Regiment: London Regiment 1/6th City of London Battalion Rifles

1/6th (City of London) Battalion (Rifles)
04.08.1914 Stationed at Farringdon Road as part of the 2nd London Brigade of the 1st London Division and then moved to Bisley and then Crowborough.
05.11.1914 Moved to Watford and transferred to the 4th London Brigade of the 2nd London Division.
18.03.1915 Mobilised for war and landed at Havre.
11.05.1915 The formation became the 140th Brigade of the 47th Division and engaged in various actions on the Western front including;
1915
The Battle of Aubers Ridge, The Battle of Festubert, The Battle of Loos, The subsequent Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
1916
The German attack at Vimy Ridge, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges, The attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt.
1917
The Battle of Messines, The Battle of Pilkem Ridge, The Third Battles of Ypres, The Cambrai Operations.
31.01.1918 Absorbed the 2/6th Battalion to become the 6th Battalion and transferred to the 174th Brigade of the 58th Division;
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of the Avre, The Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, The Battle of Amiens, The Battle of Albert, The Second Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Epehy, The general final advance in Artois.
11.11.1918 Ended the war at Beloeil south of Ath, Belgium.

Last Name
Address
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49 , COLONIAL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
09/02/1916
       
Aged
19
BORN HULL 1897. LIVED BRIXTON HILL, LONDON. SON OF JACOB & LEAH MARKS. HULL HEROES WEBSITE.
8 , WITHAM, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
       
Area
       
Died on
29/08/1918
       
Aged
44
BORN HULL 1874. SON OF MICHAEL & ELLEN SYKES - 8 WITHAM - HDM 8/5/18. LIVED CLAPTON. ENLISTED HACKNEY. KILLED IN ACTION. BURIED AT H.A.C. CEMETERY, ECOUST-ST. MEIN, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE.
186 HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
18/11/1916
       
Aged
28
BORN ST HELENS, LANCASHIRE, 1888. LIVED HULL. SON OF GEORGE WEBSTER (1847-1915) AND MARTHA McCARROLL (1851-1933), OF GREENFIELD ROAD, ST HELENS, LANCASHIRE. BEFORE THE WAR, HE WAS A SHOP ASSISTANT, LIVING AT 344 BOULEVARD, HULL (1911 CENSUS) WHEN WAR BEGAN. HE MARRIED LILIAN MAUD KING, AT HULL, IN 1913. ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH […]