Monday 8 August 2016

Roll of Honour - 8th August 1916


Killed in Action

2nd Battalion: in billets at Calonne
  • 19313 Private David BURTON, 35, son of H Burton of Wistow [Huntingdonshire], husband of Annie of Fairview, Woodhurst [Huntingdonshire] (Loos Memorial)

6th Battalion: Battle of the Somme: front line near Bazentin-le-Petit
  • 28179 Private Robert GORDON, born and resided King's Lynn [Norfolk] (Thiepval Memorial)
  • 20618 Private Herbert PARSONS, born and resided Tilbrook [Huntingdonshire] (Thiepval Memorial)

Died of Wounds

1st Battalion
  • 16520 Private William James ANDREWS, born and resided Welwyn [Hertfordshire] (Abbeville Communal Cemetery)


2nd Battalion

  • 18773 Private John Theodore PRATT, 22, son of Frederick George and Bethia Pratt of Ley Farm, Eaton Bray (Abbeville Communal Cemetery)

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