[1] Information about George Gagie's death can be found on the website of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) via it's search engine: <https://www.bifhsgo.ca/search-name-index>. Entering George Gagie's name will lead to the PDF document about Gunner George Gagie:
<https://www.middlemore.wefoundit.ca/media/uploads/documents/1441043942_Private_George_Gagie_13_August_2015.pdf> (accessed 9th October 2020).
<https://www.middlemore.wefoundit.ca/media/uploads/documents/1441043942_Private_George_Gagie_13_August_2015.pdf> (accessed 9th October 2020).
[2] It is unclear how closely this map represents the real of the positions of the four battalions at any point in the battle because there is neither date nor time marked on the map, and it is probably unwise to be too reliant on the detail of the dispositions of battalions. Nonetheless the map it is useful in illustrating the battlefield over which the Brigade operated in its actions of 25th-27th September 1915. It possibly represents what the 62nd Brigade HQ thought or hoped was the relative positions its four battalions when they launched their attack against Hill 70.
[3] Huddersfield Exposed, War Memorial, Slaithwaite, accessed 12th June 2023, <https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/War_Memorial,_Slaithwaite>
[4] Huddersfield Exposed, Huddersfield and District Roll of Honour, 'Horace Hall', accessed 12th June 2023,
<https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Horace_Hall_(c.1884-1918)>
<https://huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Horace_Hall_(c.1884-1918)>
[5] It is just possible that Thomas Marshal Hall served initially with the 1/7th battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. The Howtel Beaumont Church Roll of Honour (NEWMP H79.02) lists ‘Hall, Thos – 1/7 [Northumberland Fusiliers] Military Medal’. Although there is no direct evidence to identify No. 34801 Thomas Marshal Hall, MM of the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers with the Thomas Hall MM, of the 1/7th battalion, it is just possible that they are one and the same person. Thomas Marshal Hall’s brother, James Hall, Coldstream Guards, is named on both the Beaumont Roll of Honour and the Beaumont Presbyterian Church Plaque (NEWMP H79.01). It is also possible that the battalion number is simply wrong on the Roll of Honour!
[6] The Coldstream Society text relates to No. 18/774, LCpl John Short Hall, 18th (Service) battalion Northumberland (1st Tyneside Pioneers), but the associated picture is of No. 44726, LCpl John Hall, 2nd battalion Northumberland Fusiliers.
[7] Thomas Hall’s regimental number 270844 would be correct for the Northumberland Hussars before the April 1917 re-numbering of the Yeomanry (under Army Council Instruction 381) but it would not be correct after April 1917. Post ACI 381, No. 270844 would be appropriate for the City of London Yeomanry. It would not be appropriate for a member of the Worcestershire Yeomanry either before or after April 1917. See the relevant page of Chris Baker's website:
The Long Long Trail, 'Renumbering of the Territorial Force Yeomanry in 1917', accessed 27th March 2024, <http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-soldiers-life-1914-1918/renumbering-of-the-territorial-force-in-1917/renumbering-of-the-territorial-force-yeomanry-in-1917/>
The Long Long Trail, 'Renumbering of the Territorial Force Yeomanry in 1917', accessed 27th March 2024, <http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-soldiers-life-1914-1918/renumbering-of-the-territorial-force-in-1917/renumbering-of-the-territorial-force-yeomanry-in-1917/>
[8] See John J. Withers, A Register of Admissions to King's College Cambridge, 1797-1925, 2nd Edition 1929, John Murray, London, p 164.
See also: ACAD: A Cambridge Alumni Database, 'Hall, William', accessed 25th March, 2024, <https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=Hall&suro=w&fir=William&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=NBL&z=all&tex=&sye=1884&eye=1899&col=all&maxcount=50>
See also: ACAD: A Cambridge Alumni Database, 'Hall, William', accessed 25th March, 2024, <https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=Hall&suro=w&fir=William&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=NBL&z=all&tex=&sye=1884&eye=1899&col=all&maxcount=50>
[9] Walter Brooks was organist at St Martin in the Bull Ring from 1857 to 1900. He also lectured at Queen's College, Birmingham (the predecessor of the University of Birmingham) giving lessons in music and singing, and was also the conductor of the Tamworth Musical Society.
