7th June 1917 On this day: Hill 60 retaken by 11th West Yorks   11th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment re-capture hill 60 from the Germans in the Battle of Messines. Attack Launched   236th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery report Zero time for offensive by the II Army to take Hill 60, Wytschate and Messines Ridges at 0310. At that hour all artillery opened heavy barrage which continued to creep forward as infantry advanced for 10 hours until all objectives were joined and ridge remained in our hands. ‘C’ Group formed the centre of the six groups covering the Divisional front and the barrage crossed the canal south of which the final group protective barrage was placed. A large number of Neutralise Fire calls were received and D236 did resulting neutralisation of Batteries including firing at enemy troops on the march. At about 1800 barrage was carried out on SOS line, but no infantry action by the enemy. War Diaries  36th Battalion AIF in action 8th Yorks and Lancs in action   8th Yorks and Lancs are in action at the Battle of Messines from 7th to 14th June 1917  Exercise and inspections  In Action  Artillery Observation  In Action  In Action    G.6.a NEAR ROCLINCOURT 7th - 8th June. Battalion took over work on RED LINE from 16th WYR strength of party each night 450. Fine weather no casualties. 18th DLI war diary WO95/2361/1  Into Support  In Reserve  Working Parties and Training  Into Battle  An Offensive Operation  In Action  Working Parties  Reliefs  Intermittent Shelling  Training  Stand to  Attack a Complete Success  Working Parties  Working Parties  A Big Offensive  In Action  Diary  Operational Order 122  Operational Order 123  In Action  In Action  In Action  Working Parties  In Action  At 0030 hours night of 6th - 7th the Battalion moved on to tapes laid out behind our Front Line  Brigade Tactical Exercise  Attack on Messines, Wytschaete Ridge  Attack Launched  Close Order Company drill.  Tank Driving at Wailly. In Action   War Diary for the 13th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, 7th June 1917: The assembly trenches were reached by 13th Middlesex at about 2 a.m. At 3.10 a.m. several large mines were exploded. The 41st Division went over the top & captured the Red Line (1st Objective). The intense bombardment lasted all the morning & during that time the Blue (Damm Strasse) & Black Lines (2nd & 3rd Objectives) were taken by the 41st Division. At 11.30am The 13th Middlesex Regiment moved forward to Ecluse Trench & Old French Trench. At 1.30pm The 13th Middlesex moved forward to the Black Line (present front line & jumping off line for 73rd Bde). Within a few minutes of arrival the Battalion went over the top (3.10 p.m.) under an excellent barrage. Disposition:- Right Front, B Coy under Capt. R.S. Dove Left Front, A Coy under Capt. F.J. Stratten Right Support, D Coy under 2/Lt Dawkins Left Support, C Coy under Lt Roberts Moppers-up - commanded by 2/Lt C.W. Wallis (D Coy) & 2/Lt R.W. Phillips (B Coy). Our objective was known as the Green Line. Battalion front extended from the front edge of Ravine Wood on the right via Olive Trench to the Hollebeke Road on the left. The objective was gained without much difficulty, the Coy on the right consolidating well in front of Ravine Wood & Verhaest Farm. Owing to the Division on our left not coming forward with us, A Coy was left with their flank in the air, & had to perform a difficult movement to protect themselves. They were therefore unable to consolidate the left half of Olive Trench. C Coy (Left Support Coy) had to be called on to assist A Coy (Left Front) to form a defensive flank. During the first day the enemy’s artillery was erratic & the Battalion suffered more from lack of water than from anything else. During the attack about 100 unwounded & 20 wounded were captured, mostly in the Ravine. Also 5 Machine Guns, 1 Trench Mortar & a large quantity of material. The prisoners included 2 Officers. war diary The Battle of Messines   A letter from Captain Horace Lance Flint, Medical Officer for 7th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, written to his wife from a captured German dressing station describing the opening stages of the Battle of Messines Ridge, which began on 7th June 1917 with the explosion of 19 mines and a huge, accurate artillery bombardment. "I want to give you some idea of the first big "push" that I have taken any active part in. I see that it is described as "Haig’s Earthquake or Hurricane Attack". "My division was in the front line of the attack, and we marched into the trenches on the evening of June 6th. Major _____, the second in command, spoke a few words to each company before it moved off, and wished them the best of luck, then the chaplain said a prayer, after which all the men joined in the Lord’s Prayer. It was very impressive, and one could not help wondering how many of those brave fellows would ever come back and imagining what most of them must be thinking of. Probably it was of home and of those they loved, for there was a certain quiet solemnity about our departure. I marched at the end of the battalion. It was quite dark when we entered the trenches, and each company took up its allotted position. We had taken about 1½ hours in reaching the trenches, and had lost only two men killed and one