Once again many thanks for visiting – July was a record with 3667 page views and 661 visitors – I am amazed at so much interest!

Some new content added this past month:-

• Added a page on ‘1917’ – Gommecourt Advance.
• Added a new page on ‘5th Battn’ – 1578 Percy Wildsmith.
• ‘Nominal Role’ – D Company (Bakewell).
• Added the names of 976 N.C.O.s and men that sailed to France in 1915 – see end of ‘1915’
• Updated the Officers pages.
• Revised the ‘Regimental Band’ page.
• Completely revised ‘Regimental Histories and Downloads’.
• Added a list of Officer Casualties to the ‘2/6th Battn’ page.
• A few new pictures added to ‘1860’s-1907′, ‘1908’ and ‘1909’.

Whats next:-

• Will start to work on ‘1916’ – Lost Cemeteries of Gommecourt (although I seem to have misplaced some of my old research)
• The ‘North Midland Division’
• ‘1917’ – Lens, Leiven & Fosse 3 etc.

AND FINALLY, still trying to identify these two Senior N.C.O.sThe man on the left is wearing the Egypt Medal (1882-1889) and The Khedive Star (1882 issue) – suggesting that he had previously served with the 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment.

The man on the right is often seen with the Regimental Pet from c1908-1911.