IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden
The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France
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POZIERES Memorial (Ovillers la Boisselle) (Somme France)
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| Pte Frederick Ernest Martin 23/03/1918 aged 21 He enlisted aged 17 and reported missing, during the battle of St Quentin. Freddie was Son of William and Margaret Elizabeth Martin, of 6, Theobald Rd., West Croydon For Jeff Dowling  |
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| 2nd/ Lt Harold Davenport 21/03/1918
aged 30 |
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| 2nd/Lt Philip Green 28/03/1918 aged
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| Pte Owen Mander 31/03/1918 aged 39
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| Cpt Joseph Henry Mathews 27/03/1918
aged 21 |
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| Pte Walter Herbert Parratt 30/03/1918
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| Charlie ??? Could
you help me to identify this soldier ? |
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| Pte Ezra William Miller KiA
21/03/1918 For Mr Simon Bull (Northamptonshire U. K.) |
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| Pte George Henry Pearson
Smith (17247) 25/03/1918 George leaves a widow and three children. For Mr Simon Bull (Northamptonshire U. K.) |
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| Cpl Tom Johnson
27/03/1918 aged 35 Tom was a pre-war regular soldier, and joined the 21st Lancers around 1898. He served his time and then joined the Army Reserves. He was recalled for War Service in 1914 and went with the BEF in 08/1914 to serve in France / Belgium with the Army Veterinary Corps, at the end of 1917 - early 1918 Tom was in hospital having been wounded. He was killed at Aveluy Wood and had no known grave. |
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| In 10/1914 Tom sent this postcard of the Army Veterinary Corps in Flanders, he is on horseback at the centre rear. | |
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| Left: his brother Gnr Richard
Llewelyn Johnson MM 01/11/1918 aged
23 is buried in St Sever communal cemetery extension Right: his brother Edwin Stanley Johnson who was a pre-war Territorial Soldier and he went to Flanders in 1915 with the Durham Light Infantry, (5th Bn) serving near Ypres and later on the Somme and at Arras. But whilst serving at Paschendale in 1917 he was shot by a sniper, the bullet entering his chest where his heart should have been. Fortunately for him, he was one of those rare people with reversed internal organs and his heart was actually towards his right-hand side. The bullet was too close to his heart to remove without risk, so he lived with a German bullet inside him until his death in 1970. He did return to war Service with the Labour Corps in 1918 and strangely enough this unfortunate incident really saved his life, because the 5th Bn, Durham Light Infantry was wiped out almost to the last man at the Battle of the Lys in 04/1918. |
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| For his nephew and Edwin's grandson
David Mole (UK) The Mole - Johnson family have lost six members during WW I and II David's father is buried in Taillette Communal Cemetery (Fr) |
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| Pte Thomas Edmund Butlin 22/03/1918
aged 31 Thomas was killed in St Quentin For Keith Jackson and Sharon Gwatkin |
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| 2nd/Lt Charles Joseph Leslie 24/04/1918 aged 21 for Elaine Cave |
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| Pte Joseph Percival Daysh 25/03/1918 aged 42 |
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| 2nd/Lt Edwin John Leat 08/06/1918 aged 33 |
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| Cpl William Muston Haggar MM
21/03/1918 aged 28 |
14 652 casualties
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Casualties informations come usualy from Commonwealth War Graves Commission, see links for more informations
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