In which battle was my grandfather injured?

[Artful Owl]

Thank you to everyone who has answered my question. I now know much more than ever before about my grandfather's war service. I am grateful to you all for taking the time to reply.

Thank you
Ruth

[willyam]

Ruth,

If you execute an exact search via the British Newspaper Archive specifying: "Mason (13623)", you will be rewarded with just 2 results - in respect of articles referencing your grandfather (both published on 30th December 1915) from The Sheffield Daily Telegraph & The North Star (Darlington).

As what you will see are just (OCR) snippets, to view the full articles you will need to register with the BNA - which you can do for free & which will then grant you sight of an initial 3 pages at no cost.

Willyam

[AllanUK]

The two newspaper articles that Willyam mentions just show Mason. 13623. J. in  list of wounded soldiers. No details given of what the wounds were or the place where the soldiers were wounded.

[Artful Owl]

Thank you willyam and AllanUK,
I have a subscription to Find My Past and have found both mentions on there.
Yes AllanUK, just in the list of wounded, but there were a few more wounded too and one death.
Could these all be from working parties to the front line as stevej60 suggested? I think I need to read through the war diaries to see if anything is mentioned in them. I have downloaded them from the National Archives.

Many thanks
Ruth

[AllanUK]

Good luck in your search.

[Artful Owl]

Thank you AllanUK,
Thanks to you all we now know more than we previously did which is fantastic. A family reunion yesterday of all his surviving grandchildren (12)  sparked a renewed interest! The War Diaries will be a fascinating read.
Ruth

[stevej60]

Hi Ruth the link may not work the website is Captain Tunstals company a blogspot about the 10th DOW very interesting day to day diary of one company of the Battalion.
http://tunstillsmen.blogspot.com/2015/08/

[Artful Owl]

Hi Steve, this is incredible, thank you so much! Guess what I'll be doing for the rest of the afternoon! It gives such an insight into what their life was like at Bois Grenier and how my grandfather probably got injured. My family and I are thrilled to have this to read, thank you again!

[stevej60]

Happy to help Ruth,everything  would relate to James maybe he wasn't in that particular companybut he
would have shared their experiences and hardship's.