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Loving Memory of our Fallen
THE FALLEN OF THE GREAT WAR
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SCOTT, A.
Albert Edward Scott was one of the eleven children of William
James Scott and his wife Mary Ann. Sadly, six of their children were to
die at a young age, and Albert lost his life on 4 September 1916, aged
25. He had been serving as a Lance Corporal, 19759, in the Norfolk
Regiment, 1st battalion, having enlisted in Norfolk. His body was never
identified and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France, pier
and face 1C and 1D.
Albert was born in St Stephens, Norwich, and in 1891
he was living with his parents at Woods Yard, Albemarle Street, Norwich.
His father was a house-painter, born about 1851, and also from Norwich,
while his mother, born about 1864, had been born in Wymondham, Norfolk.
By 1901 the family had moved to 61 Shadwell Street,
Norwich, and Albert had three sisters at home; Jessie Alice, Nellie, and
Phyllis. About two years later another son, William James, was born;
sadly he had little time to know his father as his father died at the
age of 55 in 1906. The family remained at 61 Shadwell Street, and by
1911 Mrs Scott was working as a charwoman while Albert had found work as
a grocer's assistant. His sister Jessie was a milliner; she became the
legatee of her brother's will.
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SHARP, E. A.
Ernest Arthur Sharp was the son of Walter Sharp and his wife
Jane, née Martin, who had married in 1881. Mr Sharp was an
agricultural labourer, born in Emberton. They were living at Clifton
Lodge, Petsoe Manor, Clifton Reynes in 1891 with their son Albert; in
1893 Ernest joined them.
Sadly, Mrs Sharp died in 1896, aged 34. Mr Sharp
remarried in 1900, to Agnes Goodman. She had a daughter named Alice, and
in 1905 Walter and Agnes Sharp had another daughter, Florence Bessie. By
1911 the family were living at Chicheley Street, Newport Pagnell, with
Albert, having been a boots ten years before, now working as a labourer
in a brickfield, and Ernest as a labourer on a farm. Mr Sharp had become
a cowman. Mr Sharp later moved to 48 Silver Street.
Ernest enlisted in Oxford and became a Private, 9575, in the Oxford
and Bucks Light Infantry, 1st battalion. He was killed in action on
Christmas Eve 1915, and is buried at the Kut War Cemetery, K1. At the
foot of his headstone are the words, "At Rest".
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SHEDD, F. H.
Frank Harold Shedd was born in Buckingham in 1891. He was the
youngest son of John Shedd, a draper, and his wife Elizabeth Ann, née
Hillier who had married in 1879.
In 1901 the family were living at 23 West Street, Buckingham, where
there was a daughter, Edith Emily, a draper's assistant, born about
1880, and four sons; Frederick William, 1881, a solicitor's clerk, Harry
Ward, about 1883, and Percy John, 1884, both office clerks at a milk
factory, and Frank. By 1911 Frank had moved to Newport Pagnell, where he
was boarding in the home of telephone inspector William Cunningham at 19
Union Street. Frank was then working as an ironmonger.
In 1915 Frank married Dorothy May M Higgins. Their
marriage was short as Frank, having enlisted in Bletchley, was killed on
27 August 1917 serving as Private 267020 in the Oxford and Bucks Light
Infantry, 1st/1st Bucks battalion. His body was later exhumed from its first
resting place and, identified by numerals and two discs, damaged, was
reburied at the Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium, Enclosure 4, XIV H 11.
Mrs Shedd, living at 9 Station Road, Newport Pagnell,
asked for the words "Beloved, we are only parted for a little while" to
be engraved on her husband's headstone. She never remarried, and died in
1963.
Mr and Mrs William Shedd also suffered the loss of
another son during the Great War. Percy had died the same year, just
five months before his brother, on 10 March 1917. He was also a Private
in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 1st/1st Bucks battalion, having
enlisted in Bletchley and serving as 266805. His body was also reburied,
after being exhumed from the Achille British Cemetery, in the Hem Farm
Military Cemetery, Hem-Monacu, France.
