ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-18

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Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
ARNOLD, F A	Pioneer	30199	Tuesday 6 July 1915	Unknown	Wimereux Communal Cemetery
	3rd Div. S.T. Postal Sec., Royal Engineers. Wimereux Communal Cemetery contains 2,845 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. Buried among them is Lt Col John McCrae, author of the poem "In Flanders Fields."

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
BAYLY, E N	Sapper	59873	Monday 11 June 1917	Unknown	Croydon (Mitcham Road) Cemetery
	GPO
BIGGS, Jesse Kenworthy	Sapper	570104	Sunday 9 June 1918	36	Lewisham (Ladywell) Cemetery
	Son of Jesse Kenworthy Biggs, of Lewisham; husband of Olive Ada Biggs, of "Hazeldene," Uckfield Lane, Hever, Kent.
BRIERLEY, H	Corporal	29264	Sunday 1 October 1916	34	Salonika (Lembet Road) Cemetery, Greece
	He served at the Base Army Post Office, Salonika. Son of Mrs. S. J. Brierley, of Oldham, and the late Benjamin Brierley; husband of Bessie D. Brierley, late of Withington, Manchester, now of 2, Victoria Rd., St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, Lancs. Salonika (Lembet Road) Cemetery is on the northern outskirts of Thessalonika (Salonika), adjoining the Roman Catholic French and Italian War Cemeteries. It lies on the west side of the road to Seres.
BROWNING, A E W	QMS	27456	Tuesday 8 August 1916	Unknown	Fulham Old Cemetery

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
CORRIN, T J	Corporal	29858	Tuesday 15 January 1918	Unknown	Warrington Cemetery
	Husband of J. Corrin, of 75, Dorset Avenue, Rusholme, Manchester.
CREWS, Wilfred John	Sapper	59795	Monday 11 January 1915	25	Malvern Link (St Matthais) Churchyard, Malvern
	Wilfred Crews was the son of John, a gardener, and Alice Crews of West View, Upper Howsell. On the 16 January 1915 the Malvern News reported: "The death occurred of Monday morning at the GPO Hospital, Kensington Palace Gardens, London at 25 of Wilfred John Crews, the son of Mr and Mrs John Crews of Upper Howsell. He was formerly a postman at Malvern, but sat for an examination and then entered the office of a sorting clerk and telegraphist. For the past two years he had been stationed at Shrewsbury. Some time ago he joined the Postal Section of the Royal Engineers for telegraphic despatch work and was stationed at 42 Baker Street. He had an attack of influenza, which developed into double pleuro-pneumonia causing his death after an illness of about a fortnight. His mother was with him when he died. Great sympathy is extended to his family." "His funeral at St Matthias Church shortly after; a large number of friends and neighbours attended. The coffin was borne by the following members of the outdoor staff of the Malvern Post Office: Messers A Slater, J Wooding, J Jones, and C Wood. The Rev A Day conducted the service. Mourners included Mr & Mrs John Crews, Mr Albert Crews (brother) Miss Pattie Davis (Blaen-y-Ffor, South Wales, the deceased fiancée)."

