12th & 13th (Service) Battalion
Sept 1914 Formed at Newcastle as part of the Third New Army (K3) then moved to Halton Park and joined the 62nd Brigade of the 21st Division, then moved to Aylesbury area.
May 1915 Moved to back to Halton Park and then Witley, Surrey.
Sept 1915 Mobilised for war and landed in France and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1915
The Battle of Loos (the Division suffered over 3,800 casualties and took the rest of the year to rebuild)
1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval, The Battle of Le Transloy.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Third Battle of the Scarpe, The flanking operations around Bullecourt, The Battle of Polygon Wood, The Battle of Broodseinde, The Second Battle of Passchendaele, The Cambrai Operations.
10.08.1917 Amalgamated with the 13th Battalion forming the 12/13th Battalion.
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The First Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Messines, The Second Battle of Kemmel, The Battle of the Aisne 1918, The Battle of Albert, The Second Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of Cambrai 1918, The Battle of the Selle.
11.11.1918 Ended the war near Berlaimont, France.
Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers 12/13th Battalion
BORN WOLVES 1893. SON OF WILLIAM & ADA OXLEY, OF 64, HAVELOCK STREET, HULL. HUSBAND OF DOROTHY OXLEY, OF 171 , ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED EIGHT YEARS, FOR MESSRS, DALTON, LAMBERT & CO, KINGSTON CHAMBER, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL COMMERCIALS, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 542, 10TH EYR. H […]
Company Sergeant Major
1, BROOKLYN AVENUE, PERTH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
08/10/1918
Aged
32
BORN HULL 1886. SON OF WALTER & CLARA STANING, OF 455 ANLABY ROAD, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. HIS SISTER MURIEL DIED ON 13/03/1908, AGED 23. HE SERVED IN THE 1ST EYR FROM 07/01/1902 - 31/08/1908, REACHING THE RANK OF COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR. HE THEN ENLISTED IN THE 5TH EYR TERRITORIALS FOR 1 YEAR, BEFORE GOING TO CANADA […]
BORN HULL1897. SON OF GEORGE HENRY AND PRISCILLA WALKER, OF 1, BARNSLEY TERRACE, WOODHOUSE STREET, 8, BRAMWELL TERRACE, GREY STREET, HULL AND 21, IMPERIAL TERRACE, WOODHOUSE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. HIS FATHER WAS A STORE KEEPER FOR THE WILSON LINE. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 12TH/13TH NORTHUMB […]
, COTTINGHAM, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Died on
04/10/1917
Aged
24
BORN YORK 1893. ENLISTED YORK. SON OF THOMAS & ANNIE WINTERINGHAM, YORK. LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY IN HDM 30/10/17 AND LIVING IN COTTINGHAM, YORKS. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL, WEST-VLAANDEREN, BELGIUM
