1-3/11/18 BOHRAIN: Battalion in training. Great interest taken in Inter-Platoon Football competition.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
On these days 1st – 3rd November 1918
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Monthly Archives: October 2017
On this day 2nd November 1918
2/11/18 BOHAIN: 2/Lieutenants JH DRURY and AT AULT joined from England.
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
Arthur Taylor Ault later served in 6th (Poona) Division of the Indian Army during the Iraq Rebellion in January 1920. Also served with the Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence (1920-22). See here for details.
3782/241220 Pte Thomas Goodwin died of wounds aged 20 in the 3rd Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. Son of Isaac and Mary Ann Goodwin, of 16, Station Rd., Chesterfield. Enlisted February 1915 and arrived in France in 1916. Served with “A” Company and was wounded on 17.7.16 at Bellacourt during a German attack on the trenches.
During October 1918
This will be completed when time allows
On this day 30th September 1918: many messages of congratulations
On this day 29th September 1918: Great success was met with
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On these days 26th to 28th September 1918
26.6.18: Night of 26/27/ relieved by 1st Infantry Brigade
27.9.18: Battalions in close reserve areas
28.9.18: Battalions in assembly areas
On this day 25th September 1918: fairly quite….
203482 Sergt Christopher Loomes DCM a farm labourer from Old Whittington. Old Contemptible who served with the 2nd Battalion and was then transferred to the 1/5th in 1916. Wounded on the 24th and died the following day. See here
7649/242445 Pte Sydney Ball. Burton Observer dated 5.10.1918 records that he was hit by a piece of shell in the abdomen and died at 4.40am on the 23rd September. After visiting his brother who had been wounded and was in the Leicester Infirmary he at once enlisted although under Military age
117154 Pte John William Richardson. From Stanton.
96069 Cpl Albert Eugene Lambert from Mansfield.
4365/306418 Pte William Rogers
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 