Awarded 3rd Class Certificate of Education August 1913 , 3rd Battalion. H Coy Musketry classification June 1914 2nd Class shot , Medal Index Card entered France 8 September 1914 , Posted Wounded Snapper December 1915 , Snapper November 1926 story from W.J. Gardiner On the 16th June 1915, we were in some support trenches at Ypres. Behind the trench was a farmhouse, in which there was a live cow. Permission was given for the cow to be killed, so we obtained the services of Corporal Ike Croft, ‘C’ Company (who was on the Barr and Stroud and carried a revolver) to do the trick. Ike shoot the cow through the head, but finding he hadn’t killed it, he put on a field dressing and went back to the trench for more ammunition.