Trench Lincs 6th April 2025
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- Apr 4
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Good Morning,
Welcome to the first Trench Lincs for April, and what a difference changing the clocks makes. It is now light towards 8pm and spring really is in the air.
Everything in the garden is bursting into bud and flower and as a keen fruit grower, I am dreading a late frost at this crucial time.
Normandy and the D-Day beaches beckon and our little party departs tomorrow.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS.
Next Meeting - Lincoln & North Lincolnshire Branch WFA - Monday, April 28th - Doors open 7.00pm for prompt start at 7.30pm - Venue: Royal Naval Association Club, Coulson Road, Lincoln, LN6 7BG.
Alex Keyes presents “The Easter Uprising: The Irish Perspective”.
Further details to follow.
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The East Midlands (Nottingham) WFA Branch meets again on Friday 11th April at 7.30pm at St. Peter’s Church Hall, Church Street, Ruddington, Nottingham, NG11 6HA. All welcome.
The April speaker is Shaun Higgins who will present – ‘Strange Meetings’ The life of Wilfred Owen MC, in his own words.
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Next Meeting - Spalding & South Lincolnshire Branch, WFA - Thursday, 24th April - Doors open 7.00pm for prompt start at 7.30pm - Venue: Spalding Baptist Church, Swan Street, Spalding, PE11 1BT.
Guest Speaker for the evening, Andrew Moody, presents "The Great War on the Silent Screen."
Andrew Moody is a WFA member and completed the MA in Britain and the First World War from Wolverhampton University in 2022. His dissertation was on the subject of the Great War in early post war cinema, on which subject he has written and lectured about for the last couple of years. He has also been involved in the independent project to build a full scale working replica of a Medium "A" Whippet tank which made its debut at Bovington Tank Museum's "Tankfest 24" event. The story of the real and working replica of "Musical Box", as the tank was named, is told in another of Andrew's talks called "Musical Box, 1918 and 2024".
His presentation this evening covers the decade following the end of the Great War, when cinema audiences boomed and movies were by far the most popular source of entertainment in the country. It was natural that the momentous events of 1914-1918 would feature on the silver screen in some form or another, but, exactly how could such a medium accurately and sympathetically represent the experience of the men in the trenches, and the civilian population caught up the conflict?
The 1920's movie industry produced many innovative, thrilling and imaginative popular films of the conflict, some of which have endured while most have been forgotten by all but historians and commentators on popular culture. Taking a look at the films of the 1920's and how the war was presented back to the people who had lived through it, the attempts at memorialisation and the introduction of melodrama, holds a mirror up to a traumatised society and a nation looking for meaning in a post war world that had changed forever.
In this presentation - which runs for around 60 minutes - we will look at films such as The Lost Battalion, Ypres, Mons, The Big Parade, Wings, Tell England, Journey's End, Splinters and more! This view of history made for the silver screen is something completely different from our usual fare, and is not to be missed.
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The Leadenham Military History Group’s next meeting will be on Tuesday 22nd April, at Leadenham Village Hall with a start time of 7.30pm.
There will be a Show and Tell of Royal Observer Corps equipment from the 1930’s, followed by a Presentation by Chas Parker – “The Royal Observer Corps in Lincolnshire and Humberside.”
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The second presentation in the Friends of Lincoln Tank 2025 season of talks is fast approaching and will be held on Thursday 24th April. We are delighted that FoLT member David Moore will deliver his talk “Taking Refuge: (16th Tank Battalion graffiti at Gouy-en-Artois)”.
In David’s own words:
“In July 2017, a wall collapsed behind the Mairie/Ècole in the village of Gouy-en-Artois, Pas de Calais, France. It created an opening into a small tunnel network dating back to the 17th century.
Initial exploration with a group of local specialists revealed previously unseen WW1 names written on the tunnel walls that belonged to a group of men from the 16th Battalion Tank Corps.
This presentation will look at the work of the A.R.R.R.A.S. group and the findings of research conducted by me on the 10 men that left their names on the walls in December 1918.
Beginning with a short history of the creation of underground quarries in northern France and their development into refuges through to the present day, and onto the arrival of the British Army at Gouy en Artois in 1916 and the main topic on the lives of some of the men of the 16th Battalion Tank Corps that left their names on the walls of this village refuge in 1918”.