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
DAWSON, Frank	Corporal	59861	Wednesday 21 February 1917	32	Mikra Memorial, Salonika, Greece
	Son of Frederick and Eliza Dawson, of 1, St. Ann's Park Rd., Wandsworth, London; husband of Hephzibah Ellen Dawson, of "Shere House," 37, Whitworth Rd., South Norwood, London. Mikra Memorial can be found at the south end of Mikra British Cemetery, which is situated approximately 8 kilometres south of Thessaloniki, on the road to the airport, in the municipality of Kalamaria.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
ENRIGHT, W F	Sapper	59922	Monday 5 April 1915	28	Gosport (Ann's Hill) Cemetery
ERSKINE, Martin	Sergeant	27771	Tuesday 30 April 1918	28	Denny and Dunipace Cemetery, Stirlingshire
	Son of William and Jessie Erskine, of Widows Row, Haggs, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. G.P.O. employee.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
FEARNSIDES, Arthur	Sapper	144018	Tuesday 12 December 1916	40	Bradford (Scholemoor) Cemetery
	Husband of S. E. Fearnsides, of 27, Lytton Rd., Girlington, Bradford.
FERGUSON, Nathaniel	Sapper	30118	Friday 1 January 1915	36	Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France
	Son of John and Jane Ferguson, of Comber, Co. Down; husband of Lillie McCaw Ferguson, of Letaville, Kilrea, Co. Derry. Ste. Marie Cemetery is one of the town cemeteries, but it is actually situated in the commune of Graville-St. Honorine. It stands on the ridge overlooking Le Havre from the north and is north of the N.182.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
GALL, W A	Corporal	27690	Monday 25 March 1918	38	Chocques Military Cemetery, Calais, France
	Husband of Lydia Gall, of 8, Oak Lane, Hooton, Cheshire. Native of Newcastle-on-Tyne. Chocques is 4 kilometres north-west of Bethune on the road to Lillers. The town was occupied by Commonwealth forces from the late autumn of 1914 to the end of the war. The village was at one time the headquarters of I Corps and from January 1915 to April 1918, No 1 Casualty Clearing Station was posted there. Most of the burials from this period are of casualties who died at the clearing station from wounds received at the Bethune front. From April to September 1918, during the German advance on this front, the burials were carried out by field ambulances, divisions and fighting units.
GREER, James	Sapper	59804	Monday 23 August 1915	Unknown	Helles Memorial, Dardanelles
	Son of Mrs Mary Greer of Belfast. The Helles Memorial (20771 names) is both the memorial to the Gallipoli campaign and to men who fell in that campaign and whose graves are unknown or who were lost or buried at sea in Gallipoli waters. Inscribed on it are the names of all the ships that took part in the campaign and the titles of the army formations and units which served on the Peninsula. It stands on the tip of the Peninsula and is in the form of an obelisk over 30m high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles.
GRIST, William	Sapper	144476	Monday 11 June 1917	42	New Soutgate Cemetery
	Son of William and Jessie Grist; husband of Amy Sophia Grist, of 14, Victoria Rd., Finsbury Park, London. Born at Stockbridge, Hants.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
HACKETT, W S	Corporal	27904	Friday 28 January 1916	Unknown	Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, France
	Marseilles was the Base of the Indian troops in France during the 1914-18 war; and throughout the War the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, British troops and Labour units worked in the port or passed through it. An Army Post Office was established in Marseilles (1914-1918) Corporal Hackett may have been member of its staff, but it is more likely that he died of disease en-route between the UK and the Middle East. Mzargues War Cemetery, on the South-East side, was used less in the War; but before the Armistice a British Extension was made, to which were removed, a little later, the bodies or ashes from the four Town cemeteries.
HAMMETT, John Herbert	Sapper	29214	Friday 17 September 1915	Unknown	Kingsbridge Cemetery, Devon
	Son of Henry and Annie Hammett, of 42, Fore St., Kingsbridge.
HARDING, A W	Sapper	47506	Wednesday 19 May 1915	43	Skew Bridge Cemetery, Gallipoli
	Skew Bridge Cemetery (607 burials) is named after an angled or "skew" bridge that crossed Kanli Dere near where the cemetery now stands. Burials began after the second battle of Krithia in May 1915, but the majority were brought in from other small battlefields.
HUGHES, Owen Parry	Pioneer	144393	Thursday 6 June 1918	43	Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France
	Son of John and Phoebe Hughes, of Qwynllys, Groeslon, Carnarvonshire; husband of Winifred Hughes, of 207, North Hill St., Princes Rd., Liverpool. Postman at Carnarvon Post Office. Wimereux Communal Cemetery contains 2,845 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. Buried among them is Lt Col John McCrae, author of the poem "In Flanders Fields."
HUGHES, William Henry	CSM	27610	Wednesday 21 February 1917	36	Mikra Memorial, Salonika, Greece
	Husband of Sarah H. Hughes, of 41, Park Lodge Lane, Wakefield, Yorks.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
JONES, Thomas Richard	Sapper	39184	Friday 29 September 1916	28	Salonika (Lembet Road) Cemetery
	Base Army Post Office, Salonika. Son of J. and J. Jones, of Pimlico, London; husband of A. T. Jones, of 5, Ashcombe St., Fulham, London.
JOYCE, Charles Sydney	Sapper	35437	Sunday 3 March 1918	37	Wimereux Communal Cemetery
	Husband of Grace Amy Joyce, of 33, Goodmayes Lane, Goodmayes, Essex. Wimereux Communal Cemetery contains 2,845 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. Buried among them is Lt.-Col. John McCrae, author of the poem "In Flanders Fields."

