Post Office Rifles in Plugstreet

[Guest crowleydesign]

My great uncle, Michael John Crowley of the 8th London, Post Office Rifles was killed on the 3rd October 1918. No body was found and his name is on the memorial at Plugstreet. Strange thing is that no other Post Office Rifleman is named here or in the local area, and most of the other names at Plugstreet were killed during 1916/17. Does anyone have any answers to why he was in that area at that time?

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Rob

You will need to read the CWGC notes to the Ploegsteert Memorial. To be remembered there means an unrecovered casualty lost between a large specified area delineated both north and south of it.

For specific positioning of 8LR (both 1/8 and 2/8 were amalgamated in 2/18) see War Diary WO95/3006 (Feb 1918 to May 1919).

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[Guest crowleydesign]

Thanks sotonmate

Had a look at a photo I took yesterday at the memorial and you're right, its says 'those fallen between The River Douve and the towns of Estaires and Furnes.' Need to look at a few maps!

And the amalgamation in Spring 1918, thought that might come into it.

Thanks again.

Rob

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Rob

It's quite a wide corridor,I marked it on my Michelin Map Book ! The catchment "box" is around 30kms by 10kms.

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