I am sure you will agree this sounds to be a fascinating talk covering a topic that I, for one, have never considered before and know very little of.
The venue will be, as ever, The Royal Naval Club, Coulson Road, Lincoln. The entrance fee for the event is £5.00 payable on the night on the door. Doors will open at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start and I hope many of you will be able to join and support us on the evening. Refreshments will be available at the bar and there is plenty of parking available on site. Don’t forget you do not need to be a member of FoLT to attend. All will be warmly welcomed – old and young. See you all then.
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Another group who meet at the Royal Naval Club, Coulson Road, Lincoln, LN6 7BG are the Lincs Aviation Society.
I now have great pleasure in advertising their forthcoming events, which take place on the third Thursday of each month - entry is £2 for members and £3 for visitors.
The next speaker event is on Thursday 17th April at 7.30pm when the speaker will be Brian Riley who will present “Airborne Forces in South Lincolnshire 1944.”
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As I mentioned previously, my recent trip to York has elicited a lot of interest for a return visit. Therefore, a date has now been set for Wednesday 30th April. I shall be on the 09.46 train out of Newark Northgate station and returning at 17.33.
If you would like to join the party (already 9 strong) please just book your train ticket and let me know. [3 are travelling by car – Ed]
We shall visit the Army Museum and the Kohima museum which expects to be open for our private visit. I will need to submit names (and vehicle registration numbers if not travelling by train) five days before the 30th, we will also to visit other attractions as time allows.
I look forward to hearing from you as to enter the Kohima museum, which is on MOD property, I will need to give your details in advance and you will need to bring photographic ID with you on the day.
LAST CALL FOR THIS TRIP WILL BE TL 20th APRIL
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I was pleased to receive another fascinating story and insightful piece of research from David Gray this last week. The story involves a chap we shall call ‘The Bayonet Man.’
David writes; ‘Tom Treliving - Bayonet Fighter
As with most towns and cities in Britain, the Peterborough Advertiser (or ‘Tiser’ as the local soldiers called it), was filled with news from the front every week. News of movements of local troops, stories of bravery, wounds and death covered the pages along with photographs and maps when they were available. Often the newspaper would reproduce letters sent home from the front by local men telling stories of battle, but also of how well they were often faring, with good food and wine available in the French villages they had passed through. Sometimes men home on leave would be interviewed and this was a good way of slipping past the censor with the men willing to give more details.
The short excerpt in the letter below from Peterborough man Tom Treliving (below), 1st Bedfordshire Regiment, is a good example of the type of news which found its way home.
Peterborough Advertiser, Saturday 26th September 1914.
Letter from Tom Treliving
“We saved the French Army,” wrote Private Tom Treliving of the Bedfordshire Regiment to Miss Penny of Peterborough, referring to the Battle of Mons. “As the shells burst around us we lay under cover smoking fags and eating tinned meat…Tell Bob the Germans can’t shoot for nuts, but their artillery is a bit hot.”
A short time after this was published Tom found himself in the middle of the First Battle of Ypres. (October 19–November 22, 1914), this was the first of three costly battles centred on the city of Ypres (now Ieper) in Western Flanders. Attempted flank attacks by both the Allies and the Germans failed to achieve significant breakthroughs, and both sides settled into the trench warfare that would characterise the remainder of the war on the Western Front.
Around three weeks after Tom’s letter was published, the following story appeared in the Advertiser which gives an unusually detailed account of the action that took place.
Peterborough Advertiser, Saturday 19th December 1914.
Death of Tom Treliving
The death of Private Tom Treliving, ‘D’ company, 1st battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, was now received in Peterborough. He was killed in action on 7th November, aged 27. The son of Frederick and Emma Treliving, of 16, Hubbard’s Passage, Peterborough, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, on panels 10 and 11 along with other members of his regiment. Tom was one of the first to go out to the front and had been employed at the Peterborough G.P.O. He had a brother and many friends in Peterborough and he was engaged to be married. After becoming separated from his unit while advancing near Ypres, he had stumbled upon a farmhouse in a wood being held by a number of Germans. The Germans did not want to give away their position by firing on a solitary British soldier, so they left the farmhouse with the intention of bayoneting him to death. Tom finished all five of them off with his bayonet before succumbing to his fatal wounds. His body was later found surrounded by the dead Germans.
