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In
Loving Memory of our Fallen
THE FALLEN OF THE GREAT WAR
Surnames G
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GARRATT, J. W.
James William Garratt was born in 1897 in Newport Pagnell. He
was the son of William Thomas Garratt and his wife Phoebe Elizabeth, née
Roberts, who had married in 1893. Mr Garratt was a general labourer,
born in Moulsoe around 1863, and in 1901 was living with his family at
46 Silver Street, next to another family headed by a Mr Barker Garratt.
They then had three sons; Oliver Barker, 5, James, 3, and William, 7
months, and a daughter, named as Jenny E (but probably Ivy Stella), 2.
Thomas Tippet, a labourer born in Oxfordshire, was boarding with them.
The couple had nine children, of whom two died before 1911. In that year
the family were at 5 Priory Street and had been joined by three more
sons; Stanley Granfield, 8, George (probably Sidney George), 4, and
Reginald Gordon, 1. Oliver had taken work at the aerated water factory
as a bottle washer, and James had become a farm labourer at the age of
13.
James enlisted in Bletchley, and became a Sapper, 175159, in the Royal
Engineers, No 18 Waggon Erecting Company, Railway Operating Division. He
died from wounds on 21 October 1917, and is buried in the Lijssenthoek
Military Cemetery, Belgium, XXV H 19. His mother, living at 72 Tickford
Street, arranged for the words "Father in thy gracious keeping leave we
now thy servant sleeping" to be engraved on the foot of his headstone.
The name "Barker" in the Garratt family appears to have a long heritage.
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GILLAM, J. G.
John Graham Gillam, 15685, enlisted in Northampton and became
a Lance Corporal; in the Northamptonshire Regiment, D Company, 7th
Battalion. He died on 27 September 1915, and is commemorated on the Loos
Memorial, France, panel 91 to 93.
He was the son of John Alfred Gillam, a coachman, and
his wife Clara Ann, née Leadbetter, who had married in 1890 in the
Evesham area. In 1901 they were living at The Hall at Honington,
Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, with Mr Gillam working as a coachman.
John was then ten years old, having been born at Cleeve Prior. John also
had a sister, Doreen, born at Stretton on Fosse.
In 1911 John was a student at Culham Teacher Training
College, Abingdon. He married in 1915 at Newport Pagnell Dorothy Jane
Juffs; she had been born in the area in 1890. The widowed Mrs Gillam
remarried in 1818, to Barend I De Villiers, and later lived at 11 George
Street, Stuart's Cottages, Germiston, Transvaal.
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GOFFE, W.
Willie Goffe's body was never identified after he was killed
on 28 April 1917 in the battle of Vimy Ridge; he is commemorated on the
Thiepval Memorial, France, pier and face 10A 10 D. He was serving in the
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 2/4th battalion as a Private, 203809.
He had volunteered in January 1915, enlisting in Bletchley, and served
at home for two years before being sent to France.
Born around 1891, Willie was probably a twin with his
sister Sarah. They were born at Stantonbury; three years later they had
a new sister, born in Newport Pagnell, called Emily Jane after her
mother. Willie's father was James Henry Goffe, born at Edgbaston,
Birmingham, and in 1891 working as a railway carriage painter. Then the
family were living in the cottage near the wharf, Wallace Street,
Bradwell. Also there were two stepsons, Joseph Mears, born about 1885,
and Samuel Lewis Mears, born about 1883. They were Mrs Goffe's sons; she
was formerly Mrs Mears, née Nash, married to Joseph Mears in 1882. She
remarried to James in 1890.
The family moved to 63 Caldecotte Street, and were
there in 1901 and 1911. Mr Goffe continued to work as a painter, in 1901
as a painter's labourer and in 1911 as a house painter. At that time
Willie was a labourer in a flour mill. There had been two other children
of the Goffes, but sadly they had died before 1911.
"And doubtless he went in splendid company"
Nat roll address - 5 St Paul's Terrace.
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GOODMAN, H. W.
Herbert Wilfred Goodman was born in 1899 in Newport Pagnell.
He was the son of Arthur Goodman, the son of James and Ann, and his wife Maude. The couple had
three children; Herbert, Arthur Percy, born about 1901, and Ella
Marjorie, born about 1904. Mr Goodman was a housepainter, and in 1901
the family were at 143 High Street, but by 1911 had moved to 12 Spring
Gardens.
Herbert enlisted in Bletchley to become Private, 38024, in the 1/5th
battalion of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He died on 17 April
1918, when he was 18. He is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France,
Panel 68.
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GOODMAN, J. W.
John Withers Goodman was born in Newport Pagnell in about
1893. His parents were John Withers Goodman, a carpenter, who was
christened in Simpson and was the son of Charles and Sarah, and Annie
Elizabeth, née Gulliver, who had married in 1892. There would be four
children in the family; John, Marjorie, born about 1895, Sidney, about
1899, and Francis, about 1905.
The family lived at 20 Hill View Cottages in 1901 and at 20
Greenfield Road ten years later. John Goodman, then 17, was working as a
butcher's assistant; his sister as a milliner's assistant.
John volunteered in June 1915 and enlisted in Birmingham. He became a
Private, 19424, in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1st battalion. Drafted to
the Western Front in September, he was killed in action on 19 October
1915 near Ypres. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, panel 19
and 33.
"A valiant soldier with undaunted heart, he breasted life's last
hill"
Nat Roll address 20 Greenfield Road.
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GORDON, D. S.
Douglas Stanley Gordon was born in 1888 in Newport Pagnell.
He was the son of Samuel Gordon, a congregational minister from
Aberdeen, and his wife Elspeth or Elsie, who came from Canada.
In 1891 the couple were living at The Manse, in the
High Street. With them were Winifred Elsie E, born in Rochester in 1883,
Montague Alexander, born in Sidcup about 1885, as was his sister, Enid
Lilian in 1886, then Douglas, and finally a brother, Alexander Gordon,
then 34, who was born in Scandinavia. The family employed three
servants. Later, in 1894, the family would be joined by Gwendolen Mary,
born in Newport Pagnell, and sadly, in the same town the year afterwards
, would lose Montague at the age of 11.
By 1901 the family had moved to 11 St Aubyns, Hove,
where they are recorded again in 1911 with just Mr Gordon, Gwendolen,
and Alexander at home. They continued to retain servants; two in both
1901 and 1911.
Douglas became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Flying
Corps, 2nd Squadron, and of the Special Reserve, Royal Field Artillery.
He was killed on 21 February 1918, aged 29, and his buried in the
Chocques Military Cemetery, France, V D 3. At the foot of his gravestone
are the words, "Always in our most loving memory".
Mr and Mrs Gordon later lived at 38 Napier Court,
Hurlingham, Fulham, London.
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GRAY, J.
J Gray was in the Royal Marines. Identification is uncertain;
the Royal British Legion Club and the Book of Remembrance give his
forename as "Joseph".
The CWGC has two men named J Gray from the RMLI who
Fell. They are John Gray, who died on 3 June 1915 and who is buried at
Alexandria, and J T U Gray, who died on 20 July 1917 and who is buried
at Athies, France. Both men were from the Chatham Division, born 15
August 1886 and 3 May 1896 respectively.
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GREAVES, W. R.
William Robert Greaves was born in 1895 in Newport Pagnell.
He was the son of James Greaves and his wife Sarah Elizabeth. The couple had four
children; Frederick Thomas, born 1890, Annie Angelina, 1892, Arthur
James, 1899, and William.
The family were living at 19 Spring Gardens in 1901,
with Mr Greaves working as a corn merchant's carter. By 1911 they were
at 25 Broad Street; Mr Greaves had become a labourer in the coal trade and Frederick was a
student of divinity. William had become a greengrocer's assistant.
- In August 1914 William volunteered for the colours, and was
sent to France in June 1915. He was serving as Private 12617 in
D Company, 5th battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, when he was
killed in the Armentières sector on 4 August 1915, just a short
time after arriving at the front.
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- He is buried in grave I N 7 at the Calvaire (Essex) Military
Cemetery, Belgium. At the foot of his headstone are the words,
"Until the day breaks".
"A valiant soldier with undaunted heart he breasted life's last
hill."
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Aylesbury. In 1939 Mrs Greaves was living at 135 High Street, Newport
Pagnell. Her date of birth was given as 19 March 1862. She died in the
Gipping area, Suffolk, in 1943. This was an area where for a period her
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 HALL, S.
Sidney Albert Hall, SS/103873 (RFR/PO/B/4656), born at
Wandsworth, London, on 28 March 1885, was a first class Stoker in the
Royal Navy, Fleet Reserve. He was based at Portsmouth and in his second
period of engagement. He died, with 919 others, on 1 November 1914
aboard HMS Good Hope when she split in two under attack during the
Battle of Coronel.
He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial,
panel 4 (left and below).
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- HAMMOND, C. W. and T.
Charles and Thomas Hammond were half-brothers, the sons of
John Owen Hammond, a bricklayer. Thomas (Tompkins?) Hammond was
born in 1882 in Newport Pagnell. His mother, Rebecca Dunkling,
had married his father in 1876 in Newport Pagnell, and by 1881
they had three children; Amy, 4, George, 3, and Ernest, 1. They
were then living at 77 Tickford Street, and Mrs Hammond was
helping the family finances by working as a straw plaiter.
In 1886 Mrs Hammond died at the age of 38, having
had two more children, Thomas and Eva. The family moved and in 1891
were living at 53 Tickford Street. Mr Hammond's father, William,
aged 74, a general labourer and widower, was also there.
Mr Hammond remarried, to Rose, and the couple had a son,
Charles, and a daughter, Flora. The family had moved to 117
Closeburn Terrace, Tickford Street by 1901, and were still there
in 1911 when Charles had taken work as a housepainter. They
remained at this address during the Great War.
Thomas joined originally the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry,
serving as 18365. He volunteered again in April 1915 and went overseas later that year.
He was wounded twice and had seen action in the battles of Loos
and Albert. Serving as Lance Corporal 16345 in the 14th
battalion of the Hampshire Regiment, he was killed in action
near Cambrai on 26 September 1917, aged 35. He is commemorated
on the Tyne Cot memorial, Belgium, panel 88 to 90 and 162.
"Courage, bright hopes, and a myriad
dreams, splendidly given." Charles served as a
Sapper, 41602, in the Royal Engineers, 4th Field Survey Company.
He volunteered in August 1914 and in 1915 went to Gallipoli,
joining in the severe fighting. He was invalided home suffering
from dystentery and a nervous breakdown. However, by 1916 he
went to the Western Front and participated in the battles of The
Somme, Arras, Ypres, and Cambaria. Unfortunately he contracted
influenza and died from this and pneumonia.
"His memory is cherished with pride."
Charles is buried at the Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied
Extension, Belgium, IV B 6. On his headstone are engraved the
words, "Memoria in Æterna". Memorial - SPi,
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 HARRIS, R. A.
Ronald Augustus Harris was born in 1893 in Newport Pagnell.
He was the third child and second son of Thomas George Harris and his
wife Margaret. Mr Harris was a butcher, working for himself and living
at his work at 47 High Street. In 1901 the couple's three sons, Lionel
Thomas, 9, Ronald,
 7, and Harold Archibald, 2, were at home, but their
sister, Constance Marguerite, 10, was at the home of her aunt and uncle,
schoolmaster Orson and Harriet Ball, at 2 Lovat Street. The Harrises
employed a general domestic servant, Ellen Garner.
In 1911 all four children were at home, with
Constance a worker at the post office, Lionel assisting his father in
the butchery business, and Ronald working as a chemist's apprentice.
All the sons served in the Great War; Ronald became a Private, 32614,
in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 42nd Field Ambulance. He died on 24
March 1918, and is buried at Noyon British Cemetery, France, I F 9.
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above right - Ronald Harris
above left Ronald Harris with his brother "Archie" (seated)
right "Archie" Harris - third from left first standing row
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HARTUP, H.
Harry Hartup died on 13 August 1916, serving as Private,
18382, in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, l1th battalion, having
enlisted in Bletchley. He is buried at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery,
Longueval, France, V K 35.
Born in 1895 in Newport Pagnell, he was the son of
William Hartup and his wife Lizzie, née Baxter, who had married in 1897.
In 1911 Mr Hartup was working as a blacksmith striker for the railway
works, a job he carried on for many years. Living at home with them then
at 26 Greenfield Road were four of their surviving six children, three
having already died. Harry, 15, was working as an errand boy,
while his two younger brothers, Edwin Allen, 13, and Reginald Frank, 11,
were both at school. Also there was his sister, Harriet, then 19. Older
children were William, Winifred, and Annie. In 1901 the family were at
18 Hill View Cottages. Before then the family lived at Wharf End, Great
Linford.
Harry enlisted in March 1916 and became a Private,
18382, in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 11th battalion. He was sent
to the Western Front three months after enlistment. He died shortly
after arrival, aged 20, on 13 August 1916, losing his life near Albert
after taking part in much heavy fighting on the Somme. He is buried at
the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval, France, V K 35.
