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9th (Pioneers) Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
9th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment was raised at Lichfield on the 20th of September 1914 as part of as part of Kitchener's Third New Army joined 22nd Division as army troops. They trained on the South Downs, spending the winter in billets in Hastings from December. On the
20th of April 1915 they became a Pioneer Battalion and transferred to the newly forming 37th Division, which was concentrating at Cholderton on Salisbury Plain. They proceeded to France, landing at Le Havre on the 29th of July, the division concentrating near Tilques. They went into action in The Battle of the Ancre. In 1917 they fought in The First Battle of the Scarpe, including the capture of Monchy-le-Preux, The Second Battle of the Scarpe and The Battle of Arleux. They were in action during the Third Battles of Ypres.
Jan 1915 Specialist Training
7th Mar 1915 9th North Staffords at Hastings B Company, 9th Battalion North Staffs Regiment are at Hastings.
22nd July 1915 Advance Party
28th July 1915 On the Move
28th July 1915 On the Move
29th July 1915 On the Move
29th July 1915 On the Move
30th July 1915 On the Move
31st July 1915 On the Move
1st Aug 1915 Lectures
1st Aug 1915 On the Move
3rd Aug 1915 In Billets
4th Aug 1915 On the March
4th Aug 1915 On the Move
5th Aug 1915 On the March
5th Aug 1915 On the Move
5th Aug 1915 Orders
5th Aug 1915 Training Instruction
5th Aug 1915 Billets
6th Aug 1915 In Billets
7th Aug 1915 In Billets
8th Aug 1915 Inspection
8th Aug 1915 Training
9th Aug 1915 In Billets
10th Aug 1915 On the March 
10th Aug 1915 Training
11th Aug 1915 Recce
12th Aug 1915 Trench Work
13th Aug 1915 Trench Work
14th Aug 1915 Trench Work
15th Aug 1915 Inspection
16th Aug 1915 Trench Work
17th Aug 1915 Thunderstorms
18th Aug 1915 Trench Work
19th Aug 1915 Trench Work
20th Aug 1915 Trench Work
21st Aug 1915 Trench Work
22nd Aug 1915 Reinforcements
23rd Aug 1915 Orders Received
24th Aug 1915 On the March
25th Aug 1915 In Billets
26th Aug 1915 On the Move
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
16th May 1916 Working Parties
1st July 1916 Smoke
2nd July 1916 Reliefs
3rd July 1916 Shelling
4th July 1916 Reliefs
5th July 1916 Orders
6th July 1916 Moves
7th July 1916 Moves
8th July 1916 Moves
9th July 1916 Orders
12th July 1916 Quiet
9th Sep 1916 On the March
13th Sep 1916 Orders
16th Sep 1916 Orders Received
17th Sep 1916 Reliefs
18th Sep 1916 Moves
10th Mar 1917 Pioneers at Work
10th Apr 1917 Attack Made
11th Apr 1917 Village Taken
12th Apr 1917 Reliefs
1st March 1918 Extracts from the Diary of Brevet-Colonel G.S.collison, D.S.O. Pt.15.
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Those known to have served with 9th (Pioneers) Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bennett George. Pte. (d.April 1917)
- Hearn Charles Albert. Pte. (d.16th Sept 1918)
- Newman Cyril Arnell. Temp 2nd Lt. (d.28th Apr 1917)
- Parton MM. Gordon. Pte. (d.15th Sep 1918)
- Parton James Arthur. Pte. (d.9th Apr 1917)
- Robertson Mowbray Mitcalfe. (d.31st Aug 1916)
- Spender Ernest Harry. Pte. (d.21st August 1917)
- Tower Frederick William. Pte. (d.24th Sep 1917)
- Warwick Thomas Harry. 2nd Lt. (d.28th April 1917)
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Pte. Ernest Harry Spender 9th(Pioneers)Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.21st August 1917) He served as Harry Spender. Birth name Ernest Harry Spender
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2nd Lt. Thomas Harry Warwick 9th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.28th April 1917) Great Uncle Thomas Warwick joined the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment in France in July 1915. He was commissioned in September 1915 and transferred to 9th (Pioneer) Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment the next year as a 2nd Lieutenant.
He was killed on Saturday 28th April 2017 at the Battle of Arleux, and is buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery.
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Pte. Charles Albert Hearn 9th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.16th Sept 1918) Bertie Hearn was my wife's uncle on her mother's side, she was Bertie's sister, Rosa Jessie Hearn. I found him during research of the family tree.
On 23rd May 2015 my wife and I were taken to Sunken Road Cemetery at Boisleux-St.Marc.
We believe that we are the first of the family to visit his grave. Our son Matthew had purchased a duplicate set of Bertie's medals to which he was entitled. We photographed his headstone with the medals and left two wooden crosses with personal messages from his niece Valerie Swinnerton and two great, great nephews.
Unfortunately we never knew about Bertie from the family, so we do not know of any existing photos of Bertie himself.
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Pte. George Bennett 9th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.April 1917) The family story is that George Bennett, who worked on the railway, lied about his age so he could fight for King and Country, aged 17.
His Mother, my Grandmother, never got over it.
My Mother told me how she would sit and rock in her chair crying at the loss of her only Son. My mother was born in 1917 and never knew George but kept his memory alive. I have done the same, and I have told my children and grandchildren the same.
We shall never forget him and all those fallen in War
George Bennett died in the 1st Canadian Casualty Clearing Station and is interred at the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension.
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Pte. Frederick William Tower 9th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.24th Sep 1917) Frederick Tower is Resting in peace in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Last visited by his family on June 2011 from New Zealand.
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Mowbray Mitcalfe Robertson 9th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.31st Aug 1916) My great-uncle, Mowbray Mitcalfe Robertson, of the 9th Batallion, North Staffordshire Regiment, was killed on the Somme on the 31st August 1916 and is buried in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz, Picardy, France. He was actually a South African.
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