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10th (Grimsby Chums) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
The Grimsby Chums Battalion was raised at Grimsby from the 9th of September 1914 by the Mayor and Town, becoming the 10th (Grimsby) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. The Grimsby Chums trained in a camp erected on the Brocklesby Estate, 10 miles from their home town. They joined 101st Brigade, 34th Division at Ripon Camp in June 1915 and later moved to to Sutton Veny, Wiltshire for final training before proceeding to France in January 1916. Their first major action would be in the Battle of the Somme where they suffered heavily. In 1917 they saw action in the Battle of Arras and the Third Battle of Ypres. In February 1918 they transferred to 103rd Brigade, 34th Division and saw action during the Battle of the Lys. In May the battalion was reduced to cadre strength. In June the unit transferred to 116th Brigade, 39th Division
then in August to 197th Brigade, 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division. On 6th of July 1919, the colours of the 10th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment were formally handed over to St. James Church in the town for safe keeping.
28th Dec 1914 Reorganisation
19th Feb 1915 Inspection
23rd Apr 1915 Route March
19th May 1915 Route March
17th Jun 1915 On the Move
10th Aug 1915 Reorganisation
11th Aug 1915 Training
23rd Aug 1915 Recce
28th Aug 1915 On the Move
1st Sep 1915 Poor Conditions
2nd Sep 1915 Leave
3rd Sep 1915 Route March
14th Sep 1915 On the Move
29th Sep 1915 On the Move
22nd Oct 1915 Inspection
18th Nov 1915 Training
21st Nov 1915 Training
12th Dec 1915 Orders Received
13th Dec 1915 Mobilization
14th Dec 1915 Training
20th Dec 1915 Orders
28th Dec 1915 Orders
8th Jan 1916 On the Move
9th Jan 1916 On the Move
10th Jan 1916 On the Move
12th Jan 1916 Locations
15th Jan 1916 On the Move By the 15th of January 1916 all units of 34th Division had arrive in France and concentrated at La Crosse, east of St Omer.
16th Jan 1916 Organisation
18th Jan 1916 Commander Wounded
20th Jan 1916 Inspection
20th Jan 1916 Inspection
21st Jan 1916 Orders
21st Jan 1916 Instruction 
22nd Jan 1916 Orders Issued
23rd Jan 1916 On the Move
23rd Jan 1916 In Reserve
24th Jan 1916 Inspection
26th Jan 1916 On Alert
27th Jan 1916 Emergeny Scheme
28th Jan 1916 Emergeny Scheme
31st Jan 1916 On the March
1st Feb 1916 On the March
2nd Feb 1916 Instruction
4th Feb 1916 Instruction
8th Feb 1916 On the March
9th Feb 1916 Into Billets
11th Feb 1916 Inspection
12th Feb 1916 On the March
13th Feb 1916 On the March
19th Feb 1916 Move
21st Feb 1916 Relief
24th Feb 1916 Relief
29th Feb 1916 Relief
5th Mar 1916 Reliefs
10th Mar 1916 Reliefs
14th Mar 1916 In Reserve
23rd Mar 1916 Into the Line
25th Mar 1916 Snow
29th Mar 1916 Stores
5th Apr 1916 Exchange of Fire
28th June Letters Home The raider did not get much rest for on the 27th and 28th the Battalions of 34th Division began to move forward. This in preparation for the opening of the attack.
For the previous four days the British Artillery had been bombarding the German trenches.
Every man in the Brigade was aware that the opening of the offensive was very close.
Before setting off for the front line men wrote what could be their last letters home.
However the date and time of attack was to be delayed by forty eight hours.
Heavy summer rain had fallen on the 26th and 27th there was a great possibility of flooding. On the 28th June the decision was taken to postpone the attack.
The Divisional and Brigade staff Officers had the job of halting and turning around those battalions on their way to the front line.
