Notes
Met Office add: Born 11 April 1890, Died 18 October 1916 aged 27 near Eaucourt l’Abbaye. No known grave, remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. Harold was engaged by the Meteorological Office to assist JS Dines at Farnborough but the office had not yet been constructed so in the interim Dr. Shaw, Director of the Meteorological Office employed him working on calculus associated with the upper air.
Harold began working at Farnborough in early 1914 but resigned his post on 15 February the following year after a dispute about his salary. He became Scientific Assistant to the Chair Meteorologist of the
Irrigation Department of the Union of South Africa.