COMPLETED - Yorkshire War Graves

[pjs12]

Hi RLee,

Welcome to Rootschat. Chris has only put 2 posts on RC the last one being 5th Jan 2011 when this question first came up.

If he still has same email address a message would have been sent about your message.

I'll try and send a PM to advise you want to contact.

Let's hope,

Ian

[RLee]

Thank you Ian, the family are very excited . Understandably my father in law is almost very closed on the subject, however as a militaria collector myself it does mean a lot to me to locate a photo for him and that's been much harder than I thought.  Kindest regards Rob

[englandphil]

Wow, I started this post 11 years ago, and it is still getting attention.

At the early stages I had no information on the cause of Death for John Heigold, but have since obtained copies of the Battalion War Diary.

The Bn where stationed at Capel le Ferne at the time and the entry for the 5th October States the following.

Enemy shelling of Folkstone Harbour during night for about 5 minutes resulted in 2 OR's being and killed and 1 OR being injured.

JOhn would have been one of the two Other ranks mentioned as being killed.  It would appear that the shelling was a long range artillery attack from France. 

Phil

The shelling wa

[pjs12]

Hi Phil,

'Wow'....that's what I thought when I happened to notice the name.

It's looking like Chris has changed his email as he has not responded. I did also send him a PM but no reply as yet.

Your information here will no doubt be of use to RLee.

Cheers,

Ian

[RLee]

Wow thank you so much guys :-). Along they way I learned that John's father was a prisoner of war during WW1, that was a little surprise in itself and the long range artillery no doubt will be too.