1st Jul 1916 34th Division in Action
6th Jul 1916 Recalling Action
10th Jul 1916 Action
1st Sep 1916 Artillery in Action
2nd Sep 1916 Quiet
3rd Sep 1916 Quiet
4th Sep 1916 Visit
5th Sep 1916 Stormy
6th Sep 1916 Instruction
7th Sep 1916 Artillery Active
8th Sep 1916 Bombardment
9th Sep 1916 Orders
10th Sep 1916 Quiet
11th Sep 1916 Preparations
12th Sep 1916 Reliefs
12th Sep 1916 Orders
13th Sep 1916 Wire Cutting
14th Sep 1916 Raid
15th Sep 1916 Trench Raids
16th Sep 1916 Bombardment
17th Sep 1916 Orders
18th Sep 1916 Trench Raids
19th Sep 1916 Orders
20th Sep 1916 Orders
21st Sep 1916 Quiet
22nd Sep 1916 Arrivals
23rd Sep 1916 Orders
24th Sep 1916 Trench Mortars
25th Sep 1916 Shelling
26th Sep 1916 Some Shelling
27th Sep 1916 Trench Mortars
28th Sep 1916 Training & Reliefs
29th Sep 1916 Wire Cutting
30th Sep 1916 Trench Raid
1st Oct 1916 Quiet
2nd Oct 1916 Quiet
3rd Oct 1916 Shelling
4th Oct 1916 Orders
5th Oct 1916 Wire Cut
6th Oct 1916 Rounds Fired
7th Oct 1916 Trench Raid
8th Oct 1916 Artillery Active
9th Oct 1916 Quiet
10th Oct 1916 Quiet
11th Oct 1916 Course
12th Oct 1916 Trench Raids
14th Oct 1916 Reliefs
15th Oct 1916 Conference
16th Oct 1916 Courses
18th Oct 1916 Reliefs
19th Oct 1916 Orders Issued
20th Oct 1916 Trench Raids
21st Oct 1916 Enemy Aircraft
22nd Oct 1916 Looking Forward to Visit
22nd Oct 1916 Artillery Active
23rd Oct 1916 Artillery Active
24th Oct 1916 Experiment
25th Oct 1916 Artillery Active
26th Oct 1916 Wire Cutting
27th Oct 1916 Artillery Active
28th Oct 1916 Artillery in Action
29th Oct 1916 Heavy Shelling
30th Oct 1916 Artillery Active
31st Oct 1916 Warning
4th of January 1918 Enemy Aeroplanes
8th of January 1918 Heavy Snow
12th of January 1918 Thaw then Frost
20th of January 1918 Another Relief
21st of January 1918 A Surrender
24th of January 1918 Two Enemy Patrols
29th of January 1918 Divisional HQ Moves
31st of January 1918 Training
1st of February 1918 Defence Line Work
3rd of February 1918 Weather Fine
28th of February 1918 On the Move
7th of March 1918 Warm Weather
3rd of March 1918 Very Quiet
19th of March 1918 Rain Returns
22nd Mar 1918 In Action
22nd Mar 1918 Heavy Shelling
23nd Mar 1918 Reliefs
31st of March 1918 Relief Completed
1st Apr 1918 Enemy Active
2nd Apr 1918 Enemy Active
3rd Apr 1918 Artillery in Action
4th Apr 1918 Enemy Artillery Active
4th Apr 1918 Hostile Artillery
5th Apr 1918 Reliefs
5th Apr 1918 Reliefs Complete
6th Apr 1918 Quiet
7th Apr 1918 Gas
8th Apr 1918 Low Visibility
9th Apr 1918 Bridges
10th Apr 1918 Withdrawal
11th Apr 1918 Holding the Line
16th of April 1918 Orders
18th Apr 1918 Reliefs
27th of April 1918 Heavy Shelling
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Those known to have served with10th (Grimsby Chums) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Allison Fred. Pte.
