A SNODLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATION

SNODLAND MEN WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

Compiled by ANDREW ASHBEE

Published by Andrew Ashbee 214, Malling Road, Snodland, Kent ME6 5EQ 2013; updated 2015

INTRODUCTION

THIS IS VERY MUCH WORK IN PROGRESS AND ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR CORRECTIONS WILL BE GRATEFULLY RECEIVED. The Society’s Pamphlet 19 lists those who are known to have been born in, or who lived in Snodland who fought and died in the Great War. Those in normal type are commemorated on the War Memorials in All Saints church and the cemetery, or the one in Christ Church (formerly Lower Birling). They are included again here with names in bold. Entries of casualties in italic are known to have had Snodland connections (i.e. were born here), but are presumed to be commemorated on other War Memorials. Some of the sources contradict each other. We warmly thank many relatives and friends for information and pictures already incorporated here. The digital version of the Kent Messenger 1914-1918 has been searched and presents much new information, now added. [KM = Kent Messenger in text. Although many of the KM photos reproduce poorly, they have been included as a record.] It is much more difficult to find information about those who fought and survived, but this is a first attempt to do so. We have drawn upon various sources, none of which is complete: (a) Three Roll of Honour lists published in the Parish Magazine in 1914 and 1915. Names were notified to the Rector and some details may be inaccurate. Two of these seem to have been taken from the Kent Messenger on 5 and 10 October 1914. (b) Surviving Service Records and Pension Records for soldiers, held at the National Archives are available for downloading through Ancestry.co.uk. There are about 130 of these. The series was bombed during World War II and what survives is fragmentary. Individual records now range from a single sheet to more than sixty, many torn or with severe water damage blotting out some of the script. The card index of medals awarded is of no help unless we can link the information to a particular person, a known regiment or service number, so has not yet been properly researched. (c) Service records for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force include seventeen Snodland men. The attestation pages can be downloaded free from www.collectionscanada.gc.ca, but remaining details require payment. (d) Naval records are held at the National Archives and have recently been added to the Ancestry web-site. (e) The Roll of Honour published by British Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd. Includes the local factories of Lee, Son & Co. and Peters’ Works. There are some discrepancies in the information between this and official records, but both casualties and survivors are recorded in the BPCM lists. (f) Snodland Millennium Museum holds what survives of the early records of the local British Legion in the 1920s. We have a list of 73 names and addresses (only), but also some application forms, which include name, address, regiment or ship, date of joining, date of discharge, rank, and trade or occupation. (g) The baptism registers of All Saints and Christ Church record many soldiers, sailors and munition workers. So do the marriage registers, but often in the latter it is not clear from the entries whether the couple resided in Snodland (it being normal practice for the marriage to take place in the bride’s parish). I have looked for confirmation from other records where possible.

1 A branch of the Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers) was formed in Snodland during the early 1900s and paraded twice weekly. Many men from it joined at the outbreak of the war. Prior to this a Snodland branch of the 1st Kent Artillery Volunteers was active, with 60-70 members around 1900. Several of these transferred to the Regulars. THE LIST

We summarize what the records above show in the following list. Where possible family details have been supplemented by those from our own database and from information supplied by family and friends of the men. We have the boys’ admission register of the C of E School, Brook Street, (1904-1916) with dates of birth recorded from 1897, so these have been added when found. ‘Roll of Honour’ signifies that the person is listed in one or more of the three lists: 1-2 date from Autumn-Winter 1914 and 3 was made in 1915. The original service pension will usually provide more detail than is shown here (copies are at Snodland Millennium Museum). There are numerous images which have not been copied, such as blank pages or receipts for medals. There are also a good many duplicate forms and pages, again not copied. A certain amount of guesswork is involved (usually shown by a ?) and the numerous discrepancies between sources invoke many questions.

I am very grateful to Tony Grant and Richard Szwed for much help and encouragement and especially for Richard’s photographs of graves and memorials on the continent. I also thank Michael Mearns who contributed further information gleaned when he was researching the men from Leybourne.

Andrew Ashbee June 2013; up-dated June 2014

2 ABBEY, Cecil James. ‘Sailor’ at baptism of son Ronald Albert Douglas at Christ Church on 2 Nov 1919; also daughter Phyllis May on 24 Mar 1922. Address: Bramley Road; wife Florence Ada

ABNETT, PERCY VICTOR. Private 33118, 4th Bn., Yorkshire (Alexandra, Princess of Wales Regiment), formerly Royal West Kents No. 12592 and Northumberland Fusiliers No. 9181; died 28 October 1918, aged c.30. Born: Ham Hill, first quarter 1888; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Buried: Cemetery: Cologne Southern Cemetery: XVI.A.61. Memorial: Christ Church, Lower Birling. Victory and British medals. Son of William Frederick, a paper mill worker, and Kate/Kathleen Abnett, of Ham Hill. 1911: a cement labourer at 4 Rosslyn Cottages

ADKINS, Albert Edward Gerald. ‘Soldier’ aged 24 at marriage to Lilian May Chapman, Christ Church, 10 Apr 1920. Baptized All Saints, 2 Oct 1896; parents: John/Jack and Alice Louisa; address: Rookery Cottages (1901, 1911); buried Cemetery, 23 Dec 1960, aged 64

ADKINS, John. Born Snodland, 23-08-1891 R.N. no. F24893; Second Class Mechanic (Lee’s works Roll of Honour)

ALDERMAN, WILLIAM JOHN. DSO. Regt. No. 4747. Lieutenant (temporary promotions to Captain (Jan 1917), then Major, and was Acting Lieutenant Colonel, 6th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) by July 1917; killed in action, 20 November 1917, aged 40. Born March 1877; 17 years service in the ranks; commissioned into Royal West Kents 15 Aug 1914; war service commenced 27 August 1914; date of entry into France 1 June 1915. Buried: Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers- Plouich, Nord, France, grave III. B. 10. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland cemetery. [death reported KM 15 Dec 1917; In Memoriam 8 Dec 1917 from his widow of ‘Bower Mount, Snodland’.]

William John Alderman

ALLCHIN, A[rthur] W[illiam]. British Legion list, no. 12; 42, Malling Road. Born c.1873, Ham Hill; son of Richard and Mary; cement labourer (1891); bricklayer (1901, 1911); buried at Snodland Cemetery, 21 August 1957, aged 74

3 ALLCHIN, Lewis. ‘Private Royal West Kent’ aged 28 at marriage to Mabel Wenham, All Saints, 23 Jan 1918; born c.1890; buried Cemetery, 29 Sep 1970 aged 81; father: Tom

ALLINGHAM, Frederick. Roll of Honour 3 [?son of Stephen Henry (builder) and Caroline Ann of Ryarsh Lane, West Malling (1911); farm labourer (1911); born West Malling, 1887]

ALLINGHAM, S[tephen Henry?]. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?son of Stephen Henry (builder) and Caroline Ann of Ryarsh Lane, West Malling (1911); school (1911); born West Malling, c.1899]

AMOS, Robert William. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Percy Charles Joseph, All Saints, 25 Aug 1918. Address: Snodland [Queen’s Road], with wife Grace. Served in the UK only.

