204801 Pte. Arthur Furness from: My grandfather Arthur Furness was one of the first volunteers in the Leeds Rifles, West Yorks in 1914, he was lucky and survived until the end of the war. He made Corporal but was reduced in rank through being awol. At the time my grandmother had six children and was having the seventh when he went awol. It looks like he repeated this later when she had another child. He got 28 days loss of pay, and 9 days loss of pay. In about 1916 he was transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment probably to make up depleted numbers. He must have been wounded as he received a pension after the war it looks like they kept giving him a medical to assess him.
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