The Rushmoor Roll of Honour

The aim of the Rushmoor Roll of Honour is to commemorate all the citizens of the towns of Aldershot, Farnborough and Cove who gave their lives in the First World War. To be included in the Rushmoor Roll of Honour, a person must have died as a result of war service and must have evidence of residence in, or a strong connection with, Rushmoor.

Service qualifications

• A person is included if they died while serving in any of the Armed Forces, or as a member of an organisation that the Commonwealth War Graves Commission accepts for war grave status, during the years of the First World War, 1914-1918. They may have died as a result of enemy action, accident, disease, or any other cause, provided their death was while they were serving.

• ApersonwhohadservedinanyoftheArmedForces,orasamemberofanorganisation thatthe CommonwealthWar GravesCommissionacceptsforwargravestatus, is includediftheydiedupto31stAugust1921wheretheirdeathwasadirectresultoftheir serviceintheFirstWorldWar.Forexample,ifapersonwaswoundedduring1914-1918 butdiedasaresultoftheirwoundsafterthewarhadended.

• Civilians may be included if their death was a direct result of war service, using the same date criteria as for those serving in the Armed Forces.

Rushmoor qualifications

A person is included if residence or a strong connection with Rushmoor is shown by any of the following:

• Listed as a resident of Aldershot, Farnborough or Cove in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database or in the ‘Soldiers Died in the Great War’ database published as part of the Official History of the Great War.

• Listed in the local media (such as the Aldershot News, Aldershot Gazette and Military News, and similar) as a casualty of the war, with a known address in Aldershot, Farnborough or Cove.

• Listed on a memorial inAldershot, Farnborough or Cove, or in the contemporary local media as a casualty of the war, who is listed in the 1911 Census as living in a private address inAldershot, Farnborough or Cove.

• Listed on a memorial inAldershot, Farnborough or Cove, or in the contemporary local media as a casualty of the war, for whom there is no address given but whose spouse has an address inAldershot, Farnborough or Cove, or are part of a family unit known to have been resident in one of the towns.

There are many names included on memorials in Rushmoor, or mentioned in contemporary local media, for whom there is no evidence of Rushmoor residence or whose connection with the local area is tenuous or lost in the mists of time. These are not included in the Rushmoor Roll of Honour. Examples of where there is an insufficiently strong Rushmoor connection include:

• Anyone who had parents, siblings or other family living in the area but has no known address inAldershot, Farnborough or Cove and has no other evidence of being a resident.

AnyonewhowasborninAldershot,FarnboroughorCove,buthadmovedawaybefore theeraofthewar(notlistedinthe1911Censusoranyotherdocumentationfromthe FirstWorldWar).Forexample,manypeoplewereborninthearea tosoldierswhowere temporarilypostedherebuthadnootherconnectionwithRushmoor.

• Anyone whose family moved into the area after the period of the First World War.

• Anyone who died or is buried in a cemetery in Aldershot, Farnborough or Cove, but there is no evidence of previous residency. For example, many wounded from the war were brought to the local hospitals for treatment and died of their wounds. Although they died in the area they have no other connection with Rushmoor.

Entries in the Roll of Honour

Each entry records the person’s name, and where known also includes their rank, regiment or unit, date of death, age at the time of death, local address, relationship to that address, where else in Rushmoor they are remembered, and where they are buried or commemorated if no known grave. CommonwealthWar Graves Commission records are taken as the authority if sources conflict on information.

For each entry the main sources used are given. The abbreviations used for the major sources are:

CWGC: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission database (www.cwgc.org)

SDGW: SoldiersDiedintheGreatWar.OriginallypublishedbyHMSOaspartoftheOfficial HistoryoftheGreatWar.TherewasaseparatevolumeforOfficersDiedintheGreatWar (ODGW).ThefulldatabasewaspublishedonCD-ROMbytheNavalandMilitaryPressin 2004.

Local Media: Contemporary local newspapers, journals, etc. Principally the Aldershot News and the Aldershot Gazette and Military News (the latter is often referred to as Sheldrake’s Aldershot Gazette, but by the time ofthe FirstWorldWar it had officiallydroppedSheldrake’s name).

1911Census: The records of the 1911Census, published by the NationalArchives and made available through Find My Past (http://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-records/1911census-for-england-and-wales)

Additions to the Rushmoor Roll of Honour

The Friends of theAldershot Military Museum have compiled the Rushmoor Roll of Honour with great care and tried to ensure that all those who should be remembered have been included, and that all names included meet the stated criteria. However, when attempting such a compilation 100 years after the war, it is recognised that the records and sources are not always complete and some who should be included will have been missed. The Friends of the Aldershot Military Museum welcome suggestions from local families and residents for additions to the Roll, with evidence that the nominee was a resident ofAldershot, Farnborough or Cove at the time of the First World War and died in service in the war.

Contact the Friends of theAldershot Military Museum by:

E-mail: friendsamm@friendsofthealdershotmilitarymuseum.org.uk

Post: Friends of theAldershot Military Museum c/oAldershot Military Museum

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Second Edition of the Rushmoor Roll of Honour

Sincethefirsteditionofthe Rushmoor Roll of Honour waspublishedinNovember2014,TheFriends oftheAldershotMilitaryMuseumhavebeencontactedbyvariouspeoplewhohaverespondedtothe aboveinvitation andsuppliedinformationonadditionalnameswhomeetthecriteriaforinclusionin the Rushmoor Roll of Honour.Inaddition,inafewcaseswehavebeengivenadditionalinformation onexistingentries,amendingorexpandingthedetailofthatindividual.TheFriendsoftheAldershot MilitaryMuseumaregratefultoallwhohavecontactedus,andhavenowissuedthisupdatedRoll. Fortheprintedcopiestheupdatehastakentheformofadditionalpagestobeinsertedintothebound volumes.Fortheonlineversiontheentrieshavebeenincorporatedintothetexttocreateafullnew edition.Inthissecondeditioneightnewnameshavebeenadded,bringingthetotalnumberofpeople rememberedto671,andthreeentrieshavebeenupdated.

TheFriendsoftheAldershotMilitaryMuseum aregratefulinparticulartoMrRogerPanter,whohas generouslymadeavailableinformationfromhisownresearchbothincompilingtheoriginal Rushmoor Roll of Honour andforsomeoftheupdatesforthesecondedition.

Third Edition of the Rushmoor Roll of Honour

Thethirdeditionofthe Rushmoor Roll of Honour addsafurthertennamestotheRoll,oneofwhich wasthroughinformationkindlysuppliedbyafamilymember,andtheothersarosefrominformation whichcametolightduringresearchesbymembersoftheFriendsoftheAldershotMilitaryMuseum. Oneotherentryhasbeenupdatedwithnewinformation.Withthisadditionalinformationthetotal numberofpeoplerememberedhasrisento681.

ItisappropriatethatthisupdateshouldbeissuedinAugust2018,allowingthefullestpossiblelistof thepeopleof RushmoorwhofellintheFirstWorldWartobepublishedforthecentenaryoftheendof thewarinNovember2018.Wehopethatthenamesofallthosewhoareincludedinthe Rushmoor Roll of Honour willberememberedwithhonourandgratitudefortheirserviceandsacrificeforthe benefitofallofus.

The Rushmoor Roll of Honour for the First World War

Ardley, Henry

Private. 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte’s Own.) Died 19th September 1914. Born in Essex, Henry enlisted in Colchester but was resident in Farnborough. He was killed in action and is buried at Vially British Cemetery.

Source: SDGW

Arney, Russell Gerard

Lance Corporal. 2nd Bn. Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own). Died 25th September 1915. Age 27. Russell’s widowed step mother lived at The Oaks, Victoria Road in Farnborough. Russell is shown in the 1911 Census as a 23 year old clerk, living at The Oaks with both parents, two daughters and two servants. He was born in Southwark and enlisted in London but lived in Farnborough. He is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial, and on the war memorials at St Peter’s church, the Lady Chapel at St Mark’s church and Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Arthur, Louis Henry

Private. 15th (Service) Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 24th August 1918. Age 21. Born and resident in Aldershot. His parents lived at 53 Cavendish Road. Louis died of wounds and is buried at Esquelbecq Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Ashton, George

Private. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. D. 3rd August 1917. Age 39. Born in Barnstaple, George enlisted in Camberley. SDGW lists him as living in Farnborough, CWGC suggests his widow lived in Hawley. George died of wounds and is buried at Etrun.

Source: SDGW

Ashwood, Ernest

Ernest Ashwood was a tailor in Stanhope Lines, Aldershot in the 1911 census. He is remembered on the old Church Hall war memorial from St Mark’s, now located on Guildford Road East in Farnborough.

Source: 1911 Census

Atkinson, William, M.C.

Lieutenant. Royal Field Artillery. Died 18th July 1917. Age 40. His widow lived at 4 Lynchford Terrace, South Farnborough. One of his parents pre-deceased him, the other lived in Newcastle. William is buried at Lijssenthoek Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Austin, Albert G.

Gunner, D Battery, 331st Brigade. Royal Field Artillery. Died 16th November 1917. Age 36. CWGC lists his wife, Ethel, living at 39 St Michael’s Road in Aldershot. Gunner Austin is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. He is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church, Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Austin, Victor G.

In the 1911 Census Victor G.W. Austin, born in 1891, was living in the Royal Staff Hotel, Waterloo Road, Aldershot. His father was the landlord of the Royal Staff with Victor working as a hotel assistant. Also living there were Victor’s two younger brothers and two younger sisters, although three of his siblings had the surname Reimers. All except the two youngest members of the family were employed at the hotel. V.G. Austin appears on the war memorial at St Augustine’s church in North Town.

Source: 1911 Census

Bailey,

Samuel

Private. 22nd Bn. Royal Fusiliers. (City of London Regiment). Died 28th August 1916. Samuel was born in Handsworth and enlisted in Horsham but is listed in SDGW as an Aldershot resident. He was killed in action. Samuel is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial.

Source: SDGW

Baker, Herbert

Private. 1st Bn. Devonshire Regiment. Died 21st June 1917. Age 27. Born and resident in Farnborough, he enlisted in Aldershot. Herbert had previously served with the Hampshire Regiment. His father lived at Myrtle Villa, Winchester Street in Farnborough. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Nieuport Memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Baldry, Alfred Mitford Walter

Private. 6th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment. Died 6th August 1918. Age 18. Born and resident in Aldershot, his parents Alfred Snr. And Rennia, lived at 6 King’s Road in Aldershot. Alfred is buried at Acheux British Cemetery and is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Banbury, Ernest

Private. 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. Died 27th March 1916. Born in North Camp, Ernest lived in Farnborough and enlisted in Aldershot. He was killed in action, and is remembered on the Menin Gate.

Source: SDGW

Banks, Arthur Henry

Corporal. C Battery, 82nd Bgde. Royal Field Artillery. Died 9th September 1918. Age 29. Arthur’s wife, Margaret, lived at 6 Alice Road in Aldershot. He was born in Rotherhithe and is buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension.

Source: CWGC

Banning, Percy Stuart

Captain. 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers. Died 4th November 1914. Age 27. Percy’s father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Munster Fusiliers, a regiment who were in Aldershot before the war suggesting Percy may have spent some of his formative years in the area. Percy joined his father’s regiment as a Second Lieutenant in 1908. Probate records show an address in South Farnborough. Percy is remembered in the Lady Chapel and old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark's in Farnborough and buried at Ypres Town Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, probate records

Barker, Henry

Company Serjeant Major. 1st Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Died 10th July 1916. Born in Worcester Henry had served for 21 years and lived at 3 Canning Villas in North Town. Henry was killed in action and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He appears as H. Barker on the St Augustine’s war memorial.

Source: SDGW, CWGC.

Barker, John William (William)

Private. 2nd Bn. Scots Guards. Died 18th December 1914. Age 30. Born in Bramley, Yorkshire, William enlisted in Leeds in 1904 and appears to have met his wife after being transferred to Aldershot. His wife and two children lived at 1 Malvern Villas, Rectory Road in Farnborough. By 1914 William was a reservist. He was recalled to the 1st Bn. And landed in France on 2nd September. He subsequently transferred to the 2nd Division, and was killed during an attack on German trenches at Fromelles. William is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial and on the war memorials at Devereux House and at St John’s Church in Cove.

Source: CWGC

Barnes, William Albert

Quartermaster Serjeant. Royal Army Pay Corps. Died 21st July 1920. Age 42. William’s wife lived at 57 Perowne Street, Aldershot. William died after undergoing an operation at Cambridge Military Hospital and had served overseas from 1914 to 1917. He is buried in the Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Barnett, John William

Private. 2nd Bn. Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers). Died 6th April 1915. Born in Ireland but listed in SDGW as an Aldershot resident. John is remembered on the Menin Gate, and is on the Holy Trinity church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: SDGW

Barnett, Sidney

Company Serjeant Major. 1st Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment. Died 3rd July 1916. Age 34. Born in Lincolnshire and enlisted in London, Sidney is listed by SDGW as resident in Farnborough. His parents lived in Minley. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Barnett, Walter Edward

Private. 6th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment. Died 7th July 1917. Age 25. Walter was born and enlisted in Aldershot, where his parents lived in Heathland Street. He formerly served in the Hussars before transferring to the infantry, and was killed in action on the Western Front. Walter was included in the residents of Aldershot who were remembered at a service in Municipal Gardens on 5 August 1917, he is listed on the war memorial at Holy Trinity church, and is also remembered on the Thiepval memorial.

Source: SDGW, Local media.

Barrington-Kennett, Basil Herbert

Major. Grenadier Guards and Royal Flying Corps. Died 18th May 1915. Age 30. Basil was born at Brighton on 19th November 1884. His father was a Lieutenant Colonel and appears in the 1911 census as ‘His Majesty’s Bodyguard’. Educated at Eton, Basil was commissioned in the Grenadier Guards in 1906. He took part in the 1909 Hurlingham International Balloon Race. He then learnt to fly, awarded the Royal Aeronautical Club’s aviator’s certificate no. 43 on 31st December 1910. In 1911 Basil was a single officer living in Marlborough Lines, serving in 2 Company of the Air Battalion RE at Farnborough. In 1912 he set a record for flying in a closed loop for 249 miles and 840 yards in a Nieuport monoplane. Lieutenant Barrington-Kennett was appointed Adjutant of the Military Wing of the Royal Flying Corps, formed on 13 April 1912, and in 1914 went to France as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and QuartermasterGeneral at HQ RFC. He was awarded the brevet rank of Major from 22nd August. He returned to regimental duty, joining 2nd Grenadier Guards in 2nd Division in April 1915. Basil is remembered on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church in Farnborough and in the Baptist Church in Wraysbury. He is buried at Le Touret Military cemetery. Two of his brothers also died. His brother and fellow war victim, Victor, attained aviator certificate number 160 in 1912.

Source: 1911 Census, ‘The Third Service’ by Joubert de la Ferte, 1955.

