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In
Loving Memory of our Fallen
THE FALLEN OF THE GREAT WAR
Surnames L
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LAKE, E.
Edward Lake was born in Newport Pagnell in 1880. He was the
son of Martha Lake, a charwoman and a lodger in the home at Paggs Court
of painter John O'Hare. Also in the dwelling in 1881 were Mary Ann Lake,
aged 65, the widow of agricultural labourer John, and her son Richard,
32. Possibly these were Martha's mother and brother.
Mr O'Hare died in 1892 at the age of 58, but Martha
remained at Paggs Court with her children. Edward was her fifth child;
the four brothers born before him were John, Arthur, Alfred, and
William. Edward, known as Teddie, and possibly named after his uncle,
Edward Lake, was followed by Katie, Nellie, Harry, and Charlie, who was
born in 1889. Another daughter, Florrie, was born in 1895.
In 1912 Edward married Bessie Harrison, and the same
year their daughter Ellen was born. In 1914 the couple had a son,
Charles. Charles would be only a couple of months old when his father
was killed in action. Enlisting in Bedfordshire and a veteran of the
South African war, Edward was a reservist, called up at the beginning of
the Great War. He died, aged 32, serving as Private 7789 in the first
battalion of the Bedfordshire regiment on 15 September 1914. He is
commemorated on La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Memorial, France.
In 1918 Mrs Lake remarried, to
Alfred Edward West.
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LILLEY, E.
Edmund Lilley was born in Wellingborough in 1894. He was the
son of Charles Lilley and his wife Josephine, née Corstin, who had
married in 1882. Mr Lilley worked for an Assurance Company, in 1891 this
was named as the Prudential. The family then were living in Newcomen
Road, Wellingborough, with four children; Anne, Medora, Urbane, and
Samuel.
By 1901 they were living at 17 Ivy Road, Northampton.
Anne had become a dressmaker and there were three more children; Miriam,
Edmund, and Edith. On the night of the census Medora, a boot machinist,
was staying with her grandparents, Samuel and Ursula Corstin, at 128
Mill Road, Northampton. By 1911 the family had moved to 8 Offa Road,
Bedford; Urbane was an Assistant Elementary Teacher and Edmund had
become a shop apprentice working for W J Charles, an ironmonger in
Newport Pagnell. Subsequently Mr and Mrs Lilley moved to 32 Southville
Road, South End, Bedford.
Edmund enlisted in Bedford to become a Sapper, 1268,
in the Royal Engineers, 1st East Anglian Field Company. He died from
wounds on 26 September 1915, aged 21. He is buried at Choques Military
Cemetery, France, I E 8. At the foot of his headstone are the words,
"Though parted now we hope again to meet through Jesus Christ our
Saviour".
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LINEHAM, A. E. and W. H.
Albert Edward and William Henry Lineham were the first and
second sons of Joseph James Lineham and his wife Lillie, née Chapman.
The couple had married in Northamptonshire in 1888.
Mr Lineham was a saddler and harness-maker, and in 1901 the family lived
at 4 Station Road, moving by 1911 to 28 High Street, Newport Pagnell.
There were seven children of the family; William and Albert were
followed by Charles Frederick, Winifred Jessie, Doris Lillie, and Ivy
Maude. Another girl had died as a baby in 1890.
Albert, born in 1893, enlisted in Buckingham to
become Private 669 in the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars. He died on 21
August 1915 and his body was removed from a Salt Lake burial area, where
a cross had marked his grave, to the Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey, grave
II C 11 in 1920. At the foot of his gravestone are the words "To memory
ever dear".
William was born in 1892, and he enlisted in Aylesbury, becoming
Private 2305 in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 1/1 battalion. He
became one of the missing on 23 August 1916, and his name is
commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 10A and
10D.
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LOVESY, W. G.
William George Lovesy was born in 1879 in Buckingham, the son
of John Lovesy and his wife Annie, née White,
who had married in 1874. In 1891 Mr Lovesy was working as a canal
labourer and the family were living at the Lock Cottage on Bourton Road,
Buckingham. There were then five children at home; William, Rose, John,
Charles, and Ernest, and their widowed grandmother, Mary Lovesy, was
there also.
In December 1900 William, who by then was living in the parish of
All Souls, Cheriton, Kent, married Mary King from the parish of Horwood.
The couple then returned to live in Kent, at 3 Park Road, Cheriton, in
1901 and with William working as a laundry carman. They had a boarder lodging
with them, an elderly carpenter named George Nelson.
By 1911 the couple were parents to two children,
Ernest, then 8, who had been born in Great Horwood, and Dora, 5, born at
Cheriton. Their boarder with them at 11 Shaftesbury Avenue, Cheriton,
was Isabella Frazer from Scotland, a laundry maid.
