Derbyshire Territorials in the Great War

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  • 1860’s-1907
    • Formation of the Derbyshire Rifle Volunteer Corps: 1859
    • Disbanding the 2nd Administrative Battalion: 1869
    • 1st and 2nd Corps Derbyshire Rifle Volunteers: 1880
    • Volunteer Battalions of the Sherwood Foresters: 1887
    • The South African War (Boer War): 1899-1902
    • 2nd Volunteer Battalion
    • Strensall Camp in 1901
    • Castleton Camp in 1903
    • Scarborough Camp in 1904
    • Castleton Camp in 1905
    • Conway Camp in 1906
    • Towyn Camp in 1907
  • The Pre-War Years (1908-1913)
    • 1908: “Gentlemen if you please”; the formation of the Territorial Force
    • 1909: Consolidation and training
    • 1910: The 1st North Midland Divisional Camp
    • 1911: Coronation Year
    • 1912: And a change in Command
    • 1913: Before the storm
    • Regimental Bands
    • The ‘Derby Ram’
  • The Great War (1914-1918)
    • 1914: Mobilisation and training
      • Hunmanby Camp
      • Home Station
      • Mobilisation in the North Midlands
      • The Sherwood Foresters at Harpenden
      • The North Midland Division at Harpenden
    • 1915: The loss of innocence
      • The North Midland Division starts on the “The Great Adventure”
      • Ploegsteert Wood
      • Neuf Berquin
      • Kemmel
      • Ypres
      • Hohenzollern Redoubt
      • Richebourg
      • Tunnelling Companies
      • Field Ambulance
      • The Hospital Ships
      • The lost cemeteries of the Ypres area
      • The lost cemeteries of Hohenzollern
      • Wounded Territorials in Chesterfield
    • 1916: Attrition and Battle
      • La Folie Farm
      • Foncquevillers
      • Gommecourt 1st July 1916
      • Bellacourt
      • The lost cemetery of Mont St Eloi
      • Lost Cemeteries of Gommecourt
      • Mining under Vimy Ridge
    • 1917: Coalfields and crassiers
      • Foncquevillers – Winter 1917
      • Gommecourt Advance March 1917
      • Fosse 3 de Lievin – April 1917
      • Attack West of Lens 1st July 1917
      • Cambrin Sector
    • 1918: And on to Final Victory
      • The Gorre Sector: 6th June
      • Verquin: 26th July
      • Attack on Hunter Post and Scott Post: 30th August – 3rd September
      • Attack on Pontruet and Forcans Trench 24th September
      • Breaking the Hindenberg Line: 29th September – 3rd October
      • Returning home
    • Trench raiding
      • Boar’s Head in November 1915
      • The Talus and Blockhouse raids in the summer of 1916
      • Cite St. Auguste November 1917
      • Cite St. Elie in December 1917
      • German Raid on 2nd January 1918
      • Gorre raid 6/7th June 1918
      • 24th-25th June 1917
    • Awards and Honours 1915-1918
  • Officers
    • The Heathcote Brothers from Cheshire
    • A – E Officers
    • F – J Officers
    • K – O Officers
    • P – S Officers
    • T – Z Officers
  • Nominal Roll
    • “A” Chesterfield Company
    • “B” Chapel-en-le-Frith and Hope Valley Company
    • “C” Ashbourne and Buxton Company
    • “D” Bakewell Company
    • “E” Wirksworth and Matlock Company
    • “F” Staveley and District Company
    • “G” Clay Cross and District Company
    • “H” Whaley Bridge, New Mills and Hayfield Company
    • Reinforcements
      • 1st Reserve
      • II Reinforcement
      • 3rd Reinforcement
      • 4th Reinforcement
      • V Reinforcement
      • 6th Reinforcement
  • 1/5th Battalion
    • Three friends from Castle Gresley
    • Downman Brothers
    • Arthur and William Oldknow
    • 1508 Sergeant William Maycock
    • 1578 Pte Percy Wildsmith
    • 2138 Pte Hedley Plackett
    • 3106 Pte Cyril Flint
    • 3354 Pte Vincent Horridge
    • 4213/32601 Pte John Prince Hartshorn
    • 5659 Pte James Watson Bottomley: Later Commissioned in West Yorkshire Regiment
    • 6542 Pte Levi Tetley
    • 100055 Pte Samuel Atkinson
    • 201049 Sergeant Reuben Hart
    • 203150 Pte Samuel Osborne
    • 203656 Pte Charles Alfred Harrison
    • 117848 Pte John Henry Goodwin
  • 1/6th Battalion
    • Rifle Volunteers
      • 1315 Pte George Holmes
    • Pre War Territorials
