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2/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
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Those known to have served with2/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters during the Great War 1914-1918. - Adams Percy Ernest. Cpt. (d.4th April 1917)
- Allen Claude. Sgt.
- Barber Charles. Pte. (d.4th April 1917)
- Ell Leonard. Pte. (d.28th Sep 1917)
- Guinan Michael Joseph . Pte. (d.4th May 1917)
- Hemsley John W.. Sgt. (d.4th April 1917)
- Hemsley John William. Sgt. (d.4th April 1917)
- Parrott Hector Lionel. Pte.
- Sargeant Joseph Arthur. Cpl.
- Whittaker MM & Bar. William Rostron. Pte.
- Wiggins Frederick George. Pte. (d.15th Apr 1918)
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Pte. William Rostron Whittaker MM & Bar. 2/5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters William Whittaker originally enlisted into 12th (Pioneer) Battalion in December 1914, and was later transferred to the 2/5th Battalion after being hospitalised.
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Pte. Leonard Ell 2nd/5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (d.28th Sep 1917) Leonard Ell was baptized at Coventry St. Peter, Warwickshire in Dec 1898, the son of Albert George Ell and Minnie Jane Dadley.
He had siblings Bert, Edith Alice, Elizabeth Frances and Florence Mary.
He enlisted in 1916 with the Bedford Regiment and later transferred to the Sherwood Foresters.
He died of wounds on 28th of September 1917 and is buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Vleteren in Belgium.
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Pte. Charles Barber 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (d.4th April 1917) Charles Barber lost his life on the 4th of April 1917 in an attack by the 2/5th Sherwoods on the village of Le Verguier at 0700. The plan was to advance then to take Grand Priel Wood. A Letter was recieved from his company commander to say Barber was one of his best and most conscientious soldiers whose loss cannot easily be replaced.
He is remembered at Vadecourt British Military Cemetery, in France.
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Cpl. Joseph Arthur Sargeant 5th Btn. Notts & Derby Regiment Joe Sargeant was conscripted into the 2nd/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. He later marked up a copy of The Green Triangle (a history of the 2/5th during WW1) by W. G. Hall. From which it is seen that he took part in fighting against the Irish Rebellion of Easter 1916, in B company stationed at Island Bridge garrison in Dublin. At one point his best ever billet was in the Guinness brewery. He was detailed to command an escort party taking prisoners to Wandsworth Jail in London.
On the 20th of July 1916 Joe left the Battalion, then billeted on the Curragh, to join the 21st Battalion at Walton-on-the-Naze. He went to France with them. Then he joined the 15th Battalion in France during September 1917.
Joe was home to marry Lillian Hancox on 11th of January 11th, wearing a blue hospital uniform. It is not known where he was injured, shrapnel in his legs and trench feet, but he spoke of being on the Somme, at Vimy-Ridge and at Passchendaele. Then having been stuck in a shell hole for three days, with only a chocolate bar as iron rations. A Mr. Clifton of Long Eaton is said to have pulled him out, across duck boards, by attaching him to his belt.
Back to the Green Triangle; Joined the 5th Battalion 28th September [1918], C Company . The remnants of the 1/5th and 2/5th had moved up as an integral part of the 5th, The Robin Hood Rifles, with whom Joe saw it through to the end; after which he was put in charge of a Chinese working party.
Joe served again for WW2 in The Home Guard.
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Pte. Michael Joseph Guinan 2nd/5th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) (d.4th May 1917) Michael Guinan was my great uncle. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.
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Pte. Frederick George Wiggins 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (d.15th Apr 1918) Frederick Wiggins was from Lime Tree Hill, Burford, Oxford, he was killed on the 15th of April 1918,whilst serving with the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters. I'm researching my family tree and would like to know more.
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