Compassionate discahrge?

[FS]

Thanks for your replies. Very helpful. I will follow them up.

Hartley Shackleton was born in the June quarter of 1878 in Todmorden (Yorkshire/Lancashire). His address in the WW1 period is possibly 30 Lutner Street Burnley (at least that is the address at which his wife Mary Catherine died at in 1916) or 11 Royle Street Burnley (which is the address that is given on the Burnley Roll of Honour for men who served in WW1).

[forester]

FS,

Re-iterating Corisande's post, 11805 looks like a service battalion number and the only one that fought in Gallipoli was the 6th. The date of embarkation fits as well.  The date underneath is a mystery as it doesn't even tally with the Territorial battalions of the East Lancs that also went to Gallipoli.

He would have transferred to the Labour Corps between October 1917 and January 1918, according to Ivor Lee's book.

Despite a typo in the Division number, it looks like the war diary for 6th Battalion's period in Gallipoli is available to download:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/09li/

Phil

[Redroger]

The war diary will give location and actions taken part in. However, it is extremely rare for a war diary to give the names of individual soldiers, All you are likely to find is xx other ranks killed in action etc.