wounded, these casualties being due to the explosion of one of our own bombs as it was carried up. "I went to the headquarters’ dug-out of my battalion. We sat on the floor of the dug-out, but none of us could sleep. This was in the new reserve trenches. At about 3 a.m. the dug-out and the whole earth was violently shaken. The mine in Hill 60 had exploded. Two mines in our own front went off, and our artillery opened fire. The bombardment was 20 per cent heavier than on any previous occasion. A modern battle is the most appalling thing you can attempt to imagine and it is quite impossible to describe the awful shrieking of shell and rattle of machine guns. It was one continuous roar, and the whole air must have been filled with a shield of iron. "Dawn was just breaking as I look out, and I could see only about 50 yards ahead because of the smoke and dust. Our artillery was magnificent, and had the whole situation well in hand from beginning to end. After the first short bombardment they lifted the barrage slowly forward, and our men keen and impatient, went over the top, some going even too quickly and being hit by our own shells. Our casualties, fortunately, were few at this time, and those we had were chiefly caused by the men’s excessive eagerness, and a few were due to some of our shells bursting prematurely. "Our artillery was so splendid that very few of the German guns were able to shoot, because some of our own guns were specially took off for counter battery work, i.e., to fire on the position of the German guns. I had to wait until the men had advanced about 600 yards, before I went over with the medical officer of the battalion working in conjunction with ours to establish a medical aid post, our orderlies and some of the stretcher-bearers going with us to carry our equipment. We advanced under a deafening noise of guns and alarming shriek of shells, but these were soon forgotten in the excitement and amazement of our surroundings. The ground was one mass of shell holes, you could not put your foot down except on the rim of one hole or another; it was like walking on an empty honeycomb. I never imagined that such a picture of destruction and desolation could exist, the German trenches having totally disappeared. "The Huns retreated as fast as possible, and put up no fight at all, and very soon prisoners began to come in. It was quite impossible for any human being to face such artillery fire, and their only course was to run away. I saw a few of our tanks ahead, but I heard afterwards from a man who had been in one of them that they had no chance of doing anything because the enemy retreated faster than they could attack. "My object was to find shelter for an aid post, but this was very difficult, and it was a long time before I hit upon a dug-out. Then I found one with concrete walls 3 ft. 6in. thick, which had been used as a power-house for generating electricity for lighting the other dug-outs, most of which had disappeared, and it contained an engine and a considerable sized dynamo and switch board. Unfortunately, it was impossible to get the wounded down into the dug-out, so we dressed them all out in the open, and then stretcher-bearers carried them back. "In view of what really occurred during this attack on what is supposed to be the strongest German position in the West, it is most amusing but utterly ludicrous to read the accounts in the German papers. They say that the British attack was repulsed with heavy loss, and that we were unable to advance any further. As a matter of fact, everything went like clockwork, and the programme was completely fulfilled. On our little bit of front we could have advanced much further than was allowed by our orders, we could, in fact, have gone right through, but it would have made a big salient, and caused disaster later on. Few people at home realise that in modern warfare everything is worked out to the smallest detail beforehand. An advance is planned to time, and there is an exact time at which each company or battalion has to take up a particular position. Should it reach such a position too soon, then it must wait and advance no further beyond that spot until the pre-arranged time for the next bit of advance. Warfare with our present masses of artillery is a very exact science, and so before any advance all enemy positions must be photographed, and their exact locality marked on maps. People should realise that after we have gained the objects of an attack our artillery must move forward and get the range of all further enemy positions, and these positions must first be ascertained by captured enemy trench maps, or by photographs taken by our aeroplanes. This is of course a long business in itself, and it is for this reason that progress on the Western front is slow, and that the war may last a long time should the Hun choose to fight it out to a finish. It is, however, only a matter of time and perseverance, with our masses of artillery. For given time and the necessary preparation of plans beforehand, nothing can stand and face our artillery. It is magnificent. It is amazing that the guns could advance so quickly over the shell-riddled ground, and that by the evening it was so well up that we forestalled an expected counter-attack from the Bosche, and he received instead from us an artillery barrage nearly as intense as the one in the beginning of the day. "About mid-day, I had to move forward to keep in touch with our wounded, and I found, after a night's search, another aid post. This was in a wood about 2½ miles in advance of our old front line. It was the former German dressing station, and consisted of a very fine 2 ft. concrete-walled dug-out, and here we captured a quantity of medical stores, two German doctors, and 30 Red Cross orderlies. It is from that dug-out that I have written all this, while the Huns are shelling us heavily. Nothing, fortunately, can penetrate the walls of this dug-out, the only danger being that a chance shell may come in at the door, which, of course, faces the German guns, as it was built as a protection against British fire. The Hun makes much more substantial du-outs than we. One of those in the wood here is almost a concrete palace and is fitted with electric light, water laid on, passage looking on the various rooms and comfortable furniture in the rooms. "We have now been at this business for eight days and have not had our boots off nor our clothes and we dare not even discard the anti-gas box respirators, which hand on our chests from the neck. The atmosphere is decidedly foggy considering the small space, and the incessant smoking, and sleep is practically impossible, as there are four me, i.e., my servant, two orderlies and myself, and there is no room for anyone to stretch his legs. We are, however, very lucky not to be obliged not to spend our time in a shell hole. The men in our division are very tired, and I hope they will soon be relieved. It is rather hard luck on them to have been kept here so long. It was owing to our having done so well and suffered so few casualties that we were not relieved. The division which was to replace us on the second day after our objective was gained has been sent elsewhere instead. The men are under a great strain. The first period of waiting before going into the trenches for an attack is trying to the nerves, and the period of waiting to go into the trenches before going over the top is worst still, and then, even after the attack has been made and the object gained, there is the greatest strain of all in holding the line against counter-attacks. Now that we have gained the ridge, we are holding out against very heavy shell fire from the Germans, and must always be prepared for counter-attacks. The Tommy is a great hero, few people at home realising in the least what he has to put up with through these advances and after them, when he is in the front line. The last two weeks seem like years. "I was up all last night dressing cases, some of them being very agonising to see. The sight of it all make one sick of the brutality of man to his fellow man; almost sick of life itself, and leaves a feeling of utter misery and loneliness. If only it were possible to live and let live and enjoy life in peace and love for our fellows. I do not know how our men have endured what they have gone through since June 7th, and especially the shelling yesterday. My experience of it has been when I have been out to attend to wounded in the open, that it must be awful to be in the open for long. Fortunately our total casualties have been comparatively small, but we have had as many in holding the ridge against counter-attacks as we had in the whole of the advance. "I cannot see any end to the war at present, but I suppose there is a limit to the Hun’s endurance, and he must be getting very tired of the war, to judge by what he had to endure here. I expect the poor blighter will be glad to chuck it when this sort of thing happens all along the line. "No one can appreciate what the British army has accomplished in three years of war, until he sees the things we are now looking at, absolute and complete destruction, and desolation; the whole ground is a mass of shell holes, and yet already roads are beginning to appear, tramways and water pipes are being laid down, artillery pushed up, and hundreds of miles carrying up ammunition and rations. More than ever do I fail to see what the German has to gain by prolonging the war. I am certain he will never beat our armies. One has only to look at the ground here on what was the German side ten days ago and see the devastating effect of our guns, and compare the number of shell holes on his side to those of ours, to be convinced of the terrible things he has to endure, and that we cannot fail to beat him in the end."  Tanks in Action  In Action  In Action  Amendment to Orders  Diary 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, 7th of June 1917. Pte. William Frederick Abbott. 1st/22nd Btn. London Regiment Pte. Maurice Abell. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) Pte. Herbert Ackroyd. 23rd Btn. C Coy Middlesex Regt 2nd Lt. Gordon William Acworth. 15th Btn London Regiment Able Seaman George Alfred Adams. Nelson Btn. Royal Naval Division Read their Story. Pte. John Edward Adams. 11th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Lance Sjt. John Albert Adams. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) Pte. Leonard Adams. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Pte. Richard Winstanley Adams. 34th Btn. Pte. Robert Addison. 108th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Rfm. George Robert Aggas. 9th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Cpl. Harold Akers. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Pte. John W. Alderson. 20th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. Frederick Lionel Alexander. 3rd Australian Pioneer Bn. Cpl. Henry Furner Allen. 1st/7th Btn. London Regiment Cpl. Henry James Olaf Allen. 1st/6th Btn. London Regiment Cpl. Henry James Olaf Allen. DCM. 1/6th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. James Edward Allen. 49th Infantry Battalion Read their Story. Pte. Josiah Allen. 49th Infantry Battalion Read their Story. Pte. William Allison. 56th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. David Allum. 26th Btn. Royal Fusliers Pte. Ernest Thomas Ames. 11th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Rfm. Harry Amos. 1st/21st Btn. London Regiment Rfm. Stanley Orme Anderson. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Rfm. Thomas Edward Anderson. 18th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Pte. William Charles Anderson. 1st/22nd Btn. D Coy. London Regiment Rfm. W. Andress. 8th Btn. London Regiment Capt. Horace Gibson Andrews. 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. William Horace Andrews. 1/21st Btn. London Regiment Pte. J. H. Angel. 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. Richard Angel. 20th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. George Anscombe. 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regt Pte. James Hartley Antcliff. 36th Btn. Pte. James Antcliffe. 36th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Robert Archer. 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regt Pte. B. V. Archie. 40th Btn Pte. John Arney. 12th Btn. East Surrey Regt. Rfm. Harry Aronow. 1/8th Btn. London Regiment Pte. H. W. Ashford. 24th Btn. London Regiment Sjt. William Aston. 1/8th Btn. London Regiment Pte. John Atha. 11th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment Sjt. Charles Octave Aucourt. 12th Btn. East Surrey Regt. Pte. James Hodgson Austerfield. 11th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Pte. G. E. Austin. 12th Btn. East Surrey Regt. Pte. Cecil Wallace Ayling. 7th Btn. London Regiment Pte. Albert Ayres. 26th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Pte. George Thomas Ayres. 32nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers William Henry Bacon. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. 2nd Lt. James Chester Badgley. 6th Btn. att. 58th Trench Mortar Bty. Wiltshire Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. W. J. Baker. 9th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles William Ingram Baker. 70th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Pte. J. A. Barker. 35th Btn. Rfm. Robert Henry Barnett. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles L/Cpl. William E. Barrett. 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Reginald Bartley. B Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. George Barton. 15th Btn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Wilfrid Batey. 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. W. J. Bath. 33rd Btn. Pte. Danile Baziere. 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Frank Beaumont. 10th Btn. West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons) Read their Story. 2nd Cpl. R. Beeby. 121 Field Coy Royal Engineers Rfm. Robert William Bennett. 10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Thomas Newbon Bennett. 36th Btn. Pte. J. D. Benson. 7th Btn. Cheshire Regiment L/Cpl. Joseph Henry Bentley. 6th Btn. Border Regiment Sjt. Riley Biggadike. 6th Btn. A. Coy. Lincolnshire Regiment Rfm. Alfred Thomas Bird. 9th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Frank Blackhurst. 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Charles Blanch. 7/8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Rfm. Arthur Henry Bloomfield. 9th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. William Richard Blundell. 47th Btn. Cpl. J. Bonner. 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. Jules Bornet. 15th Btn. Royal Hampshire Regiment Rfm. Frank Thomas Boulding. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Robert William Bowden. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. V. Brettle. 10th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Rfm. Thomas Hutchinson Brians. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Spr. Herbert Briers. 155th Field Coy Royal Engineers Rfm. Patrick Brooks. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. H. J. Brough. 7th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Rflmn. Walter Brough. 7th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles L/Cpl. Walter Brough. 7th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Fred Brown. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Pte. G. E. Brown. 9th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Rifleman James Brown. 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Lance Sjt. John Brown. 9th Btn. A Coy. Royal Irish Rifles L/Cpl. R. Brown. 9th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers Pte. William Brown. 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. William Brown. 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Rfm. James Bruce. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles 2/Lt. William Buckle. 