2/6th Battalion Territorial Force
14.09.1914 Formed at Chesterfield and then moved to Buxton.
03.02.1915 Moved to Luton as part of the 178th Brigade of the 59th Division and then moved to Dunstable and then Watford.
26.04.1916 Moved to Ireland stationed at Dublin and then Curragh.
12.01.197 Returned to England at Fovant, Salisbury Plain.
25.02.1917 Mobilised for war and landed at Boulogne and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1917
The pursuit of the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, The Battle of Polygon Wood, The capture of Bourlon Wood, The German counter attacks.
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Bailleul, The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge.
07.05.1918 Reduced to cadre and part of the Lines of Communication.
31.07.1918 Disbanded in France.
Regiment: Notts Derby Sherwood Foresters Regiment 2/6th Battalion
2 WRAY'S TERRACE, LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Area
Died on
21/03/1918
Aged
19
BORN SCUNTHORPE 1899. SON OF THOMAS PEAT & ANNIE ELIZA HOGG (1870-1911), OF 2 WRAY'S TERRACE, LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTER, ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITHTHE 2ND/6TH SHERWOOD FORESTERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/03/1918, AGED 19. HIS DEATH & ADDRESS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30/04/1918. H […]
9 CLAREMONT VILLAS, LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Area
Died on
02/12/1917
Aged
19
BORN HULL 1898.BROTHER HARRY ROBINSON LIVED ABOVE. 1918 VOTERS
Lance Corporal
51a, Queen Street, Hull, UK
Died on
24/04/1917
Aged
19
Born Beverley, 1898. Son of Thomas Watson Roden (1859-1921) and Edith Wardell, of 51a, Queen Street, Hull and 196 Norwood, Beverley (War pension addresses). Son of a House Painter. He had one brother and five sisters. He enlisted in Beverley. Served with the 2/6th Sherwood Foresters. Killed by a gas shell explosion, on 24/04/1917, aged […]
