Charles Messent Posted 11 February 2014 by Bob CumberbatchThe WW1 service record of Charles Messent might never have been found but for the Guild of One-Name Studies. The World War 1 service record of Charles Messent Private 10450 3rd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment popped up in my study purely by luck. Unfortunately, more than half of the service records of WW1 soldiers were destroyed in September [Click to continue…]
Arthur William Malbon Posted 31 March 2022 by Dianne Shenton This is the story as dictated to me by my late Father about getting home from Dunkirk. THE LAST TWO MEN OFF DUNKIRK BEACH. Gordon Stevens (Left) and Arthur William Malbon (Right) were the last men off Dunkirk Beach as photographed in Paignton on their return. Both were members of the 1st 6th South Staffs Regiment B Company. We subsequently found [Click to continue…]
Thomas Ignaitius Haggar Posted 11 February 2014 by Peter HaggerThomas Ignaitius Haggar - Died 8 Aug 1916 on the Somme, France. Buried in Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, France. Private, Service No 303732, 1st / 8th Battalion, The Kings (Liverpool Regiment). Awarded Victory and Star medals. His death is also recorded on the Roll of Honour at the Harris Museum in Preston. Son of Joseph Richard and Alice [Click to continue…]
Francis Pook Posted 10 February 2014 by Margaret SpillerFrancis was born in the 3rd October 1889 in Saskatchewan, Canada. His father, George Samuel Pook, had emigrated from England sometime after 1871 and had joined the North West Mounted Police; he married Francis' mother, Alice Jane, in Canada and they had five children, of whom Francis was the eldest. Francis father died in 1911 and his mother remarried [Click to continue…]
Reginald Frank Dicksee Posted 14 March 2019 by Departed MemberFrank Reginald Dicksee (known as Reginald Frank) was killed in the attack on St. Quentin, France on 8th October 1918. He is buried at Brancourt-Le-Grand Military Cemetery at Aisne in France (pictured). The Battle of St Quentin Canal was a pivotal battle of World War I that began on 29 September 1918 and involved British, Australian and American [Click to continue…]