Gongs and Gloves

Tuesday 2nd January 1917 from our correspondent in the field

Readers will remember that the adjutant of the 1st Battalion, in thee waterlogged trenches in the flat-lands of Cuinchy reported yesterday on the dreadful state of those trenches. Today, he tells me, the enemy added to the misery by bombarding the men with aerial torpedoes and rifle grenades. Thankfully this resulted in no casualties, but made the bad state of the trenches even worse.

The adjutant of the 6th Battalion tells me that Lieutenant W E Aylwin has been awarded the Military Cross whilst Lieutenant-Colonel F H Edwards, Lieutenant C Chamier and Regimental Sergeant Major Headland have been mentioned in despatches.

The adjutant of the 7th Battalion spoke with me on the blower and told me that they have been busy training. This hard work is being leavened by a boxing tournament tonight in a barn used as a recreation room. The preliminary bouts have taken place in the last few days so tonight will be the finals and some good boxing is expected.

Sources: X550/2/5; X550/3/WD; X550/8/1

How Happy is Your New Year?

Monday 1st January 1917 from our correspondent in the field

The 1st Battalion have not been celebrating the New Year today. They have moved into the front line again at Cuinchy, north of Arras and east of Béthune. The adjutant informed me on the telephone that: “The trenches are in a very poor state owing to recent heavy rain and accommodation for men in Trenches is very poor and scanty”.

The other regular battalion of the Regiment - 2nd Battalion - is also in the front line. They are at Berles-au-Bois, some miles south-west of Arras. Second Lieutenant G A Anstee has returned to the unit from leave and fifty new men have joined from base. Second Lieutenant Anstee is celebrating the granting of a Military Cross, announced in today’s London Gazette.

Honorary Major Cressingham [X550/1/81]

The Gazette has also announced that the battalion’s commanding officer, Second Lieutenant H S Poyntz has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order, as has Captain Reggie Wynne. Meanwhile the battalion’s long-serving quartermaster, Captain H M Cressingham has been promoted to Honorary Major.

Sources: X550/2/5; X550/3/WD

Casualty Statistics 1916

Deaths per Month/Year by Type

1916

January: 43

• 25 killed in action
• 13 died of wounds
• 5 died

February: 22

• 10 killed in action
• 9 died of wounds
• 3 died

March: 38

• 22 killed in action
• 6 died of wounds
• 10 died

April: 103

• 84 killed in action
• 11 died of wounds
• 8 died

May: 62

• 31 killed in action
• 18 died of wounds
• 13 died

June: 49

• 32 killed in action
• 8 died of wounds
• 9 died

July: 524

• 434 killed in action
• 79 died of wounds
• 11 died

August: 109

• 68 killed in action
• 37 died of wounds
• 4 died

September: 405

• 352 killed in action
• 47 died of wounds
• 6 died

October: 164

• 132 killed in action
• 29 died of wounds
• 3 died

November: 162

• 125 killed in action
• 31 died of wounds
• 6 died

December: 34

• 8 killed in action
• 16 died of wounds
• 10 died

Totals for 1916: 1,715

• 1,323 killed in action
• 304 died of wounds
• 88 died

Deaths per Month/Year by Battalion

January 1916

• 1st: 10
• 2nd: 4
• 6th: 2
• 7th: 11
• 8th: 11
• 9th: 1
• 1st Garrison: 1
• Unspecified: 1
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 2

February 1916

• 1st: 1
• 2nd: 6
• 3rd: 1
• 6th: 3
• 8th: 6
• 9th: 2
• 1st Garrison: 1
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 2

March 1916

• 1st: 7
• 2nd: 6
• 3rd: 4
• 4th: 1
• 1st/5th: 1
• 6th: 1
• 7th: 4
• 8th: 11
• 10th: 2
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 1

April 1916

• 3rd: 2
• 4th: 1
• 5th: 1
• 1st/5th: 1
• 7th: 12
• 8th: 81
• 9th: 1
• 10th: 3
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 1

May 1916

• 1st: 6
• 2nd: 4
• 3rd: 1
• 5th: 2
• 6th: 27
• 7th: 4
• 8th: 9
• 9th: 3
• 10th: 1
• 1st Garrison: 3
• Unspecified: 1
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 1

June 1916

• 1st: 5
• 2nd: 8
• 3rd: 1
• 4th: 2
• 1st/5th: 2
• 6th: 9
• 7th: 16
• 8th: 2
• 9th: 1
• 1st Garrison: 2
• Unspecified: 1

July 1916

• 1st: 116
• 2nd: 143
• 3rd: 4
• 4th: 1
• 1st/5th: 2
• 6th: 121
• 7th: 121
• 8th: 8
• 9th: 4
• 1st Garrison: 1
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 3

August 1916

• 1st: 17
• 2nd: 20
• 3rd: 1
• 4th: 1
• 5th: 1
• 1st/5th: 1
• 3rd/5th: 1
• 6th: 51
• 7th: 3
• 8th: 9
• 9th: 2
• 10th: 1
• 1st Garrison: 1

September 1916

• 1st: 116
• 2nd: 5
• 3rd: 4
• 4th: 1
• 5th: 1
• 1st/5th: 1
• 2nd/5th: 1
• 6th: 2
• 7th: 97
• 8th: 169
• 9th: 5
• 10th: 2
• Unspecified: 1

October 1916

• 1st: 7
• 2nd: 93
• 4th: 4
• 6th: 1
• 7th: 28
• 8th: 26
• 9th: 1
• 10th: 2
• 1st Garrison: 2

November 1916:

• 1st: 4
• 2nd: 4
• 3rd: 1
• 4th: 91
• 5th: 2
• 1st/5th: 1
• 6th: 36
• 7th: 16
• 8th: 3
• 9th: 1
• 10th: 1
• 13th: 1
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 1

December 1916

• 1st: 7
• 2nd: 10
• 3rd: 2
• 4th: 3
• 5th: 2
• 7th: 1
• 8th: 7
• 53rd: 1
• 1st Garrison: 1

Losses for 1916:

