Capt Arthur de Bells Adam (MC)
1885 - 1916

CPL David Wallace Crawford
1887 - 1916

Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
1894 - 1916

Pte 17911 Morton Neill
1897 - 1916

Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918

The Battle of the Somme commences.

The Battle of the Somme commences, the heaviest losses ever suffered by the British Army as 19,240 men are killed in one day and over 40,000 more are wounded.

The Liverpool Pals take the village of Montauban from the Germans, one of the very few successes of the day. In doing so however 257 men are killed or subsequently died of wounds.

Killed On This Day.

(109 Years this day)
Monday 2nd April 1917.
Pte 13597 John Brown
35 years old

(109 Years this day)
Monday 2nd April 1917.
L/Cpl 23664 William Hemming
23 years old

(109 Years this day)
Monday 2nd April 1917.
Pte 26012 Benjamin Whittaker
20 years old

(109 Years this day)
Monday 2nd April 1917.
Captain Frank Watson
27 years old

(108 Years this day)
Tuesday 2nd April 1918.
Captain Eric Paton Beaumont (MC)
22 years old

(108 Years this day)
Tuesday 2nd April 1918.
Capt Fraser Morton Sheard (MC)
23 years old

(108 Years this day)
Tuesday 2nd April 1918.
Serjeant 24881 James Hamilton
25 years old

(108 Years this day)
Tuesday 2nd April 1918.
Corporal 17753 Harry Williams
24 years old