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SIM, H. A. C. and L. G. E.
Herman Alexander Coysgrarne Sim, born on 15 August 1888, and
Lancelot George Earle Sim, born on 15 February 1895 in Paddington, were
brothers, the only sons of Herman Billing Sim and his wife Louise
Henriette. They had also a sister, Frida Louise Julia Sim, born in 1892
in Paddington.
Herman Billing Sim was a merchant banker, and in 1901
Frida and Lancelot were living at Beach Lodge, Granville Road,
Littlehampton, East Preston, Sussex, with their parents. The household
employed five servants. Herman A. C. Sim was away at St Michael's
School, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent. He would, by 1911, be an undergraduate at
Oxford, boarding with the family of draper's manager Edward Giles at 19
Holywell Street, Holywell, Oxford. On 20 July 1911, announced in the
London Gazette on 21 July, he became a 2nd Lieutenant in the
Territorials.
Herman died on 9 May 1915, serving as a Lieutenant in
the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 2nd battalion. He is buried at the
Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France, II M 16.
On 21 Jan 1916 the London Gazette announced that
Lancelot had joined the Grenadier Guards from the 2nd Artists Rifles
Officer Training Corps. He died that same year, as a 2nd Lieutenant
serving in the 1st battalion of the Grenadier Guards, on 14 September
1916. He is buried at the Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, France, III
E 38.
Their mother died in 1922, aged 62, and their father in 1933, aged
77. His address then was 12 Austin Friars, London.
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SMITH, H. A.
Henry Archibald Smith died on 8 August 1918 at the age of 22.
He had been serving as a Private in the Tank Corps, 1st battalion.
Ninety-nine men from that regiment fell the same day; thirty-one are
commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois memorial as they have no known grave
and many, including Henry, were exhumed after the war and concentrated
into a larger cemetery. Henry's body was identified by a cross over his
first grave, and he is now buried in the Bouchoir New British Cemetery,
France, V A 15. At the foot of his headstone are the words "Into the
light that nevermore shall fade".
Henry enlisted in Northampton, volunteering in August
1914. He trained with the 5th Northamptonshires and went to France in
May 1915 where he served with the Machine Gun Corps. He was wounded at
Loos in September and sent home, but returned in February 1916,
transferring to the Tank Corps. He died at Amiens, "a costly sacrifice
on the altar of freedom".
Born at Finmere, Henry was the son of Joseph Henry
Smith and his wife Clara Jane, née Carey. The couple had married in 1895
and went on to have three children, one being Henry's younger sister
Jessie Edith. In 1901 the family were living at Farthinghoe, Brackley,
with Mr Smith working as a domestic coachman. He had been born in
Shipton, Berkshire. By 1911 they were living at Bridge Street, Brackley,
and Mr Smith had become a domestic groom. They later lived at 1 Abbey
Terrace, Newport Pagnell.
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SMITH, W. C.
Born in 1897, Walter Charles Smith was the first child of Charles Jabez
Smith and his wife Annie Maria, née Wright, who had married in 1896.
The couple lived in 1901 at 18 Spring Gardens, where they had their
first two sons, Walter and Arthur George, born in 1899. Mr Smith was a
market gardener.
By 1911 the family had moved along the road to 28 Spring Gardens. There
were two more sons; Herbert John, born about 1904, and Sydney, born
about 1909.
Walter joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and was serving as a
Private in the 1st Royal Marine battalion of the Royal Navy Division
when he died on 28 April 1917. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial,
France, Bay 1.
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STANTON, W. T.
William Thomas Stanton was the son of Henry and Annie
Stanton, who had married about 1891. He was their fourth child and
second son (although it is possible that the couple may have lost
another son, also William Thomas, soon after birth in 1894).
