Fred Hagger Posted 12 February 2014 by Peter HaggerFred Hagger - Died 29 Mar 1917, France & Flanders, Private 16th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Service No 57855. Buried Mesnil-St Nicaise Churchyard, France. Enlisted Bedford 15 Jan 1915. Awarded Victory and British War medals. He is also commerated on the war memorials at Old Fletton and Hitchin in Hertfordshire. The 16th Bat were mobilised [Click to continue…]
John Yates Posted 11 December 2024 by Ronald YatesJohn E. Yates US Civil War Letters and Experiences Elizabeth Roberson Yates' apprehension about the War and her husband would be drawn out but not typical. Her husband John Yates enlisted at Alton, Crawford County, Indiana, USA on November 20, 1861, for a period of time extending for, "During the War" and reported for duty seven days later on November [Click to continue…]
George William Drake Posted 13 July 2015 by Departed MemberGeorge William Drake, the younger son of George Drake and Emily (formerly Jarvis) was born in 1897 at Great Warley, Essex, and was was the second of their two sons to die in this war. His parents were married 10 Oct 1891 at Little Burstead, Essex. His grandparents were John Drake and Sarah Ann Poulter, who were married 17 Oct 1858 at Bethnal Green [Click to continue…]
Fred Gregory Bampton Posted 24 April 2014 by Philip TaylorFred Gregory Bampton was born in 1891, the third of four children born to John Robert Bampton and his wife Jane Maria nee Gregory who married in 1884. The family appear in the 1891 census living at 1 York Place, Chalvey (which is now a suburb of Slough). Listed were John Bampton (aged 27, hammerman in iron works), his wife Jane (29) and their children [Click to continue…]
Osborne Albert Drake Posted 6 December 2014 by Departed MemberOsborne Albert Drake born 1900 in Norwich, the youngest son of Thomas Drake and Ann Emma (formerly Ashby). (Thomas was a horse dealer in Norwich, and Ann Emma died in 1911 aged 51.) Osborne was a Rifleman in the 1st Battalion of the Rifle Brigade and died 3 Sep 1918 aged 18. He is buried at Ligny St Flochel British Cemetery, Averdoingt (Reference [Click to continue…]