• 1st Battalion: 296
• 2nd Battalion: 303
• 3rd Battalion: 21
• 4th Battalion: 105
• 5th Battalion: 9
• 1st/5th Battalion: 9
• 2nd/5th Battalion: 1
• 3rd/5th Battalion: 1
• 6th Battalion: 253
• 7th Battalion: 313
• 8th Battalion: 342
• 9th Battalion: 21
• 10th Battalion: 12
• 13th Battalion: 1
• 53rd Battalion: 1
• 1st Garrison Battalion: 12
• unspecified battalion: 4
• Bedfordshire Yeomanry: 11

Places of Association by Country/County 1916

Note: a man may be listed twice if born in one place and residing in another

Bedfordshire

• Aley Green: 1
• Ampthill: 9
• Arlesey: 3
• Aspley Guise: 3
• Barton-le-Clay: 6
• Battlesden: 1
• Beadlow: 1
• Bedford: 36
• Beeston: 1
• Biggleswade: 20
• Billington: 1
• Biscot: 1
• Bletsoe: 3
• Blunham: 3
• Bolnhurst: 2
• Bromham: 1
• Caddington: 3
• Campton: 4
• Carlton: 1
• Chalgrave: 1
• Chalton: 1
• Chawston: 1
• Clapham: 1
• Clifton: 4
• Clophill: 4
• Cockayne Hatley: 1
• Cople: 1
• Cotton End: 2
• Cranfield: 4
• Dunstable: 12         
• Dunton: 4
• East Hyde: 1
• Eaton Bray: 5
• Eaton Socon: 3
• Eggington: 1
• Elstow: 1
• Eversholt: 4
• Everton: 3
• Eyeworth: 2
• Fancott: 1
• Flitton: 1
• Flitwick: 3
• Girtford: 2
• Goldington: 1
• Great Barford: 3
• Great Bramingham: 1
• Greenfield: 1
• Harlington: 3
• Harrold: 1
• Harrowden: 2
• Haynes: 2
• Heath and Reach: 4
• Henlow: 3
• Hockliffe: 1
• Houghton Conquest: 4
• Houghton Regis: 3
• Ickwell: 1
• Kempston: 13
• Kempston Rural: 2
• Kensworth: 1
• Keysoe: 1
• Langford: 7
• Leagrave: 4
• Leighton Buzzard: 20
• Little Barford: 1
• Little Staughton: 1
• Lower Caldecote: 1
• Lower Dean: 1
• Lower Gravenhurst: 2
• Lower Stondon: 3
• Lower Sundon: 1
• Luton: 84
• Marston Moretaine: 4
• Marston Shelton: 3
• Maulden: 5
• Melchbourne: 1
• Millbrook: 1
• Milton Bryan: 1
• Mogerhanger: 1
• New Fenlake: 1
• Northill: 5
• Oakley: 1
• Odell: 1
• Old Warden: 2
• Pavenham: 1
• Potsgrove: 1
• Potton: 2
• Pulloxhill: 1
• Radwell: 1
• Ravensden: 1
• Renhold: 2
• Ridgmont: 3
• Riseley: 6
• Roxton: 4
• Sandy: 8
• Sharnbrook: 3
• Shefford: 6
• Shelton: 1
• Shillington: 5
• Slip End: 4
• Souldrop: 1
• Southill: 1
• Stagsden: 3
• Stanbridge: 1
• Steppingley: 1
• Stevington: 3
• Stopsley: 5
• Stotfold: 7
• Streatley: 2
• Studham: 1
• Sundon: 2
• Sutton: 1
• Swineshead: 1
• Tempsford: 2
• Tingrith: 1
• Toddington: 11
• Totternhoe: 4
• Turvey: 4
• Upper Caldecote: 1
• Upper Dean: 1
• Upper Stondon: 1
• Westoning: 3
• Whipsnade: 1
• Wilshamstead: 1
• Wingfield: 1
• Woburn: 10
• Wootton: 6
• Wrestlingworth: 4
• Wymington: 2

Berkshire

• Bracknell:1
• Hungerford: 1
• Maidenhead: 3
• Reading: 1
• Sunningdale: 1
• Windsor: 2

Bristol

• Ashley Vale: 1
• Bedminster: 3
• Bristol: 9
• Clifton: 1
• Saint Paul’s: 3

Buckinghamshire

• Amersham: 1
• Amersham Common: 1
• Aylesbury: 1
• Beaconsfield: 1
• Bletchley: 2
• Burnham: 1
• Chalfont Saint Giles: 2
• Chenies Bottom: 1
• Chesham: 2
• Chicheley: 1
• Coleshill: 2
• Edlesborough: 3
• Emberton: 2
• Fenny Stratford: 1
• Great Brickhill: 1
• Hardmead: 1
• Iver Heath: 1
• Ivinghoe: 1
• Lavendon: 2
• Linslade: 2
• Little Brickhill: 1
• Little Missenden: 1
• Newport Pagnell: 1
• Newton Blossomville: 1
• North Crawley: 2
• Olney: 4
• Ravenstone: 1
• Simpson: 1
• Stewkley: 1
• Stoke Goldington: 1
• Taplow: 1
• Wavendon: 1
• Wendover: 2
• Weston Underwood: 1
• Whaddon: 1
• Woburn Sands: 4
• Wolverton: 1
• Wooburn Green: 1
• Woolstone: 1
• Wraysbury:1

Cambridgeshire

• Abington Pigots: 1

• Bassingbourn: 7
• Boxworth: 1
• Burnt Fen: 1
• Burwell: 1
• Cambridge: 12
• Castle Camps: 1
• Chatteris: 5
• Cherry Hinton: 2
• Chesterton: 1
• Christchurch: 1
• Cottenham: 1
• Croxton: 1
• Croydon: 1
• Elsworth: 2
• Eltisley: 4
• Ely: 1
• Fulbourn: 2
• Gamlingay: 4
• Graveley: 3
• Harston: 1
• Knapwell: 2
• Kneesworth: 1
• Litlington: 1
• Little Downham: 3
• Little Swaffham: 1
• Long Stanton: 1
• Madingley: 1
• Murrow: 1
• Papworth Everard: 1
• Papworth Saint Agnes: 1
• Shepreth: 1
• Soham: 1
• Steeple Morden: 1
• Sutton: 1
• Trumpington: 1
• Tydd Saint Giles: 3
• Whittlesey: 1
• Willingham: 1
• Wisbech: 1

Cheshire

• Altrincham: 1
• Birkenhead: 2
• Cheadle: 1
• Hyde: 1
• Poulton: 1
• Stockport: 1
• Warrington: 1

Cornwall

• Looe: 1
• Saint Keyne: 1

Derbyshire:

• Derby: 3
• Ilkeston: 1
• Langley Mill: 1
• Little Eaton: 1
• Matlock: 1

Devon

• Babbacombe: 1
• Budleigh Salterton: 1
• Newport: 1
• Newton Abbott: 1
• Plymouth: 1
• Roborough: 1
• Shobrooke: 1
• Stoodleigh: 1
• Thelbridge: 1

Dorset

• Bloxworth: 1
• Weymouth: 1

Durham

• Birtley: 1
• Houghton-le-Spring: 2
• Jarrow: 1
• Millfield: 1
• Murton: 1
• Sunderland: 2
• West Hartlepool: 1

Essex

• Ardleigh: 1
• Barking: 1
• Beacontree Heath: 1
• Belchamp Walter: 1
• Birchanger: 1
• Broxted: 2
• Buckhurst Hill: 1
• Canning Town: 2
• Castle Hedingham:2
• Chelmsford: 1
• Chigwell: 1
• Chrishall: 1
• Clacton-on-Sea: 1
• Colchester: 5
• Cray's Hill: 1
• Custom House: 3
• Debden: 1
• Debden Green: 1
• Dovercourt: 1
• Dunmow: 1
• East Ham: 7
• Elmdon: 2
• Elsenham: 1
• Epping: 2
• Farnham: 1
• Forest Gate: 4
• Grays: 1
• Great Bentley: 1
• Great Birch: 1
• Great Chishall: 1
• Great Oakley: 1
• Harlow: 2
• Hatfield Broad Oak: 3
• High Roding: 1
• Hornchurch: 1
• Ilford: 3
• Ingatestone: 1
• Lamarsh: 1
• Lambourne: 1
• Lawford: 1
• Layer Breton: 1
• Leigh-on-Sea: 3
• Leyton: 5
• Leytonstone: 7
• Little Hallingbury: 4
• Little Oakley: 1
• Manor Park: 4
• Manuden: 1
• Mersea: 1
• Nazeing: 1
• Newport: 1
• New Sampford: 1
• Orsett: 1
• Parndon: 1
• Plaistow: 2
• Quendon; 1
• Romford: 3
• Rush Green: 1
• Sible Hedingham: 2
• South Chingford: 1
• Southend-on-Sea: 1
• Southminster: 1
• Stanford Rivers: 1
• Stansted: 2
• Stock: 1
• Stratford: 3
• Takeley: 3
• Thaxted: 3
• Wakes Colne: 1
• Waltham Abbey: 1
• Walthamstow: 7
• Walton-on-Naze: 1
• West Bergholt: 1
• West Ham: 6
• West Mersea: 1
• Woodford: 2
• Woodford Green: 2

Gloucestershire

• Cinderford: 1
• Cromhall: 1
• Gloucester: 1
• Henbury: 1
• Newent: 1
• Winterbourne: 1

Hampshire

• Bishopstoke: 1
• Eastney: 1
• Forton: 1
• Gosport: 1
• Lower Froyle: 1
• Milton: 1
• Portsmouth: 2
• Sandford: 1
• Shanklin: 1
• Southampton: 1
• Southsea: 1

Herefordshire

• Lugwardine: 1

Hertfordshire

• Abbotts Langley: 2
• Albury: 4
• Aldbury: 2
• Aldenham: 1
• Amwell Marsh: 1
• Anstey: 1
• Apsley End: 5
• Ardley: 1
• Ashwell: 2
• Aston: 3
• Ayot Saint Peter: 1
• Baldock: 12
• Bancroft: 1
• Barkway: 2
• Barley: 2
• Barnet: 3
• Bayford: 1
• Bedmond: 1
• Bengeo: 1
• Bennington; 1
• Berkhamsted: 10
• Birch Green: 1
• Bishop’s Stortford: 14
• Boreham Wood: 3
• Bovingdon: 2
• Boxmoor: 11
• Bramfield: 1
• Braughing: 1
• Breachwood Green: 5
• Brent Pelham: 1
• Brickendon: 1
• Bricket Wood: 1
• Broxbourne: 1
• Buckland: 1
• Buntingford: 8
• Burnham Green: 3
• Bushey: 7
• Bushey Heath: 1
• Cadwell; 1
• Caldecote: 1
• Chapmore End: 1
• Charlton: 3
• Cheshunt: 6
• Chipperfield: 1
• Chipping Barnet: 1
• Chorley Wood: 1
• Codicote: 3
• Colney Heath: 3
• Cottered: 2
• Croxley: 1
• Croxley Green: 3
• Datchworth: 2
• Digswell: 1
• East Barnet: 5
• Eastwick: 1
• Elstree: 1
• Epping Green: 1
• Essendon: 2
• Flamstead: 12
• Flaunden: 1
• Frithesden: 1
• Furneux Pelham: 1
• Gilston: 2
• Graveley: 1
• Great Berkhamstead: 3
• Great Hormead: 2
• Great Wymondley: 4
• Hadley Wood: 1
• Harpenden: 11
• Hatfield: 11
• Hatfield Heath: 2
• Hatfield Hyde: 1
• Hemel Hempstead: 20
• Hertford: 11
• Hertford Heath: 5
• Hertingfordbury: 2
• Hexton: 1
• High Barnet: 2
• High Cross: 2
• High Wych: 3
• Hitchin: 34
• Hockerill: 2
• Hoddesdon: 12
• Holwell: 4
• Hunsdon: 2
• Ickleford: 6
• Kimpton: 2
• King's Langley: 1
• King’s Walden: 5
• Kinsbourne Green: 1
• Knebworth: 1
• Kneesworth: 2
• Layston: 2
• Lemsford: 2
• Letchmoor Heath: 1
• Letchworth: 5
• Letty Green: 1
• Leverstock Green: 3
• Lilley: 1
• Litlington: 1
• Little Amwell: 3
• Little Berkhamstead: 1
• Little Gaddesden: 1
• Little Hadham: 3
• Little Hormead: 1
• Little Munden: 1
• Little Wymondley: 1
• London Colney: 2
• Long Marston: 1
• Markyate: 6
• Mill Green: 1
• Much Hadham: 1
• New Barnet: 2
• Northchurch: 3
• North Mimms: 1
• Oxhey: 1
• Peter's Green: 1
• Pirton: 4
• Potten End: 1
• Potter’s Crouch: 1
• Preston: 2
• Radlett: 1
• Redbourn: 11
• Rickmansworth: 6
• Roe Green: 1
• Royston: 14
• Saint Albans: 43
• Saint Ippolyts: 1
• Sandon: 3
• Sandridge: 1
• Sarratt: 1
• Sarratt Bottom: 1
• Sawbridgeworth: 4
• Shenley: 2
• Shephall: 1
• Shingay: 1
• Sopwell; 1
• Stanborough: 1
• Standon: 2
• Stanstead Abbotts: 3
• Stapleford: 3
• Stevenage: 18
• Tewin: 6
• Therfield: 5
• Tring: 7
• Turnford: 1
• Tytenhanger Green: 2
• Wallington: 1
• Walsworth: 2
• Waltham Cross: 3
• Ware: 12
• Watford: 39
• Welwyn: 7
• West Hyde: 1
• Weston: 6
• Wheathampstead: 5
• Whitwell: 1
• Wiggington: 2
• Willian: 1
• Wilstone: 1
• Winkwell: 1
• Woolmer Green: 2
• Wormley: 3
• Wydial: 2

