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154th Company, Machine Gun Corps
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Those known to have served with154th Company, Machine Gun Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. - Findlay David. L/Cpl. (d.18th July 1918)
- Newman Frederick. Pte. (d.22nd Nov 1917)
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253407 Pte. Frederick Newman 154th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (d.22nd Nov 1917) Frederick Newman was my great Uncle. His story was told by my grandmother and mother. He enlisted in 1916 and was invalided out following an explosion which left him deaf. He returned to Portsmouth and was fit and able other than being deaf. Whilst walking down the street he was given a white feather by a woman, a complete stranger who obviously didn`t know he was deaf and invalided out of the army. He felt so bad he re-enlisted, at that time the army were desperate for troops and he was sent straight to France. He didn`t stand a chance and three weeks later he as killed, a direct mortar hit on his position. He was blown to bits, so no grave. He is listed on the Cambrai Memorial at Louveral in France.
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History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 F.W. Bewsher
The Highland Division was one of the pre-war Territorial divisions. Its HQ was in Perth with brigade HQs in Aberdeen, Inverness and Stirling. On mobilization the division moved down to its war station in Bedford where it remained, carrying out training till embarking for France in May 1915. During this period six of its battalions were sent to France, three in November 1914 and three in the following March, replaced by two Highland battalions and a brigade of four Lancashire battalions; it is not clear whether the latter were required to wear kilts. They were transferred to the 55th (West Lancashire) Division when that division reformed in France in January 1916 and were replaced, appropriately, by Scottish battalions. It was in May 1915, just as the division arrived in France, that it was designated 51st and the brigades 152nd, 153rd and 154th; by the end of the war the 51st (Highland) Division had become one of the best known divisions in the BEF.
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