Remembering 11th April 1915

Soldiers Died in The Great War records that 121 British Army officers and men died one hundred years ago today on the 11th April 1915. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives a slightly higher figure of 125 men and their names are listed below:

9218 Private Sydney John Abbot, 2nd Bn, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
11932 Private Edward Armstrong, 6th Bn, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
1949 Private Robert Geoffrey Aston, Warwickshire Yeomanry
Major Hugh Wordsworth Atlay DSO, 52nd Bty, Royal Field Artillery
4697 Private Joseph Aylward, 1st Bn, Royal Irish Regiment
2240 Private John Baines, 3rd Bn, Monmouthshire Regiment
1888 Private Charles Cecil Baker, 1st/4th Bn, Lincolnshire Regiment
3/6317 Private Baker, 1st Bn, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1331 Private William Martin Baker, 1st/5th Bn, Lincolnshire Regiment
8073 Lance Corporal Barson, 1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment
7341 Private George Henry Boswell, 1st Bn, Lincolnshire Regiment
9488 Private George Bernard Brabazon, 1st Bn, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
8799 Corporal Brady, 1st Bn, Leinster Regiment
3424 Private William Briody, 2nd Bn, Leinster Regiment
Private Robert Brown, 7th Bn, Royal Scots
18810 Lance Corporal Campbell, 16th Bn, Royal Scots
2858 Private Chandler, 4th Bn, Suffolk Regiment
326001 Private Joseph Clark, 1st/7th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
8199 Serjeant Edward Charles Claybyn, 1st Bn, Devonshire Regiment
S/6972 Rifleman Collins, 1st Bn, Rifle Brigade
10873 Private Herman Collyer, 2nd Bn, Welsh Regiment
9861 Private Connaughton, 1st Bn, Connaught Rangers
LSR/2165 Private Albert Coppard, 2nd Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment
1966 Private John Raysons Davis, Eastern Mounted Field Amb, Royal Army Medical Corps
Major Francis Arthur Dickinson, 2nd Bn, attd, 1st Bn, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
784 Driver Doidge, Royal Engineers
L/8510 Corporal Thomas Dray, 2nd Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
35715 Driver Wilfred Drury, 148th Bty, Royal Field Artillery
24822 Private Dunkley, 14th Bn, Gloucestershire Regiment
8346 Private William Charles Durrant, 5th Bn, South Staffordshire Regiment
83812 Serjeant William Ben Dutch, 152nd Bde Royal Field Artillery
7145 Private Arthur Eagleton, 1st Bn,York and Lancaster Regiment
5241 Serjeant Ferguson, 26th Field Coy, Royal Engineers
3262 Serjeant Patrick Fitzmartin, 2nd Bn, Leinster Regiment
9727 Private Forster, 2nd Bn, East Surrey Regiment
13 Company Serjeant Major Thomas Harold Frost, 4th Bn, Suffolk Regiment
3/2019 Private Fryer, 1st Bn,Wiltshire Regiment
2334 Private Fuller, 1st/5th Bn, Lincolnshire Regiment
13808 Private Gaff, 1st Bn, Cheshire Regiment
L/9617 Private Gambell, 1st Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
493 Serjeant Alfred James Gatfield, 3rd Bn, Monmouthshire Regiment
54385 Gunner George Christopher Gedge, No, 4 Depot, (Great Yarmouth), Royal Garrison Artillery
TF/1588 Private William Claude Gilbert, 1st/5th Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment
2665 Private Herbert Gobey, 15th Bn, London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
13462 Private James Gooding, 2nd Bn, Durham Light Infantry
9332 Lance Corporal George Clarence Frederick Grant, 1st Bn, Lincolnshire Regiment
G/4768 Private Griggs, 1st Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
L/12051 Private Harry Grigson, 3rd Bn Middlesex Regiment
10308 Lance Corporal Charles Gunn, 1st Bn, Bedfordshire Regiment
11958 Private James Gurney, 1st Bn, Scots Guards
9674 Private Edward Hall, 1st Bn, York and Lancaster Regiment
5527 Private Hall, 2nd Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers
9187 Lance Harrington Leonard Mark Harrington, 1st Bn, Royal Irish Regiment
1802 Private Harrison 1st Bn, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2797 Private Murray Walter Harrison, 2nd Bn, East Surrey Regiment
16449 Private Albert George Hawkins, 2nd Bn, Grenadier Guards
12595 Lance Corporal Hendry, 3rd Bn, Middlesex Regiment
1271 Private Ernest Edward Howes, 3rd/1st Bn Huntingdon Cyclist Battalion
10287 Lance Corporal Hughes, 1st Bn, Royal Irish Regiment
1757 Private James Edward Hughes, 1st Bn, Manchester Regiment
13241 Private Hull, 1st Bn, Bedfordshire Regiment
14413 Private Jackson, 1st Bn, Bedfordshire Regiment
S/3360 Private Matthew Johnston, 1st Bn, Gordon Highlanders
2440 Private Jones, 4th Bn, South Lancashire Regiment
2140 Private Phillip Charles Kerby, Warwickshire Yeomanry
7067 Private John Laing, 1st Bn, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
2009 Private William Herbert Lawton, Warwickshire Yeomanry
3091 Private Lloyd, 1st/2nd Bn, Monmouthshire Regiment
6966 Private Edward Mirfitt Lythell, 13th Hussars
Second Lieutenant Roderick Ian Mackenzie, 1st Bn, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
