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Description: | Chronicle (111pp ts) of the Rideout family, compiled during the 1990s, tracing the origins and early history of the family in Compton Abbas (Dorset) and their move to Sheffield in the late 19th century, Frank Rideout's childhood and early employment in the city prior to the First World War, at the outbreak of which he enlisted into the 12th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment (Sheffield City Battalion) and saw overseas service with them from December 1915 onwards, briefly in Egypt and then on the Western Front as part of 94th Brigade, 31st Division, with brief references to the Battalion's actions on the Somme in the summer of 1916, training as an Officer Cadet and posting to the 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment (64th Brigade, 21st Division) in August 1918, his capture the following month during an attack on German positions at Chapel Hill near Sorel-le-Grand (Havrincourt) and subsequent imprisonment at Cologne prisoner of war camp until shortly after the armistice in November 1918, his medical condition following his return to England (diagnosed as `shell shock'), and the family's fortunes in the interwar years.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2001-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Rideout, Frank O | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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