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.
Enlisted December 1915; Served with overseas with the 2/6th and 2nd Battalions
Enlisted in May 1915 and was in the 28th Reinforcement to the 1/6th Battalion in January 1917. Later served with the 5th Battalion and the Army Service Corps.
Discharged due to sickness in April 1918 aged 34. Awarded a pension for “deafness and incontinence of wine”.
Enlisted in June 1916 and was one of the Londoners posted to the 2/6th Battalion in September 1916; made prisoner of War during the Battle of Cambria.
Walter enlisted in June 1916 and arrived in France with the 2/6th Battalion in February 1917. He was captured on the 1st December 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai when he was wounded in the arm and leg. He was interned in Dulman POW Camp and was demobilised in March 1919 and awarded a pension.
Walter died in May 1922.
Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War 