ANDREWS, Alfred. Canadian Expeditionary Force. Attested on 07-08-1915, Toronto. Son of Robert and Susan[na], formerly of Bramley Road; born 07-07-1896; baptised, Christ Church, 27-01-1901; family home in 1915: 99 Vanharval Street, ? Occupation: printer. Religion: C of E

ANDREWS, Alfred. Canadian Expeditionary Force, no. 229317. Attested on 10-08- 1915, Winnipeg; gas shell wounds in September 1918; discharged 12-06-1919. Service record survives. Son of Edward and ?, Bricklayers Arms, Snodland. Date of birth given as 21-01-1880; occupation: saddlemaker.

ANDREWS, Edward Sidney. Attested, Gravesend, 12- Apr 1915; Royal West Kent, private 10730; posted to BEF 17 Apr 1915; gun shot wound posterior and neck 20 Nov 1915; another on shoulder 5 Aug 1916; discharged as no longer fit for war service 29 May 1917; 1914-15 star; War and Victory medals. Service record survives. Son of Mahalia; bap. All Saints 14 Oct 1898; farm labourer

ANDREWS, James Gerald. No. 2199, Royal Army Medical Corps, 81st Field Ambulance; enlisted as Territorial: 30-10-1913; served from 5-8-1914 for 6 yrs 154 days to 31-3-1920; 01-12- 1914 to 25-11-1915: B.E.F. [France]; 16 days to Salonika; served there 12-12-1915 to 6-2-1918 and again 25-3-1918 to 10-3-1919; 18th Btn. York Regt, then 27th Btn. Durham L.I. from 10-8-1918. Roll of Honour 1-3. Service record survives. Son of Christopher and Mary, 2 [Vine Cottages] East Street; apprenticed to H. R. Draycon as Painter and Plumber for 7 years; had served 3 yrs to 10-2-1914; aged 17 y 4 m. at 30-10-1913; religion: ‘Wesleyan’; married Frances Mary Bowler at Otley Road Chapel, Bradford, Yorks, on 4 July 1914; addresses: 140 Heath Terrace, Bradford, Yorks; 57 Curzon Road, Bradford, Yorks.

4 ANDREWS, RUPERT ARTHUR. Private 46422, 99th Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Inf), (formerly 8036 Buffs), killed in action on the Western Front, 18 February 1917, aged 18. enlisted: Chatham, 12 July 1915; in France from September 1916 after a year’s training at Dover; no known grave. Memorials: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, Pier and Face 5 C and 12 C; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Born Snodland, 22 July 1898; attended C of E School, Brook Street; employed at C. T. Hook’s Paper Mill; fifth son of Christopher and Mary Andrews, of 2, Vine Cottages, East St., (formerly of May Street) Snodland, Kent.

ANNAND, E. C.; British Legion list, no. 26; 20, Bramley Road.

ANSELL, Albert. R.N. no. 228458, Stoker 1st class in Royal Navy (1911) Born Eccles, Aylesford, 30-08-1887; parents: Robert (Hoop maker) and Sarah of Brook Street (1901)

ASHENDEN, Fred. British Legion list no. 1. 1 Parkstone Terrace, Bramley Road.

ATKINS, Albert Edwin. 4th Btn., Royal West Kent, private no. 3939; then 24495 (for a time acted as lance corporal and corporal); attested, Maidstone, 11-12-1915; service: home 08- 02-1916 to 02-01-1917; B.E.F. France 03-01-1917; missing in action 23-03-1918; confirmed as prisoner of war 07-10-1918 [reported in KM 9-11-1918]; repatriated 02-12-1918. Service record survives. Born New Hythe, 1892; parents Edwin and Sarah of 2 Myrtle Villas, Malling Road, formerly of Portland Place; occupation: cement labourer; religion: C of E

ATKINS, George [?] [?Perhaps an error for ATKINSON]

ATKINSON, George William. King’s Royal Rifles, rifleman no. R/734; attested Chatham 03-09-1914; 8th Btn., posted 06-09-1914; 11th Btn. posted 09-09-1914 [B.E.F. France]; bomb wound: thigh and abdomen 18-12-1915; gun shot wound: left leg and abdomen 29-01-1916; ‘D’ Btn. [home] posted 05-02-1916; 1 yr 328 days to discharge. Service record survives. Born Snodland, 1892; parents: Henry J. and Louisa of 1 Dover Terrace, then of 3 Providence Place; occupation: general labourer; religion: C of E

ATTWOOD, CHARLES COLESTON. Rifleman Y/1679, 4th Bn., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, B Company; died of wounds, 10 May 1915, Battle of Ypres, aged 23. Formerly a side-drummer in Snodland Town Band; worker at Lee’s Cement Works. Born: St Mary’s, Bristol; enlisted: Chatham. Memorials: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 51 and 53; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial: Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 18 Dec 1915]

5 Son of Richard John and Ellen Attwood, of 4 Gerda Villas, Malling Rd., Snodland, Kent.

AUSTIN, Alfred William. Son of Henry and Ellen Austin of Magnolia Terrace, Holborough Road (1911); born 27 July 1897; attended C of E School, Brook St to July 1911; worked at Amalgamated Press Ltd., Gravesend; joined Bedfordshire Regt. Oct 1916; awarded Military Medal. Two brothers also serving (George Henry, Navy, q.v. and one in Army - ?John Charles, born 3 Nov 1900, or Reginald, born c.1895) Parents were Congregationalists.

AUSTIN, C. British Legion list. 2 Portslade Villas, Malling Road.

AUSTIN, George Henry. R.N. no. K38876 Born Snodland 12-02-1887, son of Harry and Eleanor [Henry and Ellen] of 10 Tomlyn’s Cottages (1891); Fairview Cottages, Ham Hill (1901); Magnolia Terrace (1911).

AUSTIN, Henry ?Hinns. ‘Soldier’ aged 28 at marriage to Hannah Frances Batchelor, All Saints, 23 Dec 1916; at baptism of daughter Edna Nancy, All Saints, 30 Mar 1919. Address: Constitution Hill; father: Henry (‘deceased, soldier’)

AUSTIN, JAMES. British Legion list no. 15. 10 Oxford Street. Born Battersea, c.1876; married Harriet; ‘soldier’ at baptism of s on Horace in 1916; a painter; buried Cemetery, 1 March 1947, from Tunbridge Wells Hospital, aged 71.

BAILEY, ALFRED RICHARD. Private 4419, Household Cavalry (9th Lancers), killed in action, 13 April 1918. Born at Rhodes Minnis, Lyminge; enlisted: Chatham; residence: East Malling. Memorials: Pozieres, Somme, France; cloisters, Canterbury Cathedral; Christ Church, Lower Birling. Victory and British medals. Son of George, a waggoner and resident at Ham Hill farm.

BAILEY, P. Roll of Honour 2-3

BAILEY, T. Roll of Honour 2-3

BAKER, Edward George. Royal West Kent, private no. 1055; attested, Maidstone, 03- 09-1914; service in UK to 09-12-1915; Indian Expeditionary Force 10-12-1915 in Iraq (Basra); wounded 17-04-1916, to hospital in India until 04-08-1916; returned to Iraq 05- 08-1916 to 29-10-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 25-03-1891; parents Henry and Mary Ann, formerly of 4 Brookside, later of 11 Hamilton Road, Northfleet; occupation: labourer; religion C of E

BAKER, Frederick Ernest [Ernest Frederick?]. Royal West Kent, private no. 1098; attested, Maidstone, 03-09-1914; service home to 24-05-1915; B.E.F. France 25-05- 1915; shell wound: multiple contusions to lower face, 06-07-1916, 24 days in hospital,

6 transferred to Leeds 6th to 30th Aug 1916; discharged no longer physically fit for war service 19-02-1917. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 09-08-1893; parents Henry and Mary Ann, formerly of 4 Brookside, later of 11 Hamilton Road, Northfleet; occupation: stoker; religion C of E

BAKER, Jack. Royal West Kent, lance corporal no. G/1714; attested Gravesend, 07-09- 1914; home to 16-02-1916; B.E.F. France 19-05-1916, Light Trench Mortar Battery; appointed lance corporal unpaid 21-05-1918. paid 13-01-1919; to UK for demobilization 05-02-1919; demobilization 08-03-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1884; baptised 08-05-1889; parents George Henry and Mary of Ham Hill; later of 17 High Street, Galley Hill, Greenhithe; occupation: labourer

BANFIELD, Henry Thomas. Private, 2nd Btn., Cheshire Regiment; enlisted 10-08-1915; discharged 10-05-1919; British Legion application. Son of James and Kate of 6 Clifton Terrace (1901); born Birling; baptised All Saints, Snodland, 02-10-1889; married Fanny [...]; died 01-02-1952; buried Christ Church 07- 02-1952, aged 62. Address (1919): 4 Council Cottages.

BANFIELD, Solomon Vincent. Formerly of 1st Hampshire Regt., no. 4754 (12-12-1895 to 11-12-1907). Army Service Corps, no. T/258653; attested Maidstone 29-01-1916; to army reserve 30-01-1916; mobilized as driver 02-02-1917; demobilized 13-04-1919. Service record survives. Born c.1880; married Mary Adelaide Baglin, Brompton, 12-11-1904; occupation: range warden; 7 children born Sheerness, Cliffe, Meopham, Gt. Bromley, Essex and Snodland; address: 4 Wargrave Cottages

BANKS, WALTER JOHN. Private 61530, 22nd Bn., Royal Fusiliers (City of London), killed in action on the Western Front, 17 February 1917. Born: Snodland; attended C. of E. school, Brook Street; employed at C. T. Hook’s Paper Mill; enlisted Maidstone, July 1916; to France just before Christmas; residence: Snodland. Memorials: Thiepval, Somme, Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 24 Mar 1917] Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 26 April 1884; son of William and Elizabeth Ann of Railway Place/Terrace.

BARDEN, George Thomas. R. N. no. K12638. Roll of Honour 2-3 Born Snodland 09-05-1892; baptised All Saints 20-07-1892; parents Thomas and Harriet of 7 Malling Road

BARNES, Roger William [also ‘William Roger’]. R.N. no. 135427. In Navy by 1881 and leading stoker by 1901. Roll of honour 1-3 Born Snodland 02-09-1865; baptised All Saints 13-10-1867; buried Cemetery, 28-11- 1940, aged 73; parents Ralph and Jane of 8 Birling Rd (1871); Hamhill (1881); Constitution Hill (1901); Malling Rd at death

7 BATCHELOR, ALBERT VALENTINE. ‘Soldier’ aged 26 at marriage to Dorothy Rose, Shirley, Christ Church, 19 Aug 1917; baptism of son Albert Walter, 23 June 1918; also Robert, 15 Oct 1925. Address: 3 Bramley Road. Father: Percy Giles BATCHELOR, Henry James. 4th Btn., East Surrey Regt., private no. 32961; attested Rochester, 09-12-1915; home to 19-06-1917; discharged as not longer physically fit for war service. Pioneer Sergeant since outbreak of war, with ‘Mons’ decoration. Service record survives. Born Snodland 09-07-1892; baptised All Saints 24-08-1892; parents: Thomas and Frances of 1 Kemp’s Cottages, Constitution Hill; occupation: labourer. Check also a stoker of this name.

BATCHELOR, REGINALD ARTHUR. Private 22139, 2nd Bn., Coldstream Guards, killed in action, 27 August 1918, aged 21, ‘while advancing under heavy machine-gun and shell fire.’ Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham, c.March 1917; after 12 months training went to France; residence: Snodland. Buried: Croisilles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave IV. A. 18. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; Chatham Dockyard. [Death reported KM 19 Oct 1918] Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 4 April 1897; son of Thomas and Frances of 1 Kemp’s Cottages, Constitution Hill, Snodland.

BATES, BERT E. Private G/11173, 6th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); reported wounded KM 5 Sep 1916 and 17 Mar 1917; killed in action, 1 July 1918. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham. Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert, Somme, France, grave I. F. 24. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. (Perhaps the son of John and Charlotte of Bull Fields.)

BATES, FREEDOM JOHN. 21st Training Reserve Btn., private no. 27506; service from 9-2-1917; discharged 4-10-1917; disability: not grown at all since age 13 (4 ft 8 in. in his boots). Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 30-01-1903; parents: Henry and Mary Ann of 1 East Street; occupation: paper maker

BATES, George. Gunner 208067, Royal Field Artillery; reported wounded KM 29 Dec 1917; reported missing KM 1 Jan 1918. ? son of Thomas and Eliza; bapt. All Saints 31 Oct 1888; married Betsy Margaret; lived in Holborough Road; a labourer

BATES, Henry Phillipe. ‘Munitions worker’ at baptism of daughter Grace Irene Annie, All Saints, 26 Oct 1917; ‘Instructor of explosives’ at baptism of son Henry George Vincent, All Saints, 2 Jan 1920. Address: 9 Portland Place, with wife Nancy

BATES, JOHN HENRY. Private G/22231, 6th Bn., The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regt.), died of wounds on Tuesday 15th May 1917. born: Snodland; enlisted:

8 Godalming; residence: Farncombe. Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave XVIII. N. 10. Husband of Annie Maria Bates, of 8, Church Rd., Farncombe, Surrey.

BAX, Alfred Arthur. Naval; no. K22209. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland 23-06-1895. Son of John and Sarah C. of 17 May Street.

BAX, Ernest Stephen. Naval; no. K276 from 1908. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland 24-01-1890. Son of John and Sarah C. of 17 May Street.

BAX, Leonard George. Naval; no. 365082. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland 24-09-1888. Son of John and Sarah C. of May Street. ‘Steward H.M.S. Martial’ aged 28 at marriage to May Peters, All Saints, 6 Aug 1916; Father: John

BEAL, G[eorge]. (senior). British Legion list, no. 60. Church Farm, Ham Hill [?buried Christ Church, 1 May 1935, aged 62; address: 1 School Cottages, Ham Hill]

BEAL, G. H. (junior). British Legion list, no. 53. Church Farm, Ham Hill

BEASLEY, William John. ‘Soldier’ at birth of son Elon Alfred John on 18 Nov 1916. Married Florence Elizabeth Austin, Christ Church, 21 sep 1915. Address: 3 Bramley Road; father: John

BEECH, Frederick. The Buffs, no. 2485; attested, Sittingbourne, 08-09-1914; discharged after 46 days as medically unfit. Service record survives. Born Snodland 02-08-1882. Son of John B. and Kate of May Street; labourer; religion C of E; next of kin: Mrs Hayward, Borough Green (aunt)

BELLINGHAM, BERTRAM CHARLES. Private 33686, 7th Bn., East Surrey Regiment, killed in action, 15 August 1917, aged 19. Born: Aldershot; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Buried: Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-les- Mofflaines, Pas de Calais, France, grave I. J. 14. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of Charles and Annie Bellingham, of Station House, Snodland, Kent.

