Btty. Quarter Master Sergeant Daniel Greenwood
700419 (formerly 1188) Royal Field Artillery
Lived in Worsthorne

I promised you a picture of my late father 1188 Dvr (later 700419 Sjt) Daniel Greenwood, B (Burnley) Battery, 210 Brigade RFA, 42nd East Lancs (Territorial) Division.
Born at the Roggerham Gate Inn, Extwistle, in 1890, he spent his childhood and early youth in Linden Street, Burnley; at Cant Clough, Hurstwood; and The Square, Worsthorne.
Just prior to the outbreak of war in 1914, he was ready to emigrate to Australia, sailing on the SS Benares, but (in his words) sailed instead on the same vessel with the Division to Egypt, where the photograph was taken in 1915.
After service on the Suez Canal, at Gallipoli, and in the Sinai, he went to France with the Division in March 1917, then to Ypres (for a month of 3rd Ypres, Passchendaele), moving to Nieupoort for a couple of months, and then the La Bassee Sector, where he killed a pig on Christmas Eve 1917 in the farmyard of the Ferme du Chateau de la Belle Fourriere (Beffroi) at Beuvry. He recalled this incident, and the location of the chateau farm, for the first time when on a visit to the area in November 1973, and I took the other photograph of him on the very spot at that time.
Although receiving a Blighty wound soon thereafter, beside the lock on the nearby La Bassee Canal, he was back in France during the March/April 1918 retreat, and the subsequent 100 days advance from the Somme through the Hindenburg Line, River Selle, and the Foret de Mormal, finishing up at Mauberge for the Armistice.
After the war he married my mother, and lived at Brownside and then at Gordon Street, Worsthorne; until the Depression sent him south with his brother (footballer Ronnie Greenwood's father) looking for work - which he found, and was able to buy a house in Harrow where his wife and two children joined him, and where I was born in 1934. He died in 1976.
(Courtesy of his son Dan S Greenwood)