Some more information about Captain Roland Ivor Gough named in post # 51:
15th Battallion
b. 1896, in Birmingham. In 1901 living at. 163 Broad St, Birmingham
d. 14/10/16, memorial at St. Sever, Rouen. Supplement to the London Gazette describes circumstances of his death
Awarded the DSO
From the Supplement to the London Gazette 22/09/17
And info about the action in which he was wounded. He died in #2 Red Criss Hospital, Rouen.
ATTACK ON "WOOD LANE" 23 JULY 1916 20th July 1916 - 23rd July 1916
Lt-Col Colin Harding, the CO of the 15th (Service)Battalion, (2nd Birmingham) The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, recalled the following in his memoirs.
"Later, when proceeding to the scene of the action, I met amongst the wounded a stretcher bearing my dear old friend, Gough, (Captain Roland Ivor Gough, CO D Company; aged only twenty) still smoking his inevitable cigarette, bespatterd with mud, pale as death but cheerful. He had been shot through the thigh and had a compound fracture. As we shake hands, Gough gives me a few heart rending details of the loss of life and the attack, needlessly apologises for its failure and passed on. We never met again."
On 25th July 1916 Roland's father received a telegram from the War Office granting permission for him to visit his 'dangerously ill' son in the Red Cross Hospital in Rouen. For conspicuous gallantry in this action Roland Gough was awarded the DSO but died of his wounds shortly after the award was promulgated in the London Gazette. On 18 March 1917 Roland's father wrote to the War Office requesting that the medal be sent to him.
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