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5th Divisional Signals Company, Royal Engineers 21st of August 1913 Lecture 9th of August 1914 At Southampton 13th of August 1914 Landing in France 13th of August 1914   Landing in France 14th of August 1914 Advance Party Leave 15th of August 1914  Arriving Busigny 16th of August 1914 Billets Organised 22nd of August 1914  On the March 23rd of August 1914 Holding the Line 23rd Aug 1914 Into Position 26th of August 1914  Holding Position 27th of August 1914 Retirement in the Dark 28th of August 1914 An Exhausting March 29th of August 1914 Sleeping in the Streets 31st of August 1914  Pursued by Germans 1st of September 1914 A Delayed March 2nd of September 1914 An Early March 3rd of September 1914 Across the Marne 4th of September 1914 An Easier March 5th of September 1914 March Finished 6th of September 1914 Army Advances 7th of September 1914  Another March 8th of September 1914 An Early March 9th of September 1914 On the Move 10th of September 1914 Marching 11th of September 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September 1918  Attack Sucessful   2nd of September 1918 Strongly Defended 3rd of September 1918  Enemy Withdraws   4th of September 1918 Divisional Relief 5th of September 1918 Rest and Training 13th of September 1918 On the Move   17th of September 1918 Back Areas Bombed   18th of September 1918 Attack Commences   19th of September 1918 Enemy Guns Quiet   20th of September 1918  Quiet Time   22nd of September 1918 Field Guns Active   13th of November 1918 Resting 10th of January 1919  Locations 24th of January 1919 5th Signals Rejoining If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about the Royal Engineers? There are:8880 items tagged Royal Engineers 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 5th Divisional Signals Company, Royal Engineers during the Great War 1914-1918. Atkins John Charles. 2nd Cpl. Atkins John Charles. Cpl Martin MM. Guy Stanislaus . A/2nd.Cpl. (d.25th August 1918) Nettleship Thomas. Spr. 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 5th Divisional Signals Company, Royal Engineers 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. 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 245850 A/2nd.Cpl. Guy Stanislaus Martin MM 5th Dvn. Sig. Coy. Royal Engineers (d.25th August 1918) Acting Second Corporal Guy Stanislaus Martin, born 28th June 1895 in Singapore, son of William & Sarah Elizabeth Martin, Maydencroft, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, educated at Bedford Modern School 1908–1912, living in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Served with the 5th Division Signal Company, Royal Engineers (service no.25002). He was awarded the Military Medal. He was killed in action on 25th August 1918 in Pas de Calais, France and is buried in Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France. He is remembered on the Singapore Cenotaph and both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com Caroline Hunt Add to this record. 213744 Cpl John Charles Atkins 5th Divisional Signals Company Royal Engineers My grandfather, 2nd Corporal Jack Atkins, was a Londoner, a career soldier and an "Old Contemptible"; he was born in the City of London although his family subsequently moved to Lambeth. He served for seven years in the infantry before transferring to 5 Signals Company in 1913. The Company provided communications for 5 Divisional HQ and for each of the three infantry brigades of the division. In August 1914 the Division left Carlow in Ireland to join the BEF in France, and Jack experienced the rigours of the Retreat from Mons. Next came the hard-fought Battle of Le Cateau on 26th August, the engagement which famously saved the BEF and fatally slowed the German advance into France. Jack is believed to have been part of the HQ Section Signallers based at the village of Reumont, and during the morning was sent to lay a cable between 5 Div HQ and the 19th Brigade to their north. The unit War Diary says "Sgt Holmes and his cable det. were detailed to lay a cable line to the 19th Brigade, but were evidently captured by the Germans for his party (men, horses and wagon) has not been heard of since. The cable line was last seen running through a line of German infantry." He spent the rest of the war as a POW in Germany and then, in 1918, Holland to which neutral country he was repatriated as suffering from "barbed-wire fever". On his return to Britain at the end of the war he learned that two of his three younger brothers had been killed in May 1915 (coincidentally both on the same day - 26th - although one, Herbert, was at Gallipoli with 2nd Royal Fusiliers and the other, William, in France with 1/23rd London Regiment). Jack reenlisted and served with the Royal Signals as it became until the end of his enlistment in 1927 by which time he was a Quartermaster Sergeant. He settled in Brighton with his wife and young family, returning briefly to the Colours in the next war as a Company Sergeant Major. A quiet man, he never spoke of his brothers or of the Great War except to say that they'd been kept very hungry in captivity. He died in Brighton in 1955, just two weeks after the death of his wife. Paul Atkins Add to this record. 212807 2nd Cpl. John Charles Atkins 5th Divisional Signals Company Royal Engineers A Londoner, my grandfather, John Charles Atkins joined the South Lancashire Regiment in 1906, transferring to the Royal Engineers in 1913. He was a member of 5th Divisional Signals Company, and went to France with the Division in August 1914 - part of the famous "Contemptible Little Army" of the BEF. After the retreat from Mons, he took part in the Battle of Le Cateau on 26th August where he was taken prisoner in the fierce fighting which stemmed the German advance. His only mention of the btn.'s later years was to say he was captured by Uhlans, the German lancers. Two of his younger brothers, William and Herbert, were killed in May 1915; his youngest brother Percy joined the Royal Engineers and survived the war. John also survived the war but was a POW until repatriation in 1918, when he returned to the Royal Engineers and later the Royal Corps of Signals. At the end of his period of service in 1927 he settled in Brighton, Sussex, having reached the rank of Quartermaster Sergeant. In 1939 he was recalled to the colours to train mobilised troops for the Second World war, being discharged on completion of this role in 1940 as a Company Sergeant Major. Three of his sons fought in this war, one in each of the Services. Pat Atkins Add to this record. Recomended Reading. 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