22nd (Service) Battalion (3rd Country Pioneers)
01.10.1915 Formed by the Durham Recruiting Committee and then moved to Hartlepool.
09.06.1916 Taken over by the War Office and moved to Catterick.
17.06.1916 Mobilised for war and landed at Havre as part of the 19th Division.
02.07.1916 Became a Pioneer Battalion of the 8th Division which engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
1916
The Battle of Albert.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line.
03.07.1918 Absorbed by the 1/7th Battalion.
16, SACKVILLE TERRACE, FERRIES STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
26/04/1918
Aged
18
BORN CASTLEFORD 15/09/1899. SON OF JOHN RHODES & REBECCA WOODHALL, OF 16, SACKVILLE TERRACE, FERRIES STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED, ON 07/05/1917. MOBILIZED ON 15/08/1917. TRAINED AT RUGELEY CAMP. TRANSFERRED TO THE 22ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY ON 15/03/1918. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/04/1918, AGED 18. […]
BORN HULL 1884. HUSBAND OF MINNIE WRIGHT, WHO LIVED AT 45 , CLUMBER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONLY SON OF JAMES AND KAZIA ANN WRIGHT, OF 22 PEEL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 23 HAMLYN AVENUE, HULL. HE HAD ONE SISTER, ETHEL PORTER. WORKED AS A JOINER BY TRADE. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 150 LBS WEIGHT, 35-37 INCH CHES […]
