PRESS RELEASE (from 2005) Updated 24 August 2018
Much has been written about and argued over concerning the leadership and the grand strategy that resulted in the agony that was the Western Front experience during the First World War. Success in battle normally was a difficult concept to quantify where there was so much universal suffering for so little gain. However there were occasions when steady troops skilfully lead by outstanding individuals achieved significant goals at minimal costs, albeit admittedly rare: |
“one of the finest feats or arms in the history of the British Army” General Haig
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Lt.Col Edward Pius Arthur Riddell, DSO Lt Geoffrey Barker, MC Captain Archibald Ballentine Henderson Dunlop,MC (Margate), Company Sergeant Major James Coe, MC 2nd Lieutenant Francis Alennye Marr, MC (Cambridge) 2nd Lieutenant Underwood Saville, MC (Natal, South Africa) Corporal JW Archer, DCM (Wisbech) Private Herbert Brickwood, DCM (Lolworth) Company Sergeant Major Harry Charles Clarke, DCM (Cambridge) Private PG Cornwall, DCM (Ely) Sergeant John Jordan, DCM Corporal Fred Latham, DCM (Wisbech) Private James Smith, DCM (Manea) Sergeant Walter Stubbings, DCM (Sawston) Lance Corporal Frank Touch, DCM (Chatteris) Private Alfred Wayman, DCM (Ely) Sergeant Robert Bushell, MM (Wisbech) Private Maurice Carter, MM (Shepreth) Private Harry Cash, MM (Cambridge) Private Henry Coker, MM (Cambridge) Sergeant Sidney Dockerill, MM (Little Shelford) |
Private Archibald Fairweather, MM (Cambridge & later Haverhill) Lance Corporal Mat Gilbert, MM (Sutton St James, Lincs) Private Frederick Hailstone, MM (Whittlesey) Private Horace Johnson, MM (Emneth) Private Bert Jolley, MM (Cambridge) Private Rudolph Buckley Lister, MM (Cambridge) Lance Corporal Walter Lupson, MM (Ely) Lance Corporal Edward Miller, MM (Doddington) Lance Corporal George Nightingale, MM (Cambridge) Lance Corporal Sam Parker, MM (Cambridge) Corporal Walter Sidney Sallis, MM (Littleport) Private John Saunders, MM (Cambridge) Lance Corporal Ernie Scarr, MM (Great Shelford) Private John Searle, MM (Cambridge) Private Alf Setchfield, MM (Coates) Lance Corporal Horace Tabor, MM (Cambridge) Corporal Harry Gordon Teverson, MM (Ely) 2nd Lieutenant John R Strickland, MiD |