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Emmanuel Hankey

Informatie over geboorte

Geboortedatum:
16/11/1897
Geboorteplaats:
Northwich, Cheshire, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Algemene Informatie

Beroep:
Arbeider

Informatie legerdienst

Land:
Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Strijdmacht:
British Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Private
Service nummer:
50169
Dienstneming datum:
12/11/1914
Dienstneming plaats:
Macclesfield, Cheshire, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk
Eenheden:
 —  Cheshire Regiment, 9th Bn.  (Laatst gekende eenheid)

Informatie over overlijden

Datum van overlijden:
20/09/1917
Plaats van overlijden:
Hessian Wood, België
Doodsoorzaak:
Killed in action (K.I.A.)
Leeftijd:
19

Gedenkplaats

Tyne Cot Memorial
Paneel: 62

Onderscheidingen en medailles 3

1914-15 Star
Medaille — 14/02/1920
British War Medal
Medaille — 12/02/1921
Victory Medal
Medaille — 12/02/1921

Points of interest 2

#1 Geboorteplaats
#2 Dienstneming plaats

Mijn verhaal

Emmanuel Hankey was born on 16 November 1897 in Northwich, Cheshire. He was the son of Emanuel and Phoebe Hankey. According to the 1911 census; Emmanuel, his father and his two brothers worked on a Northwich shipyard. At the age of 16, days before he would turn 17, Emmanuel enlisted in the army. He served with the 7th Cheshire Regiment at Gallipoli, suffered from frost bite and was taken to an Allied hospital in Mudros, Greece.

By the time of the Battle of Passchendaele Emmanuel was in the 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment, part of the 58th Brigade of the 19th (Western) Division. On 20 September 1917 the 9th Battalion attacked along the Ypres-Comines Canal, on the utter south flank of the offensive.

The men advanced at 5.40 a.m. immediately facing German machine gun fire from the direction of Hollebeke Château. Emmanuel’s Battalion still managed to take Jarrocks Farm and Pioneer House, suffering only slight casualties. The first objective lay on the crest of a small ridge and was consolidated with relative ease. But once the Battalion went beyond the crest it came in full view of the German lines. The German machine guns opened fire, causing heavy casualties.

The left flank experienced difficulty with machine guns firing from May Farm, but on receiving reinforcements they were able to capture their objective at Potsdam Farm. On the right the troops experienced even more difficulty. They were held up by barbed wire in the quagmire that was Hessian Wood. With the help of reinforcements the final objective was eventually taken, but Hessian Wood wasn’t cleared till after 7.30 a.m.

The 9th Cheshire Battalion consolidated their final objective, forming a line roughly running from Potsdam Farm to Hessian Wood. The Battalion went into battle with 20 officers and 556 other ranks. An estimated 200 of them became casualty and were either wounded, killed or missing. Nineteen-year-old Emmanuel Hankey was one of the young men who fell during the attack on Hessian Wood. Emmanuel has no known grave and is remembered on panel 62 of the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Bestanden 1

Bronnen 6

"Passchendaele. The Day-by-Day Account", McCarthy C., London, Uniform, 2018, pg. 76-77.
Gebruikte bronnen
"The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War", Crookenden A., Uckfield: The Naval and Military Press, s.d., pg. 119-121.
Gebruikte bronnen
Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/
Verdere verwijzing
CWGC
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/838336/hankey,-emmanuel/
Gebruikte bronnen
The Long, Long Trail
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/
Gebruikte bronnen
War Diary Cheshire Regiment, 9th Bn.
http://www.nmarchive.com/
Verdere verwijzing