Either living in Clevedon during the war or were born in Clevedon

BS/Z/1911 Able Seaman Frederick Joseph Adair

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve SS Saxon

Killed in action with a submarine 7-5-1918

Plymouth Naval Memorial

Memorials St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

He was the son of Mrs Poole, her eldest and only son by her first marriage. A member of SS Saxon’s gun crew, he lost his life when the vessel was sunk by enemy submarine action.

29805 Lance Corporal Thomas Robert Ainsworth

1^st Wiltshire Regiment ex 22487 Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 12-8-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium, Panel 53

Corporal Ainsworth, aged 27, of 11 Parnell Road, left a widow, Nora Emily and one child.

Major Macclesfield Heptinstall Anderson

33^rd Light Cavalry Indian Army

Killed in action 29-4-1915 Persian Gulf Expedition

Buried No known grave Tehran Memorial Iran (Persia) Panel 8 Column 1

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

He was the second son of General Sir Horace Searle Anderson and was born at Clifton, Bristol 12^th December 1873, was educated privately, and at the RMC, Sandhurst. His first appointment as 2^nd Lieutenant was to the 2^nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, in January 1894. And by April 1895, he was posted to the 33^rd Cavalry, Indian Army. He saw service in the Tirah Campaign, 1897-1898, China 1900. He was a keen sportsman, fond of pig-sticking, polo, and shooting. Major Anderson in charge of two squadrons of his regiment was posted to Mesopotamia in November 1914. He was present at the taking of Basra and Kurna, and in the great Battle of Shaiba.

2^nd Lieutenant Edward Basil Anstie

6^th Rifle Brigade attached 2^nd Battalion

Killed in action 23-3-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Pozieres Memorial France, Panels 81-84

Memorials St Marys Walton & St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

Lieutenant Anstie was the eldest son of Captain GE Anstie, Wiltshire Regiment. He was born in 1898 and educated at Pinewood, Farnborough, Hampshire, where he developed a keen interest in history. He gained a scholarship to Repton in 1912 and was then elected for a history scholarship at New College Oxford. He joined the OTC at Oxford and went to France in the summer of 1917. The family home was Fairlawn, Walton, and at the time of his death his father was serving with his regiment in India.

Lieutenant Richard Applin

Royal Flying Corps 19 Squadron

Killed in action 29-4-1917 France

Buried No known grave Arras Memorial France

Lieutenant Applin was born in Clevedon on 3 June 1894, the only son of school teacher Charles Ernest and Mrs Applin. Richard was educated At Taunton School, Southampton, and then went on to teacher training. He volunteered and was accepted into the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps on 14 October 1915. Keen to fly he joined the RFC in October 1916. His first solo flight was in a ‘Longhorn’ on 6 December 1916. He married his fiancee, Margaret Hannah Brown, and set up home in Southampton. He joined 19 Squadron in France on 14 March 1917, by which time he had 56 hours flying time of which 45 were solo. His first flight with the squadron was in a BE2c, later moving to Spad’s. He had amassed a mere 75 flying hours when on the 29 April 1917 he met up with Baron von Richthofen and was shot down. He was the Barons 49^th victory.

13265 Private Alfred D Baker

Royal Field Artillery 67^th Brigade

Died 26-12-1918 Egypt

Buried Cairo War Memorial Cemetery Egypt, Row Q Grave 224

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Alfred Baker, son of Mr T Baker of East Clevedon, died of pneumonia in Cairo Military Hospital. He joined the RFA in 1914 and served in the Dardenells and Salonika and was wounded in Palestine prior to moving to Egypt.

29702 Private Stanley Charles Baker

2^nd Wiltshire Regiment Ex 21573 Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 9-4-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Bucquoy Road Cemetery France Plot 6 Row N Grave 12

Memorials Tickenham Church & British School Plaque, Chapel Court, Marson Road

Private Baker enlisted into the Somerset Light Infantry at Clevedon in early 1916 and was transferred to the Wiltshires in August of that year. He was the youngest son of John Baker, of Tickenham, aged 31.

36986 Private Harold John Bennett

8^th Worcestershire Regiment ex 257262 Royal Engineers

Killed in action 5-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Beaurevoir Communal Cemetery British Extension, France, Row B Grave 5

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Aged 22, he was the son of John and Bertha Bennett, of All Saints School House, prior to his military service he had been a clerk on the Great Western Railway.

200495 Sergeant Victor Charles Binding

4^th City of Bristol Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 9-10-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke Belgium Panel 72-75

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Sergeant Binding, aged 21, was killed when his battalion attacked near Poelcappelle, Third Battle of Ypres, on the early morning of 9^th October 1917, his platoon officer 2^nd Lieutenant Alex Taylor reported that Victor had been seen to be wounded but no further sight of him was made, even after the most careful of searches. He was the youngest son of Thomas Binding of 40 Kenn Road. He had enlisted at Clevedon at the start of the war and seen service throughout France and Flanders. Four of his brothers also served during the war and his father an old Artillery Volunteer served with the 1^st Somerset Volunteer Regiment in Clevedon. He was a regular writer home and some of his letters was published in the Clevedon Mercury.

74664 Corporal Sidney Herbert Blackmore

Royal Engineers Mudros Signals Section

Died of meningitis 19-6-1916 Salonika

Buried Portianos Military Cemetery Greece, Plot 3 Row C Grave 339

Memorials British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Sidney was the son of James and Sarah Blackmore of Clevedon, he was aged 49 and married to Charlotte, they lived at 17 Monks Road, Bishopston, Bristol.

16694 Private Charles Joseph Blake

12^th Bristol’s Own Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 30-7-1916 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Thiepval Memorial France Pier 5 Face A & B

Memorials St Andrews, St Pauls, Walton-in-Gordano & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Address Walton-in-Gordano

Private Blake was well known in the town, as for several years he had worked on the Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway, having just prior to the war taken charge at Weston-Super-Mare. He met his death at the hands of a German sniper, after voluntarily acting as a stretcher bearer, to rescue a wounded officer

13957 Private Joseph Henry Blake

1^st Devonshire Regiment

Died of wounds 3-2-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Bethune Town Cemetery France, Plot 6 Row B Grave 12

Memorials St Andrews, St Johns & British School Plaque, Chapel Court, Marson Road

Private Blake, son of William and Elizabeth Blake, had served with the Somerset Light Infantry during the Boer War, and rejoined them at the outbreak of the war, being later transferred to the Devons. His head was fractured by a shell and he died of his wounds shortly after.

184481 Sapper George Herbert Bodden

153^rd Company Royal Engineers

Killed in action 4-10-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery Belgium, Plot 3 Row F Grave 11

Sapper Bodden, aged 37, was the father of John Herbert Bodden, of Duncan House.

41308 Private Harry James Bond

5^th Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Killed in action 11-9-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Estaires Communal Cemetery Extension France Plot 5 Row H Grave 8

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Private Bond, aged 19, was the son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Bond, of 2 New Buildings, Union Street, Nailsea.

Captain Henry Mason Boucher MC

Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 23-4-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Chocques Military Cemetery France, Plot 4 Row A Grave 21

Memorials St Marys Walton & St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

Captain Boucher, born in 1891, he was educated at Eastmans and Haileybury. After leaving school he entered the Chinese Maritime Customs and was serving at Teugguch when the war broke out. He at once gave up his appointment, and came home to serve his country. He was given a commission in the 3^rd Somerset Light Infantry, and went to France with the 6^th Battalion. He saw much fighting on the Somme, and returned to England, wounded in September 1916, being mentioned in despatches. He was promoted Captain and rejoined his battalion in France early 1917. In August of that year he was again wounded more severely at Inverness Copse. He was for some time in hospital, but on recovery was sent to Ireland, where he was stationed until 2^nd April 1918, when he was ordered to join the 1^st Battalion in France. He took part in the successful attack on the 14^th April, when prisoners and machine guns were taken and the German counter attack was completely repulsed. He was fighting with his battalion when he was killed on the 23^rd April 1918. He was the son of Dr and Mrs HM Boucher of St Rode, Walton.

Lieutenant Colonel Roland Harley Bridges

Royal Army Medical Corps

Drowned 22-8-1918 Jaffa, Palestine

Buried Ramleh War Cemetery, Isreal, Row L Grave 20

Roland the son of Major Charles Bridges was born in Clevedon and baptised at All Saints on 15-3-1879. He was educated at Clevedon, Blundell’s School and St. Thomas’s Hospital where he took his degree in 1902. He joined the RAMC in 1903, becoming Captain in 1906, and Major in 1914. He served five years in India, returning to England in 1909, at the outbreak of war he took command of training camps at Hounslow and Eastbourne, afterwards going on the yacht Liberty on a six months tour of inspection to the Dardanelles and Mediterranean. He subsequently went to Egypt on HQ Staff, and in September 1917 became Commandant of the Military Hospital at Helouan. At his own request he was transferred to a unit at the front, and was commanding a combined Indian field ambulance when he was drowned whilst bathing. He was awarded the DSO and twice mentioned in despatches.

55030 Private Francis Henry Broad

193^rd Company Machine Gun Corps Infantry

Died of wounds 15-5-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France, Plot 4 Row G Grave 50

Private Broad, who was born in Clevedon, but by the time war was declared was living in Sherbourne, enlisted as 130344 Private in the Royal Field Artillery, he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps when it was born in 1915.

DMA/195592 Private Horace Sidney Broderick

3^rd Company, Eltham Division Army Service Corps MT

Died 13-3-1917 Home

Buried St Marys Churchyard Walton-in-Gordano

Memorials St Marys Walton-in-Gordano & St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

He was the youngest son of Mr & Mrs E Broderick, of Rugby House, Walton Park, and was well known in Clevedon and district as a prominent member of St Mary’s Church Choir. He died in the Royal Herbert Hospital at Woolwich and his funeral took place at St Mary’s Church.

16641 Private Frank Brooks

12^th Bristol’s Own Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 5-5-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Arras Memorial, Faubourg-D’Amiens Cemetery, France, Bay 6

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Private Brooks, aged 20, was the son of Mrs and Mrs William Brooks, of 153 Kenn Road.

851367 Bombardier Donald Fairbairn Brown

Royal Field Artillery D Battery 240^th Brigade

Died of disease 21-1-1919 Italy

Buried Montecchio Precalcino Cemetery Italy Plot 10 Row D Grave 10

Memorials Tickenham Church

Lance Corporal William John Bryant

Royal Marine Light Infantry HMS Goliath

Killed in action 13-5-1915

Plymouth Naval Memorial Panel 7

Memorials Tickenham Church

Major Edward Travers Burges

1^st South African Infantry ex 2^nd Imperial Light Horse

Killed in action 18-7-1916 the Somme

Buried No known grave Thiepval Memorial France, Pier 4 Face C

Memorials St Andrews and All Saints Calvary

Major Burges aged 38, was the son of the late Daniel Travers Burges & Alice Sarah Burges. He was the husband of Charlotte, of Highland Cottage, Clevedon. He was killed in the action at Delville Wood on the Somme. At the outbreak of war he proceeded to German South West Africa with the Imperial Light Horse, at the close of General Botha’s campaign he volunteered for service in Europe with the South African Infantry. He also fought in Egypt. Major Burges served in the Boer War where he gained a DCM. He was an old Wykhamist.

