Career
Harry Daniels was the 13th child of baker in Wymondham, Norfolk. He joined the army at a young age and served abroad in India. He was 30 years old, and a Company Sergeant-Major in the 2nd Battalion of The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort"s Own), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 12 March 1915 at Neuve Chapelle, France, his unit was ordered into an advance on the German trenches across no-man"s land which was covered by machine guns and strewn with barbed wire.
Daniels and another man, Cecil Reginald Noble, voluntarily rushed in front with cutters and attacked the wires They were both wounded at once, Noble dying later of his wounds.
A road is named for him in his home town, Wymondham.