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245230Pte. Cyril Robert Fleetwood
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Barnsley
(d.30th September 1918)
On the 4th August 1914 Cyril Fleetwood joined the 7th (Extra Reserve) Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Initially stationed at Finsbury, London and then moved to Falmouth, Cornwall. On 24th of July 1916 they mobilized for war and landed at Havre, where he joined the 190th Brigade of the 63rd Division and remained on the Western Front for the remainder of the war engaged in various actions including:-
- 1916:- The Battle of the Ancre.
- 1917:- The Operations on the Ancre, The Second Battle of the Scarpe, the Arras Offensive, The Battle of Arleux, The Second Battle of Passchendaele, the Third Battles of Ypres, The action of Welsh Ridge and the Cambrai operations.
- 1918:- The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Albert, the Second Battles of the Somme, The Battle of Drocourt-Queant, the Second Battle of Arras, The Battle of the Canal du Nord, The Battle of Cambrai, the Final Advance in Picardy.
Grand Uncle Cyril was killed on Monday 30th of September 1918 during the final advance in Picardy. At 19 years old and having fought in countless battles I can think of no sadder tale than his death weeks before the war ended on 11th of November 1918 in Belgium, Harveng south of Mons.
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