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The Spooner Family of Funtington: Private Charles Spooner, 2Nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment L/10554 (1893 - 1915) Nikki Paterson-Brown

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The Spooner Family of Funtington: Private Charles Spooner, 2Nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment L/10554 (1893 - 1915) Nikki Paterson-Brown The Spooner Family of Funtington: Private Charles Spooner, 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment L/10554 (1893 - 1915) Nikki Paterson-Brown Introduction This article considers the service careers of four brothers, members of the Spooner family from Funtington, near Chichester. Three of the brothers served in different regiments in the Army, the fourth in the Royal Navy. Through the investigations of their lives it is possible to visualise the impact of the First World War on just one local family, bring a very personal story of the conflict into the public frame. Discussion Charles Spooner was born in 1893 to farm labourer Henry and his wife Elizabeth; they lived in Funtington West Sussex, and he had four brothers (Albert, Frederick, Ernest, and Owen) and two sisters (Mary and Florence). This was an ordinary family until the outbreak of WW1, when the family were eventually torn apart and paid the price of war. Private Charles Spooner L/10554, 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment joined the army at the outbreak of war following his elder brothers Ernest, Albert and Frederick into the military. We will start by looking at the brothers individually as they all died in WW1 within 3 years of each other. We will start with Private Charles Spooner as he was the youngest and the first to die in this tragic family situation. Private Spooner was part of the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. The main theatre of war that he fought in was the western European front and he received the Victory, British and Star Medals for his service to King and country. All that he had in possession was £2. 5s to give to his parents. On the 7th April 1915 the 2nd battalion relieved the 3rd brigade at the front. In section E, they were relieving the Royal Fusiliers in the section E3 (Neuve Chapelle) along with the 9th Kings Liverpool Regiment. The enemy front line was only 300-400 yards in front of the soldiers; however the enemy appeared to have no intention of attacking. The regimental war diary 1 provided a vivid picture of what it was like to sit in the trench with the enemy 400 yards away with machine guns pointed in your direction with the sole purpose of killing you. Private Spooner was on this front line with his battalion. They had to rebuild the parapets on the 7th April as they were ‘far too low ‘but the lull in the fighting did not last long as on the 8th April Neuve Chapelle was shelled with shrapnel by the enemy with a shell going off in the trench were the heads of the battalions were meeting, leaving several of them wounded. After this it was quiet again for a few days, until the battle of Nueve Chapelle began. This is where Private Charles Spooner met his death on the battlefield, where he died of his wounds. The war diary reads for 27 April 1915 reads:- ‘The enemy shelled the Rue de Bois a good deal, otherwise a quick day. A draft of 93 (guns) arrived and were distributed to companies. We found a working…[?]… from D company in the evening for the purpose of informing the left communications trench. Lt W D Downs who was with this party was wounded, other casualties on this day were 4 other ranks wounded.’ (This would have included Charles) 2 Charles was the 4th son of the Spooners’ and died of his wounds on the 27th April 1915 aged just 22. He is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery, Nord-Pas-de Calais France. Bombardier Frederick Spooner Royal Field Artillery 130225 (1885 – 1917) However this was not the end of the heartache for the Spooner’s as their 2nd son , Charles’s elder brother Bombardier Frederick Spooner of the Royal Field Artillery was the next to be killed in action on the 29th July 1917 aged just 32, in France. Unfortunately I am unable to find out any further information about him. Sergeant Ernest Spooner 1st Royal Sussex Regiment 8766 (1888- 1918) Further tragedy was to hit the family with the confirmation of the Death of their 3rd son, Sargent Ernest Spooner who died at Gharial India on the 1st May 1918, he was part of the 1st Royal Sussex Regiment, however his death was not as straight forward as you would imagine. Ernest Spooner enlisted in the Army on a short service contract at the age of 19 years and 7 months at Chichester Barracks in 1907. After training he was sent to Belfast in September 1906 with the 2nd Royal Sussex regiment but he was then posted to India in August, 1908. There he served in: Rawalpindi, 20 December 1908 – 30 April 1909 Jaka, 1 May 1909 – 6 November 1909 Rawalpindi, 7 November 1909 – 30 April 1910 Jaka, 1 May 1910 – 6 November 1910 Rawalpindi, 7 November 1910 – 11 May 1911 Upper Jaka, 12 May 1911- 14 May 1911 (stop over) Rawalpindi, 15 May 1911 – 19 April 1912 Gharial, 20 April 1912 – 5 November 1912 Rawalpindi, 6 November 1912 – 14 April 1913 Peshawar, 15 April 1913 – 1 May 1918 3 After Earnest Spooner had resigned his post as Quarter Master Sergeant (QMS) for the Royal Sussex Regiment he was detailed for duty as Sergeant Instructor for a musketry course in Gharial. However, Ernest had other plans for his future and the inquest into Ernests Spooner’s death took the stance that they needed to find out why the deceased had ‘made away with himself’. The inquest questioned soldiers that he knew and they said that he had resigned his post as QMS due to a feeling that he could not do the work, they went on to say that he was a man inclined to worry over details, very conscientious but lacking in self-confidence. This is to say that the soldier was not adjusting to the changes on his work well. After sending his coolie away with his pony and kit to take a short cut to the Wellington Barracks he proceeded on foot with his rifle and ammunition along the main road. It was not far from the place that he had dismissed the coolie that the deceased’s body was found. The finding of the inquest was, that the deceased committed suicide while of unsound mind. He was only 30 years old. Able Seaman Albert Henry Spooner Royal Navy (HMS Glatton) 192008 (1880 - 1918) The final blow for the Spooner family came in September 1918 when the eldest son Albert Henry Spooner AB, died from injuries received on HMS Glatton aged just 37. HMS Glatton sailed from Dover on the 11 September 1918 to get prepared for an offensive that was planned for later that month, however on the 16 September 1918 there was a low level explosion that ignited the cordite and caused an on-board fire. When the Captain ordered the crew to flood the forward magazines the crew could not do this as the flames blocked the way, therefore the order was taken for a nearby destroyer Cossack to torpedo the Glatton. The second shell hit the ship but failed to penetrate the dense hull. Commander Keyes had transferred to the destroyer Myngs and ordered her to fire on the Glatton as if she had exploded it would have caused devastation to the Dover coast. The Myngs succeeded in capsizing the ship and she lays on the seabed at Dover. The casualties of this error were high and 60 men were killed outright, 124 injured and 19 died of injuries, including Charles Spooner’s, Albert Henry. 4 Even though all this tragedy the one outcome is that they are all together named on a memorial headstone in the cemetery at Funtington, Chichester. Sources: http://www.ancestry.co.uk https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=949&scrwidth=1600 West Sussex Records Office 5 .
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