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…]
Albert John Thomas Poke Posted 10 February 2014 by Margaret SpillerAlbert was born in Hackney in 1883, the son of John Thomas Poke and Sarah Cousina (nee Jackson). His father was a furrier and he was the third of seven children of this marriage. By 1901 he had left school and was living at home with the family in Edmonton whilst working as a sugar boiler. In 1911 he was still employed as a sugar boiler but was living [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…]
John Rivers Greathead Posted 28 November 2013 by Jan CooperJohn Rivers Greathead was born on 1 August 1895. He was the son of Dr John Baldwin Smithson Greathead M.B.Edin.,M.R.C.S., London and Ellen Annie Bubb. He was educated in 1914 in Christs College, Cambridge and was a medical student. He was Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade he joined in the summer of 1916 with commission. He died on [Click to continue…]
William Alfred Rushen Posted 27 December 2013 by Peter RushenWilliam Alfred Rushen was born in Weymouth in 1892, one of six sons born to Edwin Rushen and Lucy Catherine Randell. He joined the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment on 5 December 1910 at the age of seventeen years and nine months. On Attestation he was five feet seven and a half inches tall, weighed one hundred and thirteen pounds, with a chest measurement [Click to continue…]