Batchelor, Harold James

Flight Sub Lieutenant. Royal Naval Air Service. H.M.S. Engadine. Died 11th May 1915. Age 26. In 1911 he was living with his parents, brother, two sisters and two servants at ‘Compartmento’, Alexandra Road in Farnborough as a 22 year old Officer. Harold’s father may have been in the military as his wife and brother were born in Gibraltar, Harold and a sister in Dublin, and the other sister at the Curragh. H.M.S. Engadine was a seaplane tender capable of carrying three planes. Built in 1911 for the South Eastern and Chatham Railway, she was leased to the Royal Navy on 1st August 1914. Although the ship survived the war, Harold was lost in the North Sea. He is remembered on the Chatham Naval Memorial and at Devereux House,

Farnborough. There is also a private memorial to him in the Lady Chapel and old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s Church in Farnborough, where his mother, Caroline, was a regular worshipper.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Batchelor, Thomas Archibald, D.F.C., A.F.C.

Major. Royal Air Force. Died 22nd April 1919. Age 32. Described in his obituary as a South Farnborough resident, Thomas was killed in a flying accident. A Handley-Page failed to gain height on take off and hit a building at RAF Weyhill in Andover, killing five. He had spent 15 years in the Navy before joining the R.N.A.S. and then the R.A.F. He received much publicity after bombing the dock gates at Zeebrugge, for which he was awarded the D.F.C. His widow, Una, was left with two children, the youngest just five weeks old.

Source: National media

Beal, Augustus Herbert

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Royal Marines Light Infantry. Died 26th October 1917. Augustus' widow, Emma, lived at 7 Fir Place, Union Street, in Farnborough. In 1911 the couple were living at 2 Myrtle Cottages in Union Street, Augustus was then 27 and a domestic gardener. Augustus is remembered on the Tyne Cot memorial and the Devereux House memorial. His name was clearly added on to the Devereux House memorial late.

Source: CWGC

Beckwith, Arthur William Augustus (William)

Lance Corporal. 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars. Died 13th October 1914. Age 22. SDGW list him as William Augustus. Born and enlisted in York, he was resident in Farnborough at the time of his death. Arthur was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate.

Source: SDGW

Beer, John Henry

Private. 2nd Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Died 21st October 1914. Age 26. Born in Gibraltar, John enlisted in Guildford but lived in Farnborough. His parents, George and Elizabeth, lived at 45 Queen’s Road in South Farnborough. George died of wounds and is remembered on the Menin Gate. J. Beer is remembered at Salesians College in Farnborough and may be the same man. A man of this exact name appears in the 1911 census as living at Marlborough Lines, however there is a slight discrepancy in age.

Source: CWGC, SDGW , 1911 Census

Bell, Edward Inkerman, M.C. And Bar

Captain Edward Inkerman Jordan Bell. 17th Bn. Middlesex Regiment, attached to 99th Infantry Brigade H.Q. Died 24th March 1918. A prominent local footballer, he had been with Crystal Palace, Southampton and Portsmouth as well as South Farnborough. One of his war time colleagues was Angus Seed, later to become the first manager at Aldershot F.C. Edward took command of a Battalion after the famous manager Major Frank Buckley had been wounded, helping to earn one of his decorations. He was wounded at Delville Wood in July 1916. Edward Bell and the 99th Infantry Brigade’s Commanding Officer, Brigadier General Randle Barnett-Barker, were killed by a shell whilst taking cover in a trench close to Brigade HQ at Geuedecourt. The local paper erroneously reported him as having been killed in February 1915. Edward’s wife was pregnant when he was killed and she appears to have named their son in his honour, as a man of the same name was won a Distinguished Flying Cross in World War Two. Edward is buried at Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, and is remembered on the old Church Hall war memorial from St Mark’s church which is now located on Guildford Road East.

Source: Local media

Bell, Gordon

Sergeant. Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 23rd May 1918. Gordon was killed when a hospital he was working in was hit by three bombs and destroyed. A Farnborough resident, he had been abroad since 1914 and married whilst on leave at Christmas, 1917.

Source: Local media

Bennett, Edgar George

Private. 8th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, ex Army Service Corps. Died 31st July 1917.

Edgar was born in Somerset but SDGW lists him as an Aldershot resident. He was killed in action and is buried at Vormezeele Cemetery.

Source: SDGW

Bennett, Thomas

Private. 1st Bn. Leinster Regiment. Died 25th February 1915. Age 23. Thomas was both born and enlisted in Aldershot. His parents, Thomas Snr. and Elizabeth, lived at 9 Arlington Terrance, Queen’s Road in Aldershot. Thomas is buried at Etretat Churchyard. Thomas is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church, Aldershot.

Source: SDGW

Berry, Harold

Private. 2nd Bn. Highland Light Infantry. Died 19th September 1914. Harold was both born and enlisted in Aldershot. Harold appears on the war memorials at both Holy Trinity and St Michael’s churches and was on the memorial at the demolished East End school. He is buried at Vendresse British Cemetery. At the time of his death Mrs. Berry of 78 St George’s Road in Aldershot lost a son, presumably Harold. By the end of 1915 two more of her sons were Prisoners of War.

Source: Local media

Berry, William

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 6th August 1915. Age 28. Born and resident in Aldershot according to SDGW, although CWGC lists his widow living at Broadstairs and the local press at the time of his death report her as being in Reading. His parents, William and Mary, lived at 131 Victoria Road in Aldershot. William is remembered on the Helles Memorial and at St Michael’s church in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, local media

Bertini, Umberto

Farnborough Abbey and Chaplain 4th Class. Army Chaplains’ Department. Died 28th September 1918. Resident at Farnborough Abbey, Umberto was abroad when war broke out but was back in Farnborough by March 1917. He surrendered his Italian nationality to join the British army as a Chaplain to the Forces. He served on the Italian front and returned home in September 1918. The day after arriving he fell ill with Spanish Influenza. Umberto is buried at Farnborough Abbey and is remembered on the war memorial there. His father had been a Conductor with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Umberto’s home town.

Source: Farnborough Abbey

Betts, Ambrose

Quartermaster Serjeant. Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 31st December 1919. Age 39. Julia, his widow, lived at 62 Grosvenor Road in Aldershot. Ambrose is buried at Addolorata Cemetery in Malta.

Source: CWGC

Bickerstaff, Bertram Percy

Private. 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 7th May 1915. Age 32. Bertram’s widowed mother, Mary, lived at ‘The Elms’, High View Road in Farnborough, Bertram was there in 1911, working as a brewers clerk. He was born and enlisted in London, where he originally joined the Army Service Corps in 1914. He was retreating on 24th April 1915 when he stopped to assist an injured Australian soldier and was shot in the head. Bertram is buried in Farnborough and is remembered on the war memorial at St Peter’s Church and at Devereux House.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Bisco, Frederick

Private. 8th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment. Died 31st July 1917. Frederick George Bisco lived at 1 Wellington Terrace in Aldershot in 1911 with his parents, a brother and sister. At the time Frederick was a 14 year old errand boy. F Bisco appears on the war memorial at St Augustine’s church in North Town. This is presumably Frederick Biscoe, who also appeared on the war memorial at the East End School. It is believed to be the man from the 8th Bn. as he is buried in Aldershot Civil Cemetery.

Source: 1911 Census

Bisco, John

Private. Died mid 1917. Local newspapers reported the death of John Bisco, a native of Aldershot. He died at St John’s Hospital in Shrewsbury. His body was returned to his home town and laid up at his aunts house, 227 Holly Road, Aldershot. Probably a brother of Frederick, however he was not in the family home in the 1911 Census.

Source: Local media

Bishop, William

Lance Corporal. 23rd Bn. Manchester Regiment. Died 22nd October 1917. Age 31. Born and resident in Aldershot although he enlisted at Winchester. His parents, George and Mary, lived at 6 Alfred Street in Aldershot. William is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Biziou, Henry Arthur Richard, D.F.C.

Lieutenant. Royal Air Force. Died 14th July 1919. Age 22. Henry lived at Maisonette, Farnborough Road in Farnborough. He was credited with eight kills during the war making him probably the only World War One ace to be buried in the Aldershot Military Cemetery. He had served with the Yorkshire Regiment prior to joining the Royal Flying Corps. The Farnham Grammar school old boy was nicknamed ‘Weegee’. He was killed in a midair plane crash in which two other airmen also died.

Source: CWGC, Local media

Black, David

Trooper. C Squadron, 2nd Life Guards. Died 31st October 1914. Age 26. Esther, his widow, is lived at 52 Somerset Road in Farborough. David is remembered on the

Bone, Frank James

Private. 7th/8th Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers. Died 10th August 1917. Age 19. In the 1911 Census Frank appears as a 13 year old scholar living with his mother, step father and younger brother at 34 Alexandra Road in Aldershot. He was both born and enlisted in Aldershot. Frank is buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery and is remembered on the Holy Trinity war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 census

Bottomley, Harry Roderick

Lieutenant Colonel. 2nd Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Died 18th May 1915. Age 44. His widow, Marie, lived at ‘Heatherview’ in South Farnborough. His late father had also been a Lieutenant Colonel. Harry was one of fourteen men to command 2nd Bn. during the war, of whom three died and one was captured. In 1914 the Battalion was based at Pretoria but was recalled and joined the new 7th Division at Winchester, going into action in October. Harry succeeded to command on 31st October 1914 but was soon wounded and relinquished command, before returning on 2nd February 1915 and commanding the Battalion until his death. Harry is buried in Bethune.

Source: CWGC

Bowen, Walter

Serjeant. 1st Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. D. 23rd July 1917. 27. Walter’s widow, Dora, lived at 19 Station Road in Aldershot. He is buried at Coxyde Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Boxall, Frank

Air Mechanic 2nd Class. Royal Air Force. Died 24th February 1919. Age 19. His mother lived at 1 Myrtle Villas in Union Street in Farnborough. Frank is buried in Farnborough and is remembered on the war memorials at St Peter’s church and at Devereux House.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Boys, Herbert

Serjeant. British Red Cross Society. Died 14th December 1920. Age 44. Herbert’s widow, Elizabeth, lived at Elvedon House in St Michael’s Road, Aldershot. Herbert spent 1915 to 1918 serving at Liverpool Merchants Mobile Hospital and is entitled to a war grave. He is buried in his native city of Liverpool.

Source: CWGC

Bradley, Berthold Felix

Private. 2nd Bn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died 26th November 1914. Born in India, Berthold enlisted in Shorncliffe but was an Aldershot resident. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate. A memorial plaque to Berthold, and his brother Lawrence, was placed at Aldershot Parish Church where they also appear on the war memorial.

Source: SDGW, Local media

Bradley, Lawrence Berthold

Lance Corporal. 5th Lancers (Royal Irish). Died 14th May 1915. Lawrence was born in Tongo and was the brother of Berthold Bradley. Lawrence was wounded on 24th April and he died in Boulogne. His body was returned to his home town for burial in Aldershot Military Cemetery. A memorial plaque to Lawrence, and his brother Berthold, was placed in Aldershot Parish Church, where they also appear on the war memorial.

Source: SDGW, Local media

Brandon, Edwin Stanley

Butler, William

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Died 10th May 1915. Age 17. Listed by the CWGC and on his headstone as aged just 17, this is unusually young for his rank. Born in Devonport, he lived and enlisted in Aldershot. His parents lived at 22 Perowne Street in Aldershot. William was killed in action and is buried at Le Trou Aid Post Cemetery in Fleurbaix.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Butler, Leonard John

Private. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 26th February 1915. Born in Colden Common, Leonard is listed by SDGW as an Aldershot resident. His parents lived at 243 Holly Road in Aldershot. His name is shown as Buttler in SDGW. Leonard is buried in Lancashire Cottage Cemetery. Leonard Buttler was remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Byrne, James

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 4th June 1915. Age 26. James was born in Chatham but was an Aldershot resident at the time of his death. He was killed in action at Gallipoli and is remembered on the Helles Memorial.

Source: SDGW

Byrne, William

Corporal. 11th Bn. Cheshire Regiment. Died 10th April 1918. Age 37. Thomas’ widow, Sarah Ann, lived at 19 Crimea Road in Aldershot. Thomas is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial.

Chick, Frederick Charles

Private. 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers. Died 23rd March 1918. Age 33. Born in Dorset, he enlisted in Swindon but lived in Aldershot. Frederick’s widow, Mary, lived at 33 Cambridge Road in Aldershot. A professional soldier, he had previously served with the Household Cavalry, the cavalry of the line, the Yeomanry and the Imperial Camel Corps. Frederick was killed in action and is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial and at the old Wesleyan church in Aldershot, where he is listed as a Trooper.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Chittenden, Arthur Ernest

Saddler Corporal. 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays). Died 13th May 1915. Born in South Africa, he enlisted in Woking and was resident in Aldershot at the time of his death. Arthur was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate and on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: SDGW

Chowm, Cecil H.

Rifleman. 2nd/5th Bn. London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade). Died 19th June 1917. Age 28. Cecil’s widow, Annie, lived at 37 Alexandra Road in Aldershot. Cecil is remembered on the Arras Memorial.

Source: CWGC

Chown, Robert E.

Private. 1/4th Hampshire Regiment. Died 21st January 1916. Age 19. Robert was one of many local men killed in action in the attempt to relieve the siege at Kut. Robert enlisted at Salisbury Plain but lived in Aldershot. He is remembered on the Basra Memorial and at on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot. Robert was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: SDGW

Christie, Albert William Ernest

2nd Lieutenant. 2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Died 27th September 1916. Age

Source: CWGC

34. A Boer war veteran, Albert came from a military family. He went to France on 8th August 1914 and was severely wounded on 10th September 1914. After spending nearly a year in hospital he was ruled unfit for foreign service but managed to get this overturned. He was gassed on 21st July 1916 and then killed on 27th September. He was leading a raiding party and had entered a German trench alone, telling the rest of the party to take cover. His death was prominently covered by the Aldershot Gazette as a local man. He is buried at Foncquevillers Military Cemetery.

Source: Local media

Chubb, Alan Travers

Private. 101st Anti Aircraft Artillery. Army Service Corps. Died 21st March 1918. Age 30. His widow lived at 12 Landsowne Road, Aldershot, and his parents also lived in Aldershot. Urbane was killed on the first day of the German spring offensive of 1918, the Kaiserschlacht. Urbane is buried at Merville and is remembered at the old Wesleyan church in Aldershot, and at the Lady Chapel and old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s Church in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC

Clarke, William Henry

Lance Corporal. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment.) Died 21st March 1918. Age 32. William was the first Aldershot Volunteer Fire Brigade member to die in the war. He is remembered on the fire brigade war memorial, which moved to the new Rushmoor Fire Station when the Grosvenor Road site closed. The memorial listed a total of 3 men killed on duty before the war and three killed in the war. It also honoured those who returned. William is also remembered on the Arras memorial.

Clegg, Cyril Thompson

Private. 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Died 4th August 1916. Born in Bromyard, Cyril lived in Farnborough and enlisted in Aldershot. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. A man of this name appears on a memorial plaque that was rededicated at a Wesleyan church in Scunthorpe in 2013 after being lost for 50 years.

Source: SDGW

Clements, Alfred

Serjeant. Died May 1915. Age 40. Alfred lived at Greenwood Villas in Lower Farnham Road in Aldershot. He was married to Lizzie Beatrice Clements and had a son, Alfred, and a daughter Beatrice. Aldred died from illness and is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church in Aldershot.

Source: 1911 Census

Cody, Samuel Franklyn Leslie

2nd Lieutenant. 41st Squadron. Royal Flying Corps. Died 23rd January 1917. Age 21. Son of the aviation pioneer Samuel Cody. Lieutenant Cody's widow, Maude, lived at Notre Dame, Church Road in Aldershot. He had discovered his wife was pregnant with their second child the day he died. Samuel Franklyn is buried at Perth Cemetery (China Wall). His widow also lost her brother, Jim Carroll, another Aldershot resident, in the early days of the war. Jim, who was profoundly deaf, was shot at Badshot Lea by sentries after had ignored their challenges to stop.

Source: CWGC, Local media

Cole, Reginald James Leslie

Lance Corporal. 15th (Hampshire Yeomanry Bn.) Hampshire Regiment. Died 9th August 1918. Age 22. Reginald’s mother lived at 8 Lysons Road in Aldershot. He was born in Aldershot but enlisted in Winchester. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial and on Holy Trinity church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Coles, Charles

Private. 2nd Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment. Died 31 December 1916. Born in Yateley, Charles enlisted in Aldershot and lived in Farnborough.

Source: SDGW

Collar, Henry George

Trumpeter. 122nd Bty. 28th Bgde. Royal Field Artillery. Died 19th April 1915. Age 18. In the 1911 Census Henry is listed as a 14 year old schoolboy living at 9, E Block, Royal Artillery Barracks, Wellington Lines, with his parents Henry Snr. and Georgina. Henry is buried at Ypres Town Cemetery. He is presumably the H. Collar who appears on the Badshot Lea war memorial, as he had been born in the village. He is also remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, 1911 census

Collings, George

Colour Serjeant. Portsmouth Division. Royal Marines Light Infantry. Age 66. Reported by the Aldershot Gazette as living at Oak Villas, Victoria Road in Farnborough, George was a long standing recruitment officer in this area. He died of natural causes. Local undertakers Messrs. E. Finch used their new motor hearse to transport his body to Merton for burial.

Source: Local media

Collins, Herbert Edward

Serjeant. 200th Protection Coy, Royal Defence Corps. Died 28th August 1917. Age 51. Serjeant Collins’ widow, Rosina, lived at 148 Queen’s Road in Aldershot. Herbert had previously been a Regimental Sergeant Major with The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. The 1911 Census shows him living at 23, Victoria Road in Aldershot as a canteen manager and army pensioner. He is buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 census

Collins, Jesse

Private. 11th Bn. Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment, transferred to 99th Training Brigade. Died 25th December 1916. Age 50. Jesse was born in Pitstone. His widow, Elizabeth, lived at 49 Lysons Road in Aldershot. Jesse died of pneumonia and is buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery. He is remembered on the Tring war memorial.

Source: CWGC

Collins, Timothy Patrick

Private. 8th Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Died 29th August 1918. Age 21. Timothy was born and lived in Aldershot. His mother, Cecily, lived at 149 Holly Road, Aldershot. Timothy is buried at Bac du Sud British Cemetery. He is assumed to be the T. Collins who appears on the war memorials at St Michael’s and St Augustine’s churches. He was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Collinson, Frank

Bombardier. C Bty. 50th Bgde. Royal Field Artillery. Died 18th January 1918. Age 22. His parents James and Elizabeth, lived at 4 York Villas, Redan Hill in Aldershot. Frank was living in the house at the time of the 1911 Census, working as a waiter, and he enlisted in Aldershot. Frank is buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery, and is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Collis, James

Acting Bombardier. Royal Horse Artillery. Died 31st October 1914. Age 34. Born in Winchester, he enlisted in Wakefield and was an Aldershot resident at the time of his death. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate.

Source: SDGW

Collyer, Harold William

Died 16th April 1918. Age 27. Harold was a printer before the war and lived in Alexandra Road. He enlisted in the 2nd/5th The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment in May 1915, landed in France in December of that year and was shot in the left thigh in November 1916, remaining in hospital until February 1917. In September 1917 he transferred to the 7th Battalion. The Aldershot Gazette reported that he had been invalided out of the army with pulmonary tuberculosis after being gassed. Harold went to the Isle of Wight to recuperate but his health deteriorated and he returned to Aldershot. He is remembered on the St Michael’s Church memorial.

Source: Local media

Colyer, Wilfred V.

Wilfred V. Colyer. 2nd Lieutenant. 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 22nd October 1918. In the 1911 Census Wilfred V. Colyer was living at 127 High Street, Aldershot, aged 19. W. Colyer appears on the Wesleyan church war memorial as a Lieutenant of the 9th Cavalry Corps, but no such officer is listed in CWGC records. However, this church memorial was only for those who attended the church.

Source: 1911 Census.

Comfort, George Henry Harding

Private. 1st Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 8th December 1917. Age 41. George was born at 47 Union Street, Aldershot. In the 1911 Census, he was living at 45 Elms Road in Aldershot, with his wife and children. He is buried at Mont Huon Military Cemetery. George appears on the war memorials at Holy Trinity church and at the Post Office depot in Aldershot. He had been the Postmaster at Ash.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Condron, Thomas Arthur

Serjeant. 199th (Night Training) Squadron. Royal Flying Corps. Died 5th February 1918. Age 19. Thomas lived at 89 Western Avenue in Farnborough. He was killed in a plane crash in Lincolnshire while flying the final mile he needed to qualify as a pilot. He was found unconscious after his biplane crashed, and soon died without regaining consciousness. Thomas is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery, and is remembered in the Lady Chapel at St Mark’s Church and at Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC

Connell, James

Private. 1st Bn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. Died 11th November 1914. Born in Coatbridge, James enlisted in Woking but was resident in Aldershot at the time of his death. In the 1911 Census he was living at Gordon Boys’ Home. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Connolly, William Henry

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 13th October 1915. Age 21. Although born and living in Aldershot, he enlisted in Winchester. William’s mother lived at 73 Queen’s Road in Farnborough, and in the 1911 Census he was working as a golf caddy and living at 58 Peabody Road. William was killed in action in the Gallipoli campaign. He is buried in Azmak. W. Connolly appears on the war memorial at Salesian College and may be the same man.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Cooke, Leslie Leonard

Rifleman. 1st/8th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 19th April 1917. Age 19. He had been born in Bermondsey, but in the 1911 Census Leslie was a 13 year old scholar living at Stanhope Lines with his family. At the time of his death, his parents, Arthur and Florence, were living at 14 Mayfield Villas, King’s Road in Aldershot. Leslie is remembered on the Jerusalem Memorial and St Michael’s church war memorial. He is presumably the Leslie Cooke who appears on the St Joseph’s school war memorial at St Joseph’s Church. He died the same days as Alfred Hall, a fellow Aldershot resident serving in the same battalion.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Coombes, William Thomas

Regimental Serjeant Major. 29th Div. Ammunition Column. Royal Field Artillery. D 3rd August 1915. 37. His widow, Annie, lived at 35 York Road in Aldershot. He is commemorated at the Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt.

Source: CWGC

Cooper, Alfred

The obituary for Henry Cooper mentioned that he had a brother named Alfred, in the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, who fell at Neuve Chappelle in 1915. A man of this name was living as a boarder at 14 Queen’s Road in Farnborough in 1911. Born in Hale, he was a greengrocer’s assistant.

Source: 1911 Census

Cooper, Arthur Frank

Private. 7th Bn. Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regiment. Died 24th April 1917. Age 21. Arthur was a Farnborough resident. His family moved to Cove in around 1907, by 1911 he was working as a lamp lad on the railway, which also employed his father. Arthur appears to have been called up in 1916 and had initially served with the Somerset Light Infantry. He was killed in action during a night attack on Bulgarian trenches and is buried at Doiran in Greece. Arthur is remembered at Devereux House and St John’s Church.

Source: SDGW

Cooper, Arthur James

Private. 107th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 22nd October 1917. Age 22. Arthur was born in Aldershot and his parents, James and Emily, lived at 1 Havelock Villas, Coleman Road, Aldershot. He is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, WW1 service records

Cooper, Henry (Harry)

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 13th October 1916. Age 23. Born and resident in Farnborough. His mother, Juliana, lived at 2 Belle Vue Cottages, Tower Hill, Cove. Before the war both she and Harry worked at Truman’s Laundry. He enlisted around 1915 alongside Arthur Brown, both were sent to Gallipoli in December 1915. Afterwards Harry was sent to France and was killed in action at the Somme, probably helping to secure a newly captured trench in the Battle of Le Transloy. Harry is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, at Devereux House and St John’s Church.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Cooper, Henry Ernest, M.C.

Regimental Sergeant Major. 10th Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died 6th December 1919. Age 41. Henry was born in North Camp barracks, and his parents lived in South Farnborough. Henry was a veteran of the Boer war. He was invalided out of the army in 1918 after being gassed, and died at Cambridge Military Hospital. His three year old daughter Kathleen died the same day and was buried with him at Aldershot Military Cemetery. Henry is remembered on the war memorial at Devereux House,

Source: CWGC, Local media

Cooper, Percy William

Private. 3rd/10th Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Died 30th September 1917. Percy was born in Great Malvern but in 1911 was living as a boarder at 14 Lysons Road, Aldershot. Percy’s widow, Alice, lived at 27 Lysons Road. Percy was killed during a bombing raid and is buried at Duhallows A.D.S. Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, Local media, 1911 Census

Cooper, Sydney James

Corporal. 2nd Bn. Welch Regiment. Died 24th December 1916. Age 34. Sydney was born in York but enlisted in Aldershot, where his parents lived at 72 Church Lane. He was killed in action on the Western Front. Sydney was included in the residents of Aldershot who were remembered at a service in Municipal Gardens on 5 August 1917, he is remembered on the St Michael's church war memorial in Aldershot and on the Thiepval Memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Cox, Harry

Private. 1st/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. H. Cox appears on the war memorial at St Augustine’s church. This is believed to be Harry as he lived in Holly Road, Aldershot. Harry is remembered on the Basra memorial.

Source: SDGW

Cox, John Frederick

Lance Corporal. 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers. Died 16th August 1915. Born and lived in Aldershot, John enlisted in Finsbury. He had previously served with the Wiltshire Regiment. John was killed in action at Gallipoli, he is remembered on the Helles Memorial. It is assumed that he is the J. Cox who appears on the war memorial at St Michael’s church,

Aldershot. He may be the Jack Cox who appears in the 1911 Census as a 19 year old assistant printer, livng in Holly Road, Aldershot, although this cannot be proven.

Source: SDGW

Cox, Thomas Omar Vincent (Tommy)

Serjeant. 372nd Coy, Army Service Corps. Died 2nd September 1917. Age 20. Tommy’s parents, Omar and Ellen, lived at Arnold House, 71 Crimea Road in Aldershot. He enlisted in Bulford when just 16 and served alongside his brother. Tommy enlisted with a 16 year old friend, Walter Hounsom. He is buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery and is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial. He was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School. Tommy appears in the 1911 Census as Norman, perhaps a mis-hearing of Omar.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media, 1911 Census

Cracknell, Frederick

Able Seaman. H.M.S. Glory. Died 5th June 1916. Age 45. Born and raised in Aldershot, Frederick enlisted in the Navy aged 15 but bought himself out in 1896. He joined the Navy Reserve in 1901 and was called up at the start of the war. H.M.S. Glory had served as a support ship in Halifax, Nova Scotia and in Gallipoli before returning to Portsmouth for a refit. Frederick died of a malignant stomach disease at Haslar Hospital. Frederick appears on the war memorial at Devereux House and at St John’s Church. His widow and two children lived in Prospect Road, where he was living in the 1911 census.

Source: 1911 Census

Cramphorn, Walter Charles

C.S.M. 2nd Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Died 1st November 1914. Born in New Cross, he enlisted in London and was resident in Aldershot at the time of his death. He is buried at Strand Cemetery.

Source: SDGW

Creed, Thomas

Driver. 4th Coy, 5th Div. Train. Army Service Corps. Died 5th August 1918. Age 22. Thomas’ parents, Frank and Annie, lived at 43 Lysons Road in Aldershot. Thomas was living there, working as an errand boy, in the 1911 Census. Thomas is listed as born and resident in Aldershot, although he enlisted at Leamington. He is buried at Les Baraques Military Cemetery in Sangatte.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Creighton, Charles Edmund

Private. 1st Bn. Canadian Infantry. Died 15th June 1916. Age 29. Charles’ mother lived at 47 York Road in South Farnborough. The 1911 Census has him as an errand boy living at 67 York Road, which may just be a transcription error for 47. He is remembered on the Vimy memorial. C. Creighton is listed on the Salesians College memorial and is probably the same man. Charles’ brother Thomas, who lived in Derbyshire, also died in the war, on 27th February 1915.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Cresswell, Francis Joseph (Joseph)

Captain. 1st Bn. Norfolk Regiment. Died 24th August 1914. Age 31. Joseph's late father was a Colonel in the Norfolk Regiment. Commissioned in 1902, Joseph saw action in the Boer war. In the 1911 Census he was living at 1 Baldhu Villas, Netley Street in South Farnborough. Joseph was killed during the retreat from Mons whilst taking a message to the Royal Field Artillery, and is buried at Auberchicourt British Cemetery. Joseph was a member of the Isthmian club and a Freemason, one obituary records that he was a keen hunter and had ‘bagged’ an elephant, lion, rhinoceros and buffalo whilst based in Africa. Captain Cresswell is remembered in the Lady Chapel at St Mark’s church in Farnborough, where he is shown as Joseph Cresswell.

Source: 1911 Census

Cripps, George Joseph

Davies, Leslie. J. W.

Private. Machine Gun Corps. Died 14th May 1917. Age 19. Leslie’s parents lived in Farnham, his father held the rank of Major, and SDGW suggests that Leslie also lived in Farnham. However, Leslie Davies was included in the list of residents of Aldershot who were remembered at a service in Municipal Gardens on 5 August 1917. On 19 November 1920 the Aldershot News reported on the unveiling of the war memorial at the Aldershot County School, and L. J. W. Davies is recorded as having been listed on this memorial (the Aldershot Gazette report on the County School memorial lists him as J.W. Davies). Leslie J Davies is also remembered on the St Michael's church war memorial.

Source: Local media

Davis, Albert

Private. 15th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire

Regiment. Died 20th April 1917. Albert was born and lived in Aldershot, although he enlisted in Winchester. He was killed in action and is buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery. Albert is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church in Aldershot.

Age 23. Gordon’s parents lived at Beatrice Villa, Winchester Street in South Farnborough. He is remembered in the Lady Chapel and old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church, as well as Devereux House in Farnborough. Gordon also appears on what is now the Ebenezer Tabernacle’s memorial in North Camp. He is buried at Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Dempster, Gilbert

Corporal. 9th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment. Died 14th October 1916. Born in Newcastle, Gilbert enlisted in Camberley but lived in Farnborough. He died of wounds received on the Somme on 14th September 1916, and is buried in Farnborough. Gilbert is remembered in the Lady Chapel and on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church, as well as Devereux House, Farnborough.