8th Btn. Green Howards Read their Story. Pte. William Buckle. 4th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Wilfred John Bucknell. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Wilfred John Bucknell. 33rd Battalion Read their Story. L/Cpl. Corry Burnett. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Alfred Alexander Burns. 36th Btn. Pte. W. Butler. 33rd Btn. Pte. Percy Clarence Cant. A Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Rfm. Herbert Cathcart. 2th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Herbert Cathcart. 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Charles Clement "Clem" Cavanagh. 42nd Btn. Read their Story. Lance Sgt. George Albert Cawkwell. 33rd Btn. Pte. Ralph Charlton Chadwick. 11th Australian Field Ambulance Pte. Clifford William Chaffey. 33rd Btn. Pte. Frank David Chambers. 10th Battalion, "C" Company Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Ernest Chapman. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. L/Cpl. Robert Chesnutt. 11th Btn. B Coy. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 2nd Lt. Joseph Alfred Child. 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Christie. 8th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Leslie Ernest Church. A Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. A. Clark. 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Pte. Joseph Clark. 45th Btn. Pte. Frederick Harold Clarke. 7th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Harold Clarke. 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Cpl. W. J. Clarkson. 106th Field Coy Royal Engineers Pte. Kenneth Cliffe. 1/7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment Read their Story. Sgt. Raynard Cockell. 8th Btn. Border Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ernest John Coles. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Cpl Frederick George Collinson. MM. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Rfm. Robert Colvin. 12th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. William Joseph Connolly. 1/7th Btn. London Regiment Pte. William Joseph Connolly. 1/7th Btn. A Coy. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Leonard Cook. 1st Canterbury Btn. Rfm. H. W. Cornwell. 1/17th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Rfmn. Harry Walter "Henry" Cornwell. 1/17th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Manus Alexander Costello. 7th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Cpl. Ernest Cowell. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Henry Thomas Cox. 11th Btn. Sherwood Forresters Read their Story. Spr. Peter Coyle. 155th Field Coy Royal Engineers Rfm. Thomas Craig. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Rfm. David Currie. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Richard Percival Allen "Reggie" Dabinett. 15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. James Neate Dark. A Coy. 36th Battalion Read their Story. Pte. George Davidson. 6th Btn. Border Regiment Pte. J. Davies. 9th Btn. Welsh Fusiliers Pte. John Davies. 9th Btn. Welch Fusiliers Read their Story. Pnr. John George Edgar Davis. 47th Signal Coy Royal Engineers Pte. Dennis Bernard Day. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Lance Corporal Jesse Dean. 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Fredrick Derryman . 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment Spr. Robert Dickson. 130th Field Coy. Royal Engineers Pte. Robert Henry Dine. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Matthew Hall Dix. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Sjt. M. Dixon. 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers Pte. Barnard Dorian. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment 2nd Lt. Sydney James Livingston Downey. 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. L/Cpl. Sidney Driscoll. 1st/22nd Btn. A Coy London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Maurice Duggan. 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Dunn. 7th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Harold Edmondson. 7th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. J. R. Edwards. 3rd Btn. The Rifle Brigade Pte George Erriottis. 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment Pte David John Evans. 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment Spr. Fred Evans. 105th Field Coy. Royal Engineers Pte. Peter Evans. 7th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Ferdinand Albert Faithfull. 32nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Fernee. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. David Gray Findlay. 47th Battalion Read their Story. Pte. John Browitt Fisher. 6th Btn. A. Coy. Lincolnshire Regiment Pte. John Browitt Fisher. 6th Btn, A Coy. Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Fleming. 36th Btn. Rfm. T. Ford. 3rd Btn. The Rifle Brigade Pte. Thomas Foye. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Ernest James Franks. 26th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Francis Bede Froy. 33rd Btn. Pte. Frederick George Fulbrook. 69th Coy Machine Gun Corps Pte. E. C. B. Fuller. 36thBtn. Pte. Charles Henry Gamble. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Sidney James Game. 40th Battalion. Read their Story. Pte. Alfred George Gardner. 33rd Btn. Pte. W. Gill. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 2nd Lt. O. C. Gillott. 68th Field Coy. Royal Engineers Pte. Robert William Grant. 69th Coy Machine Gun Corps Pte. Henry Green. 9th Btn. Sherwood Forresters Read their Story. Sergeant James Greenan. DCM. 6th Btn. Border Regiment Read their Story. Pte. F. Greenwood. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Cpl. Horace Fennel Griffin. 2nd Battalon, F Company Rifle Brigade Read their Story. Pte. George Herbert Guest. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. F. G. Gussin. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps L/Cpl. Graverra Haggas. 8th Btn. York & Lancaster Regiment L/Cpl. Traverra Haggas. 3rd Btn. West Riding Regiment Read their Story. Capt. Owen Hairsine. MC. 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Capt. Owen Hairsine. MC. 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Read their Story. Pte. Henry Hall. 8th Battalion Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry Pte. Walter Sidney Hall. 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Spr. John Walter Hallatt. 23rd Signal Coy Royal Engineers Pte. H. C. Halliday. 33rd Btn. 2nd Lt Morrice Frederick John Halliday. 6th Btn. Pte. Alfred Phelps Hancock. 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment Pte. John Thomas Hanks. 36th Btn. Pte. T. H. Hanson. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Pte. Richard Townley Harden. 7th Btn. Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment Pte. Charles Archibald Harris. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Rfmn. Woolf Hart. 1/17th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. H. Harvey. 1/19th Btn. London Regiment Cpl. John Henry Hassall. 33rd Btn. Pte. William Francis Hazell. 11th Btn. Nottingham & Derbyshire Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. Robert Robinson Heap. 6th Btn. Border Regiment Pte. B. Hedge. 1st Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers Pte. William Henry Ernest Hemus. 3th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Albert Hennessy. 36th Btn. Pte. Walter Fergus Herrett. 6th Btn. D. Coy. Lincolnshire Regiment Rfm. A. W. F. Herrmann. 3rd Btn. The Rifle Brigade Pte. Alfred Edward Hewitt. 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. John Heywood. 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Pte. Hemi Hill. Pioneer Battalion Read their Story. Sjt. R. Hillman. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Thomas William Hindmarsh. 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. Richard Hodgkiss. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte. Abraham Norman Holloway. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Abraham Norman Holloway. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Thomas William Holloway. A Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Robert Holmes. 9th Btn., B Coy. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) Read their Story. Pte. William Young Hoswell. 33rd Btn. Pte. Arthur Howard. 9th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. R. S. Howard. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Pte. Richard Spencer Howard. 10th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment Read their Story. Cpl Howlett. 103rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Rfmn. Samuel Hoy. 10th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Richard Hubbard. 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Lt. Alban John Benedict Hudson. MC. 3rd Btn. B. Coy Worcestershire Read their Story. Pte. Herbert Hunt. 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Read their Story. Gnr. Archibald James Hunter. 181st Seige Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Evan Hyde. A Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Henry Foster Jackson. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) Read their Story. Pte. Alexander Fowler James. 71st Field Amb. Royal Army Medical Corps. Pte William Farquhar Jenner. 8th Btn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Sjt. Albert Charles Jennings. 2nd Canterbury Btn. Read their Story. Capt. Harold Walter Joel. 1/21st Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. 2nd Lt. C. G. Johnson. 149th Bde. A Bty. Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Frederick William Johnson. 36th Btn. Pte. Claude Saul Jones. 9th Btn York and Lancaster Regiment Pte. G. P. Kable. 33rd Btn. Sgt. Francis Keating. 11th Btn. Royal Scots Pte. George William Kendall. 49th Btn. Pte. George Kettleband. 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment 2nd Lt. Hamilton Boyd King. 1/22nd Btn. London Regiment Spr. L. J. Knowles. 47th Signal Coy Royal Engineers Pte. George Lambert. 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. John William Lambert. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. F. R. Lee. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Sjt Mjr. S. A. J. Lee. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. William Lee. 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Pte. James Archibald Lennard. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Cpl. Joseph Cyril Lennon. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Spr. Lewis Lewis. 155th Field Coy Royal Engineers Pte. Charles Leyland. MM. 76th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps L/Cpl. Hugh Lindsay. 