History while in the forces
10 May 1916: left Liverpool for Rochdale15 May 1916: left Rochdale for Colchester
12 May 1917: we hear he has been in France for some months
Oct 1917: wounded in the head by shrapnel on the 10th of Oct and now in a hospital in Bristol
18 Dec 1917: discharged from hospital and army as no longer fit physically for war service
- Surname
- Bretherton
- Forename
- Roy
- Service number
- 12258
- Rating or rank
- Signaller
- Regiment or Other Unit
- 2/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
- Branch
- Commutation Row, Liverpool
- Date of Birth
- 30 Sep 1898
- Date of birth
- 1898
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 04 Feb 1915
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 10 May 1916
