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    W F Burgess
    Medal Roll card - only one Burgess with initials W F (and they weren''t kind enough to write his full names)

    W F Burgess
    Regiment or Corps - Royal Fusiliers
    Regimental Number - G/12048
    Rank - Private.
    He entered France on 1 September 1915 and was KIA 25 Sept 1915.
    He was awarded all three medals.

    I can't take this one any further because I don't know his first and middle name or when and where he was born. There is a possible in 1911 but the father has been most unhelpful and only used initials for the first and middle names of everyone in the family!

    Even more frustrating because I still can't get access to CWGC

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    Albert Howell Curtis (Master 1914-1916)Private 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
    Died of wounds 4th August 1916, aged 23. Commemorated Varennes Military Ceremony , Somme, I.A.2. [Source: Sandwich War Memorial]
    One of three brothers who died.
    Albert died in action fighting on the Pozières Ridge [Source: https://www.kentfallen.com/PDF%20REPORTS/SANDWICH.pdf]

    No service record only a medal index card
    Albert H Curtis
    Rank - private
    Royal Fusiliers
    regiment number GS/98941
    He was awarded the Victory and British medals.


    There is a public tree on ancestry which has photos of Albert in his uniform and a postcard he sent home to his mother.
    If you would like to get in touch with the owner of the tree I am willing to be your intermediary but I would need your email address to give to them. If you do want to get in touch with them send me a pm (in the drop down menu under Christanel)


    Albert was born 1890 in Easton on the Hill Northamptonshire and his middle name Howell is his mother's maiden name.
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    Eric Drummond-Hay (1909-11) Lieutenant Canadian Infantry
    Aged 20
    DOMINION CEMETERY, HENDECOURT-LES-CAGNICOURT
    This looks like him in the 1900 Canada census, His father immigrated from Scotland in 1887 and is now farming and his mother from England in 1884? Looks as if Eric took his father's first name as his middle name.

    Manitoba
    Drummond Edward Hay 37
    Jessie M Hay 27
    Leonard Hay 6
    Eric Hay 3
    Violet Hay 13

    Yesterday I found a shipping record for him travelling back to Canada from England in 1911. He was with an Annie? Drummond Hay age 56 (from memory) and they were landing at Quebec. (Now I can't get it to appear again!! He is also on the UK 1911 census in Sandwich St Clement, Eastry, Kent, England but at the moment the site is playing up so I can't see the details.
    because of his sometimes hyphenated name searching for him is a rather hit and miss activity. When and if I find anything else I will post it on this post rather than start another for him.
    Christina

    Just found his attestation papers. There looks to be 2 pages only. Eric is a bank clerk. His age is 2 years older than in the 1900 census so he may have put it up to sign on. it gives his physical details, dark complexion, brown eyes black hair, 5' 8and half inches tall. He signed on at Moose Jaw Sasketchewan

    Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918
    Eric Drummond-hay
    Birth Date -26 Nov 1896
    Birth Location - Belmont, Manitoba
    Relative -Edward Drummond-Hay
    Regiment Number -427476
    Joined 7 August 1915

    The next set of papers are for a Harold Sandford Drummond-Hay, 24 years 7 months, who was born Belmont Manitoba but living in Winnipeg signed up 24 April 1915, married, a brother ?, who had previously served in the army in the 12 Man (Manitoba?) Dragoons
    Leonard Vivian Drummond Hay born 1894 also signed on 7 August 1915.

    Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948
    Eric Drummond-hay
    Death Date -2 Sep 1918
    Rank -Lieutenant
    Unit -16th Battalion
    Cemetery -Dominion British Cemetery
    Cemetery Location - 9 3/4 Miles South East of Arras, France
    Burial Place -Arras, France

    From the original image




    You have seen this link with his photo?
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    John George Fielder (1911-13) Gunner Royal Field Artillery
    Died of wounds 25th March 1918, aged 19 [Source: Sandwich War Memorial]
    Born Ramsgate, Enlisted in Deal
    Buried Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval, Pas de Calais, France. Grave Ref: I. D. 19.
    UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919
    John George Fielder
    Birth Place -Ramsgate
    Death Date -25 Mar 1918
    Death Place -France and Flanders
    Enlistment Place -Deal
    Rank -Gunner
    Regiment -Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
    Battalion -Territorial Force
    Regimental Number -910381
    Type of Casualty -Died of wounds
    Theatre of War -Western European Theatre

    There is a medal roll index card forhim. He was awarded the british and Victory medals but apparently no one claimed them as the O/C Recs applied to dispose of them on 28 April 1922.

