NAM.2003-01-169-13

Special Battalion order by Lt Col A M Boyle, DSO, commanding 1st Bn Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), 6 Division, 3 Dec 1917. Relates to the commendation by Maj Gen Sir H B de Lisle, 29th Division of the conduct of the battalion and the 2nd Bn Durham Light Infantry in defending Couzeaucourt, 30 Nov 1917. From a collection of papers relating to the career of Maj Ernest Ambler, Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), Royal Flying Corps, as a prisoner of war, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), and his service with the West Yorkshire Regiment Depot, during World War Two (1939-1945).

World War One, Western Front (1914-1918)