Cyril Horace Askew

History while in the forces

Dec 1914: joined Forces in France
Feb 1915: wounded - sent to hospital - Isle of Wight
Oct 1915: took Commission 2/4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
Feb 1916: Training College, Reading
09 Apr 1917: killed in action by the bursting of an enemy shell, death being due to concussion
Surname
Askew
Forename
Cyril Horace
Service number
2373
Rating or rank
2nd Lieutenant
Regiment or Other Unit
2/4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
Branch
Old Kent Road, London
Date of Entering Bank's Service
1908
Date of Joining HM Forces
31 Aug 1914
Date of Death
1917