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2/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire 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 2/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment? There are:5234 items tagged 2/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire 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 2/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Casey Arthur Harry Roland. Pte. (d.3rd September 1917) Downard Charles Henry. Sgt. (d.16th Aug 1916) Hodgkinson Alfred J.. Pte. Latham Alfred John. L/Cpl. Reid Jeremiah. Pte. (d.28 Mar 1918) 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 2/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire 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? The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 19th Nov 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. 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Royal Warwickshire Regiment Alfred Latham was captured at Cambrai on the 5th of December 1917 and was transferred to Schneidemuhi P.O.W. camp in North East Germany which now part of Poland and has reverted to its Polish name of Pila. John Beasant Add to this record.   Pte. Arthur Harry Roland Casey 2nd/8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.3rd September 1917) Arthur Harry Roland Casey was my granddad's cousin and he was the son of Arthur Harry Roland Casey and Annie Elizabeth Casey of 132 Anthony Road, Saltley, Birmingham. He died on 3rd September 1917 in France, aged 23. His brother Albert Edward Casey also died three years earlier in 1914 in France, aged 21. Jayne Casey Add to this record.   Sgt. Charles Henry Downard 2/8 Battalion Royal Warwickshire (d.16th Aug 1916) Charles Henry Downard, and his comrades of the 61th Division, were veterans of the Battle of Fromelles. Charles Henry Downard, born in 1888 in Brighton, Sussex, moved to Birmingham in 1893 and became a tram driver there in 1911. He married at age 26 Nellie Bracebridge, who gave birth to Gwendoline on 19th February 1915. She died aged 90 in 2005 and never saw her father. Charles was enlisted as a sergeant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and because of varicose veins was not required for front line duty. However, he became so depressed by the numbers of men he trained were being killed, he volunteered for France. His unit, assigned to the 61th British Division, landed in France in May 1916. After a short training in trench warfare, the division was selected to participate in the Battle of Fromelles, 19 July 1916. On 9th August 1916, Charles left the billets at Riez bailleul for a ten-day tour in the trences. (In a letter home he complains that they are asking too much of the men). On the 16th August around 6.00 pm, Charles and his comrades were ordered to engage the right flank of the German Army at Fauquissart. Wounded by a mortar bomb that appears to have disembowelled him, he was evacuated to a military hospital where he died after two days. We have letters from Medical Officer and Nurse to his wife Nellie confirm that he survived 2 days after his official date of death. Charles is buried in the British military cemetery at Merville In the 1930s, the British survivors, traumatized by these early battles, placed on the wall of the town hall in Laventie a plaque in memory of their comrades, such as Charles Downard, killed in battle nearby. This is a major place for the commemoration of the British victims of the battle. Red poppies are regularly hooked upon it. This year a new place will commemorate some of the victims of the Battle at Fromelles, where now lie some 250 bodies of Australian and British soldiers exhumed from mass graves dug by the Germans after the battle. Greg Turton Add to this record.   Pte. Jeremiah Reid 2/8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.28 Mar 1918) Jeremiah Reid was my late Dad's older brother b. 27 February 1899 in Liverpool and baptised on 3 March 1899 @ St Augustine's RC Church, Gt Howard St., Liverpool. His parents (my grandparents) were Christopher & Christina Reid, both of whom were born in Liverpool. My grandfather Christopher was a merchant seaman. On 18 September 1915 my uncle Jeremiah enlisted into the Kings Liverpool Regt., in Liverpool and undertook training in nearby Seaforth Barracks. He would have been 16 years old at the time. His regimental number was 46128 and his description was as follows:- height - 5 ft 2 1/4 ins, weight - 104 lbs, 33" Chest - girth fully expanded, Range of expansion - 2 1/2", During his time in the army he was transferred to several regiments including Herefordshire Regt., Monmouth Regt., Base Depot and finally Royal Warwickshire Regt. At one point he acquired another army number, 228873 or 2128873 (I can't quite make it out from the damaged document) but on transfer to the Warwickshire's he became Pte Jeremiah Reid 315136. On 28th March 1918 my uncle was killed in action, in the field, aged just 19 years. Theatre of War is given as - France & Flanders. Sadly, we have no photographs of him. Like thousands of other parents, on receipt of this dreadful news my grandparents were devastated. My family have been researching our family history for about 30 years now and, thanks to a cousin who discovered a bag containing old documents in his deceased mother's loft some years ago, we have been able to piece together a short story to our uncle Jeremiah. On finding his details on CWGC website my sister and I travelled over to France to 'claim the grave' in our late Dad's memory and I am now working on our family history book in which I'm incorporating every letter, document and detail I can find. I have photographs of the grave which is situated in Roye New British Cemetery, France. Pte Jeremiah Reid 325136 will always remain in our thoughts and in our writings for future generations. Maureen Reid Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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