Harry Barraclough was the son of John Barraclough and Florence (nee Nichols). He was born in Brighouse on 22 August 1894. He was baptised at All Souls Church in Leeds with his sisters Florence May and Mary Elizabeth on 25 June 1899, the baptismal records show that the family were living at 18 Jubilee Road and that John was a cartman.
The 1901 Census shows that Harry’s father, John, had died leaving Florence as a widow with her three children aged 8, 6 and 1. Florence was working as a charwoman and had a boarder. They were still living at 18 Jubilee Road
By the time of the 1911 Census Harry, his two sisters and his mother were living at the home of his mother’s sister, Annie Nichols, and his grandmother, Elizabeth Nichols at 9 Northbrook Street in Chapel Allerton. Harry was 18 years old and working as a joiner’s apprentice.
Harry served in the Great War as a private in the the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (regimental number 45539), the Yorkshire Regiment (regimental number 23855) and then in the Machine Gun Corps, Motor Branch (regimental number 80333). He died from his wounds on 15 November 1918 at a military hospital in Cork, Ireland.
Harry is remembered on the war memorial in St Matthew’s churchyard in Chapel Allerton.