7th (Service) Battalion
07.09.1914 Formed at Carlisle as part of the Second New Army (K2) and then moved to Wool to join the 51st Brigade of the 17th Division and then moved to Andover.
Jan 1915 Moved to Bovington and then Winchester.
15.07.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
During 1916
Defensive actions during The Actions of Spring 1916, The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Delville Wood.
During 1917
The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe, The Capture of Roeux, The First Battle of Passchendaele, The Second Battle of Passchendaele.
22.09.1917 Absorbed 21 Officers & 239 men of the now dismounted Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry, and became the 7th (Westmorland & Cumberland Yeomanry) Battalion. Once again engaged in various actions including;
During 1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Amiens, The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Havrincourt, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of Cambrai 1918, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre.
11.11.1918 Ended the war in France, Aulnoye.
Regiment: Border Regiment 7th Service Battalion
Second Lieutenant
96, STEYNBURG STREET, HULL
Died on
23/04/1917
Aged
37
BORN BEVERLEY, 19/10/1880. SON OF THOMAS BRETT (1844-1914) & JANE FROST (1852-1938), OF 96, STEYNBURG STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS RETIRED SOLDIER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE MARRIED CHRISTINA HOOD BOYD (1889-1965) on 7 Apr 1908 • Vigeons, Drift, South Africa. THEY HAD TWO SONS. HIS WIFE WAS DAUG […]
Lance Corporal
BORN HULL 1898. LIVED SALFORD. SON OF E J & CAROLINE HEVER, 49 FIELD STREET, HIGHTOWN, MANCHESTER. KIA
