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Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

"The Battle of Loos (25 September to 18 October 1915) was the major battle on the Western Front in 1915, surpassing in every respect all that had gone before in terms of numbers of men and materiel committed to battle. The preliminary bombardment was the most violent to date and the battle was charaterised by the committment of Regular and Territorial battalions on a large scale, in which the Territorials performed just as well as the Regulars. As the battles on the Western Front in 1915 increased in size and violence, so the casualties increased in proportion: Neuve Chapelle 12,000, Aubers Ridge/Festubert 29,000 , Loos 60,000. 1916 was to take the casualty cost to another level. Loos was intended as a minor role in support of French efforts around Arras but circumstances reduced the French effort. It marked the first use of poison gas by the British. Once the initial assualt had failed the battle continued in a series of actions mostly focused on the northern sector around the tactically important Hohenzollern Redoubt."

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DICKINSON, Lewis George, 2/Lieutenant, 1/6 Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) C Coy Born Sheffield 1878 KiA at Ypres (mine) 30 Sep 1915, aged 36 2/Lt Lewis George DICKINSON of the 6th Battalion was killed in action on 30/9/15. He had been a Private in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion The Derbyshire Regiment 21.1.1901, remained in Service with 1/6th Bn from the reforms in 1908 with number 272; promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant: 2nd Lieut. 1/6th Battalion The Sherwood Foresters, 13.3.1915. He was reported missing believed killed 30.9.1915 at Ouderdom Canal at St Eloi in the Ypres Salient, by the explosion of a mine at 6.35 pm. A 36 year old ex-ranker with 14 years service in the Territorial Force . He was commanding 9 Platoon of 6th Foresters in a trench on the Bluff near St Eloi. The German mine exploded under the trench killing and burying every man of the platoon except one (Cpl Simmonds) who was dug out alive. The mine explosion was not followed by a German attack and later that night the whole of 46 Division was relieved and moved from the Ypres sector down to the Lens sector, where they were to remain for a long time. He was awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1914-15 Star, Territorial Force Efficiency Medal , Kings Hundred 1909. Buried Spoilbank Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium. Unmarried, but had fiancee. Had been in Holy Trinity Church Choir Matlock. MI in church Sources: http://www.andrewspages.dial.pipex.com/matlock/warmem/warmem_matbath.htm John Cotterill

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Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley