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Heanor Parish War Memorial
replied on: 3/13/2008 9:33:59 AM

LIEUT. EUSTACE BERNARD SHIPSTONE CATTLE

HEANOR OFFICER MISSING

21st July 1916 Ripley & Heanor News
Lieut. Eustace Bernard Shipstone Cattle youngest son of Mr and Mrs Eric Cattle, of Ravenswood, Heanor, is officially reported missing since July 7th. Lieut. Cattle was educated at Scarborough College and Royal Mount, Colwyn Bay. He was in the Nottingham University O.T.C. prior to the war, and received a commission in September 1914, in the 5th Battalion York and Lancs Regt, and served in France from April to August 1915. He was then invalided home, but returned to the front in February last.

AWARDED THE MILITARY CROSS
29th Sept 1916 Ripley & Heanor News
HEANOR OFFICER’S GALLANTRY

Second Lieut E. S. Cattle (York & Lancs) son of Mr and Mrs F. Cattle, of Ravenswood, Heanor, has been awarded the military cross for conspicuous bravery in action. He led a bombing attack under very difficult circumstances, and finally tried to work round the enemy’s flank, crossing the open to do so, under close and heavy fire from enemy snipers. Unfortunately he has been reported missing since the beginning of July. He was educated at Scarborough College, and at Royal Mount College, Colwyn Bay, and was a member of the Nottingham University College O.T.C. when he was given his commission in September 1914. He returned home last August suffering from enteritis, after a spell at the front, and went back to France in February. He has a brother in the R.F.A.

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