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15th (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment.
15th (Prince of Wales's Own Civil Service Rifles) Battalion, The London Regiment, a Territorial unit and had thier headquarters at Somerset House, Westminster. When war broke out in August 1914, they were serving as part of 4th London Brigade, 2nd London Division. The Division had just arrived for their annual summer camp on Salisbury Plain when war wasdeclared in August 1914, they were at once recalled to their home base and mobilised for war service. The Division concentrated in the St Albans area for training, with the 15th Battalion at Bedmond, and then moving to billets at Watford in November. They proceeded to France on the 18th of March 1915, landing at le Havre, being only the second TF Division to arrive in theatre. The 5th London Brigade was ordered to Cassel, and the remainder of the Division concentrated near Bethune and were joined by 5th London Brigade near the end of the month. They saw action in The Battle of Aubers Ridge, The Battle of Festubert, The Battle of Loos and The subsequent Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, In 1916 they fought during The German attack at Vimy Ridge, and on The Somme in The Battle of Flers-Courcelette capturing High Wood, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges in which the captured Eaucourt l'Abbaye and The attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt. In 1917 they were in action in The Battle of Messines, the Third Battles of Ypres and The Cambrai Operations where they captured Bourlon Wood and fought against the German counter attacks. In 1918 they were in action on The Somme and the Final Advance in Artois including making the official entry into Lille. At the Armistice the the forward units of the Division had reached Franses-lez-Buissenal. They marched back to Tournai and on the 26th of November moved on to the Bethune area where demobilisation began with the first parties returning to England in the first week of January 1919.
4th Aug 1914 Mobilisation
11th Aug 1914 On the March
12th Aug 1914 On the March
5th Nov 1914 Into Billets
17th Mar 1915 On the Move
18th Mar 1915 Very Cold
19th Mar 1915 On the Move
20th Mar 1915 An Exhausting March
22nd Mar 1915 Inspection
28th Mar 1915 Sports
29th Mar 1915 Visit
5th Apr 1915 Training
6th Apr 1915 News
13th April 1915 Reliefs
15th April 1915 Reliefs
22nd April 1915 Reliefs
23rd April 1915 Operational Order No.3
26th April 1915 Daily Battery Activity 6th London Brigade RFA During the night of April 25th/26th, the 15th London Battery fired six rounds at the K works. After the second round shouting was heard from the enemy. Later the sound of hammering of posts was heard, and the sound ceased after the last two rounds were fired.
16th London Battery registered zone from A.3.d.2.2. to A.3.a.0.2. 36 rounds fired.
17th London Battery registered a communication trench leading along the north bank of the La Bassee canal. Range 3925-4200 yards.
H A Barker and Pte P L G Winter (15th Battalion, London Regiment) gazetted as 2nd Lieutenants.
5th May 1915 Reliefs 
5th May 1915 Into the Line
10th May 1915 Reliefs
1st June 1915 Operational Order No.2.
3rd Jun 1915 Behind the lines
20th June 1915 Reliefs
21st June 1915 Reliefs
21st June 1915 Operational Order No.14.
25th June 1915 Operational Order No.14.
26th June 1915 Took over Front Line
26th June 1915 Operational Order No.14.
27th June 1915 Operational Order No.17.
28th June 1915 Operational Order No.24.
28th June 1915 Attachment
1st July 1915 Operational Order No.18.
5th July 1915 Operational Order No.19.
6th Jul 1915 Reliefs
6th July 1915 Operational Order No.20.
29th July 1915 Operation Order No.21.
31st July 1915 Preliminary notice of relief.
1st August 1915 Schedule of Reliefs
1st August 1915 Orders Received
2nd August 1915 Reference Operational Order No.22.
24th August 1915 Orders
25th August 1915 Reference Operational Order No.23
26th Aug 1915 Dugout Destroyed
7th September 1915 On the March
19th September 1915 Move
22nd September 1915 Move
8th October 1915 Operational Order 31.
