BATTLE OF THE SOMME

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Field Companies, Royal Engineers

ROYAL ENGINEERS

23rd FIELD COMPANY

1st Division

 

1st Division Operations

14th-26th July : Operations West of Bazentin-le-Petit/South of Pozieres (Attacks of Switch Line and Munster Alley).

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16th-26th August : Operations North of Bazentin-le-Petit/West of High Wood.

27th August-10th September : High Wood operations.

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22nd-27th September : Operations North-West of Flers. (Attack of Flers Trenches).

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Mid-November : Eaucourt-l'Abbaye sector.

 

10 names

20843    2nd Corporal

Benjamin Robert

COPPING

Killed in action on the 20th July 1916

Rest in peace in Flatiron Copse Cemetery

 

20962    Sapper

Herbert Harry

FAIRWEATHER

Died of wounds on the 16th August 1916

Rest in peace in Albert Communal Cemetery Extension

 

23085   Sapper

Robert James

GOVAN

Died of wounds on the 3rd September 1916 - Age 22

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

35776    Sapper

Francis George

HONOUR

Died of wounds on the 30th October 1916 - Age 20

Rest in peace in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension

 

12307   Sergeant

Henry

MITCHELL

Killed in action on the 3rd September 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

67101   Sapper

James Edward

O'LEARY

Died of wounds on the 4th September 1916

Rest in peace in Heilly Station Cemetery

 

15405   Lance Corporal

George Henry

PARKER

Killed in action on the 3rd September 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

Lieutenant

William Hubert

POTTERTON

Killed in action on the 24th July 1916 - Age 24

Rest in peace in Albert Communal Cemetery Extension

 

86967   Pioneer

William Henry

SUTTON

Died of wounds on the 24th August 1916 - Age 21

Rest in peace in St Sever Cemetery

 

 

 

103765   Sapper

Albert Edward William

TURK

Killed in action on the 3rd September 1916 - Age 19

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial