Comments on: Battalion war diary July 1916

By: Maurice Clarkson

Maurice Clarkson — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 22:45:09 +0000

Amazing site, thank you.
My grandfather Pvte Joseph Clarkson Reg. No. 34055 was wounded in France and sent back to England to Queen Mary’s Military Hospital at Whalley, Blackburn on 26th July, 1916.
He went to France on 8th March 1016 with the 3rd South Staffordshire Regiment,and it appears from your site, and his ‘WW1 Burnt record files’ that he may have been wounded at St. Leger.
Sincerely, Maurice Clarkson, grandson, New Zealand.

By: Peter Sneyd

Peter Sneyd — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:44:38 +0000

I was told by my Dad that his father Job Snead(who died before I was born)had served in 1/6th South Staffs and been wounded on the first day of the Somme.Using the Long Long Trail I had found exactly where they had attacked.Job’s regimental no.was(I think)14611.Seeing your site this morning was a great boost as I cannot get to Kew myself very easily,I can get to Staffordshire Regimental Museum and hope to find more details there. Thank You