The family lived at Northampton Terrace, Priory
Street - number 2 in 1901 and 10 in 1911. Mr Stanton was a brewer's
drayman. William's siblings were Henry William, born about 1891, Alice
Jane, 1892, Annie, about 1895, Eva Agnes, 1899, Lily Maud, about 1902,
and Sydney John, 1905. They were all born in Newport Pagnell like their
father; Mrs Stanton, however, has been variously cited as born in
Denbighshire, Wales, or Grovely, Huntingdon, as well as Newport Pagnell.
William was living at Hedley, Bordon, Hampshire, when
he enlisted in Newport Pagnell. He became a Private, 12365, in the
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 2nd battalion. He died on 1 October
1918, and is buried in grave III D 15 at the Anneux British Cemetery,
France.
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 STAPLETON, C.
Cyril Stapleton, born in 1899,
was one of the fourteen children of William Stapleton and his wife Jane
Elizabeth, née Leaberry, who had married in 1879. Sadly, the
couple lost three of their children in infancy, probably William, who
died soon after birth in 1879, possibly Eleanor Florence, who died at
the age of 2 in 1890, and also perhaps an unnamed female child, born and
died in 1892.
The other children were mainly boys. Before Cyril was
born were Arthur William, born 1880, George Leaberry, about 1882, Frank,
1883, Charles, 1885, Ernest, about 1890, Eva Jane, about 1894,
Henry James, 1895, and Emily Elizabeth, 1897. Cyril was followed by
William, 1901, and Leonard, 1903.
In 1891 the family were living at 4 Beaconsfield
Place, when Mr Stapleton was a coach trimmer for the railway carriage
works, and in 1911 their address is given as 4a. When Cyril enlisted in
Whithall on 5 October 1917 he gave his address as Newlyn, Wolverton
Road, which was the home address until at least 1919. Later Mr and Mrs
Stapleton had the address of Kypersley, Wolverton Road, Newport Pagnell.
Cyril was a clerk before he joined up, and served at
home from 9 October 1917 until his death from lobar pneumonia at
Richmond Military Hospital at 7am on 19 January 1918. He was then
serving as 537254, a Private in the London Regiment (Prince of Wales'
Own Civil Service Rifles), 3rd/15th battalion. His body was brought home
to rest, and he is now buried in grave 3.23 on the south of the parish
church in Newport Pagnell. On his headstone is inscribed, "In loving
memory of Cyril Stapleton (Civil Service Rifles) Died at Richmond
Hospital Jan 19 1918 age 18 years".
Cyril was a first cousin to Vincent Stapleton, below.
Their fathers were brothers. Cyril may also have been a cousin of
William Chaffey, as William's mother
Mary was probably a sister of Cyril's father. Cyril was also uncle to
Cyril Stapleton,
being the brother of his father.
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STAPLETON, V. J.
Vincent James Stapleton, born in 1884, was the first of the two sons of James
Stapleton, a boot and shoemaker, and his wife Eva Mercy, née Kent, who
had married in 1883. His brother, three years younger, was Herbert Kent
Stapleton.
In 1891 the family were living at Beaconsfield Place, and in 1901 in the
same road at number 23. By 1911 Vincent and Mrs Stapleton were recorded
at 6 Lincoln Road, Ponders End, Enfield, and Vincent was working as a
miller's clerk.
Vincent enlisted in Hastings and became Private G/18232 in the Royal
Sussex Regiment, D company, 13th battalion. He died on 3 September 1916
at the age of 31, and is buried in the Hamel Military Cemetery,
Beaumont-Hamel, France, grave II A 45. On the foot of his gravestone are
the words, "He died that we might live".
Vincent was a cousin of Cyril Stapleton, above, as
their fathers were brothers. Vincent may also have been a cousin of
William Chaffey, as William's mother
Mary was probably a sister of Vincent's father.
Mr and Mrs Stapleton later lived at 46
Belle Hill, Bexhill-on-Sea.
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STEELE, W. M.
