CANNOCK WAR MEMORIAL MARKET PLACE, CANNOCK, STAFFS WW1 SERVICEMEN ROLL OF HONOUR

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1 CANNOCK WAR MEMORIAL MARKET PLACE, CANNOCK, STAFFS WW1 SERVICEMEN ROLL OF HONOUR PANEL 1 PANEL 2 MEMORIAL PANEL 3 PANEL 4 1

2 This Monument was Erected in Grateful Memory of the men of Cannock Who died in the defence of their Country in the Great War Their Honour. Our Gratitude. PANEL 1 ALBERT H. ANSELL - ALBERT ADDISON - WM. EDWIN BENTON - ERNEST WM. BENTON - ALFRED E BENTON - RICHARD BEEDLES ALBERT E. BARNES - ALFRED BAKER - HERBERT BAKER - JOSEPH H. BIRD - EDWARD BICKLEY - WILLIAM BICKLEY - HARRY BLAND FRANK BOULT - WALTER H. BUCK - LEWIS BIRD - CHARLES BEECH - JOSEPH BROWN - WM. JAMES BRINDLEY - FRANCIS R. BAILEY THOMAS BROUGH PANEL 2 WILLIAM BAILEY - FREDERICK COOPER - C. CARTER - BERNARD M. CARPENTER DAVID CHANDLER - FRANK J. CHILTON WM. T. CRADDOCK - B. T. W. DAVENPORT - EDWARD E. DEVALL - EDWARD R. DOUGHERTY - DAVID T. DUCKHOUSE - HAROLD DYKE SIDNEY EMBERTON - GEORGE R. EDWARDS - LEONARD F. EVANS - ERNEST W. FARMER - REGINALD S. FELLOWS - PERCY FELLOWS FREDK. FERNEYHOUGH - JOSEPH FOSTER - STANLEY FISHER - FRANK GREEN - FRANK GORMAN - GEORGE GETLEY - ALBERT HANDLEY RUSSELL J.HAYCOCK - GEORGE HUGHES - H. P. HALL - ALFRED HICKENBOTHAM - HERBERT W. JELLYMAN - JOHN JONES THOMAS JACKSON - HERBERT JEFFERY - WIILIAM R. JONES - W GALLEAR - W. GARBETT PANEL 3 JOHN JOSEPHS - GEORGE H. KEELING - JACK KINSALL - ALFRED CHAREW - WILLIAM LLOYD - HARRY LLOYD - C. EDWARD H. LOXTON E. A. DUDLEY LOXTON - J. GUEST LOMAS - HOWARD F. LOCKLEY - FREDERICK LOCKLEY - PERCY F. MEARS - ERNEST MEARS ENOCH MARSH - JOHN MAY - WILLIAM MEREDITH - JOHN NICKLESS - EDWARD ONION - EDWIN PEE JAMES PENTON GEORGE POINTON - PERCY H. POWIS GEORGE POOLE - EDWARD PRICE - ARTHUR PRICE - ARTHUR J. REYNOLDS - SAMUEL READE JAMES RICHARDS - JOHN ROGERS - FRANCIS B. ROGERS - JACK ROBERTS - HARRY STEPHENS - CH. EDGAR HOLTON SMITH CH. E. SMITH - S. HAMILTON - J. PADMORE PANEL 4 PERCY SHORTER - LEONARD SHELDON - FREDERICK SHELDON - EDWARD A. SMITH - HARRY SMALLWOOD - ROLAND SMALLEY WILLIAM SPOONER - JAMES STRINGER - FRED H. SUTTON - JOSEPH SMITH - HENRY O. SANSOME - JOHN SHERRATT JOHN H. SPENCER JOHN SNELL - A. J. TITLEY - ERNEST S. TOMLINSON - JOHN TURNOCK - DANIEL TURNER - W. H. TOMS - WILLIAM VERNON THOMAS E. WILLIAMS - WILLIAM WILLIAMS - JACK WILLIAMS - JAMES E. WATSON - W. JOHN WEAVER - VINCENT R. WITTS JOHN D. WILLIAMSON - HERBERT WALKER - JAMES FRED WALKER - PHILIP H. WINDSOR - HAROLD YATES - WILLIAM YOUNG ALFRED C. LAREW - RICHARD JAMES - JOSEPH WALKER - A. J. WHITE 2

3 Introduction In June 2014 Burntwood Family History Group received an from Trevor Woodham of St Luke s Church Cannock telling us about their project celebrating 900 years of the church in 2015 and their intention as part of the commemorations to set up a display with details of the WW1 servicemen whose names were engraved on the War Memorial in Cannock town centre. The display was to be placed under a WW1 memorial window in the church and Trevor asked if BFHG might have any records already available that he could use for the project. Our name had come to his attention due to our ongoing project researching individual WW1 servicemen from various war memorials in Burntwood and surrounding areas. Unfortunately, BFHG did not have any collective records of the men listed on the Cannock Memorial; and as far as we knew there was no one who had compiled such a list. that particular time as I was not researching any individual serviceman as part of our project I offered to have a look at all the names listed and see if I could put together some details that Trevor would be able to use. During the following three months by using two main Internet web sites Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Find My Past I was able to compile a reasonable amount of basic detail on most of the servicemen listed which I then passed onto Trevor for him to display in the church. On completion of the details I felt that it would be nice if the information were also put into a folder and on to a web site as part of the BFHG Memorial project and also for other Cannock establishments to have a copy if they so wished. The following pages lists the information on each serviceman in the order that the names appear on the memorial, generally speaking the names are in alphabetical order but there are some out of sequence. In some cases only initials were used on the engravings, so wherever possible I have listed each serviceman s full name. During the research I have come across some errors on the memorial engravings and I have noted these where appropriate. Unfortunately I haven t been able to find details on all the names listed, sometimes I was able to find a person with a matching name but there was nothing to indicate that he had any Cannock connections and also in some cases there were numerous servicemen with the same name who had died none of whom had a reference to Cannock therefore it was impossible for me to identify the right person. From the 129 names on the Memorial I have details on 120, 2 of which have an alternative option. Of course, for many of the servicemen there will be more details available from other genealogical sources particularly local newspapers from the WW1 era and I may at some time in the future look at those to see if I can add further to the information already Throughout the research I have some servicemen with Cannock connections that died in WW1 whose names do not appear on the Market Place Memorial, it is possible that their names are engraved on other memorials in the area but in some cases they may not be remembered locally at all, either way I shall dedicate this roll of honour to all of those from Cannock and its surrounding areas who lost their lives fighting for our freedom in WW1 Pam Turner (BFHG Member) They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. For the Fallen Laurence Binyon ( ) 3

