The dead of the First World War listed on the Memorial at St Luke's Church, Redcliffe Gardens, built by George Godwin in 1872, with extra information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and other sources.

Midshipman Ian D. Alderson, H.M.S “Conqueror”
Midshipman D. I. Alderson, H.M.S. "Conqueror.", Royal Navy, who died on 15 December 1917. Buried in Tickhill (St. Mary) Churchyard, Doncaster, Yorkshire.

Private Frederick Alger, 20th Machine Gun Company
Private Frederick Alger, 20th Machine Gun Company (Infantry). Killed in action on 2 April 1917, aged 25. Son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Alger of South Kensington, London. Buried in H.A.C. Cemetery, Ecoust-St-Mien, France.

Corporal Philip H Barber, Royal Scots Greys
Lance Corporal Philip Henry Barber, 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) who was killed in action on 16 May 1915. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Frederick Barrett, 13th London Regiment
Private Frederick Robert Barrett, 13th Kensington Battalion, London Regiment, who was killed in action on 9 April 1917 in the Battle of Arras, aged 36. Son of William and Harriet Barrett of Ramsgate, Kent. He is buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, France.

Gunner George Barsby, H.M.S. “Cressy”
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Henry R. Barton, Royal Field Artillery
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William Beckett, King's Royal Rifles Corps
Rifleman William Beckett, 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifles Corps. Killed in action on 30 March 1918, aged 21. Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Beckett, of 244, Desborough Road, High Wycombe, Bucks. Buried in Buffs Road Cemetery, Wieltje, Flanders.
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Corporal William Henry Beckett, 3rd Battalion, King's Royal Rifles Corps. Killed in action on 9 May 1915, probably at the Second Battle of Ypres. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Flanders.

Lieutenant Alfred Bence-Trower, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards
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Walter Blunt, 17th Middlesex Regiment
Private Walter Blunt, 17th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Killed in action at theBattle of the Somme, 28 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Alfred F. Boyce, 28th Middlesex Regiment
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Lieutenant Robert S. Bullock, 27th Punjabis
Lieutenant Robert Stanley Bullock, 27th Punjabis, Indian Army. Killed in action on 17 April 1916, aged 27. Commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

Private Robert H. Burgess DCM, 18th Battalion. Canadian Infantry
Private Robert H Burgess DCM, 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment), killed in action on 15 September 1916 in the Battle of the Somme. Buried in Sunken Road Cemetery, Contalmaison, France.

Private Lionel W. Champion, 1/23rd London Regiment
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Edward Charles, 18th London Regiment
No record found. 18th London Regiment was also known as the London Irish Rifles.

Lieutenant Robert Chessex, H.M.S. “Vanguard”
Lieutenant Robert Ernest Aini Chessex, H.M.S. "Vanguard.", Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who died on 9 July 1917. In the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, just before midnight on Monday, July 9th 1917, H.M.S. Vanguard suddenly blew up, taking over 800 of her crew down with her. It was a magazine explosion in one of the two magazines which served the amidships turrets P and Q. He is commemorated on Chatham Naval Memorial. Two other local residents - Henry Abbott and Oscar Gait - were killed in the same disaster.

Captain Guy Chichester, 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry
Captain Robert Guy Incledon Chichester, 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry, was killed in action leading his regiment into battle at the First Battle of Ypres on 13 November 1914. He was the son of the late Rev. Richard Chichester, of Drewsteignton, Devon; and married to Edith Chichester, of Fairlie, Ayrshire. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium, and Drewsteignton Church, Devon. Chichester's ancestors included Sir John Chichester, knighted after the Siege of Calais in 1348 and present at the Barrle of Poitiers in 1356, and Sir John Chichester who fought at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

Sergeant Alexander Chilcott, Norfolk Regiment
Serjeant Alexander Chilcott, 35th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on 11 August 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorared on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