Winifred Mary Steele was born on 17 February 1891 in Newport Pagnell to
David Steele, a draper, and his wife Jane. The couple were born in
Scotland, and, probably after a spell at Linslade, came to Newport
Pagnell around 1880. They lived at 35 St John Street for over ten years,
with their daughters Annie, 1874, Jane Jardine, 1877, Maggie, 1881,
Jessie, 1883, Joanna Elizabeth, 1885, and Winifred.
By 1901 Mr and Mrs Steele, with Jane, Joanna, and
Winifred, had moved to 2 High Street. Subsequently Mr and Mrs Steele
moved to Derby, where also was their daughter Annie, who had married
tailor and draper dealer James Dickson Seaton. Mr Steele died in 1908,
and by 1911 Mrs Steele and Annie were living with the Seatons at 33
Renals Street, Derby. Winifred was by then working as a telegraph clerk
in the post office.
Winifred attested on 3 July 1917 in Derby, after nine
years service at the post office. Then she was described as being of
slight build - she was five feet one-and-a-half inches tall and weighed
around 7-and-a-half stone. She had blue-grey eyes with good eyesight,
and her hair was brown. She was also noted as having a small mole under
her right eye and a half-inch scar on her left thumb.
She became a worker, 1593, in Queen Mary's Army
Auxiliary Corps. She died on 9 December 1918, and is buried at St Sever
Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France, S V L 7. At the foot of her headstone
are the words, "The eternal God is my dwelling place".
The address given on the CWGC records is that of
James Seaton, then at 9 Swinburn Street, Derby. Mrs Jane Steele may have
predeceased her daughter, probably in 1916. Jane, Winifred's sister,
probably also predeceased her, in 1911.
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STOWE, T.
Thomas Stowe was serving as an acting Corporal, 11742, in the Oxford and
Bucks Light Infantry, 6th Battalion, when he was fatally wounded on 16
August 1917 at Ypres, dying the following day. He had volunteered for
service in September 1914, and from May 1915 had served on the Western
Front, taking part in a number of battles including the Somme and Arras.
Born at Stewkley in 1899, he was one of the nine
children of Frederick and Sarah Stow or Stowe. The children included
Maria and Floria as well as Thomas, and probably also older children
Mary Ann, Emily Kate, and Frederick William. Sadly the family were to
lose one baby; this was probably Ernest John in 1897. In 1911 Mr and Mrs
Stowe were living at Red Cottages, Lathbury, where Mr Stow was a farm
labourer.
In 1909 Thomas married Mary Jane N. Davies, and their
son William was born the next year. In 1911 the family were living at 8
Tickford Street, and Thomas was working as a carter for a coal merchant.
In 1914 the couple had a second son, Reginald N. Mrs Stowe later lived
at 1 Bury Street, Newport Pagnell.
Thomas is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery,
Belgium, grave III C 15. At the foot of his headstone are the words
"Peace, Perfect Peace".
In the national roll the address is given as Lathbury,
and the epitaph is "Thinking that Remembrance, though unspoken, may
reach him where he sleeps".
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SYMONS, H. W.
Herbert William Symons was the younger son of Herbert Charles Symons and
his wife Ada Clara, née Wells, who had married in 1880. Mr Symons
was a Lieutenant-Colonel, formerly a commander of the King's Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry, the son of William James Symons, in 1851 a
retired captain of the East India Company, and his wife Maria. Mrs Symons, born in Chelmsford, was a
daughter of Frederick Wells, a coal and timber merchant, and his wife
Clara, and, widowed in 1894, was by 1901 living at The Gables, Bramford, Bosmere,
Suffolk, with her sister, Constance, and three servants. Mrs Symons had
also later lived at Brooklands, Newport Pagnell and at Marrowells,
Springfield, Chelmsford.
Born in Folford, Yorkshire, on 17 November 1884,
Herbert was educated at Uppingham, Rutland, the establishment in the
High Street of Edward Selwyn, a schoolmaster and clergyman of the Church
of England, and is recorded there in 1901. On 13 January 1904 he was
gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Own, following his father's
footsteps, and joined at Aldershot on 15 February. He became a
Lieutenant on 4 September 1906. Employed with the West African Frontier
Force from 29 March 1911 to 4 March 1914, he was then attached to the
Somaliland Camel Constabulary. He became a Captain on 9 September 1914.
