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3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
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Gerald Herbert Betts 3rd Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment My Grandfather, Gerald Betts was wounded and lay in a ditch for hours unable to walk. The cold caused the blood on his wound to freeze, which probably saved his life.
He was found by a German patrol and taken to a German field hospital, where his wound was treated, and afterwards, was taken to a prisoner of war camp.
He was returned to England before the war ended, and was invalided out of the service. Whilst he and another wounded prisoner were in a station waiting room, awaiting train to be sent back to England, the other prisoner knocked the nose off a bust of the Kaiser which was on a shelf. When questioned by German soldiers as to who had damaged the bust, the Tommy immediately owned up. He was taken out of the waiting room, and my grandfather was put onto the train. He never saw the man again!
Gerald went on to live well into his 90's, before dying in Finedon.
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Pte John "Jack" Cockerill 3rd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment Jack Cockerill served with the 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment.
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Cpl. Ernest Francis Sykes 6th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment Ernest Sykes was my great uncle, he was called up he was in a reserved occupation at the Daimler Works, Coventry. He had training with 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment based at the Isle of Sheppey. He was posted to the front in September 1916, spent a few days at L infantry Base Depot on the French coast before being posted and joining the 6th Northamptonshires on 23rd of September 1918. He fought at Bois Mormal Forest, he was seriously injured on 4th November, shot in chest & below knee amputation and was repatriated to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport and discharged from the army in 1920.
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