10th (Service) Battalion
14.09.1914 Formed in Winchester as part of the Second New Army (K2) then moved to Blackdown, Aldershot to join the 59th Brigade of the 20th Division.
Feb 1914 Moved to Witley and then to camp near Stonehenge.
21.07.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and ended in various actions on the Western Front including;
During 1916
The Battle of Mount Sorrel, The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of Guillemont, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of Le Transloy.
During 1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Battle of Langemarck, The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, The Battle of Polygon Wood, The Cambrai Operations.
05.02.1918 Disbanded in Belgium at Dickebusch south of Ypres.
Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), 10th Battalion
36 Union Street, Pocklington
Died on
05/04/1917
Aged
20
Francis 'Frank' Charles Buttle Reg No. C/12244 10th Kings Royal Rifle Corps Buried at Bray Military Cemetary The Somme - France Died Aged 20 5th April 1917 of 36 Union Street, Pocklington
BORN HULL 02/08/1881. ELDEST SON OF HARRY GREEN & LUCY TONGE, OF 68 PARK STREET, GRIMSBY. HE WAS EDUCATED AT HULL. MARRIED AT THE WESLEYAN CHURCH, CLEETHORPES, ON 22/02/19106. HIS WIFE LOUISA JAMES, LIVED AT 6 CROSS STREET, CLEETHORPES. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE CLEETHORPES GAS COMPANY. HE ENLISTED IN AUGUST 1916. SERVED IN FRANCE, F […]
