BATTLE OF THE SOMME ROLL OF HONOUR |
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1st AUSTRALIAN FIELD COMPANY Australian Engineers
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19th July : Albert area. 21st-22nd July : Digging of a trench North of Chalk Pits. Night of the 22nd-23rd July : Pickup of Engineer materials at Gordon Dump, Sausage Valley and Chalk Pits. 23rd July : Taking of Pozieres. Digging and improving communication trenches, digging a strong point. 24th-25th July : Consolidation and deepening the original front line South of Pozieres. Construction of a strong point in Pozieres village. 26th July : Albert safe a party of 20 men working in Gordon Dump sector. 27th July : Vadencourt. 28th July : La Vicogne. ******* 14th August : Vadencourt. 15th August : Near Albert. 16th August : La Boisselle. Night of the 16th-17th August : Two parties of 150 men each were ordered to dig saps and T heads in front line (North of Pozieres / South of Mouquet Farm). Owing the congestion of the communication trenches, the absence of guides and the heavy German shelling, they can't to reach the first line. Night of the 17th-18th August : Works in Pozieres. 20th-21st August : Works North of Pozieres. 22nd August : Near Albert. 23rd August : Warloy-Baillon. ******* 23rd October : Fricourt Wood. 24th October : Mametz Wood. Works at Montauban and Fricourt. 29th October : Montauban. 1st November : Flers. Works in Flers / Gueudecourt sector. 14th November : Buire-sur-Ancre.
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234 2nd Corporal Archibald Evatt BLAND Died of wounds on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 30 Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery
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50 Lance Corporal Lionel George Fuller BURTON Died of wounds on the 25th July 1916 - Age 20 Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery
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Second Lieutenant Roy Charles CROSSLAND Killed in action on the 18th August 1916 - Age 27 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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2384 Sapper Arthur Joseph DAYBALL Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 - Age 29 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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1258 Sapper James Edward ENRIGHT Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 24 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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1894 Sapper Leonard FISHER Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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2166 Lance Corporal Stirling Napier FRANKI Died of wounds on the 27th July 1916 - Age 23 Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery
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Captain Robert Charles HERBERTSON Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 33 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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58 Corporal Percy Frederick HIRST, MM Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 - Age 24 Rest in peace in Pozieres British Cemetery
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2449 Sapper Ralph Granville IRONS Died of wounds on the 24th July 1916 - Age 23 Rest in peace in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Ext.
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340 2nd Corporal William ROBERTS Killed in action on the 19th August 1916 - Age 29 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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357 Sapper Walter Edgar ROBSON Died of wounds on the 20th July 1916 - Age 27 Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery
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2044 Sapper George Gardner SAMS Died of wounds on the 3rd September 1916 Rest in peace in Etaples Military Cemetery
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1339 Lance corporal Fred Edward Richard SAUNDERS Died of wounds on the 24th July 1916 Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery
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Lieutenant Albert Ernest TAYLOR Killed in action on the 23rd July 1916 - Age 26 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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215 Sapper William WHELAN Killed in action on the 25th July 1916 Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial
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