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As a ‘Terrier’ in Liverpool, Harrold was mobilised at the beginning of the war into 353 Battery, Royal Artillery, a searchlight unit based at Stanton-in-Peak. It was, in effect, a holding unit as many of the personnel were later redeployed into other regiments or even into one of the other Services. Harrold later became an infantryman with the 5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, but not before he had met Sheila Wright at a dance in the Village Hall. They were married on 20th June 1942 and their daughter, Angela, was born just over a year later. Sadly, the family happiness was not to last. Harrold was posted to France with the 2nd Army and was killed in action on 25th September 1944, in the attempt to relieve the embattled paratroops at Arnhem. He is buried in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery.

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