1 NCO and 15 men reported their arrival from 6th Sherwood Foresters, Harpenden.
[2/6th Battalion War Diary, WO-96-3025-3]
On this day November 5th 1914
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On this day November 2nd 1914
Buxton 1914:
Established Headquarters, Empire Hotel, Buxton.
Arrivals, 182 men.
[2/6th Battalion War Diary, WO-96-3025-3]
On 2nd November 1914, the Headquarters of the 2/6th Battalion were established at the Empire Hotel in Buxton. 184 men were clothed and dispatched from the Depot at Chesterfield the same day. By the end of November 1914 the Battalion had enlisted 977 NCOs and men. Many of the Officers gazetted to the Battalion had also arrived before the end of the month. The Battalion left Buxton and moved to Luton on the 3rd February 1915.
5th Battalion c1910
A platoon of 2/5th or 2/6th Battalion
The 5-Tier brass should badge is clear and the men have a mixture of Japanese Type 38 Arisaka and Magazine Lee Enfield (Long Lee) Rifles. Similar to the group below.
A Service or Reserve Battalion
1st Volunteer Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
Frederick Noel Bond
A Private (SP/3311) in the 24th (Service) Battalion of The Royal Fusiliers (2nd Sportsman’s City of London) who died on Friday 28th July 1916. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 8C 9A and 16A). The 24th Battalion Royal Fusiliers formed part of the 5th Brigade in the 2nd Division. On the 28th July the Battalion was holding front line trenches near Trones Wood just to the west of Guillemont. A shell explosion killed Frederick whilst he was carrying ammunition to his comrades in the firing line. Born in Swadlincote in March 1897 he was the Son of Reverend Kenneth Herbert and Mrs Emma Louise Bond of 7 Shaftesbury Avenue and he enlisted in Chesterfield in March 1915 aged 18. His older brother Kenneth Hills Bond served in the 1/6th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters and was awarded the Military Cross.
Reginald Beardsley
A Private (6535) in the 72nd Company of the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) who died of wounds on 21st May 1916 aged 22. Reginald had previously served with the 13th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters before transferring to the MGC. At the time of his death the 72nd MG Company were in fixed strong points in the 2nd line of defence close to Kemmel and Wulverghem. On the 30th/31st April 12 Officers and men were wounded or poisoned following a German gas attack. He was the son of John and Leila Beardsley of 12 Valley Road in Spital, Chesterfield and is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery (grave II.B.103). Bailleul was an important railhead and hospital centre with the numerous Casualty Clearing Stations quartered there.
Edmund Barnes
A Second Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps who was killed on the 27th January 1918 aged 18 following a flying accident. He is buried in GRANTHAM CEMETERY (grave 4. J. 28) in Lincolnshire. The son of William Edmund and Eliza Mary Barnes of 25 Spring Bank Road in Chesterfield.
Tom Benjamin Bamford
A Private (5198) in the 1st/10th (Scottish) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) who died on Wednesday 9th August 1916 aged 25. His death is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 1D 8B and 8C) and on the Hasland Village Memorial. The 1st/10th (Scottish) Battalion, The Kings formed part of the 166th Brigade, 55th (West Lancashire) Division. On 9th August the Battalion was involved in the attack on Guillemont and following four unsuccessful charges suffered over 280 casualties.
“He was killed while taking part in an attack on German trenches and I am taking this opportunity to express on behalf of your son’s comrades and his Company Commander Captain Jaegers and myself our deepest sympathies with you in your heavy bereavement. Private Bamford was always a good and conscientious soldier and his loss will be keenly felt by all who knew him and particularly by his comrades of the Lewis Gun Section”
[Pte Bamford’s Section Officer]
After attending Chesterfield Grammar School, Tom studied at Nottingham University before moving to Nantes to study French. He was a schoolteacher and the son of Thomas and Ellen Bamford of Hazel Grove in Hasland. Thomas Bamford (Snr) was an engine driver on the Midland Railway.
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 