2nd Lieutenant Lyonel L. Clark, Royal Horse Artillery attached Royal Flying Corps
Second Lieutenant Lyonel Latimer Clark, 60th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, previously Leicestershire Battery, Royal Horse Artillery. Killed in action on 2 August 1916, aged 18. He was the only son of Lyonel E. and Annie Jane Clark of "Briarholme", Bourne End, Bucks. Buried in Beaumetz Communal Cemetery, Cartigny, Somme, France.
Clark's Moraine-Saulnier BB "518" was shot down from an altitude of 11,000 feet on 2 August 1916, south of Peronne on the Somme, killing him and 22 year old Sergeant Alexander Walker. There is debate as to whether this was due to German anti-aircraft fire or whether this was the 13th victory of Leutnant Kurt Wintgens (1894-1916) who claimed 19 victories before he was himself shot down on 25 September 1916 by French ace Alfred Heurtaux.

Captain Lionel F.A. Cochran, 72nd Punjabis attached 92nd Punjabis
Captain Lionel Francis Abingdon Cochran, 72nd Punjabis attached 92nd Punjabis, Indian Army. Died on 4 February 1915, aged 32. Born in Edinburgh. Son of Colonel Francis Cochran, 1st Hampshire Regiment, and Mrs. Cochran, daughter of Abingdon Compton, Judge, Indian Civil Service. Buried in Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.

Thomas H. Coppard, 7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
Private Thomas H. Coppard, 7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, killed in action at the Battle of Loos on 13 October 1915, aged 28. Husband of Rosa Pratt (formerly Coppard), of 52 North Street, Clapham, London. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.

Rifleman W.S. Crane, 1st Rifle Brigade
Rifleman William Samuel Crane, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Killed in action on 20 August 1918, aged 39. Husband of Ada Elizabeth Crane of 125 Midhurst Road, West Ealing, London. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.

Private Frank Craner, London Irish Rifles
Private Frank Craner, 2nd/18th Battalion, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles). Died on 11 March 1917. Buried in Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.

2nd Lieutenant Roger G. Dawson, 3rd Northants
2nd Lieutenant Roger Graham Dawson, 3rd Battalion attached 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action on 18 September 1918. Son of John and Maude Dawson; Husband of Beatrice T. Dawson of 18 Kensington Court Place, Kensington, London. Buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.

2nd Lieutenant Dallas Le Doux-Veitch, Royal Sussex Regiment
Second Lieutenant Dallas Gerard Le Doux-Veitch, 3rd Battalion attached 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, was killed in action during the Battle of the Some on 4 August 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Theipval Memorial, Somme, France.
The following extract is taken from the Battalion War Diary of the 7th Royal Sussex for 4 August 1916, held at the Public Record Office in WO95/1856:
"'At 3 A.M. received orders to send one Company over to RATION trench to get in touch with 8th Royal Fusiliers and work up to the right; also one Platoon to attack strong point on the right, after this had been captured they were to work down RATION and get in touch with A. Company. A. Company went too much to the left, but reached RATION trench finding the Buffs already there. Col. Cope [O.C. Buffs] ordered A Coy. to push forward and take the ridge, which they reached without any difficulty, but were heavily counter attacked and obliged to fall back to RATION trench. The Platoon on the right came under heavy Machine Gun fire and were not able to capture the strong point. Later in the day orders were received for two Companies to attack the right of RATION trench in conjuction with attack of 9th Royal Fusiliers. Two Platoons werre again to attack strong point on right from POZIERS trench. B. and D. Companies attacked across the open but lost direction, some however reached their objective and got in touch with 9th Royal Fusiliers.
The two Platoons of C. Company were unable to capture Strong point, owing to heavy Machine Gun fire. The result of this operation was that practically the whole of RATION trench was captured and consolidated.
Casualties during two days. 2nd Lieuts. Wood, Le Doux Veitch, Killed. 2nd Lieuts. Cooke, Fitzsimmons, Rolfe, Missing. Capt. Trower, 2nd Lieuts. D. Alton, Glenister, Howe, Browning, Wounded. Other Ranks 18 Killed, 25 Missing, 109 Wounded."

