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John Henry Housby
Royal Navy Hood Battalion Royal Naval Division
from:74 Morton Road, Leicester
John Housby joined up in 1916, aged 17 (his discharge certificate has his date of birth as 1898 (it was actually 1899). He was due to serve at Gallipoli, but only got as far as the advance base on Murdos before Gallipoli was evacuated. He served in France through 1917 and 1918 and went over the top at Ancre in the first wave reaching the German trenches, but returned after the second and third waves' attacks got bogged down (Freyberg, the commanding office got a VC for this action). John was captured in February 1918 and spent the remainder of the war as a POW. He died in 1988. He was my grandfather.

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