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
KELLS, Albert Edward	Sapper	30548	Monday 18 September 1916	34	Brighton (Lewes Road) Borough Cemetery
	Son of Trumpet Major Kells, V.C., Yeoman of the Guard, Buckingham Palace; husband of Margaret Isabel Annie Kells, of 18, Gladstone Terrace, Brighton
KING, H C	Sapper	37870	Saturday 21 August 1915	Unknown	Abney Park Cemetery

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
LANGMEAD, H	Sapper	133894	Saturday 2 February 1918	Unknown	Southend-on-Sea (Sutton Road) Cemetery
LEGGE, R H	Sapper	35594	Monday 11 March 1918	Unknown	Wandsworth (Streatham) Cemetery
LLOYD, G V	Sergeant	27977	Thursday 15 November 1917	Unknown	Salonika (Lembet Road) Cemetery
LOW, A	Corporal	30154	Thursday 15 November 1917	Unknown	Bray Military Cemetery, Somme, France
	Bray-sur-Somme is a village about 9 kilometres south-east of Albert. Bray Military Cemetery is north of the village, a little west of the road to Maricourt. The Cemetery was begun in April, 1916, by fighting units and Field Ambulances. In September, 1916, the front line having been pushed further East, it was used by the XIV Corps Main Dressing Station; and in 1917 the 5th, 38th and 48th Casualty Clearing Stations came forward and used it. In March, 1918, the village and the cemetery fell into enemy hands; but the village was retaken by the 40th Australian Battalion on the 24th August, and during the next few days the cemetery was used again.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
MOODY, Henry	Sergeant	29282	Thursday 10 February 1916	34	Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta,
	Son of William and Elizabeth Moody, of 95, Devon St., Fishpool, Bury, Lancs.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
PARNCUTT, William Thomas	Sapper	137332	Thursday 16 May 1918	43	Jerusalem War Cemetery, Palestine (now Israel)
	Husband of Elizabeth Alice Parncutt, of 12, Martindale Rd., Balham, London. Jerusalem was captured from the Turks in December 1917 the Jerusalem War Cemetery was begun after the occupation of the city, with 270 burials, it is is 4.5 kilometres north of the walled city and is situated on the neck of land at the north end of the Mount of Olives, to the west of Mount Scopus.
POWNEY, Joseph Thomas	Major		Friday 18 December 1914	45	Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, France
	He was commissioned into the RE(PS) on 14 March 1913. Eldest son of James and Marianne Powney, of Calne, Wilts; husband of Lily Powney, of "Russell Dene," Russell Hill Rd., Purley, Surrey.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
RIPPON, Charles	Sapper	30765	Thursday 28 October 1915	37	Helles Memorial
	Son of Thomas Rippon, of North Bank, Thorney, Peterborough; husband of Elizabeth Rippon, of 33, Norfolk St., Carlisle, Cumberland. The Helles Memorial (20771 names) is both the memorial to the Gallipoli campaign and to men who fell in that campaign and whose graves are unknown or who were lost or buried at sea in Gallipoli waters. Inscribed on it are the names of all the ships that took part in the campaign and the titles of the army formations and units which served on the Peninsula. It stands on the tip of the Peninsula and is in the form of an obelisk over 30m high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles.
ROBINSON, Percival	Pioneer	27754	Wednesday 21 February 1917	20	Mikra Memorial, Salonika, Greece
	Son of Edmund Robinson, of 43, Royal Park Terrace, Hyde Park, Leeds, and the late Maud Robinson.
RUDD, Frank	Sapper	38048	Monday 28 January 1918	40	St. Pierre Cemetery, Amiens, France
	Husband of G. Rudd, of Markham Moor, Tuxford, Notts. Native of Sheffield. St. Pierre Cemetery is situated on the north-eastern outskirts of Amiens, on the northern side of the main road to Albert. At the back of the cemetery is the Commonwealth Plot. During part of August, 1914, Amiens was the British Advanced Base. It was captured by the Germans on the 31st of that month, and retaken by the French on the following 13th September. The German offensive which began in March, 1918, had Amiens for at least one of its objectives; but the "Battle of Amines" (8th to 11th August, 1918) is the British name for the action by which the counter-offensive, the Advance to Victory, was begun. The 7th General Hospital was at Amiens in August, 1914; the 56th (South Midland) Casualty Clearing Station from April to July, 1916; the New Zealand Stationary Hospital from July, 1916, to May, 1917; the 42nd Stationary Hospital from October, 1917, to March, 1919; and the 41st Stationary Hospital in March, 1918, and again in December, 1918, and January, 1919. The British Plot was first used in September, 1915, and closed in October, 1919

