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9th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment
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Pte. George Frederick Homer 9th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment (d.13th Jun 1917) George Homer was a grocery shop manager who had 3 young chidren ,the youngest being my wifes Grandmother who was 2 years old
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Pte. Arthur Palmer MM. 9th (Pioneers) Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Arthur Palmer served in France at the Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele and then in Italy before returning to England
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Pte. George Burman 9th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment (d.25th Apr 1915) George Burman served with the 9th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment.
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L/Cpl. Edgar Earnest Cecil Maunder 9th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment Edgar Maunder was a horse drawn cab driver by trade. Welsh by birth but son of a Cornish man who moved to Wales in 1891. He was one of seven brothers and one sister. His father and five of the brothers were all serving in the war by November 1915. The family was mentioned in the Penarth Times in November 1915 as part of the promotional drive to honor enlisted men and encourage new recruits.
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Pte. Joseph Henry Bratt 9th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.15th May 1918) Joseph Bratt was the son of Cyril and Edith Bratt of Pool End, Rudyard, Leek, Staffs.
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Capt. Ewan Jack Lloyd 9th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment Jack Lloyd was commended for the Romanian Award.
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2nd Lt. John Herrington MM, MC, MID. 9th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment As a 33 year old miner, John Herrington tried to join up in April 1915 but he failed the trade test with the ASC board who reported that he would not make an efficient soldier and so was discharged one day later. He then joined up elsewhere and became a private with the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Here, he quickly rose to the rank of Sergeant and during fighting at Delville wood, was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery. Soon after he was recommended for a commission and attended a course in Dumbarton. Upon successful completion of this, he was then transferred to the 9th Battalion at Menin Road. In Italy, he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MC for his work in Asiago and the San Siesto ridge.
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BENEATH HILL 60 tells the extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward, the legendary Australian metal scientist. In 1916, Woodward faced the most difficult decision, ultimately having to separate from his new young love for the deadly carnage of the Western Front. On treacherous territory, behind the German enemy lines, Woodward and his secret platoon of Australian tunnelers face a suicidal battle to defend a leaking, tunnel system. A tunnel packed with enough high explosives to change the course of the War.
Hill 60: Ypres (Battleground Europe) Nigel Cave
The shell-ravaged landscape of Hill 60, some three miles south east of Ypres, conceals a labyrinth of tu nnels and underground workings. This book offers a guide to the memorials, cemeteries and museums at the site '
Beneath Hill 60 [Paperback] Will Davies
'Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one - fire! Down goes the firing switch. At first, nothing. Then from deep down there comes a low rumble, and it as if the world is spliting apart...' On 7th June 1917, nineteen massive mines exploded beneath Messines Ridge near Ypres. The largest man-made explosion in history up until that point shattered the landscape and smashed open the German lines. Ten thousand German soldiers died. Two of the mines - at Hill 60 and the Caterpillar - were fired by men of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, comprising miners and engineers rather than parade-ground soldiers. Drawing on the diaries of one of the key combatants, "Benealth Hill 60" tells the little-known, devastatingly brutal true story of this subterranean war waged beneath the Western Front - a stygian battle-ground where men drowned in viscous chalk, suffocated in the blue gray clay, choked on poisonous air or died in the darkness, caught up up in vicious hand-to-han
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