History while in the forces
03 Sep 1914: joined 1/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Private)14 Apr 1915: went over to France
23 Nov 1915: home on leave (now Corporal Bomber)
19 Dec 1915: wounded in leg and back (in hospital in Kent)
Feb 1916: re-joined his Unit and sent to Clipstone Camp
Jun 1916: appointed to a Cadet Battalion at Lichfield to undergo an officer's training course
Nov 1916: gazetted 2nd Lieutenant and sent to Machine Gun Training Centre
Feb 1917: drafted over to France with 152nd Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps
Mar 1918: promoted Captain in March
Feb 1919: gazetted Major
05 Aug 1919: resumed work at the Bank, having been demobilized
- Surname
- Hampshire
- Forename
- Robert
- Rating or rank
- Major [Captain] [Major]
- Regiment or Other Unit
- 51st Machine Gun Battalion British Expeditionary Force France, [Machine Gun Training Centre,…
- Branch
- 34 Kirkgate, Bradford
- Date of Birth
- 18 Nov 1893
- Date of birth
- 1893
- Date of Entering Bank's Service
- 01 Oct 1910
- Date of Joining HM Forces
- 03 Sep 1914