Source: SDGW

Denham, George

Private. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 19th August 1916. Age 20. George’s parents lived at 192 Newport Road in Aldershot. He is buried at Authuile Military Cemetery. He is listed on the war memorial for old boys of St Joseph’s school, located at St Joseph’s church.

Source: CWGC

Diaper, John William

Private. 2nd Bn. Suffolk Regiment. Died 13th April 1918. Age 19. Fanny, his mother, lived at 52 Newport Road in Aldershot. John enlisted in the Army Service Corps in February 1917 but had transferred to the Suffolk Regiment. He is remembered on the St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC

Digby, Albert Butcher

Private. Army Service Corps. Died 5th November 1918. Age 40. Albert was born in Upminster and enlisted in London, but lived in Farnborough. His widow, Agnes, lived at 1

Closeworth Close in North Camp. Albert is buried in Beirut

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Dimpsey, William George

Rifleman. 1st Bn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Died 4th January 1919. Age 30. Born in Lewes, William had enlisted in 1907 at Brighton. He married Aldershot native Emily in 1912 and they lived in Pavilion Road in Aldershot. He left the army but was recalled from the reserve on the outbreak of war. William spent most of the war in captivity and died at sea during the journey home. He is buried in Copenhagen and remembered at the old Wesleyan church in Aldershot. Emily died in 1926, at the time she was running Springfield Stores in Pavilion Road.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Dodd, Archibald

Private. 2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Died 5th September 1918. Age 28. Archibald was born in Aldershot and in the 1911 Census he is still in the town, serving in the 4th Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. He appears on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Dormer, Frank

Private. 2nd/4th Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 15th May 1917. Age 26. Frank enlisted in Guildford but lived in Farnborough. His parents, Edward and Elizabeth, lived at Lynchford Road. Before the war he was a teacher at the Badshot Lea village school. Frank was last in Farnborough in November 1916 when on leave, his return to the front delayed by sickness. He died of wounds after being shot in the head and is buried at Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery. Frank is remembered in the Lady Chapel and on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church, as well as at Devereux House, Farnborough. He was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School and on Badshot Lea war memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Drennan, Alex R.

Private. 5th/6th Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). Died 10th October 1918. Age 26. Martha, his widow, lived at 24 Goodden Crescent in Cove. This road was named in honour of fellow WW1 victim Frank Goodden. Alex is buried at Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Driver, Richard

Private. 9th Bn. Devonshire Regiment. Died 26th October 1917. Age 22. Richard’s parents, Charles and Minnie, lived at 127 Victoria Road in Aldershot. Richard was posted missing for a long time, confirmation of his death arrived after the war had ended. An old West End School pupil, he had worked at Farmer Boot Co. in Aldershot before enlisting in 1916 and had been wounded prior to his death. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial and on Holy Trinity and St Michael’s church war memorials in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, Local media

Duggan, Thomas

Rifleman. Royal Irish Rifles. Posted to 1st 8th London Regiment. Died 7th April 1918. Born in Ireland, Thomas enlisted in Aldershot but lived in Farnborough. Thomas was killed in action and is buried at Senlis Communal Cemetery Extension.

Source: SDGW

Dunn, Edward

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 11th April 1917. Age 32. He was born in and enlisted in Aldershot, and is listed on the war memorial for old boys of St Joseph’s school, located at St Joseph’s church in Aldershot. In the 1911 Census there are two men of this name, both lived at home with their families, co-incidentally both in Crimea Road. Edward at no. 6 worked with coal and was visiting, whilst Edward at no. 39 was a carter and had been born in Malta. However, slight discrepancies between age and birth place means that it is uncertain which is this man.

Source: SDGW, 1911 census

Dunn, Frederick George (Dusty), A.F.C.

Captain. Royal Air Force. Died 28th May 1919. Dusty had learnt to fly at the Bleriot school in Hendon during 1913 and had volunteered for service on the outbreak of war. He spent part of the early days of the war in Farnborough before departing from there for France on October 2nd. He didn’t spent long in France, his skill as a pilot saw him returned to England to test captured enemy planes. Contemporary reports state that he lived locally. Dusty was killed in Farnborough when the inaugural flight of the world’s largest aircraft, the Tarrant Tabor, ended in disaster with it flipping onto its nose rather than taking off. This were suspicions that the disaster may have been the result of the RAE adding a lot of weight to the nose of the plane against its designer’s wishes. Dusty died in the Cambridge Military Hospital, two days after the crash, and is buried in Farnborough.

Source: Local and national media

Dunn, George

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 6th August 1915. Age 18. Born and resident in Aldershot, George enlisted at Winchester. Joannah, his widowed mother, lived at 34 Crimea Road, Aldershot. George was killed in action on the same day as another Aldershot man, William Berry, who was serving in the same Battalion.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Dunn, William

Driver. Royal Field Artillery. William appears in the 1911 census as a 24 year old confectioner, living at 11 Arlington Terrace, Aldershot. He appears on the war memorial for old boys of St Joseph’s school, located at St Joseph’s church in Aldershot. The name William Dunn appears on the memorial twice.

Source: 1911 Census

Dwyer, George Andrew

Private. 1st Bn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. Died 14th September 1914. Born in Greenwich, George enlisted in Kingston-on-Thames but lived in Farnborough at the time of his death. He is buried at Vendresse Churchyard.

Source: SDGW

Elflett, Andrew

Corporal. 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 2nd October 1918. Andrew Elflett had been born and enlisted in Aldershot and was one of three North Town brothers who died in the war. In the 1911 Census he was a bookmaker’s errand boy and lived at 11 North Place, North Lane, Aldershot, with two brothers and a sister. Corporal Elflett is buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery. Confirmation of his death arrived after the ceasefire. At the time it was believed his brother Arthur was still alive. Andrew had been injured twice during the war. He is remembered on the war memorial at St Augustine’s church.

Source: Local media, 1911 census

Elflett, Arthur William

Rifleman. 8th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 18th March 1918. One of three brothers lost in the war. The 1911 census shows him as a general labourer living at 11 North Place as head of the family, with his wife, two younger brothers and a younger sister. All three men died during the war. Arthur died whilst a prisoner of the Turks. News of his death was not received until after the end of the war. Arthur is buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Memorial and he is remembered on the war memorial at St Augustine’s church.

Source: CWGC, Local media, 1911 Census

Elflett, Edward Kitchen

Company Serjeant Major. 12th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 25th April 1917. Age 25. Aldershot born and resident, in the 1911 Census he is listed as a Canteen Waiter living with two brothers and younger sister at 11 North Place, North Lane, Aldershot. Brother of Arthur and Andrew, Edward was the second Elflett son lost in the war. He was killed in action and is buried at Doiran Military Cemetery in Greece. He also appears on St Augustine’s church war memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media, 1911 Census

Elley, Thomas

Private. 33rd Coy Labour Corps. Died 28th December 1917. Thomas previously served with 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. Born in South Farnborough, he enlisted in Aldershot and still lived in Farnborough. He was killed in action and is buried at Kandahar Farm Cemetery. T. Elley appears on the war memorial at Salesians College and is assumed to be the same man.

Source: SDGW

Elliott, Claude

Rifleman. 1st/9th. London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles). Died 7th April 1915. Age 24. Claude was the only son of Harry and Alice, who lived at 71 Ash Road in Aldershot. Claude travelled from Aldershot to London to enlist. Before the war Claude had taught at West End School in Aldershot. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate. He appears on St Michael’s church war memorial as Claude F. Elliott. Claude enlisted with fellow teacher Don Ross, who was also killed, as was his brother Roy Ross. Claude was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School, and in the 4th Aldershot Scouts Book of Remembrance. The troop were based at West End School, where he was an Assistant Scout Master.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Elliott, Edward

Acting Corporal. 3rd (King’s Own) Hussars. Died 5th November 1914. A career soldier who had served in several regiments, Edward was born in Kingston on Thames but was a resident of Aldershot at the time of his death. He died of wounds.

Source: SDGW

Elwick, Harry Herbert

Corporal. 2nd Bn. Coldstream Guards. Died 27th August 1918. Age 22. Born in Chelsea, Harry enlisted in Dover but was resident at Aldershot at the time of his death. Harry came from a military family and was born in Chelsea Barracks and spent much of his childhood at Pirbright, attending the local school from 1903-1906. In that year his father died and

Harry was transferred to the Duke of York’s Military school at Dover. Harry enlisted in the Coldstream Guards in 1912. His mother, Gertrude, remarried in 1916 and was Mrs Brophy, living at 35 St George’s Road in Aldershot, when Harry was killed. Harry was killed in action and is buried at Croisilles British Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, family member

Etheridge, George

Private. 6th Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment. Died 24th August 1918. Born in London, George enlisted in Hartley Wintney but was an Aldershot resident. He is buried at Mill Road in Thiepval.

Source: SDGW

Evans, Oscar Walter

Private 2nd Class. Royal Air Force. Died 27th December 1918. Age 45. Oscar is buried at Aldershot Military cemetery. Muriel, his widow, lived at 3 The Pavement, Lynchford Road, South Farnborough.

Source: CWGC

Evetts, Alexander Levi

Bugler. 2nd Bn. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. Died 13th November 1916. Alexander Evetts appears on the war memorial at St Michael’s church. The 1911 Census lists a 14 year old of this name living with his family in Stanhope Lines, employed as a milk boy. Levi, his father, was a barracks warden at Stanhope Lines. A combination of his father’s name and the fact that he had been born in Buckinghamshire suggests he is this man. Alexander is remembered at Thiepval.

Source: 1911 Census

Eyers, Harry. Served as Smith, Harry

Private. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 26th April 1915. Age 18. His mother, Mary, lived at 33 King’s Road in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC

Eyles, William Henry (Harry)

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 21st August 1915. Age 26. Harry was one of many local men who died within a few days in the Dardanelles. His father lived at 26 Lime Street in Aldershot. In the 1911 census William was a scholar living at Stanhope Lines where his father, also William Henry, was a Canteen Steward. William is remembered on the Helles Memorial.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Facey, Henry Morris

Private. 1st/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 14th August 1915. Age 20. Born in Chatham, Henry enlisted in Winchester but was a resident of Aldershot. The 1911 Census records the family living at 1 Lyne Villas in Holly Road, Aldershot, although at the time of Henry’s death his parents lived at 85 Holly Road. In the Census Henry was an apprentice book binder and his father, also Henry, was an army pensioner and bath attendant. Private Morris died of wounds and is buried at Basra War Cemetery. He appears on the war memorial at St Augustine’s church, where the lectern is a memorial to him and his sisters. Henry was a Sunday school teacher at the church. He is erroneously shown as Facev in the Soldiers Died in the Great War records. Henry was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Farrow, Harold Cecil

Fuller, W.

Corporal. 7th Bn. King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Died 13th September 1915. Age 22. His widow, Ethel, lived at 2 Anchor Cottage, Highfield Road in Cove. Corporal Fuller is buried at Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Futter, Arthur

According to reports in the Aldershot Gazette, Arthur died on 24th November 1920. Although not recorded in CWGC, he is included as the local reports state that his death followed from an illness which caused him to be demobilised in 1918, thus meeting CWGC criteria. Arthur had served in the Air Force. His parents lived at 2 Melrose Villas, Netley Street in Farnborough.

Source: Local media

Gaines, George

Private. 2nd/8th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died 15th December 1917. George enlisted in Aldershot but lived in Farnborough. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and at Devereux House. George is also remembered on the war memorial at what is now the Ebenezer

Tabernacle in North Camp. In 1911 a 17 year old general labourer of this name was living with his family at Hinstock Cottage, Yeovil Road, Farnborough and may be this man.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Galsworthy, Maurice Richard

Private. 1st Bn. Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Died 3rd September 1916. Age 24. Born and resident in Farnborough, Maurice appears in the 1911 census living at Victoria Villa, Cambridge Road in Farnborough with his parents and two sisters. He was a builder's improver, his father was a retired builder's agent. His widow, Ruby, lived at ‘Clovelly’ in Reading Road. Maurice was killed in action and is buried at Delville Wood Cemetery. He is remembered in the Lady Chapel and the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church, as well as Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Ganter, Frederick Spottiswoode (Fritz)

Lieutenant. Royal Flying Corps. Died 27th June 1917. Born in 1897, in the 1911 Census Frederick is living at 17 St George’s Road, Aldershot, together with his parents, a brother and sister. He left Gale and Polden, where he worked as a general fitter, for the Royal Flying Corps in November 1914. He started as an Air Mechanic 2nd Class, promoted to 1st Class in December 1915. Frederick was at the front from 14th January 1915 until 10th September 1916, and was commissioned in October 1916. He took off on his final flight at 08.45 on 27th June 1917 in a Sopwith Camel, to take part in an offensive patrol west of Lille. Initially reported missing after being seen single-handedly fighting several enemy planes, confirmation of his death arrived just after the ceasefire. He is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot and he is buried at Cabaret Rouge Cemetery.

Source: Local media

Gardner, Luke

Private. 6th Bn. South Wales Borderers. Died 28th May 1918. Born in Worcestershire, but an Aldershot resident at the time of death. He had previously served with the Wiltshire Regiment. Luke was killed in action and is buried at Soissons.

Source: SDGW

Gasser, Percival George

Private. 2nd Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Died 30th October 1914. Age 26. Born in Heath End, Percival enlisted in Guildford but was resident in Aldershot. His parents, Emanuel and Sarah, lived at 138 Queen’s Road in Aldershot. A professional soldier, Percival landed in France on 4th October 1914 and was killed less than a month later. He is buried at Poelcapelle British Cemetery and is listed on the war memorial at St Michael’s church in Aldershot, where his name was clearly added to the memorial after it had been finished.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Gayleard, Douglas Vincent Clifford

Private. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 1st July 1916. Age 21. Born in Odiham, Douglas enlisted in Winchester but was living in Aldershot by the time of his death on the first day of the Somme. CWGC describe him as a native of Farnborough. Douglas was killed in action and is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot. He is buried at Colincamps.

Source: SDGW

Gdanitz, Francis Obree

Private. 30th Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Died January 1917. Francis was born in Aldershot and his death was prominently reported in the Aldershot Gazette. His parents moved from Aldershot to Lingfield shortly after his death. He died in Reading Military Hospital from complications following from pneumonia and he is buried in Reading Cemetery. Francis was remembered on the war memorial at Christ Church (Free Church of England) in Aldershot, better known as the Rotunda. When this was demolished the memorial was moved to the Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church in Farnham.

Source: Local media

George, Henry William

Serjeant. 12th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Died 21st May 1916. Age 21. Born in Jersey, Henry enlisted in London but was an Aldershot resident at the time of his death. He appears in the 1911 Census living at 22 York Road in Aldershot with his widowed mother, six sisters and three brothers. He is listed as a cycle enameller, presumably at Alder Cycles who flourished in the town a the time. At the time of his death, Henry’s parents lived at 6 Queen’s Road in Aldershot. His father also served in the army. Henry is buried at Berks Cemetery Extension.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Giffard, Robert

Captain. Royal Field Artillery. Died 1st November 1914. Age 30. In the 1911 Census Robert and his wife are living at ‘Drimcong’, Alexandra Road in South Farnborough together with three servants, two of whom were serving in the RFA. Educated at Marlborough, in 1910 he was appointed A.D.C. to Major General Lomax, who was commanding the 1st Division Field Troops in Aldershot. He went with them when they became the 1st Division, British Expeditionary Force in 1914. On 31st October a shell exploded near to the 1st Division HQ at Hoog killing and wounding many. Robert died of wounds the next day. Major General Lomax also succumbed to wounds. A member of the I Zingari cricket club, Robert left a widow and three year old daughter. He is remembered in the Lady Chapel and the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church in Farnborough. He is buried at Ypres Town Cemetery. Robert was the twin brother to Jack Giffard who was badly wounded at Nery.