Around a month later on 16th January 1915, the Advertiser published a letter from Sergeant F.W. Golding of the 3rd Bedfordshire Regiment, sent to Mr. Fergusson of Princes Gardens, Peterborough. The letter told more about the death of Private Tom Treliving who lived at 64, Alma Road, Peterborough, and confirmed the action in which Tom met his death.
Peterborough Advertiser, Saturday 16th January 1915
Tom Treliving’s Death
Sergeant Golding wrote: “I am sorry to have to tell you about poor Tom, but on 7th November 1914 we were in a wood holding a position, I had my platoon in some dugouts about 200 yards from the firing line, and all of a sudden we were surprised to see some of our troops retiring, but it was only for a time, as we all took up a line and drove them back [the Germans] a lot further than they came, as they don’t like cold steel.
After we had driven them back and things had quietened down, we had a roll call, and I discovered Tom amongst about 12 more missing. As I had left a lot in the firing line I thought he would be there. About 2am on Sunday morning I and about 20 others formed a line and skirmished the wood in case of any snipers, and ongoing through a farm we came upon three Germans all dead, and a little further on we came across another German and one of our chaps. At first, (it was dark) I couldn’t recognize who it was, but as I always try to find out by letters or disc who the poor chaps are, I was surprised to find it was poor Tom. How he got where he was, is a mystery as he must have gone astray, but my idea is that he got separated from the regiment and was making his way back when he was set upon by the Germans who had concealed themselves in the house for the purpose of sniping, as he was killed by a bayonet, but we were all convinced he died a soldier’s death, and had it been a case of man-to-man I believe Tom was a match for anyone with rifle or bayonet.
Well, as you say in your letter, there will be a good many sorrowful homes through the war, but I have a firm belief it will be over before very long.”
It seems to me, on reading in Sgt. Golding’s letter, that ‘Tom was a match for anyone with rifle or bayonet’, that bayonet fighting must have been something Tom excelled at. Whether he had been ambushed by four Germans or five, (the two stories differ here); the Germans certainly had the bad luck to pick on Tom Treliving for a quick bayonet kill. Tom clearly finished off at least four of the enemy before succumbing to his wounds. There may have been even more Germans in the ambush that made it impossible for him to win the day, but he made them pay dearly. What a fight that must have been.
Tom Treliving
I found Tom’s card in the pension records, and the section reproduced below is interesting in that it contains the details of two men on it. This is Tom’s brother Albert, who is alluded to briefly in the letter of the 19th December. They have spelled Treliving wrongly, with a ‘W’ instead of a ‘V’, then crossed out the ‘W’ but didn’t add the ‘V’. Tom’s brother’s details are in red ink, A. Treliving, 7810, 2nd Shropshire Light Infantry, killed in action 25.6.15, with an address at Maida Hill, Holborn, London. The men’s details are marked (1) and (2).
Being new to these documents, I can’t help but think that this Form, S.B.36.-D, was quite useless for the recording of details in this manner. Having been killed first, Tom’s details should be entered in the empty section on the right for ‘Particulars of any man in respect of whom the said claimant has made a previous claim’. But of course his name was entered in the first column, as how could anyone know at the time that there would be a second casualty later on? Details of the second man cannot be entered into the last, empty column, because he wasn’t killed first, so no previous claim could have been made concerning him, so Albert’s details now have to be crammed into the same section as Tom’s in a different colour and with crossings out. The whole thing looks to be a disaster!
Even if Form S.B.36.-D was used correctly, it was only capable of recording the details of two men. Even a relatively small town such as Peterborough at that time had four sets of three brothers killed in action, for example the Rhodes brothers below:
Albert, Private, 14436, 6th Northamptonshire Rgt. Missing, 26.9.16.
George, Corporal, 12952, 7th Lincolnshire Rgt. Killed in Action, 3.11.16.
Percy, Private, 61652, 23rd Royal Fusiliers. Died of Wounds, 17.2.17.
The Rhodes brothers are recorded in the same unsatisfactory manner, all in one section. As another observation, it is a shame that in the section ‘Particulars of Awards’, they call a grant of an extra two shillings payment to their parents from 15.3.21, a ‘bonus’.
Tom Treliving’s Medal Index Card below shows he qualified for the 1914 Clasp.
TOM TRELIVING, 8030, Private, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action, aged 27, on the 7.11.14 at Ypres, Belgium. The son of Frederick and Emma Treliving of 16 Hubbard’s Passage, Peterborough. No known grave, he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, Panels 10/11.