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Albert James Lovejoy. 33rd Btn. 2nd Lt Ernest Henry Austin Lucas. 8th Btn. The York & Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. John Stannon Luff. 33rd Btn. Cpl. Samuel Macaulay. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Sgt. Arthur Willis Martin. 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Martin. 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Milton "Hammie" Mason (John Davies). 9th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. David Mayne. 7th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Rflmn. William John McCracken. 9th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Alexander McDonald. A Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Joseph McDougall. 33rd Btn. Pte. Aloysius James McGann. 37th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. E. G. McGregor. 6th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Pte. Henry Donald McKay. 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment Pte. William Edward McKinery. 36th Btn. Pte. Daniel McLaughlin. 7th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Rfm. F. McNally. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Harold Allan McNamara. 33rd Btn. Pte John McNamara. 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Pte. Kenneth McRae. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Andrew McWilliam. 33rd Btn. Pte. Leslie John Metcalf. 40th Btn. Read their Story. Cpl. William Charles Mills. 1/6th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pnr. Charles. Carew Mitchell. 47th Signal Coy Royal Engineers Pte. J. Mitchell. 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers CSM Samuel Molyneux. 9th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. George William Montgomery. 33rd Btn. Sjt. R. Montgomery. 122nd Field Coy. Royal Engineers Pte. George Alfred Moore. 26th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte George Alfred Moore. 26th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. Harry Moore. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte. William Richard Moore. 36th Btn. Pte. Harry Lawson Morse. 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment Pte. Aubrey Morton. 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Pte. Joseph Cecil Mulhall. 33rd Btn. Pte. Edward Mullins. 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment L/Cpl. Henry William Murphy. 1/23rd Btn. London Regiment Pte. Tom Close Naylor. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Pte. J. Neal. 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment Pte. J. Neely. 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. Richard Nelson. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment Read their Story. L/Cpl. Edgar New. 15th Btn. Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Arthur Thomas Newton. 15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Alfred Nicholls. 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. Thomas William O'Brien. 1/7th Btn. London Regiment Pte. Henry Thomas O'Neill. 33rd Btn. Pte. William Wesley "Parney" Osland. 36th Btn. Pte. Joseph Henry Oxby. 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Read their Story. Pte. Joseph Henry Oxby. 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry ÃÆ??Ã?Ã?  Read their Story. Pte. Major William Pain. 69th Coy Machine Gun Corps L/Sjt. Edgar Richard Pallett. 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. Albert Henry Parkinson. 36th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. William Henry Patten. 8th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Pte. William Henry Patten. 8th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Pte. Albert Edward Pearce. MM 1st Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Pte. T. Pengelley. 7/8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers Read their Story. Sgt. Ernest Duncan Perfect. 11th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment L/Cpl. J. Poole. 5th Btn. South Wales Borderers Pte. Harry Potter. 7th Btn. Leinster Regiment Read their Story. Cpl. W. H. Pringle. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps 2nd Lt. Thomas Warren Purves. 23rd Btn. Middlesex Rgt. Read their Story. PO.(Stkr) Isaac Radford. HMS Pargust Cpl. Robert Boyd Rainey. 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. Walter Henry Rawson. 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Read their Story. Pte. Thomas Reed. 11th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. S. Reid. 35th Btn. Cpl. John Rhodes. 9th Btn Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) Read their Story. Cpl. S. J. Rickman. 1/22nd Btn. London Regiment 2nd Lt. John Gilfillan Robertson. 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Pte. Samuel Taylor Robertson. D Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. George Rockley. 9th Btn. Sherwood Forresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) Read their Story. Pte. George Rockley. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Arthur Roper. D Coy, 5 Pltn. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Alexander Ross. 36th Btn. Rflmn. Edward Ross. 10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Rflmn. Eward Ross. 10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Richard Calo Ross. 10th Australian Machine Gun Coy Read their Story. Cpl. John Rush. 