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Z Special Company, Royal Engineers
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Want to know more about the Royal Engineers? There are:8880 items tagged Royal Engineers available in our Library
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Those known to have served withZ Special Company, Royal Engineers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Evans Stanley Frank. Spr. (d.20th April 1917)
- Hancock Reginald William. Spr. (d.25th June 1918)
- Oakes Samuel. 2nd Lt. (d.6th May 1917)
- Whitehand H. J.. Pnr. (d.6th May 1917)
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257805 Spr. Stanley Frank Evans Z Special Coy Royal Engineers (d.20th April 1917) Stanley Evans served with the Royal Engineers Z Special Company as a skilled carpenter in WW1. He died 20th of April 1917
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237780 Spr. Reginald William Hancock Z Special Coy. Royal Engineers (d.25th June 1918) Sapper Hancock served with Z Special Company, Royal Engineers, which handled chemical weapons. He died on 25th June 1918, aged 22, and is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
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237690 2nd Lt. Samuel Oakes Z Special Coy. Royal Engineers (d.6th May 1917) Samuel Oakes served with Z Company of the Royal Engineers, a specialist section dealing with chemical weapons. For a fuller picture of Z company activities on the night of 5th/6th May 1917, this page about L/Cpl Grey (also of "Z" Coy), which explains how Oakes's death, and the death of his comrades, came about.
Samuel was 21 when he was killed in action. He was buried, along comrades who also fell, at Beaulencourt British Cemetery, Ligny-Thilloy, France.
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