INDENT Second Lieutenant Harold Housecroft, born 1893, Clapham London, educated at the City of London School, a Sergeant in the O.T.C., was commissioned into the 4th East Surreys 15 August, 1914; he proceeded to France and joined the 1st Bn. at La Bassee. Early in the morning 19 November, 1914, he left the front firing trench to arrange a better distribution of rations. Sniped at all the way, he reached the trench and was shot in the head whilst giving instructions (Bond of Sacrifice, Vol. I refers)