Captain Gilbert G. Downes, 6th Lincolnshire Regiment
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2nd Lieutenant Herbert P. Evans, Royal Field Artillery
Lieutenant H. T. P. Evans, 98th Battery, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action on the Salonica Front on 4 October 1916, aged 22. Son of Major General T. J. P. Evans, C B., and Mrs. Evans. Buried in Struma Military Cemetery, Greece.

Henry A.J. Feast, 7th London Regiment
Private Henry Alfred James, 1st/7th Battalion, London Regiment. Died on 14 February 1916.

Sapper Sidney French, 5th Division Royal Engineers
Sapper Sidney Ernest French, 130th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action on 10 April 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the
Ploegsteert Memorial, Flanders.

Trooper Harold Fowler, Middlesex Imperial Yeomanry
Private Harold Fowler, 1st Middlesex Hussars. Died on 26 October 1916, aged 23.
Son of Edwin Bart Fowler and Ellen Fowler of 52 Radnor Park Road, Folkestone, Kent. Buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece.

Oscar Gait, H.M.S. “Vanguard”
Electrical Artificer 4th Class Oscar Gait, H.M.S. "Vanguard.", Royal Navy. Killed on 9 July 1917, aged 24. Son of Seward and Sarah Gait of 32 Francis Street, Stoneygate, Leicester. In the Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, just before midnight on Monday, July 9th 1917, H.M.S. Vanguard suddenly blew up, taking over 800 of her crew down with her. It was a magazine explosion in one of the two magazines which served the amidships turrets P and Q. Two other local residents, Robert Chessex and Henry Abbott, were killed in the same disaster.

Captain J. Ponsonby Gilbert, 6th Jat. Indian Contingent
Captain J. Ponsonby Gilbert, 6th Jat. Light Infantry, Indian Army. Drowned on 20 December 1915. Gilbert was almost certainly on SS "Persia" - A defensively armed passenger vessel out of Tilbury for Port Said, Aden and Bombay, torpedoed and sunk on 30 December 1915 off Crete with the loss of 334 lives including 21 Officers and 1 NCO of the United Kingdom and Indian Forces.

H.G. Green, Royal Army Service Corps
Driver Harry George Green, Army Service Corps attached Guards Division. Killed in action on 29 September 1915, aged 29, during the Battle of Loos. He was born in Westminster, and lived with his father, Thomas Green of Haynes, Bedforshire, and was driver to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII. He is buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, France.

William Hall, Somerset Light Infantry
Private William Hall, 8th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Saturday, 1 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Charles F. Hardwick, Royal Naval Division
Able Seaman Charles F. Hardwick, Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division. Killed in action on the first day of the landings in the Dardanelles, 25 April 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Lieutenant Stewart Hare, 1st Battalion Essex Regiment
Captain Robert Stuart Maclaine Hare, 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment. Killed in action in the Dardanelles on 6 August 1915, aged 26. Son of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Powel Hare and Christian Sarah Hare of Bath. Buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Helles, Turkey. This cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from isolated sites and small burial grounds on the battlefields of April- August and December 1915.

Sergeant William S. Hare, 107th Canadian Regiment
Sergeant William Samuel Hare, 197th Battalion, Canadian Pioneers. Killed in action on 12 November 1917, aged 40. Son of George and Susan Hare of St. John's, New Brunswick; Husband of Jennie M. Hare of St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.
Buried in Potijze Chateau Grounds Cemetery, near Ypres, Flanders.

Colin G. Harper RN, H.M.S. “Princess Irene”
Lieutenant Colin Grahame Harper, Royal Navy, H.M.S. "Princess Irene." Killed on Thursday, 27 May 1915, age 25. Minelayer HMS Princess Irene blew up while in port at Sheerness, killing most of her crew of 225 as well as 80 Petty Officers from Chatham and 76 Sheerness Docyard Workers who were on board completing tasks before the ship sailed on 29 May. Lieutenant Harper was the eldest son of the late James Harper, M.D., Colonel Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial) and the late Mrs. Harper; and stepson of Annette E. Harper of "Ridgecap," Shottermill, Haslemere, Surrey. He is commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.
George Horne of Ifield Road was killed in the same accident.

Colonel James Harper, Royal Army Medical Corps
No record found.

Lieutenant Herbert H. Harter, Grenadier Guards
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Private George R. Ashby, 11th Middlesex Regiment
No record found

Private Sidney J.W. Hines, 2nd South African Infantry
Sergeant Sidney J.W. Hines, 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry. Killed in action on 10 November 1918 - one day before the Armistice. Buried in Hestrud Churchyard Cemetery, France.

Colonel Campbell Hyslop, Staff
Almost certainly Lt.-Col. C. William Campbell Hyslop (June 12 1860 - April 7 1915). Owner of Stretton House Asylum in Shropshire did distinguished service for the reserve forces as Secretary for The City of London Territorial Force.

1st Petty Officer Thomas L. Imms, H.M.S. “Pembroke”
Officer's Steward Thomas L. Imms, H.M.S. “Pembroke”, Royal Navy. Died on 20 August 1916. Buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. HMS Pembroke was a shore base, based at Chatham, Kent.

Private Frank James, Machine Gun Corps
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Private Thomas Wm King, Royal West Kent Regiment
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2nd Lieutenant Gordon Legg, attached Royal Field Artillery
Lieutenant Horace Gordon Legg, "C" Coy. 22nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry . Killed in action on 25 March 1918, aged 37, during the Spring Offensive of the Germans when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Somme battlefields. Son ot the late Edwin and Amy Legg of Hurstlea, St. Albans, Herts; Husband of Frances Waterfield Legg of the High Wood, Selborne, Hants. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

Captain C. Ley, Royal Flying Corps
Captain Christopher Francis Aden Ley, Royal Flying Corps formerly South Nottinghamshire Hussars. Died on 16 March 1918, aged 24. Born at Barrow-on-Trent, he was the son of the late Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet, and of Lady Ley, of Lealholm Lodge, Lealholm, Yorkshire. Buried in Lealholm (St. James) Churchyard Yorkshire.

2nd Lieutenant Maurice Aden Ley, The Buffs
Lieutenant Maurice Aden Ley, Lincolnshire Regiment, attached 1st Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) The Buffs. Killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres on 1 November 1914, aged 19. Son of Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet, and Lady Ley (Now Dowager Lady Ley, of Lealholm Lodge, Lealholm, Yorkshire. He is buried in White House Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders.
The two Ley brothers are also commemorated on the Kirkoswald Cross, Kirkoswald, Cumbria. Maurice Aden Ley is also commemorated on the Lealholm Roll of Honour and on a commemorative plaque at Derby Industrial Museum, Derby.

Lieutenant H. Stanley Lowe, 2nd Battalion Worcester Regiment
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Lieutenant George L. Mackay, Leinster Regiment
Lieutenant George Lawrence Forbes Mackay, 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment. Killed in action on 12 April 1917, possibly at the Battle of Vimy Ridge, aged 19. Son of the late Lt.-Col. Henry Forbes Mackay and Mrs. Mackay of 50 Prebend Gardens, Stamford Brook, Hammersmith, London. Buried in Fosse No.10 Communal Cemetery Extension, Sains-En-Gohelle, France.

Lieutenant Neil H. Mackay, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Second Lieutenant Henry Neil Mackay, 12th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Killed in action on 28 November 1916, aged 22. Son Of Mrs. M. E. Mackay and the late Lt.-Col. H. Forbes Mackay of 38 Aynhoe Road, Brook Green, London. Buried in Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece.

Lieutenant Drummond Malcolm, Royal Field Artillery
Second Lieutenant Henry Alexander Drummond Malcolm, Royal Field Artillery, "Z" 33rd T.M. Battery, Royal Field Artillery, formerly 2nd King Edward's Horse. Killed in action on 17 February 1917, aged 29. Born at Dundee. Son of Henry Alexander and Blanche Evelyn Malcolm of Chestnut Bungalow, Dane Road, Margate. Buried at Hem Farm Military Cemetery, Hem-Monacu, Somme, France.

