Alfred Drake Posted 6 December 2014 by Departed MemberAlfred Drake was born in 1867 in Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, the second son of Elijah Drake and Elizabeth (formerly Beadle) of Navestock, Essex (a member of an extensive Navestock Drake family). In the 1911 census he was an unmarried farm labourer and Army pensioner aged 44 living with his widowed father in Navestock (also a farm labourer and aged 80 in [Click to continue…]
Frederick George Howes Posted 3 December 2017 by Paul HowesFREDERICK GEORGE HOWES Born: 1876 in Piddington, Northamptonshire Regiment: 298 th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Rank: Corporal Enlisted: Northampton Killed in action: 30.11.1917 Remembered with honour – Nine Elms British Cemetery, Belgium Frederick was born in Piddington and lived at the public house in Church Road. He was the son of George [Click to continue…]
George Frampton Posted 29 April 2014 by Philip TaylorGeorge Frampton was was born on 30 May 1884 in Kewell a small town in Victoria, Australia. He was the second of five children (2 boys and 3 girls). He enlisted in the Australian Army at Ararat, Victoria on 28 March 1916 to fight in the World War. His service record is on the National Archives of Australia website. The attestation paper gives his [Click to continue…]
Harry Drake Posted 15 November 2014 by Departed MemberHarry Drake (1897-1918), a Private in the Battalion of the 12th Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, died on or after 4 Sep 1918 in action or of wounds in Belgium.Harry was the son of John Drake and Charlotte of Staines, Middlesex, and his memorial is at Voormezeele Enclosure No 3.Harry's fiancee married his younger brother, Joseph, in 1921.Contact [Click to continue…]
James Frederick Rayment Posted 22 August 2017 by Roy RaymentJames Frederick Rayment was born at Hackney, London, in October 1873, the sixth and last child of an Essex born Blacksmith named Anthony Rayment and his wife Anne Rayment née Keeble. James was only seven years old when his father died at the age of 54 leaving him, together with his three brothers and two sisters, to be brought up by his mother Anne [Click to continue…]