BATTLE OF THE SOMME

ROLL OF HONOUR

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Field Companies, Royal Engineers

ROYAL ENGINEERS

208th (Norfolk) FIELD COMPANY

34th Division

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 34th DIVISION - SOMME 1916

1st-3rd July : Attack of La Boisselle.

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10th-17th July : Contalmaison sector. Attack of Pozieres on the 15th July.

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31st July - 15th August : Bazentin-le-Petit sector. Attacks of Intermediate Trench.

 

21 names

85166    Sapper

George James

BROWN

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916

Commemorated in Serre Road Cemetery n°2

 

85424    Sapper

John

BURTON

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

84551    Sergeant

Martin William

CLARKE

Died of wounds on the 4th July 1916 - Age 30

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

84807    Lance Corporal

John Arthur

CRISP

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916 - Age 37

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

84552    Sergeant

Ernest George

DOGGETT

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 22

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

85007    Sapper

Arthur George

FROST

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

84750    Lance Corporal

Herbert Thompson

HART

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 39

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

85550     Corporal

Harry

HAZEL

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 23

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

85163    Sapper

Albert George

HOGGETT

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916 - Age 30

Commemorated in Flatiron Copse Cemetery

 

38206    Pioneer

George

LILLYWHITE

Killed in action on the 8th August 1916

Commemorated in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery

 

85302    Sapper

William Robert

MANN

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated in Flatiron Copse Cemetery

 

84708     Pioneer

Albert

MOORE

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

84755    Sapper

Frederick Charles

NELSON

Died of wounds on the 6th August 1916 - Age 20

Commemorated in Hunstanton (St Mary) Churchyard

 

85370    Sapper

Herbert Edmund

NICHOLS

Died of wounds on the 26th June 1916 - Age 36

Commemorated in Albert Communal Cemetery Extension

 

84853    Sapper

Robert

QUANTRELL

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated in Flatiron Copse Cemetery

 

Second Lieutenant

Henry Favil

SCOTT-HOLMES

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 22

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

84178    Sapper

Fred

SMITH

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

85189    Sapper

Harry Barnard

SMITH

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated in Flatiron Copse Cemetery

 

85304    Sapper

Harry Walter

SMITH

Died of wounds on the 9th August 1916

Rest in peace in Contalmaison Chateau Cemetery

 

84855    Sapper

Frank

SUSTINS

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated in Flatiron Copse Cemetery

 

85501    Sapper

Percy James

WOODS

Killed in action on the 9th August 1916 - Age 26

Commemorated in Flatiron Copse Cemetery