Before his enlistment in June 1916 George and his
wife returned to Buckinghamshire, probably living in Newton Longville.
Mrs Lovesy later lived at 41 Park Street, Bletchley. William enlisted in
Bletchley, and was Private 202919 in the 1st battalion of the Essex
Regiment when he died on 1 June 1917 at the age of 38. His address then
was 64 Maynard Road, Walthamstow. He is
commemorated in Bay 7 on the Arras memorial in France.
"His life for his country, his soul to God."
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MALSHER, F. J.
Frederick James Malsher was born in 1894 in Newport Pagnell. He was
the son of Joseph Malsher and his wife Harriet, née King, who had
married in 1889. He was named after his uncle Frederick, brother of
Joseph, and he had an older sister, Eva Elizabeth, born in 1891. One
other child had died in infancy.
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1891 Mr and Mrs Malsher were living at Clay Lane, Newport Pagnell, in
the home of Joseph's mother, Elizabeth, and Mr Malsher was working as a
labourer in the railway works. By 1901 they had moved to 93 Tickford
Street, with Mr Malsher a minder of a portable engine. He was a gas
engine attendant in 1911, while Eva was a general domestic servant and
Frederick was an apprentice wheelwright.
Frederick enlisted in Oxford into the Oxford and
Bucks Light Infantry. He was serving as Private 9878 in the 2nd
battalion when he died on 25 September 1915. He is buried in the Guards
Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France, II B 5.
The headstone is in the churchyard of St Peter and St
Paul. It reads "In memory of Pte F J Malsher, killed in action Sep 25
1915, aged
 21 years". The kerbstones of the grave read "Joseph Malsher, died
June 6th 1923, aged 68 years" and "also of Harriett Malsher, who died
Feb 16th 1943".
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MAPLEY, G.F. and T.H.
George Frederick and Thomas Harry Mapley were the sons of
George Mapley and his wife Clara, née Sanders, who married in 1887.
George was born about 1889 and Thomas about 1894. There were five
children in the family; Florence, George, Thomas, and twins Charles and
Herbert.
In 1891 Mr and Mrs Mapley were living at Priory Street, with Mr Mapley
working as a labourer in a factory saw mill and Mrs Mapley a laundress.
In 1901 they were still in Priory Street, at number 11 - Northampton
Terrace. Mr Mapley had taken up work at the railway carriage works,
where he was a wood sawyer. Harry, Mrs Mapley's brother, was also there
on census night; he too worked at the railway works, as a labourer. By
1911 the family had moved to 14 Beaconsfield Place; George had become a
painter and Thomas a printer.
George in 1915 married Alice Cambers. He lived in Bedford but enlisted
in St Neots. Formerly 26170 of the Beds and Herts regiment, he became
40373, a Private in the Lancashire Fusiliers. He had joined in February
1916 and after training went out to the front in July 1917. He was
reported missing and later as killed in action on 6 September 1917. He
is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, panel 54 to 60 and
163A..
"Great deeds cannot die".
Mrs Mapley's address was 7 St Paul's Road, Queen's Park, Bedford. She
gave birth to her son, whom she named George Frederick after his
deceased father, in 1918.
Thomas volunteered in September 1914 and went to France in July 1915.
Serving as a Private, 14712, in the 7th Battalion of the Bedfordshire
Regiment and in the Machine Gun Corps, he died on 7 July 1916. He is
commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, pier and face 2C.
"Honour to the immortal dead, who gave their youth that the world
might grow old in peace"
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MEARS, J.
Joseph Henry Mears was born in 1885, the son of Joseph Mears
and his wife Emily Jane, née Nash, who had married in 1882. Mrs
Mears remarried in 1890, to James Goffe, a railway carriage painter. She
had already two sons, Joseph and his older brother Samuel Lewis Mears,
and in 1891 twins Willie and Sarah Goffe were born. The family lived at
Bradwell, in the cottage near the wharf (close to the New Inn).
Joseph in 1901 was staying with his uncle, his mother's brother, Alfred,
a farm labourer. There he went to work with his cousins Alfred, a stoker
at the railway works, and Charlie, like him a labourer at the works.
There was also a boarder, Frederick Clarke, another labourer at the
works. In August 1905 Joseph joined up and on 18
November that year took his place in the Oxford and Bucks Light
Infantry. By 1911 he was at Wellington, Nilgiris, India. His mother and
stepfather had moved, to 63 Caldecotte Street, Newport Pagnell, and had
another daughter, Emily Jane. Mr Goffe was working as a house painter.
They had lost two children in infancy; these may have been Thomas Edwin,
in 1895, a baby, and Samuel, in 1899, a toddler.
Joseph was called up from the reserve in August 1914, and went
immediately to the Western Front. The National Roll states that he was
recorded missing on 23 November 1914; CWGC has him as killed on 11
November. He was serving as a Private, 8102, in the 2nd Battalion of the
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry when he died at the age of 29. He is
commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) memorial, Belgium, panel 37 and
39.
"Whilst we remember the sacrifice is not in vain"
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MILLEN, A.
Arthur William (D or L) Millen was born in Wolverton in 1895.
He was the only child of William John Millen and his wife Louisa, née
Cooper, who had married in 1890. In 1901 Mr Millen was working as a
railway platelayer and the family were living at 515 Glyn Square,
Wolverton. By 1911 they had moved to 13 Beaconsfield Place, Wolverton,
and Arthur had become an apprentice to a carpenter.
He enlisted in
Buckingham and became a Private, 803, in the Royal Buckinghamshire
Hussars. He died on 21 August 1915, and is commemorated on the Helles
Memorial, Turkey, panel 16 and 17.
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MILLS, C. F. and F.
  Charles Frederick
(left) and Frederick Mills (right, believed to be) were brothers, the sons of George
Thomas Mills and his wife Rose Ella, née Law, who had married in
1886. Charles was their firstborn, in the same year. The couple would
eventually have fourteen children, one of whom died in infancy.
Their fourth child and son was named Frederick, born after Charles, Harry,
about 1889, and
Albert Benjamin, 1891 Following Frederick were Nellie, 1896, Annie,
1897, Florence May,
1901, Evelyn Kate, 1902, George Henry, about 1905, Frank, about 1906, Katherine or Kathleen Rose,
1907, Arthur
Edward, 1909, and Eliza J, born in 1912.
In 1891 the family were living at Prospect Row,
Caldecote Street, and Mr Mills was a horsekeeper. By 1901 they were at 2
Church Passage, with Mr Mills a bricklayer's labourer and Charles a
general labourer. By 1911 they had moved to 10 Silver Street; Mr Mills
was a bricklayer and Charles was a coachpainter. Albert and Frederick
were in the home of Benjamin Mills, a retired bricklayer, who lived at
35 Caldecote Street. He was their grandfather. Both Albert and
Frederick were working as butchers' assistants.
Mr and Mrs Mills later moved to 7 London Rd.,
Newport Pagnell.
  Charles enlisted in Bletchley, and was formerly 5989
of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He became a Private, 53749, in
the Gloucestershire Regiment, 18th Battalion. He died on 14 September
1918, aged 32. He is buried in the Pernes British Cemetery, France, VI B
25. At the foot of his headstone are the words "Rest in peace until we
meet again".
Frederick enlisted in Tamworth, Warwickshire. He became a
Private, 20820, in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 5th
battalion. He died on 23 March 1918 and is remembered on the
Pozières Memorial, France, panel 50 and 51.
Their brothers, Harry and Albert, also served in the
Great War. Harry was a batman, serving as 40591, a Private in the 9th
Royal Worcerstershire Regiment. In 1921 he married Ellen F Smith (née
Baxter), and died in 1965 in Newport Pagnell. Albert served as 76021, a
Driver in the Royal Field Artillery, 42nd Brigade. In 1921 he married
Edith Emily Teale, the widow of Gordon Teale.the
couple probably had two daughters, Edith W R, born in 1922, and Florence
M, in 1924.
Albert died in 1963 and is buried in the London Road cemetery at Newport Pagnell.
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MITCHELL, C. E.
Charles Edward Mitchell, born in 1891, was the son of Alfred Healy Mitchell and his
wife Alice Mary, née Frost, who had married in 1888. He was their
only surviving son, little Alfred, their firstborn, having died in 1893
at the age of four. The couple also lost another child in infancy.
Mr Mitchell was a carpenter/joiner and the family
lived in 1901 and 1911 at 3 Bury Street. Nellie or Ellen Louise joined
the family in 1894, and Ada Mary in 1902.
Charles enlisted in Oxford and became 14012, a Lance Corporal in the
7th Battalion of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He died on 28
April 1917, aged 26. He is buried at the Doiran Military Cemetery,
Greece, VI G 8. At the foot of his headstone is written, "In memory fo
the dearly loved son of Alfred and Alice Mitchell (Charlie)".
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MOORE, A.
Alfred Alexander Moore was born in 1884 un Bromley. His parents were
William James Moore, a hairdresser born in Cranfield, and his wife Ada
Louisa, née Fraser. They were living at 37 Chatterton Road in
Bromley in 1881, the year after they married, and in London Road,
Twickenham, in 1891. By then they had had five children; Mary Naomi F,
Alfred, Frederick Sydney, Margaret Helen, and a daughter, Leslie Alice.