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
SHEEHAN, Morgan	Corporal	35688	Wednesday 21 February 1917	30	Mikra Memorial, Salonika, Greece
	Son of Morgan and Margaret Sheehan, of Domnick St., Tralee; husband of Catherine Sheehan, of 11, Caherina, Tralee; Co. Kerry.
SMITH, Alfred Walter	Corporal	30121	Thursday 19 July 1917	39	Holly Memorial, Southampton
	on of the late William and Mary Amy Smith; husband of Sarah Annie Smith, of 50, Broseley Rd., Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.
STACEY, Henry	Corporal	59722	Friday 28 April 1916	36	Birmingham (Yardley) Cemetery
	Husband of Florence Alice Stacey, of 60, Bordesley.
SYKES, Samuel	Sapper	133674	Sunday 20 January 1918	38	Bordighera British Cemetery, Italy
	Son of Thomas Henry and Jane Margaret Sykes, of London, husband of Alice Elizabeth Sykes, of 204, Byron Avenue, Manor Park, Essex. The Italians entered the war on the Allied side, declaring war on Austria, in May 1915. Commonwealth forces were at the Italian front between November 1917 and November 1918, and Army Post Offices, rest camps and medical units were established at various locations in northern Italy behind the front, some of them remaining until 1919. From the Summer of 1917 until late 1918, the Mediterranean lines of communication for the British Salonika Force and the Egyptian Expeditionary Force ran the length of Italy from Taranto in the south-east, to Turin in the north-west. The 62nd General Hospital was posted at Bordighera from January 1918 to January 1919, and the 66th from January to March 1918. The British cemetery is opposite the town cemetery and was used from November 1917 to January 1919.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
TAYLOR, Harry	Pioneer	27754	Wednesday 6 December 1916	41	Calais Southern Cemetery, France
	Son of Stephen and Agnes Taylor, of Kingston-on-Thames. On 16 June 1915 Base Army Post Office 4 was established in Calais to act as an exchange office between Folkstone and the Western front. In April 1915, No 6 Base Supply Depot was started at Calais to help relieve the pressure on Boulogne and to provide a base nearer to the front than Le Havre or Rouen. The base remained open until the last Commonwealth forces left France in March 1921. The 30th, 35th and 38th General Hospitals, No 9 British Red Cross Hospital and No 10 Canadian Stationary Hospital were also stationed in the town, providing about 2,500 beds. From May 1915 to March 1918, Commonwealth burials were made in Calais Southern Cemetery. It is a civil cemetery lying on the south of the old main road to Dunkerque.
TURNER, Christopher Alexander	Sapper	27825	Sunday 8 November 1914	34	Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, France
	Son of Frederick William and Sarah Turner; husband of F. E. Turner, of 86, Leathwaite Rd., Battersea Rise, London. St. Omer became on the 13th October, 1914, and remained until the end of March, 1916, the General Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force. Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, is approximately 3 kilometres from St Omer to the left of the D928 Abbeville road.

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
UNSWORTH, J C A	Sapper	137091	Wednesday 21 February 1917	31	East Mudros Military Cemetery, Greece
	Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Eleanor Unsworth; husband of Fanny Ethel Unsworth, of 15, Hoyle Rd., Hoylake, Cheshire. Mudros is on the island of Lemnos in the north-east Aegean. Because of its position, the island played an important part in the campaigns against Turkey during the First World War. It was occupied by a force of marines on 23 February 1915 in preparation for the military attack on Gallipoli, and Mudros became a considerable Allied camp. Base Army Post Office Y was established at East Mudros in November 1915. The 1st and 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospitals, the 3rd Australian General Hospital and other medical units were stationed on both sides of Mudros bay and a considerable Egyptian Labour Corps detachment was employed. After the evacuation of Gallipoli, a garrison remained on the island and the 1st Royal Naval Brigade was on Lemnos, Imbros and Tenedos for the first few months of 1916. On 30 October 1918, the Armistice between the Entente Powers and Turkey was signed at Mudros. East Mudros Military Cemetery is situated on rising ground, about kilometre north east of the village of Mudros, next to the Greek Civil Cemetery.
UNWIN, A	Sapper	38113	Sunday 5 September 1915	Unknown	Golders Green Crematorium