7537 Private Wilfred Hinton Butler

13^th London Regiment ex 15^th Battalion

Died of wounds 2-10-1916 France and Flanders

Buried St Mary’s Churchyard Walton-in-Gordano

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Private Butler, aged 21, was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs AEH Butler of Herbert Lodge, he enlisted in the Autumn of 1915, sailing to France, on his 21^st birthday, with his battalion The Civil Service Rifles, in June 1916. He was attached to a Lewis gun section, and it was while proceeding with his gun up Delville Wood, in the Battle of the Somme, in a night attack, that he fell wounded in the arm and side. An operation at Rouen appeared successful and he was sent home on a hospital ship to a military hospital in Birmingham, fever set in and despite the greatest skill on behalf of the staff, and constant nursing assistance from his mother he died on Monday 2^nd October 1916. His funeral took place at St Mary’s Church, Walton Park the following Thursday.

WR177143 Pioneer Frank Charles Callow

Royal Engineers Railway Transportation Establishment

Died 23-10-1918 Italy

Buried Montecchio Cemetery Precalcino, Plot 7 Row D Grave 1

Memorials St Andrews

Aged 33, he was the son of Charles Callow.

506467 Sapper Francis George Camp

7^th Field Company Royal Engineers

Died 20-10-1918 Germany

Buried Worms (Hocheim Hill) Cemetery Germany, names on screen wall in allied plot.

Son of Mrs Jane Maria Camp and husband of Amy Camp formally of Highdale Road, died of dysentery at a POW Hospital at Worms, Germany. He was aged 33.

 

476351 Private Egbert Claude Canter

101^st Company Labour Corps ex 10081 Hertfordshire Regiment

Died of wounds 19-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried St Sever Cemetery Extension Rouen France Plot Q3 Row H Grave 24

Memorials St Andrews, St Johns & Methodist Church

Private Canter died of gas poisoning at number 10 General Hospital Rouen France. He was the husband of Annie Canter of 12 Griffin Road.

13419 Private William Card

1^st Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 6-2-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery Belgium Plot 11 Row A Grave 3

Private Card was born in Clevedon and was living in Cardiff. He enlisted at Merthyr Tydfil.

128 Lance Corporal George Edward Carey

2^nd Wessex Field Company Royal Engineers 503^rd Company

Died 4-1-1916 Home

Buried St Andrews Graveyard Clevedon, Grave 73

Memorials St Andrews

Corporal Carey died as a result of a tragic accident at Exeter, whilst serving on the staff of the Wessex Engineers. He fell down a flight of steps leading to the basement of the Grapes Inn, South Street. He was aged 39 and for 26 years he had worked as a compositor at Clevedon Printing Works. The son of Samuel Joseph and Hester Carey, he left a widow, Lizzie Harvey Carey, of 1 New Buildings, Strode Road, and four children. His funeral took place on Saturday 8^th January 1916 at St Andrews Parish Church with full military honours, his body being transported from Exeter on a Royal Field Artillery gun carriage.

2^nd Lieutenant Launcelot Sulyarde Robert Cary

9^th Devonshire Regiment

Killed in action 20-7-1916 the Somme

Buried No known grave Thiepval Memorial France Pier and Face 1C

Memorials St Andrews and the Friary RC Church

Address Sanforth, Highdale Road

Lieutenant Cary was killed by machine gun fire whilst leading A Company on an attack on the German Lines just north of Bazentine le Grand Wood. He had succeeded his uncle Colonel LFB Cary’s estates in Torquay just three weeks earlier. He was 25 years of age and a very keen sportsman, having played hockey for Clevedon, Blackheath and the Oxford & Cambridge Wanderers. For several seasons he played for Clevedon Cricket Club and was also a member of the Golf Club.

15955 Private GE Chapple

8^th Somerset Light Infantry

Died 2-3-1915 Home

Buried Aylesbury Cemetery Buckinghamshire Grave DD25

Memorials St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

20228 Private George Stephen Clark

2/4^th Royal Berkshire Regiment

Died 3-3-1917 Home

Buried Bristol (Ridgeway Park Cemetery) Grave 1986

Private Clark was born in Bristol, but was living in Clevedon at the time of his death.

49449 Sergeant Thomas William Clarke

95^th Company Royal Engineers

Killed in action 23-2-1918 Italy

Buried Giavera British Cemetery Italy, Plot 1 Row A Grave 11

Memorials St Andrews and St Johns

Sergeant Clarke was the first Clevedonian to be killed in Italy. Whilst supervising the work of his section an enemy shell burst amongst them killing Sergeant Clarke. He had joined his unit in 1914, having prior to that joined the Artillery Volunteers as a drummer boy in 1905, later transferring to the Wessex Engineers. He went to France in July 1915 and served there until November 1917, when his company were ordered to Italy. For distinguished service he had been promoted sergeant in October 1917. During his leave in August 1917 he had married Maud Alice, the second daughter of Mr and Mrs J Orchard, of Kenn Road. A choir boy of St Johns for many years he was within two days of his 29^th birthday when he died.

764634 Private Bertram Noel Coates

Artist Rifles Officer Training Corps 28^th London Regiment

Died 31-3-1917 Home

Buried St Marys Churchyard Walton-in-Gordano

Memorials St Marys, Walton and St Pauls, Walton-in-Gordano

Private Coates died of illness contracted at his training camp. His body was interred at St Marys Churchyard, where the coffin was covered with the Union Jack and a wreath in the shape of a golden harp. He was aged 27, and the younger son of Lieut. Col and Mrs Herbert Coates of Walton Park. He left a widow and infant daughter.

M/3457 Sick Berth Attendant CC Coles

Royal Navy HMS Colleen

Died 24-10-1915

Buried St Sebastian Churchyard Wokingham Spec Plot2

Memorials St Andrews

28912 Lance Corporal Stafford Reginald Constable

2/7^th Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Died 4-12-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Cambrai Memorial Louveral Nord France, Panel 3

Aged 19, he was the son of Mr and Mrs E Constable, of Greenfield, Hill Road.

28089 Airman 3^rd Class Arthur William Cook

Royal Air Force 1^st Aeroplane Supply Depot Repair Park

Killed in action 24-9-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Terlincthun France Plot 4 Row C Grave 17

Aged 24, he was the son of Edwin and Margaret Cook, and husband of Elizabeth Cook.

42275 Private Herbert John Coombs

1^st Hampshire Regiment

Killed in action 16-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Le Vertannoy British Cemetery, Hinges, France, Row B Grave 7

Aged 19, Private Coombs enlisted in Clevedon and was the son of Harry and Ethelind Amy Coombs of Boxwood Cottage,Weston-in-Gordano.

 

266140 Lance Corporal Patrick George H Costello

2/6^th Gloucestershire Regiment C Company

Killed in action 28-8-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium, Panel 72 to 75

Memorials St Andrews & The Friary RC Church

Corporal Costello, aged 21, was the son of Mr Albert Edward Barnet and Frances Mary Costello, of Coleridge Cottage, Old Church Road. He was born in London, the family moving to Clevedon whilst he was a boy. Early in the war he enlisted at Bristol. His brother Clarence Costello, also of the Gloucestershire Regiment was severely wounded three months earlier at Ypres.

3/26859 Private Frederick Thomas Counsell

4^th South Wales Borderers ex Somerset Light Infantry

Died of wounds 14-12-1916 Mesopotamia

Buried Amara War Cemetery Iraq Plot 21 Row C Grave 12

Memorials St Andrews

Private Counsell died of wounds in Mesopotamia, he enlisted in Bristol in the later part of 1915 and was posted to Mesopotamia in April 1916. He resided in Old Street and was well known in the town, having lived here for ten years after marrying Miss Louias Sawtell, a Clevedonian. Private Counsell who was 34 years of age left a wife and four children.

35461 Private Ernest John Court

10^th Warwickshire Regiment

Died 19-4-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium Panels 23-28

Memorials British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

16000 Lance Corporal Wilfred Cousins

8^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 27-9-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Loos Memorial Panel 38 & 39

Memorials St Andrews & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

He was the son of William Henry and Sarah Jane Cousins of 1 Station Road. At the time of his death he was aged 24.

Captain Leslie Corbett Coventry

South Nottinghamshire Hussars Yeomanry

Drowned at sea 27-5-1918 aboard Leasowe Castle

Chatby Memorial Alexandria Egypt

Memorials All Saints Calvary

200579 Corporal Charles Gordon Stuart Cox

6^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 12-8-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Mendinghem Military Cemetery Poperinge Belgium Plot 4 Row B Grave 50

Memorials St Andrews

Corporal Cox, aged 25, was the son of the Reverend CE and Marion Stuart Cox, his father being incumbent of Christ Church, he had been offered a commission, but refused the honour. At the beginning of the war he joined the Gloucestershire Regiment. He took part in the fighting at Armentieres, the second Battle of Ypres, Ploegstreete, and the whole of the Somme offensive, and had been wounded twice. He died as a result of gas poisoning.

203368 Private George Henry Cox

10^th Worcestershire Regiment

Died as a prisoner of war in Germany 14-10-1918

Buried Berlin South-Western Cemetery Germany Plot 16 Row A Grave 8

Memorials in St Andrews & Methodist Church

Private Cox, aged 32, the second son of Mr Albert Cox of Old Church Road, and husband of J Cox of 35 Strode Road, enlisted in Clevedon in June 1916 and went out to France the following October. He was taken prisoner in April 1918. After six months of near starvation he died of dysentery at Lamsdorf, Germany. He left a widow and two small children. For some time he had been in the employ of the Clevedon Mercury.

5293 Private Thomas George Stuart Cox

4^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 23-7-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Pozieres British Cemetery France Plot T Row C Grave 26

Memorials Major Winters Roll

Thomas Stuart Cox ,aged 24, was the son of the Reverend CE Stuart Cox, was an old boy of Bristol Grammar School, and had studied for Holy Orders until war broke out, when although an invalid he managed to join the Glosters with a view to joining his brother at the front. He was a fine shot and won many regimental prizes, in his spare time he took an active part in YMCA activities. Sadly a year after his death, the brother whom he joined on the Western Front was also killed.

2^nd Lieutenant Cyril Talbot Burnley Croft

Royal Flying Corps ex 9^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed whilst flying 8-12-1915

Buried South Cadbury Parish Churchyard, Somerset

Memorials All Saints Calvary

2^nd Lieutenant Croft was a pilot with number 5 Reserve Aero Squadron, and was killed on a training exercise.

3181 Private Oswald Leo Dias Santos Cuddon

6^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Died of wounds 19-7-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Mont Huon Military Cemetery Le Treport France Plot 1 Row D Grave 11

Memorials The Friary RC Church

Private Cuddon, aged 24, was the son of Mr and Mrs James Cajetan Dias Santos Cuddon.

5832 Private Wilfred Cuthbertson

7^th East Surrey Regiment

Killed in action 30-7-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Moncy British Cemetery Monchy-Le-Preux France Plot 1 Row J Grave 10

Private Cuthbertson of Walton Park was married for only a month when he was killed in action, his widow lived in Griffin Road.

