Roll of Honour - 25th March 1918

Killed in Action

3rd Battalion: First Battles of the Somme 1918– 4th Battalion advance to High Wood, fighting until ammunition expended then falling back to Thiepval

• Second Lieutenant Arthur HAYES, 21, attached B Company, 4th Battalion, son of W F and Anne Hayes of 115 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town (London) (Arras Memorial)

4th Battalion: First Battles of the Somme 1918– advance to High Wood, fighting until ammunition expended then falling back to Thiepval

• 40567 Private William Henry BOWTLE, ex-26282 Norfolk Regiment, born and resided Wethersfield [Essex] (Arras Memorial)
• 40626 Private Albert CARTER, ex-45190 Suffolk Regiment, born and resided Radwell [Hertfordshire] (Arras Memorial)
• 40108 Private Albert DEXTER, ex-3804 Essex Regiment, born Rugby [Warwickshire], resided Daventry [Northamptonshire], son of Joseph and Harriet Dexter (Arras Memorial)
• Temporary Second Lieutenant Robert Charles FYNN, son of W W Fynn (London Cemetery and Extension, Longueval)
• 41733 Private Harry KITSON, ex-48123, South Staffordshire Regiment, born and resided Brighouse [Yorkshire] (Arras Memorial)
• 23677 Private Albert LEES, 26, born Edmonton [Middlesex], resided Enfield Highway [Middlesex], son of G Lees of 28 Elmhurst Road, Enfield Wash [Middlesex] (Arras Memorial)
• 41713 Private Lewis Bodfish MERRILL, born Harrington [Northamptonshire], resided Rothwell [Northamptonshire] (Arras Memorial)
• 41171 Private Albert Edward SMITH, ex-202949 Northamptonshire Regiment, born Upton [Northamptonshire], resided Northampton (Arras Memorial)
• 3/7524 Private Alfred SURMAN, 21, born London, resided Walton [Buckinghamshire], son of Henry Surman of 76 Richmond Road, Wimbledon [Surrey] (Arras Memorial)
• 4/5914 Regimental Sergeant Major William Thomas THEOBALD MC, 39, born Somersham [Huntingdonshire], husband of Louisa of 12 Sayer Street, Huntingdon (Arras Memorial)
• 204164 Private Cyril Humphrey THOMPSON, 21, ex-996 Bedfordshire Yeomanry, son of Alfred and Mary Thompson of 76 Knox Road, Wellingborough [Northamptonshire] (Delville Road Cemetery, Longueval)

7th Battalion: First Battles of the Somme 1918– retirement through Crepigny, and Grandû followed by successful counter-attack at Baboeuf.

• 17561 Private Frank BENTLEY, born Henham [Essex], resided Broxted [Essex] (Pozieres Memorial)

Died of Wounds

4th Battalion

• 23603 Private Edward George LAWRENCE, 20, son of Harry and Eliza Lawrence of 63 Eversholt Road, Ridgmont (Saint Hilaire Cemetery, Frevent)