History while in the forces
30 May 1917: joined 12th Training Reserve Battalion Breton Camp, Staffordshire15 Aug 1917: transferred to 270th Infantry Battalion, Chelmsford
30 Aug 1917: appointed Lance Corporal
07 Dec 1917: transferred to 52nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Louthen
07 Mar 1918: Cadet Royal Air Force Hastings. Failed medical exam
11 Apr 1918: returned to Unit as unfit for Flying
06 Jan 1919: appointed Corporal for orderly room work
16 Feb 1919: appointed Company Quartermaster Sergeant
01 Apr 1919: proceeded with Unit to Germany to join Army of Occupation and transferred to 2/4th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
10 Jun 1919: reverted from Company Quartermaster Sergeant to Sergeant on proceeding overseas
05 Sep 1919: returned to England and transferred to 2nd Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
15 Nov 1919: demobilised
01 Dec 1919: re-joined staff
- Surname
- Haigh
- Forename
- John Arthur
- Service number
- 6/6934
- Rating or rank
- Private
- Regiment or Other Unit
- Infantry Training Reserve Battalion
- Branch
- Cloth Hall Street, Huddersfield
- Date of Birth
- 11 Apr 1899
- Date of birth
- 1899
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 03 May 1915
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 30 May 1917