BENNETT, FREDERICK JAMES WALTER. Leading stoker, K.15843; HMS Galliarda; died 22 Mar 1918 Born, Snodland, 17 May 1894, bapt. All Saints 19 Dec 1894; son of Walter and Ellen of Mill Street, then 2 Church Fields; later of Ivy Cottage, Bean, nr Dartford

BENNETT, George John. Royal West Kent; later 64 Labour Company, no. 606655; attested 10-12-1915; discharged 3-4-1919, 40% disabled; RWK 3rd Btn. 22-7-1916; 6th Btn, 1-1-1917; Btn. 6th Coy [Labour Coy] 22-1-1917; Abbeville: 6-7-1917; Etaples: 28- 7-1917. Roll of Honour 3. Service record survives. Born Snodland; address: 1 Magnolia Terrace, Holborough Road; married 12-01-1901 to Frances Mary (nee Efford); children: Irene Annie, b.15-8-1901; George Ernest, b.15-12- 1903; Kathleen Frances, b. 9-12-1906; William Ernest, b. 20-9-1908; occupation: chalk quarryman

9 BENNETT, Ralph Howard. Trooper, 2/1 Essex Yeomanry & 11th Cambs Suffolks, no. 42808; enlisted xx-03-1917; discharged xx-02-1919; medal card; British Legion application. Baptised All Saints 16-04-1899; son of George and Isabella of 4 Holborough Terrace (1901); 8 Council Cotts., Hollow Lane (at 8-6-1925); occupation: paper dryerman.

BEVAN, CHARLES HENRY. Private G/1175, 8th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); born Northfleet, 1887; attended British Schools, Holb. Rd.; motorman on Bournemouth Tramways; to France 31 Sep 1915; enlisted: Bournmouth; killed in action, 28 February 1916, aged 30. residence: Watford. Buried: White House Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave III. R. 27. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 8 Apr 1916] Son of the late William Henry and Annie Elizabeth of Malling Road; husband of Florence Marian Bevan, of Boscombe, then 105, Brett Place, Harebreaks, Watford, Herts.

BISHOP, ALBERT HENRY. Private 205051, 2nd/4th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 19 April 1917, Egypt, aged 19; enlisted Maidstone; killed in the taking of Sampson’s Ridge, near Gaza. No known grave. Memorials: Jerusalem Memorial, Israel, Panel 41; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Born Snodland 15 Feb 1898; attended C of E School, Brook Street; employed at paper mill; youngest son of Charles and Ann Weller Bishop of 3, Brook, Snodland, Kent.

BISHOP, ARCHIBALD THOMAS. Rifleman 2023, 1st/8th Bn., London Regt (Post Office Rifles), killed in action, 21 May 1916, aged 21. No known grave. Memorials: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Bay 10; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of Thomas Edwin and Phoebe Bishop, of 3, Hope Terrace, High Street, Snodland.

Memorial plaques for Archibald Thomas Bishop and William George Bishop

BISHOP, A[rchibald] W[illiam?]. British Legion list, no. 16; 9 East Street [?son of William Wickham Bishop and Annie, 3 May Street (1911); born Snodland 3 Aug 1902; educated at C of E School, Brook Street

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BISHOP, Frederick Alfred. Born Snodland 17-11-1884 R.N. no. K19887. Roll of Honour 1-3

BISHOP, Joseph William. R.N. no J25545 Born Snodland 05-03-1898

BISHOP, WILLIAM GEORGE. Private 32042, Bedfordshire Regt., ‘B’ Coy, 1st Btn;; died 24 September 1917, aged 21; buried Liencourt Communal Cemetery. Son of Thomas Edwin and Phoebe Bishop, of 3, Hope Terrace, High Street, Snodland.

BLAKE, Edwin. ‘G.A.R. guard’ at baptism of son Edwin Thomas, All Saints, 19 Dec 1917. Address: Bullfields, with wife Ellen

BLUNDELL, T. Roll of Honour 2-3

BOAKES, ARTHUR. Sergeant 21043, 6th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 9 August 1918. Born Tonbridge; enlisted: Tonbridge. Buried: Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, grave B. 14. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. ‘Soldier R.I.P’ at baptism of son Stanley Morlancourt Albert, All Saints, 5 Dec 1918. Address, 2 Medway Terrace: widow Margaret Ellen Matilda

BOAKES, WILLIAM EDWARD. Private G/20924, 5th Bn., Royal Fusiliers (City of London), died in England, 6 March 1916, aged 24. Born: Ham Hill, 1892; enlisted: Finsbury; residence: Thornton Heath. Buried: Dover (St. James’s) Cemetery, Kent, grave M. H. 31. Eldest son of Edward Prebble Boakes (born c.1862, Aylesford, grocer at Hilda Terrace, Ham Hill) and Ellen Frances Boakes (born c.1866, Maidstone), of 64, Parchmore Rd., Thornton Heath, Surrey.

BOLTON, Arthur. Roll of Honour 3 Born c.1874; married Rosalie Bennett 27-10-1906 All Saints, Snodland; buried Cemetery 16-10-1951 aged 77; father William George; address in 1906: 13 East Street

BOLTON, WILLIAM HENRY. Gunner 105306, 185th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery, killed in action, 7 August 1917. Born: Snodland/East Sutton; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Buried: Bard Cottage Cemetery, Ieper, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave IV. A. 38. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 22 Sep 1917]. Service record survives. Son of James and Sarah Bolton of 4 Covey Hall Place. Formerly a worker (cement loader) at Lee’s CementWorks.

BOTTEN, Frederick William. Army Service Corps, no. 425660; attested Rochester 12- 12-1915; to Btn. 3/5 Notts & Derby 25-03-1916; home to 11-07-1916; B.E.F. France from 12-07-1916; transferred to Royal Engineers, lance corporal, 01-03-1917; 2nd corporal 07-07-1917; demobilized 14-07-1919; worked as H. T. Driver. Service recofrd survives.

11 Born Rochester c.1875; married Mary Ethel Saltmarsh Ellis 17-08-1899, Rochester; address: 109 Alma Street, Sheerness; children Isabel Beatrice 09-06-1903, Malling; Leonard James 14-01-1911, Malling; occupation: town carter; dockyard labourer in 1918

BOTTING, T. E. British Legion list, (no number); 8 Queen’s Road.

BOUNDS, HAROLD. Sergeant 8886, 2nd Bn., Welsh Regiment. Killed in action, 26 September 1914, aged 34-5. Born: Fulham; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. No known grave; memorials: La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France; Christ Church, Lower Birling. Was Private in 1st Welsh Regt. at marriage to Emily Kemp, Birling, 28 Sep 1907. Address: 9 Hilda Terrace. Father was John Bounds (deceased), a bricklayer.

BOWEN, Albert. ‘Discharged soldier’ at baptism of daughter Irene, All Saints, 28 Nov 1919. Address: 3 East Street, with wife Edith Livinia; buried Cemetery 2 Aug 1946, aged 56

BRAMLEY, A. W. 88800 Private RAMC reported wounded KM 24 Nov 1917

BRATTLE, ERNEST WILLIAM. Private L/7734, 1st Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died of wounds, aged 28. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Canterbury; residence: South Farnborough. Died 31 October 1914; memorial: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, Panel III.B.18. Son of William, (a plumber), born c.1862, Maidstone: residence: 3 May Cottages (1891) and Emma Brattle, born c.1864, East Peckham; of 26, York Rd., South Farnborough, Hants.

