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15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
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Pte. Stanley Jennings 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.3rd May 1917) Stanley Jennings was killed during the Battle of Arras.
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Pte. George Robson 1/5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.22nd May 1915) George Robson was my great uncle. He was in Sanctuary Wood, Fortuin Ypres, in May 1915 with the 1/5th Durham Light Infantry. Found from a war dairy of an eye witness, Rodger Stamp, George was hit in the neck by rifle fire and died the following day. Roger Stamp was one of the burial party, but George has no known grave.
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Pte. Joseph William Wright 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.1st Jul 1916) Joseph Wright was my great great grandfather.
My family knew for many years that Joseph had died in the great war but apart from that we did not know anything more. That was until the 10th of November 2018 when my mother was reading our local newspaper, the Sheffield Star, and we discovered a link to the War Graves Commission website.
We decided to try searching his name to find out of we could find out anything, such as if he had a grave or where he fought during the war. To our amazement we found a name which seemed to match to the very little info we knew about him.
It turned out that Joseph had died on the 1st of July 1916, the very first day of the battle of the Somme and that he was buried in the Gordon Dump Cemetery.
Sadly, he died leaving a wife and four small children.
I am very happy to have found him because now he is a real person to me instead of a vague idea from the past.
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2Lt. John William Arkless 17th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.30th December 1915) John Arkless served as a 2nd Lieutenant
with the 17th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
and attached to the 15th Battalion.
He was killed in action on the 30th December 1915 and is buried in Houplines Cemetery near Armentiers in France.
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Pte. William John Rothery 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.10th May 1916) My great grandfather, William Rothery, died of shrapnel wounds and fracture of the right tibia. He is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, the second largest CWGC cemetery in Belgium after Tyne Cot Cemetery.
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Pte Wilfred Raven 15th Btn Durham Light Infantry (d.16th Sept 1916) I have discovered that Wilfred Raven was my second great uncle. He left Leicestershire to join in the efforts of World War 1 by joining the Durham Light Infantry.
He died on the 16th of September 1916. He was just 19 years old. His memory lives on.
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L/Cpl Sidney Scurfield 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.25th August 1918) My Great Uncle Sidney Scurfield enlisted on the 14th of September 1914, he volunteered as conscription did not start until 1916. He was thrice wounded and died of wounds.
On 21st of August 1918 his battalion moved forward in preparation to take part in an offensive operation that is officially known as the Battle of Albert and is a phase of the Second Battle of the Somme, 1918. Sid was wounded in this battle somewhere near Beaucort on high ground south of Miraumont and died of wounds on 25th of August 1918 at 29 Clearing Station, just 21 years old and is buried at Bagneux British Cemetery
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Pte. Thomas Harrison 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.24th Aug 1918) Thomas Harrison was my great uncle, he was born in Sheffield 1899 and died in France 1918, he was just 19 years old.
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Sgt. James Shires 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.1st July 1916) James Shires served with B Coy. 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
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Pte. John W. Lawrenson 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.27th August 1918) John Lawrenson served with 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry. I found paperwork addressed to John Lawrenson's sister Mrs Greenwell, that he had died of wounds on 27th of August 1918 in the 29th Casualty Clearing Station.
There is also a letter from Sister Former that says "Dear Mrs Greenwell, In answer to your letter your brother was brought to us wounded in the buttock and extremely ill. We did all we could for him but he died soon after he came to us on 27th of August 1918 quite peacefully. Try(?) this is any comfort to you he suffered no pain, he was too ill to talk to us. He is buried in the British Cemetery in Grezaincourt, near Poullens. With much sympathy Sister Former(?)'.
There is also another letter from Rev. Hoff dated 15th of Novemeber 1918 that says "Dear Mrs Greenwell, Your letter reached me about three weeks ago as I had changed my address several times in the meanwhile. I have been so busy till now that I have been unable to answer it before now. I saw your brother 81605 J W Lawrenson immediately on his admission to 29 CCS. I heard his confession and gave him the last sacraments. He was --- to God's will when I told him that he was in danger of death and was in the last dispositions. I saw him once again before he died and I am glad to say he was in no pain. You make take comfort in thoughts that he died fighting in a just cause and that his reward will be --- to his sacrifice. I pray that god may --- you and his mother that consolation in your sorrow which only he can --- Yours sincerely, J G Hoff C7"
There's also a small slip from Buckingham Palace stating there's a small memorial sent, this was probably the death penny I am yet to have come across this.
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Pte. Robert Ball 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.3rd Jul 1916 ) Robert Ball was newly married in 1915 to his wife Isabella Slater when he enlisted.
Their son Robert Henry Ball was born 22nd of November 1915, his father died in France of wounds when he was 7 months old, Robert never got to see his son.
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Pte. Fred Hardy 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.15th August 1918) Great niece and Great nephew are visiting Fred Hardy's grave on 100th anniversary of his death.
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Pte. Samuel Wicks Waters 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.23rd October 1918) Samuel Waters was killed in action on 23rd of October 1918
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Pte. George Lancelot Holliday 15th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (d.7th Oct 1918) George Holliday served with 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.
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Pte. John Hutchinson Findley 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.18th October 1915) John Findley enlisted on 21st of September 1914. He was sent to Halton Park, Aylesbury for training and then went to France on 11th of September 1915. He was wounded at Loos on 26th of September 1915. John was killed in action at Loos. He was 40 years old and left a widow Harriet (nee Sharp) and six children.
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Cpl. George William Furnevel 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.16th Apr 1918) Willie Furnevel served with 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry.
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L/Cpl. John Robert Swinbank 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.1st Jul 1916) John Swinbank served with the 15th Durham Light Infantry.
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L/Cpl. Thomas Laing 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.1st July 1916) Tom Laing was my Great Grandfather.
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Pte. John Pattison Kinnard 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.23rd March 1918) John Kinnard is remembered at the Pozieres Memorial, France.
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Pte. Henderson Dent 15th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.27th Jan 1916) Henderson Dent aged 33 years, a widower survived by one step son, a son and a daughter, died of wounds at 12:05am on 27th of January 1916. His right arm was amputated.
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