Service Number
4th/1880
Rank
Acting Corporal
Firstname
Richard George W
Lastname
Vokes
Battalion
1/4th Battalion A Coy East Yorkshire Regiment
Notes

Attested 2 June 1914 with the 4th Battalion at Londesborough Street Barracks Hull – Mobilized 4 August 1914 – Medal Index Card Entered Boulogne France 17 April 1915 with 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Posted wounded Snapper September 1915 – Reported Wounded 6 August 1915 (War Diary) – Posted wounded Hull Daily Mail 1 September 1915 – Reported wounded 26 April 1916 ‘B’ Coy War Diary – Posted wounded Snapper June 1916 – Transferred Royal Engineers WR/178021 – Transferred West Riding Regiment 24398 – Transferred Royal Engineers 251523
WAR DIARY
26 April 1916
In Brigade Reserve. One other rank wounded Private Vokes ‘B’ Coy.

Age
1897
Birthplace
Hull
Enlisted
Hull