He was mentioned in dispatches and also possessed a testimonial from the
Royal Humane Society for saving the life of a comrade in South Africa.
He was killed in action at Shimber Berries Somaliland,
on 19 Nov 1914, and was buried at Little Bohotleh, Somaliland. The CWGC
reference is Hargeisa War Cemetery, C 23, and there is a note that he
was to be commemorated on the Fort Burao memorial. At the foot of his
headstone are the words, "Deeply loved".
Mr Symons died on 18 July 1894, aged 49, from a
fractured skull after falling from his horse. He is buried in St
Sepulchre Cemetery, Poona, India. There is a memorial tablet to him at
York Minster.
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TANDY, F. B.
Frederick Benjamin Tandy was born shortly after his father Benjamin died
on 25 July 1895, aged 27. Married in 1893, Benjamin's wife, the former
Mary Clarke, was the daughter of Elizabeth Clarke, a beerhouse keeper at
the Swan Tap, Church Passage, Newport Pagnell, and in 1911 was living
with her mother and assisting her in the business. Fred was working as a
gardener at Tickford Abbey.
Fred eventually took up work with the North Western Railway, and
enlisted in Salford. He became a Private, 21738, in the Grenadier
Guards, 3rd battalion. He died on 25 July 1917, and is commemorated on
the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, panel 9 and 11.
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TAYLOR, F. M.
Francis Maurice Taylor was the great-grandson of William Taylor, the
founder in 1825 of the Taylor's Mustard and Mineral Water business. His
father was Francis William Taylor, the son of Thomas Taylor who in 1862
became a partner with his brother Frederick James Taylor in
manufacturing the goods, distributed in pots and bottles bearing the
name "T and F J Taylor". Mr Francis Taylor may have been a
churchwarden at SS Peter and Paul, Newport Pagnell.
Born on 15 September 1896, in 1901 Francis was at home with his family at 36
High Street; along with his parents, Francis and Annie, were siblings
William Lawrence, born 1891, Phyllis Marion, born 7 October 1892, and
Alan Linnell
Taylor, born 28 June 1899. Their eldest brother, Frederick Thomas, born in 1889, was
not at home. The family had three servants living there also. In 1911
Francis was a pupil boarder at Chesham Road, Berkhamsted as was his
brother Alan; their parents, with Frederick, William, and Phyllis, were
living at The Limes at 8 North Square. In 1939 Francis William Taylor,
born 2 May 1862, his wife Annie, born 2 Nov 1861, and their daughter
Phyllis were living at Lovat Bank, Newport Pagnell.
After leaving school in 1913, Francis went to work at
a tea merchant in London. In March 1914, having been in the school
cadets, he joined the Inns of Court Training Corps and in
September gained his commission. He went to the Front in June 1915. He became a Lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers, 10th battalion.
It was during an attempt to take enemy trenches at Pozières, near La Boiselle,
in 1917, that he lost his life. Only four men were left from his
platoon, having suffered both machine-gun fire and explosive bullets
from snipers. One of the men of the platoon, Sidney Seager, 19 years
old, had his left leg broken in two places by an explosive bullet; left
behind in the retreat he was picked up by Francis and taken some 1,000
yards towards their own trench. Just a yard from safety, the enemy,
hearing cheers from men in the trench, fired again, wounding Sidney's
right leg and fatally sending a bullet through Francis' stomach. Francis
collapsed instantly, falling on Sidney's left leg. On 19 July 1916, just
four days after Francis, also 19, was killed, Sidney wrote to his mother
from the Queen Mary Military Hospital in Lancashire, telling her he was
wounded but safe. His mother, a widow of 8 Thurso Street, Summerstown,
London, had already lost three of her sons to the war; Albert in
November 1915, Ernest in May 1916, and Edward in April 1917. Thanks to
Francis' outstanding bravery she was spared another loss just a few
weeks after her last, as Sidney was convinced that had he remained where
he had fallen he would have been bayonetted. Instead, discharged a year
later as no longer fit for service owing to his wounds, he
married, had two children, and lived until 1973.