"Honour to the immortal dead, who gave their youth
that the world might grow old in peace."
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Reginald Frank Hartup served in the RNAS, joining on
3 December 1917. Born on 4 Sept 1899, he was a fitter's apprentice when
he joined up for the duration of the Great War and became an acting air
mechanic I. He was transferred to the RAF on 1 April 1918. He was five
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HEDGE, W. J.
William James Hedge served in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry, 2/4 battalion as a Private, 240104. He died on 26
October 1918 and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France,
panel 7.
Born in North Crawley in 1888, William was
lodging in 1911 in the home of the Payne family at 74 Silver Street,
Newport Pagnell. He was employed as a farm labourer. Then 18 and working
as a servant, Eva Florence Payne was a daughter of the household. A few
months later she became Mrs William Hedge. The couple had two children;
George E in 1912 and William E J in 1917.
William's parents were Edwin, a hay trusser for a hay
dealer, and Elizabeth (Lizzie Elliott), who married in 1883. The couple
had nine children; the others included Beatrice Sarah, Arthur John,
Walter Charles, Albert Frank, Lottie Louisa J, Annie Isabel, and
Winifred Alice.
William was probably a cousin to Bertie Hedge, who
died on 22 November 1916, serving in the Royal Navy, and Frederick
Hedge, who was serving in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
when he died on 23 September 1918. Their fathers were probably brothers,
the sons of William Hedge, a gamekeeper, and Charlotte, his wife, a
lacemaker, from North Crawley.
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 HENSON,
A. T.
The headstone is in the
churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, and reads "In loving memory of
Archie T Henson, beloved husband of Nellie Henson, killed in action in
France, April 18th 1918, aged 38 years. Thy will be done".
The SSPP memorial records Archie Thomas Henson as having served
in the Royal Marines. However, the only Henson recorded by the CWGC
as having died on the date above served as a Gunner, 32955, in the
Royal Field Artillery, "B" battery, 275th Bde. He was 38 when he
died and is buried in the Fouquières Churchyard Extension, France,
II D 8.
He was the son of Thomas Andrew and Annie Henson,
who, in 1911, were living at 36 Greenfield Road. Then Archie was working
as a painter for Salmons and Son, the coachworks. Ten years before,
Archie had moved to New Windsor in Berkshire, where he was boarding in
the home of the Cripps family at 18 Alexandra Road and working as a
coach painter.
Like his parents before him, Archie had been born at
Cosgrove, where he probably spent the first two decades of his life. He
was one of nine children, only four of whom survived until 1911. Amongst
his siblings were
 Albert James and Rebecca, who had been born in
Cheshire, Jessie Mary, born in Cosgrove, and Edith Sophia, born in Stony
Stratford. Their father was an engine fitter.
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HIGHAM, E.
Edward Higham was born in Manchester around 1883. In 1911 he
was a Lance Sergeant in the Infantry of the Line, in barracks at
Normanton, Derby. In that town he probably married in later 1911,
possibly at the St Joseph Roman Catholic Chapel, Miss Rose Wood. The
couple later came to live in Northampton, probably Duston. Mrs Higham
eventually lived at "California", Wolverton Road, Newport Pagnell.
Possibly Edward was the son of Edward Higham and his
wife Marion. Mr Higham was in 1901 a railway guard, born in Dukinfield,
Cheshire, while his wife had been born in London. They were living at
113 Crossleech Street, Dukinfield, Ashton-under-Lyme; they had lived in
Crossleech Street for at least ten years. With them then were several
children; Jessie Ann, born 1880, a cotton weaver, William Hunter, 1882,
a shorthand clerk, Edward James, 1884, and Gilbert, 1885, both cotton
spinners, Archibald Sutton, 1888, an errand boy, and then Nellie Mary,
1890, Robert, 1892, and John Inglis, 1894.
By 1911 Mrs Higham, who had been a milliner in 1891,
had died, possibly the year before. Still at home, this time at 22
Grosvenor Street, Stalybridge, were Nellie, still a cotton weaver,
Jessie, the homekeeper, John, a scrapcutter at the iron works, Robert, a
shorthand clerk for the railway, Archibald, a policeman, and Gilbert, a
cotton spinner minder. Mr Higham was working as a railway guard. He
probably died around 1913.
