EDGAR HUBBARD

Private Edgar Bruce Hubbard died in Belgium in early March 1918 as a result of being gassed on 16 February. Edgar Hubbard was another of those “Harewood boys” who is commemorated on the memorial at Harewood School. Born in Christchurch in 1886, he farmed his own property in Russley Road. He enlisted in March 1917, arrived in France in September 1917, and in the next month was hospitalised with measles. Having recovered from this indisposition, he was posted to the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion, Canterbury Infantry Regiment on 5 January 1918. Six weeks later, he was gassed and evacuated to a Canadian casualty clearing station, where he died on 12 March 1918. He is buried close to another Harewood boy, Gordon Pearce, in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery near Ypres.

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