Thursday 12 March 2015

Roll of Honour Friday 12th March 1915


Killed in Action

1st Battalion: front line trenches on the canal bank south of Ypres
  • 9967 Corporal Fred Reuben DAY, 20, son of William and Hannah Day of 4 New Street, Watford [Hertfordshire], husband of Florence Maud of 24 Valley Road Meersbrook [Yorkshire], born and resided Watford [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 5316 Company Sergeant Major Ernest WATSON, 39, son of John and Mary Ann Watson, husband of Mary Ann Watson of The Moor, Carlton, born Ware [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
2nd Battalion: Battle of Neuve Chapelle – counter-attacks on a trench attacked and recaptured by the Germans – Captain Charles Calverley Foss wins the Victoria Cross
  • 4/3857 Private Ernest ALLEN, born Tyttenhanger [Hertfordshire], resided Tyttenhanger Green [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 9650 Private Percy John BONESS, 21, son of Charles and Ellen Boness of 21 Raphael Avenue, Tilbury [Essex], born Girtford, resided Sandy (le Touret Memorial)
  • 3/7814 Private Bertram BREACHER, son of Charles Green of 13 Cedars Road, Edmonton [Middlesex], born Arlesey (le Touret Memorial)
  • 6615 Private James BROWN, born and resided Arlesey (le Touret Memorial)
  • 10138 Private Joseph CLARK, born Acton [Middlesex], resided Sacombe [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 9174 Private William CURTIS, 28, son of Henry and Emma Curtis of 48 Collins Cross, Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire], born Tottenham [Middlesex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 4/5163 Private Walter DENNIS, born Friern Barnet [Middlesex], resided New Southgate [Middlesex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 4/5701 Corporal Henry GREEN, born Inverness [Invernessshire], resided Enfield [Middlesex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 6006 Acting Company Sergeant Major Joseph HORNE, son-in-law of Anna M Gray of 55 Ivy Road, Luton, born Sundon, resided South Tottenham [Middlesex] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 5359 Sergeant Thomas HUTCHINS or HUTCHIN, son of George of Haymeads, Bishop's Stortford [Hertfordshire], born and resided Albury [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 4/6181 Private George NOTTAGE, born Barkway [Hertfordshire], resided Royston [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 4/6473 Private Albert PRESLAND, 23, son of John Presland of Hickman's Hill, Clothall [Hertfordshire] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 6684 Private Thomas RICHARDS, 33, son of the late Charles and Sarah Elizabeth Richards of 147 Hitchin Road, Luton, husband of Emma of 178 Park Street, Luton, served in the 2nd Boer War (le Touret Memorial)
  • 3/8615 Private James Henry ROACH, 37, brother of John F P Roach of Bel Royal, Jersey, born and resided Saint Helier [Jersey] (le Touret Memorial)
  • 3/8659 Private William SIMMONS, born and resided Bedford (le Touret Memorial)

Died of Wounds

2nd Battalion

  • 4/5676 Private George MUTIMER, born Windsor [Berkshire], resided Upton Park [Essex] (Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension)

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