244979 Gnr. Edgar Leonard Yarworth British Army 199th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery from:Bream's Cross Farm, Gloucestershire My Grandfather, Edgar Yarworth, enlisted at Lydney, Glos, aged 20, on 9th December 1915. As a 'Group 7 Butcher' based at 43 Newerne Street, Lydney, he was attested for duty at No.3 Depot RGA, The Citadel, Plymouth on 21st of March 1917.
He embarked at Folkestone for Boulogne on 10th of September 1917. Two months later on 12th of November 1917 he received a shrapnel wound to his left leg and was returned from the Canadian Hospital in Boulogne to the Duchess of Russia's Hospital, Harrogate (part of the East Leeds War Hospital) where he remained for 82 days making golliwogs and black cats for therapy over Christmas 1917.
He returned to France with 199th Siege Battery, disembarking on 22nd of October 1918. On 15th of February 1919, with service for the duration complete, he returned to his parent's farm at Breams Cross and his wife and daughter Mary at Myrtle Cottage, Alvington. He had received the usual Active Service in France WW1 medals and was transferred to 'Class Z Army Reserve with a medical category of A1.
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