A young Bandsman from the 6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Regiment…..
Unfortunately Albert (Heath) didn’t get this in focus, but the 6-Tier shoulder badge and the numbering (#38) leads me to think that this a 6th Battalion man taken at the summer camp of 1912.
Enlisted in December 1915 into the 3/6th Battalion. Possibly served in Ireland with the 2/6th Battalion and likely to have arrived in France with the 59th Division in Spring 1917. One of the few survivors of the first day of the Kaiserschlacht (21st March 1918), but was severely wounded by a gas shell.
Enlisted in December 1915 and served with the 2/6th and 10th Battalions. Mostly likely saw action in Dublin in 1916. Wounded and captured by the Germans in March 1918. Discharged with a pension in June 1919.
Enlisted December 1916 and discharged in May 1919. Served overseas with the 2/6th Battalion.
Awarded Victory and British War Medal and a Silver Wound Badge. Awarded a pension due to neuroasthenia (chronic fatigue syndrome).
Attested in December 1915 (Derby Scheme). Mobilised and posted to the 19th Battalion for training in April 1916. Arrived in France in August 1918 and served with the 17th and 2/6th Battalions.
Attested: 13/12/1915
To Army Reserve: 14/12/1915
Mobilised: 18/04/1916
Posted (19th Battn): 22/04/1916
France: 31/07/1916
Posted (17th Battn): 02/08/1916
GSW leg: 03/09/1916
Joseph was wounded during the attack by the 17th Battalion – the Welbeck Rangers (117th Bde/39th Division) – on German trenches around Beaumont Hamel. In total the Battalion suffered 454 casualties.
Home: 15/09/1916
Posted (D): 15/09/1916
Posted (3rd Battn): 15/06/1917
France: 28/07/1916
Posted (Base): 28/07/1917
Posted (2/6th Battn): 17/08/1917
Home: 13/10/1917
GSW head with depressed fracture of skull
It is highly likely Joseph was wounded on the 26th September 1917 during the Battle of Ypres -see here.
Posted (D): 13/10/1917
Discharged: 31/08/1918
Joseph received a pension.
A brick layer from New Mills. Enlisted in October 1914. Served with 2/6th (in Ireland) and 10th Battalions.
A clerk from Derbyshire. Attested in November 1915 (Derby Scheme). Mobilised in March 1916 and posted to 3/6th and 1/6th Battalions. Later transferred with 100 men to the 17th Battalion in September 1916. Suffered shell shock in July 1917 and was discharged in November 1917.
Enlisted in October 1914 and served with 2/6th and 10th Battalions. Admitted to Hospital in January 1919 with a shell wound to the arm.
A brass moulder from Nottingham who enlisted in September 1914. Arrived in France in June 1915. Served with the 1/7th and 1/6th Battalions and suffered a GSW in the side – date unknown.
306314 Pte James Arthur Godber from Huthwaite. A reserve stretcher bearer who served in Ireland with the 2/8th and in France with 2/6th Battalions.
James Arthur Godber was 28 years old and married to Mary. They lived at 104 Blackwell Street and James was a miner at New Hucknall Colliery. He had served in Ireland with the 2/8th Battalion where he was wounded with four bullets that were never removed. He was still serving with the 2/8th (or 3/8th) Battalion at the time of the Territorial Force Renumbering in the Spring of 1917. James proceeded in France in the summer of 1917 and was posted to the 2/6th Battalion. He was killed during the Battle of Cambrai on 2nd December 1917.
Although the letter states that “it would comfort those at home to know that he had a decent burial in a British cemetery” his body was not recovered after the War and he is Commemorated on Cambrai Memorial at Louverval. Mary died before she could received a pension.
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 