[10] William Hall, BA, Modern Navigation: A Text-book of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy Adapted to the Course for Cadets of the Royal Navy and the syllabus of the Board of Education, W.B. Clive/University Tutorial Press, London 1904, reprinted in further editions eg. 1910, 1914, 1919, etc. Hall was elected Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society 14th January 1910. See also: Science Museum Group, Collection, 'Hall's nautical slide rule', accessed 21st May 2023,
<https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co60686/halls-nautical-slide-rule-with-descriptive-pamph-slide-rule-nautical-hall>
<https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co60686/halls-nautical-slide-rule-with-descriptive-pamph-slide-rule-nautical-hall>
[11] For more information on the establishment of the Royal Australian Naval College see The Naval Historical Society of Australian, Two Osborne Houses, accessed 27th February 2024, <https://navyhistory.au/two-osborne-houses/>. The men who founded the Australian Naval College are described as ‘this band of quite remarkable men’.
[12] Gordon Taylor wrote in his book The Sea Chaplains (1972) that Rev William Hall 'died in tragic circumstances' and that 'The ship’s company of his ship, the battleship Agamemnon, were due for inoculation but it was not popular. Hall went round the lower deck encouraging the men and assuring them there was nothing in it and, as an example, offered himself as the first candidate at the sick bay. The following day he sickened, and later died of the effects, being the victim of a rare case of something going wrong'. I have found no evidence of William Hall serving aboard Agamemnon, however it seems that the Rev Hall was to have been posted to Agamemnon with his posting dating from 29th August 1916. His proposed posting to Agamemnon is listed in The Navy List for October 1916, p 391d, as effective from 28th August 1916, and his absence from the crew list of Venerable is recorded in the same publicaton on page 399v. As a result of his illness and subsequent death it seems that the formal transfer to Agamemnon never happened.
[13] Charles Rome Hall (b 1878) was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge: See ACAD: A Cambridge Alumni Database, 'Hall, Charles Rome', accessed 25th March, 2024, <https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=Hall&suro=w&fir=William&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=NBL&z=all&tex=&sye=1884&eye=1899&col=all&maxcount=50>
Charles Rome Hall was ordained deacon in 1900 and priest in 1901. He served as curate in a number parishes starting with Cleator, Cumberland (1900-2). In 1905-6 he was curate to the Rev Canon Wilsden in Wooler. In 1906 he married Isabella Walker at Whitehaven in Cumberland. Between 1906 and 1909 he was assistant chaplain in the Cathedral in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, and from 1909 to 1910 assistant chaplain in the Anglican Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He returned to Northumberland as curate at Wark-on-Tyne (1910-11) and then at Whittingham (1911-13). In 1913 he was appointed as minister in charge at Etal and remained in the post until 1919. His position as minister at Etal almost certainly explains how his older brother Rev William Hall, RN, who had no obvious connection with Glendale or Etal, came to be commemorated on the Etal memorial plaque. Subsequently Charles and his wife moved to Hampshire and where he served in the Diocese of Winchester.
Charles Rome Hall was ordained deacon in 1900 and priest in 1901. He served as curate in a number parishes starting with Cleator, Cumberland (1900-2). In 1905-6 he was curate to the Rev Canon Wilsden in Wooler. In 1906 he married Isabella Walker at Whitehaven in Cumberland. Between 1906 and 1909 he was assistant chaplain in the Cathedral in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, and from 1909 to 1910 assistant chaplain in the Anglican Cathedral in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He returned to Northumberland as curate at Wark-on-Tyne (1910-11) and then at Whittingham (1911-13). In 1913 he was appointed as minister in charge at Etal and remained in the post until 1919. His position as minister at Etal almost certainly explains how his older brother Rev William Hall, RN, who had no obvious connection with Glendale or Etal, came to be commemorated on the Etal memorial plaque. Subsequently Charles and his wife moved to Hampshire and where he served in the Diocese of Winchester.
[14] War Memorials Trust, War Memorials Online, 'Rossall School Memorial Chapel', accessed 13th June 2023,
<https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/279566/ >
<https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/279566/ >
[15] Radley College Archives, Commemorating the Fallen of WW1, 'Today we remember . . . William Hall', accessed 13th June 2023,
<https://radleyarchive.blog/2016/11/11/commemorating-the-fallen-of-ww1-107/>
<https://radleyarchive.blog/2016/11/11/commemorating-the-fallen-of-ww1-107/>
[16] Most of the details of Pte William Hall’s brief service are derived from his service record which has survived in large part intact although some pages are barely legible.
[17] For more a detailed account of the fighting on 15th and 16th October 1918 see John Sheen, The Steel of the DLI. The 2nd battalion of the Durham Light Infantry at War 1914-1918, Pen & Sword, 2009, pp 269-71.
