GUNNER HAROLD MAITLAND GORING
CANADIAN FIELD ARTILLERY
19TH OCTOBER 1917 AGE 17
BURIED: BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO. 3, BELGIUM
On Harold Maitland Goring's attestation papers his date of birth is clearly given as 9 September 1898, but he was lying, Harold Goring was born on 9 September 1900. This must be why his mother was so specific on his headstone inscription stating his age as exactly 17 years, one month and 10 days. This made him 16 when he enlisted in January 1917, and still 16 went he went overseas on 23 March 1917.
He served with the 4th Division Ammunition Column of the Canadian Field Artillery and was killed outright by a German bomb dropped on the parade ground just as the men had been dismissed.