BOEDO-YANEZ Harold Private 44885

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Surname: BOEDO-YANEZ;

Forename(s): Harold;

Initials: H;

Number: 44885;

Rank: Private;

Enlisted in: Sale;

Enlistment Date: 16-Nov-1915;

Resided in: Sale, Cheshire;

Previous Number: 5033;

Previous Battalion: 5 of;

Previous Regiment: Chesh Regt;

Date of transfer to MGC: 27-Jul-1916;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 41 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (1): 41 Coy;

Other MGC Unit Served (2): 14 Bn;

Date abroad: 13-Sep-1916;

Theatre of War: 1;

Discharge Date: 09-Mar-1919;

Other Data: b 14/2/1892 Sale
posted missing, Red X list Mar 1918
WO363(FMP)
Sale AVL: Alfonso Cottage, Marsland Road
War Office Casualty List 11/6/1918 (posted missing)
POW Germany 27/3/1918 Essigny
ICRC Ref: PA34880
War Office Casualty List 24/12/1918 p18 (repatriated POW)
BWM/VIC offered Wellington Auctions, June '19:
Private H. Baedo-Yanez, Machine Gun Corps. British War Medal and Victory Medal both named to 44885 Private H. Baedo-Yanez, Machine Gun Corps. Harold Baedo-Yanez was the eldest of 2 sons, born to Juan and Lily, his date of birth being 14th February 1892 in Sale in Cheshire. By 1911 the family were living at Alfonso Cottage in Marslands Road, Brooklands, Cheshire, employing a servant, and Harold was employed as a 19 years old Clerk for a Textile Engineers. He attested on 16th November 1915 at Chester, requesting the 5th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, and was called up from the Army Reserve on 24th May 1916, being posted to the 5th Battalion as Pte No. 5033. Records show that he was 5ft 2in tall with a chest measurement expanding to 34”. On 26th July 1916 he transferred to the MGC becoming Pte No.44885 and was in France with 41 MG Coy (41 was a Bantam Division) from 13th September 1916. His Military records show numerous periods of hospitalisation for various illnesses whilst he was on the Western Front but on 21st March 1918 he was captured at Essigny in German Advance fighting with 14th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps and spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner. Following repatriation he was discharged on 9th February whilst he was on furlough at Alfonso Cottage and one month later transferred into the ‘Z’ Class Reserve. In 1922 Harold married at Bucklow in Cheshire to Florence Mabel Wilkinson and 3 children resulted. In 1926 the records show that he and his brother Lewellyn travelled to Corunna, their father’s birthplace, and in 1927 to Vigo in Spain. Harold and his family lived at 2 Bourton Road, in Liverpool throughout the Second World War and his death was registered there in 1973, aged 81 years. With copy Medal Index Card and Medal roll, and there is scope for further research using online sources. (2) Extremely fine;

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