The Four new research pages this week in WW1 Lives are, a Canadian Pilot attached to the Royal Flying Corps, a Lance/Corporal 10th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment soldier, a naval Captain of H.M.S. Natal and a Corporal of the Special Brigade of the Royal Engineers in a Gassing Company. Click on the Description Headings to discover more on their lives.
Canadian Pilot
Jacob Ernest Mott was an Ontario born Canadian. He enlisted into the Canadian Medical Corps on November 1914. Commissioned in May 1916 to the Royal Irish Fusiliers, he was to stay with them for just over a year before being attached to the Royal Flying Corps. To find out more of his story click the above heading.
Cromarty Disaster
Eric Percy Coventry Back was born in Torquay, Devon and was a professional naval officer and took command of his first ship on June 1915. Tragically he was to be killed along with his wife on the Cromarty Firth in north Scotland. To find out more about his story click on the above heading.
Christmas Day
Arthur William Bull from Watford, Hertfordshire was 25 years old when he was in the trenches in the Ferme du Bois sector on Christmas Eve. During the night an artillery duel took place to stop Christmas Day fraternisation. To find out more about his story, click the above heading.
Gas Gas Gas
Robert Bennet McBey was a Miner, working in the pits of Lanarkshire when he answered the call to arms in January 1915. Initially a member of the Artillery, he later moved to the Special Brigade of the Royal Engineers for the use of Poison Gas. He was wounded in October 1918 and for his actions was awarded the Military Medal. To find out more about his story click on the above heading.
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