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Three: Sergeant L. H. Foxworthy, Devonshire Regiment, who was the N.C.O in charge of Whitby...
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Three: Sergeant L. H. Foxworthy, Devonshire Regiment, who was the N.C.O in charge of Whitby War Signal Station at the time of the German Bombardment on 16 December 1914, on which occasion he was knocked down by a shell exploding behind him; proceeding to the Western Front he was killed in action on the Hindenburg Line on 8 October 1918 British War and Victory Medals (376 Cpl. L. H. Foxworthy. Devon. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (290036 Cpl. L. H. Foxworthy. 7/Devon: Regt.) nearly extremely fine (3) £240-£280 --- Louis Henry Foxworthy was born in Dartmouth in 1887, and enlisted for the 7th (Cyclist) Battalion Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army, in 1908. Embodied for Great War service at Totnes on 5 August 1914, the 7th Battalion was employed patrolling the North East Coast between Scarborough and Seaton Delaval and assisted in rescuing survivors from the Hospital Ship Rohilla which was wrecked off Whitby 30 October 1914; the following December they were involved during the German Naval bombardment of the East Coast towns. Foxworthy was in charge of the detachment at War Signal Station, Whitby in December 1914, and on 16 December the War Signal Station was bombarded by two German battle-cruisers; Foxworthy was knocked down by a shell exploding just behind him. A Coastguard was killed and Boy Scout injured. As the NCO in charge of Whitby War Signal Station it was he who submitted an official report on the bombardment. Re-numbered Sergeant 290034 in 1916 he was subsequently posted as Corporal to the 9th (Service) Battalion Devonshire Regiment and was killed in action near Ponchaux, Hindenburg Line on 8 October 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France. Sold with a copy of ‘Bombardment – The Day the East Coast Bled’ by Mark Marsey, containing Sergeant Foxworthy’s report on the bombardment; together with copied research, and photographic images of the War Signal Station at Whitby following the bombardment.
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Three: Sergeant L. H. Foxworthy, Devonshire Regiment, who was the N.C.O in charge of Whitby War Signal Station at the time of the German Bombardment on 16 December 1914, on which occasion he was knocked down by a shell exploding behind him; proceeding to the Western Front he was killed in action on the Hindenburg Line on 8 October 1918 British War and Victory Medals (376 Cpl. L. H. Foxworthy. Devon. R.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (290036 Cpl. L. H. Foxworthy. 7/Devon: Regt.) nearly extremely fine (3) £240-£280 --- Louis Henry Foxworthy was born in Dartmouth in 1887, and enlisted for the 7th (Cyclist) Battalion Devonshire Regiment, Territorial Army, in 1908. Embodied for Great War service at Totnes on 5 August 1914, the 7th Battalion was employed patrolling the North East Coast between Scarborough and Seaton Delaval and assisted in rescuing survivors from the Hospital Ship Rohilla which was wrecked off Whitby 30 October 1914; the following December they were involved during the German Naval bombardment of the East Coast towns. Foxworthy was in charge of the detachment at War Signal Station, Whitby in December 1914, and on 16 December the War Signal Station was bombarded by two German battle-cruisers; Foxworthy was knocked down by a shell exploding just behind him. A Coastguard was killed and Boy Scout injured. As the NCO in charge of Whitby War Signal Station it was he who submitted an official report on the bombardment. Re-numbered Sergeant 290034 in 1916 he was subsequently posted as Corporal to the 9th (Service) Battalion Devonshire Regiment and was killed in action near Ponchaux, Hindenburg Line on 8 October 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France. Sold with a copy of ‘Bombardment – The Day the East Coast Bled’ by Mark Marsey, containing Sergeant Foxworthy’s report on the bombardment; together with copied research, and photographic images of the War Signal Station at Whitby following the bombardment.
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