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Photograph Album: 2nd Battalion portraits of officers and some group photographs (1915-18) also maps, newspaper cuttings regarding retreat from St.Quentin (1918) presented by Lt.Col.Poyntz Jun 1923.

1915-1923

From: 1915 To: 1923

portraits comprise: - Major H.F.Bidder, 3rd Royal Sussex regiment, commanding 2nd Bedfordshires until 4 Nov 1915; - Lt.Col.H.S.Poyntz; - Captain L.F.Beal MC, adjutant and later Second in Command of 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment; - Major H.M.Cressingham DSO DCM, Quartermaster; - Captain R.O.Wynne DSO & Bar, Commander of C Company, Second in Command Jul 1917 to Apr 1918, Commander of 2nd Battalion in Apr 1918 [later Commander of 7th Battalion cadre]; - Captain J.W.H.T.Douglas, Commander of A Company; joined 4 Dec 1915; Second in Command; appointed to command 20th Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment Jan 1917; drowned at sea 19 Dec 1930 [captain of Essex and England at cricket]; - Captain E.S.M.Poyntz, Commander of B Company; joined 4 Dec 1915; Second in Command Jan - Apr 1917, Commander of 2nd Battalion Apr to Jul 1917; - Captain P.C.Cavan, Commander of D Company; - 2nd Lieutenant W.Hobbs MC of C Company; - Captain T.E."Fritz" Amyot; Medical Officer 1915-1917; - Captain E.Gibson; killed at Trones Wood 11 Jun 1916; - Lieutenant White MC, A Company; killed 12 Oct 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant W.Sharpe, Machine Gun Officer; sick from 20 Apr 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant L.H.Walker of B Company; killed on Somme 12 Oct 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant M.E.Gudgeon of C Company; sick from 28 Nov 1915; - Lieutenant A.H.O.Riddell MC; - 2nd Lieutenant R.A.Oldfield MC & Bar, Bomb Instructor; wounded Sep 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant C.Russell Smith; sick from 10 Feb 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant F.Anns; killed at Givenchy 6 Nov 1915; - 2nd Lieutenant R.E.Oakley MC of C Company; - 2nd Lieutenant H.C.Lovely; joined Oct 1915; wounded at Givenchy 6 Nov 1915 and on Somme 30 Jul 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant J.Coe of D Company; promoted from the ranks; Mentioned in Despatches Jun 1918; wounded at Ypres, Arras and Somme; promoted Major 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant A.Grover DSO MC; acting Lieutenant Colonel commanding 2nd/4th London Regiment 1918; promoted from the ranks; wounded at Ypres, rejoined 4 Dec 1915, wounded in an accident 5 Jan 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant H.C.Deacon; - 2nd Lieutenant E.G.Hankinson; wqounded at Maricourt 29 Jun 1916, joined 30 Nov 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant E.E.A.Collisson; joined 24 Nov 1915; killed at Maricourt 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant R.J.Saunders; joined 24 Nov 1915; sick 15 Jan 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant R.F.C.Ballard; joined 7 Dec 1915; killed at Guillemont 30 Jul 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant L.Lawrence; sick 25 Jan 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant H.de Buriatte; rejoined 20 Aug 1916; wounded Aug 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant A.Newton; seconded to Trench Mortar Battery; - Brigadier-General Hon.F.C.Stanley GMG DSO; commanding 89th Infantry Brigade; - Captain G.Torry MC; Staff Captain 89th Infantry Brigade; - Captain E.Lascelles MC, Brigade Major 89th Infantry Brigade; - 2nd Lieutenant G.A.Anstee MC; joined 7 Feb 1916; adjutant Feb 