4 DEATHS DIARY MONTH JANUARY John Snell 11/1 John Josephs 3/1 John Nickless 29/1 FEBRUARY William Vernon 7/2 David Chandler 25/2 Jack Williams 6/2 MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY Enoch Marsh 18/5 C E H Loxton 23/5 Joseph H Bird 2/4 John Sherratt 21/4 Russell J Haycock 23/4 Richard Beedles 25/4 William Spooner 28/4 Howard F Lockley 31/5 James Padmore 31/5 Roland Smalley 31/5 Harry Bland 19/5 Charles Smith 1/6 Edward Onion 3/6 Edward Bickley 30/6 Vincent R Witts 1/7 Frederick Cooper 3/7 John Jones 10/7 John D Williams 15/7 William R Jones 23/7 Jack Kinsall 25/7 E S Tomlinson 25/7 Edward E Deavall 28/7 4 Joseph Smith 14/3 Alfred Baker 6/3 William H Lloyd 21/3 James Stringer 23/3 Alfred J White 27/3 Sidney Emberton 3/4 Edward Price 6/4 Frank Boult 9/4 Frank Chilton 17/4 Joseph H Yates 22/4 George H Keeling 6/5 John Turnock 9/5 Percy H Powis 25/5 F Ferneyhough 10/6 James Fred Walker 14/6 Herbert walker 18/6 E R Doughty 23/7 Frank Bailey 24/7 George Poole 26/7 W H Brindley 28/7 Alfred J Titley 1/4 B M Carpenter 3/4 Charles Beech 4/4 D T Duckhouse 12/4 Richard James 19/4 Ernest A D Loxton 24/4 Arthur Price 28/4 Percy Fellows 28/5 Frederick Sheldon 3/6 William J Weaver 11/6 Henry O Sansome 15/6 William H Toms 26/7

5 DEATHS DIARY CONTINUED MONTH AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER A Hickinbotham 7/8 Harold Dyke 22/8 George Hughes 18/9 Joseph Foster 26/9 Ernest W Benton 29/10 George Getley 1/10 Joseph Walker 12/10 Alfred e Benton 13/10 Harry Smallwood 2/8 Harry Stephens 5/8 William Meredith 9/8 William Garbett 24/8 Joseph Brown 27/8 Herbert Jeffrey 30/8 Ernest W Farmer 31/8 Frank Gorman 31/8 William E Benton 2/9 William Gallear 15/9 Charles E H Smith 16/9 H W Jellyman 24/9 Charles Carter 26/9 James Penton 7/10 Edwin Pee 7/10 Harold Percy Hall 9/10 Samuel Reade 11/10 Albert Handley 7/8 Thomas Jackson 20/3 William Young 12/9 Albert Addison 20/9 W T Craddock 23/9 Harry Lloyd 30/11 Frank Green 16/11 G R Edwards 19/11 Percy F Mears 20/11 Leonard Evans 27/8 Herbert baker 1/9 James g Watson 1/9 Percy Shorter 8/9 Frederick H Sutton 9/9 Leonard Sheldon 18/9 Lewis Bird 28/9 George H Pointon 6/10 Daniel Turner 6/10 John Rogers 8/10 John H Spencer 14/10 A J Reynolds 15/10 William Williams 15/10 R S Fellows 25/10 Walter H Buck 4/11 DECEMBER Thomas Brough 25/12 B T W Davenport 15/12 Albert E Barnes 16/12 Philip H Windsor 18/12 5

6 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 1 Albert Henry Ansell Albert Addison William Edwin Benton Ernest William Benton Alfred E Benton Richard Beedles th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Acting Bombardier th Battalion Royal Garrison Artillery th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment nd Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers Lance Corporal /5 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment st Battalion South Regiment Born: Cannock, Born: Bradley, Bilston, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Birmingham, Warwickshire Born: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Born: Pontesbury, Salop 6 Died 26 th September 1916 Battle of the Somme Died 20 th September 1917 Died 2 nd September 1916 (Battle of Guillemont) Died 29 th October 1916 (Battle of La Bassee) Aged 22 Died 13 th October 1915 (Battle of Loos) Aged 20 Died 25 th April 1916 (Battle of the Somme) Regina Court Grandcourt, Heudicort Communal Guillemont Road, Guillemont, Le Touret Memorial Pas de Calais Loos Memorial Pas de Calais Citadel New Fricourt, Husband of Mrs L Addison, Spring St. Cannock, Son of Mrs Mary A Benton of Walsall Rd, Cannock, Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Benton of Hednesford Rd, Cannock, Son of Richard and Margaret E Beedles of Beech Tree Lane, Cannock,

