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First World War (1914-1918)

Kellie, Esmond Lawrence, 1894-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-10349
  • Person
  • 1894-1915

Kellie, Esmond Lawrence, younger son of Lawrence Kellie, of Maida Hill, singer and composer, by Gertrude, daughter of John Stonier, of Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffs; b. April 27, 1894; adm. April 29, 1909 (G); left July 1912; London Univ.; passed the exam. for the Civil Service; joined the 28th (Co. of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Artists' Rifles) Aug. 3, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 1st Batt. Beds Regt. Jan. 1, 1915; went out to the western front; killed in action at 'Hill 60', Ypres, Belgium, April 19, 1915; unm.

Jonas, Frank Charlton, 1881-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-10192
  • Person
  • 1881-1917

Jonas, Frank Charlton, brother of Herbert Charlton Jonas (q.v.); b. July 21, 1881; adm. May 2, 1895 (R); left July 1898; went to Copenhagen to study brewing, and subsequently to India as manager of a branch brewery of Messrs. Miskin and Co.; returned home at the outĀ­ break of Great War I and entered the Camb. Univ. O.T.C. in Sept. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 2/1st Cambs Regt. Oct. 1914; Lieut. Jan. 1, 1915, Adjutant and temp. Capt. May 1915; Capt. Oct. 13, 1916; went out to the western front in Nov. 1916; m. 1908 Maria, only daughter of John Fell Swallow, of Mosborough Hall, Derbyshire; killed in action at St. Julien July 31, 1917.

Johnson, Thomas Colwell, 1897-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-10158
  • Person
  • 1897-1918

Johnson, Thomas Colwell, son of Kendall Warren Johnson, of Hampstead, by Nellie, daughter of the Rev. T. M. Colwell, of Lowell, Massachusetts, U. S. A.; b. Jan. 9, 1897; adm. Jan. 18, 1912 (R); left Dec. 1912; travelled in the United States, South America, and on the Continent; went to Australia in the early autumn of 1914, and in Nov. of that year enlisted as a Private in the 1st Batt. Australian Imperial Force; went with his batt. to Egypt, and in April 1915 landed at Gallipoli, where he served until he was wounded Aug. 10; was invalided to Egypt, and in April 1916 was sent to the western front, where he was again wounded in July 1916; received special mention for gallant conduct in the field in July 1918; killed in action near St. Quentin Sept. 18, 1918; unm.

Johnson, Sidney Frederick, 1887-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-10156
  • Person
  • 1887-1917

Johnson, Sidney Frederick, second son of George Frederick Johnson, of Tooting Bee, by Blanche Evelyn, daughter of George Anderson, of Adelaide, South Australia; b. Aug. 19, 1887; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left July 1906; London Univ.; B.Sc. 1906; 2nd Lieut. Queen VicĀ­toria's Rifles May 1910; became a partner in Hendren's Trust, Ltd., a financial company for promoting British enterprise in Canada; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. (Reserve) Border Regt. Dec. 13, 1914; attached 2nd Batt. and went out to the western front Feb. 20, 1915; was wounded at Festubert in May 1915, and invalided home; Lieut. March 13, 1916; returned to the front Dec. 29, 1916, and was appointed brigade bombing officer with the rank of temp. Capt. Oct. 7, 1916; m. Nov. 28, 1914, Helen Marguerite, elder daughter of Farquhar Robinson, of Montreal, Canada; killed in action at Beaumont Hamel Jan. 10, 1917.

Imroth, Leslie, 1897-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-09874
  • Person
  • 1897-1918

Imroth, Leslie, only son of G. Imroth, of Kilburn; b. Jan. 17, 1897; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 22, 1910 (G); left Dec. 1910; 2nd Lieut. 8th Batt. Hampshire Regt. Dec. 27, 1915, and became Lieut.; served in Great War I and was wounded in action Nov. 30, 1917; d. of his wounds at Johannesburg, S. Africa, Nov. 7, 1918.