William G. Mandy, Queen Victoria Rifles
Rifleman William George Mandy, 1st/9th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Saturday, 1 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

2nd Lieutenant Richard H. Marriott MC, 3rd King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Lieutenant Richard Henry Marriott MC (Military Cross), 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on 18 September 1916 at the Battle of the Somme, aged 22. Son of Gertrude E. Marriott of "Heatherstone," Westover Road, Fleet, Hants, and the late Canon Percy A. R. Marriott. Buried in Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France.

Richard May, East Surrey Regiment
Private Richard May, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Killed in action on 23 July 1916 at the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Lieutenant Richard Meade, Indian Express Force
Lieutenant Richard J F P Meade, 14th King George's Own Ferozepore Sikhs, Indian Army, Killed in action at the Third Battle of Krithia in the Dardanelles, 4 June 1915, aged 23. Son of Colonel J. W. B. Meade and Catherine W. Meade. Buried in Pink Farm Cemetery, Helles, Turkey.
The Third Battle of Krithia was an attempt to push the Turkish trenches back in the Cape Helles sector of the Dardanelles campaign.
" On the left, however, on the western slope of the Gully Ravine, the 14th Sikhs had advanced with equal gallantry but without the same success. The enemy’s machine guns there had not been subdued by the bombardment, and before their fire the tall Sikhs had fallen in swathes. The Sikh battalion had been almost annihilated (After the battle the 14th Sikhs numbered no more than 3 officers and 200 men)".

2nd Lieutenant Ian V.B. Melhuish, Royal Fusiliers [sic]
Second Lieutenant Ian Vaughan Bremridge Melhuish, 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Killed in action at the Battle of Loos on 27 October 1915, aged 23. Son of Ada Constance Melhuish of Taunton, Somerset, and the late John Bremridge Melhuish.
Buried in Rue-Du-Bacquerot (13th London) Graveyard, Laventie, France.

Private William H.J. Melhuish, 7th Somerset Light Infantry [sic]
No record found

Major Sir Lennox Napier, 4th S.W. Borderers
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Lieutenant Charles E. Procter, Norfolk Regiment
Lieutenant Charles E. Procter, 1st/7th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Killed in action on 2 August 1915. Buried in Rifle House Cemetery, Ypres, Flanders.

2nd Lieutenant Stuart M. Rawson, 20th Royal Fusiliers
Lieutenant Stuart Milner Rawson, 20th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action at the Battle of the Somme on 20 July 1916, aged 25. Son of Marion Rawson of Ardmore, Asheldon Road. Torquay, and the late Edward Creswell Rawson (Indian Civil Service). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

2nd Lieutenant Arthur Raymond, Royal Irish Rifles
Lieutenant Arthur Augustus Raymond, 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. Killed in action on 1 August 1915, aged 19. Son of the late Captain H W Raymond, Royal Irish Rifles. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypores, Flanders.

Private Henry Rebstein, Honourable Artillery Company
No record found

Captain. Frederick H. Sasse, 1st East Yorkshire Regiment
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Lieutenant Charles F.N.P. Sealy, 7th Royal Fusiliers
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Sub Lieutenant Reg. L.Mcclure Slade Thomson, H.M.S. “Torrent”
Sub-Lieutenant Lindsay Mcclure Slade Thomson, H.M.S. “Torrent”, Royal Navy. Killed in action on 23 December 1917 near the Dutch North Sea coast, near Maas light bouy. "Torrent" and her three destroyer division ran into a minefield. "Torrent" hit first, "Surprise" went to assist and was mined, and as "Tornado" tried to get clear, she detonated two mines and sank with only one survivor. Only "Radiant" got home. A total of 252 men were lost. Thomson is commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.