1917; wounded and PoW in retreat from St-Quentin; - Lieutenant H.A.Chamen; joined 4 Jun 1916; killed at Guillemont 30 Jul 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant L.H.Fox; joined 23 Mar 1916; killed at Trones Wood 11 Jul 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant F.E.Plummer; joined 22 May 1916; wounded at Trones Wood 11 Jun 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant A.L.Gordon; joined 26 May 1916; wounded at Guillemont 30 Jul 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant D.P.Cross; joined 27 May 1916l adjutant to 17th King's (Liverpool) Regiment 1917; killed Aug 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant J.B.Primrose-Wells; joined 13 Jun 1916l; sick 18 Sep 1916; wounded and missing 23 Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant D.D.Warren MC. joined 19 Jun 1916; wounded St-Quentin 22 Mar 1918; wounded and missing Aug 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant F.Hague MC; joined 27 Jun 1916; sick 4 Dec 1916; twice wounded with 1st Battalion; - 2nd Lieutenant L.Dolman; joined 26 Mar 1916; wounded at Montauban 4 Jul 1917; killed with 1st Battalion; awarded Croix de Guerre; - 2nd Lieutenant H.C.Phillips; joined 24 Mar 1916; sick 15 Jul 1916; - Captain C.G.Tyler; joined 25 Mar 1916; killed at Trones Wood 11 Jul 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant H.J.Brickell; joined 13 Jun 1916; wounded at Trones Wood 11 Jul 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant A.L.Fink MC; joined 23 Mar 1916; killed at Ypres 7 Oct 1917; - Captain R.Hopkins; wounded at Loos 1915; rejoined 16 Sep 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant G.C.Reynolds; joined 27 Jun 1916; killed on Somme 12 Oct 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant J.Pitts; joined 14 Aug 1916; wounded on Somme 12 Oct 1916; Second in Command 17th Battalion King's (Liverpool) regiment 1917 and Commander of that Battalion May 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant H.G.Fyson; joined 17 May 1916; killed on Somme 12 Oct 1916; - Captain P.H.Turnbull, Army Chaplain; joined 20 Mar 1916; left Jun 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant E.Houseman, B Company; joined 21 Sep 1916; wounded at Arras Apr 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant C.H.Shaw, A Company; joined 21 Sep 1916; killed at Ypres Jul 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant H.D.Chester; sick 15 Jan 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant C.Haywood; joined May 1917; wounded at Ypres 1917; wounded at St-Quentin 25 Mar 1918 and made PoW; - Lieutenant H.E.Mudford; wounded at Loos 1915; rejoined 21 Sep 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant G.Lenton; killed Ypres 1 Aug 1917 [digital file available]; - 2nd Lieutenant W.E.Hart; joined 18 Feb 1917; wounded at Arras 8 Apr 1917; - Captain P.J.Reiss MC & Bar MM; wounded 12 Oct 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant A.P.Methuen; Signalling Officer; joined 20 Aug1916; wounded Ypres 1917 and in retreat from St-Quentin 22 Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant I.T.M.Collins; joined 1 Sep 1916; wounded and missing at Ypres 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant A.F.Aldridge; joined from ranks 11 Dec 1916; wounded in retreat from St-Quentin Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant E[dward L].Marsden; joined May 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant F.G.Searle MC MSM; missing at Ypres 9 Oct 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant F.G.Matthews; promoted from ranks; joined 3 