7 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 1 (CONT) Albert Ernest Barnes Alfred Baker Herbert Baker Joseph Henry Bird Edward Bickley William Bickley th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Inf nd /6 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment nd /4 th Battalion London Regiment Royal Fusiliers or /5 th Battalion South Regiment nd Battalion South Regiment th Battalion South Regiment Born: Pensnett, Born: Mkt Drayton, Salop Resided: Great Barr, Enlisted: Birmingham Born: Cannock, Born: Heath Hayes, Enlisted: Walsall, Born: Hatherton, Born: Bushbury, 7 Died 16 th Dec 1917 at Passchendaele 3 rd Battle of Ypres Aged 19 Died 6 th March 1918 Died 1 st Sept 1918 (Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois) Died 2 nd April 1916 Died 30 th June 1916 Died 1 st October 1916 Aged 39 Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke Belgium Mory Abbey Military Pas de Calais, Vis En Artois Memorial Pas de Calais Arras Memorial Pas de Calais Cabaret-Rouge Souchez Pas de Calais, Etretat Churchyard Seine Maritime Son of George and Elizabeth Barnes of Victoria St. Cannock, Nephew of Mrs E Sollman of Newhall Street, Cannock, Formerly R/ th K.R.R. Son of Mrs Ann Bickley of Hednesford Rd, Cannock, Husband of Agnes Bickley of Railway St. Cannock,

8 Harry Bland CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 1 (CONT) Able Seaman Frank Boult Walter Henry Buck Lewis Bird Charles Beech William James Brindley HMS Europa Royal Navy Sergeant th Battalion Canadian Infantry Rifleman st Battalion 3 rd NZ Rifle Brigade No 5 Convalescent Depot Royal Army Med Corps Lance Sergeant S/ th Battalion Rifle Brigade Gunner D Battalion, 113 th Bgde, Royal Horse/Field Artillery Born: Burton on Trent, Enlisted:? Born: Cannock, Resided: Winnipeg, Canada Enlisted; Winnipeg, Canada Born: Cannock, Enlisted: New Zealand Born: Cannock, Enlisted:? Born: Tong, Salop Enlisted:? Born:? Resided: Bloxwich, Enlisted: Cannock, 8 Died 19 th June 1915 Naval Operations off Gallipoli Aged 36 Died 9 th April 1917, Battle of Arras (Vimy Ridge) Aged 33 Died 4 th November 1918 (Battle of the Sambre) Aged 34 Died 28 th September 1918 (Influenza Epidemic) Salonika, Greece Aged 40 Died 4 th April 1918 Battle of the Somme (Allied Fifth Army Crisis) Aged 22? Died 31 st July 1917 (3 rd Battle of Ypres) Lancashire Landing Gallipoli, Turkey Vimy Memorial Pas de Calais Romeries Communal Extension Nord, Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Greece Pozieres Memorial Somme Dickebusch New Military Ext Ieper, Belgium Son of John and Mary Bland Brother of Mrs J Kent Wolverhampton Rd, Cannock, (Awarded China Medal in 1900 (Boxer Rebellion) Son of John and Amelia Boult, Church St. Cannock, Husband of Mary Violet Boult of Winnipeg, Canada Son of Mrs Mary Ann Buck, Paddy s Lane, Cannock, Son of Lewis and Elizabeth Bird of Cannock, Husband of Mrs E V Wright (formerly Bird)Victoria. B.C. Canada Son of W Beech, Tong Norton, Shifnal, Salop Brother of Mrs E Fletcher, Gorsey Lane, Cannock, Husband of Mrs A Brindley, Cope Street, Leamore, Bloxwich,

9 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 1 (CONT) Joseph Brown Or Joseph Brown Francis Richard (Frank) Bailey Thomas Brough st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers Corporal rd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment Gunner th Trench Mortar Bty, Royal Garrison Artillery Sapper th Tunnelling Coy Corps of Royal Engineers Born: Hednesford, Enlisted: Cannock Born: Cannock, Resided: Smethwick, Enlisted: Smethwick, Born: Walsall, Enlisted: Lichfield, Born:? Enlisted: Chelsea, Middx Researched and compiled by Pam Turner (BFHG) 2014 Died 27 th August 1916 (Battle of the Somme) Died 12 th April 1918 Died 24 th July 1917 Aged 31 Died 25 th December 1915 (Christmas Day), Thiepval Memorial Somme, La Kruele Military, Hazebrouk Nord, Lijssenthoek Military Poperinge, Belgium Railway Dugouts Burial Ground Ieper, Belgium Son of Thomas and Keziah Bailey Brother of W H Bailey, Wolverhampton Rd, Cannock, END OF PANEL 1 9

10 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 2 William Bailey As yet No Information As yet No Information As yet No Information As yet No Information As yet No Information Frederick Cooper Charles Carter Bernard Melville Carpenter David Chandler Francis (Frank) James Chilton th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers th Battalion Sherwood Forrester s Notts and Derby Regt 2 nd Lieutenant (No Number) 6 th &19 th Battalion Middlesex Regiment TR5/9604 Training Reserve 5 th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Household Cavalry Yeomanry Born: Walsall, Born: Hednesford, Resided: Cannock Enlisted: Mansfield, Notts No information on birth, residence or enlistment Born: Evesham, Worcs Enlisted: Lichfield, Born:? Enlisted: Stafford, Died 3 rd July 1916 (Battle of Somme) Aged 36 Died 26 th September 1916 Killed In Action Battle of Somme Died 3 rd April 1918 Camp Hospital in Etaples Aged 25 Died 25 th Feb 1917 Died at home from illness at Cannock Chase Military Camp Aged 33 Died 17 th April nd Battle of Gaza Egypt Ovillers Military Somme, Thiepval Memorial Somme Etaples Military Pas de Calais, Evesham, Worcestershire UK Gaza War, Israel and Palestine Husband of Mrs Lily Cooper, Stafford Road, Cannock, Son of George and Harriet Carpenter of Gorsey Lane, Cannock, Son of William and Sarah Ann Chandler Husband of Margaret Chandler, St John s Road, Cannock, 10

