WORLD WAR I CENTENARY
Eric Carr Liptrott (1906 L) He was wounded in the head by a shell and died five days later. Only a few days before he, with his company, had charged and cleared a German trench without receiving a scratch.
November. In late 1918, Parks was wounded during all this fighting and had half of his jaw shot away. He died in hospital in 1919.
Anthony Boydell Playford (1907 L)
Vivian Charles Lowry (1906 L)
He was undertaking a ‘recce’ in no-man’s land when the enemy attacked in force. After the battle, his body was never found.
He enlisted as a private, but was commissioned in 1915. He served in France for a second time in 1917 where after being home on sick-leave, he joined the Machine Gun Corps. In April, he was sent back to France only to be killed in the fighting near Bailleul.
Shortly after war broke out he enlisted in the Australian Contingent and was made corporal and subsequently lieutenant.
Henry Norman Samuel Mummery (1913 L)
John Walter Pym (1907 L)
After seeing considerable service in France in 1914 and 1915, where he was wounded at Richebourg, he went to Mesopotamia, where he was again wounded in the attempt to relieve Kut. He returned to France a second time and was wounded a third time and taken prisoner. He died as a POW after contracting pneumonia following influenza.
He was on the look out for a sniper and, having spotted him, was about to fire but the sniper was quicker and shot him in the head.
Alfred Ralph Nethersole CSI (1885 L) He was aboard the passenger ship Persia when it was sunk by a German submarine, in contravention of international law.
Alfred Wyatt Papworth (1896 L) Nothing is known of his death. He is buried in Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension I.V. 30.
Harvey Spencer Paramor (1905 L) He joined the forces in September1914, almost immediately as war was declared and had served, virtually unscathed for the whole duration. He served in Ireland trying to quell the rebellion there, and afterwards in Egypt, but by June of 1918, he found himself in France. With just four days to go before the Armistice would be declared, he died.
John Wynand Parks MC (1907 L) On 26th May 1918, the 1st East Lancashires transferred to 183rd Brigade, 61st (2nd South Midland) Division and were in action in the final advance in Picardy, crossing the Sambre in the first week of
Charlton Hogarth Prockter (1907 L)
Robert Cecil Richardson (1909 L) He left Sutton Valence to continue his education at King’s School Bruton, where he distinguished himself both academically and on the sporting field. He enlisted in the Border Regiment straight from School and initially served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force before being transferred to the Western Front.
Arthur Strangways-Rogers (1912 L) He was at SVS as a small boy for 18 months and then went to Rugby School. He was gazetted to the Grenadier Guards and was killed in the latter stages of the war, after some three months at the front. He was shot in the heart by a machine-gun bullet and died as soon as he reached the aid post.
Edward Rogers MC (1900 L) He had seen a good deal of service in the war, being employed in the Dardanelles and in Egypt before he went to France. For his services in the Dardanelles he was awarded the Order of Karageorge. In France, he did brilliant work, for which he was awarded the Military Cross. On his way back to his billet a high explosive shell burst beside him and he never regained consciousness.
Frederick William Rogers (1911 L) On 15th September 1916, to avoid some deep mud, the party he was in got out of the trench and immediately afterwards a shell burst near them. He was the third of his family to be killed.
Charles Rashleigh Ronaldson (1892 L) A veteran of the Boer War, he enlisted when the war broke out in the Sportsman’s Battalion and was given a commission. He was killed in an attack on the German trenches by a grenade.When the Germans counter-attacked, his body had to be left where he fell.
Julius Brinkley Shaw (1901 L) He disembarked in France with the 18th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment on 17th November 1915 as a private. He gained his commission on 25th September 1917 and, after this date, he was attached to the Northampton Regiment until his death.
Fleming Frederick Smythe (1910 L) Smythe and his captain were in a small trench at the end of their line when a shell buried them. They were both dead when extricated.
Frank Atkinson Thew (1904 L) John Walter Pym (1907 L) Died 07 July 1916
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He went to France with the Royal Artillery in August 1914. He was killed in a gallant attempt to bring in a brother officer, who was lying severely wounded close to the enemy trenches.