BIRTH: Jun qtr 1890 Nottingham 7b 342 (28th
Apr 1890)
ARMY: Service No. 622213 1/5th Btn Notts & Derby Rgt Sherwood Foresters,
buried Cambrin Military Cemetery N25
ARMY: Hamilton
Fyfe The Daily Mail (22nd March, 1918)
"The fresh stage of the German offensive for which we have been waiting
began this morning. The enemy has attacked us upon an 11 miles front in the
flat, muddy country north of Lens and south of Armentieres. He has chosen this time to
strike from a point where his line bulges, probably in the hope of penetrating
far enough to force us to fall back from one or another of the salients which
occur in our line above and below the new battlefield."
ARMY: Robert Graves, Fairies & Fusiliers 1918
ARMY: "When I'm killed"
ARMY: WHEN I'm killed, don't think of me
Buried there in Cambrin Wood,
Nor as in Zion
think of me
With the Intolerable Good.
And there's one thing that I know well,
I'm damned if I'll be damned to Hell!
So when I'm killed, don't wait for me,
Walking the dim corridor;
In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me,
Or you must wait for evermore.
You'll find me buried, living-dead
In these verses that you've read.
So when I'm killed, don't mourn for me,
Shot, poor lad, so bold and young, Killed and gone don’t mourn for me.
On your lips my life is hung:
O friends and lovers, you can save
Your playfellow from the grave.
ARMY: These were the trenches that William Culley Cavers died in March 1918
Principal areas of mining activity on the British sector of the Western Front,
central section between Armentieres and Arras~~