15 Bn middlesex Regt

[liverpool annie]

EDIT ... I didn't see your other post ... !!


There's 2 medal cards for Thomas .... !! looks like they're both the same !! if you don't already have them - you can download for 3 pounds 50 !!

Medal card of Halsey, Thomas W

4th Middlesex Regiment
L/10338
Private
4th Middlesex Regiment
L/10338
Private
Royal Field Artillery
93561
Driver
Royal Engineers
1861424
Driver
Date
1914-1920

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0qt/

Medal card of Halsey, Thomas W

4th Middlesex Regiment
L/10338
Private
4th Middlesex Regiment
L/10338
Private
Royal Field Artillery
93561
Driver
Royal Engineers
1861424
Driver
Date
1914-1920

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0qt/

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

And here's John Patrick's !!

Medal card of Wright, John P

Middlesex Regiment
G/21064
Private
Date
1914-1920

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0qu/

Annie 

[coops741]

thank you very much for all your help
its greatly appreciated


thanks again

[boincha]

I've just started tracing a great Uncle in preparation for a trip to the battlefields next year. He is Oliver John Perry who was in the 13th brigade Middlesex regiment. One of the few things I know so far is that he was killed in action on 18.8.1916. and is buried in Bernafay woods cemetry. He died on the same day as John Patrick Wright so presumably they were both engaged in the same action that day - they probably knew each other?
How do I find out what the particular engagement was that day?
I would also like to find out how he won the Military Medal - which I think is a galantry medal?

[coops741]

I've just started tracing a great Uncle in preparation for a trip to the battlefields next year. He is Oliver John Perry who was in the 13th brigade Middlesex regiment. One of the few things I know so far is that he was killed in action on 18.8.1916. and is buried in Bernafay woods cemetry. He died on the same day as John Patrick Wright so presumably they were both engaged in the same action that day - they probably knew each other?
How do I find out what the particular engagement was that day?
I would also like to find out how he won the Military Medal - which I think is a galantry medal?

its strang that we they were both our uncles, john is also in Bernafey wood cemetry, i believe that there is a small b+b(old train station) near the cemetry which was use as a casualty clearing station at the time as for you question you could try the links below, also the national army museum in chelsea

 the military medal is ineed for galantry and one of the highest awarded to the ordinary ranks i think that was normally noted in the times (like the VC)

http://www.1914-1918.net/msex.htm
http://www.britishwargraves.org.uk/newsite/units/Middlesex_Regiment.htm
http://www.firstworldwar.com/today/bernafaywoodcemetery.htm

about a week ago i was given the last letter that john wrote to his sister it discribed his 17th birthday in shoreham day before he left for the front

if youve got any information about the unit they were both in that you find maybe we could share our information

regards

coops741
Glen Cooper

[boincha]

Thanks for prompt reply. I will keep you updated on anything I find out and I will seek out John Patrick's grave when I visit Bernafay.
Oliver John would have been slightly older than John Patrick - he had a three year old daughter (my aunt) when he died. She died last year and left behind a number of items he had sent to her from France, including letters; a dolls dress and a lengthy and quite good poem about life "on the front". (not quite Wilfred Owen but still very evocative). She kept everything for 90 years along with his medals which were always displayed in a case on the wall in her house. They always fascinated me as a child so I am really looking forward to finding out about this man that she never knew herself.

thanks
boincha
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From British Battalions on the Somme, by Ray Westlake.

I had this info from someone on another site  (RootsChat.com). It details the last movements and last action of our two uncles

Boincha    Roger

13th (Service) Battalion. 73rd Brigade, 24th Division: Arrived Saleux by train (25/7) and marched to billets at Molliens-Vidames. Entrained at Hangest-sur-Somme for Vecquemont (31/7) and from there marched to Corbie. To Happy Valley (2/8), trenches at Arrow Head Copse (17/8). Attack towards Guillemont (18/8) - advance on right of Trones Wood Road checked by cross fire. Withdrew to La Briqueterie. To the craters in front of Carnoy (19/8)...........

Looks like he was killed in the attack on Guillemont. Bernafay is the next wood to the west of Trones Wood, not far fom the action, so I would think an immediate burial.


Steve.