- Boulton Charles Vernon. Pte (d.27th August 1917)
- Broadbear Sidney Victor. Pte. (d.28th Apr 1917)
- Brown Isaac. Pte. (d.27th Aug 1917)
- Carter John. Pte. (d.22nd March 1918)
- Chandler Joseph. Pte. (d.11th Aug 1919)
- Coe Lawrence Gordon. Sgt.
- Coe Lawrence Gordon. Sgt.
- Cook John Markham. Pte. (d.11th Apr 1917)
- Creasey William. Pte. (d.28th Aug 1917)
- Fidler Frank Fletcher. Pte. (d.1st July 1916)
- Flint Charles Edward. Cpl. (d.25th Nov 1916)
- Goodacre William Robert Harry. Pte. (d.14th July 1917)
- Gould Robert Stephenson. Private (d.9th Apr 1917)
- Lancaster Charles Thomas. Pte. (d.29th April 1917)
- Lavender John Eliott. 2nd Lt. (d.28 April 1917)
- Morby MM. Ernest Charles. Pte.
- Simons John Edward. Pte. (d.21st Mar 1918)
- Ware Alick. Pte. (d.27th April 1917)
- Wilson Joseph Bowes. Pte. (d.25th May 1918)
- Wright Thomas. Pte.
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2nd Lt. John Eliott Lavender 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.28 April 1917)  John Eliott Lavender, known as Jack, was born in Penistone in 1895 whilst the family were living on Sheffield Road. They later moved to Grimesthorpe Road Sheffield. Jack's father John Lavender worked at Atlas works and upon leaving school, Jack followed in his footsteps.
In 1915, Jack married Edith.
Jack was a member of the York and Lancaster regiment serving with the 7th Battalion, the pioneer battalion. He arrived in France on the 13th July 1915 serving first as a Corporal and then as a Sergeant. Jack was commissioned in the Lincolnshire Regiment on 6th February 1917 serving with the 10th battalion the Grimsby Chums.
Jack is mentioned in the battalion war diary on the 25th April 1917
‘Night of 25 – 26 furnished a working party of 200 men under 4 officers, 2nd Lt Lavender found 1 off and 1 Pte of the 4th Seaforths wounded in front of our line near MI Pleasant Wood. They had been lying out since attack of 23rd Casualties hit.’
Whilst on home leave in 1916, Jack and Edith conceived a child. Unfortunately, Jack was killed on 28th April 1917 at the Battle of Arleux, and never met his son John, who was born on 1st June 1917. Jacks body was never recovered.
In 1924, the Commanding Officer of the Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Vignoles wrote back to Edith , who had written to Mr Cox, the secretary of the 10th Lincolnshire association, asking for information on her husbands death.
â€My own view is that your husband, with many others, was killed that day, buried by the subsequent heavy shelling. â€
Jack's son grew up intensely proud of his father despite never meeting him. Jacks widow did marry again but grieved for her first husband until the day she died.
Jack is remembered on the Arras Memorial. His brother Wilfred was killed on the 1st July 1916, the first day of the Somme Offensive and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Pte. Charles Thomas Lancaster 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.29th April 1917) Whilst doing a single family history on my great great grandparents. I discovered that their eldest grandson Charles Lancaster was killed in WW1 and is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension in France. I will be trying to find out more if possible.
Due to a strange turn of fate, I have related grandparents so Charles was the cousin of my maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother, neither of whom would likely have remembered him as they were very young at the time.
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Sgt. Lawrence Gordon Coe 10th Btn. A Coy. Lincolnshire Regiment My Grandfather Lawrence Coe initially joined up in 1914 as a private in the Ox and Bucks rising to the rank of sergeant. At some point he was transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment as a sergeant.
The only information that I have came from recollections of my father and research that I have undertaken.
He was wounded in the head during action on 28th of April 1917 when he was a Sergeant with A Company 10th Lincolns, at Roeux where he was taken prisoner and sent to Langensalza Pow camp he was, as a result of his wound, ultimately interned in Switzerland.
He lost his left eye as a result of the wound and suffered throughout the remainder of his life with head pains.
