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Education & Career :

Architect, Moseley (1910)

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

"The Battle of Loos (25 September to 18 October 1915) was the major battle on the Western Front in 1915, surpassing in every respect all that had gone before in terms of numbers of men and materiel committed to battle. The preliminary bombardment was the most violent to date and the battle was charaterised by the committment of Regular and Territorial battalions on a large scale, in which the Territorials performed just as well as the Regulars. As the battles on the Western Front in 1915 increased in size and violence, so the casualties increased in proportion: Neuve Chapelle 12,000, Aubers Ridge/Festubert 29,000 , Loos 60,000. 1916 was to take the casualty cost to another level. Loos was intended as a minor role in support of French efforts around Arras but circumstances reduced the French effort. It marked the first use of poison gas by the British. Once the initial assualt had failed the battle continued in a series of actions mostly focused on the northern sector around the tactically important Hohenzollern Redoubt."

Detail :

Posted on Great War Forum, 2014 sharing information which includes Burkett Emery.

‘His unit took part, with the 46th Division, in the battle of Loos which began on 25 September 1915 and ended with the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, October 11th to 13th. He was reported “missing, believed wounded” on the night of October 13th when his company were in the first line and working with the North Staffordshires. His Commanding Officer wrote that he was “a man they could ill afford to lose”, and his Captain wrote:-

“Lieutenant Davis and Lieutenant Emery were both leading their men in the attack on the 13th. Though both sections suffered fairly heavily from machine-gun fire, Davis was still unhurt when they reached the final trench. All attempts to advance further were checked with very heavy loss. From that time on I could find very little trace of him. Apparently he went round to all his men, who were very scattered by that time, telling them to be ready for the order to go on again. This order, if he ever gave it, never reached them, but he must have gone on himself with a few of the North Staffordshires, who by this time had no officer left, and one or two of his own men. It was an extremely gallant thing to do, but quite impossible in the face of that fire…”..’

Masonic :

Asst.Steward

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley