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In
Loving Memory of our Fallen
THE FALLEN OF THE GREAT WAR
Surnames E
and F
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EARL, W. H.
William Harry/Henry Earl was born in Newport Pagnell in 1891.
He was the son of William Thomas Earl and his wife Emily Ann Beatrice
Sarah, née Goodman, who had married in 1890. William would have eight
sisters and brothers, one of whom died young. Amongst them were Thomas,
16 in 1911, Dennis, 14, Dorothy, 11, Percy, 8, Eva, 7, and Ronald, a
baby. Emily also had a daughter, Emily, 13 in 1901.
The family lived at 12 Church Passage for over ten
years, with Mr Earl working as a carpenter, in 1901 at the railway
carriage works.
In 1911 William was at Church Street, Hungerford,
working as an outfitter assistant and boarding with a colleague in the
home of Leonard and Edith Rosier. He enlisted in Newbury, volunteering
in December 1914, to the Royal Berkshire Regiment. In 1915 he went to
France, fighting around Ypres. In the 8th batallion and acting as
corporal, he was reported missing, and then presumed to have died on 13
October 1915. His body was never recovered, and he is commemorated on
the Loos Memorial, France, Panel 93 to 95.
A picture of William Earl is available.
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EDMUNDS, H.
Harry Edmunds was born in Stoke Goldington. He was the son of
Thomas Edmunds, a boot and shoe maker, and his wife Elizabeth. There
were several children, amongst them Edward, 20 in 1881 and a carpenter,
Frances, 15, a pupil teacher, Herbert, 8, Edgar, 5, as well as Harry.
Living with the family at the High Street in Stoke Goldington in 1881
was also Harry's grandfather, John, an agricultural labourer. He died in
1885 at the age of 81.
In 1891 the family were at Myrtle Cottage, High
Street, Stoke Goldington, and remained there in 1901, though Harry was
no longer with them. Harry's father died in 1906, just before Harry
married Sarah Anne Harris, and in 1911 Harry and his wife and daughter
Ivy, born about 1907, were living with Harry's mother at Stoke
Goldington. She was then working as a lace-maker, and Harry was a
labourer in the railway works. Later Harry's family would live in
Newport Pagnell.
Harry enlisted in Wolverton, becoming 9111 in the
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He later became a Private, 45261, in
the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 2nd battalion. He died on 29 August 918,
and is buried at Roclincourt Military Cemetery, France, IV E 18. At the
foot of his headstone are the words, "Thy will be done".
Mrs Edmunds also is recorded at the Stoke Goldington
Rectory after her husband died.
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ELLIS, A. A. C.
Aleck Augustus Charles Ellis, born in 1899, was the youngest
of the five children of Arthur George Ellis and his wife Eliza Tryphena,
née Read, who married in 1884. They had four sons, John, Arthur George,
Harry Wilfred, and Aleck, and one daughter, Florence Tryphena. The
family lived at Lakes Lane, with Mr Ellis a horsekeeper on a farm in
1901 and a farm labourer in 1911, and John and Arthur also working as
agricultural labourers. Harry by 1911 was a domestic gardener.
Aleck enlisted at Bletchley, volunteering in June
1915. In October 1916 he went to the Western Front. Serving as Private,
39097, in the Royal Berkshire Regiment, 1st battalion, he was mortally
wounded in action on the Somme during the great advance, and died at a
casualty clearing station on 10 October. He is buried at Grevillers
British Cemetery, France, XVII A 3.
"His life for his country, his soul to God."
Nat Roll address - 37 Caldecotte Street
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FEASEY, F. G.
Frederick George Feasey, born in 1893 in Newport Pagnell, was
the son of Ezra Eaton Feasey and his wife Edith Ellen, née Hine. The
couple had married in 1892. There were just two children in the family;
Frederick had a younger sister, Winifred Ellen, born in 1900.
The family lived at 37 Bury Avenue, and Mr Feasey was
a house painter. By 1911 Frederick was also a house painter, and was
probably employed by his father. His parents also lived at 5 Mill
Street.
Frederick enlisted in Bletchley, and was firstly
010446 in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. He then became a Private,
42480, in the Dorsetshire Regiment, 6th battalion. He died on 20 October
1918, and is buried at the Neuvilly Communal Cemetery Extension in
France, A6.
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FINCH, B. A. and W. J.
Bertie Albert and Walter John Finch were brothers, the sons
of William Charles Finch, a tailor, and his wife Charlotte Alice, née
Cox. The couple had married in 1885. William, born in Exeter, had been
married before, and in 1891, at 35 Priory Street, four of his children -
William, 17, Arthur, 16, Florence, 13, and George - were also living
there with their stepmother Charlotte, then 24. Also there was another
son, Ernest, 6 years old.
The family were at the same address in 1901, joined
by Bertie, then 8, Sidney, 5, and Walter, 3, with Charlotte given
as the head of the household. By 1911 they had moved along the road to
number 43, and Charlotte was working as a domestic laundress. There was
a new son, Joseph Horace Finch, then 7, the fifth of Charlotte's
children, and lodging there was William Morbey, aged 34, a farm
labourer. Charlotte signed the census form with her mark, X.
