6th February 1915 On this day: 1st Battalion Royal Scots Belgium & France 1914 - 1915.   1st Battalion Royal Scots in Ypres, Belgium. 2nd Life Guards in trenches.   2nd Life Guards War Diary records: Off to trenches at 10 am till 12 and again at 10 pm and found a lot of sniping going on, infantry blazing at nothing as usual. Col Smith Bingham 3rd Dragoon Guards and Geoffrey Glyn Somerset Yeomanry arrived. The snipers took the life of 2877 Trooper Langford Wild, 2nd Life Guards, who died at a Dressing Station in Ypres at around 7.30 in the evening of the 6th of February, after having been shot in the head while in trenches at Zillebeke. His death was reported in The Surrey Mirror on 19th of February: "A Hull accountant, Trooper Langford Wild, 2nd Life Guards, has been killed at the front. In communicating the sad news the Rev. A. H. Boyd, Chaplain to the 3rd Cavalry Division, says that Wild was buried with other British soldiers in the small burial ground made on the ramparts of Ypres." 2nd Life Guards War Diary Scarlet Fever case at Armentières   The Scarlet Fever Case admitted on 31st ? Now convalescing and transferred to Infectious Diseases Hospital, Bailleul. No further extensions. War Diary 19th Field Ambulance RAMC  In Action  2nd Queens to trenches  Quiet day  Attack Made  In the Line  In Action  Working Party  Quiet  Drill  Quiet  Training  Targets Selected  Promotion  Three Germans Shot  Quiet day  In the Trenches  Instruction  Illness  Quiet Can you add to this factual information? Do you know the whereabouts of a unit on a particular day? Do you have a copy of an official war diary entry? Details of an an incident? The loss of a ship? A letter, postcard, photo or any other interesting snipts? If your information relates only to an individual, eg. enlistment, award of a medal or death, please use this form: Add a story.

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Remembering those who died this day, 6th of February 1915. Private Archibald Adams. H.M. Monitor Severn. Read their Story. Pte. A. Evans. 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. John William Flintoft. 2nd Btn. Coldstream Guards Read their Story. Pte. James Hermiston. 1st Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story. Pte. Allan McMillan. 1st Btn. Royal Scots Read their Story. Pte. Albert Needham. 2nd Btn. Leicestershire Regiment Pte. William Edward Trimmer. 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Add a name to this list.

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