Private Harold Mercer
CH/2055S 4th Battalion Royal Marine Light Infantry
Died of Wounds 23rd April 1918 (Zeebrugge raid) , aged 20
Lived at 14 Whittaker Street
Buried in Burnley Cemetery, UK

Harold was the eldest son of 6 children, standing 6 ft tall he enlisted Oct 1916 and was killed in the naval raid on the Zeebrugge Mole on Tuesday morning 23rd April 1918, his body being brought to the UK.
His cousin Pte Ernest Clegg served with him.
He had seven cousins serving, one of whom was a prisoner of war, his father served 23 years 3 months in the King's own Scottish Borderers and two yearsin the East Lancashire Regiment seeing action in Burmah and the Boer War

Pte Herbert Mercer of the Cameron Highlanders who was killed on the 31st July 1917, aged 20 was possibly his brother.

Burnley Express 27/4/1918 (P) 4/5/1918