Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers 53rd Training (Reserve) Battalion

51st (Graduated) Battalion
27.10.1917 Formed at Welbeck from the 238th Graduated Battalion (formerly the new 4th Training Reserve Battalion) as part of the 206th Brigade of the 69th Division.
Early 1918 Moved to Middlesbrough and then Guisborough, Yorkshire where it remained.

52nd (Graduated) Battalion
27.10.1917 Formed at Canterbury from the 276th Graduated Battalion (formerly the new 3rd Training Reserve Battalion) as part of the 200th Brigade of the 67th Division.
05.03.1918 Moved to Barnards Castle and then Guisborough, Yorkshire where it remained.

53rd (Young Soldier) Battalion
27.10.1917 Formed at Rugeley, Cannock Chase from the 5th Young Soldier Battalion (formerly 10th Leicesters) as part of the 1st Reserve Brigade.
Oct 1918 Moved to Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.

Last Name
Address
Narrative
Hotham, Alfred Henry
Private
Northumberland Fusiliers 53rd Training (Reserve) Battalion
9 RAILWAY HOUSES, LONDESBOROUGH STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Londesborough Street
       
Died on
18/01/1918
       
Aged
18
BORN HULL OCT 1899. SON OF JOHN ROBERT HOTHAM & ALICE MAUD HODSON, AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. ONE OF THREE CHILDREN. HE HAD AN OLDER SISTER DORIS AND YOUNGER BROTHER JAMES. HE ENLISTED HULL. EX 53RD NFUS WHICH WAS A TRAINING RESERVES BN. HE DIED AT CHANOCK CHASE MILITARY HOSPITAL, ON 18/01/1918, AGED 18. BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS A […]