Charlotte remarried in 1916, to John W Morbey;
perhaps he was the lodger of 1911. It is possible also that he was the
brother of Edith Morbey, who married Ernest Finch in 1918.
Bertie enlisted in Huddersfield, volunteering in
1914. In 1915 he went to the Western Front and saw action in the battles
of Festubert and Loos. He died on 25 September 1915, serving as Private
15803 in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 2 battalion. He is
commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France, Panel 83 to 85.
"Thinking that remembrance, though unspoken, may
reach him where he sleeps."
Nat roll address - 43 Priory Street
Walter enlisted in Bletchley and served first as 26302 in the
Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He died while serving as a Private,
41831, in the Worcestershire Regiment, 3rd battalion. He is buried
in La Ville-Aux-Bois British Cemetery, France, I H 16.
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FLEET, C.
Charles Joseph Fleet, born on 30 October 1879 at North
Crawley, was the son of William Fleet and his wife Elizabeth, née
Campion. They had married in 1863; William was probably the son of John,
a farm labourer, and Sophia Fleet, of Little Crawley in 1851. The
family in 1871 were living at Church End, High Street, North Crawley,
with Mr Fleet working as a brickmaker. They had three daughters; Mary
Ann, 8, Fanny Elizabeth, 5, and Lois Louisa, 2. In 1881 they were still
at North Crawley, with four more children - Walter William, 9, Clara
Maria, 4, Frederick John C, 4, and Charles Joseph, 9 months.
Sadly, Mrs Fleet died in 1881, aged just 36. In
1891 there were just three children at home, Clara, who was a general
domestic servant, Frederick, who was an agricultural labourer, as his
father had become, and Charles, still at school. William would, by 1901,
be living at 1 Priory Street in Newport Pagnell, with his daughter Lois,
her husband Alexander Linger, who was a labourer at a corn wharf, and
their daughter, Olive. Clara, by then a domestic cook, was living there
too. William had continued working as a farm labourer, a job he was
doing in 1911 too, at the age of 69, and was still living with Lois and
her family. William died in 1926.
With a third class school certificate obtained on 2
October 1906, Charles had been working as a farm servant when he joined
the Royal Marines at York on 20 November 1897. Service suited him, as he
grew two inches, to 5 feet 9 inches, during his engagement until 3
December 1909. He was able to swim and was described as having light
brown hair and grey eyes, and a scar from a cut on his forehead over the
right eyebrow.
Possibly at an address in Spencer Street, Stantonbury,
he, on discharge, with a character of "very good", enrolled in the Royal
Fleet Reserve, Chatham Division. He completed annual drills, and
re-enrolled to the Reserve on 7 June 1913. He had during this time, in
1910, married Rose Edith Rogers, and in 1911 they were living at 11
Northampton Terrace, Priory Street, with their new son, Douglas. Charles
was employed as a rubber-down in the motor works. They had another son,
William, in 1912.
Charles was promoted to Lance Corporal from Private
on 21 September 1914. This was during the time he was serving at Dunkirk
(between 10 September and 2 October 1914). Between 3 and 9 October 1914
he took part in the defence of Antwerp, for which he was awarded a
Distinguished Service Medal on 13 January 1915. From 6 February 1915
until his death from wounds on 18 June 1915 he served as part of the
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, in the Royal Marines Light Infantry,
Corporal, RMR/B/1585.
He is believed to have been buried at the Skew Bridge
Cemetery, Turkey, where there is a special memorial A 42. His wife had
requested that the words "Only gone before" should be inscribed on any
headstone.
- A war gratuity of £6.0.0 was paid, and Charles' 1914 star was
sent to his widow in 1919. She lived at 54 Westgate Road, Bury St
Edmunds and later at 50 Horringer Road in the same town.
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FLEET, J. R.
John Robert Fleet was the second son and youngest child of
five of William Fleet and his wife Lucy, née Thickpenny. They had
married in 1880, and in 1881 were living at 4 Caldecote Street, with
William working as a butcher. He was probably the son of William Fleet,
a victualler from North Crawley, and his wife Eliza.
Twenty years later five children were living at home;
Lily Emily, William Charles, Kathleen May, Helen Evelyn (Nellie) and
John Robert. The family were then at 25 High Street, having moved along
the road from their 1891 address of number 78. Mr Fleet was a master
butcher. There were eight children altogether, and by 1911 four of them
were assisting in the business, including John Robert. Another sister,
Eva, was keeping house, as sadly Mrs Fleet had died in 1903, aged 46.
The family were then living at 61 High Street. (The eighth child was
Winifred, two years younger than Eva.)
John enlisted in Buckingham and served in the Royal
Buckinghamshire Hussars as Private 205147 (GWGC gives 911). He
died on 4 February 1917 at the age of 22 and is commemorated on the
Angora memorial 64 in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. His
sister Nellie, living at Southcroft, Wolverton Road, asked for the words
"In ever loving memory" to be put on any headstone.
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FRANKLIN, C. H.
