Major Plackett, who commanded the boys [Sheffield City Battalion] on July 1st [at the Battle of the Somme]

Trophies won by Sheffield Post Office Athletic Club 1913-1914

Captain W. S. Clarke (Clark) 'Killed at the head of his men', [York and Lancaster Regiment]

Captain R. E. J. Moore, 'led B. Company to the German wire, and though badly wounded, kept picking off the enemy at close range with his revolver'

Second-Lieutenant Philip Kenneth Perkin, 'Small. But full of pluck,' fell close to the German wire

Lieutenant H. W. Pearson, 'badly hit, breezily encouraged his men'

Second Lieutenant Eric Marcus Carr, the best athlete in the Regiment' went down with D Company

The Ven. Herbert Gresford Jones (1870 - 1958), Archdeacon of Sheffield, 1912 - 1920

Lt. Col. the Earl Fitzwilliam (commanding) with officers and staff of the West Riding Royal Horse Artillery just prior to the Earl's departure for the front. Marked with cross and 2nd left is Captain Walker who now takes command.

Major Alan Faber Hobson, DSO, of the Royal Engineers