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9th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps
9th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps was raised at Winchester on 21st of August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 42nd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division. They trained at Aldershot, moving to Petworth in November, returning to Aldershot in March 1915. They proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on the 20th of May 1915. They fought in the The Action of Hooge, being the first division to be attacked by flamethrowers. They were in action in The Second Attack on Bellewaarde. In 1916 they were on the Somme seeing action in The Battle of Delville Wood and The Battle of Flers-Courcelette. In 1917 they fought in The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The First and Third Battle of the Scarpe at Arras, The Battle of Langemark and The First and Second Battle of Passchendaele. On the 2nd of February 1918 they transferred to 43rd Brigade still with 14th (Light) Division. In 1918 they returned to the Somme and were in action during The Battle of St Quentin and The Battle of the Avre, suffering very heavy casualties with almost 6,000 men of the Division killed or injured. The Division was withdrawn from the front line and were engaged building a new defensive line to the rear. On the 27th of April, the 9th KRRC was reduced to a cadre and on the 16th of June they transferred to 34th Division, on the 27th they joined 39th Division. The 9th KRRC was disbanded on the 3rd of August 1918.
18th Feb 1915 Training
11th May 1915 Preparations
19th May 1915 Transport
20th May 1915 On the Move
3rd Jun 1915 Entrenching 
5th of June 1915 Quiet Time
6th of June 1915 An Explosion
7th of June 1915 Quiet Time
11th of June 1915 Heavy Rain
16th of June 1915 Attack Made
21st Jun 1915 Orders to Attack
22nd Jun 1915 In Action
22nd of June 1915 Attacks ordered
1st Aug 1915 Snipers Pose Threat
2nd Aug 1915 A terrible time.
2nd Aug 1915 Relieved from the Line
20th of August 1915 Orders Received
23rd September 1915 Order
23rd September 1915 Orders
25th Sep 1915 In Action
25th September 1915 In Action
28th September 1915 Relieved from Trench Duty
3rd October 1915 Orders
4th October 1915 New Orders Received
13th October 1915 Reliefs
2nd Mar 1916 Objective Captured
24th August 1916 Reliefs
26th Sep 1916 Reliefs Completed
11th of April 1917 Reliefs
12th of April 1917 Reliefs
12th of April 1917 Very Cold West Day
24th of April 1917 Orders
10th July 1917 Entraining At Candas
27th September 1917 Relief Table for O.O.133
13th September 1917 March Table
27th September 1917 Relief Table for O.O.133
21st Mar 1918 Enemy Attacks
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Those known to have served with9th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bennett Frederick George. Pte.
- Bolster C. Hawkes. Capt. (d.8th Dec 1914)
- Bowater Thomas. Rfn. (d.1st Sep 1916)
- Clayton Matthew. Rflmn. (d.22nd November 1915)
- Cobb John. L/Sgt. (d.24th August 1916)
- Coles George Edward. Rfn (d.25th Sept 1915)
- Cosford Joseph Henry. Rflmn. (d.21st March 1918)
- Cove John. Rflmn. (d.25th Sep 1915)
- Cowles Walter Edward. Sgt. (d.25th Sept 1915)
- Crabtree John. Rflmn. (d.18th August 1917)
- Didcock Reuben. CSM. (d.August 1916)
- Didcock Reuben. CSM. (d.24th Aug 1916)
- Evans William. Pte. (d.22nd Oct 1917)
- Evans William. Rfm. (d.22nd Oct 1917)
- Firth Benjamin. Rflmn. (d.17th March 1918)
- Flymm Maurice. Pte.
- Gillman Francis William. Pte (d.24th Aug 1916)
- Heywood Edwin. Pte. (d.9th April 1917)
- Hodge Geoffrey. Cpl. (d.21st March 1918)
- Jonas Solomon. Rflmn. (d.31st March 1918)
- Mersh Joseph. Pte (d.22nd Aug 1917)
- Nash William Frederick. Act. Sgt.