      • 450 Company Sergeant Major Harry Slack
      • 564 Sergeant Robert Smith
      • 623 Pte Fred Montgomery
      • 1434/203514 Pte Fred Chell
      • 1651/240200 Pte George Marper
      • 1769/73444 Harold Marsh
      • 1978/240354 Pte John Oldbury
      • 2014/240368 Pte Ernest Hallam
      • 2107/240417 Pte Ellis Bramwell
    • Original 1914 Recruits
      • 2366/240545 Pte Ernest William Spencer
      • 2505/240611 Pte Thomas Henry Mainwaring
      • 2893/240787 Sergeant Oscar Hubbuck
      • 2897 Pte Vernon Brelsford
      • 3145/240918 Pte Thomas Beckett
      • 3331/241018 Pte James Richards
      • 3400/241053 Pte Herbert Steeples
      • 3415/241062 Sergeant Samuel Henry Lomas
      • 3588/241139 Pte Walter Gratton
    • 1915 Recruits
      • 3761 Pte Lawrence George Tuckley
      • 3922/241276 Pte John Mowbray
      • 4006/241315 Pte John Thomas Mowbray
      • 4349/241469 Pte Albert Bacon
      • 4606/241586 Pte Matthew Hodgkins
      • 4657 241616 Pte Joseph Archibald Robinson
    • 1916 Recruits
      • 5403/241889 Pte Walter Thomas Hall
    • Derby Scheme Men
      • 242008 Pte Harry Baker
      • 242062 Pte Henry George Cecil
      • 7739/242529 Pte Frederick Gascoigne
    • 1917 and 1918 Conscripts
      • 90275 Pte Joseph Goodwin
      • 92414 Sergeant Frank Clement Cuthbert
      • 97468 Pte Maurice Horton Marshall
      • 204705 Pte Alfred Sutton
  • 2/6th Battalion (1914-16)
    • Attestation and Training in Buxton: 1914-15
    • Officers and Senior NCOs: 1914-15
    • Empire Hotel: Headquarters of the 2/6th Battalion
    • The move to Epping and Luton: February 1915
    • Arrival of the Derby Scheme men: January 1916
    • Ireland and the Easter Rising 1916
    • Flying Columns in Ireland: Summer 1916
    • Officers of the 2/6th Battalion summer 1916
    • Awards and Honours 1916
    • Arrival of the Londoners: September 1916
  • 2/6th Battalion (1917-18)
    • February 1917 and embarkation to France
    • April 27th 1917: Attack on Hargicourt Quarries and Cologne Farm
    • Attack on Passchendale Ridge: September 1917
    • The Battle of Cambria: December 1917
    • Arrival of Reinforcements: January 1918
    • Kaiserschlacht – the German Spring Offensive: 21st March 1918
    • Reinforcements and re-equiping: Spring 1918
    • Reduced to cadre and disbanded: 31 July 1918
    • The stories of individual men who enlisted into the 2/6th Battalion
  • 1/7th Battalion
    • 2484 Pte George Henry Bewley
    • 330388 Pte Amos Holmes
    • The Nall brothers from Nottingham
    • 7200/267922 Pte James Lomas
    • 266478 Corporal Maurice Given
  • 1/8th Battalion
    • Albert Lunn
    • Pte Fred Severn
    • 120 Sergeant Drummer William Clewes
    • 308 Transport Sergeant Charles Green
    • 412 Sergeant Charles Herbert Rhymes
    • 1433/305127 Sergeant William Henry Drabble
    • 1634/305206 Pte Wilfred Scott and Transport Section 1914
    • 1762 Pte Cyril Richard Overton
    • 2243 Pte John William Wright
    • 2895/71622 Pte Robert Henry Knight
    • 5218/70822 Pte Alfred William Currin
  • 21st Battalion
  • The Reserve Battalions
    • 3/6th Battalion
  • North Midland Division
  • Resources
    • Identifying photographs
    • Rank and Trade Badges
    • Regimental Histories
    • Regimental Numbering 1908-1918
    • Personal accounts
    • Links to other sites
  • Pre War Regulars
    • Colour Sergeant Charles Robert Chambers
    • Pre-War 1st and 2nd Battalion groups
    • Unknown Pre-War Notts and Derby Regulars
    • Unknown Sergeant and family
    • 8853 Pte Alexander Herron
    • 9462 Pte Knowles
    • 9822 Pte Charles Henry Allen
    • 9912 L/Cpl John William Williamson
    • 11015 Pte George James Kirkham
    • 11585 Pte Edward Mathews
  • Everything Else….
    • 11/133 Pte Charles Banks
    • 489 Gunner Herbert Porter West Lancashire RFA
    • Amusing Postcards
    • Assorted family groups
    • Captain Basil James Ross
    • Captain Philip Robinson Bennett RGA
    • Various Images
    • Various Royal Artillery

2897 Pte Vernon Brelsford

Postcards sent by Vernon Brelsford to his wife Emily

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