Attested 31 August 1914 4th East Yorkshire Regiment Battalion at Londesborough Street Barracks Hull – re-numbered 200450 – Medal Index Card Entered Boulogne France 17 April 1915 with 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Posted wounded Snapper September 1916 – Wounded 9pm 14 May 1915 (War Diary) – Photo and write up Hull Daily News 12 May 1915 – Posted 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Discharged 27 March 1919 para xvi wounds – Silver War Badge List O/2552/1 – Silver War badge Number B175620 – Aged 25 years
WAR DIARY
14th May 1915
1am Reported to Colonel Woods Royal Irish Fusiliers in dug out in Square I. 11. D, at edge of wood on East side of road. Cavalry just leaving and firing trenches taken over by Royal Irish Fusiliers.
2am Most of the dugouts still occupied – finally got the Battalion settled as dawn was breaking. B Coy and part of A being sent to dugouts behind Wittepoort Farm and fresh dugouts made inside the wood.
9pm Furnished working parties to dig new line of trenches in order to adjust the line in continuation of the trenches being made by the 3rd Cavalry Division on the North side of the Railway line.
Casualties: – 1730 Pte Hardy C Coy wounded
2168 Pte Barton D Coy wounded