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2/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
2/5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment was formed in Birmingham in October 1914 as a second line battalion and became part of 2nd Warwickshire Brigade, 2nd South Midland Division.
August 1915 : redesignated as 182nd Brigade, 61st (2nd South Midland) Division.
Landed in France on 21 May 1916.
20 February 1918 : disbanded in France.
28th Aug 1914 Volunteers Required The Warwickshire Brigade received the official request for the Territorials to volunteer for service overseas. For many it would be a difficult decision, many of the men were skilled working-class with young families, a direct result of the drive to get companies to support the TF, often their work pay exceeded the army rate of pay. Those men who felt unable to consent, were subsequently posted to the reserve second line unit of their battalions which were being formed at home, the 2/5th, 2/6th, 2/7th and 2/8th Warwicks.
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
May 1916 Volunteers
10th Jul 1916 Relief 
6th Sep 1917 During the Third battle of Ypres, 2/5th Battalion Warwicks made an unsuccessful night attack on Hill 35 on the 6th of September. They were part of the 61st Division, which had attacked several times in the previous week.
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Sgt. Stanley George Cooper 2/5th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.3rd December 1917) My Great Great Uncle Stanley Cooper was born in Kidderminster, the son of Alfred and Helen Cooper. He married Beatrice Humphries at St.Mary's Church, before they moved to Smethwick and had a daughter Margaret Lillian Cooper. During the First World War he served as a Sergeant in the 2/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. During the Battle of Cambrai the 2/5th Battalion were called forward from the reserves to help hold the line against the German counter attack near Marconing. Sergeant Stanley Cooper was killed during the fighting before the British Army withdraw. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval Military Cemetery as well as Kidderminster War Memorial outside St.Mary's Church.
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Sgt. Walter John Bagshaw MID. 2/5th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment My grandfather, Walter Bagshaw served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. I believe the 2/5th Battalion and was part of the 182nd Inf Bde with the 61st Division. He once had a silver cigarette box with the monogram LXI, the roman numerals for the 61st Div. he survived the war and demobilised in Mar 1919. He was awarded two MIDs – but I do not know what for?
He ended up as a Sgt and we believe he worked in an HQ of some sort as either a Pay Clerk or in some other administrative role. On his return he later had his house named Laventie which I assume is a link to his time with the regiment and where I am lead to believe they had a HQ there. After the War he played a large role in the formation of a reunion ‘Dinners Club’ which held an annual dinner to commemorate the 61st Div, possible the HQ Staff specifically but I lack more information. Although he was presented with a gold watch from the club members that has the LXI engraved on it with the wording 182 Inf Bde, 61st Div.
I would love to find out more about his time with the regiment and his service career, I would very much appreciate it if anyone could increase my knowledge in anyway regarding his military life during or indeed after the war, perhaps someone recollects the reunion dinners club?
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Pte. John William Ogden 2nd/5th Btn. Warwickshire Regiment (d.3rd Dec 1917) John William Ogden enlisted at Jarrow and joined the 2nd/5th Battalion Warwickshire Regiment. He died on the 3rd December 1917 age 19 and is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and at the Cambrai Memorial at Louveral.
His Medal Card shows him awarded the British War and Victory Medals (Mutt and Jeff). It also indicates former service as No. 3/31705 with the North Staffordshire Regiment.
The 1911 census show him as the youngest son, 13 years old and a student.
He has two older brothers, Frederick either 17 or 19 working in Steelworks, Robert 14 working in a mineral water company and one sister Doretta aged 16 probably helping her mother at home. His widowed mother Catherine aged 56 has married John Hutchinson 59 who works as a watchman at a blast furnace works. His natural father was John Ogden who died some years earlier and his mothers maiden name was James.
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