1/8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles)
04.08.1914 Stationed at Bunhill Row as part of the 2nd London Brigade of the 1st London Division and then moved to Bisley and then Crowborough.
06.11.1914 Moved to Abbot’s Langley, 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.
02.02.1918 Absorbed the 2/8th Battalion to become the 8th 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 Waudingnies south of Ath, Belgium.
Regiment: London Regiment 1/8th City of London Battalion (Post Office Rifles)
BORN BOLTON, LANCS 1883. LIVED IN HULL. ELDEST CHILD AND ONLY SON OF HENRY & LOUISA HARRIET BROUGHALL. SON OF A PLATER. HE HAD THREE YOUNGER SISTERS, JANET, ELIZABETH AND LOUISA, WHO LIVED AT 99 JALLAND STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WORKED AS A SORTING CLERK AND TELEGRAPHIST, LIVING AT 99 JALLAND STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRES […]
26, Caughey Street, Hull
Died on
17/05/1915
Aged
22
Born Poplar, East London, 1892. Son of George William Cawthorne (1861-1939) and Charlotte Senescal (1869-1942), of 26, Caughey Street, Hull (War Pension address). Son of a Cooper. He had four brothers and one sister. He was an Assistant Postman, living at 143 Abbott Rd, Bromley, Poplar, East London (1911 Census). He enlisted in the Lon […]
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF CHARLES AND MARTHA KIPLING CLARK, OF 18, DAY STREET, HULL AND 13, KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. HIS FATHER WAS A HORSE SHUNTER. HE WORKED FOR THE HULL POST OFFICE, LIVING AT 4, KINGS BENCH STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL TO JOIN THE 8TH LONDON REGIMENT (POST OFFICE RIFLES) […]
BORN HULL 1882. SON OF JOHN AKAM CROWTHER (1847-1919) & HARRIET SEDDON (1848-1919), OF 9 AMY TERRACE, AND 5 TENNYSON AVENUE, FERRIES STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A SORTING CLERK, FOR THE POST OFFICE (1911 CENSUS) AND A HULL POSTMAN. 14, DANSOM LANE, HULL, WAS HIS PROBATE ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN LONDON. JOINING THE 8TH CITY OF […]
BORN HULL 1899. ELDEST SON OF ERNEST REUBEN HASNIP & ELLEN ANN BOOTH, OF SOUTH CAVE, 39, DOCK STREET, HULL AND 59 WELLESLEY AVENUE, NEWLAND, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD SEVERAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO DIED IN INFANCY. HE WAS A HULL POST OFFICE WORKER. LIVING AT 108, BRUNSWICK AVENUE, HULL. HE WAS A SINGLE MAN. HE ENLISTED IN […]