Source: 1911 Census

Gipps, Reginald Nigel

Lieutenant. 1st Bn. Scots Guards. Died 7th November 1914. Age 23. Reginald was the son of the late General Sir Richard Gipps of Sycamore House in Farnborough. He was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst before joining his father’s old regiment in February 1911. A member of the Guards and Boodle’s clubs, he had represented his Battalion at polo. He was serving in Egypt in 1914 but was recalled to England and was part of the August 1914 British Expeditionary Force and was killed in action near Ypres. Reginald is remembered on the Menin Gate. A brother, George, had been killed in a plane crash during flying lessons on 26th January 1914. Reginald is remembered on the war memorial at St Peter’s church and at Devereux House in Farnborough. The burial chapel at Farnborough cemetery is dedicated to the Gipps family.

Source: CWGC

Gledhill, Henry

Serjeant. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 1st July 1916. Age 25. Henry was born and lived in Aldershot but had enlisted at Winchester. He was killed in action on the first day of the Somme. His parents lived in North Town. Henry is buried in Redan Ridge Cemetery no. 2, Beaumont-Hamel.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Gleeson, Thomas

Private. 12th Bn. Manchester Regiment. Died 10th November 1917. Age 18. Born and resident in Aldershot, Thomas enlisted in London and died of wounds. He is buried at Dozinghem Cemetery.

Source: SDGW

Glew, Joseph

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Royal Scots Fusiliers. Died 16th June 1915. Born in Peterborough, Joseph enlisted in Ayr but was resident in Farnborough at the time of his death. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate.

Source: SDGW

Goddard, Albert Ernest

Staff Serjeant. Army Service Corps. Died 27th June 1918. Age 39. Albert is buried in Aldershot Civil Cemetery and his widow is recorded as living at 26 Mount Pleasant Road in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC

Goddard, Alfred James

Serjeant. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. Died 21st January 1916. Born and bred in Cove, he married in 1910 and in 1911 was working as a carter for the local pottery. Alfred appears to have joined the Territorial 1st 4th on its foundation in 1908. He is one of several local man killed at Em el Hannah during an attempt to fight through Turkish forces and relieve the men besieged at Kut-al-Amara. The besieged forces included other local men from 1st/4th. Alfred is remembered on the Basra Memorial. His parents lived at 8 Victoria Cottages in Victoria Road, Aldershot, his wife and child lived at West Heath in Cove. He is remembered on the Devereux House war memorial.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Goddard, Henry John (Harry)

Corporal. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 28th August 1914. Age 22. Henry, was born and enlisted in Aldershot. His mother, Matilda, lived at 14 Church Street, Queen’s Road in Aldershot. Henry was killed in action and is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church and on the La-Ferte-sousJouarre memorial.

Source: CWGC

Goddard, William James

Lance Corporal. 2nd Hampshire Regiment. Died 9th October 1917. Age 20. Born in Frimley, William enlisted in Aldershot. His mother lived at 2 Abbey View Cottages, Union Street, Aldershot. William went to the front in 1914 but returned home to Farnborough in 1915 with frost-bitten feet. He subsequently served in Gallipoli and Egypt, where he caught gastric fever and dysentery. In 1916 he was in France and was wounded in a shell blast which damaged his left leg and right arm. On two other occasions he was buried alive by shell explosions, leading to shell shock. William is remembered on the war memorial at St Peter’s church and at Devereux House. He is buried at Cement House Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Godfrey, Albert Andaman

Private. 1st Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 25th September 1917. Born in the Andaman Islands, Albert enlisted in Guildford but was resident in Aldershot. He appears in the 1911 Census living at 14 Western Road in Aldershot with his father, two sisters, a brother and a niece, working as a general labourer. Albert is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Godfrey, Charles (Charlie)

Halfacre, John Edward

Private. 2nd/4th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Died 10th August 1918. In the 1911 Census John is shown as a scholar living with his family at 7 Rentmore Cottages, Sherbourne Road, Farnborough. A Frederick Halfacre was also in residency and may be the man above, but there is a slight discrepancy in ages. John is buried at Vignacourt British Cemetery. He is remembered in the Lady Chapel and old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church and at Devereux House, in Farnborough.

Source: 1911 Census

Hall, Albert Ernest

Private. 1/4th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 27th August 1916. Born in Farnborough, Albert enlisted in Reading but was an Aldershot resident at time of death. He was killed in action.

Source: SDGW

Hall, Alfred Harry

2nd Bn. Sherwood Foresters. Died 19th September 1918. Age 25. Alfred Harry is listed in the 1911 Census at 32 Laburnum Cottages, Aldershot. His parents lived at 75 St George’s Road. On the St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot he is just listed as Alfred, but a contemporary Aldershot News article listing those to be remembered names him as Alfred Harry. He is buried at Coulaincourt.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census, Local media

Hall, Alfred William (William)

Rifleman. 1st/8th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 19th April 1917. Age 25. Alfred’s parents, Alfred Snr. and Susan, lived at 65 Edward Street in Aldershot. In 1911 he was living with his parents, two sisters and a brother plus extended family members in Gordon Street. In the Census Alfred appears as William Alfred, a fish fryer. He is remembered on the Jerusalem Memorial and in the Drill Hall at Newport, Isle of Wight.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Hall, Frederick (Fred)

Corporal. 2nd/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 10th April 1918. Age 23. Born in Elvetham, Frederick enlisted in Basingstoke in the first week of the war. He initially served in 1st/4th but was transferred to 2nd/4th. Fred lived in Farnborough. He was killed in action in Egypt, probably at the Battle of Berukin, and is buried at Ramleh Cemetery. His parents were resident in Hartley Wintney. A Fred Hall appears on the war memorial at Devereux House, assumed to be the same man. He is also on the war memorial at St John’s church.

Source: SDGW

Hall, George

Lance Corporal. 2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment. Died 21st March 1918. Age 28. George’s widow, Annie, lived at 98 Waterloo Road in Aldershot. He was killed on the first day of the 1918 German spring Offensive. George is remembered on the Pozieres memorial. G. Hall appears on the war memorial at both St Michael’s and St Augustine’s churches in Aldershot. As these memorials are primarily for parishioners it is unlikely they are the same man.

Source: 1911 Census

Hill, Fred

Driver. Royal Horse Artillery. Died 7th December 1918. Fred and his wife, Minnie, were living at 8 Union Terrace in Aldershot in 1911. He was working as a storeman in the Royal Horse Artillery ammunition column. His parents lived in Crondall, where Fred was born. Later Minnie lived at 36 Crimea Road in Aldershot. Fred is buried in Mons. CWGC does not list a first name, however Fred Hill of the RHA is listed on Holy Trinity war memorial in Aldershot. This is assumed to be the same man.

Source: CWGC

Hoare, William

Private. 1st Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 27th July 1915. Age 39. William’s father, Alfred, lived at Cove. SDGW lists him as living in Farnborough, although his widow lived in Hartley Wintney when liaising with CWGC. William was born in Farnborough and enlisted in Winchester. His widow lost their seven month old son shortly before William died of wounds. She also had three brothers in action. William appears to have served as a young man and then left to become a carter, but re-enlisted in 1914. He died in a dressing station after being wounded the day before, which the Battalion war diary recorded as a quiet day with only 2 killed and 3 wounded. William is buried at Woburn Abbey Cemetery in Cuinchy and is remembered at Devereux House and St John’s church, Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Hobbs, Harry T.

Hunt, Reginald Arthur James

Serjeant. 2nd Bn. Honourable Artillery Company. Died 9th October 1917. Age 23. Reginald had previously been a Lieutenant in the Hampshire Cadet Corps. His parents,

Gunner. 123rd Bty., 28th Bde. Royal Field Artillery. Died 1st November 1918. Age 32. His parents lived in London but George’s widow, Louisa, lived at 35 Crimea Road, Aldershot. George is buried at Harlebeke New British Cemetery. George Johnson appears on the war memorials at St Michael’s and Holy Trinity churches in Aldershot. However, as the parents of a New Zealand Field Artillery casualty of this name also lived in Aldershot, it is not possible to say with certainty which man is remembered on these memorials.

Sources : CWGC

Johnson, Lee

Gunner. H.M.S. Hampshire. Died 5th June 1916. Lee came from Newport Road in Aldershot and had attended East End school. He enlisted in 1909 and had married at Hale just six months before his death.

Source: Local media

Johnson, Michael Joseph

Private. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. Died 24th January 1916. Age 18. Private Johnson’s parents lived at 63 Edward Street in Aldershot. He died in the failed attempts to relieve the troops besieged at Kut, and is buried at Amara War Cemetery. Michael Joseph Johnson appears on the memorial to St Joseph’s school old boys at St Joseph’s church.

Source: CWGC

Jolly, Arthur Percy

Rifleman. Rifle Brigade. Posted to 1st/28th London Regiment (Artists Rifles). Died 27th September 1918. Born in Norwich in 1900, in the 1911 Census Arthur was living at 6 Holbrook Terrace, Pavilion Rd, Aldershot, the son of an army pensioner who was working as a barman. Arthur initially served with the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own). When the Artists Rifles, which had been an Officer Training unit at St Omer General Head Quarters, was converted into an ordinary infantry battalion in July 1917, men from the Rifle Brigade were transferred into the Artists Rifles to bring them up to strength. Arthur had not served abroad with the Rifle Brigade prior to his transfer. He was killed in action and is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church and the Vis-en-Artois memorial.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Jones, Harry

Lieutenant. 4th London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers.) Died 15th May 1918. Age 42. Harry was killed in an accident at the Command

Bombing School in Aldershot. He had been there for two months after serving abroad. where he was Mentioned in Despatches. Married, he was living at Lansdowne Road at the time of his death. The cause of the explosion that killed him was a mystery as the only other witness, Bombing School SergeantMajor S. Mynott was seriously injured. Harry is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Source: Local media.

Josey, William Alfred

Private. 4th Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Died 17th April 1918. Age 19. William was born in Reading and adopted by Alfred and Esther Childs with whom he was living at 39 Church St, Aldershot in 1911. Alfred Childs was then a caretaker and Army pensioner. The Childs later lived at The Rest Homes, Cranmore Lane in Aldershot. William is remembered at Ploegsteert.

Source: CWGC, 1911 census

Josephson, Edmund George, M.M.

Corporal. 2nd Bn. Devonshire Regiment. Died 27th February 1919. Age 22. Edmund’s parents lived at Pinewood Road in Ash. He was born at Stanhope Lines and in 1911 was an apprentice compositor living in Wellington Lines where his father, also Edmund, was an Army pensioner. Edmund junior is buried in Plymouth and appears on the war memorial at Holy Trinity church in Aldershot. He was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School. Note: SDGW lists him as dying on 3rd March 1919.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 census

Kearton, Charles William

Serjeant. 5th Field Coy, Royal Engineers. Died 18th March 1915. Charles was born and enlisted in Hull but by 1911 he was a 2nd Corporal RE living with his wife, Gertrude, and infant daughter, Hilda Helen, at 1 Park Cottages Farnborough. Killed in action, Charles is buried at Vielle-Chappelle New Military Cemetery and is remembered on the war memorials at St Peter’s church and Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: SDGW, 1911 census

Keary, Thomas

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 9th August 1916. Born at Aldershot in 1893, in 1911 the family lived at 4 Sunnyside Cottages Brighton Road. Thomas and his father, also Thomas, worked as tree sawyers and lumberers. Thomas junior enlisted in Hartley Wintney. He was killed in action is buried at Potijze Chateau Wood cemetery. Thomas is remembered on the St Michael’s church war memorial. He was listed as Thomas Kearney on the war memorial at the demolished East End school in Aldershot.

Source: SDGW, 1911 census

Keating, George

2nd Lieutenant. 2nd Bn. Cheshire Regiment. Died 17th February 1915. George was killed in action at Ypres and left a widow and three children in Aldershot. His brother was killed in the same action, but there is no evidence his brother was living locally. Both are buried at Spoilbank Cemetery.

Source: Local media

Keefe, William

Air Mechanic, 2nd Class. 30th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Died 7th May 1916. Age 26. Born at Stubbs, Aldershot in 1891, in 1911 William was a butcher living with his widowed mother at 16, Denmark Street in North Town, Aldershot. William died in Mesopotamia, the attempted relief of Kut featured the first ever air drop of food. He was one of fifty RFC ground crew captured when Kut fell. It is believed all were from 30th Squadron. He died of enteric fever whilst a prisoner of war on the same day as fellow squadron member Joseph Eaves. William is remembered on the Basra Memorial and at St Augustine’s in North Town. He was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Kelly, Thomas

Private. Army Service Corps. Died 10th October 1918. Born in Ballybrickon, Waterford in 1878, Thomas lived in Aldershot, being a married Private in the Army Service

Corps, Stanhope Lines. He died at sea so is remembered on the Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Kent, Walter Allen

Private. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. Died 21st January 1916. A victim of the failed relief effort at Kut, Walter was born in Farnham in 1893. He enlisted in Farnborough where he lived with his parents, Allen and Mary, at 82 Ash Road, Aldershot. His father was a blacksmith and in 1911 Walter was employed as a packer. Walter is remembered on the Basra Memorial and on the war memorial at St Michael’s church, Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Kimble, John

Private. 2nd/4th Bn. Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 22nd August 1915. Age 21. John lived in Aldershot but enlisted in Guildford, the headquarters of 5th Queen’s TF. In April 1915 men of 2/5 Queen’s ready for overseas service joined those of 2/4 Queen’s from Croydon in 160th Infantry Brigade, 53rd (Welsh) Division for Gallipoli. He died of wounds, one of many local casualties of Gallipoli. He is buried at Alexandria (Chatby) Military Cemetery. Whilst John was living in Aldershot his parents lived at Milverton in Warwickshire and he is remembered on the war memorial there.

Source: SDGW

King, James

Lieutenant and Quartermaster. Army Vetenary Corps. ex Royal Field Artillery. Died 13th June 1916. Age 54. James lived in St Joseph’s Road in Aldershot, though he was born in Coatbridge. A veteran, he had retired after 21 years service but re-enlisted at the outbreak of war. He is buried at Cairo War Memorial Cemetery. One of his sons had lost an eye and been discharged, a second son was still serving.

