15th (Service) Battalion
Sept 1914 Formed at Newcastle as part of the Third New Army (K3) and then moved to Halton Park and join the 64th brigade of the 21st Division and then moved to Maidenhead.
April 1915 Moved to Halton Park and then Witley, Surrey
11.09.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
1915
The Battle of Loos (the Division suffered over 3,800 casualties and took the rest of the year to rebuild)
1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of Le Transloy.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Third Battle of the Scarpe, The flanking operations around Bullecourt, The Battle of Polygon Wood, The Battle of Broodseinde, The Second Battle of Passchendaele, The Cambrai Operations.
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The First Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Messines, The Second Battle of Kemmel, The Battle of the Aisne 1918, The Battle of Albert, The Second Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of Cambrai 1918, The Battle of the Selle.
11.11.1918 Ended the war at Berlaimont, France.
Regiment: Durham Light Infantry DLI 15th Battalion
Lance Corporal
100 , PEEL STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
10/04/1917
Aged
26
BORN HULL 1891. SON OF WILLIAM GREAVES AND MARTHA AUGUSTA WILKINSON OF 100, PEEL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADRESS). SON OF AN ASSISTANT IRON MONGER. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, WILLIAM AND REGINALD AND ONE SISTER, AUGUSTA EMILY. EMPLOYED AS A BOOTS SALEMAN. UNMARRIED. NO CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 11/12/1915, AGED 24 AND 6 MONTHS. DESCR […]
34, Somerscales Street, Beverley Road, Hull
Died on
25/04/1918
Aged
18
Born Retford, Nottinghamshire, 1900. Second Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Williamson of 34, Somerscales Street, Beverley Road, Hull (War Pension address). Son of a Motor Cycle Engineer. He had one brother and four sisters. He was a motor Cycle mechanic. He was 5 foot, 4.5 inch tall, 110 lbs weight, 33-35 inch chest, "fair" physical develop […]