Mar 1917; wounded Arras 1917 and Ypres 1914; - 2nd Lieutenant Stone; joined 14 Nov 1916; wounded at Arras 11 Apr 1917; 2nd Lieutenant A.Young; joined 11 Dec 1915; wounded at Arras 11 Apr 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant E.E.Bath; joined 27 Feb 1917; wounded in retreat from St-Quentin 28 Mar 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant E.J.Wray; joined 18 Feb 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant A.W.Joyce; joined 23 Jan 1917; - Captain G.Tawse RAMC; joined Aug 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant R.Hose; joined 15 Mar 1917; killed at Arras 18 Mar 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant H.H.Harman; joined 27 Feb 1916; sick 2 Nov 1916; transferred to RAF; - 2nd Lieutenant T.J.Pemberton; - Captain F.A.Sloan MC; wounded 31 Jul 1916 and 21 Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant G.B.L.Matthews; joined 14 Nov 1916; wounded at Arras 11 Apr 1917; - Lieutenant H.Hargreaves; wounded at Ypres 1917; - Captain J.W.Hurrell MC; adjutant Aug 1915; wounded at Loos 25 Sep 1915; promoted Major and Second in Command 19th Battalion King's (Liverpool) Regiment Oct 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant S.E.Cline; wounded at Arras 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant C.Shekury MC; killed Sep 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant F.J.Chadwick; joined 12 Aug 1916; killed on Somme 12 Oct 1916; - 2nd Lieutenant W.H.Bird; joined 1 Sep 1916; killed on Somme 12 Oct 1916; - Captain S.G.Hague MC; joined May 1917; killed Sep 1918; - Captain W.J.Holbrook MC; joined 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant S.Courtney; joined 17 Sep 1917; wounded in retreat from St-Quentin 22 Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant J.Kerr; joined 17 Sep 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant P.A.Page; promoted from ranks; joined 5 May 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant D.Lydle; promoted from ranks; joined 2 Feb 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant F.C.Baldwin; joined 17 Sep 1917; killed at Ypres 11 May 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant C.E.Compton; joined 17 Sep 1917; sick 24 Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant J.C.M.Taylor; joined 17 Sep 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant G.W.Manners; joined 10 Aug 1917; - 2nd Lieut.L.E.Agar; joined 17 Sep 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant F.E.Thompson; joined 17 Sep 1917; PoW in retreat from St-Quentin 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant L.A.Tansley; joined 17 Sep 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant W.Pennington; joined 17 Sep 1917; wounded in treteat from St-Quentin; - 2nd Lieutenant W.L.Carpenter; joined 17 Sep 1917; wounded in retreat from St-Quentin 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant W.F.Billingham; joined 17 Sep 1917; wounded at Ypres 8 May 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant W.R.Shaw; joined 17 Sep 1917; PoW at Ham 23 Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant S.W.Goble; joined 17 Sep 1917; - Captain F.V.Parker; wounded and PoW in retreat from St-Quentin; died 1921 from effects of imprisonment; - 2nd Lieutenant A.J.H.Rodgers; joined 17 Sep 1917; wounded at Ypres 8 May 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant S.H.Smith; Transport Officer; joined 17 Sep 1917; - 2nd Lieutenant A.D.Greenwood; joined 17 Sep 1917; killed Aug 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant G.R.Jacob; joined 17 Sep 1917; - Captain