Caroline Harvie (buried 1936)

Worthing Herald 24^th December 1936.

WORTHING WOMAN’S WILL Mrs Caroline Mary Harvie, of Norfolk Lodge, Mill-road, West Worthing, who left gross estate of the value of £30.713, with net personalty £29,234, bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum South Kensington (who already have one such frame), two frames of sketches by her late father, Professor Thomas Hayter Lewis. Among other bequests were the following: — £lOO to the Rector of Heene Church; to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; £lO to Hayter Montague Harvie and £6O to Francis Graham Harvie to be applied by them for church work; £3OO to Gertrude Ovenden, parlourmaid. serving; £320 to Ernest Moulds, gardener, if serving, "as recognition of his many years of faithful service": £25 to Irene Gammon, housemaid, if serving; to each other servant of one year's service, if still in her service: £l0 to Ellen Chasteney, late cook.

Transcript from Winchester College - Biography of Edward Alexander Gordon Harvie - Sub-Lieutenenant/Royal Naval Division - 1887 - 1916

Edward Alexander Gordon Harvie was born 7 September 1887, the youngest son of Edward Christmas Harvie and Caroline Mary Harvie, of Leinster Square, London. He had two older brothers at Winchester - Hayter, admitted in 1892, and Frank, admitted in 1894. Both brothers entered the church. Edward came to Winchester in January 1901 and was in F House, Hawkings', under Mr Buckland. He was a member of the school's Debating Society, coxed his house lV and competed in the annual steeplechase i n1901. He left Winchester in the summer of 1905 and had decided upon a career as an electrical engineer. He therefore continued his education at the Central Technical College in South Kensington. Shortly after the outbreak of war, Harvie enlisted in the Public Schools Company of the Royal Naval Division and went with them to Gallipoli. He was invalided home with typhoid and on his recovery received a commission with them. He went to France on 1 September 1916, and fell in action near Beaumont Hamel on 13 November of the same year. In a second attempt to capture the village of Beaumont Hamel, where the Germans were well dug in, a further attack was scheduled for 5.45am on the morning of 13 November 1916. The troops went over the top in four waves, in very thick mist and No Man's Land was muddy and full of shell holes. They came under heavy artillery and machine gun fire and half the casualties occurred before the first line of trenches was reached. It was at some time during this action that Harvie was killed. He has no known grave.