Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Basra Memorial
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After 1 Jan 1916	~	Lillington
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
The Siege of Kut	October 1915 at Leamington Spa
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

The war diary for the period does not give any specifics about locations and casualties and so we are unable to say for sure when and where he was originally wounded but it may have been on the same day he died during the capture of Baghdad, see ** below.

39th Field Ambulance as part of the 13th Division and served at Gallipoli and Suez before moving to Sheikh Sa'ad in Mesopotamia (Iraq) on 12 Feb 1916, they took part in the Battle of Kut, the capture of Haj Salient, the capture of Dahra and the Passage of the Diyala. Units of the Division were amongst the first to enter Baghdad when it fell to the allies on March 11th 1917 **.