On our other pages you will come across many local
families who lost sons in the Great War. See our
Casualties of the Great War
- menu for more information.
This page is about the casualties of war we have stumbled
across
while researching our ancestors, their 'cousins' and families by marriage.
Name |
Event |
Age |
Notes |
James Hancock, Private 3866, 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards. |
Died, 5th Nov 1854, Battle of Inkerman Ridge, Crimea |
33 |
Son of Richard Hancock, a farm labourer, and Jane Russell, of Jockey Stables, near
Springhill
House, Blockley. James' elder brothers George and John also joined the
Guards, possibly through the influence of General
Henry Lygon who lived at Springhill House before he moved to Madresfield
Court. |
James George Doel, Private 11205, Highland Light Infantry |
Died, 16th May 1915, France |
26 |
Youngest son of James George Doel of Gosport, Rosemary's great uncle. |
Alexander Gartshore Stirling McCulloch (junior) L/Cpl 1010 23rd Bn Royal Fusiliers,
British Expeditionary Force |
Shot in right shoulder, 1916; survived WWI. Before the war he was a commercial
traveller. |
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Born Ireland,we think he was grandson of AGS senior who was nephew of James McCulloch a farmer of Woodend near Glasgow
who died 1851. The name AGS has been passed down. |
Arthur Jesse Goater, Rifleman 9th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps R10915 |
Died, 15th April 1916, France |
21 |
Son of Jesse and Mary Jane Goater, Wyndoris, Amesbury Road, West Southbourne,
Bournemouth |
William Muir Hayman DSO, Major Royal Engineers |
Died of wounds at Rouen 13th July 1917 |
34 |
Second cousin of Alexander Gartshore Stirling McCulloch (see above). Before the
war William had been a consulting engineer with the Great Southern Railway at
Buenos Aires. |
De Lacey Campbell Evans jnr, Private 36433, 11 Bn, East Yorkshire Light Infantry |
Missing in action 3 May 1917, Arras, France. The Arras memorial is dedicated to
those who have no known grave. |
27 |
Youngest son of Thomas Alfred Evans, grocer of Hucknall Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire and
Ellen French Smith; (great grandson of Stephen Evans and Martha Wilde). Before
the war he worked at the family grocer's shop |
Thomas Henry Evans, Private 267904, Sherwood Foresters |
Died of Wounds Flanders 31st March 1918. |
|
Son of coal miner Henry Elley Evans and cousin of De Lacy Campbell Evans. Before
the war he was a clerk at New Hucknall colliery.
Click to read more about Huthwaite casualties |
Owen Samuel Hancock, Lance Corporal, 7263, Cheshire Regiment |
Drowned, 27th June 1917, after the troopship SS Armadale
was torpedoed
by U-60 in the Irish sea. The Armadale was en route from Manchester to
Salonica in Greece with troops and stores |
36 |
Great grandson of farm labourer Richard Hancock of Blockley. Before the
war he was a brewery drayman. His name is inscribed on
the Hollybrook memorial, Southampton |
Ronald Weston Denny, Gunner 315336, Royal Garrison Artillery 1st (Wessex) Heavy
Battery. Former trade: butcher. |
Died 17th July 1917, buried Lijssenthoek
Military cemetery, Belgium. |
27 |
Eldest son of grocer Fred Denny (died 1906) and Louisa Ann Weston of 'Bassett
Villa', Oxted Road, Godstone, Surrey Great grandson of Angus's ancestor Richard Dyer, who was a
tailor in Southampton. |
William Brown, Private 24770, 12 Bn, Manchester Regiment |
Died, 20th July 1916, France |
47 |
Nephew of John Brown, baker of Greenock, Scotland. Husband of Catherine Taylor and father of six
children. His cousin, Captain William Brown, Royal Scots Fusiliers, became a
recruitment officer and survived the war, but died prematurely in 1923 of tuberculosis. |
Charles Bell Law, Private G/8027 6th (Service) Bn Queen's Royal West Surrey
Regiment |
Killed in action 5th November 1916 near Arras |
30 |
Before the war he was a carpenter in the building trade. Son of watchmaker
Philip Law; great grandson of George Heskey a tailor of Calne in Wiltshire. |
George Harold Hall, Sergeant 1541, 14th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps. |
Died, 10th May 1917, second Battle of Bullecourt, France |
23 |
Son of Thomas Hall and Harriett Smith (sister of
George McCulloch's widow
Mary
Michie).