Edward Stamp, Wiltshire Regiment
Private Edward Stamp, 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment. Killed in action on 25 July 1915, aged 31. Brother of Miss F. Stamp of Chapmanslade, Westbury, Wilts. Buried in St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, France.

Fredk K. Symonds-Tayler, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Captain Frederick Kingsley Symonds-Tayler, 3rd Battalion attached 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, Killed in action on 17 April 1917. Son of R. H. and E. S. Symonds-Tayler of 15 Bridge Street, Hereford. Buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, France.

Lieutenant Richard Walmsly, 3rd Yorkshire Regiment
No record found.

Gerald Weeks, London Irish Rifles
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Captain Herbert C. Whipple, Devonshire Regiment
Captain Herbert Connell Whipple, 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Killed in action at the First Battle of Ypres on 24 November 1914, aged 35. Born in Plymouth, the son of Connell and Harriet Whipple of Muddiford House, Barnstaple, Devon; Husband of Joan Whipple (nee Stapleton-Smyth). Buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery (Nord), France.

Private Earnest [sic] T. White, 9th Devonshire Regiment.
Private Earnest T. White, 9th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Saturday, 1 July 1916. Son of Mr. F. W. White of 31 Charleville Road, West Kensington, London. Buried in Devonshire Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France. Other members of the battalion killed on 1 July 1916 included Lt. W.N. Hodgson, aged 23, war poet; and Captain Duncan Lenox Martin, aged 30. While on leave prior to the attack on the 1 July, Captain Martin had made a plasticine model of the area concerned in the coming advance. The 9th Battalion was to attack in a north-westerly direction parallel to the main road and his model showed that the leading waves would be subjected to enfilade fire from a machine-gun post sited in Mametz Civil cemetery if not destroyed during the preliminary bombardment. This proved to be the case and Martin reported this to his superiors. It was not possible to change the well-laid plans and Capt. Martin fell with many of his men during the first few yards of the advance.

Major G.H. Wilson, Royal Field Artillery
Major George Henry Wilson MC [Military Cross], "D" Battery,. 282nd Brigade,. Royal Field Artillery. Kileld in action on 4 November 1917. He was a member of the London Stock Exchange before the war. Buried in Gwalia Cemetery, Poperinghe, Belgium.

Lieutenant J.H. Neynoe Macleod, 8th King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Second Lieutenant James Herbert Neynoe Macleod, 7th/8th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Killed in action on 29 June 1916, aged 29. Husband of Cicely Augusta Hastings Mitchell of 17 Alexandra Road, Walmer, Kent. Their children included Norma Neynoe MacLeod. Buried in Vermelles British Cemetery, France.

Second Lieutenant J H Zeder
Second Lieutenant J H Zeder, 2nd Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. Killed in action on 3 July 1916, aged 39. Buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. He previously fought in the Bechuanaland Expedition of 1986-97, the Boer War 1899-1902 where he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Natal Insurrection of 1906.

The Second World War
During the Second World War (1939-1945), Earl's Court Underground Station did its part when the pedestrian subway leading to the Exhibition Centre was converted into an aircraft components factory, staffed by volunteers. A large anti aircraft gun emplacement was situated on the Old Brompton Road forecourt of the Exhibition Centre, together with a barrage balloon on the Warwick Road entrance. The Exhibition Centre itself was used as a demobilisation centre after the war. At its peak, the Centre demobilised 5000 men a day, down to 2000 a day by early 1947.

457 civilians were killed in Chelsea by enemy action during the Second World War. Finborough Road, Ifield Road and many streets nearby were heavily hit. Many of the nearby post war buildings replace bombed out houses.

Some of the notable incidents of the Blitz included:

Early in the Blitz on Friday, October 18th 1940, Ashburnham Mansions in Ashburnham Road was hit by a high explosive bomb which levelled the central wing of the block.

On the night of 16/17 April 1941, Chelsea Old Church was destroyed by several landmines. 1000 people were killed, and 2000 wounded in London that night, including 5 firewatchers in Chelsea.

