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2/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 9th February 1916 Call Ups 13th January 1917 Leaving Havre 4th March 1917 To Y Ravine If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 2/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment? There are:5236 items tagged 2/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 2/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Conway James Albert. Cpl. Lucas John Fredrick . Pte. (d.3rd May 1917) O'Hara Joseph Sykes. Pte. 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He enlisted at Milnsbridge on 16th November 1915. The 2/7th Btn went to France in January 1917. The Battalion was involved in the Battle of Cambrai. On 20th November after the tanks had left their hiding place in Havrincourt Wood, the 2/7th proceeded to Havrincourt village, Graincourt, Anneux and were close to Bourlon Wood when the Battalion was relieved on 22nd November. The Battalion returned to Bourlon Wood on Sunday 25th November. On 26th November orders were received for an attack on Bourlon village the following day. The objective for the 2/7th was the easterly arm of the village bounded on the north by the railway line. The Battalion progressed to reach two factory buildings at the eastern end of the village. Heavy machine gun fire from the railway cutting made further progress impossible and the Commanding Officer decided to withdraw to a spur in the wood immediately behind the factories and remained there until 3.45pm when the Germans launched a counter-attack from the west and the north. When this position became untenable the Battalion withdrew into the body of the wood. During the course of the action on 27th November 1917, Joseph Sykes O'Hara was killed. He was 23 years old. Joseph has no known grave and is one of 7048 soldiers commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to the Missing at Louverval. His name is also recorded on the Slaithwaite War Memorial, in the Book of Remembrance at the Regimental Chapel in York Minister and on the Rolls of Honour at the Holy Family Church, Slaithwaite and St Paul's Drill Hall, Huddersfield. Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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