Regiment: Notts Derby Sherwood Foresters Regiment 1/8th Battalion

1/8th Battalion Territorial Force
04.08.1914 Stationed at Newark as part of the Notts & Derby Brigade of the North Midland Division and then moved to Harpenden and then Braintree.
25.02.1915 Mobilised for war and landed in France.
12.05.1915 Formation became the 139th Brigade and the 46th Division which engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1915
The German liquid fire attack at Hooge, The attack at the Hohenzollern Redoubt.
1916
The diversionary attack at Gommecourt.
1917
Operations on the Ancre, Occupation of the Gommecourt defences, The attack on Rettemoy Graben, The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The attack on Lievin, The Battle of Hill 70.
1918
The Battle of the St Quentin canal, The Battle of the Beaurevoir Line, The Battle of Cambrai, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of Sambre.
11.11.1918 Ended the war at Cartignies S.W. of Avesnes, France.

Last Name
Address
Narrative
16 KENT TERRACE, KENT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
14/08/1918
       
Aged
21
BORN HULL 1897. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM & AMELIA (MILLIE) PECK, OF 17 ELIZABETH TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, WITH THE 1/8TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 14/08/1918, AGED 21. BURIED AT FOUQUIERES CHURCHYARD EXTENSION. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "ONE OF THE BEST".
29 , ABBEY STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
       
Died on
26/09/1917
       
Aged
19
BORN HULL 1898. SON OF WALTER SMITH (1851-1920) & EMMA JANE (DOWDY) SMITH, AT 29 ABBEY STREET, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 26/09/1917, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER WALTER. COMMEMORATED ON THE LOOS MEMORIAL - Loos-en-Gohelle, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Fra […]