- Parfitt Ronald George. Pte. (d.1st Jul 1916)
- Plimmer John Charles. Pte. (d.8th June 1915)
- Prestidge Arthur. Rfmn. (d.15th Sep 1916)
- Prior Samuel William. Cpl. (d.15th Dec 1917)
- Scarlett Leonard Thomas. Pte (d.24th Aug 1916)
- Smith Thomas Nelson. Rflmn. (d.29th Jun 1916)
- Speer Henry John. L/Sgt. (d.22 Nov 1915)
- Thomas Joshua. Pte. (d.22nd March 1918)
- Turk William. Rfm. (d.24th Aug 1916)
- Vose MID. Francis Albert. Rfm.
- Ward Benjamin. Pte. (d.1st July 1916)
- Wheat James. (d.6th Nov 1918)
- Wheat William. Pte. (d.21st Mar 1918)
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Rflmn. John Cove 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.25th Sep 1915) John Cove served with the 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps and died on the 25th of September 1915.
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Pte Francis William Gillman 9th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.24th Aug 1916) Francis William Gillman is my 1st cousin twice removed.
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Pte. Frederick George Bennett 9th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Fred Bennett joined up as a boy soldier into the Training Reserve. At the time, he lived in an Industrial School in Bristol, although originally from London.
He went to Kneller Hall arriving 5th of Dec 1914 on a Pupil's Course of instruction and completed the course on 10th of Feb 1916. He studied music, instrumentation (oboe), harmony and aural training as well as general education and sporting activities.
His regiment was the KRRC and he would have returned to his band after completing the course. As the oboe was never played on the march, he played a bass drum when marching.
He joined the Royal Irish Rifles after the war, as a Bandsman.
He had left the Army by 1925 and returned to London.
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Pte. Ronald George Parfitt 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.1st Jul 1916) Ronald Parfitt was the son of a great-great aunt on my father's side of the family. I shall be visiting his grave on September 19th 2018 to pay my respects. Ronald's military will shows that he left money (14/- 11d) to my grandfather and several of his siblings. Ronald is buried at Agny Military Cemetery.
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Cpl. Geoffrey Hodge 9th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.21st March 1918) Geoffrey Hodge was born on the 27th February 1896, Geoff was the youngest child of William and Beatrice Hodge of Trevidgoe Farm, Withiel, Cornwall. His siblings were Marjorie, William (Guy), Beatrice, and Edward (Ted). On the outbreak of the First World War, Geoff and his brother Ted declared that as soon as the harvest was over they would leave the family farm and join up. They traveled to Plymouth together to do so, and in 1915 both brothers were serving in France.
Geoff served with the 9th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps, surviving the majority of the war unscathed, being promoted to the rank of Corporal, and outliving his brother Ted, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Loos in 1915 while serving with the 9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment. (See separate listing).
During the first day of the Kaiserslacht, the 1918 German Spring Offensive, Geoff was reported missing. His family didn't hear news of him for nine months, until after the armistice. In December 1918, Geoff's mother received a letter from The Enquiry Department for Wounded and Missing, informing her that a prisoner of war, Lance Corporal H. Bayliss, had returned to France with the news that Geoff had been killed at the time that he himself had been taken prisoner
According to Bayliss, Geoff was killed on the 21st March, 1918. He was aged just 22. His body was never found. Geoff is commemorated on a panel of Pozieres memorial, in France. Previously, the name which honours Geoff's memory had been misspelt as Hodges, however the Commonwealth War Graves Commission kindly rectified this mistake in 2008. The outline of the extra s can still be faintly seen.
Geoff is also recorded on the Roll of Honour in Winchester Cathedral - Winchester being the home of his regiment. He was awarded the British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal, along with a Bronze Death Plaque.
Both Geoff and his brother Ted were killed in the First World War. Their eldest brother (and their parents only surviving son), Guy (my Great Grandfather), had been unable to join up due to heart condition he'd had since birth. The family farm had to give up their horses to the war effort, a sacrifice from which Guy never recovered. At the death of his two brothers, Guy was forced to give up his studies to become a veterinary surgeon, and instead had to take on the family farm - which was sold a few years later, in 1922. One of Geoff's sisters, Beatrice, served as a nurse with the Red Cross during the war, and his oldest sister Marge lost her fiance as well as two brothers in the war she never married, and later became a schoolteacher in the local town, Bodmin.
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Capt. C. Hawkes Bolster 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.8th Dec 1914) Captain Hawkes Bolster is buried in the Youghal (St. Mary's) Collegiate Churchyard, Yaughal, Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Rflmn. Joseph Henry Cosford 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.21st March 1918) Our granddad, Joseph Cosford, volunteered to join the 9th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps. The word 'service' meant a battalion made up of volunteers to the war effort ie Kitcheners Army which, I understand, landed at Boulogne-sur-Mer as part of the 42nd Brigade in the 14th (Light) Division in May 1915 for service on the Western Front, and saw action in the same battles as the 7th and 8th battalions.
We know that he died at the Battle of St Quentin on 21st March 1918 at the age of 42. He is remembered at Pozieres Memorial, The Somme, France. He left a wife and five children Edie, Reginald, Frederick (our father), May, and Frank.
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Rflmn. Solomon Jonas 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.31st March 1918) Solomon Jonas served with the 9th (Service) Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps which was raised at Winchester on 21st August 1914 as part of Kitchener's First New Army and joined 42nd Brigade, 14th (Light) Division. They trained at Aldershot, moving to Petworth in November, returning to Aldershot in March 1915. They proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on 20th May 1915.
They fought in the the Action of Hooge, being the first division to be attacked by flamethrowers. They were in action in the Second Attack on Bellewaarde. In 1916 they were on the Somme seeing action in the Battle of Delville Wood and the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. In 1917 they fought in the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, the First and Third Battle of the Scarpe at Arras, the Battle of Langemark and the First and Second Battle of Passchendaele.
On 2nd February 1918 they transferred to 43rd Brigade, still with 14th (Light) Division. In 1918 they returned to the Somme and were in action during the Battle of St Quentin and the Battle of the Avre, suffering very heavy casualties with almost 6,000 men of the Division killed or injured. The Division was withdrawn from the front line and were engaged building a new defensive line to the rear. On 27th April, the 9th KRRC was reduced to a cadre and on 16th June they transferred to 34th Division. On 27th they joined 39th Division. The 9th KRRC was disbanded on 3rd August 1918.
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Pte. Maurice Flymm 1st Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers Maurice Flynn was born at Kilworth, near Castlelyons, Fermoy, County Cork on 9th December 1882. His father was a farmer and his mother died when he was young. His father (David) had re-married, his mother Hanah Lyons being his second wife. He had two half sisters one being Mary who married a Michael Bane, who like the husband of the other sister was in the Army. After Maurice's mother died he went to live with his sister Mary in Fermoy, but as the house was "too regimental", he left and became a groom for the Rices in the town.
At the age of 15 years he joined the 9th King's Royal Rifle Corps, having given his age as 17 years. The 9th KRRC was the Old North Cork Militia Regiment which had its headquarters in Mallow from 5th December 1899. The Boer War commenced in 1899 shortly after he completed his training and he was drafted to South Africa with this Regiment. It is believed that he joined up with his best friend who died within two weeks of his arrival in South Africa.
The one story he tells of this period relates to an incident when he was out scouting alone and came upon a group of Boers in a Wadi. These he single-handedly captured and led back to his camp, but prior to entering he was reminded that they still held guns in their saddle holsters and should be disarmed. They were obviously starving and glad to be captured in order to get fed.
Also whilst in South Africa he was wounded, and spent some time convalescing there. He often spoke of Table Mountain in Capetown, as it was so impressive to him. During the campaign he is reputed to have saved the life of an officer. Although there is no documentary evidence of this heroic deed, Pte. Flynn was presented with a colt pistol by the grateful officer. This is now held in the museum at Fitzgerald's Park in Cork.
Whilst in South Africa he appears to have travelled much, as he listed the following places under the heading 'My Travels in South Africa'.
1. Cape Town
2. Grun Point (Green Point)
3. Warm Baths.
4. Fourteen Streams.
5. ( ) Naaupoort.
6. (Tibus) Clifton's Farm-not found.
7. (Stainburg) Reit River - not found.
8. Bethany.
9. (Arundel) Bethulie Bridge.
10. Orange River.
11. Kilmounts (charge with bayonets)- not found.
12. Krugers Dorp.
13. Newcastle.
14. Dannhauser.
15. Dundee.
16. Lady Smith.
17. Orange River Colony (Station).
18. Glencoe.
19. Modder River (Island & Hotel).
20. Sunnyside.
21. Colenso.
22. Kimberley.
23. Wittebergen.
24. Springfontein.
25. Reitfontein.
26. Dreifontein.
27. Jagerfontein.
28. Colesburg.
He returned to England on 7th July 1900 and on 13th July 1901 was listed as being entitled to the Queen's South African Medal with both the Cape Colony and Orange Free State Clasps. The above regiment was disbanded in Mallow in 1908.
No soldier's papers were found in the thefiles at the Public Records Office. This is as expected, because he continued to serve in the Great War and the above papers are for those who were discharged to pension before 1913.
Maurice is known to have spent some time in India and whilst there he contracted malaria. He suffered from bouts of this all his life which included the usual shivering and high temperatures. It is also known that he claimed to have often swum in the Ganges, and also spoke of being on service at the Himalayas. At some stage around this time he was stationed at Gosport, Hants., and operated there as a P.E. instructor. It is also known that he served in Duncannon Fort, Co. Wexford and Charles Fort in Kinsale Co. Cork, which he was very familiar with, particularly the stables.
On his returning to Ireland he met up with Mary Sommerville whose father was an engineer in Co. Galway, and it appears that she was born out of wedlock. Mary was orphaned or given when young and went to live with relatives, the Rices at Bank House in Fermoy, the same family that Maurice had been groom to some years earlier. Mary was a live-in servant to the Rices and her cousin Sr. Veronica (Susan) Rice, was to become the Rev. Mother (later transferred to Youghal).
Maurice and Mary were married in Mallow on 30th September 1905 and they went to live at Chapel Hill in Fermoy. The wedding was never approved of by Mary's relatives and, after they eloped, the Rices stopped any inheritance she may have been entitled to, including property in Taylor's Hill, Galway and did not contact her for many years. There were a few brief meetings eventually when they were living in Glaunthaune.
Mary Sommerville had eight children,listed below.
William Anthony born on 22nd August 1906, died on 19th April 1958.
Maurice Christopher born on 23rd November 1907, died on 7th May 1908.
Eileen born on 8th March 1910 in Glasgow, died on 28th June 1976.
Maurice Joseph born on 27th November 1911, died on 9th December 1911.
David Benedict born on 4th January 1913, died on 4th December 1914. (Buried with military band in Tralee near the barracks.)
Ruby Harriet born on 9th March 1915, died on 7th January 1924.
Maureen Veronica born on 4th June 1918.
Hannah born on 9th March 1924, died on 12th March aged 3 days.
David was interred at the Military Cemetery in Tralee (Killerisk) on the following Saturday after his death, attended by many members of the Regiment (3rd Battalion), he was a very popular little boy with the regiment and the band played "The flower of the forest" at his grave side. His death was caused by food poisoning after eating contaminated 'bully beef' obtained from the Army stores, something Maurice never forgave the army for.
On 9th March 1915, Ruby Harriet Patrica was born and she was baptized in Tralee on the 14th March 1915, she died in the fever hospital of diphtheria. They were living in Glounthaune, the local doctor was called but was drunk on arrival. Mary Flynn ran to Beamish's, Ashbourne House and they rang for an ambulance from Cork. They also contacted Maurice at Ryan's where he worked and William at O'Gilvie and Moores, Parnell Place, Cork. By the time she got to hospital she had choked to death. Combermere Lodge is just across the road from the rear entrance of Ashbourne House and Willie was very friendly with Richard (Dickie) Beamish, the son of the owner of Beamish's Brewery in Cork.
They lived at Chapel Hill in Fermoy until 1910, when they moved to Glasgow. Maurice worked for Lever Bros, the soap manufacturers. The family lived at 4 Harrington Street, Maryhill, Glasgow.
By 1913 he was again back in Ireland. Unfortunately the smog and cold of Glasgow had a detrimental effect on the health of the eldest child Willie, consequently he returned to the Army. He joined the Royal Munster Fusiliers at Ballymullan, Tralee, Co. Kerry. The ex-servicemen and reservists were mobilized on 4th August 1914 and as he wore 3 Good Conduct Chevrons, he must then have served over 12 years with the Army. The soldiers generally enlisted for 12 years - 7 years with the Colours and the final 5 years in the reserves.
His 12 years were up therefore, certainly by 1911. However he entered the Special Reserves after his return from Scotland, thereby joining the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Upon mobilization he was Pte 6663 with the 3rd Royal Munster Fusiliers who moved to Cork during October/November 1914. They moved to Aghada in East Cork in May 1915, which consisted of a camp on the grounds of Hadwell House. The 3rd Battalion R.M.F. were a Special Reserve, and were to be used to replenish the dead or wounded of the 1st or 2nd R.M.F. Battalions on active service
On 19th April 1916 he sailed for France by ferry from Folkestone to Bologne in a reinforcing draft. (It is also possible that he may have been to France/Flanders on a previous occasion as he wore four blue chevrons representing 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918 on active service.) Here he joined the 1st Battalion on active service, recently returned from their disastrous near annihilation on 'V' Beach. He was wounded shortly before 2nd August 1916 whilst with the 1st R.M.F. They served with the 48th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division. This wound appears not serious (flesh wound in the leg) as a silver wound badge was not recorded as having been awarded. He appears to have served the remainder of the war in France and Flanders and suffered the after effects of a gas attack, something which was to plague him all his life. The only story he told of killing the enemy relates to a German sniper operating from a tree who had killed five of his colleagues. He waited until dark when he could identify the position of the sniper by the flash from his gun to shoot and kill the slayer of his mates. All his life subsequently he smoked his cigarette with the lighted end towards the palm so as not to show a glimmer at night.
A story is told that whilst on active service he struck up a friendship with a young soldier, the son of an Anglican Minister. Pte. Flynn wrote a letter to the soldier's family after his death, detailing the circumstances. In return, the family presented him with a pocket watch, and a ring as mementoes. The family kept in touch with Maurice for many years after the War.
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Pte Leonard Thomas Scarlett 9th Btn Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.24th Aug 1916) Leonard Thomas Scarlett died during the Battle of Delville Wood on 24 August 1916.
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Rfm. William Turk 9th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.24th Aug 1916) William Turk was killed in action at Delville Wood.
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Rfm. William Evans 9th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.22nd Oct 1917) William Evans was my grandmother's first husband who died in 1917 leaving her with three young children under the age of three. I remember seeing the embroidered cards he sent her written in pencil. He is buried at Tyne Cot.
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Rfmn. Arthur Prestidge 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.15th Sep 1916) Arthur Prestidge was aged 21 when he lost his life. Son of Daniel and Sarah Maria Prestidge of Moreton Pinkney, Rugby, he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Rflmn. Matthew Clayton 9th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.22nd November 1915) Matthew Clayton was the son of Matthew and Caroline Clayton and the husband of Elizabeth Clayton of 91 Whittington Hill, Old Whittington, Chesterfield. Matthew died of his wounds and is remembered with honour at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
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Sgt. Walter Edward Cowles 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.25th Sept 1915) Walter Cowles was born in Wymondham. He enlisted in the 9th King's Royal Rifle Corps in Norwich. He served in France & Flanders from 21st May 1915 and was killed in action on 25th September 1915. He is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial and on the Wymondham War Memorial. He was a resident of Wymondham.
This paragraph is from the Royal of Honour and records the names of those killed in WWI and WWII whose names are on the Wymondham War Memorial in Norfolk. Detailed Information compiled by Chris Clarke in 2014
Walter was my mother's great uncle and his sister, my mother's maternal grandmother, never forgot her favourite brother and mourned him till she died. In fact she named her first born son Walter in his memory. After being wounded Walter was sent home on leave to recuperate. Just before he was sent back to the front he met my mother's mother, his 8 year old niece, in Wymondham and told her that he was going back to the war and that he would not return. His body was never found.
In August 2014 I took my 84 year old mother to Ypres so that she could leave a poppy cross at the panel on the Menin Gate, where his name is recorded, and another poppy cross at one of the graves of an unknown soldier (that may have been his) on behalf of herself and for her grandmother.
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Pte. Joshua Thomas 9th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (d.22nd March 1918) Joshua Thomas was my great uncle. Unfortunately we never met. He was the youngest of three brothers who were killed during WW1.
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CSM. Reuben Didcock 9th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.24th Aug 1916) CSM. Reuben Didcock 8700 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps was killed at Delville Wood on 24th August 1916. He was born in 1891, the son of Martha Didcock, residing at Alma Place, Chipping Norton. He moved to Birmingham aged about ten with his mother and lived at 123 Tilton Road, Bordesley, Birmingham.
His enlistment date is uncertain but the 9th Battalion was formed in August 1914 and landed in Boulogne on 20th May 1915. From his regimental number and the dates mentioned, I am not sure if he was a regular or a Kitchener volunteer soldier. He was married on 6th February 1916 aged 24 to Beartrice Hinson, also aged 24 (profession ammunition viewer). Their residence, as stated on their marriage certificate, was 8 back of 31 Saltley Road, Aston, Birmingham. Unfortunately, I do not have a photo of Reuben. I came across Reuben while I was researching my family history. The above information has been taken from documents that I have gathered over the last few years. Thank you for keeping alive the memory to those who gave their all. Lest we forget.
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Pte. John Charles Plimmer 9th Batallion Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.8th June 1915) John Plimmer died of wounds and is buried in Dickebus New Military Cemetery, Dickebus, Belgium. He had landed in Boulogne on the 20th May of 1915. KRRC's were probably brought up to support Canadian Regiment.
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James Wheat 9th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.6th Nov 1918) My Great Uncle, James Wheat from Coventry, was a soldier with 9th Battalion of King's Royal Rifle Regiment. Having joined up at the start of WW1 in 1914, he died on Wednesday 6th November 1918, just five days before the Armistice. He is buried in the Premont British Cemetery, Aisne. What happened to this group of soldiers, I wonder, between being 'disbanded' in August and meeting their fate in November? What is the war story surrounding the Premont area at this time? Does anyone know and can help me?
Editor's note: Men from disbanded battalions were transferred to other battalions which were short of men. CWGC records James as serving with "D" Coy. 4th Bn, KRRC when he was killed.
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Pte. William Wheat 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (d.21st Mar 1918) My Great Uncle, William Wheat, fought with the 9th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps. I have no knowledge of his movements during the war. He fell in action aged 27 on 21st March 1918, leaving behind his young wife and three children. He died on the first day of the so called Advance to Victory. His body was never found, but his name is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme.
Wiliam's younger brother, James Wheat, also my Great Uncle, joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 12th December 1914. I have no knowledge of his movements during the war. Having survived whatever the Great War threw at him over four years, he died aged just 24 and unmarried on 6th November 1918, just five days before the Armistice. I don't know where he fell, but he is buried in the British Cemetery, Premont, Anise, France (Grave III.B.12).
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