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103rd MACHINE GUN COMPANY

 

34th Division and detached to the 15th (Scottish) Division from 28th August to 17th September 1916.

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 34th DIVISION - SOMME 1916

1st-3rd July : Attack of La Boisselle.

10th-17th July : Contalmaison sector. Attack of Pozieres on the 15th July.

31st July - 15th August : Bazentin-le-Petit sector. Attacks of Intermediate Trench.

 

OPERATIONS OF THE 15th (Scottish) DIVISION - SOMME 1916

8th August-14th September : Operations in front of Martinpuich. Fighting for Switch Line and Intermediate Trench.

15th-18th September : Capture and consolidation of Martinpuich.

 

25 names (23 with the 34th Division, 2 with the 15th Division).

13497    Private

Cawthorne Starr

ALLEN

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

9081    Private

Frank

BAKEWELL

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 29

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

26196    Private

George Frederick

BEAN

Died of wounds on the 1st July 1916 - Age 26

Rest in peace in Bapaume Post Military Cemetery

 

26561    Private

Arthur Reginald

BRYANT

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 19

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

12952    Private

Adam

BURRELL

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 20

Rest in peace in Ovillers Military Cemetery

 

Second Lieutenant

Henry Alfred Stanley

CARPENTER

Killed in action on the 2nd September 1916 - Age 22

Rest in peace in Peake Wood Cemetery

 

26560    Private

Hector John

DAVIDSON

Died of wounds on the 4th July 1916 - Age 26

Rest in peace in Puchevillers British Cemetery

 

26171    Private

George

EASTERFIELD

Died of wounds on the 1st July 1916 - Age 28

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

3557    Private

Jesse Henry

FLEURY

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 19

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

26564    Corporal

Arthur

FUTCHER

Died of wounds on the 1st July 1916 - Age 19

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

6983    Private

Albert

GREGORY

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 18

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

13495    Private

William

HAKE

Died of wounds on the 1st July 1916 - Age 21

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

12955    Private

Duncan

HARPER

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 21

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

Second Lieutenant

Geoffrey

HARRISON

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 20

Rest in peace in Ovillers Military Cemetery

 

13011    Private

Charles Patton

LAVELLE

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 23

Rest in peace in Gordon Dump Cemetery

 

12944    Lance Corporal

William

MANNING

Died of wounds on the 3rd July 1916 - Age 39

Rest in peace in St Sever Cemetery

 

Captain

Stanley Gemmell

MILLAR

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 29

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

Lieutenant

Ernest Frederick

MORSE

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 27

Rest in peace in Ovillers Military Cemetery

 

12958    Private

Robert

OLIVER

Killed in action on the 6th July 1916 - Age 20

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

14847    Private

Charles

PEMBERTON

Died of wounds on the 1st July 1916 - Age 16

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

13502    Private

Reginald

RICKARD

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 26

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

36235    Private

George Frederick

SHERRIFF

Died of wounds on the 15th September 1916 - Age 20

Rest in peace in Millencourt Communal Cemetery Ext.

 

12993    Private

Edwin

STARKEY

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916

Rest in peace in Ovillers Military Cemetery

 

26186    Private

Jesse Charles

SURMAN

Killed in action on the 1st July 1916 - Age 18

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

 

 

 

13504    Private

William

VERRAN

Died of wounds on the 1st July 1916 - Age 22

Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial