BATTLE OF THE SOMME

ROLL OF HONOUR

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Field Companies, Royal Engineers

ROYAL ENGINEERS

1/1st HIGHLAND

FIELD COMPANY

51st (Highland) Division

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 51st (Highland) DIVISION - SOMME 1916

21st July - 6th August : High Wood.

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Early October - Mid October : Hebuterne sector.

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Mid-October - 18th November : Auchonvillers sector. Attack and capture of Beaumont-Hamel on the 13th November.

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Late November : Courcelette sector.

 

10 names

400295     Sapper

Anthony

DA COSTA

Killed in action on the 29th November 1916 - Age 34

Rest in peace in Pozieres British Cemetery

 

400286     Sapper

James

DUFF

Killed in action on the 29th November 1916

Rest in peace in Pozieres British Cemetery

 

9448     Corporal

John

MacLEAN

Killed in action on the 19th November 1916 - Age 28

Rest in peace in Mailly Wood Cemetery

 

9759   Sapper

John Merry

McGOWN

Killed in action on the 5th October 1916 - Age 24

Rest in peace in Sailly-au-Bois Military Cemetery

 

400192     Corporal

John

McLEAN

Killed in action on the 19th November 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

9211     2nd Corporal

Peter McDougall

McPHAIL

Killed in action on the 19th November 1916 - Age 25

Rest in peace in Mailly Wood Cemetery

 

9974    Sapper

William John

MILNE

Died of wounds on the 20th November 1916 - Age 21

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

9435     Sapper

James

WALKER

Killed in action on the 19th November 1916 - Age 27

Rest in peace in Mailly Wood Cemetery

 

Lieutenant

Thomas Forbes

WHIMSTER

Killed in action on the 19th November 1916 - Age 34

Rest in peace in Mailly Wood Cemetery

 

 

 

8648     Sapper

James Duncan

WILKINSON

Killed in action on the 22nd July 1916 - Age 23

Rest in peace in Norfolk Cemetery