Help finding Reg War Diary Please

[Dazscuba]

I am looking at a chap 

Pte 241924 Richard Farrah

who was Killed in Action with the 5th Battalion, Boarder  Reg on the 23rd April 1917.

 

i know he will not be in the war diary but am looking for where and what the 5th Battalion were doing when he died then hopefully will be able to get a trench map. 

 

A link for ancestry would be good thanks

[TEW]

The NA number search method seems to be working again so the easiest method is to find the Ancestry Dairy search page and type in 2831 into the keyword search box and hit enter.

 

WO95/2831 actually has 6 diaries in that series. You could refine the search with a date or hope that the search results identify 5th Borders for you. Otherwise I just jump through the pages 50 at a time until I land on the bit I'm after.

TEW

[charlie962]

PS

Did you know that there is a photo of him in, I think, the North Eastern Railway Magazine, July 1917, p149 (National Railway Museum) ?  There is a transcript of text in FindmyPast

[Mark1959]

See here. Shows 5 Border Regt in action. Detailed on that page and the next

Amended

Edited 4 October , 2019 by Mark1959

[MaxD]

The diary is WO 95/2843/4 Narrative on  Ancestry here https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60779/43849_2843_4-00059?pid=702942&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DdVB46%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D60779%26cp%3D0%26gskw%3D2843%26_F0007CF4%3Dborder%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26uidh%3D6x5%26redir%3Dfalse%26msT%3D1%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D39%26fh%3D0%26h%3D702942%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=dVB46&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true#?imageId=43849_2843_4-00102

 

Mark's link sends me to Stratford Leisure Center so I am not sure if I am duplicating.

 

Max

[TEW]

8 minutes ago, MaxD said:

The diary is WO 95/2843/4

 

Daz ignore my post, I'm in the wrong year!

TEW

[MaxD]

There is a map in the 151 Brigade diary which could be read with the battalion narrative.

 

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/60779/43849_2843_4-00100?pid=702950&backurl=https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DJsm8754%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D60779%26cp%3D0%26_F0007CF4%3Dborder%26_F0007CF4_x%3D1%26_F00088EF%3D5th%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26uidh%3Daoc%26redir%3Dfalse%26msT%3D1%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D39%26fh%3D4%26h%3D702950%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D5&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Jsm8754&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.260022920.306668578.1569939794-1160288830.1525181781#?imageId=43112_2838_0-00880

 

Max:

 

[MaxD]

NLS Map :

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=14&lat=50.2567&lon=2.8983&layers=101465080&b=1

 

Max

[Dazscuba]

42 minutes ago, charlie962 said:

PS

Did you know that there is a photo of him in, I think, the North Eastern Railway Magazine, July 1917, p149 (National Railway Museum) ?  There is a transcript of text in FindmyPast

Charlie thank you where do I go to find this any specific web page etc?

Thanks guys as audial you are spot on 

Darren 

[helpjpl]

1. Richard Farrah has a family tree and photo on ancestry:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/23687171/person/1430295606/gallery

 

2.  Kingston upon Hull War Memorial:

https://www.ww1hull.com/directory-newtest/listing/farrah-richard/

 

3.  This may be of interest. The Second Battle of the Scarpe - starts page 215. 5th Bn Border Regiment (151st Brigade) gets several mentions - see pages 216, 217 and 222-223:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jmS-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=Nepal+Trench,+Wancourt&source=bl&ots=6U1nJfPPRj&sig=ACfU3U2ePPfx3xEweepE_G6k7g6QhvdI_Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic1q7z2YLlAhXvSRUIHcbSDpEQ6AEwBHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

JP