SOLIHULL Council’s heritage team are appealing for information concerning those who died on the first day of the Battle of Somme on 1 July 1916. 24 men who were residents, or went to school in the borough, lost their lives in the bloodiest day in British Military history.
A special exhibition at the Core called ‘Solihull Remembers’ opened on Saturday 25 June and commemorates the men who died and has further information about those died throughout the course of the war.
The men who died in the fighting on the first day are:
John Balkwill
Geoffrey Jermyn Brand
James Burton
John Thomas Churchill
Harold Clifton
Frederick Percy Cooper
Thomas Cooper
William Henry Furse
Robert Quilter Gilson
John Herbert Hockley
Walter Jennings
Horace Birchall Jones
Maurice Nicholl Kennard
Stratford Walter Ludlow
John Palmer Lyndon
Alfred Mutlow
Harry Rudd
Richard James Smith
George Arthur Smitten
Donald George Harding Truman
Leslie Waters
Albert Weale
James Webster
Willingham Franklin Gell Wiseman
Between July and November 1916, 127 men from Solihull died during the course of the Battle of the Somme.
If you have any information on any of the men, please email [email protected].