Hurst-Brown, Cecil, 1894-1915

  • GB-2014-WSA-09804
  • Person
  • 1894-1915

Hurst-Brown, Cecil, second son of William Hurst-Brown, of North Kensington, by Ethel Mary Dredge, daughter of John Newbury Coles, of Boreham House, Warminster, Wilts; b. April 12, 1894; adm. Jan. 16, 1908 (R); left July 1913; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1913; R. M.C. Sandhurst Aug. 1914; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. Oxfordshire and Bucks L. I. Dec. 16, 1914 (attached 3rd Batt.); went out to the western front in May 1915, where he joined his own Batt.; d. Sept. 26, 1915, from wounds received in action near Givenchy on the previous day; unm.

Hunter, Godfrey Jackson, 1889-1916

  • GB-2014-WSA-09779
  • Person
  • 1889-1916

Hunter, Godfrey Jackson, youngest son of Herbert Hunter, of Streatham, Asst. Solicitor to the London County Council, by Ellen, daughter of Henry Shayer, of Guernsey; b. July 3, 1889; adm. from Merchant Taylor's School Sept. 22, 1904 (H); left July 1907; Trin. Hall, Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1907; B.A. 1910; LL. B. 1911; adm. to Lincoln's Inn Nov. 2, 1907, called to the bar Nov. 17, 1911; Inns of Court O. T. C.; 2nd Lieut. 5th Royal Irish Lancers (Special Reserve) Aug. 15, 1914; Machine Gun Officer 1915; killed in action against the Sinn Feiners in Charles Street, Dublin, while in command of an escort to ammunition, April 26, 1916; unm.

Hunt, Arthur George, 1881-1918

  • GB-2014-WSA-09753
  • Person
  • 1881-1918

Hunt, Arthur George, youngest son of Frederick William Hunt, of St. Marylebone, architect, by Mary Louisa, daughter of the Rev. Edward Vinall, Vicar of Hildenborough, Kent; b. April 23, 1881; adm. Sept. 27, 1895 (H); left Aug. 1899; emigrated to Canada in 1901; joined the Seaforth Highlanders at Vancouver on the outbreak of Great War I, and came to England with a draft of that regiment in 1916; 2nd Lieut. in the Irish Guards; went out to the western front in 1918, attached the Guards Machine Gun Regt.; m. Katherine Isabel Bingham Powell; killed in action near Villiers Pol and Le Quesnoy Nov. 4, 1918.

Hughes, Eric James Walrond, 1892-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-09703
  • Person
  • 1892-1917

Hughes, Eric James Walrond, only son of the Rev. James Hughes, LL. D., Vicar of St. John with St. Paul, Battersea, Surrey, by Ethelhina Walrond, daughter of Francis Walrond Middleton Abadam, of Middleton Hall, co. Carmarthen; b. Feb. 25, 1892; adm. Jan. 15, 1903 (R); left July 1907; a clerk in the office of the Asiatic Petroleum Co.; was sent to Hankow, China, in 1912, but returned home in 1915 to enlist; 2nd Lieut. 4th Batt. the Sherwood Foresters April 20, 1915; went out to western front in Feb. 1916; acting Capt. July 1917, commanding the 154th Machine Gun Co.; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 1, 1918; killed in action at Poelcapelle Sept. 20, 1917; unm.

Hubback, Francis William, 1884-1917

  • GB-2014-WSA-09672
  • Person
  • 1884-1917

Hubback, Francis William, second son of John Henry Hubback, of Rock Ferry, Cheshire, by Mary Page, daughter of the Rev. George Ingram, of Chedburgh, Suffolk; b. April 19, 1884; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 30, 1897; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Triplett) July 1903, having previously obtained a minor scholarship there while at school; major scholar 1905; Lees Knowles Exhibitioner 1906; 1st class (div. 2) Classical Tripos, pt. I, 1905; 1st class Historical Tripos, pt. II, 1907; B.A. 1907; asst. lecturer in Classics at Cardiff and Liverpool Universities, and lecturer for the Workers' Educational Association at Manchester Univ.; a junior examiner, Elementary Education Branch, Board of Education, 1912; 2nd Lieut. 6th (City of London) Batt. the London Regt. (Rifles) July 7, 1915; went out to the western front; m. Aug. 31, 1911, Eva Marian, daughter of Meyer Adam Spielman, of Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, London; d. at the 43rd Casualty Clearing Station, France, Feb. 12, 1917, of wounds received in action Feb. 4, 1917.

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