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
Colour Sergeant Charles Robert Chambers
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