His name is recorded in the publication produced at the end of the war of all personnel of London County Council who served during The Great War.
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Pte. Ernest Charles Morby MM. 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment The following is a transcript of a cutting from a newspaper regarding my great grandfather, that I have pasted to a postcard, the medal is in my possession.
"Heath Soldier Awarded The Military Medal:
Pte. Ernest Morby, of the 10th Lincs Regiment (son of Mr and Mrs J. Morby, Elm Cottages, Heath), has been awarded the military medal "for some work I did on the night of July 1st," as he modestly puts in a letter to his parents. Pte Morby was an apprentice with Mr Marshal, Howard Street; organ builder. He was only 17 years of age when he enlisted in October 1914 and attained his 19th birthday last May. He was the first Wakefield lad to join the Grimsby Pals, afterwards the 10th Lincs".
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Pte. Frank Fletcher Fidler 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.1st July 1916) Frank Fidler was the only son of Albert John and Julia Emma Fidler of Havana House, Hucknall, Notts.
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Pte. William Robert Harry Goodacre 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.14th July 1917) William Goodacre was wounded at the Battle of Arras in April 1917. He was then captured and taken as a POW and transported to Kassell. The first communication with his family from the POW camp was on 30th of May 1917 to inform them that he had been interned at Kassell. During his time in the camp, he was cared for by Second-Lieut Roebuck & Sergeant Windham. William died of the injuries he received to his thigh on the 14th July 1917 and was buried at the cemetery on the 15th July. His funeral was led by Sergeant Windham who also formed a choir of NCO's.
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Pte. Isaac Brown 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.27th Aug 1917) Isaac Brown is my great great uncle and it is recorded on his father's gravestone that Isaac lost his life at the age of 35 in France on August 27th 1917.
His name is also recorded on the Pensnett War Memorial. I know little more about my relative, but I am still immensely proud of his sacrifice to this day.
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Sgt. Lawrence Gordon Coe Ox and Bucks Light Infantry Lawrence Coe served with the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry.
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Pte. John Edward Simons 2/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.21st Mar 1918) The Roll of Honour in St Martin’s Church lists a John E. Simons as having died in 1917. Research suggests that the listed man was quite probably John Edward Simons, who was born at Stickney in Lincolnshire. It appears there may be a family connection to South Willingham with John’s aunt and uncle living in the village; certainly John Simons gives his ‘place of residence’ as ‘South Willingham Lincoln’ on his Attestation Form.
John signed his Attestation Form at Louth on 16th of February 1916. His occupation was given as ‘farm horseman’ and his age as 18 years and 124 days on the day of his enlistment; the following day he was placed on the Army Reserve List. Physically, he was described as being 5ft 6ins tall, weighing 136 lbs, with a chest measurement of 36ins. A little over a year later, on 26th of April 1917, he was mobilised and the following day transferred to The Depot, Lincolnshire Regiment as Private 38120 John Edward Simons.
He was posted to the 3rd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment on 12th May 1917 at Grimsby. On 4th August 1917 he was posted to the 10th (Service) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment. The ‘Army Form B.103 Casualty Form – Active Service’ is a somewhat misleading document as it is not, as its title suggests, purely for the purpose of recording injury or death. With dates recorded under the ‘casualty’ columns on the form this may explain why the Roll of Honour in St Martin’s Church records his date of death as 1917?
But John Simons had yet to meet his end and was transferred to the 2/6th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment (No. 40892) on 23 August 1917. Unfortunately, those records that do remain are not entirely legible but it seems that he became a casualty during 1917 as he was admitted to a Field Ambulance Station in France on 23rd of October as a ‘casualty in the field’.
