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People & Organisations
First World War (1914-1918)

Durrant, William Blencowe Wells, 1894-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-06525
  • Person
  • 1894-1915

Durrant, William Blencowe Wells, only son of Frederick Chester Wells Durrant, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, Attorney-General of the Bahamas, West Indies, by Gertrude, daughter of William Blencowe, of Brackley, Northants; b. May 4, 1894; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1908; left (with Triplett) July 1913; Magd. Coll. Camb., exhibitioner, matric. Michaelmas 1913; 2nd Lieut. 6th Batt. (Reserve) Rifle Brigade Nov. 1, 1914; went out to the western front in March 1915 and was attached to the 2nd Batt.; killed in action near Ypres May 8, 1915; unm.

East, Allred Tomlin, 1877-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-06592
  • Person
  • 1877-1915

East, Allred Tomlin, only son of Sir Alfred East, R. A., of Hampstead, President of the Royal Society of British Artists, by Annie, daughter of Henry Heath, of High Wycombe, Bucks; b. July 13, 1877; adm. Sept. 24, 1891 (A); left April 1895; became an engineer; A. M. I. C. E. Dec. 3, 1907; special assist. engineer to the Bombay Municipality Waterworks; enlisted in the Indian Marines at Bombay at the outbreak of Great War l; 2nd Lieut. Indian Army (Reserve of Officers) 1915; was attached 17th Co. 3rd Sappers and Miners in July 1915, and left Bombay with the Expeditionary Force to Mesopotamia in the following month; d. Dec. 25, 1915, of wounds received in action at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, Dec. 18, 1915; unm.

Edwardes, Thomas, 1897-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-06657
  • Person
  • 1897-1918

Edwardes, Thomas, son of the Rev. George Edwardes, Vicar of St. John the Baptist, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, by Ethel Mary, daughter of Frederic Lassetter, of Sydney, Australia; b. Feb. 17, 1897; adm. April 26, 1912 (H); left July 1915; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. York and Lancaster Regt. Aug. 4, 1915; Lieut. July 1917; went out to the western front in Jan. 1917; killed in action at Steenwerke, near Ypres, April 12, 1918; unm.

Edwards, Colin Hyde, 1897-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-06664
  • Person
  • 1897-1917

Edwards, Colin Hyde, youngest son of Frederick William Hyde Edwards, of Westminster, by Julia Annie, daughter of James Arthur Humphrey, of Addlestone, Surrey; b. Jan. 25, 1897; adm. April 29, 1909 (A); left Easter 1911, and went to Bradfield Coll.; R. M.C. Sandhurst Dec. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. East Surrey Regt. May 12, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915; reported missing May 8, 1917; d. May 22, 1917, a prisoner of war in the War Hospital of Shelotille, Douai, of wounds received near Fresnoy; unm.

Estall, Arthur Cecil, 1890-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-06848
  • Person
  • 1890-1917

Estall, Arthur Cecil, only son of Thomas Estall, of Kensington, by Emily, daughter of George Tilly, of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey; b. Oct. 3, 1890; adm. April 26, 1901 (H); left July 1902; readm. Sept. 28, 1905; left July 1909; became a clerk in the Bank of England and subsequently went into the bill broking business; joined the H. A. C. in 1909, and was promoted Corporal 1914; went out to the western front in Sept. 1914 and was invalided home in Jan. 1915; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. March 22, 1915; Lieut. Sept. 16, 1915; Capt. May 2, 1916; returned to the front Sept. 18, 1916; d. Aug. 8, 1917, at the 7th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, of wounds received in action, north of Ypres, Aug. 6, 1917; in 1935 his mother gave £1000 to the War Memorial Fund, the interest to be used in assisting in the education of boys at the school; unm.

Eyre, Gerard Layton Phipps, 1890-1921

  • GB-2014-WSA-06914
  • Person
  • 1890-1921

Eyre, Gerard Layton Phipps, eldest son of Layton Eyre, of Hampstead, by Louisa, daughter ofJohn Forbes Moir, of Aberdeen; a nephew of Charles Lewis Eyre (q.v.); b. Oct. 5, 1890; adm. Jan. 14, 1904 (G); left July 1908; Lieut. 59th (2nd North Midland) Div. R. F. A. June 1, 1916; served on the western front from 1917 until he was gassed near Monchy in April 1918; discharged as permanently unfit July 1, 1919; d. from the effects of gas-poisoning May 4, 1921.

Faire, Eric Leslie, 1893-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-06932
  • Person
  • 1893-1916

Faire, Eric Leslie, brother of Washington Morley Faire (q.v.); b. Sept. 30, 1893; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (G); left Easter 1909; went to Lausanne, Switzerland, for the purpose of studying languages; enlisted in 25th (Co. of London) Cyclist Batt. the London Regt. at the outbreak of World War I; went out to the western front inJuly 1916; acted as Interpreter for his own Batt. for a short time, but was afterwards transferred to the 9th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Queen Victoria's Rifles); killed in action at Maurel Oct. 8, 1916; unm.

Faulkner, Eric William Scarlett, 1898-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-06989
  • Person
  • 1898-1918

Faulkner, Eric William Scarlett, elder son of William Bowler Faulkner, of New Malden, by Louisa, daughter of James Scarlett, of Hanworth Park, Middlesex; b. Oct. 15, 1898; adm. Sept. 26, 1912 (A); non-resident K.S. 1913; joint Mure Scholar 1915; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1916; enlisted in the 5th (City of London) Batt. London Regt. (London Rifle Brigade) Oct. 20, 1916; went out to the western front Nov. 7, 1917, where he joined the 2nd Batt., and early in 1918 was transferred to the 28th Batt. (Artists' Rifles); d. July 26, 1918, at the 3rd Canadian Stationary Hospital at Dovelleris of wounds received in action at Aveling Wood, Englebelmer, near Albert, July 24, 1918; unm.

Featherstone, Reginald Benjamin, 1881-1914

  • GB-2014-WSA-07027
  • Person
  • 1881-1914

Featherstone, Reginald Benjamin, b. Nov. 28, 1881; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (A); left Dec. 1898; 2nd Lieut. Devonshire Regt. from the Militia Dec. 4, 1901; Lieut. Dec. 7, 1904; Adjutant (T. F.) Nov. 18, 1909 - Nov. 17, 1912; Capt. Devonshire Regt. Oct. 3, 1914; served in the S. African War 1902; killed in action Dec. 18, 1914.

Ferguson, John White, 1890-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-07066
  • Person
  • 1890-1915

Ferguson, John White, second son of John Ferguson, of Regent's Park, by Katherine Pickersgill; b. May 13, 1890; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1904; left July 1908; apprenticed to his father in the shipbuilding trade 1908; Lieut. R. N. V. R. (Clyde Div.) April 2, 1913; served in the Antwerp Expedition Oct. 1914; D. C. M. 1915; attached to the Hood Batt. R. N. R. in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force March 1915; killed in action near Krithia, in the Gallipoli Peninsula, June 7, 1915; unm.

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