Saw this headstone today. Anyone have anymore info on him ? https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2451521/harold-field/ Private Harold Field. 5186085 Gloucestershire Regiment Date of Death. Died 09 September 1940 Age: 20 . Buried NORTHLEACH CEMETERY
A couple of newspaper reports of his funeral say that he died after a short illness in a Scottish hospital. Death on service funeral of Northleach territorial. The funeral of Harold Field of the Gloucestershire....... ... after a short illness. He was 20 years of age and the son of the late Mr. Charles Field and of Mrs. Field, of Eastington. A detachment of the Home Guard formed an escort to the cortege it left the chapel of the institution, where the coffin had lain for Published: Tuesday 17 September 1940 Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo Gloucestershire Territorials, took place at Northleach, whither the body had been conveyed from the Scottish hospital in which he had died on September 9 after a short illness. He was 20 years of age and the ... Published: Saturday 21 September 1940 Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle Results for 'harold field eastington' | Between 1st Jan 1940 and 31st Dec 1940 | British Newspaper Archive Travers
The location of the hospital is difficult to read in the burial register but may be Aberdeen ? This fits with a death registered in Aberdeen 1940 FIELD, Harold, age 20, male, Ref: 168 / 3 / 438 ABERDEEN EASTERN DISTRICT Travers