11 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 2 (CONT) William Thomas Craddock Barnabas Tom Wilcox Davenport Edward Ernest Devall Edward Richard Doughty David Thomas Duckhouse Harold Dyke nd /5 th Battalion South Regiment 2 nd Lieutenant No Number Royal Warwickshire Regiment (attd to 1 st /4th Norfolk Regiment) Corporal Battalion Cheshire Regiment Corporal th Battalion (2 nd Ontario Regiment) Canadian Infantry Sergeant nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment th Service Battalion South Regiment Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Cannock, No information on birth, residence or enlistment Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Penkridge, Resided: Ontario, Canada & Cannock Enlisted: London, Ontario, Canada Born: Aldridge, Born: Chadsmoor, 11 Died 23 rd Sept 1917 Died in Belgian Flanders 3 rd Battle of Ypres Aged 23 Died 15 th Dec 1917 (Place or Battle not known) Aged 20 Died 28 th July 1916 Battle of Somme Aged 23 Died 23 rd July 1917 Died in Vimy (Battle of Arras) Aged 37 Died 12 th April 1918 (Day to Day Trench Warfare) Aged 25 Died 22 nd August 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey Aged 23 Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke, Belgium Ramleh War Israel and Palestine Knightsbridge Ctry Mesnil-Martinsart, Somme, Vimy Memorial Pas de Calais Ploegsteert Memorial Hainaut Belgium Helles Memorial Gallipoli, Turkey Son of Alfred and Agnes Craddock, Newhall Street, Cannock, Son of Hezekiah and Catherine Davenport, Fairmount, Cannock, Son of James and Bertha Devall, Hednesford Road, Cannock, Husband of Minnie Devall Son of Thomas Doughty, Cheslyn Hay, Husband of Annie E Doughty, Victoria Street, Cannock Son of Samuel and Eliza Duckhouse Husband of Florence Emma, Newhall Street, Cannock, Son of John and Clara Lucy Dyke Stoney Lea Road, Cannock,

12 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 2 (CONT) Sidney Emberton George Roland Edwards Leonard Charles Evans (Middle initial engraved on panel as F ) Ernest William Farmer Reginald Sylvester Fellows Percy Fellows nd Infantry Labour Co Devonshire Regiment th Service Battalion South Regiment G/ th London, Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge Own) st Battalion South Regiment S/ th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs) th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers Born: Leicester, Leics Enlisted: Birmingham, Warks Born: Tenbury, Worcs Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Lichfield, Born: Small Heath, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Cannock, 12 Died 3 rd April 1917 Home Plymouth Base Aged 22 Died 19 th November 1917 Killed In Action (Arras Sector) Died 27 th August 1918 (Advance to Victory, Picardy and Artois) Died 31 st August 1916 (Battle of Somme) Died 25 th October 1918 (Capture of Maing Village) Aged 20 Died 28 th May 1918 (Battle of Aisne and Marne) Aged 18 Efford Plymouth Devon, UK Arras Memorial Pas de Calais Vis-En-Artois Memorial Pas de Calais, Thiepval Memorial Somme Maing Communal Extension Nord, Soissons Memorial Aisne Son of Elizabeth Hadley, Walsall Road, Cannock, Silver War Badge awarded Military Medal Awarded Son of Joseph and Amy Fellows, Pye Green Road, Cannock, Brother of Percy (see below) Son of Joseph and Amy Fellows, Pye Green Road, Cannock, Brother of Reginald (see above)

13 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 2 (CONT) Frederick Ferneyhou gh Joseph Foster th Service Battalion South Regiment th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers Born: Lichfield, Born: Walsall Wood, Died 10th June 1917 (3 rd Battle of Ypres) Died 26 th Sept 1915 (Bethune Front) Aged 19 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Ieper, Belgium Chocques Military Pas De Calais, Son of Thomas and Maria Foster of Cannock, Stanley Fisher As Yet No Information Found As Yet No Information Found As Yet No Information Found As Yet No Information Found As Yet No Information Found Francis David (Frank) Green Frank Gorman George Getley nd Battalion South Regiment st Battalion South Regiment nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Born: Cannock, Born: Walsall Wood, Born: Colton, Lancs Enlisted: Hednesford Died 16 th Nov 1916 Contay, Aged 36 Died 31 st August 1916 (Capture of Thiepval) Aged 20 Died 1 st October 1915 (No other info available) Contay British Contay, Somme Thiepval Memorial Somme Loos Memorial Pas de Calais Husband of Sarah Green, St John s Road, Cannock, Son of Mr and Mrs William Gorman, Lloyd Street, Cannock,. 13