Cyril Henry Franklin was born about 1893, the only son of
Henry Thomas Franklin and his wife Aolti Jordan, née Maslin. She was
probably the daughter of William and Margaret Maslin, who in the 1920s
were at Sherington. The couple had married in 1889, and they probably
had had a daughter, Aolti Mary, who died as a baby in 1891.
Though the family lived in 1891 at Gawcomb Cottage,
Icomp Township, Westcote, Stow-on-theWold, Gloucestershire, where Mr
Franklin was working as a farm bailiff, they were originally local to
Newport Pagnell. Mr Franklin and been born at Haversham, and Mrs
Franklin at North Crawley. In 1901 they were still at Stow-on-the-Wold,
but by 1911 were living at Milton under Wychwood, Oxford. Mr Franklin
was then unemployed. Cyril that year, a shop assistant in silks
was lodging at at boarding house belonging to the Cavendish House Co in
Gloucestershire with a number of other shop workers.
On 24 November 1915 Cyril was passed fit for the
Honourable Artillery Company; enlisting at Armoury House for the
duration of the war. He was then living at 15 Camden Gardens, Shepherds
Bush and was noted as being six feet tall. He suffered an injury to his
foot necessitating 15 days in hospital between 31 March 1916 and 15
April 1916, probably at Orpington. He embarked from Southampton for
Havre on 1 October 1916 and was sent to the front on 4 October 1916.
With a service number of 5520 and in the 2nd battalion, he became a
Corporal on 25 November 1916.
On 3 May 1917 Cyril was killed in action, aged 24. He
is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France, Bay 1.
Letters, photos, and a pocketbook belonging to her
son were forwarded to Mrs Franklin at The Ferns, Newport Pagnell. This
was the address of her sister-in-law, Mary Franklin, a single woman, who
in 1911 had been a boarding house keeper, recorded at 130 High Street,
Newport Pagnell with her sister Sarah Newman and nephew John Newman. Mrs
Franklin, in acknowledging receipt of the effects asked what had become
of a diary and money which her son's friend had given to the commanding
officer. The response was that there no other effects to forward, but
any money would be credited to the soldier's account and forwarded to
the next-of-kin in the form of a money order. Mrs Franklin acknowledged
receipt of Cyril's war and victory medals on 3 November 1921; she may
then have been living at Crown Farm, Great Staughton, St Neot's.
Cyril's father probably died in 1915, aged 67. Mrs Franklin died in
1957.
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FRENCH, A. G.
Abraham George French was the son of Charles French and his wife
Esther, née Davis, who had married in 1885. He was born in 1899, the
second of their sons to bear the names as the first, born in 1892, had
died in 1896. The couple had eight children, of whom two had died young.
Mr French in 1891 was a bricklayer's labourer; the
family were then at 10 Victoria Terrace in Newport Pagnell. In 1901 the
couple were living at 10 St Paul's Terrace, Newport Pagnell, with
children Eliza Davis, Mrs French's daughter, then 17, Charles Edward,
14, Ernest John, 11, Mary Ann, 6, Ada Sarah, 4, and Abraham, 1. Ten
years later, at the same address, only Abraham and Eliza were at home;
Eliza was an examiner of numbers at the printing works, and Mr French
had continued labouring for bricklayers.
Abraham enlisted in Oxford; he is commemorated as
having served in the Royal Fusiliers. However CWGC records him as
G/29124, a Private in the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), posted
to the 1/20th London Regiment. He had formerly served as 42997 in the
Hampshire Regiment.
He died on 23 August 1918 and is buried at the Beacon
Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette, France, III J 14.
Abraham was second cousin to Frederick, below.
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FRENCH, F.
Frederick French's birth was registered in 1880, but his
naval documents state his date of birth as 11 June 1882. He was the son
of Jesse French and his wife Jane, née Hutton, who had married in 1866.
In 1881 the family were living at 77 Caldecote Street, with Mr French
employed as a bricklayer and Mrs French a sewer of straw hats. At home
then were their children Charles, 14, a bricklayer's labourer, Agnes,
11, Ada, 9, Jesse, 7, and Frederick, a baby of nine months. They also
had an eleven-year-old visitor, Charles Hilton.
In 1891 they were still at 77 Caldecote Street, and
had been joined by a daughter, Ethel, then 7 years old. There was also
there that night a grandson, William H French, 3 years old. By 1901 the
family were at 79 Caldecote Street, but Frederick was not there; perhaps
he was serving in the navy as he became a naval reservist (RFR/CH/B/2469)
In 1906 Frederick married Alice Louisa Matthews, and in 1911 they were
in Newport Pagnell as visitors to 18 Bury Street, the home of James and
Julia Matthews. Frederick was then a painter.
Probably recalled owing to the emergency, Frederick lost his life as
a Royal Navy Able Seaman, 196044, on 1 November 1914. He had been
serving on HMS Good Hope which was sunk with the loss of all hands (919)
off the coast of Chile during the Battle of Coronel. He is commemorated
on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 2.
Nat roll address - Mrs Alice French lived at 33 Beaconsfield Place.
Frederick was second cousin to Abraham, above.
"Courage, bright hopes, and a myriad dreams splendidly given"
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