Frederick, Francis' brother, a Lieutenant in the
Manchester Regiment, was himself in hospital in London, having been
wounded by a shell on 13 July 1916, when he heard of his brother's
death. Francis' body was never positively identified; he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France, pier and face 8C 9A, and 16A,
and is also named on the memorial at Berkhamsted School.
additional information by courtesy of
Geoff Simmons and the Summerstown Group
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TEALE, G.
Buried at Newport Pagnell is Gordon Teale, a Private, 68902, in the
Royal Army Medical Corps. He had volunteered on 25 September 1915. He
served in France between 14 February 1917 and 29 January 1918 as an
orderly in hospital at Rouen and a stretcher-bearer in the Somme,
Arras, Albert, and also Ypres sectors. He was invalided to St Albans,
suffering a general paralysis which, according to his National Roll
entry was caused through shell-shock; his records confirm that his
ailments were exacerbated by his war work. He was discharged at Woking
as no longer physically fit on 10 May 1918, receiving a silver war
badge.
Private Teale had joined at Aldershot and was then
described as 5 feet five inches tall, with grey eyes, and had been
employed as a painter's labourer. He was said to have a very good
military character and to be a very steady well-conducted man during his
service. His records show that he had been married on 13 February 1909
at Newport Pagnell parish church to Edith Emily Fossey; in 1911 they
were living at 4 Priory Street with their son Gordon Sutherland
Creighton Teale, born on 13 May 1909. Mr Teale, on the census recorded
as John and who had been born in Brompton, Yorkshire, was working in the
motor trade as a painter.
When Private Teale died on 14 September 1918 the couple had
three more children; Algar Alexandra, born on 8 June 1912, Mercedes
Juliana born on 19 December 1913, and Guy Noel, born on 26 February
1916. There was also Dorothy Fossey, born on 14 May 1905, who in 1911
was visiting George and Alice Mary Fossey, probably her grandparents, at
108 Tickford Street. This was the address given in Private Teale's
National Roll entry, where his epitaph was "A costly sacrifice upon the
altar of freedom".
Mrs Teale in 1921 married Albert Mills, the brother
of Charles Frederick and Fred Mills.
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THORNTON,
C. G.
Cyril George Thornton was born in 1895 in Huntingdon. His
parents were George, a coach trimmer in 1901 and a motor trimmer in
1911, and Annie, née Ball. the couple had married in Huntingdon
in 1897; Mr Thornton had been born in Great Brickhill and his wife in
Brampton, Hungtingdonshire. Cyril had an elder sister, Annie, born in
1889.
In 1901 the family were living at 28 West Street,
Newtown, Huntingdon St Mary. By 1911 they had moved to Newport Pagnell,
living at 15 Wolverton Road.
Cyril enlisted in Wolverton and became a Private,
12250, in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 7th battalon. He died on
25 April 1917 and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial, Greece.
The headstone is in the churchyard of St Peter and St
Paul, Newport Pagnell. It reads "In loving
 memory of George, the beloved husband of Annie
Thornton, who passed peacefully away March 7th 1920. Underneath thy
deepest sorrow are the everlasting arms. Also Cyril George, his dear
son, who fell in action in Salonika 1917 in his 22nd year. Thy Jesus can
repay from his own fullness all he takes away. And Annie Thornton,
who passed away Decr 7th 1943, aged 81 years. Re-united".
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TODD, H.
This is probably Henry George Todd, born in Newport Pagnell
in 1892. It is difficult to find him in the census returns. However
there was a Todd family headed by a George Todd, born 1831, living at
Victoria Terrace; this family also had a son named George, born about
1871. George senior was married to Elizabeth and there were also two
daughters recorded there; Isabella, born about 1873, and Mary Ann, born
about 1881.
