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Cpl. Ernest Francis Sykes

British Army 6th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment

Ernest Sykes just before he went to France

Ernest Sykes was my great uncle, he was called up he was in a reserved occupation at the Daimler Works, Coventry. He had training with 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment based at the Isle of Sheppey. He was posted to the front in September 1916, spent a few days at L infantry Base Depot on the French coast before being posted and joining the 6th Northamptonshires on 23rd of September 1918. He fought at Bois Mormal Forest, he was seriously injured on 4th November, shot in chest & below knee amputation and was repatriated to Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport and discharged from the army in 1920.



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