Surname:	Harrold
Forename(s):	Alexander John
Rank:	Guardsman
Service number:	2697094
Regiment:	2nd Scots Guards F Coy
Date of death:	11 September 1943 Aged 32
Place of death:	Salerno, Italy
Buried Commemorated	Salerno War Cemetery II. A. 38 Kingussie War Memorial and St Andrew’s United Free Church Memorial now in Kingussie Parish Church.

Background

Alexander was born on 8 September 1921 at Mulben Station, Boharm, Banffshire to Alexander Harrold, railway pointsman, and Mary Grant Harrold m.s. Murray. His parents had married in Wick 26 June 1908.

In the 1921 Census Alexander was living with his parents Alexander, a Signalman with the Highland Railway Company, and his mother Mary and two brothers and three sisters at Ruthven Road, Kingussie (Railway Cottages).

Alexander’s brother, Sinclair Harrold, was born in 1922 at 9 Railway Terrace, Kingussie.

His brother, Sinclair Harrold, also died in World War Two.

War Record

Alexander was killed 11 September 1943 during a night attack.  The Scots Guards lost four officers and 10 other ranks during the attack. He died beside Lieutenant Roddy McLeod – see photos below for the circumstances of his death on an exhibit in the Guards Museum

He was buried in a temporary grave at Pontecagnano and exhumed and re-buried on 28 October 1943 in the Salerno War Cemetery.