Henry enlisted in Buckingham and became a Trumpeter, 909, in the
Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars. He died on 23 July 1915 and is buried in
the Cairo War Cemetery, Egypt, b337. Henry's mother lived in Silver
Street at the time of his death.
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TRIMMER, G. F.
Gilbert Frederick Trimmer was the son of John Trimmer and his
wife Alice Keturah née Dawes, who had married in 1874. Born in
Guildford on 18 April 1876, he was one of five children. In 1881 the
family were living at Park Road, Guildford; Mr Trimmer was then working
as a Master Tailor. At home then with Gilbert were Sidney John, bor in
1875, and Violet Alice, born in 1879.
By 1891 the family had moved to Woodbridge Road.
Sidney had become a cycle-maker, while Gilbert was still at school. The
family had been joined by Archie Harry in 1883, and Winifred Annie in
1885. They also employed a general servant, Edith Coombes. At number 4
Woodridge Road in 1901, Gilbert was the eldest of the children still
living at home. He had followed his father's trade, and was a foreman
tailor. By 1911 Mr Trimmer had changed his occupation, becoming an
assistant overseer and rate collector for the Corporation and Borough of
Guildford.
Meanwhile, Gilbert, on 10 February 1902, married
Grace Eleanor Hewitt at St Mary's, Guildford. He saw service in South
Africa with the City Imperial Volunteers, being invalided home. By 1911
the couple were living in Newport Pagnell, at 56 High Street, where
Gilbert had become a Master Tailor. A later address was Esher
Cottage, Tickford Street. The cottage was named after the birthplace of
Gilbert's mother.
Gilbert was a secretary of the Newport Pagnell Rifle
Club. He enlisted on 2 November 1914, and was sent to the Dardanelles.
He was serving as a Company Sergeant Major, T/3359, in The Queen's
(Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2/4th battalion, when he was killed at
Chocolate Hill, Gallipoli, on 9 April 1915. He is commemorated on the
Helles Memorial, panel 30 and 31.
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TURNER, F.
Fredrick Turner, 22310, died on 27 September 1918, serving as
a Private in C Co, 2nd battalion, of the Suffolk Regiment. He is buried
at the Hermies Hill British Cemetery, France, IV F 12. At the foot of
his grave are the words, "Or breathe a prayer divinely taught, "Thy Will
Be Done".
Fredrick was born in Swanley and enlisted in Chatham. In 1915 he
had married in the Dartford area, Eva Frances Keech. She was
probably the daughter of William Keech, a horsekeeper on a farm at
Gayhurst, and his wife Mary, a pillow lace-maker. The couple
probably had a son, Frederick W R Turner, born in 1916. In 1922 Mrs
Turner remarried, to William Clarke, and probably had more children,
including Ronald H in 1924 and Edward C in 1926. Mrs Clarke lived at
2 Northampton Terrace, Priory Street, Newport Pagnell.
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UMNEY, B. D. Bertie David Umney was the
youngest of the six children of John Umney, a railway platelayer, and
his wife Elizabeth, née Davis, born in North Crawley. The couple had married in 1883;
Mrs Umney may have been the sister of Mrs Esther French, the mother of
Abraham George French.
Bertie had one older sister, Jane, born about 1886,
and four brothers, John Walter, 1884, George Ernest, about 1888, both of
whom in 1901 were working in the parchment works, then Harry Edwin,
1890, and Frank Frederick, 1892. Bertie's father had been born in Sherington;
he was a railway platelayer and was the son of William, born Emberton,
and Mary Umney, born Sherington.
In 1891 the family were at The Green, Station Road,
Newport Pagnell, with Mrs Umney working as a lacemaker. Ten years later the family were living at 116 High Street,
and by 1911 had moved to 33 Broad Street. Jane had become a chambermaid
in an hotel, while Harry was a carter builder. Frank was a butcher's
assistant, and Bertie was working as a Boy in a private house.