14 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 2 (CONT) Albert Handley Russell John Haycock George Hughes Harold Percy Hall Alfred Hickinbotha m (Engraved as Hickenbotham) Jellyman Herbert William Gunner th Battalion Royal Garrison Artillery Household Cavalry (Queens Own Worcs Hussars) Sapper th Tunnelling Coy Corps of Royal Engineers Sapper th Tunnelling Coy Corps of Royal Engineers th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers Rifleman st /9 th Battalion London Regiment (Queen Victoria Rifles) Born: Cannock, Born: Wolverhampton, Enlisted: Worcester Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Chelsea, Middx Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Chelsea, Middx Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: London, England 14 Died 7 th August 1917 (Ypres Salient) Aged 36 Died 23 rd April 1916 Egypt Died 18 th September 1915 (No other info available) Died 9 th October 1916 (No other info available) Aged 24 Died 7 th August 1915 Gallipoli, Turkey Died 24 th Sept 1916 (Battle of Somme) Aged 26 Bard Cottage Ieper Belgium Jerusalem Memorial Israel and Palestine Poperinghe New Military Poperinghe, Belgium Ecoivres Military Cem Mont St. Eloi Pas de Calais, Shrapnel Valley Turkey Grove Town Meaulte Son of Edward Handley of Cannock, Son of Jasper and Agnes Haycock, Wedges Mills, Cannock, Husband of Celicia Hall of Armitage, Son of Mrs H Hickinbotham, Huntington Terrace, Chadsmoor, Cannock, Son of Abraham and Martha Jellyman of Cannock,

15 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 2 (CONT) John Jones OR John Jones Thomas Jackson Herbert Jeffery William Richard Jones Rifleman nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles th Battalion South Regiment th Battalion Australian Imperial Force Rifleman R/ th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps Lance Corporal th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Guardsman Born: Chadsmoor, Born: Hamstead, Warks Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Resided: Australia Enlisted: Geelong, Victoria Australia Born: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Birmingham Warks Born: Chadsmoor, 15 Died 11 th August 1917 (Battle of Somme) Aged Died 10 th July 1916 (Battle of Somme) Aged 20 Died 20 th August 1917 Battle of Messines Belgium Aged 29 Died 30 th August 1916 Killed In Action (Battle of Somme) Aged 39 Died 23 rd July 1916 Guillemont Died 15 th Sept 1916 Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium Thiepval Memorial Somme, Messines Ridge British Belgium Thiepval Memorial Somme Caterpillar Valley Cem Longueval, Somme Son of Mrs G Webb, Pye Green Road, Cannock, Son of Joseph Owen and Fanny Jones New Street, Bridgtown, Cannock, Son of James and Elizabeth Jackson of Hednesford St, Cannock, Son of Mrs A Jeffery of Cannock, Son of George and

16 William Gallear 2 nd Battalion Grenadier Guards (Battle of Somme) Aged 24? CANNOCK MEMORIAL Thiepval Memorial Somme Eliza Gallear, John Street, Chadsmoor, Cannock, PANEL 2 (CONT) Corporal Born: Cannock, Died 24 th August 1916 Son of Thomas and Mary R/12254 Garbett, John 8 William Garbett th Street, Battalion Thiepval Memorial Chadsmoor Kings Royal Rifle Somme Husband of Ellen Garbett, Corps Aged 32 Cannock Road Chadsmoor, Cannock, Researched and compiled by Pam Turner (BFHG) 2014 END OF PANEL 2 16

17 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 3 John Josephs George Henry Keeling John Henry Kinsell Engraved as Jack Kinsall & th Labour Corps trans. to 49 th Labour Corps Lincolnshire Regiment th Battalion Australian Imperial Force st Battalion South Regiment Born: Flintshire, Wales Born: Hednesford, Resided: Australia Enlisted: Warwick Farm, NSW, Australia Born: Brierley Hill, Died 3 rd January 1918 Died (No other info known) Died 6 th May 1917 Casualty Hospital, Rouen, Aged 30 Died 25 th July 1916 Home Depot Aged 31 Mendingham Military Poperinghe, Belgium St. Sever Extension Rouen, St Michael s Church Brierley Hill,, UK Son of James and s Keeling of Lloyd Street, Cannock, Son of William and Priscilla Kinsell Husband of Dinah Kinsell of Brierley Hill,. Alfred Charew Also listed on Panel 4 as Alfred C Larew As yet No information As yet No information As yet No information As yet No information As yet No information William Henry Lloyd nd /6 th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Reg) Born: Cannock, Died 21 st March 1918 (German attack in Arras) Aged 20 Arras Memorial Pas de Calais Son of Deborah Gray formerly Lloyd, St John s Road, Cannock, Nephew to Harry Lloyd (see below) 17

18 Harry Lloyd Sapper th Tunnelling Coy Corps of Royal Engineers Born: Cannock, Died 30 th November 1915 CANNOCK MEMORIAL Cerisy-Gailly Military Somme, Brother of Mrs Deborah Gray, St John s Road, Cannock, Uncle to William H Lloyd (see above) PANEL 3 (CONT) Charles Edward Holden Loxton Ernest Adshead Dudley Loxton George Guest Lomas (Engraved as J Guest Lomas) Howard Frank Lockley Frederick G Lockley 2 nd Lieutenant (No Number) 1 st / 5 th Battalion North Regiment th Battalion Australian Imperial Force Infantry Lieutenant 2 nd /6 th Battalion Manchester Regiment Corporal PO/14211 Royal Marine Light Infantry (HMS Black Prince) Lance Corporal th Battalion South Lancs Regiment (Prince of Wales ) Born: Walsall, Enlisted:? Born: Teddington, London Enlisted: Mitchell, Queensland, Australia Born: Stechford, Worcs. Enlisted: Lichfield, Born: Cannock, Enlisted:? Born: Cannock, 18 Died 23 rd May 1915 From action at Wulverghem, Belgium Aged 22 Died 24 th April 1918 Action in (German Offensive) Aged 28 Died 22 nd March 1918 Retreat of Allied 5 th Army Died 31 st May 1916 Died due to enemy action (Battle of Jutland) Aged 28 Died 10 th July 1916 (Great German Advance) Aged 23 Nieuwkerke (Neuve- Eglise) Churchyard Heuvelland, Belgium Caestre Military Nord Pozieres Memorial Somme, Portsmouth Naval Memorial Hampshire UK Pozieres British Cem Ovillers-La-Boisselle Somme, Son of Charles Adshead and Emily Clara Loxton of Shoal Hill House, Cannock, Son of Mrs A Stratton, London. No references to Cannock but was a relative of Charles E. H. Loxton (see above) Son of Rev G Lomas of Cannock a former Curate of St Aiden s Shobnall Burton on Trent Son of Frank and Emma Lockley of Newhall Street, Cannock, Brother of F G Lockley (see below) Son of Frank and Emma Lockley, Newhall Street, Cannock, Brother of H F Lockley (see above)

