Nov.--10th Dec.)
1,790 Battle of Cambrai.
1918 Bapaume (17th Jan.--20th March)
313 Trenches.
1918 Lagnicourt (21st--22nd March)
5,160 German offensive.
1918 Ypres (3rd April--24th Aug.)
4,715 Includes 750 at Neuve Eglise
(71st Infantry Brigade) and
250 in attack on Scottish and Ridge
Woods.
1918 St. Quentin (14th--28th Sept.)
3,163 Battle of St. Quentin.
1918 Bohain--Ors (4th--29th Oct.)
3,120 Battles of Bohain, Vaux-Andigny, and Ors.
Grand Total 53,740
N.B.--Above are approximate, and have been compiled from D.H.Q. War
Diaries (Administrative).
APPENDIX II
V.C.s WON BY THE DIVISION
No. 7504 Private HENRY MAY, 1st Battalion The Cameronians
(Scottish Rifles), 19th Infantry Brigade, at that time
attached to 6th Division.
For most conspicuous bravery near La Boutillerie, on 22nd October
1914, in voluntarily endeavouring to rescue, under very heavy fire, a
wounded man, who was killed before he could save him, and
subsequently, on the same day, in carrying a wounded officer a
distance of 300 yards into safety whilst exposed to very severe fire.
(Gazetted 21st April 1915.)
No. 9730 Private JOHN CAFFREY, 2nd Battalion The York and
Lancaster Regiment.
For most conspicuous bravery on 16th November 1915,
near La Brique.
A man of the West Yorkshire Regiment had been badly wounded, and was
lying in the open unable to move, in full view of, and about 300 to
400 yards from, the enemy's trenches. Corporal Stirk, Royal Army
Medical Corps, and Private Caffrey, at once started out to rescue him,
but at the first attempt they were driven back by shrapnel fire. Soon
afterwards they started again, under close sniping and machine-gun
fire, and succeeded in reaching and bandaging the wounded man, but
just as Corporal Stirk had lifted him on Private Caffrey's back he
himself was shot in the head.
Private Caffrey put down the wounded man, bandaged Corporal Stirk, and
helped him back into safety. He then returned and brought in the man
of the West Yorkshire Regiment. He had made three journeys across the
open under close and accurate fire, and had risked his own life to
save others with the utmost coolness and bravery. (Gazetted 22nd
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