Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 278
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| Title | Berkshire and The War: the "Reading Standard" pictorial record. Volume 2. p 278 |
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| Date | 1917 |
| Page number | 278 |
| Publisher | Unknown |
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5 th Batt. Royal Berkshire Regiment -contnued .
T h e l at e Lce. - Corpl. ERNEST WM .POPE , 2, Spring Cottages,
Thatcham .- Killed in action . Aged 41.
Pte. MARK HENRY ENGLEFIELD , 3, Hart Street , Reading . -
Twice wounded.
The late Pt e. GEO . CLIFTON , Lower Farm, Greenham.-Killed in action .
Aged 20.
Pte. RICHARD CROCKFORD,
35, Granby Gardens, Reading . Missing ,believed killed.
Aged 20.
The late Pt e. CHAS. GRIFFIN, Knowl Hill .- Killed in action. Aged 18.
Pte. CHARLES DREWETT, 11,Granby Gardens, Readng . - Missing , believed killed.
Aged 32.
Wednesday, October 13th, 1915, is an important date
in the diary of the 5th Royal Berkshires, for it saw the
battalion make its first attack.
The event was at the Quarries at Hulluch. Great courage was shown by the
battalion, which Colonel F. W . Foley, D .S.O ., commanded, and survivors have praised the enterprise of the
bomb-throwers, of whom about 32 went forward and not
m ore than; ten returned. " Each deserved the D .C .M. "
said a Wokingham private. There was great loss : eleven
officers were killed, wounded or missing.
Amongst the missing were Major W . K. Bayley and.
Capt. Frank Mount, brother of the M ember for S. Berks.
Among the officers known to be killed in the engagement
were Lieut. Stephen Reiss, Streatley, and Lieut.
Trewartha-James, an old Bradfield boy, each of them a
young m an o f high patriotic instincts and manly qualities.
" H e was a splendid officer and a gentleman"
wrote a wounded private o f Lieut. Trewartha-James,
whose commanding officer w rote: " He led the attack
most gallantly. . . All the officers loved him ".
Pte. VICTOR POVEY , 17, Wilton
Road, Reading. Invalided.
Corpl. SAMUEL RAY ILES, 12, Amity Road, Reading.- Wounded.
Pte. F. GORDON , 49, Essex Street, Reading - Wounded .
Pt e. J .W. COX, Wokefield Green, Mortimer. - Invalided.
Pte. BRICE BEW, 17a, London Road, Newbury.- Wounded.
The late Pt e. A . GALE , Blue Cottage, Shiplake .- Killed in action.