In 1901 Tom was an errand boy in London. In 1911 he was living with his elder brother Frederick and his family at 64 Alma Road, Peterborough. He was still at this address for probate in 1915. From 1909 his occupation was a postman in Yaxley.
In 2014 when I wrote my book about Peterborough in WWI, there were not the records available online to carry out the sort of checks we can do today. I didn’t know anything about Tom’s brother, not even his name. It was just the simple case that one brother was living in Peterborough, so qualified for the book, and the other, even if I had known about him, was living in London, so didn't qualify. In 1911 Albert Treliving was living with his parents and another brother, Richard, at 259a Killman Lane, London. His occupation was a Grocer’s Porter. There were five other siblings.’
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Bill Pinfold weighed in last week too with news from Peterborough. Bill had been to visit the D-Day Tapestry before it leaves the UK for America and he comments; ‘As I mentioned, I visited Peterborough yesterday to catch "The Longest Yarn" exhibition before it closes this weekend. A friend mentioned it to me by chance on Sunday evening and said how good it is, bridging between people's interests in military history and knitted craftwork. Alas it closes on 2 April and will move across to Cape May in New Jersey, America, before being permanently on display in Carentan, France from next year.
There are some close up photos at the web site https://www.thelongestyarn.com/, but I also attach some that I took myself, which perhaps give more of the context of siting the exhibition inside the cathedral. There are 80 "panels" in the exhibition, each representing an aspect or event of D-Day, with many echoing scenes from the film *The Longest Day".
The needlework has been carried out voluntarily by several groups of (mainly) women in multiple countries, led by Tansy Forster. She was inspired to start the project after having hosted American veteran Harry Kulkowitz when he visited Carentan for the 60th Anniversary of D Day in 2004 - and for each of the following 12 years. In memory of Harry, who was with 114th Signals when they landed on Utah Beach, panel #59 shows his signals team at work stringing wires on telegraph poles. His story is also attached.
Other panels of note include #49, the only VC awarded for action on D Day, to CSM Stanley Hollis, and #48, the relief of Pegasus Bridge, for which the family of the piper Bill Millin gave his favourite jumper which the ladies of the Oundle Yarnbombers unpicked and then used to make his figure in the panel. Panels #31 and #32 show the villagers of Sainte Mere Eglise forming a water chain to fight a house fire in their town square whilst parachuters drop around them - including the one whose lines snagged on the church spire. The last panel evocatively shows a discarded helmet washed up on the beach.
It is a wonderful display of craftwork and history telling and, whilst it is now too late to catch in the UK, I would recommend people to see it in its permanent home if passing by Carentan in the future.’
Thank you Bill, and here are a selection of Bill’s photos, of which there are many! If you want to see some more, please let me know.
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My very good friend in Shetland, Jon Sandison, continues his ongoing labour of love researching all of the men of the Shetland Isles who served in the army in WWI.
This last week, he sent me a clipping as it had a link to Nottingham. Jon comments; 'This extract from the Shetland News might be of interest for a future Trench Lincs. Thought you might appreciate the Nottingham link. It would be good to find out more about the hospital?
"The following are further letters of acknowledgement received by Re. Arh Macintyre, Minister of Tingwall, a pastoral letter from whom accompanied the Christmas gift sent by Lerwick Parish Church to members and adherents of the Church on Active Service.
Military Hospital Nottingham.
Dear Mr Macintyre, - I wish to convey to you, the Kirk Session, and the congregation of Lerwick Parish Church my sincere thanks for the munificent Xmas hamper I have just had the pleasure of receiving. It is most gratifying and cheering to know that we should all be well remembered by those at home, especially those "guid folk o the Big Kirk" for the generous package of food cheery they have so kindly consented to send us this Xmas time. There is nothing gives the boys greater ecstasy when in the battle zone than to receive a fit, however small,, from the "Old Rock". I came over to England in October with a shell-wound in the right thigh, but under the skilled treatment of eminent surgeons, I shall soon be all right and as fit as ever. Again, thanking you I will come to a close, wishing you and all connected with this enterprise a happy New Year"
Pte ANDREW NICOLSON, Gordons.'