11th October 1915 Operational Order 31.
14th of October 1915 Reliefs
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
19th October 1915 Sharp Shooters.
21st October 1915 140th Infantry Brigade. Operational Order No.34.
21st October 1915 Operational Order No.34.
23rd October 1915 Reliefs
26th October 1915 140th Infantry Brigade. Operational Order No.36.
26th October 1915 Operational Order No.36.
29th October 1915 140th Infantry Brigade. Operational Order No.36.
29th October 1915 140th Infantry Brigade. Operational Order No.36.
3rd November 1915 Reliefs
5th November 1915 Reliefs
7th November 1915 Operation Order No.40.
8th November 1915 Reliefs
11th November 1915 Orders
11th November 1915 Battalion H.Q. heavily shelled.
13th November 1915 Operational Order No.42.
13th November 1915 Schedule of Movement.
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
5th Dec 1915 Recruitment
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
13th December 1915 Operational Order No.44.
13th December 1915 Schedule of Billeting
16th December 1915 140th Infantry Brigade will relieve the 141st Infantry Brigade
17th December 1915 Operational Order No.45.
18th December 1915 Battalion transport will move to Noyelles Les Vermelles
20th December 1915 Cleaning of trenches - Chapel Alley & O.B.5.
23rd Dec 1915 In the Trenches
23rd December 1915 Mine will explode at 0700 hours tomorrow
23rd December 1915 Brigade Operational Order No.46.
23rd December 1915 Reliefs
26th December 1915 Operational Order No. 47.
30th December 1915 Orders
31st December 1915 Reliefs
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
8th February 1916 Work on SAP on right of crater.
9th February 1916 Call Ups
8th March 1916 Flammenwerfer demonstration
8th April 1916 Operational Order No. 74.
17th June 1916 Battalion relieved 15th London Regt.
23rd May 1916 Operations
17th June 1916 Operational Order No.82A.
1st July 1916 Reliefs
3rd July 1916 Wire cutting 236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery at
Aix-Noulette report
Batteries wire cutting. B237 battery was shelled with 4.2s at about 0900 and one gun was damaged. The enemy shelled battery positions on the Aix-Noulette - Bully Grenay road all morning with 5.9 and 4.2 inch guns. Minewerfen (mortars) were active about 1600. At 2230 the enemy blew up a mine on Vimy Ridge but very little artillery fire followed. Another mine was exploded at 0030.
At 0145 our artillery open a strong barrage in support of a raid by the 15th London Regiment on salient in Bois en Hache. The raid lasted twenty minutes with result at present not known. Enemy retaliation was much heavier than in the former raid. All was quiet again by 0230.
4th July 1916 Operational Order No.87
20th July 1916 Orders
20th July 1916 Operational Order No.91
21st July 1916 Reliefs
14th September 1916 Operational Order No.106
15th September 1916 Assembly Trenches
7th October 1916 Attack Resumed
22nd January 1917 Registration & Reliefs 236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report from
Ypres:
The Brigade checked zero lines and registrations. A test SOS. was received by the Batteries of the Brigade and the times averaged two minutes.
Lt G Lyon Smith left for England on Jan 21st 1917 to continue his medical studies.
2/Lt M O Haskell RFA(SR) becomes acting Adjutant.
On the night of 22/23 January the 6th Battalion (City of London Rifles) relieved 7th Battalion and 15th Battalion (Civil Service Rifles) relieved 8th Battalion, (all units in 47th Division).
12th April 1917 Reliefs
13th May 1917 The Battalion together with 15th Battalion formed "C" Column
3rd June 1917 Operational Order
14th of July 1917 Getting soaked
18th of July 1917 A close call
9th November 1917 Reliefs
1st Dec 1917 Reliefs At 9.30 a.m. Orders received for 21st London Regiment to be ready to move at once to reinforce either 140th or 141st Infantry Brigade. Reconnaissance made of possible supporting positions W & E of Anneux.
