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102nd Infantry Brigade 26th Sep 1915 On the Move 22nd Oct 1915 Inspection 12th Dec 1915 Orders Received 20th Dec 1915 Orders 8th Jan 1916 On the Move 9th Jan 1916 On the Move 9th Jan 1916 On the Move 10th Jan 1916 On the Move 12th Jan 1916 Locations 15th Jan 1916 On the Move  By the 15th of January 1916 all units of 34th Division had arrive in France and concentrated at La Crosse, east of St Omer. 16th Jan 1916 Organisation 20th Jan 1916 Inspection 21st Jan 1916 Instruction 21st Jan 1916 Orders 21st Jan 1916 Instruction   22nd Jan 1916 Lectures 22nd Jan 1916 Orders Issued 23rd Jan 1916 On the Move 23rd Jan 1916 In Reserve 24th Jan 1916 Inspection 25th Jan 1916 Instruction   26th Jan 1916 On Alert 27th Jan 1916 Emergeny Scheme 28th Jan 1916 Emergeny Scheme 19th Feb 1916 Move   29th Mar 1916 Stores   1st Jul 1916 34th Division in Action   1st Jul 1916 In Action   5th July 1916 Orders 6th July 1916 Moves 7th July 1916 Moves 8th July 1916 Moves 9th July 1916 Orders 10th July 1916 On the 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Support 30th Jul 1918 Under Shellfire 31st Jul 1918 Reliefs 1st Aug 1918 Attack Made 2nd Aug 1918 Salvage and Burials 12 Aug 1918 Orders to Move 30 Aug 1918 Reliefs 30 Aug 1918 Patrols Push Forward   1st Sep 1918 Reliefs 1st Sep 1918 Orders   2nd Sep 1918 Line Held 2nd Sep 1918 Attack Made 3rd Sep 1918 Patrols Push Forward   3rd Sep 1918 Line Held 4th Sep 1918 Attack Made 5th Sep 1918 Reliefs 6th Sep 1918 Quiet If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 102nd Infantry Brigade? There are:216 items tagged 102nd Infantry 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 102nd Infantry Brigade during the Great War 1914-1918. Hopps Thomas. Pte. 20th (1st Tyneside Scottish) Btn. (d.1st Jul 1916) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 262032 Pte. Thomas Hopps 20th (1st Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.1st Jul 1916) Before the war, Thomas Hopps (1891-1916) worked at Westerton Colliery. At age 27, just before the war broke out, he married Florence Robinson. He joined up with a Pals' Battalion in 1915 - the 20th Northumberland Fusiliers (1st Tyneside Scottish). Four of these battalions made up the 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade. While an application for kilt or trews was rejected, they were granted pipe bands and use of the Glengarry cap, with a small patch of tartan to be added behind the fusilier's badge after the soldier's first action. The CSM joked that if enough of them got killed the survivors could club together to make a kilt from the remaining patches. At Christmas 1915, they were granted their first home leave but reported back to barracks a day late. Although it looks like this was a genuine administrative error, it was decided to make an example of them anyway and they were placed in the first wave of the Battle of the Somme on the 1st July 1916. After two huge mines were exploded in the sector, they were sent over the top at 7.30am to attack the fortified village of La Boiselle, across 3km of open ground in the face of withering German machine gun fire. By 8 o'clock there were just a handful of survivors. The Tyneside Scottish suffered the worst casualties of any brigade that day. The 1st Battalion (about 800 men) lost 584 men, the 3rd lost 537 men while the 4th Battalion lost 629. All four battalion commanders were killed. In total, the British lost 5,000 at Ovillers; the Germans only 280. As they went 'over the top' each company was played over by their pipers, and they played on as they advanced into a deadly crossfire from machine guns. In a matter of about 10 minutes some 80 per cent of the leading battalions had become casualties, including all four Tyneside Scottish Battalion commanders and 15 out of the 16 company commanders. Many senior NCOs had also been killed or wounded. One old soldier remarked, 'It took twelve months to build our battalion but just twelve minutes to destroy it'. The body of Thomas Hopps was found at Trench Map reference 57d X14, to the north of La Boiselle. He was exhumed from a temporary grave with a wooden cross that he shared with an unknown corporal of the Middlesex Regiment and reburied at Ovillers Military Cemetery XIII. F. 4. He is also commemorated on a plaque ('Pvte T. Hopps N.F.') in Whitworth Church, in the grounds of Whitworth Hall. His name appears on the Somme Roll of Honour. John Stubbs Add to this record.

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