846137 Lance Bombardier Frederick William Dallimore

A Battery 46^th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Killed in action 16-4-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Beacon Cemetery Sailly-Laurette France Plot 4 Row E Grave 5

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Bombardier Dallimore was the youngest son of Mrs day of Nortons Wood. Prior to joining up in June 1916 he worked for Messrs Eastman Ltd of Old Street. He was only 20 and had been in France for just over a year.

Captain Douglas Scott Dalrymple-Clarke MC

Kings Royal Rifle Corps and Trench Mortar Battery

Killed in action 15-9-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Serre Road Cemetery No2 Somme, France, Plot 34 Row J Grave 3

Memorials St Andrews and All Saints Calvary

Aged 34, he was the husband of Irene FCN Dalrymple-Clark, of Woodburn, Clevedon. Both he and his wife were grandchildren of General Sir William Sewell KCB.

5877 Private Harry Davis

3^rd Somerset Light Infantry

Died 18-5-1916 Home

Buried Yardley Cemetery Birmingham Grave E28530

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Private Davis, aged 36, was the husband of Esther Margaret Davis.

495143 Sapper James Davis

365^th Field Company Royal Engineers

Died of pneumonia 20-2-1919 France and Flanders

Buried Etaples Military Cemetery France, Plot 72 Row C Grave 9

Memorials St Andrews, St Johns, The Methodist Church & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Sapper Davis aged 26, was the eldest son of Sidney and Margaret Davis, of 150 Kenn Road. He died in the 7^th Canadian General Hospital, Etaples.

S/25205 Rifleman Arthur Durbin

3^rd Rifle Brigade

Killed in action 24-8-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery British Extension France Plot 6 Row b Grave 6

Memorials Tickenham Church

Rifleman Durbin , who was a reservist, joined up at the outbreak of the war, and having completed his unexpired time in France, was discharged. He was, however, called up again under the Military Service Act, and returned to France. Lieutenant Reade, his section officer, in the course of a letter to his widow writes : It is with the deepest regret that I write to tell you of the death of your husband in action. He was on duty in the front line trench , about 100 yards from the Huns, on the night of the 23^rd-24^th August 1918. Just after midnight the enemy sent over a shower of rifle grenades, one of which fell on the part where your husband was, killing him and one other, and wounding three others. Your husband had only been back with the company a short while, but his platoon officer had already recommended him for promotion, as being thoroughly trustworthy and reliable. The whole platoon wish me to convey to you their deepest sympathy at your great loss. Rifleman Durbin was from Tickenham and left a wife and four children.

Lieutenant Robert Walter Edginton

5^th Warwickshire Regiment

Killed in action 3-6-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Berks Cemetery Extension Belgium, Plot 3 Row D Grave 20

Memorials St Marys Walton

He was born 14^th September 1895, the only son of Dr Robert and Mrs Elizabeth Edginton, educated at Bradford College and Birmingham University where he joined the 5^th Battalion Royal Warwicks in 1913. In May 1915 he committed a very gallant act, in rescuing wounded snipers from a dugout in front of the trenches. He himself was killed in the trenches by rifle fire on the 3^rd June 1915.

Lieutenant Thomas Edwardes

5^th York and Lancaster Regiment

Killed in action 11-4-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke Belgium Panel 125-128

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Trooper Charles Victor Elford

4^th Canadian Mounted Rifles

Killed in action 3-6-1916

He enlisted in Toronto, in November 1914, shortly after the outbreak of war, and after several months training in Canada came over to England with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in July 1915, proceeding to France on the 19^th October in the same year. Trooper Elford was for some years on the staff of the Clevedon Mercury & Courier.

916855 Corporal Harry Cecil Ellis

2^nd Canadian Mounted Rifles ( 1^st Central Ontario Regiment )

Died 10-8-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Bouchoir New British Cemetery, Plot 3 Row C Grave 68

Memorials St Andrews

He was aged 25 and the son of George and Zenobia Ellis of Parnell Road. Having been with Mr R Ewings, of Magdala House for over 4 years, in 1912 he decided to emigrate to Toronto, Canada. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1916, he left a widow and one child.

2^nd Lieutenant John Humphrey England

Welsh Regiment

Killed in action 31-7-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium, Panel 37

2^nd Lieutenant England, aged 20, was the son of Mr TH and Florence Minnie England, of Caerleon, Princes Road.

Lieutenant George Patrick Conroy Fair

1^st Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 1-7-1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme

Buried Sucrerie Military Cemetery Somme, France, Plot 1 Row H Grave 8

Memorials Christ Church, St Johns, St Marys Walton and St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

Lieutenant Fair was educated at Eastington, Clevedon, Lambrook, Bracknell and at Uppingham, where he took high place in both school work and sports, being heavyweight boxing champion of Uppingham in 1914. At the outbreak of the war he passed 3^rd into the Royal Military College Sandhurst, where he soon became under officer. He was commissioned in to the Somerset Light Infantry in early 1915, and joined the 1^st Battalion in France, the following June. He had been at the front for just over a year when he was killed on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, leading his men in an attack on the German trenches. He was the younger son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Conroy Fair of Woodside, Walton. He had just attained his 20^th year.

2^nd Lieutenant James Conroy Fair

1^st Coldstream Guards

Killed in action 25-9-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Loos Memorial France, Panels 7 & 8

Memorials Christ Church, St Johns, St Marys Walton and St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

Aged 24, the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Conroy Fair, of Woodside, Walton.

23272 Private Leonard Walter Fisher

3^rd Worcester Regiment

Died of wounds 28-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Etaples Military Cemetery, France, Plot 10 Row A Grave 10A

Aged 23, he was born in Clevedon, the son of Walter Andrew and Kate Fisher, of 63 St Luke’s Road, Totterdown, Bristol.

Lieutenant Richard Christopher Gorges Foote

Royal Marine Light Infantry, 9^th Royal Marine Battalion, Royal Naval Division

Died of wounds 15-10-1914 Antwerp

Buried British Ghent City Cemetery, Belgium Row A Grave 20

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Lieutenant Foote was severely wounded on 6-10-1914 at Antwerp. He was born in Clevedon, the son of the Reverend John Vicars Foote and Margaret A Foote. At the time of his death he was aged 20.

808835 Staff Sergeant Austin Francis

Canadian Army Medical Corps

Died of asthenia 9-11-1920

Buried Calgary Union Cemetery Alberta Canada Plot 2 Row G Grave 17 Section N

Sergeant Francis, aged 44, was the son of Mrs MA Francis, of Collin House, Hallam Road, and the husband of Florence JD Francis, of 231, 20^th Avenue North West, Calgary, Canada.

 

9703 Lance Corporal Percy Vernon Fry

1^st Ox & Bucks Light Infantry

Died 4-8-1916 India

Buried Wellington Garrison Cemetery India, Madras 1914-1918 Memorial, Chennai, India, Face 18

Memorials Christ Church

Aged 22, he was born in Horsecastle, Yatton, the son of Mr Edward John and Mrs Florence Matilda Fry (nee Avery) , of 125 Kenn Road. His father was a seaman & railway labourer and his brother also served in the Ox & Bucks.

3314 Lance Corporal Arthur John Gale

7^th Gloucestershire Regiment ex 6883 Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 25-2-1917 Mesopotamia

Buried No known grave Basra Memorial Iraq Panel 17

Son of Archibald Joseph and Mary Ann Gale, of Meadowside, Kenn, he joined the Somerset’s, aged 17, shortly after the outbreak of war. In July 1915 he was wounded in France, and after being transferred to the Gloucester’s, went out to the Dardanelles in the following October. Proceeding to Mesopotamia, he was again wounded in August 1916. Aged 20, prior to joining up was with Messrs. Wake and Dean of Yatton.

220253 Private William Jabez Gardiner

78^th Battalion Canadian Infantry ( Manitoba Regiment )

Killed in action 5-1-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery France, Plot 2 Row D Grave 13

Private Gardiner, aged 38, was the husband of Mary Helen Gardiner, of 2 Station Road

10613 Private Thomas Gibson

6^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 12-8-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Bedford House Cemetery Zillebeke Belgium Enclosure 2 Plot 2 Row A Grave 8

2/265 Bombardier Neville Herbert Godwin

New Zealand Field Artillery 2^nd Brigade Headquarters

Killed in action 28-5-1915 Gallipoli

Buried Embarkation Pier Cemetery Turkey Special memorial B63

Memorials St Andrews

2849 Sergeant Herbert Cullis Goffin

Queens Westminster Rifles London Regiment

Killed in action 4-6-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Ypres Town Cemetery Extension Belgium, Plot 3 Row C Grave 22

Sergeant Goffin, aged 28, was the son of Mr and Mrs HJ Goffin, of Thanet Lodge, St Johns Avenue.

30689 Private Alfred Walter Goodfellow

4^th Royal Berkshire Regiment & Labour Corps

Killed in action 10-7-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Coxyde Military Cemetery Belgium, Plot 1 Row D Grave 59

Born in Chilmark, Wiltshire, Private Goodfellow was the husband of AR Goodfellow, of 129 Old Church Road.

Major Roland Elphinstone Gordon MC

C Battery, 251^st Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Died of wounds 30-8-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Daours Communal Cemetery Extension France Plot 8 Row B Grave 3

Memorials Christ Church

Aged 25, he was the son of George Dalrymple and Georgina Meredith Gordon. A very keen rugby player being a Scottish International.

Commander Sebald Walter Bluett Green DSO

Royal Navy HMS Gloworm

Died 26-8-1919 Archangel, Russia

Buried Archangel Allied Cemetery Semenovka Bereznik Russia Special Memorial B53

Memorials St Andrews

2^nd Lieutenant Harold Sutcliffe Greenwood

14^th Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Killed in action 22-7-1916 the Somme

Buried Caterpillar Valley Cemetery Somme, France, Plot 13 Row A Grave 2

Memorials St Andrews & British School

Address Fernside, The Gardens

He had commenced his education at the British School, (of which his father had been headmaster for 35 years), and at the age of 13 proceeded to the Merchant Venturers Secondary School in Bristol, where he continued for five years. He then went to Bristol University to take a three year degree course in Science. After two years he passed the first part of his B.Sc. He then felt it his duty to join the army, and in October 1915 he received his commission into the 12^th Warwickshire Regiment, and was sent to Bovington Camp, Dorset for training. He proceeded to France, attached to the 14^th Battalion, in March 1916. Lieutenant Greenwood was shot whist leading his platoon in a night attack on the German lines, during the Battle of the Somme. He was a great lover of nature, his knowledge of the district around Clevedon was probably unsurpassed by anyone locally. He was a member of the Hill Road Congregational Church. He was aged 20.

Wales/Z/296 Arthur Edwin Hack

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Queen Mary

Killed in action 31-5-1916 Battle of Jutland

Plymouth Naval Memorial Panel 19

Memorials St Andrews & St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

Arthur Hack, formerly of Walton-in-Gordano was lost on board HMS Queen Mary at the Battle of Jutland. He was aged 24, the son of Charles and Elizabeth Hack.

65571 Sergeant Henry James Hack

127^th Field Company Royal Engineers

Died of wounds 23-10-1916 Salonika

Buried No known Grave Doiran Memorial Greece

Sergeant Hack, a native of Walton-in-Gordano, went to France in September 1915 and was drafted to Salonika the following December. His youngest brother was killed at the Battle of Jutland, he had an elder brother in Australia. He left a widow Emily M Hack and two small children, their address being in 50 Kenn Road. He was aged 29.

3/6205 Private Charles Martin Hall

6^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 9-4-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Tigris Lane Cemetery France, Plot 1 Row E Grave 5

Aged 26, born in Weston Super Mare, he was the husband of Louisa Hall, of 155 Kenn Road.

80594 Gunner Walter Edward Hamlin

Motor Machine Gun Corps ex Gloucestershire Regiment

Died 28-10-1918 India

Buried, Peshawar British Military Cemetery, India, Row 45, Delhi Memorial ( India Gate ) Face 23

Memorials St Andrews and the Methodist Churches.

Gunner Hamlin died of pneumonia at Peshawar, India, where he was buried with full military honours. At the outbreak of war he joined the 4^th Gloucestershire Regiment and after a period of training spent some time in Ireland, before proceeding to India with the Warwickshire Regiment in September 1917. He was then transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. Aged 27, son of Samuel Hamlin, of 63 Kenn Road.

295595 Private Reginald Hann

12^th Somerset Light Infantry (West Somerset Yeomanry Battalion)

Killed in action 11-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Aubers Ridge British Cemetery France Plot 4 Row B Grave 20

Private Hann enlisted at Taunton in 1916, and after a course of training at Bournemouth was sent to Egypt in February 1917. In May 1918 he went to France and was killed in action 11^th October 1918. He was the youngest son of Mr Charles Hann of Pendennis, East Clevedon. He was aged 20.

27800 Private George Frederick Harry

2^nd Hampshire Regiment

Killed in action 27-9-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke Belgium Panel 88-90 and 162

19427 Private William Mark Hatcher

5^th Dorset Regiment ex Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 1-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Chapel Corner Cemetery Sauchy-Lestree France Row F Grave 20

606282 Driver William Haynes

1^st Warwickshire Royal Horse Artillery

Died of pneumonia 5-2-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Wimereux Communal Cemetery France, Plot 8 Row C Grave 15A

Aged 31, born in Bristol, he was the husband of Florence Haynes, of 159 Kenn Road

265806 Corporal Frank Roland Hedges

2/5^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Died of wounds 16-11-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Duisans British Cemetery France, Plot 6 Row D Grave 33

Memorials St Andrew’s and All Saints Calvary

Corporal Hedges, the son of Henry and Ruth Hedges, of 92 Old Street, joined up at Bristol in September 1914, and went to France with the Gloucestershire regiment about six months later. He was wounded in the summer of 1916, and brought back to England, being a patient at the Red Cross Hospital at Norwich for three months. After spending a short time at Catterick Camp he rejoined his regiment in France. He was severely wounded in the abdomen and foot and was admitted to a casualty clearing station on the 15^th November 1917, he died the following day.

 

Captain Reginald Arthur Hoare

Pembrokeshire Yeomanry attached Kings Shropshire Light Infantry

Killed in action 19-9-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Chapelle British Cemetery Holnon France Plot 4 Row E Grave 11

Memorials All Saints Calvary

13992 Corporal Reginald Holley

10^th Devonshire Regiment

Died of wounds 1-2-1918 Salonika

Buried Sarigol Military Cemetery, Kriston, Salonika, Row A Grave 99

Memorials All Saints Church, Kingston Seymour

Aged 22, he was the son of Charles and Emily Holley of Kingston Seymour.

25709 Sapper Frank Hollyman

54^th Company Royal Engineers

Died of pneumonia 6-11-1918 Italy

Buried Staglieno Cemetery Italy, Plot 1 Row D Grave 43

Memorials St Andrews

Frank, the twin of Walter James, sons of Walter and Agnes Hollyman of 59 Old Street, died of pneumonia in Italy. He had married Alice in September whilst home on leave.

216425 Sapper Walter James Hollyman

Died of wounds 22-12-1917 France and Flanders

Number 2 Army Tramway Company Royal Engineers

Buried Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot 3 Row C Grave 2

Memorials St Andrews

Sapper Hollyman of 59 Old Street, was seriously wounded whilst engaged on engineering operations and died in hospital three days later. A shell burst amongst his platoon, killing three men and wounding Walter. He had joined up in 1916 and had been in France since May 1917. Prior to the war he had assisted in the family business. His twin brother later died in Italy.

2^nd Lieutenant Lewis Hopkins

8^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 26-9-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Loos Memorial France, Panels 38 & 39 France

A Howard

London Regiment

Memorials The Friary RC Church

PS/1810 Private Joseph Edmund Hunt

16^th Middlesex Regiment D Company

Killed in action 1-7-1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme

Buried No known grave Thiepval Memorial France, Pier 12D Face 13B

Aged 21,born in London, he was the son of Mr and Mrs SW Hunt, of Olveston, Pizey Avenue

24319 Private Charles Edward Hutt

2^nd Ox & Bucks Light Infantry

Killed in action 13-11-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Munich Trench British Cemetery Somme, France, Row A Grave 32

Private Hutt was the husband of EM Hutt, of Hallam Road.

Lieutenant George Adolph Hutton

3^rd Signal Company Royal Engineers

Died 19-9-1914 France and Flanders

Buried Braine Communal Cemetery France, Row A Grave 23

Lieutenant Hutton drowned while attempting to carry a signal across the Aisne at night. Aged 23, he was the son of William Henry and Lucy Frances Hutton, of Dial Hill.

2^nd Lieutenant George Sharples Ibbotson

5^th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Killed in action 14-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Loos Memorial Panels 89 to 91

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Lieutenant Roskell Ibbotson

2^nd Royal Irish Fusiliers

Killed in action 2-5-1917 Salonika

Buried Struma Military Cemetery Greece Plot 4 Row E Grave 19

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Lieutenant Ibbotson, aged 23, was the son of Richard and Alice Ibbotson.

31633 Private Francis Richard John James

6^th Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry ex 22488 Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 9-4-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Arras Memorial France Bay 6

Private James enlisted into the Somerset Light Infantry at Clevedon early in 1916. He was transferred to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and went to France in July 1916, where his initiation to war was the Battle of the Somme. A keen footballer and chorister at St John’s. He married Jessie Higgins, of Clevedon, and was the son Mr & Mrs E James of East Clevedon. He was 27 years of age.

SS/108556 Stoker 1^st Class George James

Royal Navy HMS Goliath RFR/DEV/B/5781

Died 13-5-1915

Plymouth Memorial Grave 6

Memorials British School

Aged 23, he was the son of Charles and Elizabeth James, of Kings Hill, Nailsea.

K/17434 Stoker William Charles James

Royal Navy HMS Tornado

Killed by mine explosion 23-12-1917

Plymouth Naval Memorial

Memorials All Saints Calvary

27744 Private Arthur James Jefferies

6^th Wiltshire Regiment

Died 18-10-1918

Buried Berlin South Western Cemetery Germany Plot 15 Row C Grave 4

Memorials British School Plaque

Private Jefferies, aged 20, was born in Yatton and enlisted at Weston-super-Mare. He was the son of James and E G Jefferies of Gorge View, Cheddar.

 

3360 Private Henry Charles Daniel Jones

6^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 21-7-1916 France and Flanders

Memorials St Andrews

Buried No known grave Thiepval Memorial France Pier and Face 5A and 5B

Address Alexandra Road

Private Jones, aged 31, the son of Mrs WH Jones, joined the Glosters in the early months of the war and went to France in March 1915.

931411 Gunner Hylton Rodney Jolliffe

Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force)

Killed in action 26-9-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium, Panels 4 to 6 & 162

Son of the Reverend E and Mrs Jolliffe, of Buena Vista, Dial Hill.

M2/118701 Private Wilfred John Kibble

Army Service Corps Motor Transport attached 92^nd Field Ambulance

Died of wounds 22-9-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Zuydcoote Military Cemetery Nord France, Plot 1 Row E Grave 26

Memorial East Clevedon Calvary

Aged 29, he was the son of Harry and Dorinda Kibble and husband of Lillie Kibble.

2^nd Lieutenant Cyril Frank Kiddle

4^th West Yorkshire Regiment attached 5^th Battalion

Killed in action 25-4-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium, Panels 42 to 47 & 162

Memorials St Andrews & British School

2^nd Lieutenant Kiddle joined the 4^th Gloucester Regiment, as a private, in 1915, and was wounded in April 1916. He obtained his commission into the West Yorkshire Regiment in November 1917. He was the only son of Mr Frank H Kiddle and Mrs Ellen S Kiddle, of Cheviot House, Old Church Road. He was aged 22.

16579 Private John Bertie Montigue King

2/4^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 3-12-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Cambrai Memorial Louverval France Panel 6

Memorials Tickenham Church

Private King joined the Bristol’s Own Battalion (Kitcheners Army) in 1914, and went to France early in 1915 and was wounded some months later. He was back in France a little later to serve for a total of nearly three years active service. He was the adopted son of Mrs Fry, of Tickenham Hill.

553710 Rifleman James William King

16^th London Regiment (Queens Westminster Rifles)

Killed in action 8-4-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Agny Military Cemetery, France, Row G Grave 53

53217 Private Arthur E Knight

Machine Gun Corps 50^th Company ex 135636 Royal Field Artillery

Died of wounds 25-6-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Duisans British Cemetery France, Plot 3 Row L Grave 48

Private Knight enlisted into the Royal Field Artillery at Bristol in early 1916 and proceeded to France for the Battle of the Somme. He soon developed ill-health and returned to England where he remained until Easter 1917, when he returned to the front. The enemy made a bombing raid on the trench where he was, and he, sticking to his gun, was severely wounded in the shoulder, and died in Number 19 Casualty Clearing Station the next day. He was the second son of Mr & Mrs Frank Knight of 84 Old Street, aged 27. For several years he was a server at All Saint’s Church.

2^nd Lieutenant George Harold Knight

Royal Flying Corps 11^th Balloon Company

Killed in action 6-10-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Duhallow Ads Cemetery Ypres, Belgium

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Aged 25 he had served in the Honourable Artillery Company, until he transferred to the RFC as a Balloon Observer.

38989 Private Harry Knight

2^nd Welch Regiment

Killed in action 15-9-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Vadencourt British Cemetery Maissemy France Plot 3 Row A Grave 48

Born in Clevedon he enlisted at Newcastle Emlyn, and was a resident of Portishead.

560 Sapper Stanley Charles Knight

1/2^nd Wessex Field Company Royal Engineers

Killed in action 7-12-1916 Salonika

Buried No known grave Doiran Memorial Greece

Memorials in St Andrews and the Methodist Church

Sapper Knight a local territorial left Clevedon at the outbreak of war and landed in France at Christmas, 1914, where he remained until his unit was posted to Salonika. He was the son of Mr Samuel Knight of Griffin Road and prior to the war had been an employee of the Great Western Railway Company. He was aged 22.

