Service Number
11th/0750
Rank
Sergeant
Firstname
George Fox
Lastname
Dalton
Awards
Military Medal
Battalion
11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
Notes

Attested 9 September 1914 at Central Recruiting Office City Hall Hull – Initial training in Hull at the Cricket Ground Anlaby Road and on 18 January 1915 to Ousthorpe Camp Pocklington – Appointed Lance Corporal Snapper May 1915 – In May 1915 the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment joined the 92nd Infantry Brigade of the 31st Division and moved for Divisional training to Penkridge Bank Camp near Rugeley, 18 June 1915 on to South Camp Ripon and then to No 2 camp Hurdcott near Fovant Salisbury – Medal Index Card entered Egypt 13 December 1915 with 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment – Entered Marseilles France 8 March 1916 – Arrived Bertrancourt on the Somme 2 April 1916 – Wounded Casualty list 25 July 1916 Hull Daily Mail – Posted wounded Snapper August 1916 – Transferred 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry 53299 – Killed in action 31 March 1918

Birthplace
Grimsby
Enlisted
Hull
Residence
Grimsby
How Died
Killed in Action
Memorial
Commemorated on Panel 68 to 72. POZIERES Memorial
Date Died
31 March 1918