BATTLE OF THE SOMME

ROLL OF HONOUR

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Field Companies, Royal Engineers

ROYAL ENGINEERS

2/1st WEST LANCASHIRE

FIELD COMPANY

55th (West Lancashire) Division

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 55th (West Lancashire) DIVISION - SOMME 1916

30th July - 15th August : Attacks on Guillemont.

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4th-12th September : Delville Wood/Longueval. Fight for the Brewery Trenches.

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18th-28th September : Flers sector. Attacks of Gird Lines to the West of Gueudecourt.

 

10 names

8456   Driver

John

ALMOND

Killed in action on the 27th September 1916

Rest in peace in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery

 

7335   Sapper

Edgar

BARNES

Killed in action on the 27th September 1916 - Age 25

Rest in peace in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery

 

426454    Sapper

Joseph

CASE

Killed in action on the 26th September 1916 - Age 26

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

7640    Sapper

William

GORMAN

Died in Service on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

Second Lieutenant

Joseph Roger

HOLDEN

Killed in action on the 5th August 1916 - Age 32

Rest in peace in Carnoy Military Cemetery

 

8524   Sapper

Herbert

HULL

Killed in action on the 25th September 1916

Rest in peace in Longueval Road Cemetery

 

8495   Sapper

John Francis

KAY

Died of wounds on the 28th September 1916 - Age 31

Rest in peace in Heilly Station Cemetery

 

426455    Sapper

John

McDERMOTT

Killed in action on the 8th September 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

7190   Lance Corporal

John

PHILLIPS

Died in service on the 2nd October 1916

Rest in peace in Pont-Remy British Cemetery

 

 

 

426456    Sapper

John William

TUCK

Died in Service on the 9th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial