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1 William Charles Bunce RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Kensal Rise London Royal Fusiliers 3 rd Battalion Territorial Force Reg No: 1690 Harrow N/A N/A Received a George Cady Sidney Cannons Henry Thomas Chivers James Alexander Coghill in War Records, but Knighton in 2011 Census Ashdown Park Broad Town Grenadier Guards 3 rd Battalion. Rank: Guardsman/Private Formerly ASC (TF) Medal Duke of Edinburgh s hire. 1 st Battalion Rank: Sergeant 5828 Medal Naval Record Found: Served on the Vessel Erebus Rank: Leading Seaman Paddington Attestation Papers state: 3 years Short Service. Middlesex Grenadier Guards Rank: Private 392. Royal Dublin Fusiliers Private Whitby 24 June 1917 & Flanders Devizes 8 August 1917 & Flanders Mendinghem Military, Mendinghem Military N/A N/A Survived Marylebone N/A N/A Received a N/A , 1911

2 Charles Randolph Coventry Thomas George Daniels RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Duke of Cornwall s Light Infantry 7 th Battalion Rank: W.O. Class Royal hire 7 th Battalion Rank: Sergeant London 24 August 1916 & Flanders Quarry Bernafay Wood British. Montauban, Reading N/A N/A Transfer to the Reserves Document found dated 15 May 1919 N/A & 1911 *Thomas Disbury * Ernest William Ebbsworth James Ebbsworth Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 2/4 Battalion Rank: Private Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 8 th Battalion Rank: Private Labour Corps Rank: Private Formerly: R.E. 2 September 1918 & Flanders Reading 25 September 1915 & Flanders London 1 July 1918 Died at home Comines- Warneton Hainaut, Dept du Pas-de- Calais, Nord,, England N/A N/A N/A

3 *Brian Harold Frearson *Ernest William Hare *John Johnson *Charles Frank Lawford Bishopstone nr RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Kensingston Middlesex Idstone Corps of Royal Engineers Rank: Pioneer R.E. Base Signal Depot B.E.F. Medal Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force (Attestation papers found) Canadian Infantry Force Rank: Private Duke of Edinburgh s hire. 5 th Battalion Rank: Private 3/210 Medal, Royal Garrison Artillery No 1 Company Rank: Gunner British Medal Fenny, Stratford Bucks 4 February 1918 Died at Home (Redlands War Hospital Reading) Canada 28 October 1917 Age 23 Devizes 27 September1915 Gallipoli Balkan Died Reading 18 February 1919 Aged 33 England N/A Tyne Cot Pieta Military Malta Ste. Marie, Le Havre N/A 1901, 1911 Raymond Lawrence Aldershot Army Service Corps (M.L) Reg. No: NB. In the 2011 Census he was a Corporal in the 12th Company Army Service Frank Lowe Royal hire Rank: Private N/A N/A Received a N/A N/A Discharged 1916 due to sickness Received a

4 *John Sidney Manners *William Cornelius Nobes Hon Lawrence Charles Walter Palk Bishopstone Exeter Devon RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Westrop from 7mth of age Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 8 th Battalion Rank: Private Medal, Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 7 th Battalion Rank: Private Hampshire 1 st Battalion Rank: Lieutenant Colonel (T) Medal, DSO Reading 13 October 1915 & Flanders Reading 30 May 1917 Salonika Balkan Served previously in the Boer War 1 July1916 Beaumont-Hamel, Aged 45 Dept du Pas-de- Calais, Nord, Salonika Anglo- French Military Greece Sucrerie Military, Colincamps N/A 1891,1901, 1911 N/A *John Palmer Lambourn (Civil Parish of ) (Father was a gardener at Ashdown Park) Royal Fusiliers (City of London ) 9 th Battalion Rank: Private 3492 Hounslow 18 October 1915 & Flanders Loos Memorial Cyril George Parradine East Clayton Bucks Duke of Cambridge Own Middlesex 19 th Battalion Rank: Private G/46482 Formerly Hampshire R Medal Reading 22 August 1918 & Flanders Memorial in Vis-en-Artois N/A

5 RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF *Herbert Jesse Pearce Devizes Royal Army Service Corps Rank: DVR T/31886 Medal, Kingston on Thames 19 July 1916 Becourt Military, Becordel-Becourt N/A *Walter John Pearce Berwick Bassett Duke of Edinburgh s hire 5 th Battalion Rank: Pivate April 1916 Mesopotamia Asiatic Al Basra Memorial Iraq N/A Edgar Alfred Read Ashdown Attestation Papers indicate 3 years Short Service Machine Gun Corps (C) Service No: also mentioned Not found N/A N/A Received a 1901, 1911 William John Rouse Tom Simpson Duke of Edinburgh s hire. 1/4 (T.F.) Battalion Rank: Private Medal Short Service Attestation Papers Royal hire No:16156 Enlisted on 30 December 1914 Devizes Reading 23 November 1917 Egyptian Jerusalem Israel N/A 1891 (but spelt Rowse)

6 Arthur James Spackman *William Taber *William Timberell (NB spelt Timbrell elsewhere *Joseph Henry Tombs RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Royal hire Yeomanry (Prince of Wales Own Royal ) Rank: Serjeant Service Nos: 851, th Cycle Battalion Army Cyclist Corps Rank: Second Lieutenant Victory medal, British Bordon Hants Smokedown Hungerford Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 8 th Battalion Rank:Lance Corporal Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 2 nd Battalion Rank: Private 6189 Hampshire 1 st Batallion Rank: Private Formerly Royal Died from Tuberculosis in 1938 whilst living in Reading 27 August 1918 & Flanders Aged 28 Oxford 22 October 1914 & Flanders Reading 21 April 1918 & Flanders Bernafay Wood British, Montauban Ypres, West Flanders Dept du Pas-de- Calais, Nord, of War: 1911 N/A 1911 N/A Timberell 1881 Timbrell 1891, Timbrel 1891 N/A

7 * William Walker Henry H Wallington *Robert William Webb (NB William Webb on memorial & Church Roll) Salisbury RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Wantage Bishopstone Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 6 th Battalion Rank:Lance Corporal Medal, Duke of Edinburgh s hire. 1 st Battalion Rank: Private 3/9462 Medal, Duke of Edinburgh s hire. 2 nd Battalion Rank: Private Medal Reading 18 February 1917 and Flanders 21 March 1918 and Flanders Salisbury 5 August 1916 & Flanders Thiepval Memorial Dept du Pas-de- Calais, Nord, Dept de la Somme, Picardie, N/A 1851, 1891, 1901, 1911 N/A 1891, 1911 N/A Frederick Whitcher Norfolk Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force) Rank: Private 2034, Clasp Exeter Devon Died at Home 22 May1915 Aged 23 Cambridge City England N/A

8 Cyril Francis White (NB Cyril F on War Memorial and Cyril Frederic on Church Roll) RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Detroit Michigan USA Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force Attestation papers indicate 4 th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion Rank: Private Ontario Canada 10 October 1917 Aged 23 Aubigny Communal Extension N/A 1841, 1861, 1891, 1901, 1911 Stanley George White Reading Attestation Papers: Short Service 3 Years with the Colours. Royal hire Yeomanry Rank: Private also mentioned hire Private (Not visible on Record due to damage) N/A N/A Received a 1841, 1861, 1891, 1901, 1911 William Wiggins Caversham Coldstream Guards Private Medal High Wycombe 13 April 1918 & Flanders Comines- Warneton Hainaut, James J Withers Andover Hants Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 5 th Battalion Rank: Private Medal Newbury 28 April 1917 & Flanders Dept du Pas-de- Calais, Nord N/A

9 Four different records have been found for a soldier named Edward Cross*- a name inscribed on both the War Memorial and Church Roll of Honour; however, none entirely match the criteria established for this project. That being said, the first two records may have the closest fit. Harry Edward Cross Edward Cross Edward Cross Edward Cross Reading Whitchurch Hants Whitchurch Hants RESIDENCE REGIMENTAL DETAILS OF Reading Whitchurch Hants Short Service Attestation Papers Coldstream Guards No Attestation Papers state: Short Service. West Riding Had served previously in the hire Princess Charlotte of Wales Royal hire 2 nd Battalion Rank Private: 9002 Duke of Edinburgh hire 1 st Battalion Rank Private: (was a police constable) 1841, 1861,1891, 1901,1911 Aldershot 1841, 1861,1891, 1901,1911 Hungerford 16 August 1917 & Flanders Killed in Action Andover 29 April 1918 & Flanders Died of wounds Buttes New British, Polygon Wood, Dozinghem Military Cemetary 1841, 1861,1891, 1901, , 1861,1891, 1901,1911 ADDITIONAL NOTES Types of service up until The British Army had offered 4 forms of recruitment since A man could join the army as a professional soldier of the regular army or as a part-time member of the Territorial Force or as a soldier of the Special Reserve. Finally there was the opportunity to join the National Reserve. There was a long-running battle, with politicians and military men taking both sides, about whether Britain should have a system of national conscripted service. By 1914 this had not come about and Britain's army was entirely voluntary. Short service - In addition to being able to enlist in the

10 regular army on standard terms (usually 12 years) throughout the war years, Lord Kitchener introduced in August 1914 a new form of "Short Service", under which a man could serve for 3 years or for the duration of the war, whichever was the longer. Men joining on this basis were nevertheless technically of the regular army. Joining s Wartime volunteers continued to have, at least in theory, a choice over the regiment they joined. They had to meet the same physical criteria as the peace time regulars, but men who had previously served in the army could be accepted up to the age of 45. There are many recorded instances however, of both under age and over age men being accepted into the service. It was not necessary to produce evidence of age or even of one's name in order to enlist.

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