R.B.Parslew - Chaplain; - Lieutenant G.S.Silliman MORC USA; Medical Officer; - Captain Pares MC; Commander of D Company; wounded 24 Mar 1918; - 2nd Lieutenant Boulton; wounded on Somme 1 Jul 1916; - Captain Pearce MC; Commander of A Company; wounded 12 Oct 1916; - group taken at Buire-au-Bois 17 May 1917 comprising: Turnbull; Aldridge; Hague; Joyce; Hargreaves; Hobbs; Shaw; Collins; Methuen; Cline; Pitts; Amyot; Fink; Cressingham; H.S.Poyntz; Newbolt; Wynne; Hopkins; Oakley; Shekury; Searle; Warren; Jones; Bath; - Private S.Ball; enlisted Jun 1914 joining Battalion same year and served in France until 1917 when transferred to Machine Gun Corps; joined Bedfordshire Constabulary Jul 1919 and served until 1951; joined 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Home Guard Apr 1952, appointed Colour Sergeant "and is still serving today (Jan 1956)"; - group taken in Dec 1917 comprising: Goble; Shaw; Page; Baldwin; Joyce; Compton; Smith; Cross; Hobbs; Lang; Coe; Reiss; Aldridge; Hague; Cressingham; Anstee; Bunbury; Wynne; Methuen; Kerr; Warren; Greenwood; Courtney; Tansley; Billingham; - group taken after the retreat from St-Quentin 1918 comprising: Wombwell; Kerr; Page; Greenwood; Pomerantz; Lydle; Cline; Oldfield; Cross; Parslew; Goble; Reiss; Warren; Wynne; Coe; Hague; - group of Sergeants left after the retreat from St-Quentin including: Hales; Allen; Coxall; Baxter; Roper; Franks; Piper; Males; Maidment; Mansfield; Clarke; Summer; Mart; Cobbold

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Poyntz, Hugh Stainton,
Poyntz, Edward Stephen Massey,
Douglas, John William Henry Tyler,
Beal, Leonard Frank,
Cressingham, Hugh Montrein,
Wynne, Richard Owen,
Cavan, P.C.,
Hobbs, W.,
Amyot, T.E.,
Gibson, Edward,
White,
Sharpe, W.,
Walker, Laurence Hall,
Gudgeon, M.E.,
Riddell, A.H.O.,
Oldfield, R T,
Russell Smith, C.,
Anns, Frederick,
Oakley, R.E.,
Lovely, H.C.,
Coe, J.T.,
Grover, A.,
Deacon, H.C.,
Collisson, Evelyn Ernest Arnold,
Hankinson, E.G.,
Saunders, R.J.,
Ballard, Robert Francis Cooper,
Lawrence, L.,
de Buriatte, H.,
Newton, A.,
Stanley, Ferdinand Charles,
Torry, G.,
Lascelles, Edward,
Anstee, G.A.,
Chamen, Harold Ashcombe,
Fox, Leslie Herbert,
Plummer, F.E.,
Gordon, A.L.,
Cross, Dennis Patrick,
Primrose-Wells, James Bowen,
Warren, D D,
Hague, F.,
Dolman, Leonard,
Phillips, H.C.,
Tyler, Cornelius George,
Fink, Lawrence Alexander Lewis,
Hopkins, R.,
Reynolds, G.C.,
Pitts, Joseph,
Fyson, Harold George,
Turnbull, Peveril Hayes,
Houseman, E.,
Shaw, Charles Henry,
Chester, H.D.,
Haywood, C,
Mudford, H.E.,
Lenton, G,
Hart, W.E.,
Reiss, Philip Julius,
Methuen, A.P.,
Collins, I.T.M.,
Aldridge, A.F.,
Marsden, E.L.,
Searle, F.G.,
Matthews, F.G.,
Stone,
Young, A.,
Bath, E E,
Wray, E.J.,
Joyce, A.W.,
Tawse, G.,
Hose, Robert Henry,
Harman, H H,
Pemberton, T.J.,
Sloan, Frank Alan,
Matthews, G.B.L.,
Hargreaves, H.,
Hurrell, J.W.,
Cline, S.E.D.,
Shekury, Cecil,
Chadwick, Francis Joseph,
Bird, William Henry,
Hague, Sydney George,
Holbrook, William J.,
Courtney, S.,
Kerr, J.,
Page, P.A.,
Lydle, D.,
Baldwin, Frederick Charles,
Compton, C.E.,
Taylor, J C M,
Manners, G.W.,
Agar, L.E.,
Thompson, F E,
Tansley, L.A.,
Pennington, W.,
Carpenter, W.L.,
Billingham, W.F.,
Shaw, W.R.,
Goble, S.W.,
Parker, F V,
Rogers, A.J.H.,
Smith, S.H.,
Greenwood, Arthur Donald,
Jacob, G.R.,
Parslew, Reginald Bowering,
Silliman, G.S.,
Pares,
Boulton,
Pearce,
Ball, S.,
Jones,
Lang,
Pomerantz, H.,
Bunbury, C.H.de St.Pierre,
Hales,
Allen,
Coxall,
Baxter,
Roper,
Franks,
Piper,
Males,
Maidment,
Mansfield,
Clarke,
Summer,
Mart,
Cobbald

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