BATTLE OF THE SOMME

ROLL OF HONOUR

Home

Machine Gun Companies

 

139th MACHINE GUN COMPANY

 

46th (North Midland) Division

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 46th (North Midland) DIVISION - SOMME 1916

1st July : Attack of the Gommecourt salient.

 

5 names

2522   Corporal

Ernest

ALLEN

Detached from The 1/8th Sherwood Foresters

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 24

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

27361    Private

Arthur George

HUNT

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

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

10060    Private

Thomas

LARNEY

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

Second Lieutenant

Ernest James

PEACH

Detached from The 1/7th Sherwood Foresters

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 28

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

 

12537   Private

Thomas

RILEY

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 17

Rest in peace in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery