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2/6th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
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Those known to have served with2/6th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Carver Leonard William. Pte. (d.30th November 1917)
- Goodyer Thomas. Sgt.
- Greatrix Robert. Pte. (d.17th April 1918)
- Hooley John William. Pte. (d.26th Apr 1918)
- Humphries Albert. Pte (d.27th Mar 1918)
- Ollerhead Frederick William. Pte. (d.30th Nov 1917)
- Pickford Howard Henry. 2nd Lt.
- Pritchard William Horace. Pte. (d.8th May 1917)
- Simons John Edward. Pte. (d.21st Mar 1918)
- Stenton Albert Edward. Pte. (d.21st Mar 1918)
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Pte. William Horace Pritchard 2nd/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.8th May 1917) William Pritchard was the she son of Richard and Eliza Pritchard, he is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial in Somme, France.
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2nd Lt. Howard Henry Pickford 2/6 Btn. North Staffordshire H H Pickford.
Enlisted at the beginning of the Great War . He was commissioned at some point during 1916/17. He served with the regiment until August 1918 when he was wounded through both hands and left wrist.
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Pte. Leonard William Carver 2/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.30th November 1917) Leonard Carver served with the 2/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment.
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Pte. Robert Greatrix 2/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.17th April 1918) My Great Uncle's name, Robert Greatrix has been known since I was old enough to read the local War Memorial. I have never found out what he was doing to get mortally wounded.
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Pte. John Edward Simons 2/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment (d.21st Mar 1918) The Roll of Honour in St Martin’s Church lists a John E. Simons as having died in 1917. Research suggests that the listed man was quite probably John Edward Simons, who was born at Stickney in Lincolnshire. It appears there may be a family connection to South Willingham with John’s aunt and uncle living in the village; certainly John Simons gives his ‘place of residence’ as ‘South Willingham Lincoln’ on his Attestation Form.
John signed his Attestation Form at Louth on 16th of February 1916. His occupation was given as ‘farm horseman’ and his age as 18 years and 124 days on the day of his enlistment; the following day he was placed on the Army Reserve List. Physically, he was described as being 5ft 6ins tall, weighing 136 lbs, with a chest measurement of 36ins. A little over a year later, on 26th of April 1917, he was mobilised and the following day transferred to The Depot, Lincolnshire Regiment as Private 38120 John Edward Simons.
He was posted to the 3rd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment on 12th May 1917 at Grimsby. On 4th August 1917 he was posted to the 10th (Service) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment. The ‘Army Form B.103 Casualty Form – Active Service’ is a somewhat misleading document as it is not, as its title suggests, purely for the purpose of recording injury or death. With dates recorded under the ‘casualty’ columns on the form this may explain why the Roll of Honour in St Martin’s Church records his date of death as 1917?
But John Simons had yet to meet his end and was transferred to the 2/6th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment (No. 40892) on 23 August 1917. Unfortunately, those records that do remain are not entirely legible but it seems that he became a casualty during 1917 as he was admitted to a Field Ambulance Station in France on 23rd of October as a ‘casualty in the field’.
Not yet having attained his Majority, the young man who had given his place of residence as ‘South Willingham, Lincoln’ during his Attestation just over two years earlier, became another soldier with no known grave when he was reported missing in the field on 21 March 1918. His name is recorded on the Arras Memorial (as well as on a hand-written scroll in St Martin’s Church South Willingham, a memorial tablet situated in the church at Holton-cum-Beckering and a wooden plaque inside the same church) and his father took receipt of John’s Victory Medal and British War Medal at the family home in Holton cum Beckering. Before he was called up, John Simons is recorded in the 1911 Census as being a farm labourer (aged 13 years), the family living at the time at Top Barn Hatton, near Wragby. It may be that five years later, upon enlistment, he was working on a farm at South Willingham, or simply living with relations as stated by current relatives, which is why he gave his place of residence as South Willingham.
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Pte. Albert Edward Stenton 2nd/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment (d.21st Mar 1918) Albert Edward Stenton died age 25, he was born in Jarrow in 1893, son of James and Maria Stenton (nee Lee) of Jarrow. Albert Stenton, age 17, a Shipyard Labourer, is listed as living with his parents James & Maria Stenton at 11, Chapel Road, Jarrow in the 1911 Census. He enlisted in Jarrow
Albert is remembered on the Arras Memorial and is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph Jarrow. He was commemorated on the Triptych in St. Mark's Church Jarrow (it is no longer a Church)
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