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205169 Pte. John Binns British Army 9th Service Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment from:12 Keeton St, Leeds (d.2nd Oct 1916) My grandfather John Binns was born in Leeds in January 1893. He married Katie Carroll in August 1912. At the time of his marriage John worked as an oil blender in Leeds. In August 1914 John volunteered for military service shortly after the outbreak of the Great War. After his initial training period at Belton Park in Grantham and at Whitley Park in Godalming he sailed with the 9th Service Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment from Liverpool on the 3rd of July 1915 and arrived at Mudros in Greece on the 10th July. His regiment formed part of the relief invasion forces landed at Suvla Bay on the Gallipoli peninsular on the 6th of August 1915. These forces were eventually evacuated from Gallipoli back to Mudros and his regiment arrived in Egypt on the 7th of February 1916 to form part of the garrison protecting the Suez canal. In June 1916 his regiment received orders to transfer to the western front in France, and they arrived at Marseilles in the south of France on the 1st July 1916. His regiment were transported to northern France to assist with the major allied offensive designed to break through the German lines in the Battle of the Somme. John was wounded during the battle and he died of those wounds 2nd October 1916, he was 23yrs of age, he left a widow and three children under four years of age Alfred, Eunice and John (my Dad). He is buried in the British Military cemetery at Contay, northern France. SS Aquatania troopship Liverpool to Mediterranean SS Aquatania troopship Liverpool to Mediterranean Tony Binns Add to this record.    Related Content: 9th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment HMS Aquitania Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? If so please let us know. Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?" We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages. The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.