Grave of Ernest William Brattle

BRIDGER, Charles Edward. R.N. no. K34353; 26 Nov 1915 joined Land Forces, then drafted to HMS Pembroke at Chatham, 30 May 1916; served on HMS Repulse as Stoker, 1st Class; demobbed at Chatham 7 April 1919. Born Snodland 05-01-1895; baptised Christ Church 31-03-1895; parents: Edward and Mary, Oxford Street; 3 Rosslyn Cottages (1901); moved to Tregadar Mon, Wales, in 1908; his work included coal mining. Returned to work at Lead Wool, Co., Snodland in 1946.

BRIGDEN, Frank/Francis Halley. Roll of Honour 1-3. R.A.M.C. Territorials ‘Private, R.A.M.C.’ aged 19 at marriage to Alice Annie Pile, All Saints, 26 Dec 1914; baptism of son Robert Francis Leslie, 23 July 1916. Address: Ham Hill

BRIGGS, Stanley George. R.N. no. M25036 Born Snodland 25-10-1898; son of George W (foreman of cooperage, cement works) and Florence;

12 BRIGGS, WILLIAM RICHARD. Corporal 16708, “D” Coy. 7th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry, killed in action, 16 August 1917, aged 25. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Taunton. Buried: Cement House Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, West Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave V. D. 9. Son of Albert Harry and Mary Ann Briggs, of “The Ship”, Wilmington, Dartford.

BRIMSTED, H[ugh?]. Private 6013, RWK; wounded: KM, 2 Sep 1916 Born Larkfield, 1881; married Sophonia; died 18-10-1948; buried Christ Church 23-10- 1948; aged 67: 18 Oxford St (1911); Ken Wen, Malling Rd

BRISTOW, Charles Edgar. Formerly 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance Territorials (R.A.M.C.); Royal Garrison Artillery, no. 31101; attested, Maidstone, 23-03-1909; service: home 22-05-1909 to 09-10-1912; Hong Kong 10-10-1912 to 05-11-1916; home 06-11-1916 to 04-09-1917; B.E.F. France 07-10-1918 to 25-01-1919 Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 23-12-1891; parents: Charles and Edith; occupation: paper bag maker; religion: C of E

BRISTOW, Leonard [George William]. Royal Warwickshire Regt., Special Reserve Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 07-03-1894; parents Charles and Edith;

BROOKER, A. E.

BROOKES, Harry. Roll of Honour 3. 10417, private H. Brooks reported wounded KM 26 Jan 1918

BROOKS, Percy Stafford. ‘L.Cpl. N. 3. Force’ at baptism of son Percy Henry, All Saints, 15 July 1917. Address: High Street, with wife Maud Beatrice

BROOKS, Richard. Roll of Honour 1-3

BROOKS, THOMAS WILLIAM. Private L/8330, 2nd Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Died in Mesopotamia, 26 August 1916, aged 31. Buried: Bagdad War Cemetery, Iraq grave XXI. R. 25. Born Snodland, c.1886; enlisted: Maidstone. Son of William and Isabella E. Brooks, of 234A, Norah St., Fort William, Ontario, Canada; formerly of Oxford Street, Snodland.

BROOKS, William Nelson. Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 12-11-1915, Fort William; occupation: miller; religion: C of E Born 22-12-1894; baptised All Saints, Snodland, 26-12-1894; son of William and Isabella Ellen, formerly of Oxford Street; in 1915 of 234 North Norah Street, Fort William, Ontario

BROWN, JOHN THOMAS. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Frederick John, All Saints, 25 Dec 1913. Address: 2 Wargrave Cottages, Holborough, with wife Ruth

BURGE, ABRAHAM. Private G/42549, formerly G/25192, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment.) 11th Bn., Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge) Regiment, killed in action, 14 May 1917. Born Meopham; enlisted Chatham; residence Chatham (formerly

13 Snodland: in 1905 was a saddler in Malling Road). Memorials: Christ Church, Lower Birling, and on parents’ gravestone in Christ Church churchyard. Born c.1884, son of Henry and Sarah. Christ Church N 13 F Headstone: In loving memory of / HENRY BURGE / who died August 31st 1900 / aged 63 years / At rest. / Also SARAH / wife of the above / who died February 2nd 1921 / aged 78 years. / Also ABRAHAM / son of the above / who fell in action in France May 14th 1917 / aged 33 years. / For ever with the Lord.)

BURNEY, F[rederick Augustus]. Roll of Honour 2-3. Born Faversham c,1883; son of Augustus James Burney (cooper at cement works) and Jane; carpenter at cement works (1911); 6 Queen’s Avenue, Snodland (1911)

BURR, Henry. British Legion list, no. 47; Rayfield Cottages, Ham Hill. Born c.1875, Chatham; married Mary Ann […]; road labourer (1911); 22 Oxford Street (1911); buried Christ Church, 27 June 1932, aged 57.

BURRLUCK, H[enry] W[illiam]. British Legion list, no. 9; Malling Road Son of John Alfred and Eliza Ann; born New Hythe, c.1897; 1 Oldbury Villas, Malling Road in 1911; barber’s apprentice (1911)

BURRLUCK, Owen Alan. R.N. Survived sinking of Aboukir; was in the water for four and a half hours. Son of Albert (labourer) and Eliza; born New Hythe, 6 August 1875; married Minnie; stoker at Paper mill (1911); mercantile marine after WWI; 4 children; died Gravel Pit House, Faversham, 16 March 1940; buried Snodland cemetery, aged 62

BURT, ARTHUR ROBERT. Private G/9518, 6th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 3 July 1916, aged 30. Born: Strood; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 11 C; Christ Church, Lower Birling. Victory and British medals. [KM service no.: 10750; missing 2 Sep 1916] (The Battalion was brought up from reserve and suffered heavy casualties when the Somme advance was resumed.) Son of Samuel Charles and Emma Sarah Burt (later Norwood), she of 3, Dykes Cottages, Ham Hill, Snodland, Kent; carter for furniture purveyor (1911)

BURT, Samuel Thomas. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials (3 years); 3/5 Notts & Derby, no. 282912; attested 17-01-1916; home to 11-07-1916; B.E.F. France; transferred to Royal Engineers, sapper and appointed paid lance corporal 01-03-1917; boilermaker; demobilization 14-07-1919. Service record survives. Born c.1885, Strood; parents Samuel Charles and Emma Sarah of 3 Dyke’s Cottages, Ham Hill; occupation: farm labourer; buried Christ Church, 24 April 1934, aged 49

BURTON, THOMAS WILLIAM. Rifleman R/3836, 13th Bn., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action, 11 April 1917, aged 20. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Buried: Monchy British Cemetery, Monchy-le-Preux, Pas de Calais, France, grave I. D. 6. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Service record survives.

14 Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 11 September 1896; son of Thomas William and Jessie Burton, of 3, Covey Hall Place, Holboro’ Rd., (formerly of May Street) Snodland, Kent. Worked at Lee’s cement works.

