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2/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
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.
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
May 1916 Volunteers
25th Aug 1917 On the March
30th Aug 1917 Training
19th Jan 1918 Reliefs
20th Mar 1918 Prisoners Taken
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Those known to have served with2/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Barron Louis. Lt. (d.19th July 1916)
- Brooks Ernest Francis. Pte. (d.11th November 1918)
- Dowell Montague. Pte. (d.3rd September 1917)
- Hackett MID. Joseph Richard. Sgt.
- Meanwell Harry. Pte.
- Peat Arthur Robert. Pte (d.22nd Jul 1916)
- Ruttens Edward. Pte. (d.19th July 1916)
- Summerfield Louis Henry. Cpl. (d.2nd September 1917)
- Tomkins Ernest Daniel. Pte. (d.29th Jan 1918)
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Cpl. Louis Henry Summerfield 2/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.2nd September 1917) Louis Summerfield was born in the slums in Aston, Birmingham. He was one of four children. His father died in 1912, leaving his older brother, Albert to become head of the household.
Louis joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment Territorials aged 18, whilst working at Dunlop Rubber Co. By 1917 the 2/6th Battalion were posted in Belgium preparing for the front line. Louis died at Pachaendale on 2nd September 1917 aged 21. Listed as killed in action. His name is engraved on the wall at Tyne Cot Cemetery. He is remembered on the De Revigneys Roll of Honour.
There are no known remaining photographs of Louis or of any family momentos as the family home took a direct hit from a stray bomb during WW2. Louis Henry Summerfield was my great great uncle.
I am posting his story in memory of the 100th anniversary of his death. Poppies will always grow in Flanders fields. We will remember them.
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Pte. Ernest Francis Brooks 2/6th Btn. Warwickshire Regiment (d.11th November 1918) Ernest Brooks was the son of Mr and Mrs Brooks, 38 Ashton Gate Road, Coronation Road, Bristol. He was aged 19 when he died in 29 Casualty Clearing Station, Delsaux. He is buried in Grave III.A.14 at Delsaux Farm Cemetery, Beugny.
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Pte Arthur Robert Peat 2/6th Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.22nd Jul 1916) Arthur Peat was my Grandmother's first cousin and they were very close, both being only children and living close by. Arthur's father - also Arthur - was a butcher in Midhurst and had a shop there.
Arthur Jnr. volunteered for service and was sent to France on the Western Front. I believe he saw action at Fromelles where he was wounded and subsequently died of his injuries on 22 July 1916.
He is buried at the Merlville Communal Cemetery in France.
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Pte. Harry Meanwell 2/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Harry Meanwell served with the 2/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
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Sgt. Joseph Richard Hackett MID. 2/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Joseph Hackett enlisted on the 2nd Dec 1915 he joined the British Expeditionary Force on the 12th Oct 1916. He was mentioned in Despatches, published in the London Gazette Sixth Supplement dated Tuesday 8th July 1919
He was the son of Joseph & Jane (née Richards) Hackett of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
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Pte. Edward Ruttens 2/6th Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.19th July 1916) We have no photos or stories. Edward Ruttens was our Dad's brother and was brought up in Duncton and Bury, West Sussex.
He joined up under age, we were told but only know that he died at the Battle of Loos and has no known grave.
Caralyn Anderson and Bill Ruttens
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Lt. Louis Barron 10th Btn. Border Regiment (d.19th July 1916) Louis Barron was the son of Hyman A. and Esther Barron, of 38 South Circular Rd., Portobello, Dublin.
He was attached 2nd/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment when he was killed in action age 27. Louis is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
He was a Solicitor and is also remembered at the Clontarf Cricket and Football Clubs
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Pte. Ernest Daniel Tomkins 2/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.29th Jan 1918) Ernest Tompkins served with the Somerset Light Infantry, he transferred to the 2/6th Warwicks and was killed on the 29th of January 1918. He is buried in Le Cateau Cemetery.
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