On this day the 28th May 1917

The following men of “D” Company were wounded by gas shelling and admitted to the North Midland Field Ambulance and 35 General Hospital in Calais.1761 slack

  • 236 Pte William Bennett
  • 1761/240251 Pte Richard Slack a collier from Clay Cross
  • 1765/240253 Pte Ernest Whalley a miner from Pilsley
  • 2088/240405 Pte William Shrewsbury a miner banksman from Alftreton
  • 2958/200782 Pte Joseph William Smedley 
  • 3243/240974 Pte Edenezer Flint a quarryman from Wirksworth
  • 4143/241373 Pte Edwin Brook
  • 5330/241880 Pte Victor Major Mitchell
  • 7799/242587 Pte Harold English

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