Not yet having attained his Majority, the young man who had given his place of residence as ‘South Willingham, Lincoln’ during his Attestation just over two years earlier, became another soldier with no known grave when he was reported missing in the field on 21 March 1918. His name is recorded on the Arras Memorial (as well as on a hand-written scroll in St Martin’s Church South Willingham, a memorial tablet situated in the church at Holton-cum-Beckering and a wooden plaque inside the same church) and his father took receipt of John’s Victory Medal and British War Medal at the family home in Holton cum Beckering. Before he was called up, John Simons is recorded in the 1911 Census as being a farm labourer (aged 13 years), the family living at the time at Top Barn Hatton, near Wragby. It may be that five years later, upon enlistment, he was working on a farm at South Willingham, or simply living with relations as stated by current relatives, which is why he gave his place of residence as South Willingham.
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Pte. William Creasey 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.28th Aug 1917) William Creasey was a farmer's son from Metheringham Fen south of Lincoln. Records suggest he signed up for the army in December 1915 and went into action in about June 1916. He is the brother of my Grand Father and a Great Uncle to me. He is also an Uncle, Great Uncle and Great Great Uncle to many others in the Creasey family. He is remembered by all of us.
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Pte. Joseph Chandler 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.11th Aug 1919) Pte. J. Chandler served with the Lincolnshire Regiment 10th Battalion.He was executed for murder on 11th August 1919 and is buried in Les Baraques Military Cemetery. Sangatte, France. He was the husband of Nora Chandler, of 5, Burndon Street, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
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Pte. Joseph Bowes Wilson 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.25th May 1918)  Joseph Bowes Wilson, Private 46891, enlisted in Jarrow and served in the 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He was later transferred to the 49th Company, Labour Corps (No.29282)and died age 38 on the 25th May 1918. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Querrieu Cemetery. It is not known at what date Joseph was transferred to the Labour Corps and where he would have been serving at the time of his death however the Cemetery is in the Somme area near most of the areas involved in the final Somme offensive. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals and requests effects form 118a in respect of his death (21st Feb 1923).
Joseph was born in Leamside, Durham 1880 son of William and Mary Wilson of Boldon Colliery. He was married to Mary Agnes Wilson nee Miller of 40 York Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census they are living at this address with Joseph(31) an assistant ironmonger and Mary(28) his wife of 7 years having 3 children, James 6, Richard 4 and John is 1 year old.
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Cpl. Charles Edward Flint 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.25th Nov 1916) Charles Edward Flint was my grand uncle who was born in Eynesbury, Huntingdonshire. He got married to Eva Darrington in the middle of 1913 in Coventry where he lived until his enlistment. When he signed up he put his name down as Edward Flint. He was serving in the 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment as a corporal when he was killed on 25th November 1916 and is buried in The Brewery Orchard Cemetery Bois-Grenier France.
At this time I am getting the evidence together for the War Graves Commission records to amend his name to that on his birth certificate to read Charles Edward Flint.
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Pte. Sidney Victor Broadbear 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regt. (d.28th Apr 1917) Sidney Broadbear joined the Worcester Regiment and transferred to 10th Lincolnshire Regiment, he was killed on the 28th of April 1917 aged 21 and lies in Roeux British Cemetery.
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Pte. Thomas Wright 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment My grandfather Thomas Wright was injured at Mons, France, under the Yorkshire Post Office Rifles, I believe in 1917. He was wounded by shrapnel on the bridge of the nose and never fully regained his health. He died in 1961 in Sheffield where he had lived all his life. My father Jack Wright b. 1911 and Arthur b. 1917 both served in the Army in WW2 and thankfully came home safely. My Dad was in the REMY and Uncle Arthur (still alive) was in North Africa.
In 1949 Jack immigrated to Canada with our family and I never got to know my grand dad and would like to know what happened to him, where, when etc. if possible.
Thank you kindly for any assistance you can offer.
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Pte. John Markham Cook 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment (d.11th Apr 1917) I was the first person in our family to visit Uncle Jack's grave - a very moving experience. I was able to take my mother , his sister, to the cemetery some years later.
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Private Robert Stephenson Gould 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (d.9th Apr 1917) I would like to remember my great-grandfather:
Private Robert Stephenson Gould, service no:30722, 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 9th April 1917 near Arras.
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