Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
Harold had been a miner at Coleorton Colliery before the war. Other sources show the date of his death as the 25th June 1917.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday February 16th, 1917

LOCAL CASUALTIES

Recently published official casualty lists contained the name of Sapper H. Curtis, Royal Engineers, of Coleorton, as killed, and Lance-Corporal G. M. Chamberlain, Royal Engineers, of Ibstock, as having died.

Coalville Times article - Friday March 9th, 1917

PEGG’S GREEN SOLDIER HONOURED

HIS BROTHER KILLED

According to the “London Gazette”, Lance-Corporal T. Curtis, of the Leicestershire Regiment, has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. Lance-Corporal Curtis is a Pegg's Green man, and worked at Coleorton Colliery before joining the forces, and has been in France nearly two years. His mother has received news that another son, Sapper Harold Curtis, of the Royal Engineers, who was first reported missing, believed killed, is now officially reported killed on 29th June last. Sapper H. Curtis was a well-known Pegg’s Green footballer.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 19/10/2017