Remembering the Fallen

[Sue Mackay]

I am sure in the run up to Remembrance Day our thoughts turn to specific men who paid the ultimate price, and I thought it would be nice to have a special thread for them. Many were not direct ancestors, simply because they were taken before they could reach the age to marry and have children, but they are still remembered by their families.



This is to remember Private John Stuart DAGG of the 13th Btn Royal Welch Fusiliers, who died of wounds received at the Battle of Bapaume on 2 September 1918. He was only 20 years old, and so nearly made it through the war. He is buried in St.Sever Cemetery, Rouen, but is remembered on the grave of his sister, who died in infancy, and his parents John Samuel and Winifred DAGG, outside Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff. He was always fondly remembered by his two siblings, Kitty and Bill, who thanks to his sacrifice both lived to see their 95th year.

[jeeb]

Hi Sue,
I think it was good to bring this to our attention but most of us already remember the young fighting men and women who gave their lives for their country. What does often get overlooked is the thousands of innocent citizens killed in the bombing raids of our towns and cities, many of them only children. They were just as much victims of a needless waste of life and I salute them all.

Jeremy

[Procat]

Hi Sue,
I think it was good to bring this to our attention but most of us already remember the young fighting men and women who gave their lives for their country. What does often get overlooked is the thousands of innocent citizens killed in the bombing raids of our towns and cities, many of them only children. They were just as much victims of a needless waste of life and I salute them all.

Jeremy

An admirable thought Jeremy and without wishing to cause controversy I think it could be expanded to cover all innocent citizens killed in time of war.

[Procat]

In memory of my great uncles:

Thomas Johnson Died 5 August 1916, age 34
Maurice Patrick Walther Died 31 October 1917 age 27
Walter Charles Walther Died 3 June 1918 age 30.

[jeeb]

An admirable thought Jeremy and without wishing to cause controversy I think it could be expanded to cover all innocent citizens killed in time of war.

You are not causing controvery Procat, you are merely putting what I meant in a better way.

Jeremy

[suedent]

Remembering my gg-uncle John Edward JAY. He emmigrated to NZ in 1909 to start a new life. When war was declared he joined the NZEF. He was injured in 1917 and given 6 days leave. He used that leave to return to Cornwall and marry Mabel Gummow on 6 August 1917. Sadly John was killed on at Ypres on 12 October 1917, Mabel remained in Liskeard and died in 1970, never re-marrying.

Also my great-uncle Thomas John A'LEE who was killed on 11 January 1942 in North Africa and who is buried at El Alamein.

[bracaragh]

In memory of my great uncles:
Patrick MURPHY died 10 November 1917,buried at Tyne Cot, awarded DCM
and
James MURPHY died 22 December 1914, remembered at Le Touret.

[Mike_E]

My Great Uncle's

Bernhard Niemeyer born 1910
Died and buried in Pomezia Italy 3 Oct 1943

and his brother

Rudolf Niemeyer born 1906
Listed as missing in Werchowzewo Ukraine 6 Oct 1943 - no known resting place.

[suzzie]

I would like to remember my gg uncle ..

Name: PARKER, George Henry
Regiment, Corps etc.: East Lancashire Regiment
Battalion etc.: 2/5th Battalion.
Birthplace: Burnley, Lancs
Enlisted: Burnley
Rank: PRIVATE
Number: 240838
Date died: 09 October 1917
How died: Killed in action
Theatre of war: France & Flanders

also my Mother's first husband

Sgt Harvey Gordanier, M/226, 1 Radar Bty., Royal Canadian Artillary.
Died 13 March 1945. Age 30.
Remembered with honour at Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery.

[Spangle]

James William Keen, 1897 - 1917, Rifleman, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, 21st Btn. Twenty years old. James fell following the Battle of Pilkem at Passchendaele and is buried at Godewaersvelde Cemetery.

Carol Lancelot Herbert Cook, 1926 - 1946, Driver, Royal Army Service Corps. Twenty years old. Lied about his age to serve his country at 17 and two years after the end of the war, having sustained terriblle injuries in Italy was to pay the ultimate price at home in Peckham, London. Buried in Camberwell Old Cemetery.

William George Laughlin, the Great Grandad I never knew, of Camberwell, London. William passed away some time after the First World War as a result of gassing sustained whilst fighting for his country and family. He left behind my grieving Great Nan, my Nan, aged 14, and her sister aged 1 and a half.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.