SEVERELY WOUNDED 1915 WW1 MEDALS 2789 SERGEANT SCHOFIELD 2ND MANCHESTER REGIMENT

SEVERELY WOUNDED 1915 WW1 MEDALS 2789 SERGEANT SCHOFIELD 2ND MANCHESTER REGIMENT

Offered is a medal group to Serjeant W. Scholfield, Manchester Regiment, who was seriously wounded on 20 April 1915

1914 – 15 Star, impressed named 2789 PTE. W. SCHOFIELD. MANCH. R.; British War and Victory Medals (1914 – 18), impressed named 2789 SJT. W. SCHOFIELD. MANCH. R. comes with copies of M.I.C., medal rolls and pension record extracts.

Sergeant William Schofield was a regular soldier (service No 2789) and landed in France on the 2/2/1915 as a reinforcement to the 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment. The 2nd Battalion had been fighting in France since landing on 17/8/1914. Not long after this he was wounded at Ypres

He was serving in ‘A’ Company when he received a gunshot wound to the chest on 20/4/1915. At the time the battalion was simply ‘holding the line’. The war diary makes for grim reading with a steady drain of daily casualties. When he was wounded the battalion notes ‘Quiet day 6 wounded’. He was treated first by 14th Field Ambulance and passed on to No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station.

Possibly because of his injuries he was transferred to the Labour Corps.

As per Howard Williamson The Great War Medal Collectors Companion, service No’s  600,000 – 700,000 transferred  May – September 1918 were transferred to the Labour Corps. He served with them as a Sergeant (service No 612396) for the remainder of the war.

His post war pension card gives a home address of Ashton-u-Lyne (Manchester) listing his injuries as Injury to back, Dysentery and Jaundice. He discharged to class ‘Z’ on 9/2/1919.

Of interest, his pension card records he also served with the Royal Artillery - service No 9893 and the Royal Engineers Service No 28796.