Name	Rank	Number	Date	Age	Cemetery
WALKER, Frank	Pioneer	27934	Wednesday 30 May 1917	29	Abbeville Communal Cemetery (Extension), France
	Son of Samuel and Sarah Ann Walker, of Nottingham. Army Post Office S1 was based in Abbeville and was important as it was the central office for the 'cross-post' sytem on the Western Front. For much of the War, Abbeville was headquarters of the Commonwealth lines of communication and No 3 BRCS, No 5 and No 2 Stationary Hospitals were stationed there variously from October 1914 to January 1920. The communal cemetery was used for burials from November 1914 to September 1916, the earliest being made among the French military graves. The extension was begun in September 1916.
WALTER, Frederick William	Sapper	35396	Thursday 21 March 1918	28	Arras Memorial, France
	Sapper Walter lost his life during the German Spring offensive of 1918. Husband of Ethel Mary Walter, of 29, Cleaveland Rd., Surbiton, Surrey. A Postman. The French handed over Arras to Commonwealth forces in the spring of 1916 and the system of tunnels upon which the town is built were used and developed in preparation for the major offensive planned for April 1917.The Arras Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave.
WALTERS, Edwin Tom	Sapper	30638	Saturday 9 December 1916	29	Fulham Old Cemetery
	Son of Mrs. Annie Walters, of Fulham; husband of Florence Emily Walters, of 84A, Broughton Rd., Fulham.
WEBBER, Frederick George	Sapper	47441	Thursday 23 November 1916	39	La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery, Ypers, Belgium
	Husband of Alice Maud Webber, of 3, Bonar Rd., Peckham, London. La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery is located 10.5 kilometres south of Ieper town centre on a road leading from the Rijselseweg (N365) which connects Ieper to Wijtschate, and on to Armentieres. In the valley of the river Douve, north of Ploegsteert Wood, were two farms. La Petite Douve was the object of a successful raid by the 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion in November 1915 and La Plus Douve, which was generally within the Allied lines, was used at times as a battalion headquarters. It was also known as Ration Farm because battalion transport could approach it at night with rations. La Plus Douve Farm Cemetery was begun in April 1915 by the 48th (South Midland) Division and continued in use until May 1918, when it fell into German hands.
WILSON, John	Pioneer	39107	Saturday 26 February 1916	31	Basra Memorial, Mesopotamia (Iraq)
	Buried at sea, Son of Jessie Wilson, of 257, Ingleby Drive, Glasgow, and the late John Wilson. The Basra Memorial bears the names of more than 40,500 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known. The Basra Memorial was originally sited within Basra War Cemetery but in 1997 the Memorial was moved by presidential decree. The Basra Memorial is now located 32 kilometres along the road to Nasiriyah, in the middle of what was a major battleground during the Gulf War (1990).
WINTERS, R G	Pioneer	39444	Friday 1 September 1916	28	Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
	Son of Harry and Hannah Winters, of Finchley, London; husband of B. Winters, of 7, Addison Way, Golders Green, Hendon, London. Port Said, at the northern outlet of the Suez Canal, was an important base, the Base Army Post Office T was established there on 31 January 1916 to accepted mails from the UK. During the Allies advance into Palestine it forwarded mails by sea to Haifa, Beirut and Tripoli. The town also accomodated hostipals. From May-November 1915, it received wounded from Gallipoli and later from operations in Egypt and Palestine. In February 1916, Port Said contained No 31 General Hospital, No 15 Stationary Hospital and No 26 Casualty Clearing Station. The New Zealand Stationary Hospital and No 14 Australian General Hospital came later. The cemetery was begun in October 1914 and is situated on the western outskirts of the town on the strip of land between the Mediterranean Sea and Lake Manzala.
WRIGHT, H R S	Sapper	47564	Thursday 3 August 1916	Unknown	Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta,
	27th Div Postal Unit RE.
WOOD, William Walter	Corporal	29212	Wednesday 3 April 1918	31	Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France
	Son of the late W. H. and M. A. Wood, of Newport, Isle of Wight.
WOODHOUSE, Sydney John	Pioneer	133629	Monday 29 January 1917	21	Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Calais, France
	Son of Mrs. F. Woodhead, of 20, Clements Rd., Rotherhithe, London.
WOODHOUSE, Joseph Henry	Corporal	30171	Thursday 18 November 1915	40	East Mudros Military Cemetery, Greece
	Son of James and Mary Woodhouse, of Islington, London; husband of Charlotte Louise Woodhouse, of 48, Beaconsfield Rd., New Southgate, London.

Well the sun's shining now on these green fields of France,
a warm wind blows gently and the red poppies dance.
The trenches have vanished under the plow
no gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard that is still No Man's land
the countless white crosses in mute witness stand.
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
to a whole generation that was butchered and damned.

Extract from 'No Man's Land (The Green Fields of France)' by Eric Bogle (b.1944)

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