16th (Service) Battalion (Church Lads Brigade)
19.09.1914 Formed by Field Marshal Lord Grenfell (Comdt.) in Denham, Bucks.
Mar 1915 Moved to Essex, back to Denham and then to Clipstone to join the 100th Brigade of the 33rd Division.
01.07.1915 Taken over by the War Office and moved to Salisbury Plain.
17.11.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Havre and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
During 1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin, The attacks on High Wood, The capture of Boritska and Dewdrop Trenches.
During 1917
The First and Second Battles of the Scarpe, The actions on the Hindenburg Line, Operations on the Flanders coast, The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, The Battle of Polygon Wood.
During 1918
The Battle of Messines, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of Bailleul, The defence of Neuve Eglise, The First Battle for Kemmel Ridge, The Battle of the Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of the Beaurevoir Line, The Battle of Cambrai, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Selle.
Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), 16th Battalion
BORN HULL 1885. ELDEST SON OF LOUIS & MARY JANE KELLER, OF 3 MYTON GATE, HIGH STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A SHOP ASSISTANT. ENLISTED HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 38124, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT & LIVED IN WITHERNSEA. MARRIED KATHLEEN ADA TETHER, AT PATRINGTON, IN 1917. KILLED IN ACTION ON 27/09/1918, AGED 33. […]
22 , SUNNY BANK, SPRINGBANK, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
25/12/1918
Aged
42
BORN HORNSEA 1877. SON OF AUGUST ALEXANDER MEYER (1824-1897) AND CAROLINE CHARLOTTE HELMSING (1842-1891), OF 22 SUNNY BANK, HULL. HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND NINE SISTERS. A CORN AND FRUIT AGENT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 410343, 886TH LABOUR CORP, 2ND HOSPITAL. TRANSFERRED TO THE 16TH KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. DROWNED AT LE HA […]
15 BLENHEIM TERRACE, NORFOLK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
27/09/1918
Aged
27
BORN ST STEPHENS, HULL 1891. SON OF RICHARD MOUNTENEY WALLACE (1852-1902) & ELIZABETH ANN WALLACE (1860-1910), OF 8 WINDSOR TERRACE, COLONIAL STREET, HULL. A DOCKER. HE WORKED FOR MESSRS, WRAY AND SANDERSON'S, SCULCOATES, HULL. HE LODGED AT 382 GREAT UPPER UNION STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED GERTRUDE STEWART (1887-1894), IN JANUARY 191 […]
Born Fridaythorpe, Yorkshire, 1893. Son of Robert and Alice, of Norton, Malton, Yorkshire. A Farmer's Son. Working On Farm (1911 Census). Enlisted at Driffield. Served as Rifleman in the 18th King's Royal Rifle Corps. Died of wounds, on 03/10/1916, aged 23. He left his army effects and £579 in his will to his father, Robert His name […]
