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237221 Cpl. Leslie Clarence Hills 57th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Leslie Hills signed his Attestation on the 5th of September 1916, he was sent to France on the 13th of February 1917. He was wounded on the 17th of October 1917, discharged as unfit on the 14th of August 1918.
He appears to have served with 19th (Western) Division, 57th Brigade before being moved to the 14th Machine Gun Battalion in February 1918.
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230639 Pte. Harold Thomas Richmond 57th Btn. Machine Gun Corps Tom Richmond served with the 57th and 33th Battalions, Machine Gun Corps
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218937 Pte. Alfred Green 57th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.13th Dec 1917) My great grandfather, Alfred Green, was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1886. He married Florrie White at age 19 and had two children, Alfred and Madge. The latter one, Madge, being my grand-mother. She was born in 1910. Her last memory of her father was when watching him putting on his puttees before leaving and being drafted to the Western front.
The family had moved from Boston, Lincolnshire, to Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, during the first stages of the war. At that time my great grand-father was a railway employee.
He was enlisted in 1916 in Carrington and probably received training in Grantham Camp in machine gun drills. He was then drafted to France.
He fought at the Battle of Messines. He survived the Belgium battles and was eventually withdrawn with the whole company from this part of the front in December 1917 and sent to France in the Cambrai area to relieve the 18th Machine Gun Company. He died of his wounds on the 13/12/1917 around Etricourt, Manancourt probably in a Casualty Clearing Station in Ytres and is buried at the Rocquigny-Equancourt War Cemetery. He was 28.
May his soul rest in peace.
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212983 Pte. Charles Lyall Gardner 57th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.30th Sep 1918) Charles Gardner is named on our war memorial and we are researching biographies of these men, he appears on the second part of a list of men found in the church which begins in December 1915.
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207175 Qtr.Mstr.Sgt. Harry Vernon Cockbill 10th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.10th April 1918)  My Mum was adopted in 1933 by the Budgen family in Croydon, Surrey. We found her registry of birth as Margaret May Cockbill and with my mum's permission (she said we could look after her passing on as she was happy with her adopted family and had no wishes to look for her birth family). We found that her Grandfather Harry Vernon Cockbill died on April 10th 1918 from wounds. He's buried in Rue-Pettillion Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, Pas de Calais, France. He was the son of Edwin and Mary Anne Cockbill of Oxford. Husband of Rosa Loiusa Cockbill of Clapham, London. He also served in Egypt 1895 and in India 1908. He was in the 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment which joined the 57th Brigade. He was in the German Offensive in Flanders from the 9th April 1918.He had 5 children Mary, Harry Reginald 1907, Alice Dorothy 1905, Rosa Helen and Rose Ellen 1904(twins) all were born in India. We won't ever forget him even though we never knew him.
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