12228 Lance Corporal Wilfred Edwin Knight

1^st Somerset light Infantry

Killed in action 15-6-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium, Panel 21

Corporal Knight, aged 19, was the son of James and Hannah Maria Knight, of 63 Old Church Road.

2^nd Lieutenant Frederick King Laverton

Royal Flying Corps ex 3^rd Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed whilst flying 19-12-1917

Buried at Barnwood Church, Gloucestershire

Memorials St Andrews

Lieut. Laverton, eldest son of Mr FWK Laverton, of Lithgow, Victoria Road, died as a result of a flying accident in Kent. Educated at Brynmelyn School, Weston Super Mare, and for a short time at Cheltenham College. He joined the army aged 17, and went to France in 1916, and obtained his flying certificate shortly afterwards. He was qualified in photography, wireless and aerial gunnery.

741261 Gunner Victor R Lavis

172^nd Brigade Royal Horse Artillery TF

Killed in action 20-3-1918 Palestine

Buried Ramleh War Cemetery, Palestine, Grave 29

Gunner Lavis was born in Clevedon, his family later moved to South Wales, where he enlisted at Newport.

44384 Private Frank Lawrence

12^th Gloucestershire Regiment ex 68185 Devonshire Regiment

Died 21-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Schoonselhof Cemetery Anterpen Belgium Grave 47

Memorials St Andrews

Frank Lawrence aged 19, of 9 Strode Road, went to France in April 1918, three weeks later he was wounded and captured. He died in the German Hospital, Antwerp as a result of poor medical conditions.

Herbert Clark Lewis

HM Transport Cawdor Castle

Died at sea 21-12-1915

Memorials St Andrews & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Herbert Clark Lewis, aged 35, was the only son of Albert and Celia Lewis and husband of Annie H Lewis.

13434 Sapper John Charles Lewis

31^st Army Troops Company Royal Engineers

Accidentally killed 5-6-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery France, Plot 1 Row N Grave 21

Memorials St Andrews, Christ Church and Methodist Church

He was the eldest son of Charles Henry and Emily Lewis of Lower Queens Road, and was formerly a gunner in the Clevedon Artillery Volunteers, the same battery which his father has served in for 34 years. In January 1895 he was employed at the Clevedon Mercury, where he worked for over two years three months. He enlisted into the Royal Engineers in 1904 and after serving his time was placed on the reserve. At the outbreak of war he was called up and went to France. He was accidentally killed by an ammunition train in France while returning from 48 hours duty in the trenches. He lived at 13 Meadow Road and left a widow, Gertrude Annie Lewis.

Lieutenant John Windsor Lewis

1^st Welsh Guards

Killed in action 6-6-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Brandhoek Military Cemetery Vlamertinghe Belgium Plot 2 Row E Grave 2

Memorials All Saints Calvary

For three years he had been the prospective Unionist candidate for North Somerset, where he had become very popular. He was a very polished speaker and very courteous to his opponents, never being a man to snatch an advantage unduly, and it was sometimes thought by his enthusiastic supporters that he might have been a little to chivalrous to the enemy. His head office was in Bristol. He was the only son of James Lewis, and nephew of the Bishop of St Asaph. In 1900 he joined the 19^th Hussars, and saw service in the Boer War. Lieutenant Lewis was married in 1902 to Katherine, the daughter of General Gregorie, and left one son and two daughters.

202936 Private Sidney Joseph Lewis

2/4^th Royal Berkshire Regiment

Died of wounds 13-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Aire Communal Cemetery France Plot 2 Row J Grave 28

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Aged 29, he was the husband of Lizzie Lewis of Thornbury.

Deputy Chief Controller Violet Alice Lambton Long OBE

Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Army Corps

Drowned at sea 2-8-1918 HT Warilda

Hollybrook Memorial Southampton

Memorials St Andrews

Mrs Long was the wife of Major WE Long and daughter-in-law of Colonel W Long CMG. She and her sister, Mrs Burleigh Leach, had started the work of the Women’s Corps early in the war. She was on board the Ambulance Transport Ship Warilda, when it was torpedoed, she showed great devotion to the detachment of WAAC’s in her charge, ensuring all eleven were safely in the lifeboats before she made her attempt to escape, which went sadly wrong when she was became entangled in ropes and was crushed against the side of the ship, an officer tried in vain to save her but she sank from sight and was drowned. For her work with the Women’s Legion she was awarded the OBE in the New Years Honours List of 1918.

4648 Lance Corporal Fred Samuel Mager

A Coy 2^nd Honourable Artillery Company ex 810 2/3^rd London Field Ambulance

Killed in action 9-10-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke Belgium Panel 7

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Aged 21, he was the son of Frederick Walter and Florence Maud Mager, of Taiping, Perak, Malaya.

TF241878 Private Anthony Louis Marchant

1^st Middlesex Regiment

Died of wounds 6-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France, Plot 9 Row B Grave 54

Aged 25, Private Marchant, was the adopted son of Mr and Mrs Bailey of Kenn. He enlisted at Taunton in 1916 and served in France just over eighteen months. He was severely wounded on April 18^th and his newly married spouse was summoned to France, where she remained with until the end. He took a keen interest in the local church being both a chorister and Sunday School teacher.

M/12746 Carpenters Crew Maurice John Marks

Royal Navy HMS Nottingham

Killed in action with submarine 19-8-1916 the North Sea

Plymouth Naval Memorial

Memorials St Andrews

There was considerable activity on the part of German High Fleet on Saturday August 19^th 1916. They came out, but learning from their scouts that the British forces were in considerable strength avoided engaging and returned to port. In searching for the enemy two light cruisers were lost by submarine attack. They were HMS Nottingham and HMS Falmouth. The Nottingham carried a compliment of 400 officers and men, 36 of them were lost in the attack. Mr Marks was the second son of Mr & Mrs WH Marks of Prospect House, and nephew of Mr Fred Marks, of Marine House. He was aged 29 and had joined the navy in April 1915.

2^nd Lieutenant Francis Henry May

1^st Battalion Tank Corps

Killed in action 29-9-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Vis-en-Artois Memorial France, Panel 11

Memorials St Andrews, The Friary RC Church & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Lieutenant May , with his late brother Leo and two other Clevedonians joined the Gloucestershire Regiment soon after the outbreak of the war. He was drafted to France in May 1915. Christmas 1917 he obtained a commission in the Tank Corps, going out to France in June 1918. He qualified as a Tank engineer, the experience which he gained at Welch’s Works in Bristol, where he had been apprenticed for two years having proved invaluable to him. His Commanding Officer wrote : 2^nd Lieutenant May had only been in my battalion for a few weeks, but during that time he had proved his worth as a Tank engineer officer, and had done excellent work in getting his company’s tanks fit for action. On the night of the 28^th September 1918 he went forward with them on their approach march before the attack on the Hindenburg Line, which took place at dawn. A slight mishap to a tank took place, and while he was working to repair it with the crew a shell burst in front of them, instantly killing your son, his staff-sergeant, and the Tank corporal, and wounding the Tank commander. Our padre buried them where they fell, after the battle. That day we broke through the German lines. He was the eldest son of Henry Edward and Amelia May, of Venetian House, he was 27 years of age and unmarried.

2^nd Lieutenant Leo Cuthbert May

3^rd Gloucestershire Regiment attached 12^th Battalion

Killed in action 27-6-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Aval Wood Military Cemetery Nord, France, Plot3 Row A Grave 7

Memorials St Andrews, The Friary RC Church & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

He joined the 4^th Glosters at the end of August 1914, and was drafted to France the following March. Although he had many narrow escapes, he was never wounded, and within a few months he was promoted to the rank of sergeant. He returned to England in December 1916, to prepare for a commission, which was gazetted 31^st May 1917. He was in France from July to October, when he was gassed, and during his convalescence spent some time in Ashton Court Officers Hospital. Prior to the war Leo had served as an altar boy at the Franciscan Church, and on leaving school he entered the office of Messrs Alonzo Dawes and Son, later moving to Messrs Burbidge and Trestrail. He was married to Annie May and was aged 25.

1982 Private Duncan George McGregor

‘D’ Company 1/14^th London Regiment (London Scottish)

Killed in action 1-11-1914 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 54

Aged 20, he was the son of Angus George and Constance Mabel, of 31 Woodstock Avenue, Golders Green, London. Born in Clevedon he and his family moved to London before the war.

501 Private John Huntley McPherson

C Squadron North Somerset Yeomanry

Died 23-11-1914 France and Flanders

Buried Merville Communal Cemetery Nord, France, Plot 1 Row L Grave 38

Aged 21, he was born in Bristol, and was the son of John Ambrose and Helen McPherson, of Drummuir, Walton Park.

1273 Lance Corporal Warren Le Souef Melhuish

16^th Middlesex Regiment

Killed in action 1-7-1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme

Buried Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No 2 Somme, France, Row A Grave 56

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Aged 19, he was the son of Dudley Warren and Mary Maude Melhuish, of Channel View, Walton Park.

2^nd Lieutenant Henry Gwyn Jefferys Moseley

Royal Engineers

Killed in action 10-8-1915 Gallipoli

Buried No known grave Helles Memorial Gallipoli Panel 23 to 25 or 325 to 328

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Aged 27, he was the son of Annabel and the late HN Moseley, Professor of Oxford and discoverer of the "Law of Moseley" in Physics.

45530 Private Arthur Edward Neads

4^th Bedfordshire Regiment ex 26663 Somerset Light Infantry

Died of wounds 5-9-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Bac-Du-Sud British Cemetery Bailleulval, France, Plot 3 Row F Grave 37

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Private Neads, who died on his 20^th birthday, joined the Somerset’s on his own initiative in August 1916. Three months later he landed in France, but soon returned to this country on account of his youth. Later he transferred to the Bedford’s and did not again see France until the end of 1917. He was gassed in May 1918, which was his only mishap until he received his wound which terminated fatally at the Casualty Clearing Station on September 5^th 1918. He was the only son of Arthur E and Rhoda Neads of 22 Kenn Road.

 

25721 Private Samuel Alfred Neads

7^th Somerset Light Infantry

Died of wounds 11-10-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Grove Town Cemetery Somme, France, Plot 1 Row O Grave 14

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Private Neads military record is summed up as follows:- Twice rejected , joined the Somerset’s at Taunton July 1^st 1916, two months training, and then of to France, to the Battle of the Somme. On October 1^st, after exactly one months service abroad, he received serious gunshot wounds in his face and arm, and his leg was fractured. He was taken to the base hospital where he died of his wounds. He was married and the son of Mr Samuel Neads of Kenn Road.

400686 Lance Corporal William John Neads

1^stBattalion Canadian Infantry ( Western Ontario Regiment )

Died 16-12-1917 France and Flanders

Buried St Andrews Churchyard Clevedon, Grave 219

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Corporal Neads, died of wounds at Fusehill Military Hospital, Carlisle, aged 24, he was the second son of Mr & Mrs WJ Neads, of 4 Railway View. He went to Canada in 1912 and joined the Expeditionary Force in February 1915, and came to Shorncliffe for training a few months later. In the autumn of 1916 he was wounded in France, and as a result spent Christmas of that year in Leeds Hospital, returning to his duties in May 1917. He received his fatal wound in the big push on the 6^th November 1917. His remains were returned to Clevedon for a military funeral at St Andrew’s, the members of the 1^st Battalion Somerset Volunteers sounded the Last Post.

