Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg180
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 1. pg180 |
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| Date | 1916 |
| Page number | Unknown |
| Publisher | Reading Standard |
| Description | 224 pages bound volume |
| Horizon Number: | 1246254 |
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Lynda Chater. Edited 11th October 2015
BERKSHIRE YEOMANRY continued
THE SPIRIT OF WOLFE.
The Berkshire Yeomanry went into action on August 21st
with nine officers and 312 men and of these five officers and
over 160 of other ranks were reported killed, missing or
wounded (several "missing" afterwards reported). Unfortunately,
the regiment lost its leader, Major E. S. Gooch, who
had assumed command when Lieut. Colonel H. G. Henderson
was invalided the night before, and greatly distinguished
himself by his skilful leading over difficult country. Revolver
in hand, he was the first member of the regiment to step into
the enemy's trenches. In this moment of triumph he received
a bullet wound in the head and a month later he died of the
injury. As he lay shot, the gallant officer was defended by
Second Lieut. Hubert Blyde, who had been promoted from
the ranks. Major Gooch, who was the only officer to lose his
life as a result of the engagement, served in the South
African war as a subaltern of the 7th Hussars and commanded
the Windsor Squadron of the Berks Yeomanry. A
correspondent has drawn attention to "the heartfelt satisfaction,
, not to call it joy, of the late Major Gooch, who while
wrestling with death in a London hospital reviewed the
behaviour of his boys of the Berks Yeomanry. This
seemed to suggest a touch of the spirit of Wolfe on
Abraham's Heights - a dying soldier satisfied with a warlike
exploit successfully accomplished, and the devotion of his
men that rendered it possible."
Tpr. HARRY A. THORPE. Kintbury. Missing.
Tpr. RALPH SHUTLER, 47, Cheap
Street, Newbury. Wounded and
missing.
Tpr. THOMAS J. BOURKE, "Conway",
Blenheim Road, Caversham.
Wounded.
The late Major EDWARD SINCLAIR GOOCH, Banavie, N. B.
son of the late Mr. J. V. Gooch and Mrs. Gooch, Cooper's Hill,
Bracknell. Died of wounds. Aged 37. He commanded the regiment
in the assault on Hill 70 and was mentioned in despatches.
A concert to wounded soldiers in Cairo was given by the above - Tpr.
Cave, Tpr. Holland, Tpr. R. L. West, Corpl. R. Dormer, Tpr. W.
Hill, Sergt. W. Dormer.
The late Tpr. FRANK W. PARKER
Black Bourton, Clanfield, Oxon. Died of
wounds. Aged 19.
Second Lieut. HUBERT C. BLYDE,
8, College Road, Reading. He followed
Major Gooch into the first trench at
Hill 70 and gallantly defended him.
Mentioned in dispatches.
Tpr. A. T. WILLOUGHBY, 58, Alpine
Street, Reading. Wounded.