3167 Rifleman Sidney Joseph Victor May, 5th Bn, The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
11377 Private Merrick, 1st Bn, Somerset Light Infantry
22789 Private William James Morris, 1st Bn, Welsh Regiment
L/9193 Private Bertie Moss, 2nd Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
3014 Private Richard Russell Murdoch, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders) Bn, Highland Light Infantry
L/7098 Serjeant Murphy, 2nd Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
3365 Private McCarthy, 4th Bn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
17595 Private Daniel McCooay, 3rd Bn, Royal Irish Fusiliers
39884 Driver James Waldie McDonald, 2nd Div, Ammunition Col, Royal Field Artillery
51190 Acting Bombardier Cecil George McGrath, "V" Bty, Royal Horse Artillery
2864 Private James McHardy, 4th Bn, Gordon Highlanders
11889 Private McWalters, 1st Bn, Highland Light Infantry
9466 Company Serjeant Major Charles Ritson Neale, 2nd Bn, South Lancashire Regiment
6006 Private George Newman, 2nd Bn, East Surrey Regiment
9340 Lance Corporal William Nutt, "D" Coy, 1st Bn, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
4360 Serjeant Odger, 8th Bn, Highland Light Infantry
G/2262 Private Samuel Charles Page, 3rd Bn, Middlesex Regiment
T2/SR/01270 Driver William Perry, H. No, 1 Coy, (Park Royal) Army Service Corps
T/473 Driver Henry William Phipps, 1st South Midland Mounted Bde, Army Service Corps
2879 Private Pittaway, 2nd Bn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1742 Corporal Edwin Reginald Thomas Powell, Warwickshire Yeomanry
11113 Private Francis William Prestcott,  Somerset Light Infantry
Z/7 Rifleman Joseph Prestidge, 3rd Bn, Rifle Brigade
13526 Private John T. Raithby, 2nd Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment
PS/1148 Company Serjeant Major Reed, 19th Bn Royal Fusiliers
12316 Private Christopher Reilly, 5th Bn, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
14062 Private Charles Rennie, 1st Bn, Royal Scots
2429 Private Percy Edward Richardson, 1st/8th Bn, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
114 Private Rock, 5th Bn, South Staffordshire Regiment
8575 Private Scanlon, 2nd Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers
24470 Sapper Scott, 56th Field Coy, Royal Engineers
G/5163 Private Frederick Setterfield, 2nd Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8820 Private Shaw, 2nd Bn, Coldstream Guards
10005 Private William Shedden, 3rd Bn, Royal Scots Fusiliers
6409 Private Skilbeck 1st Bn, York and Lancaster Regiment
1135 Serjeant Fred Liley Smith, 4th Bn, Suffolk Regiment
2370 Private Norman James Adam Smith, 5th Bn, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
9848 Private Snow, 2nd Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment
7449 Private Ralph Stanley, 1st Bn, Northamptonshire Regiment
65286 Driver Stone, "C" Bty, 107th Bde, Royal Horse Artillery
12758 Private John Robert Taylor, 2nd Bn, Suffolk Regiment
7538 Private Walter Taylor, 1st Bn, Somerset Light Infantry
5739 Private Teeling, 2nd Bn, Leinster Regiment
9622 Private Henry Terret,t "C" Coy, 1st Bn, York and Lancaster Regiment
3043 Private Felix Tierney, 6th Bn, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
4600 Private Verriez, 2nd Bn, East Surrey Regiment
5608 Lance Corporal Walsh, 1st Bn, Scots Guards
2610 Private White, 1st/4th Bn, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
2379 Private Wilkin, 2nd Bn, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
1795 Private Wilkins, 1st/5th Bn, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
8671 Private Daniel James Williams, 2nd Bn, Grenadier Guards
7449 Private Wilson, 2nd Bn, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
G/1921 Private Henry Woodward, 2nd Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
L/7568 Private Wright, 1st Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8094 Private Thomas Wyles, 2nd Bn, Seaforth Highlanders

This sad toll for a single, by First World War standards, 'quiet' day on the Western Front represents a real range of experience and service which I will highlight on my army service numbers blog.  That's all well and good of course, but each of these men was also a mother's son; perhaps a brother or father. One hundred years on, their sacrifice still needs to be acknowledged and their names recalled.

Hugh Wordsworth Atlay, pictured above, had served as an officer in the Royal Artillery since 1893. A veteran of the Anglo-South African War, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour notes that he was shot through the head while in the front line trenches observing the fire of his battery. He had been awarded the DSO (gazetted 18th February 1915) and was additionally Mentioned in Despatches (gazetted the previous day, 17th February 1915). He was unmarried.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.