Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2 p267

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Title Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2 p 267
Date 1917
Page number 267
Publisher Unknown
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HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT.

[photo, portrait] Corpl. F. G. LATIMER, 10th Batt., 47, Donnington Gardens, Reading. -€” Wounded.

[photo, portrait] Pte. G. POCOCK, 10th Batt., St. Mark's Rd., Binfield. -€” Missing since Aug. 10, 1915.

[photo, portrait] Pte. CHARLES BURFORD, 1st Batt., Eversley -€” Wounded.

[photo, portrait] Pte. J. H. BUNCE, 1/4th Batt., 6, Pinewood Avenue, Crowthorne. -€” Sick with enteric and heat stroke.

[photo, portrait] The late Second Lieut. JOHN WEEKS, 11th Batt. Devon Regt., attached 2nd Battalion, 39, Northumberland Avenue, Reading. -€” Lost at sea in the "Royal Edward" disaster. Aged 26.

[picture, ship] THE TRANSPORT "ROYAL EDWARD,"
Carrying about 1,380 officers and troops and ship'€™ s crew of 220 officers and men, was sunk by a German submarine in the Aegean Sea with great loss of life. Only 600 were saved. The disaster was most tragic, because so m any valuable lives were lost -€” men who had been long trained and were burning to meet the foe and had never been given that opportunity.

[photo, portrait] Lce.-Corpl. JAMES PERRY, 2nd Batt., Easthampstead Cottage Laundry, near Wokingham. -€” Wounded and missing since April 28th, 1915.

[photo, portrait] Pte. JAMES H. TARRANT, 2nd Batt., 290, Hemdean Rd., Caversham. -€” Missing, believed killed. Aged 29.

[photo, portrait] Sergt. W. E. PARRANT, 10th Batt., 2, Bromley Cottages, Sandhurst. -€” Wounded.

[photo, portrait] The late Lce.-Corpl. A. J. THATCHER, Salter'€™s Heath, near Basingstoke. -€” Lost at sea in the "Royal Edward" disaster.