Cyril David Rayment Posted 20 September 2018 by Roy RaymentCyril David Rayment, who was born on 3rd March 1924, was adopted on 21st May 1929 by Herbert Alfred Rayment and his wife Rosa Caroline Rayment née Giffen who had been married nearly ten years without having had any children. In September 1939 Cyril had left school and was working at the Post Office as a Boy Messenger when war was declared. In 1941, [Click to continue…]
Albert Hylands Posted 2 October 2021 by Departed MemberAlbert Hylands was born on 17 September 1887 in West Firle, Sussex to Joseph and Louise Alice (nee Cottington) Hylands. (GROB - Dec 1887 - Lewes - 2B/187) Joseph and Louise had six children: Mary, John Henry William, Albert, Sarah Jane, Beatrice May and Percival Joseph. All of whom were born at different locations around Sussex including Wilmington, [Click to continue…]
Ernest Hagger Posted 12 February 2014 by Peter HaggerErnest Hagger - Died of wounds 24th May 1918, France & Flanders. Pioneer, Royal Engineers, 9th Foreway Company Service No 203893. Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. Awarded Victory and British War medals. Enlisted Rotherham. Son of George Robert (known as Robert) and Alice Hagger of 27 Psaltters Lane, Rotherham. Born 1899 at West Bromwich [Click to continue…]
William Holloway Greathead Posted 28 November 2013 by Jan CooperWilliam Holloway Greathead was born in 1890 in Birmingham, Warwickshire in England. He was the son of John Josiah Greathead and Ann née Oliver. He lost his mother when he was only 7 years old while she was giving birth to his brother Alfred. William worked as a coal miner hewer and married Emily E Truman in 1914 in Birmingham. William Holloway Greathead [Click to continue…]
Ivan Orbell Posted 18 February 2014 by Departed MemberIvan Douglas Scott Orbell, to give him his full name, was born in New Zealand on the 18th July 1889. He was the 9th and youngest child of Henry Orbell and his wife Margaret. Henry was born in Suffolk and emigrated to New Zealand in 1849 with his parents when he was 18. The family were quite well to do by the 1890s and young Ivan was sent to school [Click to continue…]