3 p.m. Warning received of probable relief of 15th London Regt in Bourlon Wood.
5 p.m. Orders received to reinforce 141 Infantry Brigade East of Anneux. Battalion prepares to move. C.O. reports to 140th and 141st Brigade Hqrs for orders.
6 p.m. Orders cancelled & new orders received to proceed with the relief of 15th London Regiment already prepared for.
2nd Dec 1917 21st Londons at Bourlon Wood At 1 a.m. Relief of 15th Lon Regt by 21st Londons is complete. Dispositions. D& A Coys in Front line, opposite Bourlon. C Coy in immediate support. B Coy in reserve near Battalion Hqrs at SW corner of Bourlon Wood.
8.10 p.m. 7th & 8th Lon Regt attack to straighten out Front Line immediately W. of Bourlon Wood. Our L.G. cooperate on R. flank of the attack. Capt. A.L. Strickland sends one platoon from D Coy to assist in the consolidation of captured line. 8th Lon Regt wounded & prisoners wounded & unwounded, passed through Battalion Hqrs & R.A.P.
19th Mar 1918 Reliefs
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Those known to have served with15th (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment. during the Great War 1914-1918. - Acworth Gordon William. 2nd Lt. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Aird A P.M.. Pte.
- Alland Herbert William. Rflmn. (d.23rd May 1917)
- Bartley Harry Nelson. Pte. (d.29th Jan 1916)
- Bolger William John. Pte. (d.10th Oct 1916)
- Bourner Herbert Frederick. Pte.
- Byatt John Douglas. Pte.
- Coit E. D.C.. Pte. (d.24th Dec 1916)
- Cozens Jesse Gerald Clement. (d.15th Sep 1916)
- Crockett Edgar George. Rflmn. (d.3rd Jan 1916)
- Daly Percy Arthur. 2Lt
- Davies Daniel Lewis. Pte.
- Drury Frank Herbert. Rflm. (d.24th June 1918)
- Dyer Frederick Ewart. Pte. (d.15th Sep 1918)
- Frey Emile. 2nd Lt. (d.26th Aug 1918)
- Gammidge Leonard Norton. Pte. (d.25th Sept 1915)
- Grantham George Henry. L/Cpl. (d.15th September 1916)
- Kay John Brayshaw. Pte.
- Kay MBE. John Brayshaw. Pte.
- Mason MM. A J. Cpl.
- Probets William Frederick. Rfmn. (d.1st Sep 1918)
- Sandford Alan Gates. Pte. (d.11th Nov 1915)
- Stanley Montague William. Rfmn.
- Stansfield Jack. Pte. (d.22nd Aug 1918)
- Tardif Valentine Sullock Aveline. L/Cpl. (d.15th Sep 1916)
- Thomas Francis Albert. Pte.
- Turville Ralph Reginald.
- Weatherston George Lumsden. Pte. (d.7th Oct 1916)
- Wells MM. Frederick George. Pte.
- Wheddon William Harold. Cpl. (d.2nd Sep 1918 )
- Whittington Henry Charles. Sgt.
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Pte. Francis Albert Thomas 15th Btn. (Civil Service Rifles) London Regiment My Grandfather, Francis Thomas enlisted on 29 November 1915 at Somerset House. He was wounded by shrapnel I believe, although I do not know at which battle as I have only just started researching, and had probably revolutionary surgery for the time. A Canadian surgeon saved the use of his hand by swapping tendons to enable him to close his fist. He rarely talked about his service, but did suffer from nightmares. My father recalls, I suspect a fairly standard tale, of him jumping into a hole during a night bombardment and waking up next to a dead German soldier. I have seen at least one photo of him in uniform which I hope to post in due course.
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Pte. John Douglas Byatt 1/15th Btn. D Coy 14th Pln. London Regiment John Byatt served with 14th Platoon, D Coy. 1/15th (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment in WW1.
