2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment

28th May 1916 On the Move

10th Jun 1916 In the Trenches

27th Jun 1916 Raid  Report on German Raid 27.6.16
Reported by Capt. W.D. Lowe Adjt. 18 DLI. 1.8.16
Approximate disposition of Coys. A Co. S 5/2, S 5/4, B Co. S 5/5, S 5/6, C Co. M 35/1, M 35/2, D Co. On support lines. 18th West Yorks on right flank, 2/5th Gloucesters on left.
Bombardment began 9.30pm. Communication between HQ & forward line broke down at one. All reports came through D Co. The bombardment appeared chiefly to be on the front of B Co. & the support line in rear of B. Field Guns & Mortars chiefly used on front line & 5.9 on support line.
2225. Enemy was reported in front line at M.35/1, 2 which was being raided. They were ejected in 5 minutes.
At 2245. 18th West Yorks reported enemy in his line Hun St, Oxford St,that he was counter attacking at 11.15pm, I undertook to cooperate with my right Co.
2300. Battalion Bomb store was on fire at ---- Hall, this was put out, re-fired & again extinguished.
28th Jun 0130. Report from B Co. 18th DLI stating Germans had entered his left but were immediately ejected & that C Co. trenches had also been entered. He thought no prisoners had been taken. A dugout between B & C Coys was ---- & prevented B Co. after charging its trenches from coming to assistance of C Co. All communication trenches badly blown in & that right & left flanks of support line are badly damaged.
0400. C Co. reported bays blown in & number of men buried, that the enemy came over fifty strong but owing to action of Lewis Guns only about 6 entered & were quickly ejected, number of wounded cannot be estimated, they were considerable.
A Co. heavily shelled, parapet seriously damaged, on barrage lifting parapet was manned & Lewis Gun fire opened, enemy did not enter trenches.
Action taken. C Co. was reinforced by 1 platoon from Support Co. leaving 3 platoons in support lines.
A prisoner, apparently on telephone work was captured by D Co. in front of Church Redoubt.
Very few casualties in Support Line Redoubt, right & right centre of front line, heavy on left centre, & very heavy on left of front line.
The National Archives 18DLi War Diary WO95/2361/1

6th Jul 1916 On the March

27th Jul 1916 Reliefs

15th Aug 1916 Reliefs

19th Aug 1916 Trench Raids

24th Aug 1916 Accident

11th Sep 1916 Men Wounded

25th Sep 1916 Enemy Mine

19th Oct 1916 In the Trenches

2nd Mar 1917 Reliefs

2nd Apr 1917 In Action

6th Apr 1917 Operations

7th Apr 1917 Attack Made

8th Apr 1917 Attack Made

7th Jul 1917 Training & Sports

22nd Aug 1917 Attack Made

23rd Aug 1917 Reliefs

7th Sep 1917 Working Party & Training

18th Mar 1918 Reliefs Completed

21st Mar 1918 In Defence

24th Mar 1918 Holding the Line

25th Mar 1918 Enemy Attacks

28th Mar 1918 Move

2nd Nov 1918 Reliefs

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Pte. Alfred Darrington 2/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.22nd Nov 1917)

Alfred Darrington by kind permission of Roger Bygraves.

Alfred Darrington was born in Roxton, Bedfordshire to George and Hannah Darrington on 8 March 1897. He started at Roxton School on 23rd April 1900 and gained his Exemption Certificate on 18 October 1910. In the 1911 census he is working as a farm labourer and on 29th March 1912 he left Liverpool on the Virginian with his brothers George and Peter for Canada. They all returned on 31st October 1913 on hearing that land had been obtained by the Small Holding Society.
Alfred volunteered on 11th of September 1914 into the 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment and was promoted to Lance Corporal. He was sent out to France in 1915 and whilst overseas transferred to the 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment.
He died on the 22nd of November 1917 in France and is remembered on the Arras Memorial in France, and on Roxton War Memorial in School Lane, Roxton, Bedfordshire.
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Cpl. Sebert W. G. Humphris MM. 2nd/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.31st Mar 1918)

Sebert Humphris was my mother's only brother. He was killed on 31st of March, 1918 and is buried in a small British military cemetery in the French village of Holnon. He was killed whilst repairing telegraph wires in no-man's-land.
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