On this day 22nd July 1915

Maple Copse 22.7.1915: CAPTS F. M. DICK, E. B. JOHNSON and LIEUTS J. S. SAMPSON and J. L. PERCIVAL joined from England having joined bivouac day before.

Casualties – wounded Officers nil – O.R. killed 3 wounded 19.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]


Dick FMFrank Mackenzie Dick


Johnson EBJohnson EB 2

Evelyn Brown Johnson – The Bourne, Ashover


Sampson JS

John Stephen Sampson


Percival JLJohn Lakeman Percival


The men killed in action were:-2142 Frank Hallam

  • 1563 Pte. Harry Depledge
  • 2142 Pte. Frank Hallam
  • 1301 Pte. Alfred Gent 

All three men are buried in Maple Copse Cemetery.Hallam-Gent-Depledge

 

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