rank on the 30th October, and three days later he was killed in action near Ypres.