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
Christina
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21-09-2014, 5:00 AM #21Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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21-09-2014, 5:17 AM #22Albert 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.
ChristinaSometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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21-09-2014, 10:38 PM #23Eric Drummond-Hay (1909-11) Lieutenant Canadian Infantry
Aged 20
DOMINION CEMETERY, HENDECOURT-LES-CAGNICOURT
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?Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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21-09-2014, 11:33 PM #24John 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.
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 manSometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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22-09-2014, 1:24 AM #25
- Join Date
- Sep 2008
- Location
- Penge, London, England
- Posts
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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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22-09-2014, 3:46 AM #26
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.Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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22-09-2014, 5:14 AM #27
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.Sometimes paranoia is just having all the facts.
William Burroughs
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22-09-2014, 5:56 PM #28S_AcourtGuest
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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22-09-2014, 10:21 PM #29
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- Location
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- Posts
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Chris
Pleased you left me some to do!!
William Noakes Neversole (95-99) Private 28th Middlesex
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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22-09-2014, 10:52 PM #30
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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.
https://www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk/historian/ryley.pdf
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