Formerly 16210 West Riding Regiment , Medal Index Card entered 2b Balkans 28 November 1915 , transferred 60402 Northumberland Fusiliers , transferred East Yorkshire Regiment , Awarded Distinguished Conduct Medal (1st East Yorkshire Regiment War Diary) , London Gazette16 January 1919 For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on the morning of 18th September 1918, during the attack south of Villerss,Guislain. He with another NCO led a bombing attack Down the Mennier trench, and drove the enemy out, establishing a block. They lost all but one of their party, but held on till reinforcements arrived , Transferred Class Z Army Reserve