3rd (Reserve) Battalion
04.08.1914 Stationed at Halifax and then Earsdon near North Shields.
May 1915 Moved to North Shields where it remained.
BORN NORTH CAVE, 1885. SON OF WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH BURN, THE BUNGALOW, HOTHAM, YORK. HE ENLISTED IN YORK, WITH THE WEST RIDING REGIMENT ON THE 3RD FEBUARY 1903, AGED 18 YEARS AND SIX MONTHS. HE NEVER MARRIED. DIED OF TYPHOID IN GLASGOW HOSPITAL, ON 11/03/1915, AGED 30. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MRS ELIZABETH BURN, OF H […]