A large bomb hit the north west corner of Brompton Cemetery, damaging many graves and scattering old coffins and their occupants over a wide area.

Another bomb fell in Earl's Court Square, demolishing numbers. 25 and 27. The porch of 27 to 25 Earls Court Square still features the square temporary pillars installed to prop up the porch after the bomb damage.

A V1 "doodlebug" flying bomb hit Nevern Square (where Rupert House now stands) in July 1944 and reduced the North side of the square to ruins.

St Matthias' Church (behind the primary school on Warwick Road) was so badly damged that it had to be demolished.

The worst single bombing incident in Chelsea during the war was at Worlds End on February 23rd 1944 during the Baby Blitz. Four bombs fell on the area, one destroying a whole block of the Guinness Trust flats, killing 59 people. Anthony Smith, a chimney sweep, twice plunged into the blazing wreckage and flooded basements to rescue survivors, and was awarded the George Cross, Britains highest award for civilian gallantry. The story is told in Donald James Wheal's book, World's End.

St Luke's Church, Redcliffe Gardens, also includes a memorial to two former members of the local Scout group, killed in the Second World War.

John Jimpson
Private John Jimpson, 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Killed in action on 24 March 1945, aged 26. Son of John and Caroline Mary Jimpson. Buried in Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany.

Ernest Wilks
Leading Aircraftman Ernest Stephen Wilks, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 9 April 1945, aged 24. Son of George Daniel and Daisy Eliza Wilks, of Kensington, London. Buried in Rawalpindi War Cemetery, Pakistan.

The IRA

3 September 1996

" Bomb rocks London for 4th time in month
By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press writer

LONDON - A bomb exploded in a trash bin on a busy west London thoroughfare early Saturday, and suspicion immediately fell on the Irish Republican Army. The device detonated without warning at 12:38 a.m. (7:38 p.m. EST yesterday) at the entrance to a cemetery on Old Brompton Road, several hundred yards from a building with Ministry of Defence offices, said Police Superintendent Peter Rice.
Mr. Rice said there were no reports of injuries.
"It sounded like thunder," said Ulric Rudmalm, 22, who was working at nearby Finborough Arms pub. "It was raining at the time so we thought that was what it was. I did not think anything of it until I saw the blue flashing lights from the police cars."
Old Brompton Road is a bustling street connecting trendy South Kensington to Fulham areas, and its popular restaurants and bars were just beginning to empty when the device exploded.
"The street was not crowded at the time and damage seems to be confined to three motor cars and to windows in a building opposite the cemetery," said a police spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The defense ministry said "there is no indication whatsoever" that it had been targeted. The blast was also near a subway station and the Earl's Court Exhibition Center. The center has been a possible IRA target in the past because it is the venue for the annual Royal Tournament, a military display held in the summer and attended by members of the royal family.
A policeman at the scene, also speaking anonymously, said the device had been placed in a green bag with wheels.
"I was in my bedroom when there was a large explosion. The room shook and I was very frightened," said Ali Khan, 42, a businessman who lives on Old Brompton Road opposite the cemetery.
Mr. Khan ran outside to find the trash bin blown apart. He was immediately told by police to leave the area.
Officers cordoned off a two-square-mile area, and bomb-sniffing dogs were brought in to search for other possible devices. About two hours after the explosion, police reopened Earl's Court Road, where huge traffic jams had formed.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for planting the device, but the IRA has targeted London since it ended its 17-month cease-fire on Feb. 9 with a massive bomb in the Docklands area that killed two people.
Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party, said Thursday the IRA wants negotiations but is ready for "another 25 years of war" with the British.
He stopped short of saying whether the IRA would call a second cease-fire now that Britain and Ireland have set a June 10 date for all-party talks on Northern Ireland's future, as the IRA-Sinn Fein movement has long demanded.
The IRA has not targeted Northern Ireland in its renewed quarter-century campaign to end British rule in the province. It wants to unite Northern Ireland -- where Protestan