On this day 21st/22nd September 1918: the 5th Battalion trenches are raided

Enemy attacked 5th Sherwood Foresters. Attack repulsed with very heavy casualties

BELLICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

92392 Pte Alexander Alcock aged 23. Son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Alcock of Baldovan Gardens, Dundee. Previously served with RASC and transferred to Sherwood Foresters around July 1917.

305663 Pte Tom Edney from Mansfield.

267342 L/Cpl Frederick Hage from Nottingham.

13287 Pte R Smith. Husband of A. M. C. Smith, of 13, Bedford Square, Loughborough, Leicestershire.

35017/203510 Pte Harold Wright aged 21. Son of Dan and Emma Wright, of 22, Clyde St., Wilfold Rd., Nottingham.

19787 Cpl Albert Cook from Chesterfield.

93638 Pte Norman Charnock Kaye from Yeadon in Yorkshire.

2089/200353 Pte William Herbert Reynolds from Long Eaton.

306975 Pte Joseph Richardson from Hull.

202235 Sergt James Taylor from Middlesex.

BRIE BRITISH CEMETERY

200085 Pte A Knowles

VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL

73462 Pte Allan Adams

18184  Pte George Albert Northridge

30664 Pte William Towle

 

 

 

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