Regiment: London Regiment 1/5th City of London Battalion London Rifle Brigade

1/5th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles)
04.08.1914 Stationed at Bunhill as part of the 2nd London Brigade of the 1st London Division and then moved to Bisley and then Crowborough.
Nov 1914 Mobilised for war and embarked for France leaving the 1st London Division arriving at Havre.
17.11.1914 Joined the 11th Brigade of the 4th Division and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1914
The Battle of Le Cateau, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, The Battle of Messines 1914.
1915
The Second Battle of Ypres.
19.05.1915 Transferred to the G.H.Q. Troops forming a composite battalion with the 1/12th & 1/13th Battalions.
11.08.1915 Resumed its identity.
25.10.1915 Transferred to the 8th Brigade of the 3rd Division.
10.02.1916 Transferred to the 169th Brigade of the 56th Division;
1916
The diversionary attack at Gommecourt, The Battle of Ginchy, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Third Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Langemarck, The capture of Tadpole Copse, The capture of Bourlon Wood, The German counter attacks.
1918
The First Battle of Arras, The Battle of Albert, The Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of the Canal du Nord, The Battle of the Cambrai, The pursuit to the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre, The passage of the Grand Honelle.
11.11.1918 Ended the war at Erquennes N.E. of Bavai, Belgium.

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Address
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51 , WORTHING STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
12/08/1918
       
Aged
18
BORN HULL NOVEMBER 1899.  SON OF MRS F (TAYLOR) OF 51 WORTHING STREET, HULL. HE WAS AN ASSISTANT AT THE MAYPOLE COMPANY, BEVERLEY ROAD BRANCH, HULL. ALSO A VIOLINIST AT THE NATIONAL PICTURE PALACE, BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL. HIS STEP FATHER, MR F.F. TAYLOR, WORKED AT THE GRAPES HOTEL, CHARIOT STREET, HULL AND SERVED IN THE ARMY IN SALONIKA. […]
202, Alliance Avenue, Hull
       
Died on
08/07/1916
       
Aged
24
Born West Hampstead, London, 1892. Son of Thornton Edward Shipham and Rebecca Shipham, of 202, Alliance Avenue, Hull (war pension address). Son of a domestic coachman. He had one brother, John and five sisters. He Worked as a draper. He enlisted in London. Served in the 5th (City of London) Battalion (London Rifle Brigade). Died of woun […]