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Pte. Alan Gates Sandford 1/15th (Civil Service) Btn. London Regiment (d.11th Nov 1915) Alan Sandford was born in March 1895 in Gravesend, Kent. He was the youngest child of Edward Augustus and Frances Sandford (nee Gates).
Alan joined up on 8th of August 1915 and was killed in action on 11th of November 1915. He is remembered at the Loos Memorial and on his parents' grave at Gravesend Cemetery.
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2Lt Percy Arthur Daly 15th Battalion London Regiment Percy Daly was Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 27th of March 1918.
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Rflm. Frank Herbert Drury 1/5th Btn. London Regiment (d.24th June 1918) Frank Drury, born 31st of August 1899 in Acton, son of Arthur Miles and Theresa Drury. He initially enlisted with the 15th (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment. Then transferred to the 1st/5th Battalion, London Regiment. He died of his wounds on 24th of June 1918 aged 18 years and is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France. He is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
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L/Cpl. George Henry Grantham 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. C.Coy. London Regiment (d.15th September 1916) George Grantham, son of George and Mary Grantham of 127 Marlborough Road, Bedford. Served with C Coy. 1st/15th (Civil Service Rifles) Battalion London Regiment. He was killed in action on 15th of September 1916 aged 22 years during the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial. He is also remembered on the War Memorial inside All Saints church, Bedford. Extract from the Bedfordshire Times and Independent dated 6th October 1916: "The death in action on the Western front is reported of Lance corporal George Henry Grantham, elder son of Mr. And Mrs. Grantham of Marlborough Road, Bedford. A promising career at the Modern School ended in his being awarded a Leaving Exhibition, with which he went to a London College. Thence he passed into the Actuarial Department of the National Health Insurance Commission, being placed eleventh in a competitive examination with 400 entrants. While serving in this Department, he gained the distinction, at the early age of 21, of Associate-ship of the Institute of Actuaries. The examination over, he at once joined up and on December 2nd 1915, crossed to France with a draft of the London Regiment (the Civil Service Rifles). When the Great Push came he saw considerable fighting, but escaped unhurt until 15th of September 1916, when he met an instantaneous death. At school the boys admired him as a sticker and a straight forward fellow, while the Headmaster and staff looked upon him as one sure to make a name for himself, and do honour to the school. He was quiet and unassuming, but a lad of great strength of character. From his Commanding Officer and from his comrades at the front, Mr. And Mrs. Grantham have received letters bearing witness to the esteem in which he was held by those who have been with him daily during his ten months in France, his comrades mentioning that he wad always brave, cheerful and a gentleman".
Pupil of Bedford Modern School 1905-12, he commemorated on the School War Memorial. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
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Pte. Daniel Lewis Davies 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Battalion London Regiment Daniel Davies served with 15 Platoon, Civil Service Rifles, I am trying to find out the details of my Grandfather's war service as I believe he was injured and was treated at a hospital in Lamlash, Isle of Arran, Scotland.
I would like to know the injuries he suffered and when he was discharged and if possible where he went to live and when he died.
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Cpl. William Harold Wheddon 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment (d.2nd Sep 1918 ) William Wheddon aged 27 was a Corporal in the 15th London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles). He was the son of William Harold and Maria Louisa Wheddon, of Kynton, Longdon Wood Avenue, Keston Park, Kent.
William was buried in Peronne Communial Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
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Rflmn. Herbert William Alland 12th (The Rangers) Btn. London Regiment (d.23rd May 1917) My grandmother was heartbroken when she was given the news that her brother, Herbert Alland, had been killed during a targeted artillery barrage whilst he and a small section were coming down from the front-line after having survived some of the very worst of the fighting at Arras. My grandmother told me he had been allowed leave that day, so would have been looking forward to seeing his family, once he had made it off the line.
Herbert has no grave, I understand that he and his fallen comrades were hastily buried and the burial site was subsequently churned by further artillery action.
