14 November 1914

Private Henry BYWATER 1884-1914
Born	Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire
Died	14 November 1914, Age 30 years
Regiment	1st 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

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13 November 1914

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

Also two of George’s sons Rifleman Charles TOON died 22 March 1918 and Rifleman Frederick TOON served during WW1

WW1 Service Records (a selection)

Sergeant Cyril Gilbert OLNEY b1895
Regiment/s	5th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment & 4th 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	2nd 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

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11 November 1914

Private Frederick George TILLER 1882-1914
Born	Hornsey, London
Died	11 November 1914, Age 31 years
Regiment	1st 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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