Francis William Hagger Posted 1 August 2015 by Peter Hagger Francis William Hagger - Killed in action 01 Oct 1916, France & Flanders. Rifleman London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Riles) Service No 5500 Thiepval Memorial also Commemorated on Leytonstone War Memorial. Awarded Victory & British War Medal 1/16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Westminster Rifles) in 1916 were inolved [Click to continue…]
James Edward Haggar Posted 27 April 2017 by Peter HaggerJames Edward Haggar – Able Seaman Royal Naval Reserve, Nelson Bn Died 29 April 1917 and commemorated on Arras Memorial. James Edward was born in Hackney on 21 Nov 1895 and baptised at St James the Great Church. His parents were James William Henry Haggar and Rebecca (nee Price). In 1901, age 5, he was living in Limehouse with his parents and [Click to continue…]
Archibald Owen Ivall Posted 25 April 2014 by Philip TaylorArchibald Owen Ivall was born 23 February 1883 in Chalvey, a village now a suburb of Slough. He was the youngest of six children born to Owen Ivall (b1846) and Emily Maria Ivall nee Moss (1846-1883). His mother died 18 days after Archibald was born. Owen’s occupation was a whitesmith ie a polisher or finisher of metal goods. He married again in [Click to continue…]
Oswald Robert Bowey Posted 15 May 2015 by Departed MemberOswald Robert Bowey was the son of Thomas Bowey and Sarah Jane (formerly Oswald) and was born in Leeds in 1899. His Bowey line goes back to Alnwick in Northumberland. He was a Rifleman in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and was one of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy [Click to continue…]
Edward George Rayment Posted 7 October 2017 by Roy RaymentEdward George Rayment was born in London's East End on 13th April 1897, the sixth child of toothbrush maker Arthur Rayment and Catherine Rayment (née Roberts). Being one of a family of eight children in a very deprived area of London, his early life was far from easy and the fact that his father was rather too fond of drink did not exactly help matters. [Click to continue…]