Desborough Soldiers
Enlistment
- Enlisted:
- at Northampton on 13 Aug 1914. Aged
34y 1m
- Description:
- height 5ft 3¾in; weight 139lbs; chest 37in; vision 6/6 6/6;
physical development
Good; religion Church of England.
- Occupation:
- Iron Ore Miner employed by Cooperative Iron Ore Mines, Desborough
- Address:
- 22 Gold St, Desborough
- Previously served in:
- 3rd Northamptonshire (4594), discharged, time expired, Jan 1895
- Next of kin:
- (Wife) Annie Panter, 22 Gold St, Desborough
Service history
| 13 Aug 1914 | Appointed to 3rd Battn Northamptonshire Regiment (10168) |
| 20 Sep 1914 | Posted to Expeditionary Force |
| 21 Sep 1914 | Posted to 1st Battn |
| 10 Nov 1914 | Back injured through being blown up by a shell. Hospitals treated in: Rouen and Cambridge |
| 11 Nov 1914 | Admitted 8 General Hospital Rouen. Shock |
| 16 Nov 1914 | Illness: 5 Field Ambulance. Ypres. Lumbago |
| 27 Nov 1914 | To England. H.S."Carisbrook Castle" |
| 30 Jan 1915 | Posted to 3rd Battn |
| 12 Apr 1915 | Punished: Absence, awarded |
| 14 Jul 1915 | Punished: Absence, awarded |
| 15 Jul 1915 | Punished: Absence, awarded |
| 28 Apr 1917 | Transferred to 435 Coy Royal Army Service Corps (T/325728) |
1914 Star