we owe a debt: 2014

Friday 14 November 2014

Thursday 13 November 2014

Tuesday 11 November 2014

11 November 1914

Private Frederick George TILLER 1882-1914
Born	Hornsey, London
Died	11 November 1914, Age 31 years
Regiment	1^st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Buried/Commemorated	Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery, Poperinghe, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Occupation	Agricultural Labourer

WW1 Service Records (a selection)

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Friday 31 October 2014

31 October 1914

Private Emmanuel OLNEY 1893-1914
Born	Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Died	31 October 1914, Age 21 years
Regiment	2^nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
Buried/Commemorated	Harlebeke New British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Occupation	Cowman

Emmanuel’s brother Sidney John OLNEY also died in WW1 on 29 January 1915

Emmanuel & Sidney were cousins of my Great Grandmother

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Saturday 25 October 2014

Monday 1 September 2014

01 September 1914

Gunner Horace Edwin BRYANT 1893-1914
Born	Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Died	01 September 1914, Age 21 years
Regiment	L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery
Buried/Commemorated	Nery Communal Cemetery, Oise, France and Verberie French National Cemetery, Oise, France
Occupation	Bricklayer
Other
Horace died at the ‘Affair of Nery’ where L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery was wiped out. Three of the officers were awarded the Victoria Cross (but not Horace). The officers are buried in a vault. A special memorial in the north-west quarter of the cemetery records the name of 12 men of L Battery who fell in the Affair of Nery. Seven are buried in this cemetery and five are buried in Verberie French National Cemetery. None of the men could be individually identified, hence they are commemorated at both sites.

Private Percival Richard RAVENOR 1889-1914
Born	Chislehurst, Kent
Died	01 September 1914, Age 25 years
Regiment	2^nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Buried/Commemorated	La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France
Occupation	Caretaker

Service Records (a selection)

Driver Arthur Francis WEIDERMAN b1887
Regiment	33^rd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force
Occupation	Farmer

Trooper Thomas James WEIDERMAN b1889
Regiment	7th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force
Occupation	Farmer

Trooper John Edward Everett WEIDERMAN b1894
Regiment	6^th Squadron, 2^nd Remount Unit, Australian Imperial Force
Occupation	Labourer

Arthur, Thomas and John were brothers

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Sunday 24 August 2014

24 August 1914

Private Charles LOWEN 1888-1914
Born	Finchley, London
Died	24 August 1914 , Age 26 years
Regiment	4^th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
Buried/Commemorated	St Symphorien Military Cemetery, Mons Hainault, Belgium
Occupation	Career Soldier
Other
In 1911 Charles was serving in the Army in India

Saturday 23 August 2014

For the duration of the #WW1centenary I will be posting the names of those connected to our family trees who died during the Great War on the 100th anniversary of their death (and also some information about a selection of those who served.)

Each one of these men was someone's son and sometimes brother/husband/father.

They all changed the course of history and we owe a debt.

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Private Henry BYWATER 1884-1914
Born	Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire
Died	14 November 1914, Age 30 years
Regiment	1^st Regiment Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derby Regiment)
Buried	Rue-du-Baquerot No1 Military Cemetery, Laventie, Pas de Calais, France
Occupation	Career Soldier (formerly Coal Miner)
Other
1891	Living in Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire, age 7, with Uncle & Aunt Reuben & Emma Dear, with his older siblings Walter & Mary Ann BYWATER, following their mother’s death
1901	Lodging in Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, occupation Coal Miner
1911	Living in India, Private with Sherwood Foresters, Nottinghamshire and Derby Regiment; Henry was also resident in India at the start of WW1

Private George William TOON 1871-1914
Born	Stamford, Lincolnshire
Died	13 November 1914, Age 43 years
Regiment	1^st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Buried/Commemorated	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium
Occupation	Builder’s Labourer

Sergeant Cyril Gilbert OLNEY b1895
Regiment/s	5^th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment & 4^th Battalion, Dorset Regiment
Occupation	Domestic Gardener
Other
Sep 1914	Enlisted
1915	Served in Gallipoli, after which he was invalided to England
1917-1918	Promoted to Sergeant with 4th Battalion, Dorset Regiment and served in the Middle East

Sapper George Raymond SCOTT b1894
Regiment	2^nd Divisional Signal Company, Australian Imperial Force
Occupation	Telephone Engineer
Other
Oct 1914	Enlisted
1914-1915	Served in Gallipoli, then taken ill
0ct-Nov15	Transferred to Malta, then England for hospitalisation, for enteric (intestinal infection) in Birmingham & Abbey Wood
Jan 1916	To France
Aug-Oct16	2 months training at Bletchley Park
Oct-Dec16	To hospital for scabies via Royal Engineers Depot, Bearton Road, Hitchin (this depot is situated behind my Great Grandfather’s one time house and Builder’s Yard)
Aug-Oct17	Wounded in action, gunshot wound to knee, treated at hospitals in England
Mar 1918	Treated at field hospital in France for laryngitis due to gas attack
Nov1918	Returned to Melbourne

Sergeant Percy BRYANT DCM b1891
Regiment	4^th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Occupation	Gardener
Other
1914	Enlisted to 4^th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
1915	Served in Gallipoli, wounded in August 1915
1916-1917	Served in Egypt
16 Aug 1917	Awarded DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL
*DCM Citation*	*‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. After his platoon commander had been killed, he took command of the platoon and led them to the assault with great skill and courage’*
20 March 1918	Presented with the Distinguished Conduct Medal by Duke of Connaught