BATTLE OF THE SOMME

ROLL OF HONOUR

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Field Companies, Royal Engineers

ROYAL ENGINEERS

126th FIELD COMPANY

21st Division

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 21st DIVISION - SOMME 1916

1st-3rd July : Attack North of Fricourt.

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12th-17th July : Mametz Wood. Attack and capture of Bazentin-le-Petit Wood and Bazentin-le-Petit village on the 14th July.

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17th-30th September : East of Flers. Fighting for Gird Trenches. Capture of Gueudecourt on the 25th-26th September.

 

25 names

140597    Sapper

Robert G.

CHICK

Died of wounds on the 12th July 1916 - Age 21

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

108003    Sapper

John Henry

COLE

Killed in action on the 25th September 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

67747    Sapper

Frederick G.

COLLINS

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

89906    Sapper

Francis

DOWNING

Killed in action on the 14th July 1916 - Age 21

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

67134    Sapper

Samuel George

DOWNING

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65484    Sapper

Herbert James

DUNN

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916

Rest in peace in London Cemetery and Extension

 

134648    Sapper

James

GALLAGHER

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916

Rest in peace in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery

 

65546    Sapper

Joseph

GOODFELLOW

Killed in action on the 14th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

84676    Pioneer

Robert Percy

HAWES

Died of wounds on the 17th September 1916

Rest in peace in Heilly Station Cemetery

 

Second Lieutenant

Alexander Alves

INGLIS

Killed in action on the 26th September 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

120689    Sapper

Arthur John

JANES

Killed in action on the 1st October 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

103892    Sapper

Arthur

LEE

Died of wounds on the 18th July 1916

Rest in peace in Heilly Station Cemetery

 

65646    Sapper

Oscar

LEWIS

Killed in action on the 14th July 1916 - Age 27

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65336    Sapper

George

MILLER

Killed in action on the 14th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65666    Sapper

Trevor

MURFIN

Died of wounds on the 14th July 1916 - Age 32

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

67628    Sapper

Leonard

PANTLING

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

67205    Sapper

Charles Donald

PHILLIPS

Killed in action on the 14th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65459    Lance Corporal

John Edwin

RANSBY

Died of wounds on the 14th July 1916 - Age 26

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65461    2nd Corporal

James E.

RUSSELL

Killed in action on the 14th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

66131    Sapper

William Harold

SADLER

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65626   2nd Corporal

Harold Claude

SHATTOCK

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916 - Age 29

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65662    Sapper

William Henry

SPEAK

Killed in action on the 12th July 1916

Rest in peace in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery

 

67273    Sapper

Leonard Thomas

WATERMAN

Died of wounds on the 12th July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

65314    Sapper

Ernest

WHITEHEAD

Killed in action on the 4th July 1916 - Age 19

Rest in peace in Norfolk Cemetery

 

 

 

67771    Sapper

Frank

WILLIAMS

Killed in action on the 14th July 1916

Rest in peace in Flatiron Copse Cemetery