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Signalman
Harold Owen Alfred
BEAR
Royal Navy
Died On:
Aged:
6 May 1918
20
Harold Bear was born at Ramsgate, Kent on 15 October 1897, the sixth of seven children of Walter and Mary Bear and a worshipper at Mount Zion Baptist Chapel. His brother, Leading Telegraphist John Victor Bear was lost when HMS HAMPSHIRE struck a mine near Scapa Flow on 6 June 1916. Harold was washed overboard from HMS G2 two years later.
He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial.
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