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Z-5358 LEONARD BREAKWELL, AB. RNVR. NELSON BATTALION, ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION
1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal 1914-19 (TZ.5358 AB., RNVR.) : (LEONARD BREAKWELL - Born 7 July 1895, Yorkshire, a Miner residing at 5 Sandyfields, Skellow, Carcroft, Doncaster, when on 12 June 1915 he joined 2nd Depot Battalion, Royal Naval Division at Blandford. In October 1915 he was drafted to Nelson Battalion and on 1 December 1915 joined Nelson Battalion, Mediterranean Expedionary Force. From 10 April 1916 he was transferred from Nelson Battalion and taken on strength of Depot Battalion, Mudros West. On 16 May 1916 he embarked from Mudros arriving at Marseilles on 22 May 1916, for service in France. Where on Monday, 13 November 1916, at the Battle of the Ancre, at 5.45am. Officer's whistles sounded all along the 1200 yard front held by the Royal Naval Division. At their side six British divisions all smashing their way forward over craters where there had once been farmland and ruins where there had once been villages. The Hood and Drake Battalions made good progress - the prepartory barrage had largly smashed the German lines. Not so Hawke and Nelson Battalions, which ran straight into a German strongpoint they had no knowledge of. German machine-gunners cut them down so that by mid-morning neither Battalion existed as an effective fighting force. The recipient was KILLED IN THIS ACTION, he has no known grave and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, he was just 21 years of age on the date of his death.) : Sold with verification, copy Service Record, copy CWGC. information and other related research. EF - £445