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Bamford was born in Southampton and played his youth football for Bitterne Guild before joining Southampton in the 1908 close season.
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Harry Bamford
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His first-team debut came on 9 January 1909, when he took the place of Bert Trueman at left-half for the Southern League match at Luton Town, which was lost 1–0. Bamford retained his place for two further matches, before John Robertson replaced him, although Bamford returned for two matches at the end of February. Bamford made two further appearances, in April 1910 and in April 1911.
In 1911, Bamford decided to quit football in order to continue his career as a schoolteacher.
lieutenant has not been possible to ascertain why Bamford enlisted in a Shropshire battalion for WW1 having been living in Southampton in 1911. The 1st Battalion were based at Tipperary in August 1914, as part of the 16th Battalion of the 6th Division.
They mobilised for war a month later and landed at Saint Nazaire, France on 10 September. Harold is thought to have been badly wounded during skirmishes around the Ypres salient in November 1915.
The area around Etaples was the scene of an immense concentration of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals.
lieutenant was remote from attack and accessible by rail from both north and south and this is probably how Bamford found his way to one of the hospitals in the area. He succumbed to his wounds, dying of septicaemia and was buried at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, (Plot 1, Row A, Grave 15). He is one of 10770 Commonwealth soldiers interred in this military cemetery.
His headstone reads: “Until the morning dawns and the shadows flee away.”
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records show he was the son of Annie Bamford, of 5, Cliff Road, Itchen, Southampton, and the late Abraham Bamford.
Native of Southampton. He is buried at ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY near Le Touquet.
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