Battle of the Somme casualty 1914-1915 Star awarded to Private, later Lance Corporal G.C. Brough, 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment who saw service on the Western Front from 3rd May 1915 and was later killed in action on 7th August 1916. Having no known grave he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
1914-1915 Star; (17683 PTE. G.C. BROUGH. W. YORK: R.)
Condition: Good Very Fine
Gilbert Charles Brough was born in Leeds and having enlisted saw service as a Private and later Lance Corporal (No. 17683) with the 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment with whom he saw service on the Western Front from 3rd May 1915.
He would be killed in action on 7th August 1916 and having no known grave is now remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He is noted as the son of Charles and Annie Brough of 102 Harberton Road, Upper Holloway, London.
The 3rd August 1916 had seen the 1st Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment reache Orville, Acheux on the 4th, and Mailly Maillet on the 6th, taking over trenches from the 3rd Worcestershire Regiment of the 25th Division, the 6th Division occupying a frontage of 2,500 yards of line from the River Ancre to the junction of Broadway and the front line, just south of Hawthorne Ridge. On the 7th, the first day in the trenches, on the Somme, the Battalion lost two other ranks killed and two wounded, including one officer wounded.
