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On this day 6th November 1915

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6.11.1915 PACAUT: Battalion moved into Brigade Reserve at LA COUTRE. The 46th Division having taken over the trench line on the right of NEUVE CHAPELLE.

Captain EB Johnson proceeded to Base Depot and relieved Captain GS Heathcote 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters.

War Diary [WO/95/2694]

Gilbert Stanley Heathcote was the brother of Edgar Horace Heathcote.

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Nov 6th. Rose about 8 a.m. Packed up in morning & set off from Calonne at 12-30. Got to Lacouture about 4 p.m. & billeted in barns. Fairly comfortable but not very warm. Misty & cold all day. 5th, 7th & 8th in trenches – 6th in reserve.

[3289 Pte George William Beardsley]

On this day 17th January 1916

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2651 Pte. Abaham Savage died in the British Section of the Lahore Indian Stationary Hospital of erysipelas and is buried in MAZARGUES WAR CEMETERY (erysipelas is an acute bacterial infection of the skin). At the time the 46th Division were in Marseilles due to an aborted move to Gallipoli and they remained there until the end of January.

2651 Savage

Abraham Savage was a pottery labourer from Station Road on Whittington Moor and enlisted in October 1914 aged 21. He arrived in France with the 46th Division in February 1915.

Interestingly, Abraham’s family appears to have received a pension from the French Ministry of War.

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