19 Percy F Mears st /8 th Battalion Kings (Liverpool) Regiment Born: Stafford, Resided: Great Wyrley, Enlisted: Cannock, Died 20 th November 1917 (Somme Sector) CANNOCK MEMORIAL Thiepval Memorial Somme PANEL 3 (CONT) Ernest Mears Enoch Marsh st/5 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment nd Battalion South Regiment Born: Cannock, Born: Gornal Wood, Died 13 th October 1915 (Battle of Loos) Died 18 th May 1915 (Battle of Festubert) Loos British Pas de Calais Le Touret Memorial Pas de Calais John May William Meredith John Nickless th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Gunner nd Batt. (17 th Bgde) Royal Horse & Field Artillery Born: Broseley, Salop Born: Cannock, Died 9 th August 1916 Aged 34 Died 29 th January 1918 Died at home (No details) Aged 23 Wailly Orchard Pas de Calais, Cannock, Cannock, UK Husband of Mrs S Meredith, St John s Road, Cannock, Son of John and Emily Nickless, Pye Green Road, Cannock,. 19

20 Edward Onion (s) (AKA Edward Ellis Onions) Sapper nd Tunnelling Coy Canadian Engineers Born: Brewood, Enlisted: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Died 3 rd June 1916 Ypres Sector Belgium Aged 34 CANNOCK MEMORIAL Ypres (Menin Gate) Ieper, Belgium Son of late Thomas and Mary Onion of Cannock, Brother of Jane Ellis Onions of Cannock, PANEL 3 (CONT) Edwin Pee James Penton George Henry Pointon Percy Hartland Powis George Poole Rifleman R/ th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment Sapper nd Field Coy Royal Engineers Lance Corporal st /6 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment Born: Bridgtown, Born: Norton Canes, Born: Lichfield, Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Wolverhampton Born: Stafford, 20 Died 7 th October 1916 (Battle of Somme) Aged 21 Died 14 th January 1916 Ploegsteert Wood Belgium Aged 22 Died 6 th October 1917 Died 25 th May 1917 Aged 33 Died 26 th July 1917 Thiepval Memorial Somme Rifle House Comines-Warneton Hainaut, Belgium Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Ieper, Belgium Maroc British Grenay Pas de Calais, Fins New British Cem Sorel-Le-Grand Somme, Son of Frederick and Mary Hannah Pee of Cannock Road, Blackfords, Cannock, Son of Thomas and Sarah Penton of St John s Road, Cannock, Son of George and Agnes E Powis of Allport Road, Cannock,

21 Edward Price th Labour Coy Lincolnshire Regiment Born; Cannock, Enlisted; Hednesford, Died 6 th April 1917 Died Fouquieres-Les- Bethune CANNOCK MEMORIAL Fouquieres Churchyard Extension Pas de Calais, PANEL 3 (CONT) Arthur John Reynolds Samuel Reade Lance Corporal th Battalion Durham Light Infantry st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Lichfield, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Cannock, Died 15 th October 1918 at Rouen (Camp Hospitals) Aged 21 Died 11 th October 1916 (Battle of Somme) St Sever Ext. Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Thiepval Memorial Somme Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Reynolds of Hednesford Road, Cannock, James Richards (See Richard James on Panel 4) John Rogers Francis Bernard Rogers (Aka Bernard Francis) Listed on Stourport War Memorial As yet no Information (Probably an engraving error) Corporal th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) /6 th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment As yet no Information (Probably an engraving error) Born: Wyrley/Cannock Enlisted: Rugeley, Born: Upper Mytton, Worcs Resided: Ilminster, Somerset Enlisted: Taunton, Som. As yet no Information (Probably an engraving error) Died 8 th October 1918 (Advance to Victory) Aged 25 Died 6 th Dec 1917 (Battle of Cambrai) Aged 26 As yet no Information (Probably an engraving error) Bois Des Angles British Crevecoeur-Sur- L Escaut, Fifteen Ravine British Cem. Villers-Plouich Nord, As yet no Information (Probably an engraving error) Son of George and Dinah Rogers of Huntington Terrace Rd, Cannock, Son of William and Mary Ellen Rogers of Stourport Husband of Winifred Mary Rogers formerly of Cannock (Couple got married in Cannock, ) 21

