# |
Name |
eventdate |
eventplace |
Info |
1 |
Charles Cotton |
From 1845 to 1854 |
United Kingdom |
Merchant Navy |
2 |
Edwin Roland Sarah |
From 1914 to 1918 |
at sea |
Service in Royal Navy aboard the Rosemary and the Iris |
3 |
Walter Broughton Sizer |
From 1914 to 1917 |
|
Trooper in Household Batallion. Badge Number: 61462 Piece: 2958 War medal awarded for service from 2 Dec 1914 to 2 Oct 1917 when he was 21 years old.
Discharge due to wounds. Silver war badge 261462 |
4 |
Herbert Hensler |
From 1914 to 1920 |
|
Soldier Number: 64303, Rank: Private, Corps: Durham Light Infantry. Soldier Number: 20023, Rank: Private, Corps: Labour Corps. Archive Reference WO372/9. Campaign Medal Index Cards and Silver War Badge Cards |
5 |
Charles Hensler |
From 1914 to 1915 |
Gallipoli, Turkey |
served with the 4th Australian Infantry Battalion as a lance corporal. Killed in action. See the Roll of Honour |
6 |
William (Henry) Sarah |
From 1914 to 1918 |
HMS Vivid |
Served as Dresser (Listed as "Mr. W.H. SARRA"), First British Field Hospital in Belgium 1914. 1914 Star issued to Party 19/1/1923. Promoted to Surgeon Lieutenant on 26 Aug 1916 whilst serving on HMS Vivid. |
7 |
William Rufus Hunnisett |
From 1914 to 1919 |
|
Sergeant in 23 London Regiment, 1st Cambridge Regiment
Awarded Victory Medal and British War Medal |
8 |
Charles Hensler |
20 Oct 1914 |
Sydney, Australia |
Embarked on TRANSPORT A14, Euripides as member of 4th Infantry Battalion.
Single labourer age 33
Next of kin: Mrs Moss, 103 Fairfield-street, London EC |
9 |
William John Moss |
From 1915 to 1916 |
Dogger Bank, English Channel |
ADM 188/924/28669
Seaman on board minesweeper, HMS Arabis. Killed in action. |
10 |
Walter Tremain |
From 1915 to 1917 |
Sommes, France |
Sergeant in the 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion, service no 126322
SON OF FREDERICK AND EMMA TREMAIN, OF 448, CANNON ST., HAMILTON, ONTARIO.
The batallion fought in the Somme and Ypres. Died of wounds in 3rd Western Genetral Hospital, Cardiff |
11 |
Vincent Foskett Sizer |
1915 |
|
Lieutenant in the Royal Navy (RN Reserve) |
12 |
Joseph Tremain |
From 1916 |
Sommes, France |
signed up 7 Jul 1916 Service number: 126247
Lance Corporal In the : 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Batalion. No: 126247
died of wounds 10 Aug 1918 SW Shldr |
13 |
Herbert Spencer Jackson |
From 1916 to 1919 |
|
Served in Red Cross/St Johns Ambulance Brigade, 17 Apr 1916 to Jan 1919 |
14 |
John Thomas Leonard Sarah |
1916 |
Flanders, Belgium |
Lieutenant, 31st Bn. Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment) |
15 |
Edward William Hughes |
1917 |
Belgium |
Private in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Killed in action and commemorated in the Tyne Cot Memorial. |
16 |
Charles James Slocombe |
1918 |
Palestine |
Private, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1/4th Battalion.. Service no 35741.
He was a lorry driver and when they came under fire he quickly pushed his mates under the lorry for cover. Being the last one under he caught a bullet which bounced off a nearby rock, killing him outright. |
17 |
William John Moss |
1920 |
|
Service number 733468 unconfirmed |
18 |
William Charles Sarra |
Between 1940 and 1945 |
Italy |
Fleet Air Arm pilot, including strikes on Italian battle fleet at Taranto in 1940 as part of 815 Naval Air Squadron. Shot down over Valona in April 1941 and taken prisoner. P.O.W. Camp number 35, Certosa di Padula Monastery, near Salerno, postal mark number 3400
Twice mentioned in dispatches. Served on HMS Illustrious and 815 squadron as sub lieutenant. |
19 |
Walter Jack Runciman |
From 1941 to 1947 |
Europe |
With Royal New Zealand Air Force, promoted to Squadron Leader in 1944. Awarded DFM (1942), MID (1944), AFC (1946). |
20 |
Vincent Foskett Sizer |
1942 |
SS Corchester |
MBE awarded 20 Jan 1942
Also Kings Commendation for Brave Conduct 17 Feb 1942 |
21 |
Donald Charles Edwin Sibthorpe |
8 Mar 1942 |
Java |
Served as a signalman in Java in the Second World War fighting against the Japanese. He was capture on 8 Mar 1942 and died of malaria in a prison camp on 27 Aug 1942 |