Huntingdonshire

• Abbotsley: 2
• Abbots Ripton: 1
• Alconbury: 6
• Alwalton: 1
• Barham: 1
• Bluntisham: 1
• Brampton: 7
• Broughton: 2
• Buckden: 2
• Bury: 2
• Catworth: 1
• Cherry Orton: 1
• Colne: 1
• Conington: 3
• Diddington: 1
• Earith: 1
• Easton: 1
• Eynesbury: 4
• Farcet: 4
• Farcet Fen: 1
• Fenstanton: 4
• Glatton: 1
• Godmanchester: 12
• Great Gidding: 2
• Great Gransden: 2
• Great Paxton: 1
• Great Raveley:2
• Great Staughton: 4
• Great Stukeley: 2
• Great Whyte: 2
• Hail Weston: 1
• Hamerton: 1
• Hartford: 2
• Hemingford Grey: 1
• Holme: 1
• Huntingdon: 10
• Kimbolton: 3
• King’s Ripton: 1
• Little Gidding: 1
• Little Raveley: 1
• Little Stukeley: 1
• Needingworth: 1
• Old Fletton: 3
• Pidley: 4
• Ramsey: 7
• Ramsey Hollow: 3
• Saint Ives: 8
• Saint Neots: 13
• Sapley: 1
• Sawtry: 5
• Somersham: 3
• Southoe: 1
• Spaldwick: 1
• Stanground: 2
• Steeple Gidding: 1
• Stow Longa: 2
• Tilbrook: 2
• Toseland: 2
• Upton: 2
• Upwood: 2
• Warboys: 5
• Waresley: 1
• Wistow: 1
• Woodhurst: 1
• Wood Walton: 2
• Yelling: 2

Kent

• Ashford: 1
• Borden: 1
• Brabourne: 1
• Broadstairs: 1
• Bromley: 2
• Canterbury: 1
• Chatham: 2
• Chislet: 1
• Gillingham: 2
• Gravesend: 1
• Headcorn: 1
• Higham: 1
• Horsmonden: 1
• Littlestone-on-Sea: 1
• Maidstone: 1
• Northfleet: 1
• Ramsgate: 1
• Saint Paul's Cray: 1
• Sevenoaks: 1
• Sidcup: 1
• Sittingbourne: 1
• Sutton Valence: 1
• Tunbridge Wells: 1
• Wincheap: 1

Lancashire

• Barrowford: 1
• Bolton: 1
• Burnley: 1
• Clitheroe: 1
• Eccles: 1
• Everton: 1
• Farnworth: 1
• Fleetwood: 1
• Horwich: 1
• Kirkdale: 1
• Lancaster: 1
• Liverpool: 3
• Manchester: 4
• Oldham: 1
• Rusholme: 1
• Salford: 1
• Stoneycroft: 1
• Ulverston: 1
• Widnes: 1

Leicestershire

• Gumley: 1
• Long Clawson: 1
• Shearsby: 1

Lincolnshire

• Bardney: 1
• Binbrook: 1
• Coleby: 1
• Gainsborough: 1
• Greatford: 1
• Oldingham: 1
• Padley: 1
• Spalding: 2
• Stickford: 1
• Whaplode: 1

