Thread: Poets killed on 1st day of the Somme. 2nd Lt Henry Field
6th Battalion Royal Warks killed during bitter fighting for Serre. 1 of 836 casualties from the battalion. Aged 22 buried Serre Road Cemetery 1/7 #WW1
Thread: Poets killed on 1st day of the Somme. Lt William Hodgson MC
9th Battalion the Devonshires. Killed whilst taking a supply of bombs to his men in newly captured trenches near Mametz. Buried at Devonshire Cemetery, Mandela Copse 2/7 #WW1
Thread: Poets killed on 1st day of the Somme. Lt Alfred Ratcliffe
10th Battalion West Yorks killed while attacking Fricourt. Battalion suffered more casualties than any other battalion 60%. Aged 29 buried at Fricourt Cemetery. 3/7 #WW1
Thread: Poets killed on 1st day of the Somme. Cpl Alex Robertson.
12th Battalion. Sheffield Pals. Killed on the attack on Serre the 1st to move fwd on the first day. Met with heavy shelling. Body never found aged 34 recorded on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing 4/7
#WW1
Thread: Poets killed on 1st day of the Somme. Sgt John Streets
12th York & Lancs Reg known as the miner poet. Wound early in the day. Rtn to find another soldier badly injured on the front line. Never seen again. Aged 31 buried Euston Road Cemetery. 5/7 #WW1
Thread: Poets killed on 1st day of the Somme. 2nd Lt Gilbert Waterhouse
2nd Battalion Essex. Took park in bitter hand to hand fighting south of Serre. Missing presumed dead. Buried No. 2 Beaumont
6/7. #WW1
Thread: Poets killed on 1st day of the Somme. Lt Bernard White.
20th battalion Northumberland’s killed opposite the village of La Boisselle last seen standing on the parapet of German trenches throwing bombs. Aged 29 name on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing. 7/7 #WW1
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