 

2^nd Lieutenant Aislabie Harcourt Nelson-Wright

1^st Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 2-9-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Vis-en-Artois Memorial France Panel 4

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

He was educated at Eton College and passed into Sandhurst at 18 years of age. He was the eldest son of Mr H Nelson Wright, of Firwood, Clevedon. Early in 1918 he obtained a commission in the Somerset Light Infantry. He was sent to Ireland with the regiment for three months. At the expiration of that time he was sent to France. He left England on August 15^th 1918 and was killed , after barely three weeks at the Front, on September 2^nd 1918. His Commanding Officer wrote : We had assembled together previous to a successful attack, and were at the time subject to much heavy shelling. During this time he was killed instantaneously by a shell. I did not know him well, for he had not long been with us, but I feel sure that we have lost a most promising young officer. In the first phase of the fighting he had borne himself very gallantly and done excellent work. His untimely death at the early age of 19 is much regretted.

134850 Sapper William Charles Newton

24^th Base Park Company Royal Engineers

Died of pneumonia 25-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Blargies Communal Cemetery Extension France, Plot 1 Row F Grave 7

Memorials St Johns

Aged 39, Sapper Newton was the son of George and Elizabeth Newton, of 55 Old Street.

Major Alfred George Montague Norton-Harper

Kings Own Lancaster Regiment attached 4^th Nigeria Regiment

Killed in action 16-10-1917 East Africa

Buried Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery Tanzania, Plot 6 Row H Grave 7

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Major Norton-Harper, aged 42, the only son of Richard and Charlotte Norton-Harper, of 2 Eldon Villas, was killed in East Africa. He served with the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment during the Boer War, after which he was appointed to repatriation work, and on completion of that, went to the British Consulate at Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa. Upon his return home he was seconded from his regiment as District Commissioner in Nigeria. On the outbreak of war, being unable to rejoin his regiment, he became attached to the 4^th Nigeria Regiment and served in the Cameroon’s. He refused the post of Political Officer to the Belgian forces, in order to serve with the troops in the field.

3168 Lance Corporal John C Nunneley

2^nd Highland Light Infantry

Killed in action 28-4-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Arras Memorial, Bay 8

Born in Clevedon he was the husband of Mrs H Nicholls (formerly Nunneley) of 59 Vicarage Road, Eastbourne.

12991 Private James Nuttall

2^nd East Lancashire Regiment

Killed in action 27-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Soissons Memorial France

Private Nuttall was born in Accrington, he married a Clevedon girl and they lived at 16 Griffin Road.

J/47546 Able Seaman James O’Hara

Royal Navy HMS Conquest

Died in the Naval disaster of 28-3-1916

Buried Kensington (Hanwell) Cemetery Middlesex Grave 107.38.

Memorials British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

He was aged 39 and the second son of James and Susan O’Hara of the West End Clevedon, and brother of Captain Thomas O’Hara. On the 25^th April 1916 Lowestoft and Yarmouth were bombarded by a German battle cruiser squadron, 200 houses were wrecked in Lowestoft, but with small loss of life, and Yarmouth was badly damaged. British light cruisers and destroyers engaged the enemy, and the light cruiser " Conquest" was hit.

 

Thomas O’Hara

Lost at sea 16-9-1914

He was the eldest son of James and Susan O’Hara of West End Clevedon.

549 Sapper Frank Herbert Osgood

1/2^nd Wessex Field Company Royal Engineers

Died of wounds 16-12-1916 Salonika

Buried Struma Military Cemetery Greece Plot 8 Row D Grave 10

Memorials in St Andrews and Christ Church

Sapper Osgood, a local territorial went to France with his unit in 1914 and was later wounded in the memorable Hill 60 battle, after some time in a hospital in Manchester, he saw further service in France, until his company moved to Salonika in the summer of 1917. He was aged 21 and the fourth son of Mr and Mrs William Osgood, of Chapel Hill.

Lieutenant George Rowarth Parr

1^st Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 19-12-1914 France and Flanders

Buried Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery Belgium Plot 2 Row C Grave 5

Memorials All Saints Calvary

He was born in 1891, the son of General Sir Hallam Parr, educated at Wellington College and at Sandhurst, where he was commissioned 2^nd Lieutenant, 1912, Lieutenant December 1914. During the retirement to the Marne he was employed as an interpreter and as a reconnaissance officer on the Aisne. He was killed in action near Ploegsteert Wood, Belgium, 19 December 1914 while leading his men under heavy fire; he was buried with five other officers of his Regiment who fell on the same day.

331530 Rifleman Frederick Parrett

1/8^th Hampshire Regiment

Killed in action 19-4-1917 Palestine

Buried No known grave Jerusalem Memorial, Panels 28 & 29

Rifleman Parrett was born in Clevedon, but moved away before the war.

38687 Private Gilbert Francis Parsons

1^st Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 24-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Verchain British Cemetery Verchain-Maugre France Row C Grave 19

Memorials St Andrews, St Johns & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Private Parsons was the second son of Mr & Mrs WE Parsons of the Wagon and Horses. He joined up June 1917 and went out to France that Christmas, he celebrated his 20^th birthday a fortnight prior to his death.

Flight Lieutenant Collyns Price Pizey

Royal Naval Air Service acting Commander Royal Greek Naval Air Service

Died 11-6-1915 Athens, Greece

Buried Athens New Protestant Cemetery Greece Row A2 Grave 5

Flight Lieutenant Pizey , born 1^st April 1883, at Clevedon, was one of the early pioneers of flying, having gained his certificate No 61, in a Bristol Box-Kite, on Salisbury Plain, 14^th February 1911, that same year he took part in the Daily Mail Air Race. He was educated as an engineer, and passed through all the shops of the Bristol Tramway Company, where he gained the attention of Sir George White, who detailed him to assist Mr Sidney Smith when the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company was formed in late 1909 early 1910. He later took charge of the flying schools at Salisbury Plain and Brooklands, where he and his assistant Harry Fleming were known as "Little Appy" and "Big Appy". They were masters at the art of flying training, and in September 1913 Pizey was appointed by the Admiralty as Flying Officer to the British Naval Mission to Greece, to carry out experimental and instructional work to organise the Greek Naval Air Service. Little is known of his exploits in Greece, but sadly he died of dysentery in Athens, 11 June 1915.

Captain Eric Noel Player

8^th Yorkshire Regiment

Killed in action 6-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Becourt Military Cemetery Somme, France, Plot 1 Row 5 Grave 31

Captain Player, aged 28, was the son of Mrs CE Player, of Osbourne House. He was born at Winlaton, Blaydon-on-Tyne and educated at Cambridge where he received a BA.

311987 1^st Class Stoker Alfred George Plumley

Royal Navy HMS Indefatigable

Killed in action 31-5-1916 Battle of Jutland

Plymouth Naval Memorial Panel 16

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Alfred George Plumley was the son of Arthur and Ada Plumley of 131 Kenn Road, had served in the Navy for ten years when he was lost on board HMS Indefatigable at the Battle of Jutland. He was aged 27.

Captain Arthur George Poole

12^th Gloucestershire Regiment attached 6^th Battalion

Died 28-11-1918 Home

Buried St Andrews Churchyard

Memorials St Andrews

Captain Poole was the eldest son of Mr & Mrs GL Poole, of Heathdene, St John’s Road, he died of pneumonia, following influenza, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined the Bristol’s Own in September 1914, and was musketry officer at Chiseldon, for some months before going to France in 1915, when he was attached to the 6^th Battalion. Within three months he had a severe attach of trench fever and was sent home on sick leave. He was severely wounded in October 1917, this time spending nearly a year in hospital. Although not discharged from the army he was allowed to continue his law studies at Cambridge. Prior to university he was educated at Bristol Grammar School, were he gained colours for football, hockey and cricket. It is thought that trench fever and his wounds had sapped his strength and powers of resistance. He was 25, and had been Mentioned in Despatches in June 1918.

33279 Private Leslie George Pope

2/4^th Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

Died of wounds 19-4-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Aire Communal Cemetery, France, Plot 2 Row E Grave 1

Born in Clevedon, Private Pope was the son of Henry Pope, of Great House Lodge, Chipping Sodbury.

Nursing Sister Annette Maud Prevost

Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service

Royal Naval Hospital Chatham

Died 19-11-1918 Home

Buried Gillingham ( Woodlands ) Cemetery Kent, Naval Grave 260

Sister Prevost was the daughter of Mrs Maud Field, of Windwistle Clevedon

Baker George Henry Price

Mercantile Marine SS Ausonia

Killed at sea 30-5-1918

Tower Hill Merchant Navy Memorial Panel 2

Memorials St Andrews

George Price, aged 19, son of Mrs Price, Railway View, was a baker on the SS Ausonia, which was torpedoed by a submarine. Prior to the war he was employed by Mr E Adams, baker, of Old Street.

625 Private Frederick Puddy

6^th Leinster Regiment

Died 19-3-1915 Ireland

Buried Grangegorman Military Cemetery County Dublin, Row CE Grave 59

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Aged 33, he was the son of Mrs Charlotte Puddy.

24575 Private Alfred James Pyke

10^th Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Killed in action 4-5-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Arras Memorial France Bay 6

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Private Pyke was the eldest son of Mr & Mrs Albert Pyke, of the Moor, Clevedon. Going to France early in July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, he was wounded that same month and was an inmate of a base hospital for five weeks before returning to the front where he took part in many major battles until a shell burst in a trench and he and another man were killed. Prior to the war he held a responsible position at Portishead Docks. His army job was that of a pioneer and he had completed a seven week engineering course where he gained a 95% pass mark, an offer of Corporal’s stripes was made but this he declined.

 

2^nd Lieutenant Frank Steward Waddington Raikes

2^nd Rifle Brigade

Killed in action 9-5-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium Panel 10

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Born in India, 24^th February 1893, the elder son of Major FSW Raikes, who was killed in 1897. He was educated at Wellington College and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the 1^st Trinity Boat Club and the OTC. He was working for a 1^st Class Degree to secure a nomination for the Imperial Forest Service in India, when the war broke out. He applied for a commission in his father’s Regiment, and this was granted in August 1914, serving with the 6^th Battalion on coastal defences until Christmas, 1914. He was transferred to the 5^th Battalion, and on 17^th March, 1915, took a large draft of men out to reinforce the 2^nd Battalion after Neuve Chapelle. He was killed in action on the 9^th May, 1915, on Aubers Ridge.

673 Private William Joseph Ralls

37^th Australian Regiment

Killed in action 10-8-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France Grave V11 A12

Memorials Tickenham Church

Private Ralls lived in Gippsland, Australia, his grandfather lived at Orrell House, Tickenham, and he had visited him to celebrate his 21^st birthday whilst on leave. He joined up in Australia in 1916 and came to Larkhill Camp, Salisbury Plain to finish his training prior to going to France.

