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3rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 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 If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 3rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment? There are:5234 items tagged 3rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 3rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Dart Emmanuel. Pte. Humphrey Ernest Graham. 2nd.Lt. (d.29th March 1918) Reece William. Pte. (d.1st July 1917) Street Frederick. Pte. (d.23rd June 1917) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 3rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Looking for help with Family History Research?    Please see Family History FAQ's Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. Can you help? 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He trained with the 3rd Battalion but on being posted to France on 22nd January 1917, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion the next day. At the end of March 1917, he received a gunshot wound to the back. The Diary of Sister Elsie Tranter in "World War One a History in 100 Stories", an Australian nurse in France, records in her entry for the 3rd April 1917: "I have in my huts some very young boys, (baby soldiers we call them) Baby 3 is a Staffordshire kid named Dort [sic] with a tremendous wound on his back. When this wound has to be dressed Corporal holds him up in his arms. The poor little chap cries piteously when we go to do him. As soon as they are fit they are evacuated to Blighty to make room for others." Emmanuel returned to the UK on 7th of April 1917 and was posted to the 3rd Battalion on 12th July. He was deemed unfit for front line duties and transferred to the Royal Defence Corps (service number 63952) on 22nd August. He was medically discharged from the RDC on 17th June 1918. After the war Emmanuel re-enlisted, into the 19th Essex Regiment (service number 51215), on a short service contract, and was posted to France from 26th August 1919 to 1st April 1920. Emmanuel appears not to have married, and died following a mining accident at Littleton Colliery, Cannock, on 31st October 1934 aged 38. Martin Griffiths Add to this record.   2nd.Lt. Ernest Graham Humphrey 48 Squadron (d.29th March 1918) Ernest Humphrey was born 27th October 1896 in Northampton, son of Rev William John and Ellen Humphrey. The 1911 census shows him living with his widowed mother in Bedford and he attended Bedford Modern school, where he was a Corporal with the Officer Training Corps. In October 1914 he entered the City and Guilds (Engineering) College, South Kensington and passed the intermediate B.Sc (Engineering) Examination of London University in 1915. He was a Cadet in the Officer Training Corps whilst at College transferring to the Senior Division at Kensington. He was employed as a Temporary Clerk at the Ministry of Munitions. In July 1915 he obtained a commission with the 3rd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment serving in France. At his own request he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps as Second Lieutenant (Pilot) he was in action on 22nd July 1917, when he received gunshot wounds to the chest and a fractured humorous, he recuperated in the New Zealand Stationary Hospital, Hazebrouck and No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen. He returned to service in January 1918 and was flying Bristol F2b's with 48 (Fighter) Squadron, Royal Flying Corp, Bertangles, France. On 28 March 1918 whilst flying low and defending the road near Amiens, he received gunshot wounds and was admitted to No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital, Doullens but died of his wounds the following day on 29 March 1918, aged 21 years. He is buried in Doullens Communal Cemetery, Somme, France. He is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1907-14, he is commemorated on the SchoolWar Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923.Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com Caroline Hunt Add to this record.   Pte. Frederick Street 12th Btn. Highland Light Infantry (d.23rd June 1917) Frederick Street attested under the Derby Scheme and was mobilised on the 30th of March 1916, on the 4th of April 1916 he was posted to the 3rd South Staffordshire Regiment from which he was transferred on the 14th of April to the 2/5th KOSB and renumbered as private 5078. On the 14th of January he was disembarked in France and on the 15th of January he was at the 21st Infantry Base in Etaples, France, on the 5th of February he transferred to the HLI and was renumbered as Private 41944 and posted to the 12th Battalion who on the 8th of April were in field, Frederick was wounded on the 9th at the beginning of the Arras Offensive at the First Battle of the Scarpe. Frederick was sent to Govan Hospital where he died on the 23rd of June 1917 in the presence of his sister, he was buried with full military honours at Belper Cemetery. Danielle Spencer Add to this record.   Pte. William Reece 3rd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment (d.1st July 1917) William Reece was killed in action at Cambrai, France David Reece Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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