Jon goes on to say; 'Photo of the 'Big Kirk' is attached together with its war memorial plaque. It is the Church I went to when I was younger! Yes - I did go to Church. My father was an elder there. I still go now and again.
I have information on Andrew Nicolson. There were two Andrew Nicolson's in the Gordon Highlanders. One was from Lerwick so I presume that this is him. He served with both the 4th and 7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. He resided at 9 Union Street, Lerwick. He was wounded on 18th October, I believe with the 4th Battalion, in the Arras Sector. But I can check this further. He was wounded again, following returning to the front line on the 21st of July, 1918. This is according to the Shetland Roll of Honour and Service.'
Jon asked if there was more information about the Nottingham Military Hospital. I cannot be 100% sure, but I suspect that this would have been the Old General Hospital off the Ropewalk in Nottingham. The General was replaced in the 1970s by the Queen's Medical Centre and today the old hospital buildings are offices, bars, apartments etc.
After my grandfather lost his eye in 1915, he was treated firstly at the Chelsea Eye Hospital and then until his discharge in April 1917, at the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary, which was part of the General Hospital. He was still being treated there well into the 1960's.
Here is a photo taken on the Ropewalk that was part of my grandfather's collection. N & M E I - Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary.
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Over the years, I have compiled a small but meaningful collection of Great War memorabilia and ephemera. I do not focus on one area such as medals or uniform items, but I do like to collect items with a named provenance.
This then enables me to carry out research to try and tell the story of the man who once owned the particular item that now belongs to me.
One such occurrence happened this week when I was successful with an auction bid for a collection of Trench Art, mostly brass shell cases, some fluted, but interestingly there were British, French and German shells in the lot.
The one that caught my eye, and the reason why I made a bid, was a British 18 pounder shell case that had been made into a trench art ‘gas’ gong, although it is most unlikely that it ever served as a gas warning gong in the trenches. The gong had a plaque attached which states ‘YPRES - Trooper N B Meek. November 1916.’
This piece of trench art initially posed a puzzle for me, as my first search did not throw up a surviving Medal Index Card for an ‘N B Meek’.
I obviously did not know the man’s Christian name, but the big help in this case was his description as a Trooper rather than a Private. I therefore, knew that I was looking for a cavalry man rather than an infantry man.
A further search narrowed it down to a Medal Index Card for a Nicholas Meek who served as 2231 Trooper in the Northumberland Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment from the north east. Arriving on the Western Front on 5th October 1914, Nicholas Meek was an Old Contemptible.
Sadly, he does not have a surviving Service Record, but I found his medal award on the regimental roll.
Knowing that I was looking for a chap from the North East of England, the 1911 Census return filled in the last piece of information when I found his family and discovered that the N B Meek on the plaque stood for Nicholas Brodie Meek.
In 1911, Nicholas was 16 years of age, living with his parents, John and Margaret and his five sisters, Hilda, Mary, Katherine, Isabel, Monica and Margaret. Nicholas is employed as a farmer’s apprentice, hence why he would be good working with horses and join the Yeomanry. Sadly, the census return also shows that a further three children had been born and died in infancy. Their home address was 58 Robinson Street, Sunderland.
I also noticed that the head of the family, John, was an Engineer’s Foreman, and yet the oldest daughter, Hilda, had filled in and signed the Census return, suggesting that writing was not John’s strong point perhaps?
The Nicholas Brodie Meek ‘gas’ gong will be on display on the Trench Lincs stand at Woodhall Spa show on 18th May.
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In the last couple of weeks, I have featured CJS colourised photos of ordinary Tommies and last week, two very young Canadians. This week, we move to the other end of the social spectrum with the son of a Lord.
Lieutenant the Honourable Gavin William Esmond Elliot
Gavin was born in 1895 and was the youngest son of the 4th Earl of Minto from Minto, Roxburghshire, Scotland.
He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and when war was declared he left university and enlisted in the army.
The medical board declared him unfit to fight on account of his “beanpole frame”, but he was determined to serve his country and joined the Lothian and Border Horse Yeomanry on home defence duties.
In 1916 he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Geoffrey Fielding the commanding officer of the Guards Division in France.
After some time in this position he requested a transfer to a combat role and joined 2nd Battalion, the Scots Guards.
His unit was detailed to take part in the 3rd Battle of Ypres. In preparation for the offensive trench raids were carried out to gain intelligence on German units holding the front line.