BUSBRIDGE, John. ‘Army Pensioner’ at baptism of son Peter Charles, All Saints, 14 May 1923. Address: High Street; wife Gertrude Mary

BUTLER, Charles James Thomas . ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Charles Thomas at Christ Church on 15 July 1917; also son Leonard Frederick on 26 Jan 1919. Address: 20 Birling Road, with wife Ada May. Born c.1877; buried Cemetery, 20 Aug 1924, aged 37; mother: Elizabeth

CACKETT, Reginald John. The Buffs, no. 4408; Suffolk Infantry, private no. 242268; attested Canterbury 30-11-1915; served with Buffs 2/4 Btn. 10-01-1916; transferred to London Regiment, 18th Rifle Btn. as rifleman 28-08-1916; transferred to Suffolk Regt 2/5th Btn. 15-12-1916; service: home to 30-08-1916; B.E.F. France to 01-12-1916; home to 12-02-1918; France to 11-06-1918; home to 17-07-1918; discharged as no longer physically fit for war service. Service record survives. Born Snodland/Boro’ Green, c.1899, son of Charles (journeyman butcher) and Rose Ann Isobel, 1 Mill Road, then 2 Delamere Road

CAPON, Herbert; 2 Bernard Cotts., Bramley Road; occupation: machinist. Royal Navy; Stoker I; enlisted xx-01-1904; called up 2 Aug 1914; served on HMS Euryalus; severely wounded in action off the Dardanelles (KM 5 Apr 1915); discharged xx-03-1924. British Legion application; Roll of Honour 2-3.

CASSAM, W. British Legion list, no. 65; Malling Road.

CATT, William Alfred. First Class Stoker, no. 287390. Married Louisa Olive Richardson, 1910; buried Snodland cemetery 12 Dec 1942, aged 68

CHALKLEN, CHARLES. ‘Private R.A.M.C.’ at baptism of daughter Lilian Rose, All Saints, 30 Apr 1915. Address: 13 May St, with wife Ada

CHAMBERS, HAROLD FREDERICK. MM. Corporal G/4928, 6th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); award of Military Medal reported KM 3 Oct 1917; assumed killed in action 14 October 1917 [reported missing KM 1 Jan 1918]. Born: Maidstone; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Bay 7; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Awarded MM 24 Aug 1917. Service record survives. Son of Eliza; husband of Agnes Matilda; address: 3 Gorham’s Cottages, High Street, Snodland. Baptism of son Charles George, All Saints, 29 July 1917

CHAMBERS, HARRY JOHN [‘JACK’]. Private 74008 16th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) (formerly G/42445, Royal Fusiliers; formerly Queen’s Own Royal West Kent), killed in action, 6 May 1918, aged 25. Born 1893: Maidstone; enlisted Gravesend. Memorials: Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul; grave

15 II.G.58; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; Gravesend, Imperial Paper Mills (where he was a stoker). Husband of Daisy Verbinia Powell of 1, Gorham Cottages, High Street, Snodland; formerly of 15, Winfield Road, Gravesend. Baptism of son George Kenilworth, All Saints, 24 May 1918

CHAMPION, Bryan Arthur. Corporal: Roll of Honour 1-3. Second Lieutenant, Royal Field Artillery, at marriage to Lorna M. L. Butler, Doone House, Barnstable, at All Saints, Sydenham, 22 September 1916

CHAMPION, Edgar. Roll of Honour 2-3. Royal Field Artillery, gunner, no. 22743. made sergeant in 1915; served in France. Born c.1896, Lenham; son of John and Nelly; shaver boy at paper mill in 1911; living at ‘Shambles’ [upper] Malling Road. Sent postcard from front on 10 Jan 1919. Married 1923.

CHAMPION, Guy Bern[h]ard. Connaught Rangers; lieutenant. Roll of Honour 1-3. Son of Philip and Florence Mary of The Downs, Darenth (1911); born c.1892, Dunstable, Bedfordshire; Rookery Farm (1901); pupil, auctioneer’s office (1911)

CHAMPION, Reginald Stuart. 3rd Btn. East Surrey; promoted from 2nd lieutenant to lieutenant on 1-10-1914. Roll of Honour 1-3. Son of Philip and Florence Mary of The Downs, Darenth (1911); born c.1895, Dunstable, Bedfordshire; Rookery Farm (1901); boarder at Sutton Valence School, (1911)

CHANTLER, ALBERT PETER. Private 24511, 1st Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action, 17 August 1916, aged c.23. Born: Snodland; enlisted Chatham. Memorials: Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, Sp. Mem.; Sittingbourne War Memorial; St Nicholas, Rochester; St Nicholas Guild Memorial, Children’s Ward, St Barts Hospital, Rochester & St Margaret, Rochester. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland, 30-08-1893, son of Alfred (a bargeman) and Sarah Amelia, of Church Terrace.

CHAPMAN, Bert[ie Sydney]. Roll of Honour 1-3. Son of George (cement labourer) and Elizabeth Anne; baptized 6 August 1890, All Saints; 2 Portland Place, May Street; paper maker (machine boy) (1911); buried 22 March 1945, Cemetery, aged 54; living in Malling Road at death.

CHAPMAN, Edgar Belson. Royal West Kent, private no. G/12756; attested Maidstone 20-11-1915; service: home to 12-09-1916; B.E.F. France to 12-10-1916; gun shot wound to nose 08-10-1916; home 13-10-1916 to 09-01-1916; discharged no longer physically fit for war service 09-01-1918. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 27-11-1881; parents: George and Elizabeth Annie of 2 Portland Place; occupation: bricklayer’s labourer (1911); cement labourer; religion C of E.

16 CHAPMAN, Frank Septimus. 9th Btn., King’s Royal Rifles, no. 3403; attested, Chatham, 07-09-1914; joined at Winchester on 09-09-1914; discharged after 59 days as medically unfit (‘bad ankles’). Roll of Honour 2-3. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 07-07-1888; parents: George and Elizabeth Annie of 2 Portland Place, May Street (George in Malling Infirmary (Workhouse) and died there 1915); occupation: general labourer;

CHAPMAN, George. Roll of Honour 2-3.

CHAPPELL, Ernest. Royal Engineers, no. 289589 [?]; attested London 16-10-1916; 11th Labour Btn.; demobilized 24-01-1919. Service record survives. Born c.1876, Milton; married Elizabeth Ellen Perrott at Finsbury, Chatham, 14-09-1902 (5 children); 7 Portland Place (1911); buried cemetery 04-01-1941 aged 69

CHART, JAMES EDWARD.. Sergeant G/1990, 13th Bn., Middlesex Regiment, killed in action, 18 August 1916. Born: Snodland. No known grave. Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France: Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.

CHECKLEY, John Arthur. ‘Soldier’ aged 23 at marriage to Rosina Jean Shirley, Christ Church, 25 Dec 1919. Father: John Arthur

CLARK, E. H. British Legion list, no. 54; 15 Queen’s Road.

CLAXTON, SAMUEL HENRY. Private 6799, 2nd Bn., Honourable Artillery Company (Infantry), killed in action, 30 November 1916, aged 26. Enlisted: Armoury House; residence: Snodland. Buried: Ancre British Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France, grave VI. F. 49. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Service record survives. Son of William Henry (a Swedenborgian minister) and Rose Eliza Claxton, of 46, Hampton Rd., Forest Gate, London; certified teacher at Hook’s School, Holborough Road [Kent & Sussex Courier 26-1-1917]. Address: 36 Malling Road.

CLEGG, George. Roll of Honour 2-3. Born Ireland; nephew of William Edward Clegg, schoolmaster at the British Schools, Holborough Road.

