Friday 28 April 2017

Roll of Honour - 28th April 1917


Killed in Action

3rd Battalion: Battle of Arras: 6th Battalion partially successful attack on Greenland Hill near Gavrelle, then relieved
  • Second Lieutenant Clement Roy Blackshaw SMITH, 19, attached 6th Battalion son of Clement Charles Smith JP and Jessie Smith of Walton Hall, Felixstowe [Suffolk] (Arras Memorial)

4th Battalion: Battle of Arras: front line near Oppy
  • 12368 Acting Sergeant Arthur William YEARRELL, born and resided Offord D'Arcy [Huntingdonshire] (Point-du-Jour Military Cemetery, Athies)

5th Battalion: Battle of Arras: 6th Battalion partially successful attack on Greenland Hill near Gavrelle, then relieved
  • Second Lieutenant Herbert Edward FOSKETT, 24, attached 6th Battalion, son of Herbert and Mary Foskett of Western Road, Tring [Hertfordshire] (Arras Memorial)

6th Battalion: Battle of Arras: partially successful attack on Greenland Hill near Gavrelle, then relieved
  • 32105 Private Joseph James BEAVER, 24, son of James and Elizabeth Beaver of 43 James Street, Camden Town [London], resided Luton (Arras Memorial)
  • 32053 Private Cornelius CHAPMAN, born and resided Stotfold (Arras Memorial)
  • 31786 Private Fred COSTIN, 23, D Company, born and resided Eaton Bray, son of John and Emma Costin, husband of Mary of Sparrow Hall, Edlesborough [Buckinghamshire] (Arras Memorial)
  • 18939 Private Ernest CURRINGTON, 31, D Company, son of Thomas and Ann Currington of The Goss, Yelling [Huntingdonshire]; husband of Ellen Louisa Barrett (ex-Currington) of 1 South View, Yelling (Arras Memorial)
  • 33530 Sergeant James FLEE, ex-24220 Northamptonshire Regiment, born Fenny Bridges [Devon], resided Balham [London] (Arras Memorial)
  • 32223 Private Frederick George GURNEY, born and resided Luton (Arras Memorial)
  • 17626 Lance Corporal Sidney Jack MAGNUS, son of George and Violet Magnus of 95 High Street, Marylebone [London] (Athies Communal Cemetery Extension)
  • 10547 Private Roland Charles RACHER MM, 22, D Company, born and resided Hatfield [Hertfordshire], son of Stephen Racher of 87 Embankment Grove, Chelsea [Australia] (Arras Memorial)
  • 30427 Private Ernest RAWLINGS, 21, born Tydd Saint Mary [Lincolnshire], resided Walpole Highway [Cambridgeshire], son of W Rawlings of Tilney Saint Lawrence [Norfolk] (Arras Memorial)
  • Temporary Lieutenant Ronald Henry Evan ROSE (Arras Memorial)
  • 10695 Corporal Francis George SIMMONS, born and resided Chesham [Buckinghamshire] (Chili Trench Cemetery, Gavrelle)
  • 32161 Private John Ralph SPREAKLEY or SPRECKLEY, 22, son of John and Caroline Spreckley or Spreakley of 10 Elstow Road, Bedford (Arras Memorial)
  • 12348 Private Henry TILCOCK, born and resided Ware [Hertfordshire] (Arras Memorial)
  • 20582 Lance Corporal Frederick TURNER, D Company, son of W Turner of Ashbrook, Hitchin [Hertfordshire] (Chili Trench Cemetery, Gavrelle)
  • 43256 Sergeant Alfred William WILSON, ex-1518 Essex Regiment, resided Leytonstone [Essex] (Arras Memorial)

7th Battalion: Battle of Arras: front line near Neuville-Vitasse
  • 29794 Private Percy William COLE, born Lambeth [London], husband of Elizabeth Angelina of 5 Mill Street, Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire] (London Cemetery, Neuville-Vitasse)
  • 30915 Private Frederick William PESTELL, born Lambeth [London], resided Luton (London Cemetery, Neuville-Vitasse)

Died of Wounds

4th Battalion
  • 8481 Acting Company Sergeant Major Albert Edward GODMAN, 29, born Kempston, resided Hertford , son of John Kentish Godman, husband of Alice Mary Smith (ex-Godman) of 44 Fernlea Road, Harwich [Essex] (Boulogne Eastern Cemetery)

6th Battalion
  • 20435 Private Albert MILLER, 20, born Whaddon [Buckinghamshire], son of Charles Miller of 18 Filgrave [Buckinghamshire] (Boulogne Eastern Cemetery)

8th Battalion
  • 17330 Lance Sergeant William Thomas HIBBIT MM, born Peckham [London], resided Balham [London] (Longuenesse (Saint-Omer) Souvenir Cemetery)
  • 19762 Lance Corporal Frederick RICHARDS, 24, born Walworth [London], son of Frederick and Alice Richards of 11 Garden Row, Southwark [London] (Béthune Town Cemetery)

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