page_title: Lionel de Jersey Harvard
section_title: Army, marriage, and death
hierarchical_section_title: Lionel de Jersey Harvard / Army, marriage, and death
caption_attribution_description: Lionel de Jersey Harvard (3 June 1893 – 30 March 1918), "the only Harvard to attend Harvard", in his World War I uniform
context_page_description: Lionel de Jersey Harvard was a young Englishman who, discovered to be collaterally descended from Harvard College
  founder
  John Harvard, was consequently offered the opportunity to attend that university, from which he graduated in 1915.
  The first Harvard to attend Harvard, he died in the First World War less than three years later, leaving a wife and infant son.
  After his death a fellow officer wrote, "If Harvard College made him what he was, I want my sons to go there that it may do the same for them."
  Harvard's Lionel Hall, and its Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholarship, are named in his honour.
context_section_description: Harvard planned to become a medical missionary, but on returning to London immediately after graduation he enlisted in the British Army. "It is all of a piece with the devotion which the best young men of Europe are rendering to their flags," said the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. He joined the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps on 12 July 1915 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 28 September 1915. He was promoted to lieutenant in January 1916 and joined the 1st Battalion in France on 8 March 1916.
  On 11 September 1915 he married childhood friend (Edith) May Barker,
  to whom he had been quietly engaged since before leaving for America. A son, John Peter de Jersey Harvard,
  was born 4 September 1916.
  Lionel was shot in the chest on 25 September 1916 at Lesboeufs during the Battle of the Somme
  but after a long convalescence he returned to combat in June 1917, as company commander.
  At the outbreak of the war, Lionel's younger brother Kenneth O'Gorman Harvard (born 4 June 1897)
  gave up his intention to attend Harvard College. He was commissioned August 1915 and, with Lionel, was promoted to lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards in January 1916. He was killed at Pilckem Ridge, during the Battle of Passchendaele, on 1 August 1917; Lionel, who had been fighting nearby, helped bury him.
  By March 1918 Lionel Harvard was commander of Number One Company, designated the King's Company‍—‌as Brown put it, "a high honor for a lieutenant, and usually a fatal one". On the morning of 30 March 1918 he was killed by a minenwerfer shell
  near Arras during the German Spring Offensive, just before a promotion to captain became effective. He was buried at Boisleux-au-Mont.
caption: Lionel Harvard
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