2/7th Battalion Territorial Force
Oct 1914 Formed at Milnsbridge, West Yorkshire.
Mar 1915 All moved to Derbyshire as part of the 186th Brigade of the 62nd Division and then moved to Thoresby Park, Ollerton and then Retford and then Newcastle.
Jan 1916 Moved to Salisbury Plain and then Halesworth, Suffolk and then Bedford.
Jan 1917 Mobilised for war and landed in France and engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
The Operations on the Ancre, The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The first attack on Bullecourt (part of the Arras offensive), The German attack on Lagnicourt (part of the Arras offensive), The Battle of Bullecourt (part of the flanking operations round Arras), The actions on the Hindenburg Line, The Cambrai Operations.
18.06.1918 Reduced to training cadre and returned to England with the 14th Division at Aldershot where the cadre was absorbed by the 29th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry.
Regiment: Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment 2/7th Battalion
BORN HULL 1899. SON OF MARK REVELL (1864-1933) & HANNAH EGGERS (1865-1938), OF 3 MYTON PLACE, CASTLE STREET. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. AN APPRENTICE TANNER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 20/10/1915. HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS WAS 113 FRANCIS STREET, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 2ND/7TH WEST RIDING REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 09/03/ […]
