1914/15 trio & Memorial Plaque , Pte. East Yorks. R. (8th. Btn.), killed in action, 3/5/1917 Monchy, (Arras) with portrait photo in uniform
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1914/15 trio, Memorial Plaque , (John Robert Curtis)
Pte. East Yorks. R. (8th. Btn.), killed in action, 3/5/1917 Monchy
Portrait photo in uniform.
B. Sunderland, c. 1894, enl. Sunderland, of 26 Norman St. Sunderland, 1911 Census one of 7 sons & daughters and occup. Engineers Labourer.
On the 3/5/1917, the battalion moved up in support of attacks on the enemy trenches at Infantry Hill & Tool Trench at Monchy-le-Preux. The attack came to a standstill due to intense machine gun fire from Infantry Hill and casualties numbered 242 officers & men, killed, wounded and missing.
Pte. Curtis has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial and on a plaque for the Sunderland Gas Company situated at the Transco site.
