On this day 3rd March 1918 – Joseph Henry Rowley sadly passed away
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1/5th Battalion Casualties in February 1918
1/8th Battalion Casualties February 1918
1/8th Battalion Casualties January 1918
1/5th Battalion Casualties January 1918
On this day 27th January 1918 – two men of the Sherwood Foresters Bde died of illness
4732/201742 Pte Archibald M Mackenzie died of pleurisy. Son of George and Mary MacKenzie of New Cumnock in Ayrshire and is buried in New Cumnock Old Church Cemetery.
Archibald enlisted in October 1915 into the 3/5th Battalion and was transferred to the 1/5th Battalion on 6th August 1916 when he arrived in France. He returned to England 3 weeks later with pleurisy and was treated in Trent Bridge Military Hospital in Nottingham. Archibald was discharged on the 26th March 1917 in consequence of ‘being no longer physically fit for War service’.
425/2907/265736 Pte Alfred Harold Calvert died aged 41 and is buried in Dover (St. James’s) Cemetery. Only Son of the late William and Elizabeth Calvert, of 52 Long Row in Nottingham.
Alfred was an original member of the 1st Nottinghamshire (Robin Hood) Rifle Volunteer Corps and enlisted into the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion Sherwood Foresters in April 1908 (#425) and subsequently re-enlisting in 1914 (#2907). He arrived in France with the North Midland Division in February 1915 and was still serving with the 7th Battalion at the time of the Territorial Force renumbering in Spring 1917 (#265736). At some point he transferred to the 250th Employment Company of the Labour Corps (#223955).
On 22nd January 1918 – William Carrington died of bronchitis and heart disease
3026/240856 Pte William Carrington enlisted into the 6th Reserve Battalion in October 1914 aged 22. He was a miner by trade and lived at 34 Queen Street in Mosborough near Sheffield. He transferred to the 1/6th Battalion on 16th August 1915 and arrived in France with the III Reinforcement on 19th August.
William was twice taken sick in France; the first time with frost bite on 27th November 1915, whilst the Battalion were at Richebourg-L’Avoue and the second time in October 1917. On both occasions he rejoined the Battalion. ‘in the field’.
In early January 1918 William was admitted to a base hospital with bronchitis and acute endocarditis [a serious bacterial infection of the heart and lungs]. William died on the 22nd January aged 26 and is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. He was the Son of George Carrington of 5 Palmer St., Halfway in Sheffield.
The autopsy request signed by Lt. Henry L Forbes of the MEDICAL OFFICERS RESERVE CORPS, United Sates Army. This form confirms that William was treated in the 13 (Harvard) American Red Cross Base Hospital.
1st Lieutenant Henry Forbes (Surgeon) is seated amongst the staff of the hospital (above) prior to their departure to France in 1917.
On this day 10th January 1918
4390/203569 Pte John Edward Clancy from Chesterfield died of wounds aged 25
On this day the 1/6th Battalion suffered their first casualty of 1918
94457 Pte John Stanley Griffiths aged 19
Son of John Joseph and Alice Griffiths of 47 Cannock Rd., Park Village, Wolverhampton
John was a conscripted soldier posted to a training Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters in the summer of 1917 and would most likely have arrived in France at the end of 1917
1/8th Battalion Casualties December 1917
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 