2590/240653 Robert Henry Chadwick aged 42 died of ‘cardiac failure due to fatigue’ in the 1st North Midland Field Ambulance and is buried in COUIN NEW BRITISH CEMETERY.

Robert was a quarryman by trade and the son of Mr and Mrs George Chadwick of Bakewell. He had enlisted into the 6th Reserve Battalion in October 1914 and arrived in France with the II Reinforcement in June 1915.

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Also wounded that day by gas poisoning were:-

• 3850 Pte. J W Ball (“B Company).
• 3221 Pte. Leonard Arthur Barnard (“A” Company) a pony driver from Staveley. Enlisted in October 1914 and arrived in France with the 46th Division in February 1915.
• 3714 Pte. Joseph Cox (“C” Company). Enlisted in January 1915 and arrived in France with the IV Reinforcement in October 1915.
• 3997 Pte. Arthur Crawley (“C” Company). Enlisted in February 1915 and arrived in France in 1916. Discharged in June 1918 due to shell shock.
• 2927 Cpl. Charles Greatorex (“B” Company). Enlisted in October 1914 and arrived in France in 1916. A tape weaver from Wirksworth.
• 4218 Pte. Albert Kirk (“A” Company) Enlisted in March 1915 and arrived in France in 1916.
• 3734 Tom Lynam (B” Company). Enlisted in January 1915 and arrived in France in 1916.
• 4281 Pte. William Redman (“B” Company). Enlisted in January 1915 and arrived in France   with the 6th Reinforcement in March 1916. Suffered severe gas poisoning and shell shock and was discharged in April 1918.
• 4204 Pte. Ernest Smith (“D” Company”). Enlisted in March 1915 and arrived in France with the  IV Reinforcement in October 1915.
• 4124 Pte. Arthur Warren (D” Company). Enlisted in March 1915 and arrived in France with the  IV Reinforcement in October 1915.
• 2928 John Else Gratton (“B” Company). Enlisted October 1914 and arrived in France in 1916.