[18] The Southampton University War Hospital occupied buildings, which now form part of the Universty's Hartley Library, and also occupied temporary huts which were located to the rear: University of Southampton, News, 'University War Hospital Remembered in New Exhibition', accessed 13th April 2022,
<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2018/10/war-hospital.page>
<https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2018/10/war-hospital.page>
[19] Arthur Guy Empey, "OVER THE TOP" by An American Soldier who went, Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, serving in France, together with Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches, G. P. Putman's Sons, New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press, 1918. Digital copies available on line via
Project Gutenberg, 'The Project Gutenberg eBook of Over The Top, by Arthur Guy Empey', accessed 16th June 2024,
<https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7962/7962-h/7962-h.htm>
and
The Internet Archive, 'Over the top : by an American soldier who went ; together with Tommy's dictionary of the trenches', accessed 14th July 2018,
<https://archive.org/details/overtop0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up>
Project Gutenberg, 'The Project Gutenberg eBook of Over The Top, by Arthur Guy Empey', accessed 16th June 2024,
<https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7962/7962-h/7962-h.htm>
and
The Internet Archive, 'Over the top : by an American soldier who went ; together with Tommy's dictionary of the trenches', accessed 14th July 2018,
<https://archive.org/details/overtop0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up>
[20] The list of movements and operations outlined here are based on the War Diary of the 21st battalion Manchester Regiment for September 1918 to July 1919 (TNA WO95 2244/5).
[21] Rosanna was the daughter of Janey Mordue’s sister Mary Ann Wealleans and was born in 1878 in the township of Screnwood (formerly Scrainwood), parish of Alnham, Northumberland. Her father is not known. In 1901 Rosanna was living in the household of John Mordue, farmer, and his second wife Janey and was working on her ‘own account’ as a dressmaker. Rosanna’s mother Mary Ann had also been a dressmaker. By 1911 Janey Mordue had died, and Rosanna Wealleans was working as housekeeper to John Mordue and described is a ‘servant’. Rosanna’s mother Mary Ann Waelleans was part of the Mordue household as a servant by 1911. Robert James Harvey, who was a horseman on the farml, was aslo part of the household.
[22] The 8th Division had been part of XX Corps (Watts) in Gough’s Fifth Army for the Battle of St Quentin (21st-23rd March 1918) and for the actions at the Somme Crossings (24th-25th March 1918). The Division suffered heavy casualties: it lost 250 officers and 4,693 other ranks. ‘The two battalions that had suffered the most were 2/ West Yorkshire and 2/ Middlesex, and during its short period of rest the former battalion had received no fewer than 11 officers and 700 odd other ranks. The drafts to the Middlesex were but little less.’ (Lt Col J H Boraston and Capt Cyril E O Bax, The Eighth Division 1914-1918, London 1926, p 199).
[23] ICRC Historical Archives - Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918, 'PA 42439, Totenliste Engländer, 28/12/1918', accessed 13th February 2023
<https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/4346768/698/42439/>
<https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/4346768/698/42439/>
[24] ‘Mary Annie Chape’ was the name that was registered at her birth, and is the name under which she was married, and the name given in the Probate Register entry for her father in 1953. But it would seem she was known as Annie Mary or simply Annie to her family and her husband, because in the Register of Soldiers’ Effects she is listed as ‘Annie M’ widow, in the newspaper announcement of William’s death she is ‘A M Henderson’ and in her husband’s Probate Register entry she is ‘Annie Mary Henderson’. In the 1911 census she is recorded simply as ‘Annie Chape’.
[25] William Atkinson Henderson although not listed on any Ryton War Memorial, is remembered by the Ryton and District War Memorials Project :
Ryton and District War Memorials Project, Casualty Listing, 'William Atkinson HENDERSON', accessed 27th March 2024,
<https://www.rytonwarmemorials.org.uk/casualtylisting.php?page=38>
Ryton and District War Memorials Project, Casualty Listing, 'William Atkinson HENDERSON', accessed 27th March 2024,
<https://www.rytonwarmemorials.org.uk/casualtylisting.php?page=38>
[26] For the lack of information regarding the parents of Thomas Alexander Hetherington see the Hetherington Family page
[27] The 34th Division comprised three Brigades each of four ‘Pals’ battalions. The 101st Brigade: 15th and 16th Royal Scots (1st and 2nd Edinburgh Pals), 10th Lincolnshire Regiment (Grimsby Pals) and 11th Suffolk Regiment (Cambridgeshire); 102nd Brigade: 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd Northumberland Fusiliers (1st-4th Tyneside Scottish); and 103rd Brigade: 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th Northumberland Fusiliers (1st-4th Tyneside Irish). The 34th Division began its embarkation for France in early January 1916. Initially the Division concentrated in the vicinity of St Omer.
