7th (Service) Battalion
19.08.1914 Formed in Winchester as part of the First New Army (K1) then moved to Aldershot to join the 41st Brigade of the 14th Division.
Nov 1914 Moved to Grayshott then Bordon and back to Aldershot.
19.05.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and ended in various actions on the Western Front including;
During 1915
The Action of Hooge, The Second Attack on Bellewaarde.
During 1916
The Battle of Delville Wood, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette.
During 1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First and Third Battles of the Scarpe, The Battle of Langemark, The First and Second Battles of Passchendaele.
02.02.1918 Transferred to the 43rd Brigade of the 14th Division
25.04.1918 Reduced to training cadre.
16.06.1918 Transferred to the 16th Division and then return to England where it was absorbed into the 34th Battalion of the London regiment.
Regiment: King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), 7th Battalion
1 SALISBURY CRESCENT, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
30/07/1915
Aged
18
BORN HULL 1897. SON OF FREDERICK & SARAH ANN GOODING, 23 SIDMOUTH STREET. HIS FATHER WORKED FOR HULL CORPORATION. HE WAS A FORMER MESSENGER BOY. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 7TH KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. DIED OF WOUNDS AT THE BATTLE OF HOOGE, ON 30/07/1915, AGED 18. HIS BODY WAS FOUND WITH THREE OTHER MEN. A LETTER IN HIS POCK […]
BORN HULL 1879. ENLISTED LIVERPOOL. KILLED IN ACTION.
12 MANOR ROAD, SCARBOROUGH, , NORTH YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
25/03/1918
Aged
35
BORN HULL 1883. SON OF ROBERT GEORGE PATTRICK & MARGARET PATTRICK, AT THIS ARMY ADDRESS, WINE MERCHANTS CLERK. HE ENLISTED AT HULL. SERVED AS RIFLEMAN, 12222, 7TH KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 25/03/1918, AGED 35. HE IS BURIED AT NOYON NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, OISE, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "THEIR GLORY SHALL […]
2nd Lieutenant
4 MYRTLE VILLAS, SPRING BANK WEST, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Died on
10/04/1917
Aged
26
BORN HULL 1890. KNOWN AS 'PHIL'. YOUNGEST SON OF HENRY WILLIAMS (1840-1911) & MARY JANE SLOAN (1849-1937). ONE OF TEN CHILDREN, LIVING AT 4, MAYFIELD STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER WAS AN ARMY SERGEANT MAJOR. HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN INSURANCE CLERK. HE MARRIED MARY MAY MACKEY, IN DECEMBER 1916, AT NEWCASTLE. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 4, MYRTLE […]
