A Short History of the 6th Division: Aug. 1914-March 1919
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A Short History of the 6th Division: Aug. 1914-March 1919
Great Britain. Army. Division, 6th; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front; World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain
1914 Aisne (19th Sept.--12th Oct.)
1,482 Battle of the Aisne.
1914 Armentieres (13th--31st Oct.)
4,696 First Battle of Ypres.
1914-15 Armentieres (1st Nov.--31st May)
3,940 Trenches.
1915-16 Ypres (1st June 1915--31st July 1916)
10,938 Includes 1,780 in attack on Hooge;
660 gas attack, 15th Dec;
400 Morteldje attack.
1916 Somme (5th Aug.--20th Oct.)
7,430 Battle of the Somme.
1916-17 La Bassee (25th Nov. 1916--16th February 1917)
709 Trenches.
1917 Loos (2nd Mar.--25th July)
4,884 Raids and attacks, Hill 70.
1917 Loos-Lens (26th Aug.--23rd Oct.)
1,400 Trenches.
1917 Cambrai (20th Nov.--10th Dec.)
1,790 Battle of Cambrai.
1918 Bapaume (17th Jan.--20th March)
313 Trenches.
1918 Lagnicourt (21st--22nd March)
5,160 German offensive.
1918 Ypres (3rd April--24th Aug.)
4,715 Includes 750 at Neuve Eglise
(71st Infantry Brigade) and
250 in attack on Scottish and Ridge
Woods.
1918 St. Quentin (14th--28th Sept.)
3,163 Battle of St. Quentin.
1918 Bohain--Ors (4th--29th Oct.)
3,120 Battles of Bohain, Vaux-Andigny, and Ors.
Grand Total 53,740
N.B.--Above are approximate, and have been compiled from D.H.Q. War
Diaries (Administrative).
APPENDIX II
V.C.s WON BY THE DIVISION
No. 7504 Private HENRY MAY, 1st Battalion The Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles), 19th Infantry Brigade, at that time
attached to 6th Division.
For most conspicuous bravery near La Boutillerie, on 22nd October
1914, in voluntarily endeavouring to rescue, under very heavy fire, a
wounded man, who was killed before he could save him, and
subsequently, on the same day, in carrying a wounded officer a
distance of 300 yards into safety whilst exposed to very severe fire.
(Gazetted 21st April 1915.)
No. 9730 Private JOHN CAFFREY, 2nd Battalion The York and
Lancaster Regiment.
For most conspicuous bravery on 16th November 1915,
near La Brique.
A man of the West Yorkshire Regiment had been badly wounded, and was
lying in the open unable to move, in full view of, and about 300 to
400 yards from, the enemy's trenches. Corporal Stirk, Royal Army
Medical Corps, and Private Caffrey, at once started out to rescue him,
but at the first attempt they were driven back by shrapnel fire. Soon
afterwards they started again, under close sniping and machine-gun
fire, and succeeded in reaching and bandaging the wounded man, but
just as Corporal Stirk had lifted him on Private Caffrey's back he
himself was shot in the head.
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