Leonard Hagger Posted 5 July 2021 by Peter HaggerLeonard HAGGER – Some info from www.thriplow.org.uk Private 10810 11th Bn., Suffolk Regiment who died on Thursday, 22nd June 1916. Age 24. Son of Walter and Jane Hagger, of Thriplow, nr. Royston, Herts. Buried in BOISGUILLAUME COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Seine-Maritime, France. Grave I. E. 7. Despite the fact that there have been Haggers in Thriplow [Click to continue…]
Henry Robert Rayment Posted 19 August 2017 by Roy RaymentHenry Robert Rayment (who came to be known by friends and family alike as "Bob") was born on 7th October 1892 at Bermondsey in London, the fifth son of Joseph Thomas Rayment, a foreman letter press compositor, and his wife Chrissie Ellen Rayment née Hayward. When he was about four years old his family moved from London to Ulverston, a small town [Click to continue…]
Jack Dower Posted 25 October 2022 by Elizabeth McKayJack Dower was born 1919, Falmouth, Cornwall, England; the son of John Dower and Ada Maud Spargo. Raised and educated in Hartford, Connecticut, he entered the U.S. Army in June 1943. As a member of "L" Company, 179th Infantry, he saw combat first in North Africa, then at the Battle of Anzio, where he was captured by the Germans, and held as a POW at [Click to continue…]
James Ivall Posted 27 April 2014 by Philip TaylorJames Ivall was a grandson of Alexander “Sandy” Ival (1831-1911), who emigrated from Scotland to Canada in about 1837 and had ten children. James was a son of the third child, also called Alexander (1855-1922) and his wife Sarah. James was the third of their six children. He was born on July 11th 1885 in Morin Flats (now called Morin Heights), [Click to continue…]
Arthur Pearse Dicksee Posted 15 March 2019 by Departed MemberAwarded the Freedom of the City of London in 1915, Arthur served in the RE during WW1. After the war he became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Born and married in London, he moved to Yorkshire in 1920 (possibly for work reasons) where he died in 1931. He was buried in Redcar Cemetery.