Brother of Fanny. |
James J Hall, Private 3318, 53rd Battalion, Australian Infantry |
Died, 19th July 1916, Battle of Fromelles, France |
19 |
Eldest son of Fanny Hall and Thomas McCann, 55 Bourke Street, New South Wales |
Alva John Ferguson, Second Lieutenant, 127 Coy, Machine Gun Corps |
Died in crossfire, 4th August 1917, France |
21 |
Cousin of Arthur Evans Robinson. Alva's name is inscribed on the Kettering war memorial |
John Michie Coutts, Private 3144, 48 Battalion Australian Infantry AIF |
Chauffeur, enlisted Blackboy Hill, Perth Western Australia 1914. Killed in action 12
October 1917 |
29 |
Son of William and Maggie Coutts of Aberdeen, and possibly a relative of the Scottish
painter James Coutts
Michie. John's name is inscribed on the Ypres Menin Gate
memorial. |
Bernard Lowden Holloway, Private 568, 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, AIF,
Machine Gun Section |
Stockman, enlisted Sydney, NSW 1914. Badly injured by gunshot wounds to arms,
back, head and chest, 1917. Survived WWI and later emigrated to the USA. |
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Son of farm manager Colin and Mary Holloway of Remenham, Berkshire, England. Brother of
Len Cundell's
wife Dora |
Geoffrey Alwyn Gershom Bonser, Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps |
Attached to 12 Bn Norfolk Regiment. Killed by a shell 29 September 1918 while attending patiemts.
Click
for obituary |
29 |
Son of George Gershom Bonser JP and Dorothy Ann Mary Sims (died 1913), of
'Kirkstede', Church Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham. His uncle
Harold Bonser, a mining engineer, married into the Robinson family |
Charles Caldwell, Private 308039 16 Bn Tank Corps |
Died in France, near Grandcourt, 29th September 1918, aged 19 years. His unit
had been attempting to advance under heavy artillery and machine gun fire; all
the tanks were lost. |
|
Son of carpenter Wellwod Maxwell Robertson Caldwell and Marion Greig Fulton of
Kilmarnock, Scotland; descendant of cabinet maker James Guthrie and Jean Tennant
of Ayr whose grand daughter married into Brown family. |
Charles Henry Lewry, Sergeant J5174/313806 RAF |
Died 15 Jul 1919 after the airship he was steering, NS11 exploded in
flight |
26 |
Cousin of Rosemary’s grandmother.
Buried Ann’s Hill Old Cemetery, Gosport |
Frederick Robert Crips, Private 45659, 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment |
Died of tuberculosis 12th March 1919 |
19 |
Brother in law of Jessie Helen Brown. Son of Frederick Crips and Florence
Thorne. Buried Highgate Cemetery. |
Philip Quill, Sergeant, 775038, RAF Volunteer Reserve. |
Died, 21 Sep 1940, RAF Finningley, when he walked into a propellor after
returning from a night flight. Buried Holy Trinity and St Oswald. |
21 |
Brother of journalist Jack Quill, second husband of Betty Hancock. Philip was the son of Ernest and Marguerite Quill, of South Woodford, Essex. |
Leonard Thomas Kinchin, Flying Officer 78405 RAF Volunteer Reserve. |
Accidentally shot by sentry. Died 8th October 1940, buried Silloth, Cumberland |
31 |
Son of Charles William, and Gladys Deborah Kinchin, of Belmont, Wantage,
Berkshire. Nephew of Leonard Cundell. |
Emily Lucy Lygo, civilian |
Died, 8th December 1940. Injured during bombing raid at 51 Sharsted Street
Kennington; died same day on way to Lambeth Hospital. |
45 |
Daughter of the late Francis W Lygo of the Cock and Bottle pub,
Lambeth. Third 'partner' of Arthur Evans Robinson. |
Arthur Evans Robinson, civilian, music teacher |
Death not recorded, but is thought to have perished during the bombing of London in
1941. |
51 |
Son of Henry Evans Robinson and Louisa Mary Dyer of Southampton. Husband of
Edith Frances Webb. A descendant of Henry Evans who founded Luke Evans Bakery in
Alfreton. |
John Albert Morris, civilian |
Died on the night of 10th July 1941 during the bombing of Portsmouth when the
flat above a shop at 101b, High Street received a direct hit |
38 |
Son of Henry Morris, of 2 The Terrace, South Wallington, Fareham and Ellen
Unwin.
Husband of Elsie Morris. |
Elsie L Morris, civilian |
Died 10th July 1941 |
24 |
Daughter of Sidney and Ada White |
John Morris (son) |
Died 10th July 1941 |
2 |
Son of John and Elsie Morris of 101b High Street Portsmouth |
George William Hardy, Serjeant 867196, 7 Battery, 4th Heavy Anti Aircraft
Regiment, Royal Artillery |
Died at sea 30th October 1942. Commemorated Brookwood 1939 - 1945 Memorial |
35 |
Son of George Hardy and Agnes Rosa Jacobs. Husband of Phyllis Gertrude Barbara
Maddox of Twickenham. Linked to Brown family. |
Frank Norman Harder, Sergeant 1324291, Air Bomber, 9 Sqn RAFVR |
Died 7th June 1944 after Avro Lancaster ME579 crashed into trees near Belvoir
Castle while returning from a D Day mission in France.
Buried
South Stoneham cemetery |
23 |
Eldest son of Frank Herbert Harder and Beatrice Annie Goater of Southampton |
George Francis Herbert Webb, Wing Commander 90987, (pilot) DFC and Bar. 181
Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force. |
Shot down by flak while flying an armed reconnaisance mission in a
Typhoon.
Died during the last days of the war on 2nd May 1945. Buried Hamburg cemetery. |
30 |
Son of George Richard and Gladys Mary Webb. First husband of Peggy Cundell.
Peggy was the daughter of Sir George Bailey, chairman of Associated Electrical
Industries (1951 - 1954). |
George McCulloch, Lieutenant attached to 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars, Middle
East Force, Egypt |
Lost leg fighting in the North African Campaign in 1941. Survived WWII but died
in light aircraft crash in Southern Rhodesia 1949 |
35 |
Son of Alexander McCulloch and Lesley Cecil Wright. Lesley's brother John
had been in the Royal Flying Corps during WWI, and became MP for Erdington,
Birmingham 1936 - 1945. Survived by wife Phylis and son, Sandy. |
If you know more about the story of any of these men do please let us know.
Soon after the war
RAF Harwell closed and the airfield was taken over by the Atomic Energy Authority.
Those named above were largely discovered by chance as a result of our
searches on the ancestry.co.uk
website. Additional information has also come from the Commonwealth
War Graves Comission website cwgc.org, In some cases CWGC do not list
either the age or parents of the casualty, and we have added information
from the census and WWI Army pension and service records to fill the gaps.
We cannot guarantee this is corrrect although we believe in most cases it
is.
It has been said that almost one in three British 'young' men living in 1911 were
to die in WWI and that huge numbers of the middle classes, who had
volunteered but never been exposed to battle before, were slaughtered during
the Battle of the
Somme which was fought over several months.
Thank you to AGS McCulloch
for the full and exciting story of his father which for copyright reasons is not
reproduced here. Thank you also to Gary Elliott for information about Huthwaite
casualties.