CASUALTIES
| |
Officer Fatalities |
Other Rank Fatalities |
Officers - Non Fatal |
Other Ranks - Non Fatal |
| Enemy Fire |
55 |
1249 |
107 |
2701 |
| Gas |
- |
3 |
1 |
116 |
| Injuries |
- |
6 |
9 |
299 |
| Injured Prisoners |
- |
2 (died of wounds) |
2 |
15 |
| Uninjured Prisoners |
- |
- |
- |
16 |
Total Officers Fatalities - 55
Total Other Ranks Fatalities - 1260
Of note - Private James Farquhar
and Private William Farquhar enlisted in the 50th Battalion on the same day,
transferred together to the 10th Battalion on 6 January 1916, and both were
killed on 3 June 1916.
23 April 1915
Arthur, 34, and Reginald Lawrence, 32, were born in Cheltenham and later
emigrated with their parents to Canada. They died whilst serving with the 10th
Battalion Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force,
at Kitcheners Wood, east of St Julien. The 10th Battalion and the 16th
Battalion launched a counter-attack in an attempt to halt the German advance
in the area after the infamous gas attack. Sons of Edwin and Fannie Lawrence,
of 26, Victoria Mansions, Lethbridge, Alberta, they have no known graves and
are commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing. Both are also
commemorated on the Cheltenham War Memorial.
During the Second World War, the
Calgary Highlanders (who perpetuate the 10th Battalion) lost brothers Theodore
F. Brown and Robert Louis Brown, both killed in Normandy on the 19th of July,
1944.
