Casualties of WWI
CHAPLIN, JOHN HENRY - Private 95773 - Royal Fusiliers 2nd/2nd Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) - Died 8th August 1918 - Age 19 - Born in Zeals; Resident of Zeals; Enlisted at Trowbridge; Son of the late John and Annie Elizabeth Chaplin of Wolverton, Zeals; Formerly Private 36222 4th Wiltshire Regiment; Awarded Victory & British Medals - Buried in Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, Somme, France - Grave/Memorial Reference - VI. H. 4. - Commemorated on Zeals War Memorial - Commemorated on the St. Martin Church Roll of Honour Plaque, Zeals & Zeals War Memorial - Named in the Zeals Section of the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, Salisbury Cathedral.
CHUBB, MARTIN - Private 235319 - 13th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Died 30th July 1917 of wounds - Age 38 - Born in Silton, Dorset; Enlisted at Warminster; Son of Thomas and Ann Chubb; Formerly Private 5060 Wiltshire Regiment; Awarded Victory & British Medals - Buried at Bard Cottage Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Grave/Memorial Reference - I. M. 5. - Commemorated on Zeals War Memorial - Commemorated on the St. Martin Church Roll of Honour Plaque, Zeals & Zeals War Memorial - Named in the Zeals Section of the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, Salisbury Cathedral.
FORWARD, GERALD SIDNEY - Private TR/4/64728 - 52nd (Grad) Battalion South Wales Borderers - Died 10th November 1918 at home - Born in East Knoyle or Zeals; Resident of East Knoyle; Enlisted at Shaftesbury; Son of the late Sidney James and Lucy Forward; Husband of Bertha Forward of Park Cottage, East Knoyle - Buried in East Knoyle (St. Mary) Churchyard Extension, East Knoyle - Grave/Memorial Reference:- 240.
GRAY, FREDERICK JAMES - Private 10574 - 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment - Died 18th August 1915 of wounds sustained in the Dardanelles on 7th August 1915 - Age 22 - Born in Thornford, Dorset; Resident of Thornford, Dorset ; Enlisted at Sherborne, Dorset; Son of Isaac John and Emily Gray of 444 Thornford, Dorset; Awarded Victory & British Medals and 1914-15 Star - Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey - Grave/Memorial Reference:- Panel 136-139 - Commemorated on the St. Martin Church Roll of Honour Plaque, Zeals & Zeals War Memorial - Named in the Zeals Section of the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, Salisbury Cathedral.
HODDINOTT, EDWARD CHARLES - Private 202431 - 2nd/4th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment - Died 7th June 1918 - Born in Warminster; Resident of Warminster; Enlisted at Warminster; Son of Charles and Maud Mary Hoddinott of Church Road, Silton, Zeals - Commemorated on the Madras 1914-1918 War Memorial, Chennai, India - Grave/Memorial Reference:- Face 21. - Buried in Lebong
©Wiltshire OPC Project/2015/Alan Potter Cantonment Cemetery, Darjeeling, Bengal, India, graves here are un-maintained and all names of those buried here are commemorated on the Madras Memorial.
JONES, FREDERICK JOHN - Private 317066 - 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry - Died 3rd May 1917 - Age 19 - Born in St. Paul, Bath; Resident of Frome, Somerset; Enlisted at Bath, Somerset; Son of Mrs. C. Wilcox of White Cross, Zeals - Commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France - Grave/Memorial Reference:- Bay 4.
KIDDLE, THOMAS HENRY - Private 5719 - 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) - Died 30th March 1918 - Age 37 - Born in Tollard Royal; Resident of Zeals; Enlisted at Gillingham, Dorset; Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Kiddle; Awarded Victory & British Medals and 1914 Star - Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Pozieres Cemetery, Somme, France - Grave/Memorial Reference - Panel 1. - Commemorated on the St. Martin Church Roll of Honour Plaque, Zeals & Zeals War Memorial - Named in the Zeals Section of the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, Salisbury Cathedral.
READ, GARNET WOLSELEY - Private 6283 - 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment - Died 29th January 1915 - Age 31 - Born in Zeals; Resident of Peasemarsh, Dorset; Enlisted at Dorchester, Dorset; Son of William and Emily Read of Gillingham, Dorset - Buried at St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France - Grave/Memorial Reference:- A. 3. 5.
READ, HAROLD CHRISTOPHER - Private S4/122530 - 40th Field Bakery, Army Service Corps - Died 1st September 1915 of Enteric Fever - Age 19 - Born in Zeals; Resident of Zeals; Enlisted at Dorchester, Dorset; Son of John and Elizabeth Read of Penn Mill, Bourton, Dorset; Awarded Victory & British Medals and 1915 Star - Buried at Alexandra (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt - Grave/Memorial Reference - H. 38 - Commemorated on the St. Martin Church Roll of Honour Plaque, Zeals & Zeals War Memorial - Named in the Zeals Section of the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, Salisbury Cathedral.
VOSS, FREDERICK - Sergeant 571064 - 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, transferred to 106th Prisoner of War Company, Labour Corps - Died 6th November 1918 - Born in Gillingham, Dorset; Resident of Wolverton, Zeals; Formerly Private 19061 of the Dorsetshire Regiment - Buried in Senonches Communal Cemetery, Eure-et-Loir, France - Grave/Memorial Reference:- In North (far left) corner. - Commemorated on the St. Martin Church Roll of Honour Plaque, Zeals & Zeals War Memorial - Named in the Zeals Section of the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, Salisbury Cathedral
WELCH, W. H. M. - Stoker 1st Class K/18634 - Royal Navy serving aboard H. M. Submarine L7 - Died 31st August 1920 - Age 25 - Son of Henry and Sarah Welch of Rose Cottage, White Cross, Zeals - Buried at Hong Kong (Happy Valley) St. Michael Catholic Cemetery, Hong Kong, China - Grave/Memorial Reference:- V. 3952
WILMORE, JOHN ANTHONY JOSEPH - Private/Rifleman S/36605 - Rifle Brigade attached to 2/10th London Regiment - Died 21st September 1918 of wounds - Age 19 - Born in Spetchley, Pershore, Worcestershire; Resident of Hall Green, Warwick, Warwickshire; Enlisted at Gillingham, Dorset; Awarded Victory & British Medals - Buried at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France - Grave/Memorial Reference - III. F. 36 - Commemorated on the St. Martin Church Roll of Honour Plaque, Zeals & Zeals War Memorial - Named in the Zeals Section of the Diocese of Salisbury Memorial Book, Salisbury Cathedral.
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