Source: Local media

King, John Richard

Private. 1st Bn. Border Regiment. Died 27th January 1917. Age 29. John was born at Aldershot and was a general labourer living with his parents, John Snr. and Eliza at 29 King’s Road, West End, Aldershot. John is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He is presumably the John King who appears on St Michael’s church war memorial.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Kirby, Albert Edward

Private. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. Died 17th July 1915. Age 20. Born at Shornecliffe, in 1911 Albert was an office boy living with his parents, Richard,and Ellen, at 19 Queen Street, North Town, Aldershot, where they still lived after his death. Albert enlisted at Bustard Camp in Hampshire. He is buried at Basra War Cemetery and remembered on St Augustine’s war memorial in North Town. He was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Kirkpatrick, James Blyth Mar

Lance Corporal. 1st (King’s) Dragoon Guards. Died 30th October 1914. Age 31. James was born at Kirkdale and enlisted in Liverpool. In 1911 he was an out of work french polisher resident at 1 Newport Road, Aldershot with his wife, Agnes and their three year old daughter, Agnes Mary. At the time of his death. His widow lived at 13 Shamrock Villa, Newport Road. James is remembered on the Menin Gate and on St Michael’s church war memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Knight, Albert

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers. Died 9th April 1918. Age 18. Albert was born and resident in Aldershot but enlisted in Dover. His parents lived at 18 Mount Pleasant, Redan Hill in Aldershot. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Knight, Charlie

Private. 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 15th August 1917. Age 31. Born and resident in Cove, Charlie enlisted in Winchester. His parents, William and Elizabeth, lived at Glencoe Villas, Fleet Road in Cove. Jeanette, his widow, and their children lived at 1 Heatherbank, Hawley Road in Cove. Charlie, a house painter, was called up in early 1917. He was killed in the Battle of Langemark. Charlie is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial. This is presumably the Charles Knight who is listed on the Devreux House war memorial. He is also on the St John’s church war memorial. His brother Thomas also fell.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Knight, Thomas

Private. 1st Bn. Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Died 4th September 1916. Age 27. Born in South Hawley in 1890, Thomas enlisted in Aldershot and is shown in SDGW as living in Farnborough. His parents, William and Elizabeth, lived at Glencoe Villas in Cove. An estate labourer before the war, Thomas appears to have died during an attack on German positions at Guillemont. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and on the Devereux House and St John’s church war memorials. He was the brother of Charlie Knight, they were two of ten children.

Source: SDGW, Local media

Knott, Stephen

Stephen was born in Aldershot in 1898 and in 1911 was a schoolboy living at 3 Beechnut Road with his father Stephen George Knott, a blacksmith. It is possible he had the same name as the CWGC records Stephen George Knott of the London Regiment (City of London Rifles) who died on 30th April 1916. This man served as George Knight and is remembered on the Arras memorial. Stephen appeared on the war memorial at the old East End school in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Lake, Henry Leslie

Lance Corporal. 6th Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 16th July 1916. Age 22. Born in Clapham, Henry lived in Farnborough where he worked as a greengrocer, but enlisted in Guildford. His parents, Ben and Laura, lived in South Farnborough. Henry is buried at Abbeville Communal Cemetery and is remembered on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Lambert, Henry

Private. 11th Bn. Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 26th July 1917. Born in Ash, Henry enlisted in Guildford but lived in Aldershot. He was killed in action and is remembered on the Menin Gate.

Source: SDGW

Lampard, Thomas Frederick

Leading Seaman. H.M Submarine K5. Died 20th January 1921. Age 26. Submarine K5 was lost with all hands onboard, 57 men. She left Torbay on 19th January with K8, K10, K15 and K22 heading for a mock battle in the Bay of Biscay. K5 dived but failed to resurface, it is thought she exceeded her maximum dive depth. Thomas’s widow, Lizzie, lived at 101a High Street in Aldershot, though it is possible this is her parents address and she had returned home on being bereaved.

Source: CWGC, Local media

Larkin, John

Company Serjeant Major. 1st Bn. Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 11th January 1916. Born and resident in Aldershot, John lived in Queen’s Road, Aldershot, and came from a military family. His mother lived at 185, Holly Road, Aldershot. He was killed in action and is remembered on the war memorial for St Joseph’s school old boys, which is in St Joseph’s church in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Lawes, Charles Gilbert (Bert)

Lieutenant. 9th Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died 27th October 1916. Age 24. His parents, James and Emma, lived at Woodford House, Cargate Terrace in Aldershot where ‘Bert’ was born. In 1911 he was employed assisting his father in his business as a cycle and motor agent. Bert initially served in France in 1914 with the Army Service Corps, no doubt because of his familiarity with motor vehicles, but requested a transfer to the infantry. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial and on the war memorial at Holy Trinity church in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, Local media, 1911 Census

Lawrence, Frederick

Private. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. Died 24th February 1917. Born in Blackheath, Surrey, Frederick enlisted in Winchester and lived in Aldershot. He died of wounds and appears on the Basra memorial.

Source: SDGW

Lawrence, William

Rifleman. 1st Bn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Died 27th October 1914. Born in Southwark, William was resident in Aldershot at the time of his death. He is remembered on the Menin Gate.

Source: SDGW

Leat, Henry (Harry)

Martin, Victor L.

McLean, Walter

Private. 2nd Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 12th November 1914. Age 26. Born and resident in Aldershot, Walter travelled to Guildford to enlist. He died in hospital in Stoke from wounds he suffered at Ypres. His step mother lived in Ash Vale. Walter was remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: SDGW, Local media

McNeil, George William

Lance Corporal. 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 27th May 1918. Age 23. George was born in North Camp lived at Farnborough and enlisted in Aldershot. He served with the Hampshire Carabineers before transferring to the infantry. George is buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery. He is remembered in the Lady Chapel and on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church, and on the Devereux House war memorial in Farnborough.

Medhurst, Edwin David

Private. 14th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 7th November 1916. Age 29. Born in Brighton, Edwin enlisted in Winchester but lived in Aldershot. His widow, Ethel, lived at 206 Newport Road in Aldershot. Edwin is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and on St Augustine’s church war memorial in North Town.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Megaw, William Cecil Kennedy, M.C.

Captain. Adjutant. 1st Bn. Norfolk Regiment. Died 31st March 1915. Age 29. Alice, his widow, lived in Farnborough, although his parents lived in Kemp Town. William was killed in action at Ypres and is buried at Ramparts Cemetery. He appears on Brighton war memorial and has a tablet of remembrance at the disused St Mark’s church in Kemp Town. William is remembered in the Lady Chapel and on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC

Mepham, Horace Leslie

2nd Lieutenant. 2nd Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Died 11th April 1918. Age 22. Horace’s parents, George and Sarah, lived at ‘Fernhurst’, 129 St Michael’s Road in Aldershot. Horace had been in the choir and was organist at the Wesleyan Church, where the choirmaster was the father of fellow WW1 casualty Arthur Curry. Horace was originally reported as missing but it is known that he had been hit in the stomach by a bullet. He is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial, at the old Wesleyan and St Michael’s churches in Aldershot, on the war memorial in North Camp Methodist Church, and, unusually, also at Devereux House in Farnborough. He was also remembered on the war memorial at the now demolished East End School.

Source: CWGC, Local media

Merchant, W.

Captain. Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 6th February 1920. Age 48. Captain Merchant lived at 49 Victoria Road in Farnborough. He

Source: SDGW served in both the Boer War and World War One. From 1917 onwards he worked at Aldershot Military Isolation Hospital. He was also the Command’s advisor on using ferrets for ratting. He died in the Cambridge Military Hospital and is buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Source: Local media

Miles, Charles William

Private. Royal Army Services Corps. Died 10th February 1919. Age 34. Charles fell ill with malaria whilst serving in Malta. He was returned to the UK but died in hospital in Birmingham from pneumonia. Elizabeth, his widow, lived at 10 High View Road in Farnborough. Charles is buried at St John’s in Cove, but he does not appear on the war memorial there. He is remembered on the war memorial at St Peter’s church and at Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, Local media

Miles, Frederick William

Private. 2nd Bn. East Surrey Regiment. Died 29th September 1915. Age 20. Frederick’s parents, William and Alice, lived at 198 Marrowbrook Lane in Cove. He is remembered on the Loos Memorial.

Source: CWGC

Millard, George Herbert

Private. 8th Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 26th November 1917. Age 39. Born in Frimley Green, George lived at Farnborough. Jane, his mother, lived at Ash Villas in Cove. George had previously served in the 3rd/4th Hampshire Regiment. He appears to have been called up in 1916. In 1917 he was transferred to 3rd/4th Royal Berkshire and then into the 8th Bn. He was killed in action and is buried at St Julien Dressing Station Cemetery. George is remembered on the Devereux House war memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Miller, Frank Thomas

Lance Corporal. 1st/8th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own). Died 5th

Lieutenant. 2nd Bn. Royal Inniskilling

Fusiliers. Died 16th May 1915. John’s widow lived at 37 York Road in Aldershot. He died of wounds and is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery, although he is also remembered on a grave in Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Mosdell, Arthur

Acting Corporal. 1st Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment. Died 2nd May 1915. Arthur was born in Farnborough and enlisted in Aldershot. In the 1911 Census he is recorded living at 7 Alfred Street in Aldershot with his 57 year old mother. He was working as a carman. Arthur is buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension Nord.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census.

Moylan, Jack Hamilton, D.C.M.

Trumpeter. 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars. Died 9th August 1918. Jack’s death attracted much attention as he was one of the youngest men ever to win a D.C.M. after repeatedly placing himself under enemy fire to rescue injured colleagues. His D.C.M. was presented to his mother by the King in a ceremony in Aldershot after the end of the war. A similar action involving a French national had also resulted in the award of the

Croix de Guerre. A Farnborough man, he is remembered at Devereux House.

Source: Local media

Mullen, James

Corporal (14th King’s) Hussars. Died 10th October 1918. The 1911 census shows a James Mullen living at Avenue Dairy Farm, Sycamore Road in Farnborough and assisting in the family business. Although probably the same man, it cannot be proved with certainty. James is buried at Tehran War Cemetery and is remembered in the Lady Chapel and on the old Church Hall War Memorial at St Mark’s church in Farnborough.

Source: 1911 Census

Munday, Charles

Gunner. Royal Field Artillery. Died 12th March 1918. Age 41. Charles’ widow, Mable, lived at ‘D’ 4 Passage, A Block, Salamanca Barracks in Aldershot. Charles is buried in Winchester.

Source: CWGC

Murphy, Alfred

Captain. Royal Flying Corps. Died 4th June 1917. Age 52. Alfred died of natural causes, The Aldershot Gazette reports that he was a Farnborough resident.

Source: Local media

Murphy, James

Private. 1st Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died 25th April 1915. Born and resident in Aldershot, James enlisted in Dublin. He fell in action at Gallipoli and is buried at V Beach cemetery.

Source: SDGW

Murray, Francis Joseph

Private. 6th Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 22nd July 1917. Age 21. Francis’ parents, Michael and Ellen, lived at 102 St George’s Road in Aldershot. Francis appears on the war memorial for old boys of St Joseph’s school, in St Joseph’s church in Aldershot. He is buried at Locre Hospice Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Nash, Albert Edward

Private. Army Veterinary Corps. Died 20th May 1917. Age 42. Baptised in Cove in 1877, he lived with his parents and family at Victoria Place in Cove. Called up in 1917, Albert joined the Army Veterinary Corps. It seems likely he was used to working with horses as he had worked for his father’s corn merchants business. Albert died of cerebral spinal meningitis in York Military Hospital, and is buried at St John’s church in Cove. He is remembered at Devereux House and St John’s Church.

Source: 1911 Census

Neville, William Bronte

Leading Seaman. H.M.S. Black Prince. Died 31st May 1916. Age 29. Born in Hartley Wintney, William died at the Battle of Jutland, which appears to have seen Aldershot sustain its worst losses in a single day in the entire war. His widow, Emily, lived at 40 Park Cottage, Lower Farnham Road in Aldershot. William appears on the war memorial in Hartley Wintney alongside his brother, Walter, who also died at Jutland. Aged 20, Walter was an Able Seaman on the same ship as his brother. H.M.S. Black Prince was an Edinburgh class cruiser launched in 1904. It is thought the ship accidentally approached the German lines during the overnight battle, was caught in the floodlights of the Thuringen and was fired on by up to five enemy ships. All 857 crew were lost.

Source: CWGC

New, Herbert John

Able Seaman. Hood Bn. Royal Naval Division. Died 8th October 1918. Age 28. Able Seaman New’s widow, Minnie, lived at Pears Cottage, Church Path in Cove. He had been born in Aldershot and was only called up in April 1918, going into action in September. He died of wounds and is buried at Grevillers British Cemetery. Herbert is remembered on the war memorials at Devereux House and St John’s church in Farnborough.

Newcome, George, D.S.O.

O’Connor, Edward

Private. 1st/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 24th February 1917. Age 19. The second son of Charles and Emily O’Connor to be killed. Edward was born and lived in Aldershot, and appears in the 1911 Census as a 12 year old living with his family at 137 High Street. The 1st/4th were a Territorial Force which spent the war in the east and Edward is remembered on the Basra Memorial. Edward appears on the war memorial for old boys of St Joseph’s school, located in St Joseph’s church, Aldershot. At the time of his death, Edward’s parents are listed 7 Arthur Street although in his brother Charles’ record they are given at number 1, suggesting that one of these addresses is a transcription error.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

O’Connor, John

John appears on the war memorial for St Joseph school old boys, located in St Joseph’s church in Aldershot. John’s position on the war memorial suggests he may have been Edward’s older brother. If so the O’Connor family was another Aldershot family which lost three sons.

O’Donnell, Patrick Joseph

Private. 4th Royal Sussex Regiment. Died 17th August 1915. Age 24. Patrick’s parents, John and Mary, lived at 53 York Road in Aldershot. In 1911 Patrick lived there with his parents and three younger sisters. He was working as a shop assistant. Patrick was killed at Gallipoli and is remembered on the Helles Memorial.

Private. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 9th October 1914. Age 40. Mary, his widow, lived at 2 The Laurels, Southwood Road in Cove. Born in Hartley Wintney, Joseph had moved to Cove with his parents. In 1903 he joined the Hampshire Regiment for 3 years and served 9 years in the Reserve. Mobilised at the start of the war, he landed in France on 23rd August 1914. Joseph was wounded at the Battle of Messines and died in Boulogne. He is buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery and is remembered at Devereux House.

Source: CWGC

Pearce, Lancelot Harry

Pinkney, Robert Edgar (Bob)

Private. 23rd Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Died 30th September 1918. Age 30. Robert was born in Aldershot and in 1911 was an Assistant Teacher, living with his father and three boarders at York Villas, The Grove, in the town. He was described as being 5' 7" tall with brown hair and blue eyes. He enlisted at Guildford on 24th June 1916 and served in France until February 1917 when he was severely wounded in the back and lungs. After four months in hospital Robert was sent back to hospital, then went to Margate to learn to lip read as his hearing had been damaged. Whilst there he fell ill with influenza, believed to be exacerbated by some shrapnel in his back, and died. Robert was remembered on the war memorial at the demolished East End school, where he had been pupil, assistant teacher and teacher. Robert had also founded 5th Aldershot (East End Boys’ School) Boy Scouts and played for Aldershot Excelsior Football Club, one of the top civilian teams in the town. He was also the Honorary Secretary of the Aldershot Institute and a member of Aldershot Operatic Society. He left a widow, Leila, and a daughter living in Ash. After a funeral at St Mary’s church he was buried in Aldershot Civic cemetery.

