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On 9th April 1917 near Arras, the battalion were attacking but held up by intense fire from the front and the flank, suffering heavy casualties. Private Sykes braved the bullets to go forward and bring back four wounded men. He then made a fifth journey and remained with the wounded under conditions that appeared to be hopeless, and bandaged those too badly wounded to be moved.
Ernest Sykes was born at Mossley, Saddleworth in Yorkshire on 4th April 1885. He served in the 27th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. He died aged 64 at Lockwood in Yorkshire on 3rd Aug 1949. |
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