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People & Organisations
First World War (1914-1918)

Gordon, Alexander John Maxwell, 1894-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-07995
  • Person
  • 1894-1917

Gordon, Alexander John Maxwell, younger brother of Richard Edward Clifton Gordon (q.v.); b. Nov. 4. 1894; adm. Sept. 26, 1907 (R); left July 1913; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1914; 2nd Lieut. 16th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Queen's Westminster Rifles) Nov. 16, 1914; Lieut. Sept. 13, 1916, Capt. Nov. 14, 1916; went out to the western front in Sept. 1917; killed in action at Moeuvres Nov. 27, 1917; unm.

Gordon, Archibald, 1897-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-07996
  • Person
  • 1897-1918

Gordon, Archibald, younger son of William Edward Gordon, of Chelsea, barrister-at-law, by Bertha, daughter of George Bridges Moore (q.v.); b. May 11, 1897; adm. as K.S. Sept. 28, 1911; left April 1916; an asst. master at Temple Grove School, Eastbourne; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. Dec. 16, 1916; Observer Sub-Lieut. R. N. March 16, 1917; left England for naval air service in Italy in June 1917; drowned in the Mediterranean while on active service patrol Jan. 7, 1918; unm.

Gow, Charles Humphry, 1891-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-08074
  • Person
  • 1891-1916

Gow, Charles Humphry, only son of the Rev. Henry Gow, of Hampstead, Unitarian Minister, by Edith, daughter of Dr. Charles Beard, of Liverpool; b. May 26, 1891; adm. May 4, 1905 (R); left July 1908; Emann. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1909; B.A. 1912; a student at St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1912-5; Surgeon Probationer R. N. V. R. Aug. 8, 1914; served for eight months on the destroyer H. M. S. Laforey; returned to the Hospital and qualified as M.R.C.S. (Eng.) and L.R.C.P. (Lond.) 1915; joined the R. N. D. as temp. Surgeon July 19, 1915, and served in the Gallipoli Peninsula, at Salonika, and for the last eight months of his life on the western front; killed while attending to the wounded near Beaucourt-sur-Ancre Nov. 13, 1916; unm.

Graham, Eric Clive, 1894-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-08100
  • Person
  • 1894-1917

Graham, Eric Clive, youngest son of Lionel Henry Graham, of New York City, U. S. A., by Hilda Adeline, daughter of Louisa Whitaker, of Blackheath, Kent; b. June 28, 1894; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (A); left July 1913; went to Ingleden Park, Kent, to learn agriculture with a view to farming in Canada; enlisted in the Public Schools Batt. of the Royal Fusiliers in Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Reserve) the Manchester Regt. May 26, 1915; left England Feb. 17, 1916, and joined the 1st Batt. of his regiment at Busreh, on the Tigris, March 24; was invalided to Bombay in June, but returned to Busreh Oct. 12, 1916; killed in action at Kut-elĀ­Amara, Mesopotamia, Jan. 9, 1917; unm.

Gregory, John Sheridan, 1889-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-08241
  • Person
  • 1889-1918

Gregory, John Sheridan, younger son of Gregory Marcar Gregory, of West Kensington, by Edith Laura, second daughter of. John Sheridan, of Earl's Court; b. Sept. 15, 1889; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left July 1907; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1908; B.A. and LL. B. 1911; adm. to the Middle Temple Nov. 1913; 2nd Lieut. A. S. C. (Spec. Res.) Aug. 15, 1914, and went out to France three days later; Supply Officer to the 9th Cavalry Brigade April 13, 1915 - Aug. 24, 1917; temp. Lieut. Aug. 1, 1915; Lieut. Feb. 23, 1916; temp. Capt. June 25, 1916, attached to R. F. C. and returned to England in Aug. 1917; returned to France as a qualified Observer Oct. 16, 1917; joined No. 16 Squadron R. F. C. Oct. 18, transferred to No. 35 Squadron Nov. 20; Capt. Nov. 29, 1917; killed in action, being shot down in an encounter with a German machine between Lempire and Epehy, Feb. 19, 1918; unm.

Griffin, Douglas Morley, 1889-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-08274
  • Person
  • 1889-1916

Griffin, Douglas Morley, only son of Professor William Hall Griffin, of Hampstead, by Emily, daughter of John Cripps, of Liverpool; b. Aug. 1, 1889; adm. as K.S. Sept. 24, 1903; left Dec. 1907; went into an architect's office at Liverpool; M.R.I.B.A. 1910; A.R.I.B.A. 1914; enlisted in Sept. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 17th (Service) Batt. the King's (Liverpool) Regt. Nov. 3, 1914; went out to the western front Nov. 1915; d. July 16, 1916, at Abbeville, of wounds received in action on the Somme July 9, 1916; unm.

Gundry, Horace Montague, 1885-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-08361
  • Person
  • 1885-1916

Gundry, Horace Montague, son of Horace Gundry, of Paddington, by Marion Jane, daughter of George Barker, of Hyde Park; b. Aug. 31, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (H); left July 1901; entered an architect's office, and in 1908 emigrated to Canada; enlisted in the 7th Canadian Batt. early in 1915; killed in action Sept. 26, 1916; unm.

Hadden, Archibald Robert, 1889-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-08414
  • Person
  • 1889-1918

Hadden, Archibald Robert, elder son of the Rev. Robert Henry Hadden, Vicar of St. Mark, North Audley Street, London, Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria and Hon. Chaplain to Edward VII, by Eva Prudence, second daughter of John Carbery Evans, of Hatley Park, Cambs; b. Oct. 22, 1889; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left July 1907; Ch. Ch. Oxford, matric. Michaelmas 1907; 2nd Lieut. 9th Batt. London Regt. (Queen Victoria's Rifles) 1909; Lieut. March 27, 1911; Capt. Sept. 23, 1914; served on the staff of the 3rd London Infantry Brigade under Gen. Monck Aug. 1914 - Jan. 1917; went out lo the western front in Jan. 1917, where he joined his regiment; m. May 6, 1915, Evelyn Forster, only daughter of Edwin Thomas Morse Tunnicliffe, M.R.C.S., of North Finchley, Middlesex; killed in action at Hangard Wood. April 25, 1918.

Hadden, Eustace Walter Russell, 1891-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-08415
  • Person
  • 1891-1916

Hadden, Eustace Walter Russell, brother of Archibald Robert Hadden (q.v.); b. Jan. 20, 1891; adm. Sept. 24, 1903 (A); left July 1908; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1908; called to the bar at the Inner Temple Nov. 18, 1912; held a legal appointment under the Siamese Government 1913-4; returned to England in June 1914; 2nd Lieut. 4th (Terr.) Batt. Oxford and Bucks L. I. Sept. 1911; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1912; Capt. Sept. 2, 1914; went out to the western front in March 1915; temp. Major April 15, 1916; was in temporary command of his Batt. during the last six weeks of his life; d. June 11, 1916, at Abbeville; unm.

Hallward, Basil Murray, 1891-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-08514
  • Person
  • 1891-1918

Hallward, Basil Murray, only son of William Lambard Hallward, of Kensington, by Grace, daughter of William Murray, of Dereham, Norfolk; b. Nov. 17, 1891; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (H); left Easter 1911; was engaged in the study of music at the outbreak of Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 10th (Service) Batt. Royal Warwickshire Regt. Sept. 14, 1914; Lieut. Feb. 12, 1915, R. F. A. Sept. 9, 1915; went out to the western front in Dec. 1915; killed in action near Arras April 10, 1918.

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