Like many other young men, only a faded inscription at the Arras Memorial. Pas de Calais, remains to record his sacrifice and untimely death at just 22 years of age.
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Pte. John Brayshaw Kay MBE. 202 Company Machine Gun Corps John Kay was born 6th of October 1897 in Warrington, Cheshire. He enlisted in the Civil Service Rifles in 1915 & was tranferred to the MGC.
Whilst in action on 21st of March 1918, he was captured at Hargincourt in a gas attack & sent to Crossen-an-der-Oder POW camp in eastern Germany (now Krozno in Poland since 1945). He survived his time in the camp, working as a farm labourer and was repatriated home in early 1919.
Whilst in the camp, he was befriended by a French Corporal called Etienne Saint Paul who gave John a small painting he had done of the Watchtower at Crossen camp. We still have the painting in the family today.
After repatriation, John went back to the Civil Service and was subsequently awarded the MBE in 1955 for his long service in public office. He married in 1921 & had four children. John died in 1973.
I am proud to be one of John's 16 grand-children.
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Pte. Jack Stansfield 1/15th Btn. London Regiment (d.22nd Aug 1918) Fighting at the Second Battle of Bapaume with the 1/15th London Regiment, Jack Stansfield was killed in action on 22nd August 1918. He was buried at Bray Military Cemetery, France. He was 19 years old.
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Pte. John Brayshaw Kay 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment My grandfather, John Kay, was recruited into the Civil Service Rifles in 1916; he had been employed as a clerk in the Civil Service from 1915, aged 18.
He transferred to the Machine Gun Corps, and was captured in March 1918. From the date given on the Red Cross POW record card - 22nd of March, it seems likey that he was captured during a gas attack in the St Quentin area. He awoke on board a train having been stripped of his ID. Two days later he arrived at Crossen-an-der-Oder POW camp in Eastern Germany (now Poland). He remained a POW until the end of the conflict.
When he returned home, he brought with him a small painting done by a fellow prisoner, a Frenchman named Etienne St Paul, showing the watchtower at Crossen camp. The painting remains in our family to the present day.
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Rflmn. Edgar George Crockett 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment (d.3rd Jan 1916) My great uncle Edgar Crockett of the 15th London Regiment (Prince of Wales Own Civil Service Rifles) died from his wounds on the 3rd January 1916 and was buried at St Omar. We are putting together his story, for our grand children and for their's, along with medals, 100th year poppy and photo, we are just one step from completing that but want to know where and what wounds did he received and died from, can anyone help?
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Pte. Leonard Norton "Dick" Gammidge 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment (d.25th Sept 1915)  Leonard Gammidge of the 15th London County Civil Service Rifles was killed at Loos, on the 25th of September 1915.
Leonard Gammidge, better known by his family and friends as Dick, was at Haywardsfield from 1906-1910, and played for the School in the 2nd football team. After leaving Wycliffe he was articled to a London firm of land and estate agents, but joined the 15th Civil Service Rifles directly after the outbreak of war. This was one of the first of the Territorial Regiments to go to France, and Dick crossed with his battalion at the end of 1914. The Western Front in France and Flanders was not a health resort in 1915, nor, indeed, at any time, but during eight months' service the letters which Dick Gammidge wrote home were always cheery, with never a word of complaint.
He was killed in the advance of 25th of September 1915, during the fighting which resulted from the capture of Loos. Two battalions which were assaulting the German trenches needed a new supply of hand grenades. His own No. 6 plaÂtoon volunteered to do the work. It was necessary to carry the bombs to a zone 300 yards wide, swept by German rifle fire and machine guns, and out of the party of twenty-six men who started, only four had returned when night fell. Leonard Gammidge was one of the ten who were killed, but it is said that unless these bombs had reached the forward battalions for others came back to take them from those who fell - the position which the British had captured could never have been held. He was twenty-one years of age when he thus laid down his life for his comrades. (From 'Wycliffe in the War', 1923.)