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Read their Story. Spr. Leonard Ryan. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy. Pte. I. W. Sampson. 33rd Btn. J. W. Sampson. 34th Btn. Pte. Matthew Savage. 8th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Michael James Scannell. 13th Company 1st Canterbury Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Thomas John Schaefer. 33rd Btn. Rflmn. James Herbert Scott. 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Cpl. Clifton Shephard. 33rd Btn. Pte. Thomas Henry Sheridan. 1st Battalion Canterbury Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Alexander Shields. 11th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Pnr. Harry Shipley. 101st Field Coy. Royal Engineers Pte. Arthur Short. 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Rfm. Albert Arthur Sibley. 18th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps Read their Story. Pte. John Sim. 6th Btn. Border Regiment Pte. Patrick Simmons. 33rd Btn. L/Cpl. Charles Henry Slater. 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Read their Story. Rfm. Samuel Sloan. 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. Charles Smith. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Felix Christopher Smith. 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Pte. Richard Snape. 26th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Read their Story. Pte. William Leslie "Rasso" Sneddon. C Coy, 9 Pl 34th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. George W. Spence. 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusilliers Read their Story. G/8779 Ralph Abner Sprigge. 10th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Pte. O. I. Stamm. 33rd Btn. Pte. Maurice Stapleton. 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Sgt. William John Stead. 36th Btn. Pte. Claude Stevenson. 1st Btn, 9th (Hawkes Bay) Coy. Wellington Regiment Read their Story. Sjt. Peter Stevenson. 106th Brigade Royal Field Artillery Read their Story. Pte. Donald Stewart. 69th Coy Machine Gun Corps Rfm. Kennedy Stinton. 1/21st Btn. (First Surrey Rifles) London Regiment 2nd Lt. H. Stone. 1/23rd Btn. London Regiment Pte. George Robert Sullivan. 34th Btn. Pte. L. Sykes. 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Rfm. Robert Charles Syrett. 3rd Btn. The Rifle Brigade Pte. G. T. Taylor. 33rd Btn. Pte Thomas Henry Taylor. 10th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. W. Thomson. 142nd Coy. Machine Gun Corps Rfmn. Thomas Todd. 12th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte. James Tolmie. 5th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Rfmn. Samuel Torrans. A Coy,10th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles Read their Story. Pte Thomas Torrens. A Coy. 34th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. W. T. Tramby. 33rd Btn. Pte. Alfred Turner. 8th Battalion The Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) Pte. Lance A. Turner. 34th Btn. Cpl. James William Upson. 1/23rd Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frederick Vardy. 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters Pte. James Charles Waggett. 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment Pte. Francis Joseph Wales. 10th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Francis Joseph Wales. 10th Btn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment Read their Story. Spr. William Harold James Want. 155th Field Coy Royal Engineers Cpl. Percival Discombe Warren. MM. 1/7th Btn. London Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Frank Morton Weare. 1/24th Btn. London Regiment Pte. Alfred Webber. 33rd Btn. Pte. Isaac Wells. 10th Btn. A Coy. Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment Pte. Albert Joseph Wheatland. 11th Btn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Gnr. Francis James Whitecross. 7th Brigade Australian Field Artillery Read their Story. Cpl. W. P. Whitehill. 33rd Btn. Sjt. A. A. Whitlock. 155th Field Coy Royal Engineers Pte. Charles Ernest Whitter. 7th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Walter Thomas Wickers. MM. 45th Btn. Read their Story. Pte. John Dickinson Wilerton. 6th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment Pte. Herbert Williams. 8th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Read their Story. Pte. Edwin Charles Wilson. A Coy. 33rd Btn. Read their Story. Pte. Frank Owen Turner Wilson. 3rd Australian Pioneers Pte. Ira Israel Wilson. 8th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment Pte. Joseph William Woodfin. 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment Albert Edward Woodland. 9th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Pte. Albert Woolford. 11th Btn. Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment Read their Story. Pte. John Robert Worgan. 33rd Btn. Spr. G. A. Wright. 25th Signal Coy Royal Engineers Pte. James Arthur Wright. 9th Btn. Cheshire Regiment Pte. Frederick A Wyatt. 12th Battalion East Surrey Regiment Lance Sgt. Robert Norman Young. 33rd Btn. L/Sjt. Robert Norman Young. 34th Btn. Capt. William Lancelot Young. MC. 45th Btn. Add a name to this list.

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