Source: 1911 Census, Local media

Pitt, William Milson

Private. 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte’s Own). Died 10th April 1917. Born in Cheltenham, William was resident in Aldershot by the time of his death from wounds. He is buried at Lapugonoy Cemetery. Note: SDGW lists him as dying on the 11th.

Source: SDGW

Plume, Percy

Private. 707th Coy, Army Service Corps. Died 9th November 1918. Percy was born in Virginia Water, enlisted at Camberley but lived in Farnborough. Sources differ as to his age, however the 1911 Census shows him as a 25 year old domestic gardener living at Highfield Terrace, Rectory Road in Farnborough with his wife and new born son. His widow later lived at 53 Queen’s Road, Farnborough. Percy is buried at Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria in Greece.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Popejoy, Bert Samuel, M.M.

Serjeant. 8th Bn. Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own). Died 21st March 1918. Age 36. Killed on the first day of the German spring offensive in 1918, Bert was born, lived and enlisted in Aldershot. Educated at the West End School, he was called up from the reserve at the start of the war. His widow, Eva, lived at 6 Herrett Street in Aldershot. News of his death was only confirmed in 1919. Bert is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial and on the war memorial at St Michaels church in his home town.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Porter, Samuel

Lance Corporal S. Porter. 15th Bn. The Northumberland Fusilier. Died 15th April 1918. Samuel was born and enlisted in Aldershot. He was called up from the reserve at the outbreak of war. A boy known only as S. Porter is known to have attended the West End School and lived at 17 Lime Street, Aldershot. Two of his brothers were in France at the time of his death. Samuel died of wounds and is buried at Lapugnoy Cemetery. He is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church in Aldershot.

Source: Local media

Portlock, Percival, M.M.

Private. 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 20th September 1917. Born in Worthing, Percival enlisted in Hartley Wintney but lived in Aldershot. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial. He was also listed on a war memorial at the now demolished Christ Church Boys’ school in Worthing. The war memorial was privately purchased from a scrap dealer for £5 a few years ago to prevent it being melted down.

Source: SDGW

Potter, Lewis

Private. 11th Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Died 10th April 1917. Age 22. Lewis was killed in action on the Western Front. He was born in Fittleton, Wiltshire, enlisted at Mill Hill, but he was included in the residents of Aldershot who were remembered at a service in Municipal Gardens on 5 August 1917. His widowed mother, Mary, lived at 2 Seymour Villas, North Lane in Aldershot. Lewis is remembered on St Augustine's church war memorial in North Town and on the Arras Memorial.

Source : CWGC, SDGW

Potter, Reginald James

Private. Portsmouth Bn. R.N. Division, Royal Marines Light Infantry. Died 17th December 1915. Age 19. Reginald appears in the 1911 Census living at 2 Seymour Villas, North Lane, Aldershot, with his parents, an older brother and two younger sisters. Born in Wiltshire, Reginald was a factory labourer. Reginald is buried at Alexandra (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery. Reginald and his brother, Lewis, are remembered on the St Augustine’s church war memorial.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Poulter, Frank

Air Mechanic 2nd Class. 24th Squadron. Royal Flying Corps. Died 3rd June 1917. Age 40. In the 1911 Census he was living at Duns Stables in Farnborough with his wife, two daughters and son. Frank had been born in Frimley and worked as a chauffeur and gardener. Minnie, his widow, later lived at 133 Peabody Road in Farnborough. Frank had only joined the Squadron on 9th February 1917. He is buried at Tincourt New British cemetery.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Powell, George

Able Seaman. H.M.S. Bulwark. Died 26th November 1914. Age 24. George joined the Navy as a Boy Sailor in 1908. In the 1911 census he was employed as a milkman, living with his parents at 1 Railway Cottage, Frog Lane in Cove. Back in the Navy, he joined his last ship in April 1913. H.M.S. Bulwark was a Formidable or London class pre-Dreadnought battleship laid down at Devonport in 1899. She was destroyed by an internal explosion when off Sheerness on 26th November 1914. 738 lives were lost, only 12 men survived. The explosion was believed to have been caused by overheating cordite charges which had been stored adjacent to a boiler room bulkhead. George is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and at Devereux House, Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Powell, Herbert

Stoker 1st Class. H.M.S. Queen Mary. Died 31st May 1916. Age 19. In the 1911 Census he was living at home with his parents, two brothers and three sisters at 62 Queen’s Road in Aldershot, working as a waiter in a canteen and mess. Herbert’s mother, Sarah, lived at 62 Queen’s Road in Aldershot. Herbert was another casualty of the Battle of Jutland, which appears to have been the single worst day of the war for Aldershot. H.M.S. Queen Mary was the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy before the war, launched at Jarrow in 1912. She was sunk by fire from S.M.S. Derflinger, 1,266 men died and only 18 survived. Herbert is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Powell, Victor John

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Berkshire Regiment. Died 24th October 1918. Age 20. Victor was born in Edinburgh, but in the 1911 Census he was living with his family at 2 Dudley Villas, Coleman Road in Aldershot. Victor is buried at Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension, and is remembered on the war memorial at the old Wesleyan church in Aldershot and on St Michael’s church war memorial.

Source: 1911 Census

Pretty, Ernest George

Private. 4th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Died 15th October 1914. Age 26. Ernest was the first of two sons of Alfred and Charlotte Pretty to be killed. They lived at 6a St Michael’s Road in Aldershot. Ernest was born in Aldershot, and was killed in action. He is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial and on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Pretty, Frederick Arthur

Private. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 31st October 1914. Born in Aldershot, Frederick enlisted in Guildford. He is presumably the F.A. Pretty who appears on the Aldershot Postal District war memorial at Aldershot Post Office depot, although the 1911 Census listed him as a 24 year old brewery drayman living with his mother and a lodger at 255 High Street. Frederick is remembered on the Menin Gate and on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: SDGW

Pretty, Henry Charles (Harry)

Able Seaman. H.M.S. Barham. Died 2nd June 1917. Age 22. Harry’s parents lived at 6a St Michael’s Road, Aldershot, and he was the brother of Ernest Pretty. H.M.S. Barham was a Queen Elizabeth class battleship, launched in October 1914. She survived the war but was sunk in World War Two. Harry is buried in Aldershot Civil Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Prior, Albert

Sapper. 5th Field Troop, Royal Engineers. Died 24th June 1915. Age 29. Albert was born in Aldershot. His mother, Mary, lived at 12 North Place, North Lane, Aldershot. Albert was living there when the 1911 Census was taken, with his wife, Mary, his parents and sister, and worked as a carpenter. He was gassed while at the front and was returned home. It was believed his death from TB was linked to his exposure to gas. Albert is buried at Aldershot Civil Cemetery and is remembered on the war memorial at St Augustine’s church in North Town.

Source: CWGC, Local media, 1911 Census

Pritchard, Walter Ernest (Ernest)

Lance Corporal. 2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment. Died 16th June 1915. Age 36. Born in Birmingham, Walter was living in Aldershot at the time of his death. He is buried at Chocques cemetery.

Source: SDGW

Pullen, Edwin George

Squadron Serjeant Major. 62nd Remounts Army Service Corps. Died 18th January 1918. Age 53. In 1911 George was living with his wife, Lavinia, three daughters and two sons at 23 Crimea Road in Aldershot. He is buried at Fulford Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Pullen, Frederick

Private. 1st/4th Hampshire Regiment. Died 15th July 1915. Born in Brockenhurst, Frederick enlisted in Hartley Wintney and lived in Aldershot. He was killed in action in Mesopotamia.

Source: SDGW

Quigley, Hugh Dominic

Sick Berth Attendant, 1st Class. H.M.S. Pathfinder. Died 5th September 1914. The 1911 Census shows Hugh living in the family home at 40 Park Road in Farnborough with his parents, William and Rebecca, a brother and sister. Pathfinder was a scout cruiser, built at Cammell Laird in 1904. She was sunk off St Abbs head by submarine U21. A torpedo struck the magazine and the ship quickly sunk with the loss of 259 men. Hugh is remembered on Chatham Naval Memorial and at Devereux House, Farnborough. He is also presumably the H. Quigley listed on the Salesians war memorial.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Railton, Geoffrey Lancelot

Died 12th September 1916. According to local press reports, Geoffrey was a Royal Aircraft Factory employee and a Flight Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service. He is not listed in the CWGC database suggesting he was a civilian at the time of his death. Geoffrey was killed when a plane he was piloting had a problem with the right wing and the plane corkscrewed into the ground. His observer, Frederick Williams, was also killed. Geoffrey lived in Farnborough and was engaged. His father, William, was the vicar at Plumpton and served as a chaplain in the forces during World War One. Geoffrey appears on the old Church Hall war memorials at St Mark’s church and Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: Local media.

Raison, George Hurst

Serjeant. 1st Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers. Died 13th October 1914. Age 25. George’s father lived at 'Pinehurst', Park Road in Farnborough, and George was born and enlisted in Aldershot. He is remembered on the war memorials at Devereux House, the old Church Hall at St Mark's in Farnborough, and the North Camp Methodist Church. George is also remembered on the Le Touret Memorial. (His date of death is that recorded by CWGC, however the North Camp Methodist Church memorial cites him as dying at Chavonnes exactly four years later.)

Source: CWGC, Family member

Rance, Charles

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment. Died 13th October 1914. Age 20. Born and resident in Cove, Charles enlisted in Aldershot. His parents lived at Tower Hill in Cove and he appears there in the 1911 Census. He joined the Special Reserve aged 17, transferring to the regular Army 6 months later. He landed in France on 16th August 1914. Charles was killed in action at the Battle of La Bassee and is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial and at Devereux House and St John’s.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Raymond, Charles

Corporal. 2nd Bn. King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Died 14th September 1914. Age 32. Born in Windsor, Ontario, Charles enlisted in London but was a resident of Aldershot at the time of his death. His widow, Ella, lived at 35 Church Street in Aldershot. Raymond died of wounds and is remembered on the St Michael’s church war memorial.

Source: CGWC, SDGW

Reavell, Keith Watts

Lieutenant. 12th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 10th December 1916. Age 31. In the 1911 Census Keith is listed as a grocer, living with his family at 1 Wellington Street, Aldershot. He was the son of one of the town’s leading citizens and Aldershot Urban Council held a minute’s silence to mark Keith’s death. He is buried at Doiran Military Cemetery. Keith was remembered on a war memorial at Aldershot Presbyterian Church, this is now in St Andrew’s Garrison church.

Source: CWGC, Local media, 1911 Census

Reeves, Sidney Frank

Driver. Hampshire Bike Coy, Army Service Corps. Died 21st February 1915. Age 25. Sidney appears on the 1911 census living with his parents, two sisters and three brothers at ‘Brooklyn’ on Guildford Road in Farnborough. His name is spelt Sydney by some sources. He is remembered in the Lady Chapel and on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church and at Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Reynolds, A.

Farnham Grammar School magazine reported the death of old boy A. Reynolds of Aldershot in December 1914. It would appear to be Private A. Reynolds of the 2nd Leicestershire Regiment. He is buried at Le Touret Cemetery.

Source: Local media

Reynolds, George Thomas

Private. 1st Bn. attached 11th Trench Mortar Battery, Hampshire Regiment. Died 24th April 1917. Age 31. George’s parents, George Snr. and Susan, lived at 97 St Michael’s Road. George is buried at Etaples, he died of wounds. He was remembered on the Roll of Honour at the Rotunda Church in Victoria Road, Aldershot. This was moved to the sister church at South Street in Farnham when Rotunda Church was demolished. A George E. T. Reynolds is remembered at St Michael’s, believed to be the same man.

Source: CWGC, Family member

Reynolds, Robert Stanley (Bob)

Rossiter, Alfred

Writer 3rd Class. H.M.S. Indefatigable. Died 31st May 1916. Age 27. A casualty of the Battle of Jutland, Alfred was one of 1,017 lost with his ship after she was shelled by the Von der Tann. There were only two survivors. H.M.S. Indefatigable was a battlecruiser and had been launched at Devonport in 1909. Alfred had been adopted by his aunt and uncle when just two. In 1911 Alfred was living with his family at 52 St George’s Road,

Aldershot, and working as a Clerk at the Junior Army and Navy Stores. His obituary stated that Alfred was highly thought of and was acting up two ranks at the time of his death. Alfred is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial and on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot. He was also listed on the Roll of Honour at the Rotunda Church in Victoria Road. This was moved to the sister church in South Street, Farnham when the Rotunda Church was demolished.

Source: Local media, 1911 Census

Sainty, Henry St. John (John)

Company Serjeant Major. Army Service Corps. Died 10th March 1916. A Boer war veteran, his mother, Ellen, lived at 37 York Road in Aldershot. On the night of the 1911 Census Henry was in Stanhope Lines but the rest of his family were in York Road. Henry died of wounds in a London hospital and is buried in Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, Local media, 1911 Census

Private. 1st/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 9th January 1915. Age 28. Born and resident in Cove, William’s widow, Amy, and their three children lived at 2 Laurel Cottages, Hawley Road in Cove. Before the war he was a carter and general labourer. William was a territorial member of the 1st/4th but did not sail with them for India in 1914, probably because he was already ill. William died of cirrhosis of the liver. He is buried at St John’s church in Cove and is remembered at Devereux House and on St John’s church war memorial. He was Percy’s older brother.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Silver, Charles Henry

Private. 2nd R.M. Bn. R.N. Div. Royal Marines Light Infantry. Died 26th October 1917. Age 40. Whilst his parents resided at Godalming, Charles’ widow, Elizabeth, lived at 1 Bridge Cottage, Bridge Road in Cove. They married in 1900 and had two sons and adopted son. Called up in March 1917, he was sent to France in June and was killed on the opening day of the 2nd Battle of Passchendaele. Charles is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, at St John’s church and Devereux House in Farnborough. Charles’s second son, Arthur (born 1916) was killed in June 1940 in the sinking of the Lancastria. This may be the only instance of a father and son from Cove who died in successive World Wars.

