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6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade? There are:5229 items tagged 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 6th Battalion, Rifle Brigade during the Great War 1914-1918. Bruce Oliver. 2Lt. (d.9th June 1918) Buxton Jocelyn Murray Victor. 2nd Lt. (d.1st Jul 1916) Cole Johnny. Pte. (d.15th April 1915) Evans John Alexander. Rflmn. (d.15th Sep1916) Goodey MC George. CSM (d.15th Sep 1916) King James William. L/Cpl. Taylor Joseph Alfred . Rfn. 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John Alexander Evans 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade (d.15th Sep1916) Alex Evans was born on 3rd October 1896, a twin and one of 12 children. On 5th May 1915 he enlisted for the Rifle Brigade at St Paul's church yard and was initially with 6th battalion. He was shipped to France on October 7th 1915 with the 9th battalion Rifle Brigade. On 18th May 1916 he was wounded in action by a gunshot to the thigh and was in hospital in Rouen and transferred to Étaples on 14th June 1916, Two days later on 16th June he rejoined his battalion on the Somme. On 14th September the battalion marched overnight from Bécordel-Bécourt to Delville Wood in readiness for the commencement of the battle of Flers-Coucelette. The battalion war diary for 16th September is sadly thin with no details but the 9th battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps diary was well kept by their officer. The extracts from the KRRC diary tells the story and fate of Alex's battalion, the 9th battalion Rifle Brigade, who led the attack on Gird Trench and Bulls Road during the first day of the battle of Flers-Courcelette (15th-22nd September 1916) on the Somme, France. The KRRC were to the rear of the Rifle Brigade. Extracts: 6.20am. Btn moved from Montauban Alley to York Alley behind 9th btn RB. 8am. The 9th btn RB appeared to be bearing away too far to their right and were only in front of the right half of A company. 8.15am. Btn passed through Switch Trench without stopping. Machine gun fire from Lesboeufs area passing over their heads (Lesboeufs being the village to their right on Bulls Road being attacked by the Guards division - the 9th btn RB will have gone through just before them.) 8.30am -8.45am. The btn continued to advance without stopping and passed through Gap Trench on the heels of 9th btn RB still bearing off to their right. 9am. Two German field guns firing towards Flers (the village to their left on Bulls Road) from a position on Sunken Road near N.32.c.5.2. Meanwhile 9th btn RB had stopped advancing and had formed a line more or less parallel with Gird Trench, their left being N.32.c.9.0. About 9.30am. I asked Capt Merewether, then commanding 9th btn RB, what were his intentions. He told me 9th Btn RB intended to attack Gird Trench at the appointed time according to the programme. Seeing as his battalion were very weak I told him that the 9th btn KRRC would advance in close support of the 9th btn RB. 9.30am. The battalion was organised in two lines behind the 9th btn RB ready to advance behind them. Btn HQ established at T.2.c.3.7 from where a good view of the front could be obtained. 9.30am – 11.20am. Our (artillery) guns did not appear to be shelling Gird Trench (meaning the German machine guns and snipers in the trench were not impeded at all). Although no friendly shelling on Gird Trench the 9th btn RB tried to advance on this trench but as soon as they got on the rising ground in front of them a hostile machine gun situated at about N.32.d.9.2 prevented them advancing. All their remaining officers (approx 16 including Capt. Merewether) were killed bar one junior officer and 315 other ranks, (including Alex), and their attack failed. Seeing this I assumed command of the remainder of the 9th btn RB. The officer of the KRRC decided it was too dangerous to continue at that time but their objectives were met later that day. Also in the diary was a reference to the tanks, "A new engine of war, a petrol- driven armoured car, termed the tank was used for the first time. Four of these machines were allotted to the division during these operations and are considered to have done splendid work." The tank. D5 Dolphin was in the area with Alex's battalion providing support. Dolphin managed to cover more ground that day than any other tank (more than 4000 yards). Alex was buried initially on the battlefield at 57c.T.2.b.35.25 before eventually being move to Combles Communal Cemetery Extension about 3 miles away. He was 19 years old. His twin brother Charlie survived the war and lived until the age of 75. Holly Kendrick Add to this record.   Rfn. Joseph Alfred Taylor 3rd Btn. Rifle Brigade Joseph Alfred Taylor Rifleman was my maternal grandfather. I have been given his pay book, pow card and section d reserve discharge papers from my Auntie. My Mum also had his photo. He was born in 1895 and lived in Clerkenwell, Islington. He was married to Hanna Simpson. They lived in Rawstone Street, Clerkenwell and later moved to Sadlers Street (now demolished ) but off Lloyds Row ( near the famous Sadlers Wells Theatre). The first entry on his pay book is July 1916,(in the field) which suggests to me the Somme Offensive. On 28/7/1917 he was captured wounded (gassed) and taken to Limburg POW camp. He survived the war and went on to serve in section D reserves. He suffered ill health as a result of the gassing and died in 1931 (gastric ulcers) when my mum was just 8 years old. Joseph was reported as captured on 28th July 1917 around the opening of the 3rd Battles of Ypres. This coincided with the early uses of Mustard Gas by the Germans. Steve Stone Add to this record.   2Lt. Oliver Bruce 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade (d.9th June 1918) Oliver Bruce (1896 - 1918) is my 1st cousin 2x removed. I am researching my family history and came across these details of his military career in which he was a casualty in France on the 9th of June 1918 He served with 7th Black Watch as a Private and was commissioned into the 6th Rifle Brigade as Second Lieutenant and transferred to 2nd Rifle Brigade. Helen Miller Add to this record.   Pte. Johnny Cole 6th Btn. Rifle Brigade (d.15th April 1915) Johnny Cole was a Prisoner of War in Gustrow (prisoner 1315) he died on 15th of April 1915. He had sent a letter to his sister Ellen on 30th of March 1915 asking for bread and dripping to be sent to him but he died before it reached him. Hilary McGrath Add to this record.   2nd Lt. Jocelyn Murray Victor Buxton 6th Btn. Rifle Brigade (d.1st Jul 1916) Jocelyn Buxton served with the 6th Btn Rifle Brigade attd 25th Coy Machine Gun Corps. He was the son of the late Sir T. F. Victor Buxton, 4th Bart. and Lady Buxton, of Warlies, Waltham Abbey, Essex. He was educated at Broadstairs and Marlborough and gained a History Exhibition at Trinity College, Cambridge. Eric Henderson Add to this record.   L/Cpl. James William King 2/10th Btn. London Regiment My Grandfather James William King enlisted in March 1918 and was initially posted to the 6th Btn. Rifle Brigade. He arrived in France in June 1918 and transferred to the 2/10th (Hackney) Battalion, London Regiment in the field in August 1918. Fought with them as a Lewis gunner through til the Armistice when he then transferred to the 19th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Brigade from December 1918 til March 1920. He survived both the war and a bout of Spanish Flu. He retired to Bournemouth, Dorset in 1965 and died there in 1987. Faris Siwadi Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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