On 25th July 1917 Gavin led a raid against a position called “Baboon Trench” near Boesinghe, the operation cost the Battalion two killed and eight wounded.
Twelve days later on 6th August the Battalion were holding a trench line along the banks of the Steenbeek. During the day Gavin was hit by a single bullet. He was evacuated from the battlefield but died of his wound later that day.
He is buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery. Gavin Elliot was 22 years old.
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James Handley responded with regard to the tank quiz question that I set two weeks ago, but his response arrived too late to feature last Sunday.
James writes; ‘I’ve only just had time to catch up with Trench Lincs. The tank on display at The Royal Lancers Museum is an FV214 Conqueror MK2. You can tell it’s a MK2 by the single driver’s periscope, MK1’s all had three.
Designed in response to the sight of Red Army IS3 rumbling through Berlin at the allied victory parade, this was the last true heavy tank used by the British Army before the concept of the ‘Main Battle Tank’ really took off. Doctrinally designed to deploy a terrain feature behind advancing Centurion tanks, the Conquerors US designed 120mm gun would have been quite capable of dealing with any Russian opposition had the Cold War turned hot. As things transpired however, once the Centurion was up-gunned with the excellent Royal Ordnance L7 105mm gun, it proved capable of doing everything the Conqueror did but was smaller, faster and cheaper too.
A couple of interesting details, the Conquerors suspension, whilst effective, utilised small metal wheels running on metal tracks. Whilst cheap, this resulted in Conqueror being probably one of the noisiest tanks ever built! Furthermore, the commander was given a fully traversing cupola with a built in range finder. This gave the tank a theoretical “hunter-killer” capability (allowing the commander to find and lay the gun on a target, hand the engagement over to the gunner and then find another target). This was hugely advanced for the time. In a common sense move, the contract for the range finder was given to Barr & Stroud who had long made optical equipment for the Royal Navy. In service the cupola generally worked well.
The 120mm gun fired two-piece ammunition using a shell and separate cartridge case. The size of the rounds resulted in 2 loaders being required. To try and make their job a bit easier it was decided to fit an automatic cartridge ejection system. The contract for this was given to a company that designed cigarette dispenser machines. Shockingly, this did not turn out to work so well…
This picture is of a U.S. marine posing in front of an M103 heavy tank, the U.S. equivalent of Conqueror. This clearly gives an indication of the sheer size of the 120mm rounds.’
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IN MEMORIAM - The Lincolnshire Regiment 6th April.
1915
9537 Private J R Bloodworth, 1st Battalion, aged 20. Buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France.
3286 Private R Woodforth, 5th Battalion. Buried in Thornton Le Moor Churchyard, UK.
10480 Private J Holmes, 2nd Battalion. Buried in Rue Petillon Military Cemetery, France.
3897 CSM A H Watson, 3rd Battalion. Buried in East Retford Cemetery, UK.
1916
517 Private Henry Percival Dawson, 10th Battalion, aged 28. Buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
994 Private C Best, 10th Battalion, aged 30. Buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France.
1917
200876 Private W Shea, 2nd/4th Battalion. Buried in Templeux Le Guerrard Communal Cemetery, France.
203105 Private J W Hellawell, 2nd/4th Battalion, aged 26. – Ditto. –
46457 Private E Price, 11th Labour Company. Buried in Fouquieres Churchyard Extension, France.
202783 Private Herbert Broughton Wilkinson, 4th Battalion, aged 21. Buried in Roisel Communal Cemetery, France.
1918
12581 Private Arthur Baker, 8th Battalion, aged 22. Buried in Doullens Communal Cemetery, France.
235001 Private John Ashton. 2nd/5th Battalion, aged 23. Remembered on the Arras Memorial, France.
204296 Private Robert Clement Grocott, 1st Battalion, aged 22. Remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
1491 Private George Stanley Hydes, 8th Battalion, aged 21. Buried in Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.
35029 Private John Emmett. Depot, aged 40. Buried in Hull Western Cemetery, UK.
40679 Lance Corporal George Wilkinson, 4th Battalion, aged 21. Buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium.
32111 Private George Kershaw, 2nd/5th Battalion, aged 38. Remembered on the Arras Memorial, France.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
As you know, I set off for Normandy tomorrow and look forward to sharing the news with you next week.
Until next week
All best wishes
Jonathan
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