[28] The family name is given as HILL and as HILLS on different occasions. John the eldest boy is the only Scots born child for whom a baptism record has been found. He is recorded as John HILL. The three English born children and the two grandchildren (Elizabeth and Jessie) were all registered as HILLS regardless of whether they were registered in the Berwick or Glendale Register Offices. However, the great grandchildren who were the children of Elizabeth, including Adam Davidson, were registered with the surname HILL. In the 1851 census the family name was recorded as HILL, in 1861 and 1871 it was HILLS, in 1881, 1891 and 1901 it was HILL but in 1911 the family chose to use HILLS again.
[29] Prisoner records for No. 28093 Pte Bryan Hills, 23rd Northumberland Fusiliers: ICRC Historical Archives - Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918, 'PA 22542, Gefängenenliste, Münster I, Westfalen', accessed 21st March 2023. <https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/2161826/698/22542/>
He was captured at Bullecourt on 21st March 1918 and was unwounded.
He was captured at Bullecourt on 21st March 1918 and was unwounded.
[30] Cumnock History Group, Remembering WW1 soldiers with a connection to Cumnock . . ., 'History of the War Memorial', accessed 9th April 2024,
<https://cumnocksoldiers.blogspot.com/2020/03/history-of-war-memorial.html>
<https://cumnocksoldiers.blogspot.com/2020/03/history-of-war-memorial.html>
[31] The texts of individual entries in A Memorial Record of Watsonians who served in the Great War 1914-1918 can be searched on the School website: George Watson College, War Records, 'Search the War Records', accessed 10th April 2024, <https://my.gwc.org.uk/public/watsons-war-records/?page=46#form>. In the printed Great War Memorial Record volume, the entry for Robin Cavers Hogg can be found on page 143, with a photograph facing p 146.
[32] University Of Edinburgh Roll Of Honour 1914-1919, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London 1921, p 45, pl xxxvii
Digital copies are available on line via:
The Internet Archive, University Of Edinburgh Roll Of Honour 1914-1919, 'Hunter, Norman Archbold (b 1895)', accessed 19th June 2024,
<https://archive.org/details/rollofhonour191400univuoft/page/n99/mode/2up>
and
National Library of Scotland, University Of Edinburgh Roll Of Honour 1914-1919, 'Hunter, Norman Archbold (b 1895), accessed 19th June 2024,
<https://digital.nls.uk/rolls-of-honour/archive/100241788>
Digital copies are available on line via:
The Internet Archive, University Of Edinburgh Roll Of Honour 1914-1919, 'Hunter, Norman Archbold (b 1895)', accessed 19th June 2024,
<https://archive.org/details/rollofhonour191400univuoft/page/n99/mode/2up>
and
National Library of Scotland, University Of Edinburgh Roll Of Honour 1914-1919, 'Hunter, Norman Archbold (b 1895), accessed 19th June 2024,
<https://digital.nls.uk/rolls-of-honour/archive/100241788>
[33] As Note 32
[34] Captured unwounded at Craonne 27th May 1918: ICRC Historical Archives - Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918, 'PA 41118, Gefangenenliste des Lagers Langensalza, Engländer, 18/10/1918', accessed 24th April 2024, <https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/195414/698/41118/>; Death from 'Dickdarmkatarrh' (Colitis) reported to ICRC 28th December 1918: ICRC Historical Archives - Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918, 'PA 41411, Gefangenenliste des Lagers Langensalza, Engländer, Verstorben (deceased) 28/12/1918', accessed 24th April 2024, <https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/195414/698/41411/>; Hunter is also recorded on a list of dead prisoners dated 25th November 1918: ICRC Historical Archives - Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918, 'PA 42093, Totenliste, 25/11/1918', accessed 24th April 2024, <https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/List/195414/698/42093/>
[35] The main source for William Hunter is his AIF Service record:
National Archives of Australia: B2455, Hunter William : SERN 616 : POB Northumberland England : POE Melbourne Vic : NOK M Mrs Hunter, accessed 12th December 2023 via: NAA, Record Search, 'Hunter, William'. <https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3912607>
National Archives of Australia: B2455, Hunter William : SERN 616 : POB Northumberland England : POE Melbourne Vic : NOK M Mrs Hunter, accessed 12th December 2023 via: NAA, Record Search, 'Hunter, William'. <https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3912607>
[36] 'Green Line'. By the spring of 1918 the BEF had developed a scheme of defence in depth comprising three Zones and four lines of trenches. The Forward Zone had the thinly held Blue Line trenches at its forward edge facing the enemy. Within the Forward Zone were defended locations set up for all round defence. Next was the strongly held Red Line. Between the Red line and the Brown line was the Battle Zone, with more positions of all round defence, where it was expected that the enemy would be held and defeated. The Rear Zone several miles deep was between the Brown line and the Green line trenches (Martin Middlebrook, The Kaiser’s Battle, 1978, Penguin edition 2000, 74-77).