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World War I
CASUALTIES NOT ON THE
MEMORIAL Surnames G
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Gee,
F. W. T.
Frederick William Thomas Gee, K/838, was a Stoker 1st Class in the
Royal Navy. He lost his life with HMS Hawke on 15 October 1914.
He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Panel 5
He was the son of Mr Charles Frederick Gee and his wife Clara nee Youden. They had married in 1884 and Frederick was their first
child born in 1885. Mrs Gee sadly died at the age of 47 in 1906 and Mr Gee remarried in 1908 to Marian Alice Moore
The family lived at the
Millhouse Whitfield. Frederick worked as a builder's apprentice and
then as a shoesmith before he joined the Royal Navy in 1908 claiming
then to have been born on 23 August 1887 rather than in 1885 which
was his actual birth year. He was said deliberately not to
have learnt to swim so that if he were to be cast in the water his
death by drowning would be quicker
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Gilbertson, G.
George Gilberston, 13/1063,
was in the 13th battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment. He
died on 18
July 1915 at the age of 46. Stationed at Newhall Camp he is buried
in Barnsley Cemetery, being a native of the town. Grave L 197
Sergeant Gilbertson sadly cut his throat with his razor at around 0850
during a fit of depression attributed to his state of health, and to the
fact that he had suffered sunstroke some years before during the Boer
War. He had undergone a great deal of foreign service, in India where
he had contracted malaria, South Africa and Malta, and had served 21
years in the Army in total having joined it in 1887. He was pensioned as
Sergeant Major
Sergeant Gilbertson volunteered on the outbreak of the Great War and was
considered to have rendered excellent service and to be held in high
esteem. He was known to enjoy a drink however and since his sunstroke
was easily affected by alcohol and could become melancholy and
depressed. Nevertheless his wife of 18 years Ellen Gilbertson
maintained he had recently enjoyed a holiday with her and had been in
good health. However his health had been of some concern in the two
weeks prior to his death and he had been treated in hospital
He
was the son of Thomas and Anne Gilbertson. His wife lived at 11 Norman
Street, Dover
information from report in collection of Joyce Banks
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Gilham, F.
F. Gilham, was killed in action on 29 September
1915 when he was 31. He was in the 2nd battalion of the Buffs. His
mother lived at 8 St James Place, Dover, and his wife at 10 St James
Place. We have not been able to find any record of death of F. Gilham so far (Jan
2010)
This person could be Frederick Gilham, born in Dover (birth not yet
traced), who in 1911 was a Private in the 2nd battalion of The Buffs. He
was then at Tangin Barracks, Singapore. Ten years before he was a
private solider at the Barracks in Canterbury. He had attested and been
declared fit on 21 January 1901, then aged 17 and working as a labourer.
He had been born at St Margaret's and was living at 9 Union Row, Dover.
He had entered the 3rd battalion of The Buffs as no 6193.
He may appear also in the 1891 census at 23 Lower Road, River, Dover,
then aged 6 and living with parents William, a grocer's carman, born in
Ramsgate, and Maria, born at St Margaret's. Other children were Lucy,
10, Charles, 9, Emily, 8, and William, 1. A further son, Frank, was born
in 1893.In 1901 Mrs Gilham was a widow, working as a charwoman, living
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Gillman, W. H.
William
Hobbs Gillman, 625003, was a Private in the
1/19th London Regiment. Aged 34 he died on Friday 14 February
1919 from pneumonia. He is buried at St James, Dover. L G 13
He was the son of Richard Gillman and Emma, née
Hobbs, and stepson of Mr Gillman's
second wife Eliza from 65 Limekiln Street, Dover. In 1871 Richard
and Emma Gillman were living at 3 Round Tower Lane, where Richard
was a costermonger. By 1881 they had moved to Limekiln Street, with
Richard working as a fishmonger. In 1891 they were at 1 Spring
Place, and Richard was a labourer on the coal field. In 1901
Richard, by then a widower, was living at 1 Spring Passage and
working as a railway coal porter. Ten years later he and his second
wife Eliza were living at 28 Hawkesbury Street, and Richard, at the
age of 62, was working as a coal porter on the SECR Railway. William
by then was in Hampshire, working at the Barton Court Hotel, New
Milton, as a stillroom man. There were ten children in the family,
all born in Dover: Joseph, Susannah, Richard, Rose, Charles, Daisy,
William, James, Nellie, and Emma.
As the youngest brother
of Mr Richard Gillman from 53 Odo Road, Dover, he was great-uncle to
Keith Gillman, the grandson of
Richard and Ellen Gillman. photo and
research Joyce Banks
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Golds.
W. A.
William A. Golds, 18256, was a Sapper in the 9th
Field Company of the Royal Engineers. He died on 14 December 1914
aged 26 at the Clearing Hospital Bailleul, France, after having been
wounded by a shell the day before. He is buried at the Bailleul Communal
Cemetery (Nord) France. A 27. He is also commemorated on the
Hougham Memorial.
He was the only son of Mr and Mrs W Golds from the
Plough Inn, Church Hougham, Dover. His officer spoke highly of him when
informing his widow that he had died
The headstone below is at St Lawrence, Church Hougham
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Sacred to the
Memory of Rosa
Caroline The dearly
beloved wife of William
Golds Who passed away
May 28 1917 Aged 59 years
Thy voice is
now silent, thy heart is now cold,
Where thy smile
and thy welcome oft met us of old, We miss thee
and mourn thee in silence unseen, And dwell on the memory of
joys that have been
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Also of
William Alfred Golds, R.E. Only son
of the above Who died for
his country December 14 1914 Aged
26 years. Interred
at Bailleul, France. Duty called
him he was there To do his
bit and take his share His heart
was good his spirit brave And now
he's resting in a hero's grave.
Also of
William Golds Who died
March 11 1933
Aged 78 years
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Grigsby, J. W.
J W. Grigsby, 148874, was a Sapper in the Royal
Engineers. He survived fever three times during a period of two years
and eight months in East Africa but finally succumbed to pneumonia on
9 December 1918 and is buried in the Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery,
Tanzania. 7 J 4
Sapper Grigsby was named on the St James memorial
having been an old school boy and choir boy at St James. ?When he left
school he became a learner at Dover Post Office and then went to
Chatham to become a sorter and telegraphist
His parents were Mr and Mrs J E Grigsby from 3 Eastbrook
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