2nd Battalion
04.08.1914 Stationed at Lichfield as part of the 18th Brigade of the 6th Division and then moved to Dunfermline and moved to Cambridge.
10.09.1914 Mobilised for war and landed at St. Nazaire and engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
1914
The actions on the Aisne heights.
1915
The action at Hooge
1916
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of Le Transloy.
1917
The Battle of Hill 70, The Cambrai operations
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bailleul, The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge, The Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge, The Advance in Flanders, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of Beaurevoir, The Battle of Cambrai 1918, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Selle.
11.11.1916 Ended the war at Busigny, France
Regiment: Durham Light Infantry DLI 2nd Battalion
BORN HULL 1889. SECOND SON OF CHARLES JAMES & FLORENCE MARY WILLIAMS, OF 24 LEE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. TAKEN PRISONER ON THE 21ST MARCH 1918, AFTER TWO AND HALF YEARS ACTIVE SERVICE IN THE FIELD. HE DIED OF DYSENTERY. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL […]
