BATTLE OF THE SOMME

ROLL OF HONOUR

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Field Companies, Royal Engineers

ROYAL ENGINEERS

2/2nd 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.

 

11 names

428446   Driver

Charles Sutherland

FEARNLEY

Killed in action on the 8th August 1916 - Age 22

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

428447    Sapper

William

GILLIS

Killed in action on the 8th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

7756    Sapper

Thomas

JERVIS

Killed in action on the 10th September 1916 - Age 30

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

6910   2nd Corporal

Richard

PRICE

Died of wounds on the 24th August 1916 - Age 31

Rest in peace in Manchester Southern Cemetery

 

7133    Sapper

William

ROOCROFT

Killed in action on the 8th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

428448    Sapper

James

ROSCOE

Killed in action on the 8th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

7090    Corporal

Peter

ROUGHLEY

Killed in action on the 8th August 1916 - Age 26

Rest in peace in Bernafay Wood British Cemetery

 

 

 

128445    Sapper

Robert James

WRIGHT

Killed in action on the 8th August 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial