World War 1
Clarence John AHIER, b.1889 of 4 Bevois Terrace, Bevois Hill where he lived with his wife, Emily Mary, served with the Hampshire Regiment. He was born in St Helier, Jersey to parents John William and Jane Parsons. He died on the 7th of May in Basra, Mesopotamia, at the age of 28 and was buried in Baghdad War Cemetery (North Gate). Due to the fact he had originally come from Jersey, a Notice of Death appears in the Jersey Evening Post on Friday, 17 May 1918:
“Roll of Honour. The many friends and acquaintances of Mr & Mrs J. Ahier, who now reside in Southampton, will regret to learn that their only surviving son, Clarence John (Clarrie) Ahier, died on 7 May at Basra in Mesopotamia. Mr Ahier Senior, who was formerly in business here as a builder, left Jersey some 15 years ago with his family. His son, who was in his 29th year, leaves a widow and children and to these and the parents we offer our sincere sympathy.”
“Roll of Honour. The many friends and acquaintances of Mr & Mrs J. Ahier, who now reside in Southampton, will regret to learn that their only surviving son, Clarence John (Clarrie) Ahier, died on 7 May at Basra in Mesopotamia. Mr Ahier Senior, who was formerly in business here as a builder, left Jersey some 15 years ago with his family. His son, who was in his 29th year, leaves a widow and children and to these and the parents we offer our sincere sympathy.”
Albert Francis ALLEN attended Bevois Town Board School before joining Taunton’s. He served with the 1st Battalion London Scottish Regiment. He was binding the wounds of a comrade on the battlefield when he was killed on 18th April 1917 at the age of 32.
Leonard Gordon ANDREWS b. 1898 was the son of Charles and Isabella Fannie Andrews. He lived at 43 Forster Road served with the Hampshire Regiment and perished at the Battle of Cambrai 30th November 1917 at the age of 19 years.
John Henry AYLES of 55 Forster Road was the son of Rhoda and John Ayles, and husband of Maud L.He served with the Hampshire Regiment. He died on the first day of the first Battle of Arras 28th March 1918 at the age of 25 years and is remembered on the Arras memorial.
Albert Victor BALL b. 1890 whose family lived in Middle Street emigrated to New Zealand in 1914 and served with the NZ Expeditionary Force. At the age of 25, he was killed in action at the Dardanelles 7th December 1915 and is believed to be buried at the Ebarkation Pier Cemetery in Turkey.
Henry Leslie BALL was Albert Ball’s younger brother, who served with the 10th Battalion Hampshire Regiment. At the age of 21, he was killed in action on the 28th August 1915 at the Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli) and is remembered with honour on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.
Cecil James BASTABLE b. 1889 and lived at 9 Rockstone Lane. His parents were James and Martha Bastable. He served with British Expeditionary Force in France from the outset of the war. He died 11th January 1915 aged 25. He is buried in Le Touruet Military Cemetery, Richebourg l’Arque.
Maurice David BATCHELOR was the son of Maurice Henry John Batchelor and enlisted in 1915 at the age of 18. He served in the Hampshire Regiment and was killed in action at Le Boeufs in November 1916. At this time his family were living at 29 Cambridge Road. Maurice is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial, Authuille, France.
Albert BENJAMIN served with 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment and died on 18th December 1917 aged 20. He is buried at Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun.
Donald Walter Bryce BLACK b. 1892 of Alma Road served with the Royal Flying Corps. He was a 2nd Lieutenant. His plane caught fire and crashed on 3rd January 1918 in Norfolk. At the inquest of his death it was stated that the machine was in the air for three-quarters of an hour, and on landing was seen to be in flames. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from burns accidentally received when the machine he was flying became ignited in the air, but there was no evidence to show how the fire originated. He is buried in Southampton Old Cemetery.
George Henry BLAKE b. 1892 of 45 Clausentum Road served as a private bandsman in the Hampshire Regiment. He died of influenza or wounds at Netley Hospital on 29th June 1919 at the age of 27. He is buried in a Commonwealth Grave in Southampton Old Cemetery.
George Thomas BONE b. 1885 and his brother Albert Benjamin BONE b. 1897, were sons of Mr B. Bone. They lived at 13 Verulam Road. George served with the 15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment and died at the 3rd Battle of Ypres on 20th September 1917. George is buried in the Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium (see photo).
Edward BRIDER b. 1882, of Alma Road attended Bevois Town School before joining Taunton’s. He served with the Bedfordshire Regiment in India until he contracted tuberculosis and was discharged from the army. He died of his illness 4 months after returning home on 5th November 1918.
Albert BRIXEY lived with his parents and six siblings at 44 Liverpool Street. In 1911 he joined the 21st (Empress of India) Lancers and became Lance Corporal. Albert entered the theatre of war in north-west India in 1915. He died in May 1916 at the age of 31 and is buried in a military cemetery near the River Indus.
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Fred BRIXEY was the brother of Albert. He served with the Wiltshire Regiment which moved from campaigns in Gallipoli and Egypt to the battlefields of Mesopotamia. He died of wounds in February 1917 at the age of 21 and is buried in Iraq. Southampton and District Pictorial, when reporting his death, commented that “before joining the colours he was appointed as Assistant Secretary of the Bevois Town Primitive Methodist Sunday School which he had been connected with all his life”.
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Thomas BROWNRIGG b. 1889 in Dublin but by the time of his death in August 1918 at the age of 29, his parents were living at Highcliff House, Highcliff Avenue, Cedar Road. He served with the Middlesex Regiment and then in 1917 joined the Royal Flying Corps. The following extract from the War Book of Gray’s Inn (privately published in 1921), is reproduced by kind permission of the Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn:
“LIEUTENANT THOMAS BROWNRIGG was educated at Belvedere College, Dublin, and was admitted as a student at Gray’s Inn in 1913. In 1915 he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. as a private, and was gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 15th Middlesex Regiment, with which unit he served in France from May 1916 to February 1917, when he joined the Royal Flying Corps. He served in France as a pilot for nine months, being shot down twice in one day. He returned home to recover from his injuries, and was then engaged in instructional work in England, where he was drowned when flying on active service on the 21st August, 1918. His machine crashed during foggy weather in the sea off Southbourne. He was one of three brothers, all with meritorious war records. He was twenty-eight years of age.” Thomas Brownrigg is buried in Southampton Old Cemetery. |
Sidney Thomas BUNGEY lived with his father at 9 Castle Street until his marriage to Ada. After he had joined the army as a gunner, she moved back to live with her father-in-law. He survived the Battle of the Somme but was killed in action in April 1917. He is buried in the British cemetery La Chappelle at Holnon.
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Ernest Arthur COLLIS was the son of Julia and Frederick Collis and
lived with his family at Rosetrevor in Castle Street. in 1911. He enlisted with the Hampshire Regiment in September 1914 and fought on the Western Front. He was killed in action in June 1917 aged 24 and is buried in the Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Ypres. Percy Harold COLLIS, brother of Ernest, joined the Hampshire Regiment and also served on the Western Front. He was killed on the first day of the 3rd Battle of Ypres at the age of 26. He is buried at the Gwalia Cemetery in Belgium.
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Frank DAWKINS b. 1872 attended Bevois Town School before attending Taunton’s. He was a Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers attached to the Royal Airforce. He died in a motor accident in the course of his duties 11th October 1918 aged 46. He is buried in the Southampton Old Cemetery.
Arthur Augustus DIXON, lived with his parents Augustus and Rosalie Dixon at 125 Avenue Road. He served with Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). He died 22nd April 1918, aged 19, and is buried in a military cemetery, Aveluy Wood, Picardie, France.
Sydney George DRAPER b. 1892 and his brother Ernest were sons of George and Alice Draper and lived at 40 Liverpool Street. Sydney served with the Royal Garrison Artillery as a Gunner. He died of his wounds sustained in action 4th June 1918 aged 25 and he is buried in Ebblinghem Military Cemetery France.
Ernest Frederick DRAPER b. 1895 lived with his brother Sydney and parents at 40 Liverpool Street. He was an Assistant Steward
in the Mercantile Marines. He served on HM Yacht Aries which was hit by a mine off the Kent Coast from a German submarine on 31st October 1915. He died aged 21 and is commemorated Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Ernest Frederick DRAPER b. 1895 lived with his brother Sydney and parents at 40 Liverpool Street. He was an Assistant Steward
in the Mercantile Marines. He served on HM Yacht Aries which was hit by a mine off the Kent Coast from a German submarine on 31st October 1915. He died aged 21 and is commemorated Plymouth Naval Memorial.
Robert Goodwin FALLOWFIELD b. 1883 lived at 27 Castle Street. He was in the Army Ordnance Corps Egyptian Expeditionary Force and died at the age of 33. He is buried in Alexandria War Memorial Cemetery.
Oscar GEAR, b. 1893 was the son of James and Fanny Gear, of 69 Earl’s Road, Bevois Valley. He served as a gunner in the H.M.S. Valiant Royal Marine Artillery. He died of his wounds 25th July 1917, aged 23, at Hasler Royal Naval Hospital and is buried in their cemetery.
Frank Moray GIBB b. 1889. His family arrived in Southampton from Ireland in 1914 and lived at 20 Gordon Avenue. He served with the 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders and was killed in action on 29th July 1916 at the age of 19. He is buried at Royallieu, the French National Cemetery
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William Edwin GURD, Son of William and Jane Gurd, of 64 Lodge Road, and the husband of Rose E. Whitton (formerly Gurd), of New St., Cullompton, Devon. He served with the Wiltshire Regiment. He died 24th March 1918 at the age of 27, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.
Geoffrey HADDOCK b. 1895 lived at 40 The Avenue. His father Herbert was the first person to captain the Titanic, bringing it from Belfast to Southampton. He emigrated to Canada in May 1912 and he lived in Montreal as secretary in a railway company. In 1914, he entered as a volunteer in the Canadian Expeditionary Force to Europe. He became a Lieutenant in Canadian Victoria Rifles. Killed in Courcelette, France during the attack of a sugar factory on 17th September 1916 in the Battle of the Somme. This was on the day where the first British tanks appeared on the front. He is remembered at the Vimy Memorial, Adanac Military Cemetery, France.
Richard HOBBS b. 1898 and lived at 38 Cliff Road. He served with the 1st Garrison Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment. He died 1st July 1918 at the age of 20, at King George V Hospital, Dublin. Cause of death was pneumonia and heart failure. He is buried at Grangegorman Military Cemetery in Dublin.
Alfred Victor LEWINGTON b. 1896 was the son of Mr A. W. and Mrs M. L. Lewington. The family lived at 23 Cedar Road and then moved to 11 Padwell Road. He was with the Wiltshire Regiment. He died in 1917 at the age of 21 in Amara, Iraq.
Bertram George LEWINGTON b. 1893 was the older brother of Alfred. He enlisted in 9th Cyclists Btn. of the Hampshire Regiment and then transferred to the 11th Pioneers. He lost his life on 3rd May 1917, aged 24, a week after his brother Alfred, at the 2nd Battle of Messines, Ypres. He is buried at the Loker Churchyard Cemetery.
William Arthur LEWINGTON b. 1891 of Bath Street. He enlisted initially in the Hampshire Regiment but then transferred to the Worcestershire Regiment. He died in May 1918 at the 3rd Battle of Messines and he is buried at the Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery Ypres.
Henry LINNEY worked as a police constable before the war and lived with his wife and children at 10 Dover Street. In 1915 he enlisted with the Military Police Corps and became a Lance Corporal. Henry served in France for two years before dying from bronchitis in February 1917 at the age of 49. He is remembered with honour at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. The Military Police forwarded to Mrs B. Linney at 10 Dover Street, Southampton on 30 May 1917 the personal effects of her husband which included 1 disc, letters, photos and cards, 1 pipe, 1 razor, 1 silver watch and case, 1 pair of eye glasses and case, 1 Testament, 1 tobacco pouch, 1 cotton bag and 1 purse.
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Stanley William LISBY b. 1886 was the son of W. and J. Lisby. He lived with his wife Lilian at 57 Avenue Road. He was with the Royal Garrison Artillery as a Gunner and died of his wounds on 8th September 1918 at the 1st Canadian casualty clearing station in Flanders. He died at the age of 32 and was buried at Duisans British Cemetery.
Charles MARKHAM lived with his wife Margaret at 102 Bevois Valley. He served with the Royal Navy as a Petty Officer Stoker on HMS Britannia which was the last British warship to be lost on November 9th 1918. Charles died at the age of 36 but his body was not recovered for burial. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.
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Frederick Clifford MILLER was the son of Thomas and Mary Ann Miller of St Helier, Jersey. He lived with his wife F. Miller and family at 19 Spear Road. Frederick was a merchant Seaman and was serving as Chief Steward on the S.S. South Western when it was torpedoed in March 1918. He died at the age of 39 and was buried at Janval Cemetery, Dieppe. Frederick was awarded the Military Medal.
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William Albert NIGHTINGALE b. 1892 was brought up by his paternal grandparents at the Royal Arms, 19 Padwell Road. His grandfather was the licensed victualler. He was serving on HMS Victory as an Officer’s Steward 3rd Class when he died in April 1916 at the age of 23. He is buried in Southampton Old Cemetery.
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Percy PAGE, b. 1891 was the Son of William and Ellen Page, of 131 Bevois Valley Road. He served as a Lance Corporal in the Middlesex Regiment. He died 13th July 1916 at the age of 24 in France and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Picardie, France.
Harry Reginald POPE, was the son of Edward George and Rose Mary Augusta Pope, of 28 Gordon Avenue. He served with Durham Light Infantry and died 27th May 1918 at the age of 26. He is buried in the Terlincthun British Cemetery, France.
Henry James ROGERS was the son of H. R. and Mary Rogers of 27 Bath Street. He served with the Hampshire Regiment and died 24th July 1918 at the age of 28. He is buried in the Terlincthun British Cemetery, France.
Reginald Ernest WATERMAN was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waterman of 11 Southcliffe Road. He served as a sapper in the Royal Engineers and died 14th February 1915 at the age of 19. He is buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.
Thomas James WILSON, of 81 Livingstone Road with his wife Margaret L. Wilson, was the son of John and Mary Wilson, of Newcastle, Co. Down. He served as a sergeant in the Royal Garrison Artillery and died 7th September 1917 at the age of 41. He was awarded the Military Medal for bravery on the battlefield.