London

• Balham: 2
• Barnsbury: 3
• Battersea: 5
• Bayswater: 3
• Bermondsey: 11
• Bethnal Green: 6
• Blackfriars: 1
• Bloomsbury: 1
• Bow: 6
• Brixton: 6
• Bromley-by-Bow: 2
• Camberwell: 7
• Camden Town: 5
• Chalk Farm: 1
• Chelsea: 1
• Clapham: 4
• Clapham Park: 1
• Clerkenwell: 10
• Covent Garden: 1
• Dalston: 1
• Deptford: 2
• Finsbury: 2
• Forest Hill: 1
• Fulham: 9
• Greenwich: 4
• Hackney: 4
• Haggerston: 1
• Hammersmith: 5
• Haverstock Hill: 1
• Herne Hill: 1
• Holborn: 5
• Holloway: 4
• Homerton: 1
• Honor Oak: 1
• Hoxton: 8
• Islington: 23
• Kennington: 1
• Kensington: 5
• Kentish Town: 9
• Kilburn: 2
• King’s Cross: 4
• Knightsbridge: 2
• Lambeth: 12
• Limehouse: 2
• Lower Clapton: 1
• Maida Vale: 1
• Marylebone: 7
• New Cross: 4
• North Kensington: 5
• Notting Hill: 2
• Nunhead: 1
• Old Ford: 2
• Paddington: 8
• Peckham: 7
• Pimlico: 4
• Plumstead: 4
• Poplar: 3
• Regent's Park: 1
• Rotherhithe: 3
• Saint John's Wood: 1
• Saint Pancras: 14
• Shoreditch: 5
• Soho: 1
• Somers Town: 2
• Southwark: 2
• Stepney: 7
• Stockwell: 1
• Stoke Newington: 2
• Streatham: 1
• Tooting: 1
• Tulse Hill: 1
• Upper Holloway: 1
• Vauxhall: 1
• Victoria Park: 1
• Walham Green: 1
• Walworth: 6
• Wandsworth: 2
• West Hampstead: 2
• West Kensington: 2
• West Kilburn: 4
• West Norwood: 3
• Westminster: 7
• Whitechapel: 2
• Woolwich: 3

Middlesex

• Ashford: 2
• Brentford: 2
• Chiswick: 1
• Cricklewood: 1
• Ealing: 4
• East Finchley: 1
• Edmonton: 4
• Enfield: 3
• Enfield Wash: 1
• Finchley: 1
• Finsbury Park: 6
• Harefield: 1
• Harlesden: 2
• Harringay: 2
• Harrow-on-the-Hill: 2
• Hendon: 1
• Highgate: 2
• Hornsey: 7
• Hounslow: 2
• Isleworth: 2
• Lower Edmonton: 3
• Mill Hill: 1
• Muswell Hill: 1
• Neasden: 1
• New Southgate: 2
• North Hyde: 1
• Northwood: 1
• Old Southgate: 1
• Ponder's End: 2
• Southgate: 1
• South Harrow: 1
• South Tottenham: 3
• Stanmore: 1
• Stroud Green: 1
• Sudbury: 1
• Tottenham: 9
• Twickenham: 1
• Upper Edmonton: 1
• Uxbridge: 1
• Wealdstone: 1
• Wembley Park: 1
• Whetstone: 1
• Willesden: 4
• Willesden Green: 1
• Wood Green: 2

Norfolk

• Brettenham: 1
• Calthorpe: 1
• Catton: 1
• Coltishall: 1
• Cossey: 1
• Denver: 1
• Docking: 2
• Downham Market: 1
• East Beckham: 1
• East Bradenham: 1
• East Harling: 1
• East Winch: 1
• Fakenham: 1
• Fincham: 1
• Gimingham: 1
• Gorleston-on-Sea: 2
• Great Melton: 1
• Great Ormesby: 1
• Great Yarmouth: 4
• Gresham: 1
• Holme Hale: 1
• Horning: 1
• Horstead: 1
• Hoveton Saint Peter's: 2
• Itteringham: 1
• King's Lynn: 2
• Loddon; 1
• Marlingford: 1
• Martham: 1
• Moulton: 1
• Necton: 1
• New Lakenham: 1
• North Heigham: 1
• North Walsham: 2
• Norwich: 7
• Old Catton: 1
• Panxworth: 1
• Pulham Saint Mary: 1
• Ranworth: 1
• Sheringham: 1
• Shipdham: 1
• Sloley: 1
• South Heigham: 2
• Starston: 2
• Stoke Ferry: 1
• Stow Bridge: 1
• Sutton: 1
• Swaffham: 2
• Tasburgh: 1
• Terrington Saint Clement: 1
• Thornham: 1
• Thurgarton: 1
• Thurlton: 1
• Tottenhill: 1
• West Lynn: 1
• West Somerton: 1
• Whissonsett: 1
• Wilton: 1
• Wolferton: 1
• Wortwell:1
• Wretton: 1
• Wroxham: 1

Northamptonshire

• Ashby Saint Legers: 1
• Bozeat: 2
• Brigstock: 1
• Corby: 1
• Daventry: 1
• Denford: 1
• Far Cotton: 1
• Higham Ferrers: 1
• Irchester: 3
• Irthlingborough: 1
• Isham: 1
• Kettering: 7
• Kingsthorpe Hollow: 1
• Northampton: 15
• Oundle: 1
• Polebrook: 1
• Raunds: 1
• Rothwell: 1
• Rushden: 3
• Syresham: 1
• Walgrave: 1
• Warmington: 1
• Wellingborough: 3
• Yardley Hastings: 1

Northumberland

• Alnwick: 1
• Corbridge-on-Tyne: 1
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 2
• North Shields: 1

Nottinghamshire

• Eastwood: 1
• Mansfield: 2
• Newark: 1
• Nottingham: 2

Oxfordshire

• Burford: 1
• Charlbury: 1
• Chipping Norton: 1
• Newton: 1
• Oxford: 2

Peterborough

• Eye: 1
• New England: 1
• Peterborough: 6
• Woodstone: 2

Shropshire

• Beckbury: 1
• Bromfield: 1
• Shrewsbury: 1

Somerset

• Bathwick: 1
• Frome: 1
• Nailsea: 2
• Pill: 1
• Stanton Drew: 1
• Taunton: 1
• Wellington: 1
• Wells: 1
• Wraxall: 1
• Yatton: 1

Staffordshire

• Basford: 1
• Burton-on-Trent: 1
• Hanley: 2
• Leek: 7
• Meerbrooke: 1
• Newcastle-under-Lyme: 1
• Penkhull: 1
• Shelton: 1
• Stoke-on-Trent: 2
• Tunstall: 1
• Walsall: 1
• Waterhouses: 1
• Wolverhampton: 1