22 Jack Roberts CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 3 (CONT) Harry Stephens Charles Edgar Holton Smith Charles Smith (engraved as Ch. E Smith) st /5 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment Captain Royal Army Medical Corps td to 10 th /11 th Btn Highland Light infantry G/ th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Born: Cannock, Born: Banbridge, Ireland Resided: High Green Cannock (Practice) Enlisted:? Born: Burton on Trent, Enlisted: Cannock, Died 5 th August 1916 Aged 22 Died 16 th Sept 1916 at Martinpuich (Battle of Somme) Aged 32 Died 1 st June 1916 Bailleul Aged 19 Berles-Au-Bois Churchyard Extension Pas de Calais, Adanac Military Cem Miraumont. Somme, Bailleul Communal Extension Nord, Son of John William and Margaret Stephens of Wedges Mills Cannock, Medical Practioner Son of Charles and Ellen Smith Husband of Ethel Bertha Smith of Cheltenham Son of Frank and Elizabeth Smith, Stafford Road, Cannock, 22

23 S Hamilton James Padmore Stoker 1 st Class SS/ Royal Navy HMS Broke Born: Cannock, Enlisted:? Died 31 st May 1916 Killed in Enemy Action (Battle of Jutland) at Sea Aged 26 Portsmouth Naval Memorial Hampshire, UK Son of George (late) and Mary Padmore, Victoria Street, Cannock, END OF PANEL 3 Researched and compiled by Pam Turner (BFHG) 2014 CANNOCK MEMORIAL PANEL 4 Percy Shorter Leonard Sheldon Frederick Sheldon G th Btn London Reg. Middlesex Reg Duke of Cambridge s Own th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Sapper th Tunnelling Coy Corps of Royal Engineers Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Lichfield, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: London 23 Died 8 th September 1918 Peronne, Aged 20 Died 18 th Sept 1918 (Battle of Epehy) Aged 33 Died 3 rd June 1918 Died at Home Rochester; Kent Peronne Communal Extension Somme, Epehy Wood Farm Epehy, Somme, Fort Pitt Military Kent, UK Son of Joseph and Martha Ann Shorter of Hednesford, Rd, Cannock,. Son of Mrs Mary Ann Dean, Stoney Lea Road, Cannock,.

24 Edward A Smith Harry Smallwood Roland Smalley nd Battalion South Regiment Stoker 1 st Class K19401 Royal Navy HMS Black Prince Born: Cannock, Born Alrewas, (Relatives lived in Cannock) Enlisted:? Died 2 nd August 1916 (Battle of Somme) Died 31 st May 1916 Killed from Enemy Action (Battle of Jutland) Aged 21 CANNOCK MEMORIAL La Neuville British Corbie Somme, Portsmouth Naval Memorial Hampshire, UK Son of Mrs Lax of Dewsbury, Yorkshire Other relatives resided in Cannock, William Spooner PANEL 4 (CONT) Sapper Born: Wednesbury, Died 28 th April Killed underground 177 th Tunnelling Coy during Mining R.E. Grave Railway Corps of Royal Operations in defence Wood Engineers Enlisted: London of Ypres) Aged 46 Ieper, Belgium James Stringer Frederick Hyde Sutton Sapper th Field Coy Corps of Royal Engineers G/ th Btn London Reg Middlesex Reg (Duke of Cambridge s Own) Born: Brownhills, Resided; Cannock Enlisted: Norton Canes, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Lichfield, 24 Died 23 rd March 1918 Died at Casualty Clearing Station, Lapugnoy, Aged 33 Died 9 th Sept 1918 Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois Lapugnoy Military Pas de Calais, Vis-En-Artois Memorial Pas de Calais, Son of Benjamin and Sarah Spooner of Chadsmoor, Husband of Jane Spooner, Newhall Street, Cannock, Husband of Amy Stringer, Lichfield Road, Walsall, Wood,

25 Joseph Smith Henry Oliver Sansome John Sherratt 2 nd Lieutenant (No Number) 1 st /5 th Battalion South Regiment Lance Corporal th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment nd Garrison Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers Born: Essington, Enlisted:? Born: Dudley, Worcs Born: Rugeley, Died 14 th March 1917 Died in Foncquevillers and Gommecourt area Aged 21 Died 15 th June 1918 (Day to Day Trench Warfare) Aged 27 Died 21 st April 1916 Died in Egyptian Theatre of War Aged 21 CANNOCK MEMORIAL Foncquevillers Military Pas de Calais, Ploegsteert Memorial Hainuat Belgium Cairo War Memorial Egypt Son of Joseph and Sarah Jane Smith of High Green Cannock, Son of Mrs E McGuire, St John s Road, Cannock, Son of Enoch Sherratt of Hawthorn View, Blackfords, Cannock, PANEL 4 (CONT) John Horace Spencer John Snell Alfred John Titley th Battalion Durham Light Infantry Leading Signalman Royal Navy HMS King Alfred th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment Born: Kingsbury, Warks Resided: Cannock Enlisted, Hednesford, Born: Walsall, Enlisted:? Born: Lapley, Enlisted: Cannock, 25 Died 14 th October 1918 (Dadizeele area) Aged 19 Died 11 th January 1917 Died from Disease Sierra Leone, Africa Aged 31 Died 1 st April 1918 from German Advance at Doullens, Somme Dadizeele New British Belgium / Freetown (King Tom) & Memorial Sierra Leone Doullens Communal Ext No 1 Somme, Son of Thomas and Emily Spencer, Cannock Road, Blackfords, Cannock, Husband of Elizabeth I Johnson formerly Snell, Stoney Lea Road, Cannock,

