Thank you Charles, I will have a look there too. Having felt like I fell into the deep end I am now beginning to swim.So much to take in. As every link has been helpful I will shortly look for G Father , Lawrence CREEDON who survived WW1 and wrote back to his old school, St Bede's in Bradford of some of his exploits.He was a Dispatch Rider. Through all the horrors he found it exciting too. More for me to discover. Valerie Subject: Re: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] War Diaries > Yes Keith , In Memory of Sydney TOWN who died 90 years ago today I have > checked his Battalion. > He was 18490 9th Bn West Yorkshire Regt(Prince of Wales Own) >>From recent information I now know it was formed at York on 25th August > 1914. > Through very helpful information I have discovered that Sydney must have > travelled far more than we knew as he was in Balkans in 1915.I find the > Battalion numbers very confusing but believe the 9th was 32nd Brigade 11th > Division. War diaries are new research for me so I have lots of reading > and > checking to do. > Thank you for your interest Valerie > > > > Subject: [ENG-YKS-BRADFORD] War Diaries > > >> Valerie was asking about a battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment >> (Prince >> of Wales' Own). Are you sure it was the 9th? >> >> There was a 6th Battalion and a second 6th (my father was in that one), >> but >> I have no knowledge of a 9th (that is not to say that there wasn't one >> however). It's not much, but it may help a little. >> >> Keith >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message