From the Green Howards Gazette, 3rd July 1916, Death of Lieutenant Colonel RL Aspinall DSO, 11th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment

‘Lieutenant-Colonel Aspinall went up at about 6:30 a.m. on July 3rd to direct operations from the front line, during an attack on the enemy trenches. He went over the parapet with the Reserve Company, intending to establish his Head Quarters in the enemy front line trench. It was while leading the Reserve Company across no man’s land, under heavy rifle and machine-gun fire, that he was struck by a bullet in the right shoulder. On being hit, he fell unconscious and, though at once attended to by stretcher bearers, died almost immediately.’