26 Ernest S Tomlinson John Turnock Daniel Turner th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers th Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers Born: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Born: Walsall Wood, Died 25 th July 1916 (Battle of Somme) Aged 25 Died 9 th May 1917 Balkan Theatre of War Salonika, Greece Aged 20 Died 6 th October 1918 (Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois) Aged 22 CANNOCK MEMORIAL Thiepval Memorial Somme Doiran Memorial Near Lake Doiran Greece Vis-En-Artois Memorial Pas de Calais, Son of Samuel and Jane Tomlinson of Wolverhampton, Road, Cannock, Son of Mrs Katherine Wall, Longford Lane, Cannock, Son of Mr and Mrs W Turner, Newhall Street, Cannock, PANEL 4 (CONT) William Henry Toms William Vernon Telegraphist Bristol Z/3366 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, HMS Victory (Portsmouth Dockyard) th Service Battalion South Regiment Born: Merthyr Tydfil, Wales Enlisted:? Born: Chadsmoor, Resided: Cannock Died 26 th July 1918 Died at home of Phthisis (Possibly due to Spanish Flu ) Aged 21 Died 7 th February 1917 Died of wounds Camp Hospital, Rouen, Cannock Cannock, UK St Sever Extension Rouen, Son of John and Sarah Ann Toms of Hatherton Lane, Cannock, Thomas E Williams 26

27 William Williams Jack Williams could be either John Ernest Williams OR Richard John Williams th Btn (attd to 133 rd Light Trench Bty) South Regiment Sergeant th Battalion South Regiment st /5 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment Born: Cannock, Born: Leominster, Herefordshire Enlisted: Hednesford Born: Essington, Died 15 th October 1918 Duisans Casualty Clearing Station, Aged 29 Died 6 th February 1918 Casualty Clearing Station at Ytres, Died 15 th October 1915 CANNOCK MEMORIAL Aged 20 Duisans British Cem Etrun, Pas de Calais Rocquigny- Equancourt Somme, at Fouquieres Churchyard Extension Pas de Calais, Son of Elijah and Sarah Ann Williams of Cannock, Husband of Annie Hall, Consett, Durham. Son of Joseph and Georgina Williams of Hatherton, Cannock, PANEL 4 (CONT) James Garrett Watson (Originally engraved as James E Watson but recently amended ) William John Weaver Vincent Royden Witts Lance-Bombardier th Siege Bty Royal Garrison Artillery st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers st /6 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Liverpool, Lancs Born: Tinsley Bond, Lancs Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Wolverhampton, 27 Died 1 st September 1918 Aged 32 Died 11 th June 1918 Died from Pneumonia in Italy Aged 39 Died 1 st July 1916 (Battle of Somme) Aged 19 Tigris Lane Wancourt Pas de Calais, Staglieno Genoa, Italy Thiepval Memorial Somme Son of John Barr and Charlotte Watson, Walsall Road, Cannock, Son of late Joseph and Eliza Ann Weaver of Cannock Husband of Minnie Lavinia Weaver, Pye Green Road, Cannock,

28 John Daniel Williamson Herbert Walker James Fred Walker 2 nd Lieutenant 4 th Battalion attd to 1 st Battalion South Regiment Gunner st Siege Bty Royal Garrison Artillery Corporal th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers Born: Cannock, Enlisted:? Born: Cannock, Born: Broomhill, Cannock Died 15 th July 1916 (Battle of Somme) Aged 19 Died 18 th June 1917 Casualty Clearing Station Aged 20 Died 14 th June 1917 (3 rd Battle of Ypres) Aged 24 CANNOCK MEMORIAL Thiepval Memorial Somme Lijssenthoek Military Poperinghe, Belgium Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Ieper, Belgium Son of Lieutenant Colonel J T and Margaret Williamson of Manor House, Cannock, Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Walker, Spring St. Cannock, Son of Samuel and Annie Walker Edward St, Broomhill Husband of Alice Humphries formerly Walker Old Fallow Road, Cannock PANEL 4 (CONT) Born: Uttoxeter, Philip Herbert Windsor Joseph Harold Yates (Engraved as Harold William Young st/23rd Battalion East Surrey Regiment nd /5 th Battalion (Territorial) South Regiment th Battalion Northumberland Fus. (Tyneside Irish) Enlisted: Walsall, Born: Cannock, Enlisted: Cannock, Born: Cannock, 28 Died 18 th Dec 1918 Died in Hospital St. Pol-Sur-Ternoise Aged 20 Died 22 nd April 1917 Died 12 th Sept1917 Casualty Clearing Station St Pol British St Pol-Sur-Ternoise Pas de Calais, Tincourt New British Somme, Tincourt New British Somme, Son of Alfred and late Elizabeth Windsor, Stafford Road, Cannock,

29 Alfred C Larew (Listed on Panel 3 as Alfred Charew Richard James (probable listing error on Panel 3 as James Richards) Joseph Walker Lance Corporal th Field Coy Corps of Royal Engineers Lance Corporal th Battalion South Regiment Born: Stoke on Trent, Enlisted: Smethwick, Born: Cannock, Died 19 th April 1918 Casualty Clearing Station Aged 42 Died 12 th October 1915 Balkan Theatre of War Gallipoli CANNOCK MEMORIAL Mendingem Military Belgium Helles Memorial Gallipoli Peninsula Turkey Son of Thomas and Elizabeth James, Haughton, PANEL 4 (CONT) Alfred James White th Battalion (Special Reserve) South Regiment Born: Longton, END OF PANEL 4 Died 27 th March 1918 Researched and compiled by Pam Turner (BFHG) 2014 END OF WW1 MEMORIAL NAMES Cabaret-Rouge British, Souchez Pas de Calais, 29

30 Sources/Acknowledgments CWGC (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) ( Find My Past WW1 Military Records ( ) Library and Archives of Canada ( National Archives of Australia ( ) Pam Turner (Photographs of Memorial) 30