Suffolk

• Acton: 2
• Bawdsey: 1
• Beccles: 2
• Bildeston: 1
• Bures: 1
• Burgate: 1
• Burgh: 1
• Bury Saint Edmunds: 2
• Buxhall: 1
• Edwardstone: 1
• Erwarton: 1
• Felsham: 1
• Glemsford: 1
• Great Bricett: 1
• Grundisburgh: 1
• Hadleigh: 1
• Hartest: 1
• Haverhill: 1
• Hengrave: 1
• Holton: 1
• Ingham: 1
• Ipswich: 1
• Kelsale: 1
• Lakenheath: 2
• Lowestoft: 6
• Mildenhall; 1
• Monks Eleigh: 1
• Newmarket: 2
• Norton: 1
• Otley: 1
• Redlingfield: 2
• Rendham: 1
• Rougham: 1
• Saxmundham: 1
• Sibton: 1
• Stowmarket: 1
• Sudbury: 1
• Sweffling: 1
• Tuddenham: 1
• Walton: 1
• Wattisfield:1
• Weston: 1
• Woolpit: 2
• Wortham: 1

Surrey

• Ashstead: 1
• Ashvale: 1
• Barnes: 2
• Caterham: 1
• Coulsden: 1
• Croydon: 2
• Egham: 1
• Englefield Green: 1
• Epsom: 2
• Ewell: 1
• Farnham: 1
• Guildford: 1
• Hersham: 1
• Kingston-on-Thames: 1
• Merstham: 1
• Merton: 1
• Norbiton: 1
• Richmond-on-Thames: 3
• South Merstham: 1
• South Norwood: 1
• South Wimbledon: 1
• Surbiton: 1
• Thornton Heath: 1
• Upper Hall: 1
• Upper Norwood: 1
• Wimbledon: 1
• Woking: 1

Sussex

• Bexhill-on-Sea: 1
• Brighton: 2
• Chichester: 1
• Crowborough: 1
• Eastbourne: 1
• East Grinstead: 1
• Hastings: 3
• Horsham: 1
• Hove: 1
• Pagham: 1
• Playden: 1
• West Dean: 1
• West Wittering: 1

Warwickshire

• Aston: 1
• Birmingham: 3
• Chilvers Coton: 1
• Clifton: 1
• Coventry:1
• Dunchurch: 1
• Edgbaston: 2
• Foleshill: 1
• Leamington Spa: 2
• Nuneaton: 1
• Small Heath: 1
• Stratford-upon-Avon: 2

Wiltshire

• Durrington: 1
• Littleton Drew: 1
• Swindon: 1
• Trowbridge: 1
• Westbury: 1
• Woodborough: 1

Worcestershire

• Malvern Link: 1
• Pershore: 1
• Worcester: 1

Yorkshire

• Grimethorpe: 1
• Highfield: 1
• Holbeck: 1
• Hull: 1
• Hungate: 1
• Leeds: 2
• Luddenden Foot: 1
• Middlesborough: 1
• Sheffield: 2
• Whitwell: 1
• Wincobank: 1

Australia

• Brisbane [Queensland]: 1
• Croydon [New South Wales]: 1
• Melbourne [Victoria]: 1
• Queenstown [Tasmania or South Australia]: 1

Burma

• Rangoon: 2

Gibraltar: 1

Hong Kong: 1

India

• Bangalore [Mysore]: 1
• Bombay [Maharashtra]: 1
• Lucknow [United Provinces]: 1
• Madras: 1
• Nainital [Garhwal]: 1
• Rawalpindi [Punjab]: 1

Ireland:

• Aghabog [Monaghan]: 1
• Belfast [Antrim]: 1
• Candonagh [Donegal]: 1
• Doohat [Monaghan]: 1
• Dublin: 1
• Ennis [Clare]: 1
• Galway [Galway]: 1
• Rathfarnham [Dublin]: 1
• Shandrum [Cork]: 1
• Swineford [Mayo]: 1

Peru

• Lima: 1

Poland

• Pabianice: 1

Scotland

• Aberdeen [Aberdeenshire]: 2
• Ayr [Ayrshire]: 1
• Broughty Ferry [Forfar]: 1
• Craigmore [Rothesay]: 1
• Edinburgh [Midlothian]: 1
• Queensbury [Fife]: 1

United States of America

• Douglas [Nebraska]: 1

Wales

• Abergavenny [Monmouthshire]: 2
• Aberkenfig [Glamorgan]: 1
• Cardiff [Glamorgan]: 2
• Knighton [Radnor]: 1
• Pentrechwyth [Glamorgan]:
• Pontypridd [Glamorgan]:1
• Rhondda Valley [Glamorgan]: 1
• Swansea [Glamorgan]: 2

County/Country of Origin/Residence 1916

Note: a man may be listed twice if born in one place and residing in another

Bedfordshire: 405

Berkshire: 9

Bristol: 17

Buckinghamshire: 52

Cambridgeshire: 72

Cheshire: 7

Cornwall: 2

Derbyshire: 7

Devon: 8

Dorset: 2

Durham: 7

Essex: 111

Gloucestershire: 6

Hampshire: 10

Herefordshire: 1

Hertfordshire: 393

Huntingdonshire: 138

Isle of Wight: 1

Kent: 23

Lancashire: 21

Leicestershire: 3

Lincolnshire: 9

London: 232

Middlesex: 80

Norfolk: 61

Northamptonshire: 46

Northumberland: 5

Nottinghamshire: 5

Oxfordshire: 6

Peterborough: 10

Shropshire: 3

Somerset: 9

Staffordshire: 16

Suffolk: 45

Surrey: 31

Sussex: 16

Warwickshire: 15

Wiltshire: 5

Worcestershire: 3

Yorkshire: 12

Australia: 4

Burma: 2

Gibraltar: 1

Hong Kong: 1

India: 7

Ireland: 9

Peru: 1

Poland: 1

Scotland: 6

United States of America: 1

Wales: 11

Killed in Action in Major Engagements 1915

Ypres, successful German attack on the Canal Bank: 19th-20th April 1916: 72

• 8th Battalion: 72

Battle of the Somme, Battle of Albert: 1st-13th July 1916: 199

• 7th Battalion: 94
• 2nd Battalion: 77
• 6th Battalion: 28

Battle of the Bazentin Ridge: 14th-17th July 1916: 64

• 6th Battalion: 63
• 7th Battalion: 1

Battle of Delville Wood: 15th July-3rd September 1916: 151

• 1st Battalion: 105
• 2nd Battalion: 46

Battle of Pozières: 23rd July-3rd September 1916: 39

• 6th Battalion: 39

Battle of Guillemont: 3rd-6th September 1916: 78

• 1st Battalion: 78

Battle of Flers-Courcelette: 15th-22nd September 1916: 128

• 8th Battalion: 128

Battle of Morval: 25th-28th September 1916: 38

• 1st Battalion: 14
• 8th Battalion: 24

Battle of Thiepval: 26th-28th September 1916: 92

• 7th Battalion: 92

Battle of le Transloy: 1st-18th October 1916: 100

• 2nd Battalion: 83
• 8th Battalion: 17

Battle of the Ancre Heights: 1st October-11th November 1916: 17

• 7th Battalion: 17

Battle of the Ancre: 13th-18th November 1916: 107

• 4th Battalion: 80
• 6th Battalion: 27

Killed in action during the Battle of the Somme, including wastage not included in the figures above:

• 7th Battalion: 228
• 2nd Battalion: 211
• 1st Battalion: 210
• 8th Battalion: 187
• 6th Battalion: 160
• 4th Battalion: 85

Burial/Commemoration Sites

Belgium: 122

• Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres: 1
• Essex Farm Cemetery, Ypres: 29
• la Brique Military Cemetery No. 1, Ypres: 1
• la Brique Military Cemetery No. 2, Ypres: 3
• Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery: 12
• Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres: 55
• Menin Road South Military Cemetery: 11
• New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ypres: 2
• Poperinghe New Military Cemetery: 1
• Potijze Château Wood Cemetery: 5
• Roselaere Communal Cemetery: 1
• Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele: 1

Egypt: 7

• Cairo War Memorial Cemetery: 1
• Suez War Memorial Cemetery: 6

England: 82

• Amersham (The Platt) Cemetery: 1
• Ampthill Churchyard: 2
• Arlesey Churchyard: 2
• Ashford Cemetery, Kent: 1
• Aspley Guise Churchyard Extension: 1
• Aylesbury Cemetery: 1
• Bedford Cemetery: 1
• Bolnhurst Churchyard: 1
• Brighton City (Bear Road) Cemetery: 1
• Brockley Cemetery: 1
• Bury Cemetery, Huntingdonshire: 1
• Canterbury Cemetery: 1
• Chalfont Saint Giles Churchyard: 1
• Chislet Churchyard Extension: 1
• City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery: 1
• City of London Cemetery and Crematorium, Manor Park: 1
• Colchester Cemetery: 3
• Datchworth Churchyard: 1
• Dovercourt Churchyard: 2
• Dunstable Cemetery: 3
• Eltisley Churchyard Extension: 1
• Epsom Cemetery: 1
• Eversholt Churchyard: 1
• Felixstowe New Cemetery: 3
• Flamstead Church God's Acre: 1
• Fort Pitt Military Cemetery, Chatham: 3
• Fulford Cemetery: 1
• Glatton Cemetery: 1
• Graveley Churchyard: 1
• Harrowgate (Harlow Hill) Cemetery: 1
• Houghton Regis Baptist Cemetery: 1
• Kempston Cemetery: 2
• Kensal Green Cemetery: 2
• Knebworth Churcyard: 1
• Ladywell Cemetery, London: 1
• Leeds (Harehills) Cemetery: 1
• Leighton-Linslade (Leighton Buzzard) Cemetery: 1
• Lowestoft (Beccles Road) Cemetery: 1
• Luton Church Burial Ground, Crawley Green Road: 3
• Luton General Cemetery, Rothesay Road: 1
• Markbeech Churchyard, Hever: 1
• Markyate New Cemetery: 1
• Monks Eleigh Churchyard: 1
• North Mimms Churchyard and Extension: 1
• Pulloxhill Churchyard: 1
• Renhold Churchyard: 1
• Romford Cemetery: 1
• Saint Albans (Hatfield Road) Cemetery: 4
• Saint Ives Public Cemetery: 1
• Saint Paul's Walden Churchyard: 1
• Tewin Churchyard: 1
• Tottenham Cemetery: 1
• Upton Churchyard: 1
• Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery: 1
• Warboys Church Cemetery: 2
• Ware New Cemetery: 1
• Watford Cemetery: 2
• Wembley Old Burial Ground: 1
• Westoning Church Cemetery: 1
• Wolverhampton Borough Cemetery: 1
• Woodgrange Park Cemetery, East Ham: 1
• Wrestlingworth Burial Ground: 1