265419 Private William George Reed

7^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 17-8-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium, Panels 41 to 42 & 163A

Born in Bath, he was the husband of Mrs FD Reed, of 72 Old Street.

586726 Private Roland Roberts

Labour Corps ex 9000 Coldstream Guards

Died 10-11-1918 Home

Buried Bridgwater (Wembron Road) Cemetery (Church Portion) Plot 1 Row 5 Grave 8

Private Roberts was born in Clevedon. At the time of his death he was a resident of Newlyn, Cornwall.

Captain Harold Godfrey Robinson

1^st North Staffordshire Regiment

Killed in action 12-6-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Zillebeke Belgium Plot 7 Row Q Grave 1

Memorials St Andrews & Christ Church

Aged 30, he was the son of Arthur Frank Robinson, of The Grange.

Captain Walter Petit C Salt

2^nd Lancashire Fusiliers

Killed in action 24-10-1916 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Thiepval Memorial France Pier & Face 3C & 3D

Memorials All Saints Calvary

110170 Chief Petty Officer Frederick Sercombe

Royal Navy HMS Monmouth

Killed in action 1-11-1914 Battle of Coronel

Plymouth Naval Memorial

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Petty Officer Sercombe, son of William George Sercombe, Editor of the " Clevedon Mercury". He was married to Annie Sercombe of 3 Berries Mount, Bude, Cornwall.

2577 Private Gilbert Shipton

4^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Died 9-4-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Hebuterne Military Cemetery France, Plot 1 Row M Grave 9

Private Shipton was the son of Mrs A Shipton, of 45 Kenn Road

Commander Lionel Henry Shore

Royal Navy HMS Invincible

Killed in action 31-5-1916 the Battle of Jutland

Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panel 10

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Commander Shore, aged 33, was the second son of Commander the Honourable Henry N Shore of Mount Elton. He entered Britannia Naval College, Dartmouth in 1898. As a midshipman of the Balfluer on the China station during the Boxer Rebellion, he landed with the Naval Brigade for the relief of Admiral Sir EH Seymours party as ADC to Commander Craddock. For his services on this occasion he was mentioned in despatches. Towards the close of operations he received a dangerous wound through the careless handling of a captured rifle by one of his own party, the bullet passing through the thigh. A letter home, in which he described his experience on shore, was published in The Times and the Clevedon Mercury of the 1^st September 1900. Since the outbreak of the Great War he served as navigation officer of HMS Invincible, seeing service in the actions off Heligoland and the Falkland Islands.

18993 Private Richard Donald Shorney

3^rd Battalion Canadian Infantry ( Central Ontario Regiment )

Died of wounds 29-4-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Wimereux Communal Cemetery France, Plot 1 Row F Grave 12

Memorials St Andrews & Christ Church

He was wounded on the 25^th April 1915, and died four days later at the General Hospital, Wimereux, Boulogne. He was the youngest son of Edwin and Emma Shorney, later Mrs Hedges, of St John’s Avenue, and was aged 25.

22070 Private Harold James Sibley

1^st Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 25-8-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Pernes British Cemetery France, Grave 11 C21

Memorials St Andrews & The Methodist Church

Private Harold Sibley was the 3^rd son of Mr & Mrs G Sibley of Marson Road, he was severely wounded 24 May 1918 and died the following day. He joined up in 1914 and went to France 20 July 1915. In 1916 he was recommended for the DCM, however he was gazetted as Mentioned in Despatches. He was aged 27.

892 Sapper Francis William John Smith

2^nd Wessex Field Company Royal Engineers 503^rd Company

Died of wounds 14-5-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery France, Plot 8 Row C Grave 35

Memorials St Mary’s Walton & St Paul's Walton-in-Gordano

He was known as Jack, and was a very keen footballer, playing for both junior and senior teams in the town, always occupying the position of centre-half. In civil life he was in the motor trade, having served his apprenticeship with Messrs. R Stephens, Sons and Co, engineers of the town. For nearly nine years he had been a member of the choir at St Mary’s Church, Walton, a server at the altar and member of the Bible Class. On the 3^rd May 1915 he was engaged in taking a message across the danger area when a shell burst behind him and he was unfortunately hit with some of the fragments, sustaining injuries to the right arm and thigh. He was conveyed to the General Hospital at Boulogne, where he died on the 14^th , eight days after his 20^th birthday. He was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs J Smith of Romsdal, Walton Park.

16734 Private David Richard Smith

9^th Welsh Regiment

Died of wounds 15-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium, Plot 10 Grave 18

Aged 18, he was born in Clevedon, and the brother of Reginald Smith, of 9 Gorwyl Road, Ogmore Vale, Glamorganshire.

17736 Corporal Harry S Smith

Royal Engineers Imperial Signal Company

Died 24-11-1918 East Africa

Buried Nakuru North Cemetery, East Africa, Grave 2

Memorials British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Corporal Harry Smith, aged 30, died in Portuguese East Africa

William George Freemantle Squire

Royal Navy HMS Commonwealth

Died 30-4-1916

Second son of Emma Squire, 10a Highdale Place

 

4066 Private J Stainton

7^th Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Died of wounds 9-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried St Andrews Churchyard Grave 172

Memorials St Andrews

John Stainton was born Ambleside, Westmorland, and came to Clevedon with the 56^th Brigade, acting as one of the regiments military policemen. During his time in the town he met and married Rhoda Cooper of Old Street. He was badly wounded during the early push of the Battle of the Somme, and was at first in a French Hospital, before he was moved to a Liverpool Hospital, where he eventually succumbed to his wounds. His remains were brought to Clevedon and laid to rest on 12-8-1916.

 

Major Arthur Godfrey Staveley

38^th & 50^th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Died of Scarlet fever and pneumonia 24-3-1920 Germany

Buried Cologne Southern Cemetery Germany Plot 6 Row C Grave 18

Aged 47, he was the son of General Charles and Lady Staveley, and husband of Margaret Evelyn Staveley, of Sturford, Walton Park.

45707 Private Ernest Edward Stephens

15^th Hampshire Regiment

Killed in action 9-8-1918 France and Flanders

Buried La Clytte Military Cemetery Belgium Plot 6 Row C Grave 14

Memorials Tickenham Church

Aged 19, Private Stephens was the son Mr F and Mrs M Stephens, of 7 Eastwood Road, St. Anne’s Park, Bristol. Born originally in Exeter, he enlisted in Bristol and was a resident of Tickenham.

Flight Sub-Lieutenant Edward Cuthbert Stocker

5 (Naval Squadron) Royal Naval Air Service

Killed in action 27-3-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Arras Flying Services Memorial France

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Flight Sub-Lieut. Stocker was reported missing while flying in the neighbourhood of Dompierre, on the Somme, aged 18. He was the younger son and only surviving child of Major EG Stocker RAMC TF, and Mrs Stocker, of Carn Brea, Cornwall, formerly of Clevedon. He was born in the town in 1899, educated at Eastington School, Clevedon, and Channel View School, Walton Park. He took the RAC pilot’s certificate at Bournemouth Aerodrome in 1917, on his 18^th birthday. Commissioned into the Royal Naval Air Service, he went to the front in February 1918.

2^nd Lieutenant Thomas Fuller Stocker

171^st Mining Company Royal Engineers

Killed in action 19-5-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery Belgium Plot 1 Row D Grave 8

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Born on the 12^th March 1895, he was the elder son of Surgeon-Major Edward Gaved Stocker, Royal Wessex Engineers. He was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton, and Bristol University. When war broke out he was on the staff of the West of England China Clay Company, but he very soon enlisted as a sapper in the Wessex Field Company, Royal Engineers, his father’s corps, and in six weeks was promoted Lance-Corporal, and was gazetted temporary 2^nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, in April, 1915. He was shot on the 19^th May 1915, in the trenches near Ypres, by a German sniper, and was buried at Vlamertinghe in the British Officers Annexe.

242219 Private John Henry Stokes

‘C’ Company 1/5^th Gloucestershire Regiment TF

Killed in action 27-8-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, Panels 72 to 75

Aged 36, he was born in Clevedon, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Stokes, of Nelson Cottage, Conduit Place, Lower Ashley Road, Bristol.

3/7569 Lance Corporal Albert James Stone

1^st Somerset Light Infantry ex Devonshire Regiment

Died of wounds 5-7-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Beauval Communal Cemetery Somme, France, Row F Grave 6

Memorials St Andrews & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Corporal Stone, youngest son of William and Susan Stone, husband of Lorina Stone of 12 Chapel Hill, was a National Reservist, having served in the Artillery Volunteers in the town prior to 1908. He joined up on 4^th September 1914, he went to France the following June. He was mortally wounded in the chest, on Monday 3^rd July, during the Battle of the Somme, and died on the 5^th. Corporal Stone who had been a gardener at Clevedon Hall, left a wife and a little boy. He was aged 28.

K/17232 Stoker 1^st Class Henry Thomas Stone

Royal Navy

Killed by Mine Explosion 16-6-1919 Eastern Mediterranean

Plymouth Memorial Panel 31

Aged 24, he was the son of Henry James and Emily Stone, of Kenn Pier.

649303 Sapper George Edward Stuckey

1^st Tunnelling Company Canadian Royal Engineers

Killed in action September 1918 France and Flanders

Buried Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery Wancourt, Plot 1 Row G Grave 1

Memorials St Andrews & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Sapper Stuckey, eldest son of Mr Isaac Stuckey, of Eversea House, Clevedon, had gone to Canada in the early 1900,s, had joined up at Cobalt, Ontario, early in the war. He returned to England in 1915, and after completion of his training went to France in the Canadian Tunnelling Section, and was afterwards transferred to the Royal Engineers. At Easter 1918 he had spent his third leave in Clevedon with his sister, Mrs Trebble, of Marine Parade. He was married with three children and was 37 years of age.

44738 Air Mechanic Rupert Wyatt Stuckey

Royal Flying Corps 6^th Squadron

Died of wounds 1-6-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery Belgium, Plot 12 Row 6 Grave 15

Memorials St Andrews, Methodist Church and British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road.

Rupert was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs G Wyatt Stuckey, of the Tutton’s Farm Bungalow. His death cut short a very promising career, as from a early age he had shown marked ability in his education, whilst at Clevedon Undenominational School he won a scholarship to Shepton Mallet Grammar School, later going on to London University. He died in a Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in Belgium the day after being admitted, aged 19.

20603 Private Lionel F Sulley

7^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 16-9-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Guards Cemetery Les Boeufs France Plot 2 Row A Grave 2

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Stoker Edward George Summerell

Canadian Royal Navy

Died at Home

Memorials Tickenham Church

Stoker Summerell served on HMS Rainbow, Esquimalt Canada, he was originally from Tickenham Hill, aged 34 and he died at Wells.

Captain Hubert John Tanner

1^st Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 9-4-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Arras Memorial, Faubourg-D’Amiens Cemetery, France, Bay 4

Memorials St Andrews and Christ Church

Captain Tanner, aged 28, was the fifth son of Richard Tanner and Ann Tanner, of Picton House. He was educated at the Merchant Ventures School, Bristol, and afterwards entered the Civil Service. At the outbreak of war he enlisted into the Civil Service Rifles (15^th London regiment). He obtained a commission in the Somerset Light Infantry in December 1915, and was promoted Captain in the Autumn of 1916, he had been in France for over 2 years.

