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People & Organisations
First World War (1914-1918)

Todd, Herbert Stanley, 1898-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-16920
  • Person
  • 1898-1918

Todd, Herbert Stanley, elder son of Herbert Cooper Todd, by Ellen. daughter of R. B. Evered, of Horley, Surrey; b. April 1, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (G); left July 1914; enlisted in P. S. Batt. 16th Middlesex Regt. Sept. 10, 1914; went out to the western front Nov 17, 1915; returned to England April 1916; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. East Surrey Regt. Aug. 8, 1916; Lieut. Feb. 5, 1918; Capt.; returned to the western front Sept. 1916, thence to Italy Nov. 1917; invalided home March 6, 1918; returned to the western front Aug. 1, 1918; M.C. Jan. 1, 1918; Croix de Guerre (Belgium) Jan. 17, 1918; Bar to M.C. Feb. 4, 1918; killed in action at Roussoy Sept. 18, 1918; unm.

Thomson, Richard Edward John, 1892-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-16823
  • Person
  • 1892-1915

Thomson, Richard Edward John, eldest son of Lieut.-Col. Samuel John Thomson, C.I.E., of Tankerton, Kent, by Isabel Gordon, daughter of Surgeon-Gen. Alexander John Cowie, I.M.S., Bengal; b. July 11, 1892; adm. May 4, 1906 (R); left July 1909; R.M.C. Sandhurst 1910; 2nd Lieut. unattached Sept. 6, 1911, Indian Army Nov. 4, 1912; Double Company Officer, 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, Nov. 4, 1912; Lieut. Dec. 6, 1913; went to the western front Sept. 1914; killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, near La Bassée, France, May 18, 1915; unm.

Terres, John Brown Hugh, 1896-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-16722
  • Person
  • 1896-1918

Terres, John Brown Hugh, only son of John Brown Terres, M.D., of Charlott, North Carolina, U.S.A., Consul-Gen. at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, by Corinne, daughter of T. P. Pascal, of Mar­seilles, France; b. Sept. 6, 1896; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (A); elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1915; Flying Pilot in the French Army May 1917 to April 1918; Ensign U.S., N.R.F. April 14, 1918; attached to the English bombarding group, 214 Squadron, in France; went out to the Italian front Aug. 10, 1918; killed in action at Mirafiore, Italy, Aug. 17, 1918.

Tanner, Ralph Eyre, 1885-1914

  • GB-2014-WSA-16600
  • Person
  • 1885-1914

Tanner, Ralph Eyre, elder son of Ralph Tanner, senior asst. master at the school, by Lucy Lawrence Le Grice, daughter of George Lewis Phipps Eyre, of Regents Park, and sister of Charles Lewis Eyre (q.v.); b. July 16, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (G); left Dec. 1903; R.M.C. Sandhurst 1904; 2nd Lieut. the King's (Liverpool) Regt. Aug. 16, 1905; Lieut. Sept. 25, 1908; Capt. Sept. 16, 1912; went out to the western front Aug. 1914; m. June 11, 1913, Edith Vere Marjorie, youngest daughter of John Henry Brogie, of Westerham, Kent; d. in hospital at Versailles Sept. 23, 1914, of wounds received in action at the battle of the Aisne Sept. 14.

Tanner, Harold Herbert, 1887-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-16597
  • Person
  • 1887-1916

Tanner, Harold Herbert, only son of Herbert Tanner, of Paddington, surgeon, by Emily, daughter of Christopher W. Hickman, of Ambrosden, co. Oxon.; b. May 18, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (H); left July 1903; London Univ., matric. 1903; M.B. and B.S. 1910; St. Mary's Hospital; joined the staff of the Inoculation Dept. 1912; Capt. R.A.M.C.; in charge of a ward attached to Sir Almroth Wright's research laboratory at Boulogne from Aug. 1915; m. Oct. 1915 Minnie Bennett, daughter of the Rev. George Bowden, of Kingston Hill, Surrey; drowned while bathing at Boulogne Aug. 16, 1916.

Swinburne, Thomas Reid, 1898-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-16551
  • Person
  • 1898-1917

Swinburne, Thomas Reid, only son of Major Thomas Baker Swinburne, of Finchley, by Mary H., daughter of George Reid, of Darlington, co. Durham; b. Feb. 2, 1898; adm. Jan. 16, 1913 (H); left July 1915; King's Coll. London; Flight Sub-Lieut. R.N.A.S. June 18, 1916; went out to the western front May 1917; killed in action near Lille, France, June 8, 1917.

Sumpter, George, 1891-1920

  • GB-2014-WSA-16488
  • Person
  • 1891-1920

Sumpter, George, only son of Thomas George Sumpter, of Epping, Essex, by Nina, daughter of Thomas Kemp Stone, LL.D.; b. Sept. 19, 1891; adm. Jan. 19, 1905 (H); K.S. 1906; left July 1909; R.M.A. Woolwich 1910; 2nd Lieut. R. A. July 20, 1911; Lieut. July 20, 1914; Capt. Aug. 8, 1916; Brevet Major Feb. 2, 1917; went out to the western front 1914, and was wounded at Ypres Nov. 14, 1914, and again on the Somme June 1916; served with the military mission to South Russia Aug. 28, 1919 -June 1920; Liaison Officer with the Greek Army July 1920; M.C. Aug. 25, 1917, Bar Sept. 16, 1918; D.S.O. May 26, 1918; Order of St. Anne of Russia Nov. 1919; killed in action at Ismidt, Asia Minor, Aug. 20, 1920; unm.

Summerhays, Dudley Leycester, 1889-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-16481
  • Person
  • 1889-1915

Summerhays, Dudley Leycester, brother of Reginald Sherriff Summerhays (q.v.); b. Feb. 13, 1889; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (H); left Easter 1908; enlisted in 5th Batt. East Surrey Regt. in 1914; 2nd Lieut. 9th Batt. London Regt. Dec. 9, 1914; went out to the western front Nov. 4, 1914; killed in action on Hill 60, near Ypres, Flanders, April 21, 1915; unm.

Street, Frank, 1870-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-16422
  • Person
  • 1870-1916

Street, Frank, brother of Henry Branson Street (q.v.); b. May 31, 1870; adm. as Q.S. June 12, 1884; elected to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1889, matric. Oct. 11, 1889; B.A. 1894; played football (Assoc.) for Oxford 1891-3; Capt. 1893; asst. master, Bury St. Edmunds School, 1894, Forest School 1895-9, Uppingham School from 1900; played cricket for Essex 1898 and 1899; en­listed in the 18th (Service) Batt. Royal Fusiliers Sept. 1914; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1915; went out to the western front Nov. 1915; m. April 22, 1911, Marian Willoughby, elder daughter of H. F. W. Greenhill, of Canada; killed in action at Ovillers, France, July 7, 1916.

Strain, John Loudon, 1896-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-16403
  • Person
  • 1896-1917

Strain, John Loudon, eldest son of William Loudon Strain, M.B., of Wimbledon, by Dorothy Maud, daughter of the Rev. Ernest Lloyd Savory, of Stowmarket, Suffolk; b. Aug. 20, 1896; adm. Sept. 22, 1910 (A); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1915, matric. Michaelmas 1915; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (Spec. Res.) Dec. 17, 1915; acting Capt. May 24, 1917; went out to the western front Sept. 1916; killed in action at Frezenberg, Flanders, July 31, 1917.

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