France: 1,486

• Abbeville Communal Cemetery: 10
• Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension: 1
• Acheux British Cemetery: 1
• Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont: 2
• AIF Burial Ground, Flers: 6
• Albert Communal Cemetery Extension: 2
• Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel: 24
• Arras Memorial: 5
• Auchonvillers Military Cemetery: 3
• Aveluy Wood Cemetery (Lancashire Dump) Mesnil-Martinsart: 1
• Avesnes-le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension: 2
• Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension: 1
• Bancourt British Cemetery: 6
• Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension: 1
• Bécourt Military Cemetery, Bécordel-Bécourt: 3
• Berles-au-Bois Churchyard Extension: 1
• Berles Position Military Cemetery: 5
• Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, Montauban: 5
• Béthune Town Cemetery: 2
• Bienvillers Military Cemetery: 26
• Bois-de-Noulette British Cemetery, Aix-Noulette: 2
• Boulogne Eastern Cemetery: 13
• Bray Military Cemetery: 2
• Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery, Bray-sur-Somme: 6
• Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Festubert: 1
• Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers: 2
• Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez: 3
• Carnoy Military Cemetery: 32
• Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval: 12
• Cérisy-Gailly French National Cemetery: 1
• Cérisy-Gailly Military Cemetery: 20
• Chipilly Communal Cemetery: 3
• Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt: 6
• Cité Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentières: 1
• Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval: 13
• Contay British Cemetery: 7
• Corbie Communal Cemetery: 7
• Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension: 11
• Courcelette British Cemetery: 1
• Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz: 31
• Daours Communal Cemetery Extension: 3
• Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval: 7
• Dernancourt Communal Cemetery: 7
• Dive Copse British Cemetery, Sailly-le-Sec: 10
• Douchy-les-Ayette British Cemetery: 1
• Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No. 1: 6
• Englebelmer Communal Cemetery: 2
• Étaples Military Cemetery: 19
• Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps: 1
• Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras: 9
• Fillievres British Cemetery: 1
• Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz: 4
• Frankfurt Trench British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel: 4
• Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boisselle: 3
• Gorre British and Indian Cemetery: 10
• Grove Town Cemetery, Méaulte: 13
• Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs: 3
• Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont: 18
• Harbacq Communal Cemetery Extension: 1
• Heilly Station Cemetery, Méricourt-l'Abbé: 22
• Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart: 14
• la Neuville Communal Cemetery, Corbie: 16
• le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoué: 1
• London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval: 5
• Longuenesse (Saint-Omer) Souvenir Cemetery: 2
• Loos Memorial: 7
• Méaulte Military Cemetery: 10
• Méricourt-l'Abbé Communal Cemetery Extension: 1
• Merville Communal Cemetery Extension: 2
• Mesnil Communal Cemetery Extension: 2
• Millencourt Communal Cemetery Extension: 4
• Mill Road Cemetery, Thiepval: 15
• Morlancourt British Cemetery No. 1: 1
• New Munich Trench British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel: 1
• Ovillers Military Cemetery: 2
• Péronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt: 14
• Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe: 2
• Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boisselle: 26
• Puchevillers British Cemetery: 8
• Quarry Cemetery, Montauban: 3
• Ration Farm Military Cemetery, la Chapelle-d'Armentières: 4
• Redan Ridge No. 1 Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel: 1
• Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt: 13
• Saint-Amand British Cemetery: 3
• Saint-Ouen Communal Cemetery: 1
• Saint-Pierre Cemetery, Amiens: 5
• Saint-Sever Cemetery, Rouen: 25
• Saint-Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen: 3
• Saint-Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoué: 1
• Sainte-Marie Cemetery, le Havre: 1
• Serre Road Cemetery No. 1: 5
• Serre Road Cemetery No. 2: 13
• Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille: 1
• Thiepval Memorial: 794
• Thistle Dump Cemetery, High Wood, Longueval: 1
• Tincourt New British Cemetery: 1
• Tranchée de Mecknes Cemetery, Aix-Noulette: 1
• Varennes Military Cemetery: 1
• Vermelles British Cemetery: 3
• Waggon Road Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel: 5
• Warlencourt British Cemetery: 21
• Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty: 7
• Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension: 3
• Wimereux Communal Cemetery: 8
• Wormhoudt Communal Cemetery: 1
• Y Ravine Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel: 3

Germany: 2

• Niederzwehren Cemetery: 2

India: 10

• Delhi War Cemetery: 4
• Delhi War Memorial Cemetery: 2
• Landour General Cemetery: 1
• Meerut Cantonment Cemetery: 3

Iraq: 1

• Basra Memorial: 1

Israel: 1

• Jerusalem Memorial: 1

Latvia: 1

• Nikolai Cemetery: 1

Malta: 1

• Pieta Military Cemetery: 1

Tanzania: 1

• Morogoro Cemetery: 1

Wales: 1

• Newport Cemetery: 1

Deaths by Rank 1916

• Private: 1,285                                                          
• Lance Corporal, including Acting: 155
• Corporal, including Acrtng: 80
• Lance Sergeant, including Acting: 15
• Sergeant, including Quarter Master Sergeant and Acting: 79
• Company Sergeant Major: 8
• Regimental Sergeant Major (Acting): 1  
• Second Lieutenant, including Temporary: 61
• Lieutenant, including Temporary: 19     
• Captain, including Temporary: 6
• Major (Temporary): 1
• Lieutenant-Colonel: 1

Attached to Other Units: 16

• 1st Battalion attached 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment: 1
• 2nd Battalion attached 9th Battalion, Essex Regiment: 1
• 2nd Battalion attached 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment: 1
• 4th Battalion attached 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment: 1
• 5th Battalion attached 68th Provisional Battalion: 1
• 6th Battalion attached 28th Training Reserve: 1
• 7th Battalion attached 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment: 1
• 7th Battalion attached 5th Survey Company, Royal Engineers: 1
• 7th Battalion attached Trench Mortar Battery: 1
• 8th Battalion attached 16th Trench Mortar Battery: 1
• 8th Battalion attached Gold Coast Regiment; 1
• 9th Battalion attached 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment: 1
• 10th Battalion attached 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment: 1
• 10th Battalion attached 69th Company, Machine Gun Corps: 1
• 13th Battalion attached Eastern Command Labour Centre, Labour Corps: 1
• 53rd Battalion attached 27th Training Reserve Battalion: 1

Transferred from Other Units: 107

• Buffs (East Kent Regiment): 1
• Cambridgeshire Regiment: 1
• East Surrey Regiment: 6
• Essex Regiment: 24
• Hampshire Regiment: 1
• Huntingdonshire Cyclists Battalion: 32
• Lincolnshire Regiment: 1
• Machine Gun Corps: 1
• Middlesex Regiment: 5
• Norfolk Regiment: 3
• Northamptonshire Regiment: 9
• Northumberland Fusiliers: 1
• Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment: 1
• Royal Flying Corps: 1
• Royal Garrison Artillery: 4
• Royal Sussex Regiment: 2
• Royal West Kent Regiment: 1
• Suffolk Regiment: 10
• West Yorkshire Regiment: 1
• Worcestershire Regiment: 1
• York & Lancaster Regiment: 1