Private William Attenborough – King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 7th Battalion, Regimental number 19811. Died 20th July 1918. Buried at Bouilly Cross Roads Military Cemetery. Bouilly, Departement de l’Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France Plot: I.B.16. Bouilly is a commune 13 kilometres west … Read More
Private Hilary Carlin 1st/ 6th Battalion Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment. Regimental number 2448 – Died 30 March 1916 Plot I.C 15 Memorial ID 56570147. Mont Saint Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 … Read More
Private Ivor Drew is buried in the above cemetery reference: Cemetery/memorial reference: II. A. 18. Location: Nord, France Number of casualties: 930 Hazebrouck is a town lying about 56 kilometres south-east of Calais and is easily reached from Calais … Read More
The memorial commemorates more than 72,000 men of British and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave, the majority of whom died during the Somme offensive of 1916. On … Read More
William was Born in Derby in 1889. William enlisted at Alfreton, Derbyshire into the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) into the 10th battalion, in June 1914. He worked has a miner at Moorhole Colliery up to the time of … Read More
ARRAS MEMORIAL FAUBOURG D’AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS At the entrance to the Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery in France stands the Arras Memorial. The memorial commemorates nearly 35,000 soldiers of the British, South African and New Zealand forces with no known grave. … Read More
PRIVATE ARTHUR STATON – Died 29 May 1915 – Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery. Belgium. Row E. Grave 24. Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery is located 8 Kms south of Ieper on … Read More
PRIVATE ERNEST RAYMOND BUXTON – Died 1 May 1917 – Boulogne Eastern Part II UK Graves A – F France Cemetery/memorial reference: IV. C. 43. PRIVATE WILLIAM CARRINGTON – Died 22 January 1918 – Memorial ID 56254227, Grave reference … Read More
PRIVATE GUNNER FRED TURNER died 23 October 1918 in France and Flanders, he was buried at Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, Cemetery memorial reference II.B.8 Maissemy is a village about 5 kilometres north-west of St. Quentin and about two kilometres … Read More
A TALK GIVEN TO MOSBOROUGH HISTORY MEETING GROUP BY DAVE DARWIN ABOUT HIS CHILD HOOD IN MOSBOROUGH When Dave lived at Mosbro, he lived near farms and spent a lot of time on them. He was always working on the … Read More