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Born in County Armagh, Ireland, 1913; briefly served in the Merchant Navy before enlisting in the 5 Inniskilling Dragoon Guards; commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, 1939; service with British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Belgium and France, [1939]-1940; evacuated from Dunkirk, France, 1940; served in France, North Africa and North West Europe, World War Two, 1939-1945; served in Egypt and with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), Germany, 1946-1962; postwar appointments included the Royal Army Ordnance Corps Training Centre, Andover, Hampshire and the Central Ordnance Depot, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire; retired from the Army, 1962; died 1983. Publications: Model soldiers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1962); Harris was assistant author of Brig Alan Henry Fernyhough's History of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1920-1945 (Royal Army Ordnance Corps, London, 1967); Irish Regiments in the First World War (Mercier Press, Cork, Ireland, 1968); How to go collecting model soldiers (Patrick Stephens, London, 1969); Knight's battles for wargamers. The Alma, 1854 (C Knight, London, 1971); The Royal Irish Fusiliers, the 87th and 89th Regiments of Foot (Leo Cooper, London, 1972); Model soldiers (Octopus Books, London, 1972).