D Special Company, Royal Engineers

16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme

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13th June 1916 Training

9th Mar 1917 Reorganisation

29th May 1917 Orders

24th of June 1917 A Raid

28th of June 1917 Successful Operation

12th of July 1917 Back Areas Shelled

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Cpl. Alston Kyle D Special Coy. Royal Engineers (d.28th Jun 1916)

Educated Strathaven Academy and Glasgow Technical Collage gaining first class certificate in chemistry, Alston Kyle served at the Battle of Loos. After serving 11 months he was expecting to be home on leave when the news was broken to his family that he had died from gas poisoning. Where or when this happened we don't know but his date of death is recorded as 28th of June 1916.

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L/Cpl. Christopher Grieves 24th (Tyneside Irish) Btn. B Coy, 5 plt. Northumberlad Fusiliers

Dad served in WW1 initially in the 1st Tyneside Irish, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was wounded in action on the Somme, France on 1st of July 1916.
It is likely that Dad was wounded more than once because I know he had been wounded in the leg, had shrapnel in his neck and had lost a finger. He told a story about being wounded, and said that on one occasion he was separated from his battalion and took shelter in a shell hole in `no-mans land'. He took three days to crawl to the safety of a first aid station and during this time he suffered severe frostbite to the arm with the lost finger. This obviously happened in winter, so it was a different occasion to him being wounded during the summer offensive in 1916 at La Boisselle.
In 1916-17 he was with the 3rd Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
At the end of the war, Dad was a Second Corporal in the Royal Engineers Special Brigade P Company, 4th Battalion 74th Section. He was involved with gas cylinders and gas warfare.
Tom Grieves

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