Bertie volunteered in August 1914 for service,
enlisting in Wolverton. He went to France in 1915 but was invalided home
after being badly wounded on the Somme in July 1916. He recovered and
returned to the Front, but was killed on 3 May 1917 while serving as
Private 12249 in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infrantry, 5th battalion. He
is commemorated on the Arras memorial, France, bay 6 and 7.
"Whilst we remember, the sacrifice was not in vain".
The address given on the National Roll was 35 Broad
Street, and from that address others are listed as also having served.
Frank volunteered in June 1915 and in January 1916 he went to France. He
was a Private in the 6th Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, and served on
the Somme, at Arras and Cambrai, and in the retreat and advance of 1918.
He was demobilised in 1919.
George was already in the army when the Great War
began. He served in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was invalided home
from the battle of Loos, and then went to Salonika, seeing heavy
fighting on the Vardar and Doiran fronts. Wounded again he returned home
and was discharged in 1919.
Harry volunteered in September 1914, and became a
Private in the 6th Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. In March 1915 he
went to the Western Front, fighting at Ypres. He later went to Salonika
and was badly wounded on the Doiran Front. Sent home, he
 was discharged
in 1919.
Probably also their brother John served, in the
Berkshire Regiment. He joined in 1917 and became a signaller. He served
at Ypres and the Somme, and also at Mons, and
 suffered gassing. He was
demobilised in 1919. The address given for him was 27 Bury Avenue.
This grave, left, next to Charles Edward Daniells, the father of
Ernest Edgar Daniells, is that of
Bertie's parents. The kerbstones read, "In loving memory of John Umney,
who died on 19 August 1927, aged 84 years" and "also of Elizabeth, the
beloved wife of John Umney, who died Sept 28 1922, aged 71 years".
In the centre there is a plaque (right) which reads, "also of Bert Umney,
their beloved son, killed in action in France May 3 1917 aged 21 years".
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UMNEY, J. John or Jack Umney was born in
1892, and was one of the 15 children of Eliza, née Steward, and
Frederick Umney, a farm labourer, who had married in 1866. The son of
Frederick and Sarah Umney, Frederick was born in Sherington about 1837;
he died in 1920 aged 82.
Three of their children died young; amongst the
others were Comfort (?), born about 1868, Sarah, about 1870, Charles, 1875,
Thomas, about 1877, Mary, 1880, Frederick, about 1882, Jenny or Jane, 1886, Amos, 1884, Annie,
1894, and David, 1896. The family moved often, living at 46 Mill Street
in 1881, Clares Court in Caldecote Street in 1891, Tickford Court at 5
Priory Street in 1901, and 2 Church Passage in 1911. They later lived at
5 Church Passage.
Jack enlisted in Coventry, volunteering in August
1914. He took part in battles at Marne, La Bassée, Ypres, and the Somme.
As Lance Corporal 13100, serving in the 5th
battalion of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, he was killed on 2
April 1917, and is buried in the Beaurains Road Cemetery, Beaurains,
France, grave D14. At the foot of his headstone are engraved the words
"Till we meet again - Mother".
"The path of duty was the way to glory"
From 5 Church Passage also came A Umney, possibly
Amos, who volunteered in August 1914. He served as a Private in the
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, taking part in many engagements including Ypres,
the
Somme, Arras, and Cambrai. He suffered gassing in 1916. He was
demobilised in 1919.
Possibly also their brother Charles is represented,
living at 58 Bury Street. He volunteered in September 1914, and served
throughout the war, taking part at Ypres, the Somme, Albert, Cambrai,
and in the retreat and advance in 1918. After the Armistice he served
with the Army of Occupation in Germany until his demobiliation in 1919.
On 5 June 1919, p 1922 of the Edinburgh Gazette, was announced his award
of a Meritorious Service Medal for consistently good work and devotion
to duty.
John Umney was the uncle of
Arthur Umney
and probably of
Cyril Umney; John was brother to Arthur's father Charles and
probably also to Cyril's father Thomas.
Mr Frederick Umney died in 1920.
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