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The Wartime Memories Project - The Great War - Day by Day
6th February 1915On this day:
- 1st Battalion Royal Scots Belgium & France 1914 - 1915. 1st Battalion Royal Scots in Ypres, Belgium.
- 2nd Life Guards in trenches. 2nd Life Guards War Diary records: Off to trenches at 10 am till 12 and again at 10 pm and found a lot of sniping going on, infantry blazing at nothing as usual. Col Smith Bingham 3rd Dragoon Guards and Geoffrey Glyn Somerset Yeomanry arrived.
The snipers took the life of 2877 Trooper Langford Wild, 2nd Life Guards, who died at a Dressing Station in Ypres at around 7.30 in the evening of the 6th of February, after having been shot in the head while in trenches at Zillebeke. His death was reported in The Surrey Mirror on 19th of February:
"A Hull accountant, Trooper Langford Wild, 2nd Life Guards, has been killed at the front. In communicating the sad news the Rev. A. H. Boyd, Chaplain to the 3rd Cavalry Division, says that Wild was buried with other British soldiers in the small burial ground made on the ramparts of Ypres."
2nd Life Guards War Diary
- Scarlet Fever case at Armentières The Scarlet Fever Case admitted on 31st ? Now convalescing and transferred to Infectious Diseases Hospital, Bailleul. No further extensions.
War Diary 19th Field Ambulance RAMC
- In Action
- 2nd Queens to trenches
- Quiet day
- Attack Made
- In the Line
- In Action
- Working Party
- Quiet
- Drill
- Quiet
- Training
- Targets Selected
- Promotion
- Three Germans Shot
- Quiet day
- In the Trenches
- Instruction
- Illness
- Quiet
- Instruction
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