Charles Henry Hagger Posted 17 June 2021 by Peter HaggerCharles Henry Hagger – Killed in action, France & Flanders, 18th April 1918, commerated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. Lance Corporal, Service No.: 57946, Enlisted - Stepney Awarded Victory and British War medals. Regiment: Royal Welsh Fusillers, 9th Battalion (Formerly 51649 Welsh Rgt) – 9th Sept 1914 Formed at Wrexham as part of the Second [Click to continue…]
Albert Henry Millington Posted 8 April 2014 by Paul MillingtonSon of John Millington and his wife Emily (nee Toon) of Linton Road, Castle Gresley, Derbyshire. Captured at Bullecourt, 21st March 1918 when most of the battalion were captured. Held in a German Prisoner of War camp until the end of the war. Family stories have it that he was employed by the Germans to work down the mines, and that when he returned [Click to continue…]
Robert Reginald Drake Posted 2 February 2015 by Departed MemberReginald Robert Drake was born 13 Sep 1893 in Freshwater, Isle of Wight, the son of George Drake and Eliza Jane (formerly Merwood). George was a blacksmith. Reginald's grandparents were Robert Drake and Amelia (formerly Wells) who married in 1853 at the Wesleyan Chapel, Quay Street, Newport, Isle of Wight. Early in 1916, Reginald married Agnes Freda [Click to continue…]
Frederick William Blencowe Posted 20 January 2023 by Roger BlinkoBorn in Banbury in 1890 Frederick William Blencowe son of James Blencow (1857-1914) and (Caroline Boazman) 1855-1920 he was to become a career soldier and in some way following his father James who was a veteran of the South African war. Frederick ‘joined up’ at just 18yrs of age in 1908 and from then went on to serve 40 years, mostly overseas [Click to continue…]
Charles Robert Hagger Posted 11 February 2014 by Peter HaggerCharles Robert Hagger – Killed in action, 26 May 1915, France & Flanders. Commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Private, Service No.: 1318, Enlisted Place: Stepney. Awarded 1914/15 Star, Victory and British War medals. Regiment: Household Cavalry Calvary of Line (incl Yeoman.) 16th Lancers (Queens) Battalion. Birth Place: Chelmsford, [Click to continue…]