Captain F.P. Harris

Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Attached: R.F.A.
Date published: 26/10/1917
Killed in action: No
Information: Captain F. P. Harris, R.A.M.C., attached R.F.A., only son of Mr. and Mrs. Porter Harris, Curglasson, Stewartstown, has been awarded the Military Cross “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty under very heavy shell fire, attending to wounded and having them safely removed to cover”. He was previously mentioned in despatches. This young officer served through the Gallipoli campaign from the first landing until the final evacuation. He afterwards served in Egypt, and has been serving in France and Flanders since March, 1916. Captain Harris was educatrd at Coleraine Academical Institution, and Trinity College, Dublin.