BATTLE OF THE SOMME

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Field Companies, Royal Engineers

ROYAL ENGINEERS

1st WEST LANCASHIRE

FIELD COMPANY

55th (West Lancashire) Division

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 55th (West Lancashire) DIVISION - SOMME 1916

30th July - 15th August : Attacks on Guillemont.

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4th-12th September : Delville Wood/Longueval. Fight for the Brewery Trenches.

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18th-28th September : Flers sector. Attacks of Gird Lines to the West of Gueudecourt.

 

3 names

6423   Sapper

Robert

KELLY

Killed in action on the 26th September 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

7310    Sapper

John

SLATTERY

Died of wounds on the 20th September 1916 - Age 22

Rest in peace in Heilly Station Cemetery

 

6212    Sergeant

Walter

TICKLE, DCM

Killed in action on the 25th September 1916 - Age 24

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial