WW1 Maps 6th Notts & Derby KIA Lieutenant Colonel

This map was given out to officers of the 6th battalion Notts and Derby regiment when they were conducting their training in England. One of the maps belonged to Captain Cyril Benton Johnson Adjutant to the battalion. He was born on the 7th May 1880 and commissioned in the battalion on the 1st January 1910. He was wounded at Gommecourt in the back on the 1st July 1916 by shrapnel and was evacuated to England on the 3rd. Later he was promoted to Lt.Col commanding the battalion and was killed in action on the 21st September 1917 and is buried in Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery Extension grave C8. 

The second map belonged to Captain Edgar Heathcote. 

• Born      26 May 1882 at Brooklands Cheshire
• Married : 1906   Winifred Mary Eliza Lomax
• Died       1 November 1929
• Burial     5 November 1928 at Taddington, Derbyshire

The third son of Charles Henry Heathcote, Edgar Horace Heathcote, was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was awarded his BA in 1904 and MA degree in 1907. He trained as an engineer at the Cambridge School. Assoc M Inst.E.E. A.M.I.Mech.E. LRIBA 1910. He was a member of Charles Heathcote and Sons for his entire professional career. 

A keen volunteer, he received a commission in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters in 1900 transferring to 2^nd Volunteer Battalion Manchester Regiment where he was promoted Captain in 1905. In the First World War he went to France with the 6th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) being promoted Major in 1915 and acting for a time as its second in command. He fought at Neuve Chapelle and Loos and was invalided in 1916. Later he did much useful work under the Ministry of National Service.

Edgar Horace Heathcote, who was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (1925) and other kindred bodies, was from 1922 to 1923 a member of the Buxton Town Council.  He died on 1 November 1929 at Priestcliffe, Taddington, Derbyshire and was survived by his wife, a son Edgar Ronald (qv) and a daughter.

The photographs I have attached are of Captain Cyril Benton Johnson