    Here he is in 1911 with his family.
    6 High St, Sandwich
    John George Fielder 43 Licenced victualler
    Harriet Ellenor Fielder 44
    John George Fielder 12
    Nora Adelaide Fielder 11
    Annie Dixon 17 servant

    On This site
    they have his mother as Adelaide Jane. She died in 1905 so Harriet Eleanor is his stepmother.

    No service record for this man
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    Many of the burial sites are on Find A Grave, where I have created a "Virtual Cemetery" for those which have been identified above or by myself. Additional entries can be made when cemeteries are found, which may be possible when the CWGC site is back up. Those with a little gravestone against them have "grave" photos, though some are just inscriptions on war memorials. Don't lift photos from FAG — its contributors don't like it.

    Entries in my virtual cemetery are tentative for Frederick H Ralph (2 possibilities) and John Robert White (regiment mismatch, but people sometimes moved).

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    Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918
    Eric Hepburn
    Attestation 28 Jan 1916 at Prince Albert
    Single
    Occupation - farmer
    Residence - Davis, Saskatchewan
    Birth Date - 11 Feb 1894
    Birth Location Edinburgh, Scotland
    Relative - Father, Robert Martin Hepburn
    Father's residence Harrogate Yorkshire
    Regiment Number - 886170

    He was a tall man - 6 feet. Grey eyes, fair hair and complexion

    Voyage to Canada
    The only other Hepburn I can see is an Alice age 23 further down the page but there are a lot of crossings out as someone evidently made a mistake on one of the entries.

    Eric Hepburn
    Age - 15 born c1894
    Ship - Empress of Britain
    Port of Arrival - St John, New Brunswick, Canada
    Arrived 16 April 1909
    Port of Departure - Liverpool, England
    Occupation - farm hand
    British bonus allowed
    Destination Prince Albert

    I can find nothing else on this man.
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    1911 census
    Cholmeley House, 41 Southwood Lane, Highgate N
    Wilfred Chennels Honeyball Nephew 24 single Assistant private secretary
    Born Teynham, Kent, England

    He is with Edward Harding Kelly and Minnie Elsie Kelly. Edward a schoolmaster with 12 pupils and a number of general servants.

    Wilfred is one of 7 children of Frederick Thomas Honeyball and Kate Chennell
    He married Mabel Thallon in 1914.

    Medal Roll Index Card
    Wilfred Chennell Honeyball
    Regiment or Corps - Machine Gun Corps
    Regimental Number - 104882
    There is a note on the back of his medal card which refers to a reply on EF9 from 2nd LT W C Honeyball on 7 Dec 1920. It must be someone writing on his behalf re the medals.
    He was commissioned 28 August 1917 and received the British and Victory medals.
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    John F. Anderson (00-03)
    I found out that his middle name was foster and that he died of wounds on 26.02.1918 aged 30

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    Chris

    Pleased you left me some to do!!

    William Noakes Neversole (95-99) Private 28th Middlesex
    NETHERSOLE William Noakes
    Born Jul 1883 - Eastry, Kent

    Baptised
    William Noakes Nethersole
    Baptism Date: 12 Jul 1883
    Baptism Place: Goodnestone (near Sandwich), Kent, England
    Father: Michael Nethersole
    Mother: Susannah File

    One of 9 children

    Marriage 22 Apr 1909
    Marriage Place: Oldham, Lancashire, England
    Spouse: Martha Gunson

    CHILD Margaret Miriam B 28 MAY 1910

    1911

    Winkland Oaks, Ripple, Dover
    desc as a a farm bailiff Marital Status: Married

    ENLISTED 27 APRIL 1916 Army Record has 12 images address on enlistment BUISLEY FARM CHALLOCK KENT

    Soldier no Machine Gun Corps

    DEATH: 18 Jul 1917

    Probate Granted 20 Sep 1917 - London, England
    Died at no 17 General Hospital Aleaxandria Egypt, Probate to Arthur William LOVELL farm bailiff & Martha NETHERSOLE widow effects £204

    Cemetery info
    https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...ETHERSOLE,%20W

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    Rev. Harold Buchanan Ryley (Head 1901-1905) Lieut Suffolk Regt.*
     Died 15/12/1917
     Aged 49
     RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY, D. 30. Israel
    https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/ca...OLD%20BUCHANAN

    Donald Arthur George Ryley (01-04) Lieut. North Staffs Regt.
     Died 11/02/1917
     North Staffordshire Regiment
     Loos Memorial, Panel 103-105, Calais

    Harold Buchanan Ryley (03-05) 2nd. Lieutenant North Staffs Regt.*
     Died 05/09/1916
     Thiepval Memorial Pier and Face 14B and 14C but he was in the North Staffordshire Regiment.
    This is all that needs to be written / stated about this family ( Chris & mods I have contacted author ref copyright)

    https://www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk/historian/ryley.pdf

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