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Pte. Wilfred Worthington
British Army 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Sheffield
Wilf Worthington was called up in 1915 and sent to France. Whilst there, his Battalion was relived by another, and he saw someone he knew from Sheffield and so he waved to him. The man was killed soon after.
In 1916, he was wanted by an iron works back in Sheffield. There exists a number of correspondences between the war office and the iron works about a mistake in the transfer process. Apparently, the war office had mistaken a service number of a Private Humphries with Wilfred's, and so sent his name to the works. The iron works checked their records and found no-one of that name on their list, and that they had requested Wilf. The War Office then asked the Lancashire Fusiliers Head Quarters in Bury who Private Humphries was, and no-one actually knew. So my Great Grandfather was sent back to England and was involved in munition works until he was officially discharged in 1919, missing out the battle of the Somme a few months later.
