1/5th Battalion Casualties December 1917
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1/7th Battalion casualties December 1917
On this day 22nd December 1917
2479/240592 Pte. Tom Westray Garley was killed in action aged 21 whilst attached to the 139th Trench Mortar Battery
Tom was a labourer from Disley who enlisted on the 9th October 1914. He arrived in France with 46th Division on 28th February 1915 and was wounded accidentally in the right arm on 8th August 1915 at Zillebeke whilst serving with with “B” Company.
Tom transferred to the 139th TMB in November 1917 and was killed 6 weeks later.
The War Diary of the Battery records one mortar destroyed, Tom killed and 1541/240152 Pte Walter Trevitt Harrison, a colour mixer from Hayfield, wounded.
Walter Harrison’s Service Record records that the gun explosion was accidental.
Tom was the son of Richard and Edith Garley of Lane Head Disley in Cheshire and is now buried in Philosophe British Cemetery in Mazingarbe.
On this Day 16th December 1917 – RSM Herbert Henry Jackman died
Herbert Henry Jackman served with the 2nd Battalion in the Tirah Campaign of 1897-98 (Awarded Medal and Clasps for Tirah & Punjab); the Boer War of 1899-1902 (QSA and Clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1902); Joined 1st Battalion at Rustenburg in South Africa on 8th April 1902 as L/Cpl.
He joined the 6th Battalion in 1908 and arrived in France on 25.2.15.
Mentioned in Dispatches, London Gazette 1st January 1916.
Later transferred to Labour Corps (403164); Drowned on 16.12.17 whilst serving with the 857th Area Employment Coy of the Labour Corps.
1/5th Battalion Casualties November 1917
1/8th Battalion Casualties November 1917
1/7th Battalion Casualties November 1917
139th Trench Mortar Battery Casualties in November 1917
306413 Pte Harry Fox killed in action on 28th November 1917 – attached from 1/8th Battalion.- 240439 Pte William Wheatley wounded on the 28th November 1917 – attached from 1/6th Battalion.
- 201397 Pte David Lathbury wounded on the 25th November 1917 – attached from 1/5th Battalion. Later killed in action with the 10th Battalion on 25th March 1918 aged 30. He was Son of Thomas Lathbury of Newhall Burton-on-Trent; husband of M. Garland (formerly Lathbury) of Chapel St., Church Gresley, Burton-on-Trent.
57th Trench Duty: 22nd – 28th November 1917
22/11/1917 FOUQUIRES: Battalion relieved 5th Sherwood Foresters in ST ELIE SECTOR (G.12.d.7.1 to G.12.c.1.9) 
1/6th Battalion War Diary [WO/95/2694]
22/XI/17: Quite day with the exception of wing bomb activity. Inter-Battalion reliefs.
139 Infantry Brigade: Headquarters War Diary [WO95/2692]
2/Lt Frank Walter Warmsley died of wounds in the 7th Casualty Clearing Station aged 19
Only Son of Walter Leonard and Agnes Ann Warmsley of “Brentwood,” King Egbert Rd., Totley Rise near Sheffield.
Robin Hood Casualties on this day 1917
265833 Sergeant Harold Malbon and 266683 Pte Andrew Goldsbury were killed by trench mortar fire in Northern Crater Post
Harold and Andrew are buried next to each other in a ‘North Midland Division Row’
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 