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Remembered Today:

Sydney Frederick Walker 6Btn Northamptonshire Rgt


Doug Lewis

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Remembering Today

Pte Sydney Frederick Walker 1905 6th Btn Northamptonshire Rgt.

Name: WALKER

Initials: S F

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Northamptonshire Regiment

Unit Text: 6th Bn.

Age: 26

Date of Death: 17/02/1917

Service No: 1905

Additional information: Son of Mr. F. G. Walker, of 100, Stamford Park Rd., Hale. Altrulcham Cheshire.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. C. 30.

Cemetery: REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT

Cemetery: REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT

Country: France

Locality: Somme

Location Information: Although Regina Trench Cemetery is in the commune of Grandcourt, it is not possible to gain access to the cemetery from Grandcourt. Visitors should approach the cemetery from the direction of Courcelette, which is a village about 8 kilometres north-east of Albert (next to the main road D929 Albert-Bapaume). The cemetery lies about 1.5 kilometres north-west of the village of Courcelette (signposted in the centre of Courcelette) and will be found 1.5 kilometres down a single track lane (not suitable for cars).

Historical Information: On 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Grandcourt village was reached by part of the 36th (Ulster) Division, but it was not until the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line, early in February 1917, that it was occupied by patrols of the Howe Battalion, Royal Naval Division. To the south-east of it is Courcelette, taken by the 2nd Canadian Division on 15 September 1916. Regina Trench was a German earthwork, captured for a time by the 5th Canadian Brigade on 1 October 1916, attacked again by the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions on 8 October, taken in part by the 18th and 4th Canadian Divisions on 21 October, and finally cleared by the 4th Canadian Division on 11 November 1916. The original part of the cemetery (now Plot II, Rows A to D) was made in the winter of 1916-1917. The cemetery was completed after the Armistice when graves were brough in from the battlefields of Courcelette, Grandcourt and Miraumont; most date from October 1916 to February 1917. Regina Trench Cemetery now contains 2,279 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 1,077 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 14 casualties believed to be buried among them. One American airman is also buried in the cemetery. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.

No. of Identified Casualties: 1203

From SDGW

Born-Northampton

Enlisted-Altrincham,Cheshire.

KIA 17/2/1917.

Doug

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Sydney is remembered on the Hale War Memorial here

SDGW suggest his number is 17905, not 1905. Seems to accord with others listed by SDGW. Also suggests a late recruit as soldiers in the series 179** are all 1917 deaths (not that there's many of them)

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