Other Information:Harry was educated at Summer Fields, Summertown, Oxford in 1891, then obtained an entrance scholarship at Charterhouse School, Godalming in 1896. He left there with the Charterhouse Science Exhibition in 1901 and entered Clare College, Cambridge, with a Science Scholarship the same year. While at Clare College he was first secretary and then captain of the Clare Rowing Club. He left there with a second class in the Natural Science Tripos, and proceeded to the London Hospital, qualifying M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1907. Harry gained a commission within the Medical Services from the 29th July 1907 at the rank of Lieutenant and was appointed to Netley Hospital. From there he proceeded to Poona in 1909, was promoted Captain on 29th January 1911. He was serving in Karachi, India when war broke out and entered the war in France on the 7th November 1914, having been attached to the 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade from the October. He died from wounds received at Neuve Chapelle while dressing the head wound of Serjeant William James Marriage. His Commanding Officer wrote: “Your son was hit while attending to a wounded man and I never saw him again. He was taken to the 25th Field Ambulance at Estaires and died there. He was shot by a rifle bullet in the chest.” Harry was the elder son of Henry Byatt, author, late of 36 Warwick Gardens, Kensington and Mrs K M Byatt of 31 Chepstow Place, Bayswater, W2.
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