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From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] WW1
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 14:24:28 +0100
References: <3B6B0D3C.3F2405A2@telus.net>

Mary - Frederick was killed during an attack on a German position called
"Snag Trench", near the village of Le Sars, on the Somme. His grave at
Warlencourt BC is about a mile north-east of that point, along the
Albert-Bapaume road.

The SDITGW database shows his regimental number as 372908 which is in the
range of "new" (Territorial Force) regimental numbering for the 8th
Londons - that almost certainly means that he was first reported as "missing
in action". Warlencourt BC is a post war "concentration cemetery" and is in
fact located behind what was the German front line at the end of the 1916
Somme battles - it is immediately north-east of the infamous landmark the
"Butte de Warlencourt"..
>
> "where he joined"
### Born, enlisted, and residing Gateshead.
>
> "I have a copy of a letter written in Salisburgh May 18 1916, one
somewhere over seas August 18 1916, -------- > when he joined ?"
### On the face of it he would appear to be an early 1916 conscript.
>
> "he was from Gateshead. Why the London
> Regiment?"
### The Army placed men where they were needed. Regional associations
dimminished rapidly as the war progressed.
>
> "Also was he a Postman before he joined?"
### Doesnt follow, not for a late 1915 or 1916 enlistment.
>
regards
--
Tom Tulloch-Marshall
Great War Military Research

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