Roll of Honour of the men of the
1/5th South Staffordshire Regiment
who died in front of Gommecourt, 1st 1916

"At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
we will remember them."

Allen Herbert   2nd Lt.
Aldridge James David 4240 Sergt.
Baker Ernest 712 Pte
Bates Harold 9805 Pte
Bennett Jesse 9629 Pte
Billing Harold 9398 L/Cpl
Bradley William 9022 Pte
Brown George 496 Pte
Bruerton Frank 1299 Pte
Burns John 9683 Pte
Checkley Thomas 608 Pte
Christie Charles 514 Pte
Church William 556 Pte
Cope Alfred 9046 Pte
Davis Enoch William 1125 Pte
Degville John L 1024 Pte
Eglington Ferdinand   Capt
Ellison Stanley John   2nd Lt.
Fawcett Frank Aldridge   2nd Lt.
Green Joseph 9761 Pte
Harris John 15 Pte
Hawkes James 1106 Pte
Hayward Enoch 9075 L/Cpl
Hibbett Sydney 8830 Sergt.
Hill Arthur 1323 Pte
Hopkins William 685 Pte
Hunt William 9685 Pte
Hutchinson Albert Edward 8782 Cpl.
Law Frank 9953 Pte
Luckett Albert Henry 1157 Pte
Pettet Herbert 943 Pte
Pincher William 9040 Pte
Proffitt Charles 8735 Pte
Purcell George. 8173 Pte
Roberts William. 9041 Pte
Sanger Thomas Rudolph   2nd Lt.
Shaw Frank 583 Pte
Sidaway David 9863 Cpl.
Sidaway Enos 8429 Pte
Spittle John James 73 L/Cpl
Stackhouse Thomas Henry Reuben 8993 L/Cpl
Stebbings Frederick William George 689 Pte
Thorne John Parry   Lt.
Venables Arthur 727 Pte
Waddams Victor 37 L/Cpl
Whitehouse Horace 9386 Pte
Williams Walter 493 Pte
Wooldridge George 9512 Pte

Published courtesy of the Commonwealth War Grave Commission.
A full version, including family and memorial details and men
who died prior to 1st July or who died of wounds after that date, appears in the book
'A Lack of Offensive Spirit'

© Alan MacDonald 2006/7. All rights reserved. No publication without permission.


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