In total the 2/6th Battalion casualties were :-

Killed: Capt JH Marsden, 2/Lt K Healing, 2/Lt MS Weston, Capt WBM Jackson (d/w), 2/Lt CR Woodward (d/w).

Wounded: Capt HD Orr, Lt G Glossop, 2/Lt SA Rogers, 2/Lt AP Lockwood, Capt WEV Tomkins, 2/Lt GH Tuft.

Killed 18 OR; 43 OR wounded; 12 OR missing.

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Whilst it is relatively easily to identify those Officers and Men that were killed in action, or subsequently died of their wounds, it is less straight forward to identify the men that were wounded or made prisoner of war. As is happens 17 men were killed in action and now have no known grave, which most likely accounts for these missing men.

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But what about the wounded men? By chance I was searching for details of 240892 Pte Thomas Frederick Tomlinson when I discovered a record for his admittance to the 34th Casualty Clearing Station on the 28th April 1917.

An in-depth analysis of this record identified the names of a further 16 men of the 2/6th Battalion who had been admitted to the 34th CCS on the same day – these are some of the 43 wounded ‘other ranks’ recorded in the War Diary of the 59th Division.

241781	Cpl	Herbert Oswald	Pike	C Coy	GSW thigh	To Sick Convoy
240892	Pte	Thomas FredericK	Tomlinson	D Coy	GSW chest	Died 17/5/1917
242243	Pte	Henry	Davis	C Coy	Bomb wound thigh	To Sick Convoy
242215	Pte	Arthur William Ralph	Chambers	A Coy	GSW hand	To Sick Convoy
241989	Pte	Claude	Baldock	A Coy	Shell wound arm	To Sick Convoy
240841	Cpl	William	Lomas	C Coy	GSW shoulder	To Sick Convoy
240454	Pte	John William	Brough	A Coy	GSW leg	To Sick Convoy
241780	Pte	William	Froggatt	C Coy	Shrap leg	To Sick Convoy
241786	Pte	Matthew	Blackwall	C Coy	GSW arm	To Sick Convoy
241883	Pte	Alfred John	Woodcock	C Coy	Shrap buttock	To Sick Convoy
242269	Pte	Henry Coley	Gee	C Coy	Shell wd arm	To Sick Convoy
241379	L/Cpl	John Samuel	Holmes	D Coy	GSW head	To Sick Convoy
242121	Pte	Sidney	Rowe	C Coy	W fr Femur and flesh wound – amputated	To Sick Convoy
241709	Pte	Percy	Unwin	B Coy	Shrap both legs	To Sick Convoy
242076	Pte	Henry Albert	Ryan	B Coy	Shrap leg (L)	To Sick Convoy
242005	Pte	Frederick	Fry	A Coy	Shell wound head	Died 30/4/1917
240763	Pte	Eli Stamford	Botham	A Coy	GSW buttock	To Sick Convoy