Pair: Private E. Schofield, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was killed in...

Pair: Private E. Schofield, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was killed in action on 7 July 1916

1914-15 Star (240462 Pte. E. Schofield. York: & Lanc: R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (240462 Pte. E. Schofield. Y. & L.R.); Memorial Plaque (Ernest Schofield); Memorial Scroll ‘L/Cpl. Ernest Schofield York and Lancaster Regt.’, generally good very fine (4) £120-£160

Footnote
Ernest Schofield enlisted at Barnsley and served in France from 19 April 1915 with the 1/5th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. During the Battle of the Somme, eight battalions of the York and Lancaster Regiment went ‘over the top’ on 1 July 1916, suffering huge casualties. 11 Battalions of the regiment later fought during the Somme offensive, the sheer weight of loss resulting in large numbers of men being unaccounted for in the confusion of war; recorded ‘presumed dead’, Schofield was later confirmed killed in action on 7 July 1916 and is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, France.