8th (Service) Battalion
22.09.1914 Formed at Beverley, Yorkshire as part of the Third New Army (K3) in the 62nd Brigade of the 21st Division, then moved to Tring.
Aug 1915 Moved to Witley Camp, Godalming.
09.09.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including; The Battle of Loos.
16.11.1915 Transferred to the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division which engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
During 1916
The Actions of the Bluff and St Eloi Craters, The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin, The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of the Ancre.
During 1917
The First, Second and Third Battles of the Scarpe, The Battle of Arleux, The Battle of the Menin Road, The Battle of Polygon Wood, The Battle of Cambrai 1917.
17.02.1918 Disbanded in France, remaining personnel formed the 10th Entrenching Battalion with the 12th West Yorkshire Battalion.
Regiment: 8th East Yorkshire Regiment C Company
BORN BARTON 01/04/1888. SON OF JOSEPH HENRY BANKS (1855-1933) & MARY DRURY BANKS (1862-1938), OF 1 GARDEN PLACE, RAIKES STREET, DRYPOOL. HULL. HE MARRIED ON 21/05/1916, AT DRYPOOL, HULL. HIS WIFE, BEATRICE WEST & DAUGHTER, EVELYN (Died 11/03/1919), LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY, IN HULL, ON […]
2nd Lieutenant
BORN MANCHESTER 1898. ONLY SON OF BENJAMIN FRANKS (1862-1940) & HELEANA (NELLIE) MINDELSOHN (1871-1961), OF 18, PARK AVENUE, HULL. SON OF AN OPTICIAN. HE HAD FIVE SISTERS ABOVE. HE WAS EDUCATED AT HYMERS COLLEGE AND WORKED IN HIS FATHER'S BUSINESS, IN SAVILLE STREET, HULL. HE SERVED IN THE OFFICER CADETS AT SCHOOL, THE 4TH EYR TER […]
17 HODGSON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
19/07/1916
Aged
41
BORN HULL 1875. ONLY CHILD OF HENRY & NANCY GREEN AT 17 HODGSON STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A HAY LABOURER. HE MARRIED LILLIAN SHEARSMITH (1876-1916), AT ST MATTHEWS CHURCH, HULL, ON 03/12/1894. HIS WIFE LILLIAN AND FOUR CHILDREN, LIVED AT 17 HODGSON STREET AND AT 6 PRAGUE TERRACE, PENDRILL STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN […]
6 LILY'S TERRACE, FINSBURY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
26/09/1917
Aged
21
BORN HULL 19/02/1896. SON OF MARY ANNIE ILLINGWORTH, AT 6 LILY'S TERRACE, FINSBURY STREET, HULL. EDUCATED AT BLUNDELL STREET SCHOOL. EMPLOYED BY A PORK BUTCHER. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL COMMERCIALS, ON 06/09/1914. SERVED WITH THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN FRANCE, FROM 15/04/1916. KILLED IN ACTION, AT POLYGON WOOD, ON 26/09/1917, […]