CLIFFORD, H. E. British Legion list, no. 57; Addison Villa, (Constitution Hill).

CLEMENTS, WALTER. Guardsman 14363, 2nd Bn., Grenadier Guards, killed in action, 25 September 1916. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham. Guard’s Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France, Sp. Mem. 67.

CLEMENTS, William Henry. Royal Engineers, no. 135626; attested London 28-10- 1915; served in Inland Waterways Transport Corps.; to B.E.F. France 23-01-1916; appointed lance corporal 21-06-1916; promoted to corporal 20-03-1917; demobilization 04-03-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland; married Kate Church, All Saints 26-12-1904 (5 children); father: William; address 3 Medina Terrace, Bramley Road; occupation: waterman

COCKS, Bertram Robert. ‘Able Seaman RN’ at baptism of son Maurice Ralph, All Saints, 8 Sep 1918. Address: 8 Holborough Terrace, with wife May Ella

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COLEGATE, Henry. ‘Soldier’ aged 26 at marriage to Emma Letitia Banfield, Christ Church, 8 May 1917; birth of daughter Kathleen Emma, 25 August 1917. Address: Ham Hill; father: Alfred

COLEMAN, J. G. British Legion list no. 30, Holborough Road

COLLINS, Thomas John. 1st Volunteer Btn. Royal West Kent, no. G9262 for 5 years; attested Maidstone 24-07-1915; munitions worker at Ammonia Soda Co. Lostock Gralam, nr. Northwich from 22-12-1915; transferred to Electrical Engineering Dept., H.M. Dockyard Chatham 21-06-1918; discharged 16-01-1919. Service record survives. Born c.1875. Address: 3 Magnolia Terrace, Holborough Road; married Frances Moon at Maidstone 29-09-1899 (5 children); occupation: plumber and fitter

COLLISON, Frederick. British Legion list, no 63, Oxford Street. ‘R[oyal] Art[ilery] at baptism of daughter Doris Louvain Elmara, All Saints, 24 Jan 1919. Wife: Florence Ellen

COMBE, (Dr.) William. B.Sc., M.B. B.Ch. British Legion list, no. 24, Anchor Place; Auburn (<1927-51>). Physician & surgeon, & public vaccinator, certifying factory surgeon & medical officer to the Post Office and Board of Education. Registered 10 May 1915, University of Glasgow; practising from 205, Main Street, Bellshill, Lanarkshire in 1919.

COMFORT. Roll of Honour 2-3. [No Christian name given]

COOK, CECIL HARRY PERCY. Private 34453, 12th Bn., Yorkshire (Alexandra Princess of Wales) Regiment, killed in action, 11 April 1918, aged 20. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Gravesend; residence: Northfleet. Croix-du-Bac British Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord, France. Sp. Mem. F. 18. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 3 June 1898; son of Arthur, a cement labourer, and Mary Cook, of 13, Wood St., Northfleet, formerly of Malling Road, Snodland.

COOK, Hubert Alfred. Roll of Honour 1-3. British Legion list, no 4, Vine Cottage, Lee’s Works. ‘Discharged Soldier’ at baptism of son Ralph Thomas, All Saints, 24 Aug 1918. Son of Alfred and Sarah of 6 Dover Terrace (1901); reported wounded and taken prisoner of war on 26 Sep 1915: KM 4 Dec 1915 – in hospital at Wahn, Germany; buried cemetery 9 Aug 1967. Address: 2, Queen’s Avenue, with wife Isabel. [Religion: Congregational] Percy Cook COOK, Percy [Henry]. Roll of Honour 2-3. Sergeant, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Born Halling; baptised Halling 29-12-1895 (from Railway Place); parents: Henry and Caroline Ellen of 14 Orchard Cottages, Holborough (1901); enlisted 7 Sep 1914; reported missing KM 15 Sep 1917; taken prisoner of war on 13 Apr 1918

18 COOK, Sydney. 2/4 Royal West Kent, no. G/24304; attested Maidstone 10-12-1915; to army reserve; mobilized 30-12-1916; posted 02-01-1917; sailed for Alexandria 17 to 31-03-1917; gun shot wound left side, Gaza, 19-04-1917; transferred to Royal Engineers, no. 353536 Railway Operating Division as engine driver 23-11-1917; returned to UK 24-02-1919; demobilized 23-02-1919. Service record survives. Born c.1887, Halling; parents Alfred and Sarah; address: 4 Dover Terrace; occupation: locomotive driver BPCM, Lee’s Works (12 years); married Charlotte Elizabeth Cheesman, East Malling 04-08-1913; religion: Congregational

COOMBER, Allan Cyril. Formerly 13 Royal Regiment, A Company; Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 29-12-1915; occupation: knitting factory; religion: C of E Born Snodland, 04-03-1895; baptised All Saints, Snodland, 10-07-1895. Son of Richard and Rose A. formerly of Alma Place; in 1915 of West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

COOMBER, HAROLD. Private, G/13619. 6th (Service) Battalion, the Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Born Snodland, c.1888; enlisted Canterbury; resided Folkestone; died 3 May 1917, aged c.29; Memorials: Arras, Pas de Calais, France; (formerly on Dover, Holy Trinity Hall); Dover civic memorial. Son of Frederick and Caroline of 24 Birling Road (1891); later of Baker Street, Burham (1901).

COOMBER, Leonard Cecil. Formerly 13th Royal Regiment; Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 27-07-1915, Hamilton; occupation: moulder; religion C of E Born Snodland, 21-07-1893; baptised All Saints, Snodland, 12-10-1893. Son of Richard and Rose A. formerly of Alma Place; in 1915 of West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

COURT, George. Roll of Honour 1-3.

COWEN, T[homas Henry?]. Roll of Honour 2-3. [?Son of Thomas and Sarah; born Snodland, c.1877; baptised All Saints 18 May 1881; married Alice; 5 East St (1911); general labourer]

COX, B. Roll of Honour 3.

CRADDOCK, George Henry. The Buffs, no. G/6482; attested Chatham 24-05-1915; service: home to 04-10-1915; B.E.F. France to 22-10-1915; M.E.Force (Egypt, Salonika) to 26-02-1918; home to 22-08-1918; B.E.F. (France) to 29-10-1918. Service record survives. Born Chatham c.1890; son of […] and Susan, formerly of 11 Malling Road, then of 6 [28] May Street (1908-1915); occupation: general labourer; married Minnie[?] Elizabeth […] at Malling Registry Office 12-06-1915; address: 5 Alma Place, Brook Street

CRAMP, WILLIAM. ‘Soldier’ at birth of son Henry William on 16 Sep 1916. Address: 3 Rayfield Cottages, with wife Lily Matilda; buried Cemetery, 18 June 1934, aged 51

CRIPPS, Albert. [John] Thomas. 214273 Pnr A. T. Cripps reported wounded in Times 7 Apr 1917 and KM 14 Apr 1917.

19 ? son of John and Eliza 20 Ivy Cottages, Bramley Road (1911); born 1881; cement labourer

CRITTENDEN, Walter. ‘Private Soldier’ aged 29 at marriage to Olive Alice Whibley, Christ Church 19 June 1918. Father: Charles

DACK, OLIVER STANLEY. Lance Corporal 1564, 8th Cavalry Brigade; 3rd. Cavalry Division; attd. Machine Gun Sect., Royal Horse Guards (Household Cavalry, The Blues), killed in action 17 August 1916. buried: Authuile Military Cemetery, Somme, France, grave I. 4. Service record survives. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Gravesend; Baptized at Christ Church: 29 December 1895; son of Samuel and Eliza of 18 Birling Road.

