Second Lieutenant Timberlake
Thursday 21st December 1916: From our Correspondent in the Field
The adjutant
of the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, tells us that the Battalion has
spent the day carrying ammunition for light and medium trench mortars up to the
front line at Cuinchy.
2nd
Battalion, in the front line at Berles-au-Bois reports that three officers –
Second Lieutenants F Hague, R Timberlake and C R Hall have all been struck off
strength. The cold and damp in the trenches has meant that all three are
seriously ill and have been evacuated to England(1).
Sources: X550/2/5; X550/3/wd
(1) Second
Lieutenant Roy Timberlake would be killed in action with 4th Battalion on 27th
July 1917 – he is buried at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Saint-Laurent-Blangy.
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