Desborough Soldiers
Enlistment
- Enlisted:
- at Desborough on 10 Dec 1915. Aged
18y 3m
- Description:
- height 5ft 8½in; weight 109lbs; chest 33in; vision 6/6 6/6;
physical development
Poor; religion Baptist; qualification Signalman.
- Occupation:
- Railway Porter employed by Midland Railway
- Address:
- 32 New St, Desborough
- Next of kin:
- (Father) Horace Johnson Coe, 32 New St, Desborough
Service history
| 29 Mar 1917 | Appointed to Royal Engineers (289240) |
| 02 Jul 1917 | Posted to Railway Operating Division Royal Engineers |
| 10 Dec 1917 | Embarked Southampton |
| 25 Dec 1917 | Embarked Marseilles |
| 04 Jan 1918 | Disembarked Suez |
| 05 Jan 1918 | Gen Base Depot, Kantara. Joined Reinforcement from England |
| 10 Jan 1918 | Posted to Railway Operating Division, R.E. E.E.F Reinforcement from England. Allotted new Regimental number: 288219 |
| 08 Oct 1918 | Illness: Admitted (nasal polyps) |
| 15 Oct 1918 | Illness: Admitted (nasal polyps) |
| 19 Oct 1918 | Illness: Admitted hospital |
| 30 Jan 1919 | Illness: Admitted (maxillary sinus) |
| 03 Jul 1919 | Promoted Raised to Supr 1/8 Signalman |
| 24 Jul 1919 | Illness: Admitted Hospital (pyrexia) |
| 30 Jul 1919 | Illness: Admitted Hospital (NYD) |
| 15 Oct 1919 | Discharged to Mustapha[?] |
| 20 Oct 1919 | Joined Transit Camp from Hospital |
| 30 Oct 1919 | Punished: Out of Bounds (viz) In a Brothel in Arab Quarters after 19:00 hrs, awarded 3 days Confined to Barracks |
| 29 Jan 1920 | Embarked at Alexandria per HMS Czaritza for UK. Derbyman |
| 05 Feb 1920 | Illness: Admitted Military Hospital Devonport with Catarrhal Bronchitis. On SS Czaritza had a cold. 18.2.20 dispersed |