Lieutenant Robert Lionel Tawney MC

7^th Somerset Light Infantry

Died of wounds 30-11-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Cambrai Memorial Louveral France Panel 4 & 5

Memorials St Marys Walton & St Pauls Walton-in-Gordano

Lieut. Tawney, second son of Major EPA Tawney, Royal Artillery, and Mrs Tawney of Anglesey, Walton.

644 Lance Corporal Stanley Taylor

Australian Light Horse Machine Gun Squadron

Died of sickness 25-10-1918

Buried Damascus Commonwealth War Cemetery, Syria. Grave D58

Memorials Major FJ Winters Roll of Honour

Private CD Tee

98^th Canadian Infantry

Memorials Major FJ Winter’s Roll of Honour

25170 Private Edgar CH Thomas

8^th Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 19-6-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known Grave Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres Belgium. Panel 22 & 34

Memorials Tickenham Church

Edgar joined the Army on 30^th October 1915, serving initially with B Company, 10^th Glosters. He also served in the 15^th and 12^th Battalions. He went to France 23^rd April 1916 and suffered a gunshot wound to his right wrist on 31^st August 1916 and was admitted to the General Hospital, Rouen. In June 1917 he was again in hospital this time suffering from shell shock, after a few days he returned to front line duties and was killed by shell fire whilst holding the trenches.

30022 Guardsman Henry George Thomas

4^th Grenadier Guards

Killed in action 13-4-1918 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium Panel 1

Memorials St Andrews

13015 Sergeant Lewis Frank Thomas

1^st South Wales Borderers

Died 11-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, France, Plot 3 Row A Grave 17

Aged 39, born in Clevedon, he was the brother of Mrs Squires, of 157 Park Place, Gilfach, Bargoed, Glamorganshire.

Henry George Thompson

Memorials the Methodist Church

Died at home 14-10-1916

Henry was the son of William and Caroline Thompson of 14 Treefield Road. He had served in the army but was medically discharged due to muscular rheumatism. He died of heart disease 14^th October 1916 at his mothers home, aged 29.

723044 Private William Thorne

Trench Mortar Battery, The Queens London Regiment

Died of wounds 25-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Terlincthun British Cemetery France, Plot 6 Row C Grave 5

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Private Thorne had joined the Somerset Light Infantry in 1915, and after training was transferred to the London Regiment, and went with them to France in May 1916. He was admitted into hospital at Wimereux on 24^th October 1918 suffering from gunshot wounds in the right thigh and hands, besides other injuries, he surrcommed to his wounds the following day. He was the son of William and Mary Thorne of 76 Old Street. He was aged 26.

10211 Regimental Sergeant Major Frank Tonkinson

6^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 28-6-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium Panel 21

Memorials St Andrews & The Friary RC Church

19231 Private Frank Walter Toombs

3^rd Gloucestershire Regiment

Died of pneumonia 7-4-1915 Home

Buried Greenwich Cemetery London Row 3C Grave A348

Aged 16, he was the son of William and Elizabeth Toombs, of 6 Treefield Road.

2230 Private Harry Charles Toombs

3^rd Monmouth Regiment

Killed in action 2-5-1915 France and Flanders

Buried Poelcapelle British Cemetery Belgium, Plot 53 Row E Grave 2

Memorials St Johns

Aged 27, was the son of William and Elizabeth Toombs, of 6 Treefield Road.

Captain John Nelson Trayler

11^th Devonshire Regiment Territorial Force

Died 27-11-1915 Home

Buried St Andrews Churchyard Grave 26A

Memorials St Andrews

Aged 39, he was the son of Jonas Nelson and Elizabeth Trayler, and husband of Eunice Elizabeth Trayler, of Trewnt, Wraxall. The 11^th Battalion Devonshire Regiment was formed in November 1914 as a Special Reserve battalion, training recruits at Devonport for the newly formed Service Battalions Kitcheners Army. Lieutenant Trayler joined the battalion at its concept and was promoted Captain in December 1914. Ill-health became a problem and he had to relinquish his commission on that account in August 1915, three months prior to his death.

Captain John Turner MC

8^th Warwickshire Regiment

Killed in action 22-10-1918 France and Flanders

Buried St Aubert British Cemetery France Plot 3 Row A Grave 17

Memorials All Saints Calvary

Captain Turner was attached to the 10^th Battalion when he was killed, he had been awarded the Military Cross and the French Croix de Guerre. Aged 36, he was son of John Rootsey and Emma Turner.

TF238071 Private Alfred John Tyler

1^st Middlesex Regiment

Killed in action 6-11-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Aulnoye Communal Cemetery Nord, France, Row A Grave 14

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

Private Tyler, aged 21, was the son of Mrs Emily Tyler, of 21 Highdale Place.

2^nd Lieutenant Roger Vernon

8^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 14-5-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France Plot 30 Row A Grave 38

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Lieutenant Vernon returned from the Malay States to volunteer to serve his country in January 1915. He received his commission in the 8^th Somerset Light Infantry in March 1915, and in October 1915 went out to the front. He was killed on Sunday 14^th May 1916 when his unit were engaged in an attack on the German trenches. Lieutenant Vernon was returning to the wire to search for a brother officer when he was shot. He was most popular with all ranks and a great favourite with his men. His mother was Edith Serena Hill Vernon wife of the Reverend FW Vernon. Roger was aged 23.

14941 Private William Vickery

7^th Bedfordshire Regiment

Died of wounds 8-7-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Abbeville Communal Cemetery France Plot 5 Row A Grave 7

719 Sapper Walter William Vowles

1/2^nd Wessex Field Company Royal Engineers

Killed in action 12-5-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium Panel 9

Memorials St Andrews & St Johns

25717 Private Stanley Charles Wait

7^th Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 21-6-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Noreuil Australian Cemetery France Row A Grave 19

Memorials Tickenham Church

Private Wait of Tickenham was well known in Clevedon as his parents ran a greengrocery business at the Market. A keen bell ringer and member of the Church Choir, he enlisted at Clevedon in 1916, going to France to take part in the Battle of the Somme. He spent some time in hospital with ill-health until four days prior to his death when he returned to his unit.

4175 Rifleman Bernard Charles Walsh

3/1^st Monmouthshire Regiment

Died 1-2-1920 Home

Buried Newport ( St Woolos ) Cemetery Monmouthshire, Row 8 Grave RC189

Aged 30, he was the son of James Patrick and Helena Walsh, of Rockleigh, Marson Road.

Charles Ward

Memorials The Methodist Church

959 Lance/Corporal E Ward

Royal Engineers

Died 2-11-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France Plot 4 Row A Grave 9

Memorials British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

223448 Sapper Frank Ware

293^rd Company Royal Engineers

Died 13-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 2, Somme, France Plot2 Row B Grave 18

Memorials St Andrews, Christ Church, St Johns & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Sapper Frank Ware died of pneumonia, aged 41, in the 3^rd Canadian Stationary Hospital, Doullens, France. He had only been in France a short while when he was admitted to hospital suffering from his old complaint of bronchitis on the 3^rd May 1918 and died on the 13^th. He had enlisted in Clevedon, but before joining up had been employed for a number of years by Mr HA Merrifield, of Woodlands Road. He was the husband of Mrs E Ware of 9 Griffin Road.

230364 Petty Officer Stoker William Charles Western

Royal Navy HMS Pathfinder

Killed in action 5-9-1914 St Abb’s Head

Plymouth Naval Memorial

Memorials St Andrews

Petty Officer Western, eldest son of Mr C Western, of 5 New Buildings Strode Road, his wife living in Exmouth, had served in the Royal navy for over ten years. As a boy in Clevedon he was for several years in St Johns Choir.

Lieutenant Eustace Roland Whitby MC

1^st Royal Munster Fusiliers ex 16^th Middlesex Regiment

Killed in action 20-11-1917 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Arras Memorial, Faubourg-D’Amiens Cemetery France, Bay 9

Memorials St Andrews

Lieutenant Whitby, who was 28 years of age, had previously been wounded during the Battle of the Somme 1916. He was the son of Robert and Florence Whitby of Edinburgh House, Clevedon.

Steward Thomas Targett White

Mercantile Marine SS Australdale

Drowned 19-10-1917

Tower Hill Memorial London

White drowned as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine. He was aged 25 the son of Thomas Chapman White, of Grove Villa, Copse Road.

2^nd Lieutenant Henry Egerton Whitgreave

1^st Somerset Light Infantry

Killed in action 1-7-1916 first day of the Battle of the Somme

Buried Redan Ridge Cemetery No 1 Somme, France, Row A Grave 51

Memorials Frairy RC Church

Address Bushbury Lodge, Walton Park

He was 34 years of age and had been educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, Berkshire.

761733 Private Cuthbert Hugh Clement Wills

28^th London Regiment Artist Rifles

Killed in action 24-8-1917 France and Flanders

Buried Bailleul Road East Cemetery, St Laurent-Blangy, France Plot 1 Row P Grave 7

Memorials St Andrews & All Saints Calvary

Aged 24, he was the son of the Reverend Cuthbert ET Wills and Mrs Elsie Beatrice Wills.

2^nd Lieutenant Arthur Stafford Wilson

2^nd Rifle Brigade

Killed in action 25-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Vermelles British Cemetery France, Plot 3 Row P Grave 21

Memorials St Andrews

Aged 24, he was the son of J Grant and Mabel K Wilson, of Homelands, Clevedon.

4580 Private Albert Victor Wiltshire

4^th City of Bristol Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Killed in action 22-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried Blighty Valley Cemetery Somme, France, Plot 1 Row D Grave 1

Memorials St Andrews & British School Plaque, Chapel Court Marson Road

Victor was the second son of Mr & Mrs WH Wiltshire, of London House, Hill Road, he was just 19 years old when he was killed by shell fire whilst on sentry duty. He joined the Glosters in May 1915 and within five months was serving with the battalion in France.

267874 Private Robert John Woods

8^th Northumberland Fusiliers

Died of wounds 10-5-1918 France and Flanders

Buried Pernes British Cemetery, France, Plot 2 Row B Grave 33

Memorials St Andrews

He was the husband of Jesse Woods, of 138 Kenn Road. He died of wounds at No4 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, France.

Lieutenant Guy Richard Penny Wookey

13^th East Yorkshire Regiment

Died of wounds 10-5-1915 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Ypres Menin Gate Memorial Belgium

Memorials St Andrews & Christ Church

Aged 21 he was the son of Edgar and Clare Wookey.

5675 Lance Corporal Arthur Vernon Wright

4^th Royal Berkshire Regiment

Killed in action 14-8-1916 France and Flanders

Buried No known grave Thiepval Memorial Pier 11 Face D France

Memorials Christ Church

2^nd Lieutenant Cecil Medwyn Wright

22^nd London Regiment

Killed in action 6-11-1917 Mesopotamia

Buried Gaza War Cemetery, Isreal, Plot 20 Row C Grave 9

Memorials Christ Church

Aged 36, he was the son of Charles Edward and MM Wright.