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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. John Henry Iveson
British Army 1/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Langley Park, Co Durham
My grandfather, John Iveson (Private 242750), was 22 years old when he enlisted on 9th Nov 1915. Sometime during his service in France he was shot through the knee and his pay book (which we still have) and was taken prisoner by the Germans (trying to locate where). He returned home after the war.
Pte. John Edward Iveson
British Army 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Thornley, County Durham
(d.28th Sept 1918)
Pte. James Ivison
British Army 1st Btn. King's Own Scottish Borderers
from:Lockerbie
(d.12th May 1918)
Stkr. J. Ivory
J. Ivory is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Edouard Izac MH.
United States Navy USS President Lincoln
Edouard Izac served on the USS President Lincoln. On the 31st of May 1918, a German submarine torpedoed his ship, as it sailed near the coast of France. Most of the crew managed to escape, but Izac was captured and taken aboard the U-boat for the journey back to Germany. Unbeknownst to his captors, Izac was the son of German-speaking immigrants, and he used his knowledge of the language to collect vital information on German submarine operations.
Determined to get this intelligence to the Allies, Izac later made several failed escape attempts, including once diving out the window of a moving train. He finally pulled off a successful jailbreak in October 1918, when he scaled the barbed wire fence of his prison camp, stopping along the way to draw fire from the guards to allow other prisoners to flee. Izac spent the next several days sneaking through hostile territory and living off the land before swimming the Rhine River into the safety of neutral Switzerland. Though his information ultimately proved of little use so late in the war, he was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1920, and went on to serve several years in Congress. At the time of his death in 1990, he was the last surviving Medal of Honor recipient from World War I.
Pte. David Watson Izatt
Australian Army Medical Corps 2nd Australian General Hospital
from:Australia
David Watson Izatt was born in 1889 near Greengairs, Lanarkshire in Scotland. Prior to enlisting, he described his occupation as being a sailor. He enlisted with the Australian Army Medical Corps at Victoria Barracks, Sydney on 12th October 1914. About six weeks later he departed Sydney aboard HMAT Kyarra with other members of the 2nd Australian General Hospital.
Izatt served at both Gallipoli and on the Western Front. He was in the last party of Army Medical Corps to leave Gallipoli at 3am on 20th December 1915. Although Izatt was assigned to the 2nd Australian General Hospital, he found himself attached to several other units in the course of the war for varying periods of time. These included the 1st Casualty Clearing Station, the 10th Casualty Clearing Station and the 15th Casualty Clearing Station. David Izatt embarked at Taranto to return to Australia on 8th October 1918.
A/Cpl. Richard Izatt M.M.
British Army 14th (Fife & Forfar Yeomanry) Btn. Black Watch
from:Clydebank, Dumbarton
(d.22nd Oct 1918)
Richard Izatt joined the Army in 1902. During his service career he had been a deserter, had malaria 5 times, scabies and defective teeth. He was invalided out of the army (a Silver War Badge had been awarded,) but he then re-enlisted for the Great War. It was during this war that Richard was awarded the Military Medal. Richard was killed in action in Belgium on the 22nd of October 1918. He is buried in Orcq, Belgium.
Pte. Thomas Charles Izod
British Army 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Charlton
(d.3rd Aug 1917)
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