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If your speciality is European History, Military History, or World War I, I would appreciate your help...

Hello,

I'm currently researching my great-grandfather who died in WWI. I have all the information I can get from the National Archive, but wondered if anyone could point me to further resources. Essentially, this is what I know (without giving out his - and in turn, my own - personal information):

• He was a private in the 2/5th Yorkshire and Lancashire Regiment
• Enlisted March '16
• Landed in France on 17/01/17 (01/17/17)
• Killed by either enemy shelling or a sniper on 26/02/17 (02/26/17)
• From the regiment's war diary, I know his regiment was in Beumont-Hamel and had gone to the front line trenches on 25/02/17. The diary describes their movements on the day like so:

Marched along STATION ROAD and then to front line. BEAUREGARD DOVECOT-BEAUREGARDE ALLEY - WUNDT WERKE

The next entry is my great-grandfather's death the day after the above movements.

His body was never found and thus his name is on Theipval Memorial. However, I'm trying to find out a few things:

1. What he would've done and where we would've been from enlistment to shipping out of Southampton (training, etc)

2. Understand what happend to his regiment in the month between landing in France and him getting killed

3. Most importantly, figure out where Beauregard Dovecot was located and what it was (I've seen farm, hill, etc, so far). I have a trench map of Beaumont but cannot for the life of me find any trenches named BEAUREGARD DOVECOT, BEAUREGARD ALLEY or WUNDT WERKE

Can anyone help pointing me in the right direction, or sharing their knowledge if they have any?

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