Edward had enlisted in Bury, Lancashire, and became a
Serjeant, 10811, in the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment),
2nd battalion. He died on 20 September 1914, aged around 33. He is
buried in the Chauny Communal Cemetery, British Extension, France, 6 C
7, after having been exhumed on 6 October 1933 and reburied. He was
identified by his disc and the disc and two pieces of his boots, size 9,
stamped with his number and "N & D" were forwarded to base. He was at
that time estimated to have been about 5'11" tall and several teeth were
noted as missing or extracted.
At the foot of his headstone at the words, "We will
always remember".
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HILL, G.
George Hill - see Frederick
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HOLLAND, W.
William Holland, like his father and brothers and sisters,
was born in Newport Pagnell. The family, Charles and Ann Jemima, née
Clark, who married in 1884, and their six children, lived at 13
Chicheley Street in 1901 and 1911. The eldest child was Edith Rose, 25
in 1911, who had been in 1901 a housemaid and who had become, like her
sister Mabel, 21, a machinist for motor trimmers at the motor works in
1911. Following them was William, 19, who was a coach body-builder at
the railway works, and then Emily, 16, Alice, 14, and Charles, 11.
William volunteered in September 1914, enlisting in
Aylesbury. He became a Private, 2245, in the Oxford and Bucks Light
Infantry, 1/1st btn. After training he went in March 1915 to the Western
Front, taking part in the battle of Neuve Chappelle. Just a few weeks
after arriving at the Front, on 8 April 1915, he died from wounds at La
Bassée.
He is buried at the Strand Military Cemetery,
Belgium, X D 10.
"His life for his country"
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HOLT, T. W. and W. C.
Thomas Walter, born 1896, and William Charles Holt, born
1894, were brothers, the sons of Ellen Sophia (née Cook) and
Thomas Holt who had married in the Aylesbury area in 1885. The couple
had four other children; older brother and sister Louisa Rebecca and
John Henry Thomas, and younger sisters Lily Maria and Elise Jane.
Another child had died young. The family probably moved several times as
the children had been born in various places; respectively Olney,
Northamptonshire, Naseby for William (although Soldiers Died states he
was born in Wolverton), St Paul's in Wellingborough for Thomas, Wilby,
and finally Newport Pagnell.
Mr Holt was a general farm labourer in 1911, and sons
were in the same occupation, with elder brother John being a
horse-keeper on a farm. The family were then living at 71 Caldecotte
Street.
Mr Holt died in 1913, aged 64. A year later, in
August 1914, William volunteered to join the army. He enlisted in
Wolverton and became Privat 13282 in the Oxford and Bucks Light
Infantry, 2/4th battalion. He fought in the battles of Ypres, Neuve
Chappelle, Festubuert, Loos, Lens, and Albert before losing his life on
the Somme on 22 August 1917. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot
memorial, panels 96 to 98. "His life for his country, his soul to God".
Thomas had already enlisted in Newport Pagnell by the
outbreak of war and was immediately sent to France. Serving as a
Private, 9973, in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 2nd battalion, he
took part in the retreat from Mons and the battles of the Marne, Ypres,
Neuve Chappelle, and Hill 60. He died according to the National Roll at
Ypres on 16 May 1915. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial,
France, panel 26. "A valiant soldier with undaunted heart, he breasted
life's last hill".
Mrs Holt later lived at 52 Priory Street.
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HOMANS, E. J.
Ernest James Homans, who was born in 1898 at Moulsoe, was one
of ten children. The family of William and Elizabeth ("Lizzie") Homans
lived in 1901 at 47 Union Street and in 1911 at 33 Priory Street.
Ernest's brothers were Arthur, 27 in 1911, a railway servant, Horace,
16, a farm labourer, and William, 7. Ellenor, 24 and married, Hilda, 21,
and Alice, 14, both servants, Edith, 10, and Ivy, 4, were his sisters.
It is uncertain who was the other sibling.
Ernest enlisted in March 1917 and was joined the
Training Reserve as TR/9/35210. He served with the Worcestershire
Regiment and was transferred to the Labour Corps becoming 378668 in the
333rd Area employment company. He carried out various duties at
Southampton, and in October 1917 he was sent to France. He worked at
Étaples, making roads and on various transport duties. Unfortunately he
contracted an illness and, although admitted to hospital, died on 6
April 1918. He was 18. He is buried at Étaples Military Cemetery, XXXIII
E 29A. At the foot of his headstone are the words, "Faithful unto
death".
"Honour to the immortal dead who gave their youth that the world
might grow old in peace".
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