Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave of Memorial
France and Flanders	British War & Victory Medals	Arras Memorial
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
After Feb 1916	~	Priors Hardwick
		Napton on the Hill Church Plaque
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted Date	Napton War Memorial Obelisk
Third Battle of the Scarpe (Battle of Arras)	11 Dec 1915 Northampton	Napton Girls School
Place of Death	Date Called Up	Previous Regiments or Units
near Fontaine-les-Croisilles	14 Feb 1916	Pte 5380 Northamptonshire

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

The battalion and the wider 100 Brigade were tasked with capturing the village of Fontaine-les-Croisilles and three other objectives. 1) a crossing over the Sensee River; 2) a position at the Junction of Sensee River and Sunken Road (yellow line) and 3) a boundary line between map points (red line). It is not clear if all the objectives but at the end of the day the battalion has consolidated a line about 300 yards from the original jumping off point. William was one of 168 men listed as missing during the attack along with 22 killed and 101 wounded.