Sunday 19 April 2015

Roll of Honour - Monday 19th April 1915



Killed in Action

1st Battalion: consolidating the front line east of Hill 60 under heavy shelling
  • 3/7302 Private Arthur Edward FARMER, 19, son of William George and Emma Farmer of Ivy Cottage, The Leys Terrace, Woburn Sands [Buckinghamshire], born Aspley Hill, Aspley Guise (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10149 Private Henry Frank FRANKLIN, born and resided Greenwich [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 13432 Private Henry FREEMAN, born Luton, resided Saint Pancras [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10135 Acting Corporal George GRAY, 21, son of Fanny Buckingham of 18 Bunyan Road, Hitchin [Hertfordshire], born Datchworth [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 14280 Private Charles HARROWELL, 19, son of Eli Harrowell of 19 Langdon Street, Tring [Hertfordshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres) his brother James was killed with 9th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps on 22nd October 1917 and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial
  • 13461 Lance Corporal George HAYNES, 25, D Company, husband of E M Ilott (ex Haynes) of 19 Spencer's Street, Hertford, born Hemingford Grey [Huntingdonshire], resided Huntingdon (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8747 Private William JEWELL, born Weston Turville [Buckinghamshire], resided Chiswick [Middlesex] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 8683 Private William KEECH, born and resided Goldington (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • Second Lieutenant Esmond Lawrence KELLIE, 20, son of Lawrence and Gertrude Mary Kellie of 191 Portsdown Road, Maida Vale [London], educated at Westminster School (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • Second Lieutenant Charles Sidney KIRSH (Bedford House Cemetery)
  • 8876 Private Joseph MANSFIELD, 26, son of Elizabeth Seekings of Over Cote Lane, Needingworth [Huntingdonshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10368 Private Thomas POTTINGER, 19, son of Louisa Barrett (ex Pottinger) of 45 Sultan Street, Camberwell [London] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 10481 Private Edward RUSSELL, born Wootton, resided Cardington (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 18166 Private William SHANE, born and resided Luton (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)
  • 16937 Private Edgar STEBBINGS, 21, son of James Edgar and Ann Stebbings of Alexandra Road, King's Langley [Hertfordshire] (First DCLI Cemetery, The Bluff, Ypres)
  • 7237 Private Bertie Charles WATSON, born and resided Bassingbourn [Cambridgeshire] (Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres)

2nd Battalion: trenches near Fauquissart – attack on a German sap

  • 4/4560 Private Frederick William EMERY, 28, son of John and Julia Emery of 9 North Road, Stevenage [Hertfordshire] (Fauquissart Military Cemetery, Laventie)
  • 3/7682 Private Alfred YOUNG, born and resided Bedford (Fauquissart Military Cemetery, Laventie)

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