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Sgt. Henry Charles "Dick" Whittington 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Btn. London Regiment  My father, Henry Whittington was in the 15th Battalion, Civil Service Rifles, London Regiment, and wounded badly in the Battle of the Somme. I have a photo of him in uniform with others who I think must also have been members of the Civil Service Rifles. The names are printed on the photo in very small grey print but appear to be as follows:
- G E White
- S J S Fright
- S O Shave
- H C Whittington
- S F Edser
- F H Millman
- F Holt
- C J Andrews
- G F Ive
- J S Ruttle
- P D J Kmightley
- W J Saville
- R Jobling
- F H Bushnell
- H Lewis
The name Fred Bushell is a familiar one from my childhood - he was either a friend, or possibly the boss, at the PLA where my father worked as an accounting officer - it is possible that all those in this photo worked at the PLA. I have just discovered a note on the back of the photo cover which says 'Souvenir of the Controllers Office'.
I also have a leather bound copy of a small volume of writings by Pte Edward Loxdale, also of the Civil Service Rifles, entitled 'A souvenir of a Soldier'. Some of the writings were published in the Territorial Service Gazette or The Star. My father has annotated the booklet at various points, including naming all the individuals on a photo:
- Lew Martin
- Jacobs
- Hundleby
- Coward
- Loxdale
- R J Thompson
- Ern Kettle
- Jack Rose
- Sgt. "Nick" Nichol
- Fred Ive
At the end of the booklet it states that Pte Edward Loxdale was killed in the Hohenzollern Redoubt, 1st of January 1916.
There is also a Sgt. Chick was killed at Vimy Ridge on 22nd of May 1916.
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Ralph Reginald Turville 15th Btn. London Regiment Ralph Turville's documents say he joined the 5th Battalion of the London Regiment (City of London Rifles) on 4th June 1917 (Date of Attestation) and was mobilized on 1st August 1917. He was transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps and posted to the 15th London Regiment in France on 1st April 1918 under new service No. 548079. He was wounded on 6th April 1918. On 12th October 1918 he was "completely and permanently" transferred to the Royal Fusiliers and posted to the 44th Garrison (from which unit he was discharged to reserve on 6th December 1919). He was in France from 1st April 1918 through to 24th February 1919 and in Germany from 25th February 1919 to 4th November 1919 as a clerk at Army HQ (2nd Army). He was treated at No.1 American Service Hospital, Etretat and 44 C.C.S.
Grandpa died when I was 3. My only memory is of a tartan rug over his knees, as he sat in front of the unlit fireplace in Milton Rd, East Ham, and of being told to leave alone that wonderfully glossy black & scarlet gelatine capsule ("Medicine!" was the gist of what Grandma said); utterly fascinating to a three year old. His face, I don't recall at all.
My only other memory of him is my mother telling me that he was at the battle of Arras in 1918 and, years later, would wake up in the night screaming.
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L/Cpl. Valentine Sullock Aveline Tardif 15th (Civil Service Rifles) Battalion London Regiment (d.15th Sep 1916) My Great Uncle Valentine Sullock Aveline Tardif was featured in the TV series Not Forgotten.
I am named after him. He was killed in the Battle of Flers - Courcelette in the attack for Highwood. He was 19 years of age. He was also a 17th of March man (the day the Battalion landed in France Le Havre)
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Cpl. A J Mason MM. 1/15th Btn. London Regiment I have Cpl Mason's medals but know very little about him except that he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in France.
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Rfmn. Montague William Stanley 15th Btn. London Regiment Montague Stanley served with the 15th Battalion, London Regiment during WW1.
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Pte. William John Bolger 15th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (d.10th Oct 1916) William Bolger enlisted in London, he was the son of Mrs. Margaret Bolger, of 53, Queen Square, Dublin.
William died of wounds aged 20 and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
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