Military History

Theatre of War	Medals	Commonwealth War Grave or Memorial
France and Flanders	1914-15 Star, British War & Victory Medals	Thiepval Memorial
Arrived in Theatre	Medal Citation (if app)	SWFHS Area Memorials
28 Aug 1915	~	Great Wolford
Action, Battle or Other Reason Killed	Date and Place Enlisted	Other War Memorials
Battle of the Somme	August/Sept 1914 at Wokingham
Place of Death	Previous Regiments or Units
Bazentin-le-Petit	~

Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)           

Bob is listed as being killed in action on 19 Aug 1916. The Church plaque states that he was killed by a shell outside Contalmaison. Contalmaison is about 3km from Bazentin. The war diary for that day is transcribed below:

Bazentin-le-Petit - 19/8/16: "Cooperated with 8th Royal Berks in a similar attack to that of the night of 17/18th August**. The attack was also unsuccessful. During the day a shell sought and killed Capt. T.H. Rorie & 2/Lieut G.R.S. Layng who had just left Battalion HQ, whilst our casualties in the other ranks were 20 killed and 50 wounded". END

** This was an attack with the 1st Royal Highlanders on the enemy intermediate line which failed with the loss of 10 killed, 52 wounded and 4 missing.