Source: CWGC

Simpson, Gilbert Decimus

Regimental Serjeant Major. 1st/1st Derbyshire Yeomanry. Died 28th October 1918. Age 39. Born in Royston, Gilbert enlisted in London but was resident in Aldershot at the time of his death. Ethel, his widow, lived at 10 Western Road, Aldershot. Gilbert is buried at Dedeagatch British Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Singleton, Edmund El-Teb William (Eddie)

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Soane, William

Private. 6th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment. Died 26th October 1916. Age 19. Born and resident in

Cove, William enlisted in Winchester in February 1916. His parents, William Snr. and Emily, lived at ‘Glencot’, Fleet Road in Cove. William died of wounds, probably sustained in the Battle of Ancre. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, at St John’s church and at Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Soffe, Harry

Private. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 26th April 1915. Harry was born and lived in Aldershot. He appears in the 1911 Census aged 15 living with his parents at 140 Queen’s Road in Aldershot. Harry is remembered at the Menin Gate and on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: 1911 Census

Soffe, John

Private. 1st Bn. The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment. Died 5th June 1915. Age 25. Born in Harrow, John enlisted in Kingston Upon Thames but was resident in Aldershot where his parents lived at 140 Queen’s Road. John died of wounds after being shot by a sniper. He is buried at Bulley-Grenay Communal Cemetery, French Extension, and is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot. Reports into John Soffe’s death state that his brother had predeceased him, presumably meaning Harry Soffe listed above.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Solomon, Harry Mayer

2nd Lieutenant. 4th Aeroplane Supply Depot. Died 5th December 1918. Age 25. In 1911 Harry was living with his family at ‘Fairlight’, 88 Victoria Road in Aldershot. His father was listed as a ‘Camp Furnisher.’ His mother predeceased him, and his father later lived at 5 High Street in Aldershot. Harry was invalided out of active service, suffering from “shell shock and weakness of the heart” and was sent to Cambridge. He died of influenza and pneumonia in a Cambridge hospital. Harry is buried at Aldershot Jewish Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, Local media, 1911 Census

Speakman, Edward Joseph Edmund

Private. 2nd/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 20th July 1918. Edward was born in and enlisted in Aldershot. In the 1911 Census he was a 12 year old scholar living with his parents, three sisters and a brother at 57 Birchett Road in Aldershot. He was killed in action.

Source: SDGC, 1911 Census.

Spiller, Charles

Gunner. ‘S’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Died 20 August 1915. Charles was born in Aldershot, enlisted in Folkestone, and died in India. He was included in the residents of Aldershot who were remembered at a service in Municipal Gardens on 5 August 1917, and is remembered on the war memorial for old boys of St Joseph's school, located at St Joseph's church in Aldershot, and on the on the Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial.

Source: SDGW

Spiller, John

Private. 2nd. Bn. Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 11th February 1915. Born and resident in Aldershot, John was killed in action. He is buried at Rue-David Military cemetery.

Source: SDGW

Spittle, Hugh Francis Henry

Lance Serjeant. 1st Bn. Wiltshire Regiment. Died 21st November 1918. Lance Serjeant Spittle originally served with the Dorsetshire Regiment. He was born in Ireland but in the 1911 Census he was an 18 year old bookkeeper living at 18 St George’s Road, Aldershot, with his parents and two younger sisters. Hugh died from wounds and is buried at St Sever Cemetery in Rouen. (He is listed as H.F.H. by CWGC and High by SDGW, this is a transcription error and he is listed as Hugh in a list of men from Kildare who died in the war and in the 1911 Census.)

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Spreadborough, Arthur

Private. Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch). Died 7th June 1917. Age 23. Arthur’s parents, James and Susan, lived at 41 Somerset Road in South Farnborough. He is believed to have been killed by shrapnel whilst digging a tank out at Messines. Arthur is remembered on the Menin Gate, in the Lady Chapel and old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s church and at Devereux House in Farnborough.

Source: CWGC, Family member

Stancombe, Alfred James

Private 2nd Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 23rd April 1917. Age 37. Alfred lived at 3 Lysons Road in Aldershot with his wife, Beatrice, one son, three daughters and a boarder. He was employed as a carman. (Some sources list him as 20 in 1911, however, as he had a ten year old son and was married to a 31 year old this seems likely to be an error.) Alfred is remembered on the Arras Memorial.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Stephens, Frederick Henry

Corporal. 88th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Died 4th July 1916. Age 27. Frederick was born and enlisted in Aldershot. His parents lived at 63 Queen’s Road, and he attended the West End Schools. A professional soldier, Frederick had served for nine years. He is buried at Knightsbridge Cemetery in Mesnil-Martinsart, and is remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity church in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC

Stevens, Lawrence John

Private. 1st Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment. Died 30th September 1918. Age 18. One of 13 children, his parents moved to Hill Corner, Cove when he was about three. The 1911 Census lists Lawrence at this address, aged 12. Lawrence was an agricultural labourer when he was called up in March 1917 to 2nd/9th Hampshire Regiment, a home defence and training unit. He subsequently transferred to the Dorsetshire Regiment.

Lawrence was killed during the Battle of St Quentin Canal. He is remembered on the Visen-Artois memorial and on the on the war memorials at Devereux House and St John's.

Source: CWGC, local media, family member

Stewart, Robert Arthur (Arthur)

Chaplain 4th Class. Army Chaplains’ Department, att. 57th Casualty Clearing Station. Died 3rd November 1917. Rev. Stewart had been minister at the Aldershot Presbyterian Church from April 1898 to March 1917, as well as serving as a Chaplain to the Forces from August 1914. In 1911 he was living at ’The Manse’ in Victoria Road. He volunteered at the start of the war and was married. He is buried at St Pol Communal Cemetery Extension. Rev. Stewart was remembered on a tablet at Aldershot Presbyterian Church, this is now in St Andrew’s Garrison church. R. Arthur Stewart also appears on the main war memorial at the church.

Source: Local media, 1911 Census

Stokes, Henry (Harry)

Private. 1st Bn. Middlesex Regiment. Died 28th September 1917. Age 25. Harry enlisted in Tottenham but was resident in Aldershot at the time of his death from wounds. His parents lived at 14 Alexandra Road. Harry is buried in Ljissenthoek Military Cemetery, and is remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity church in Aldershot under his formal name.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Stone, Thomas

Serjeant. Royal Engineers. Died 13th August 1920. Age 51. Thomas’s widow, Lillian, lived at 58 Park Road in Aldershot. He is buried in the Aldershot Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC

Strangward, Herbert Haseldine

Private. 1st Bn. Essex Regiment. Died 28th April 1916. Age 20. Herbert’s parents lived in Norwich which is where SDGW list him as living. However CWGC list him as a native of

Aldershot. He was certainly in Aldershot for his school days and is listed in the 1911 census at 45 Gordon Road in Aldershot, his occupation shown as “Learning tailoring”. Herbert enlisted on 8th January 1915. He appears to have transferred to the 1st Bn. Essex Regiment from 3rd. Bn. Norfolk Regiment, suggesting he may have been one of the few survivors from a draft that lost heavily when the Royal Edward was torpedoed while taking them to Gallipoli. Herbert is buried at Mesnil Ridge Cemetery, MesnilMartinsart.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Styles, Albert Henry

Private. 1st Bn. Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Died 22nd April 1918. Age 18. Albert was born and enlisted in Aldershot. His parents, Frederick and Alice, lived at North Lodge in Grosvenor Road, Aldershot. A Private A. Styles of the Devonshire Regiment appears on the war memorial at the old Wesleyan Church in Aldershot. No such man appears in the CWGC lists and so it is likely that this is the same man. In the 1911 Census an Albert Styles of the correct age is listed with his family at South Lodge, Grosvenor Road. Albert is buried at Merville Communal Cemetery Extension.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Sumpster, Alfred C.

Company Serjeant Major. No. 5 Printing Section, 3rd Sappers and Miners Coy. Royal Engineers. Died 5th July 1916. Age 35. Alfred was born and enlisted in Aldershot, his widow lived at 74 Ash Road. Killed in Mesopotamia, Alfred was Mentioned in Despatches and is buried in Basra. He is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Suter, Arthur

Lance Corporal. Hampshire Carabineers/6th Cyclist Brigade. Arthur enlisted in 1915 after working at Farmer’s Boot Shop in Wellington Street, Aldershot. His parents lived in Church Lane, Aldershot. On 2nd August he underwent an operation for appendicitis, but died a few days later. Arthur is remembered on St

Michael’s church war memorial and at the Wesleyan church.

Source: Local media

Sutton, Alfred Leonard

Lance Corporal. 6th Bn. The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died 6th March 1916. Age 27. Alfred’s widow, Maria, lived at 12 Cargate Hill in Aldershot. He is remembered on the Loos Memorial.

Source: CWGC

Sylvester, William

Private. 1st/6th Gloucestershire Regiment. Died 3rd November 1916. Age 25. William Silvester grew up in Cove with his grandparents while his mother lived in Farnborough. He is shown in the 1911 Census living in Farnborough. On 30 June 1915 William Sylvester got married at Shrewton and was recorded as a postman who was a resident of Aldershot. It is not known why he changed the spelling of his name at this time. CWGC lists him as Sylvester. In May 1915 William enlisted in Farnborough and probably arrived in France in August 1916. William is remembered on the Thiepval memorial, the Post Office memorial, and on the war memorials at Devereux House, St Peter's and St John's (as William Silvester).

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Tanner, Frank

Private. 2nd. Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 16th May 1915. Age 22. Born and resident in Aldershot, in 1911 he was a news boy and living at 21 Albert Road in Aldershot with his parents, two older brothers and five younger sisters, plus a boarder. Frank is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Tate, Jack

Warren, William Frederick

Lance Corporal. 1st Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 1st July 1916. William was born in Farnham and lived in Aldershot. He may also have lived in Farnborough for a time, as in 1911 a 17 year old of this name, born in Farnham, was a golf caddie living with his widowed mother and older brother at 1 Lavender Cottages, Queens Road, Farnborough. William was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.

Source: SDGW. 1911 Census

Warrilow, William

Serjeant. Army Service Corps. Died 1st March 1915. William was born in Reading but lived and enlisted in Aldershot. He is buried at Laventie Military cemetery. William is remembered on St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: SDGW

Warwick, John William

Private. 6th Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 29th April 1917. Born in Welwyn, John enlisted in Hertford but lived in Aldershot at the time of his death. John appears in the 1911 Census as a 24 year old living in Wellington Lines. He was killed in action and is buried at Chili Trench cemetery.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Waterlow, Clive Maitland

Private. 5th Bn. Wiltshire Regiment. Died 15th December 1917. Age 21. Born, enlisted and resident in Aldershot, Arthur initially served with the Hampshire Regiment. A man of the right name and age appears in the 1911 Census working as a boy grocer and living at 9 Mount Pleasant, Redan Hill with his parents and two sisters. His parents later lived at 125 Ash Road in Aldershot. Arthur died of wounds in the Mesopotamia campaign, and is buried at Baghdad. He is remembered on the St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, 1911 Census

Wilkinson, Charles

Private. Labour Corps. Died 9th November 1918. Charles enlisted in Camberley but lived in Aldershot. He initially served in the Devonshire Regiment and is buried in the Aldershot Military cemetery.

Private. Army Service Corps. Died 29th May 1917. Born and resident in Aldershot. The 1911 Census shows only one Robert Wilson who was born in Aldershot, in 1898. He was living with his widowed mother, three sisters and four brothers at 25 Alexandra Road.

Robert died of wounds, and is buried at Hop Store Cemetery.

Source: SDGW, 1911 Census

Wilson, William George (Bill)

Company Serjeant Major. 1st Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers. Died 29th April 1915. Age 27. William was born and lived in Aldershot but enlisted in Dublin. He had served as a boy soldier in the Boer war. William had lost a brother in the Boer war, and a second brother, Charles, died at Mons in August 1914. William was killed in action in Gallipoli and is remembered on the Helles memorial.

Source: SDGW

Winchester, Ernest

Private. 2nd/6th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment. Died 15th April 1918. Age 32. In 1911 Ernest was employed as a labourer and lived at 72 Wolseley Road with his brother and father. He is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial,

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Wiseman, Arthur James

Private. 15th Bn. Hampshire Regiment. Died 10th April 1917. Age 28. Born in Woolwich, Arthur enlisted in Winchester. His parents lived at 7 Pembury Place, High Street, Aldershot. Arthur died of wounds and is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. He is remembered on the St Michael’s church war memorial in Aldershot. An Arthur Wiseman appears on the old Church Hall war memorial at St Mark’s in Farnborough, presumably the same man.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Withers, William

Wright, Malcolm P. A.

Sergeant Major. Army Service Corps. Died 25th October 1918. Age 31. Malcolm died at the Connaught Hospital from pneumonia following influenza, making him an early local fatality from Spanish flu. He lived with his wife at ‘Elmsleigh House’ in St George’s Road, Aldershot. He was buried in the Aldershot Military Cemetery. Some sources list him as a Staff Sergeant.

Source: CWGC

Wright, Richard George

Serjeant. 1st Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 27th January 1916. Age 23. Born in Lambeth, Richard enlisted in Guildford but lived in Aldershot. His parents, Harvey and Alice, were also Aldershot residents. Richard is buried in Cambrin Churchyard Extension.

Source: CWGC, SDGW

Wright, Sidney

Driver. 2nd Coy, Army Service Corps. Died 19th October 1914. Age 23. Sidney’s widow lived at 34 Holly Road in Aldershot. His parents lived in Send. Sidney is buried at Le Mans.

Source: CWGC

Wyatt, Francis Ogilvy, M.V.O.

Lieutenant Colonel. 2nd Mountain Brigade. Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 16th December 1919. Age 48. Roberta, his widow, lived at ‘Brightstone’, Reading Road in Farnborough, they had two children. Francis died of illness due to active service and is buried at Rawalpindi. His middle name is sometimes spelled Ogilvie.

Source: CWGC

Wynne, Arthur

Private. 2nd Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 25th September 1915. Age 21. An Arthur Wynne of the correct age appears in the 1911 Census living with his family at 10 Queen’s Road in Farnborough. He was employed as a porter. Later Arthur’s parents were recorded living at 1 Government Buildings in South Farnborough. He is remembered on the Loos memorial.

Source: CWGC, 1911 Census

Yallop, Edward C.

Private. 820th Mechanised Transport Coy, Army Service Corps. Died 12th November 1918. Age 40. Edward’s parents lived in Yarmouth but his widow, Minnie, lived at 6 The Warren in Aldershot. Her brother, Lieutenant Colonel W. Colyer, had died just weeks before. Edward died in Serbia and is buried in Chela Kula Military Cemetery.

Source: CWGC, Local media

Yeomans, Sidney Stephen

Private. 7th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry. Died 18th June 1918. Age 19. Sidney had been born and lived at Cove. In the 1911 Census he was living at 15 Victoria Place in Cove with his parents, two younger brothers and two sisters. The Yeomans family were prominent in Cove before the war and family members can be found on many of the old photographs at Cove FC. Sidney probably went to France in April 1918 and saw action for the first time only six weeks before he was killed. Sidney is buried at Sucrerie Cemetery and is remembered on the war memorials at Devereux House and St John’s church. Another member of the Yeomans family successfully escaped from a German Prisoner of War camp in 1918. In 2013 two members of the Yeomans family dedicated a tree to Sidney’s memory during Cove School’s Remembrance Day service. His date of death is shown in SDGW as the 17th June.

Source: CWGC, SDGW, Local media

Younger, Harry

Private. 7th Bn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 1st July 1916. Harry was resident in Aldershot, living with his family at 3, Perowne Street in the town. He voluntarily enlisted on 8th September 1914, his parents’ wedding anniversary, at Stoughton Barracks, Guildford, together with two friends. Harry was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He had just turned 22 when he was hit in the heart by a bullet that passed through a wallet he had in his pocket. The family still owns the wallet. Initially Harry was reported as missing, notification of his death arrived on his father’s birthday. On hearing of his son’s death his father, a retired army veteran, attempted to enlist but was sent home by the Recruiting Officer. Harry is remembered on the war memorial at St Michael’s church in Aldershot.

Source: SDGW, Family member