By 1901 the family had moved to 71 High Street,
Newport Pagnell, and Alfred had become a grocer's assistant. Ten years
later the family were at number 25 (and later number 2), and Alfred had
joined up and become a corporal in the Duke of Cornwall's Light
Infantry. He was in Africa, at the Castle, Capetown. Having enlisted in
Eastbourne, he was still serving in the same regiment, 2nd battalion, as
a sergeant, 8610, when he died on 14 March 1915. He had completed eight
years service. He is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, panel
20.
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MOORE, A. J.
Arthur John Moore was born about 1896 in Newport Pagnell. He was the son
of Frederick Moore, in 1901 a horsekeeper on a farm, and his wife Jane,
née Keach or Keech. The couple had married in 1888, and by 1901
were living at 25 Chicheley Street with eight children; Henry, Edith,
Rosa Jane ("Rosie"), Frederick William, Violet, Arthur, Percy Samuel,
and George.
By 1911 Mr Moore, who signed his census form with an
X, was a coal hawker and the family were at 34 Priory Street, having
been at number 36 twenty years before. Arthur had gained work at the
aerated water factory, and there was another daughter in the family,
Gertrude Mary. However there had been twelve children in the family;
three had died. Mr and Mrs Moore later moved to 9 Priory Street.
Arthur enlisted in Wolverton, and became a Private,
240048, in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He died on 22 August
1917, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, panel 96 to
98.
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MOORE, E. S.
Edward Stanley Moore was the first child of John Edward Moore and his wife Ada
Georgina, née Thompson, who had married in 1891. The couple had
six children; Edward Stanley, John Henry Gordon, John, Selby Georgina S,
and Marjorie Jane L, with one child having died before 1911. Edward was
born in Wood Green, Middlesex, in 1891, with the others born in Newport
Pagnell, 1895, Woburn Sands, 1897 Leighton Buzzard, 1903, and Newport
Pagnell, 1906, respectively.
In 1901 the family were at the Nag's Head, 1 Mill
Road, Leighton Buzzard, where Mr Moore was working as a licensed
victualler. By 1911 the family had moved to North View, Goldington Road,
Bedford, where Mr Moore was employed as an assistant salesman to the
Singer Sewing Machine Company. Edward was engaged in joinery work, while
John, known as Gordon, was working in the dairy business. Mr and Mrs
Moore later moved to Mill House, Sherington.
Edward joined the Territorials at Bedford as 528 on
13 February 1911. He was then 5 feet 7½ inches tall and
considered a very good joiner; he had been employed by a carpenter in
Emberton Road. Three years later on 13 March 1914
he married Gertrude Maud West at Newport Pagnell. On 19 June 1914 he was
confirmed by the Territorials as a very good joiner.
Edward's war-time
service beginning the day after Britain declared war on Germany. He
became Lance Corporal on 13 February 1915, and the couple had their only
child, Joan Lydia Ada, on 4 July 1915, while Edward was still serving at
home.
As Acting 2nd Corporal Edward re-engaged for four
years or the period of the war if shorter on 17 December 1915. Edward
verbally volunteered to serve overseas before 30 September 1914, and
this was affirmed in writing on 29 May 1916. Just under two months after
his daughter's first birthday, on 31 August 1916, Edward was sent to
France. At his own request, on 28 December 1916, Edward reverted to
Sapper. He was serving in this rank, 5222004, in the Royal Engineers,
483 East Anglian Field Company, when he was killed in action on 13 March 1917. He is
remembered on the Pier and Face 8A and 8D of the Thiepval memorial,
France.
Mrs Moore's last known address was 109 High Street,
Newport Pagnell, but on 29 March 1917 she was at 143 High Street when
she wrote asking if there were any details of how her husband had died
and requesting any personal belongings. Edward's effects were dispatched
to this address on 13 July, and included letters, a
religious medallion, a notebook, a brooch, photos, a cigarette case, a metal watch with
no glass, a wallet, a purse, and a pipe. In October 1917 Mrs Moore was
granted a pension of 18s 9d a week. In 1920 the Ministry requested
Mrs Moore's address for Edward's medals; she returned 118 High Street.
She eventually received the medals on 22 March 1922, and on 21 October
1922 Edward's Territorial service medal.
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MORLEY, G. H.
George Henry Morley was serving as a Private, 24176, in the
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 184th company, when he died on 28 February
1917. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France, pier and face
5C and 12C.
He had enlisted in Wolverton and was
formerly 1639 of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He lived at 35
Bury Avenue with his parents, Frederick T Morley, a machinist at the
Railway Carriage Works, and his wife, Mary Ann. The couple had had 9
children but three had died by 1911. Amongst the children were Albert,
Harriett E, Percy F, and, born after George, John T, Dorothy, May, and
Lucy.
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