DALE, ALBERT ERNEST B.. Private 3417, 3/5th then 1st/5th Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), M. E. F.; joined 17 Jul 1915; trained at Dover; to Mesopotamia 17 Feb 1916; died of disease Amara hospital 14 May 1916, aged 17. Enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Buried: Amara War Cemetery, Iraq, grave VIII. H. 1. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial: Snodland Cemetery. [Death recorded KM 6, 16 and 24 June 1916; In Memoriam: KM 14 May 1916] Born Snodland 24 Dec 1898, son of Albert E. and Anne Dale, of 7, Bramley Road; educated at C of E School, Brook Street; employed in office at Mid Kent Water Co., then at Snodland paper mill; kept birds in an aviary at home.

DALE, L[eslie] W[illiam?]. L/Cpl, 61060, Royal West Surrey Regt.; wounded, KM, 9 Nov 1918; British Legion list no. 23; Rosslyn Terrace, High Street. [?Son of George and Phoebe of 12/27 Malling Road; born Snodland, 25 July 1896; baptised All Saints 26 August 1908; buried Cemetery 20 September 1966, aged 70]

DALEY, CHARLES. Private 233774, 2nd/2nd Btn., London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers); enlisted Whitehall; residence Walworth; killed in action 16 June 1917, aged 30; no known grave. Born Wouldham 14 July 1887; son of John (a cement cooper) and Jane: 1891 at [ ] High Street; 1901 at 8 Church Terrace (next to the ferry) [later of 34 Crofton Road, Peckham, London]

DANIELS, RICHARD MONTY. Sergeant G/12973, 7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), killed in action, 26 October 1918, aged 30. Born Snodland 26 June 1888; enlisted: Chatham; resided: Rochester; no known grave. Memorials: Thiepval, Ypres, Pier and face 5 D; Gillingham; St Margaret Rochester; Chatham Dockyard Son of Friend and Emily Daniels, formerly of 3 Orchard Cottages, Holborough; born 26 June 1888; husband of Jessie Emma Rose Punnett.

DANIELS, Robert Benjamin. Sailor. Born Snodland; son of Friend and Emily of 3 Orchard Cottages.

DATLEN/DATLING, Charles Edward. Roll of Honour 2-3.

20 Baptised All Saints 13 May 1885; Black’s Place, Birling, 1901.’Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Nancy Isabel at Christ Church, 26 June 1921. Address: Malling Road, with wife Lizzie

DATLEN, E. A. Gunner, 697217; wounded: KM, 8 June 1917

DAVIES, J. V. British Legion list no 5; Tudor Cottage, Ham Hill.

DAVIES, William Thomas. South Wales Borderers, no. 13000; attested Newport 25- 08-1914; posted 28-08-1914; wounded: fingers: 31-12-1914; appointed lance corporal (unpaid) 05-12-1914; lance corporal (paid) 22-06-1915; Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 28-06-1915 to 19-09-1915; home to 29-05-1917; transferred from employment with the [?] Colliery, Newbridge 28-08-1917; discharged. Service record survives. Born in Snodland, c.1889 of Welsh parents; mother Mrs F. Davies, 46 Grange Road, Pontnewydd; married Edna May Brinkworth, Llandrenen[?], 01-03-1913. Occupation: collier

DAVIS, GEORGE. Private G/4977, 6th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) died (in the trenches), 22 April 1916. Born: 11 January 1880, Notting Hill; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Buried: Vermelles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave II. H. 23. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial: Snodland Cemetery. Formerly a worker at Lee’s Cement Works. Married Helen Rosina Matthews, 6 June 1908; lived at Victoria Cottages, Holborough Road; also Walgrave Cottages (1911); two children (George and Frederick). Wife died of Spanish flu; buried Snodland Cemetery 11 November 1918, aged 33.

George Davis

DAVY. William Thomas. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son William Albert, All Saints, 25 Aug 1918. Address: Snodland, with wife Clara

DAWKINS, Henry. Royal Garrison Artillery, no. 82673; attested 29-01-1916; to army reserve; mobilized 17-03-1916; service abroad from 21-03-1916; 73 various Anti Aircraft gun batteries from 03-07-1916; wounded 11-07-1917; repatriated to Lewisham Military Hospital 16-07-1917; R.G.A. Depot Plymouth 19-03-1918; discharged 30-05- 1918. Service record survives. Born Canterbury, c.1891; foster-mother: Mrs Isabella Chuter; Church Fields; occupation: pulp runner, Hook’s paper mill; religion C of E

DAY, A. Private 4847, Royal West Kent; wounded: KM, 28 Oct 1916

DAY, Charles William. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of 3 children (Kathleen Margaret, born 22 Jan 1913; Phyllis, born 3 Aug 1915; Edna Rose, born 26 Dec 1918) at Christ Church on 26 Jan 1919. Address: Ham Hill, with wife Matilda Jane; buried Cemetery May 1942, aged 64

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DAY, Ernest. Born c.1883, Haywards Heath; married Lucy Emma Austin, Christ Church, 27 Jan 1912; ‘Munition worker’ at baptism of daughter Eileen Mary at Christ Church, 29 Sep 1918. Address: Crayford

DEDRICK, Jack [?=John S.]. added to Roll of Honour. [?born Snodland, c.1895; son of Stanley Herbert and Mary Clarissa of Providence House (1901), Belmont (1911); apprentice electrician]

DENMAN, H. Private 202258, Sherwood Foresters; wounded: KM, 18 Aug 1917

DENNIS, H[orace Edward Henry?]. Roll of Honour 2-3 Father: James; born c.1890; married Alice Laura Bridges at Christ Church, 10 January 1914; lived at Ham Hill

DIX, Richard. R.N. no. 191313 Born Eynsham, Oxfordshire, 25-07-1881; son of Emma (who later married Charles John State).

DODGE, Harold. 1st Dorsetshire Regiment; to France from Ireland 22 Aug 1914; Battle of the Marne; twice wounded and invalided home; Battle of the Somme; awarded Military Medal. [MM award in KM 17 Mar 1917] Born c.1894 to George and ?; married Emma West at Christ Church, 7 Aug 1915

DORRELL, George Harry. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 22-02-1893

DOWN, Cyril Leslie. R.N. no. M31783 Born Snodland 11-09-1893; East Malling in 1901

DOWN, Frederick Charles. ‘Private, 29th Middlesex’ at baptism of daughter Edith Maud, All Saints, 22 June 1917. Address: Mill Lane, with wife Edith Mary

DRAKE, Alfred. ‘Royal Engineers’ at baptism of daughter Ethel May, All Saints, 20 Jul 1915; also daughter Irene Maud, 2 Sep 1917, as ‘Quartermaster Sergeant’. Address: 2 Hadleigh Villas, with wife Ethel

DUMBLETON, Alfred. ‘Lance Corporal’ aged 26 at marriage to Ada Edith Bishop, All Saints, 2 Jan 1915; baptism of daughter Mercy May, 2 Apr 1916. Address: 3 The Brook

DUNCAN, F. On war memorial, but currently no details found.

DUNN, William John. The Buffs, no. 4961; Labour Corps, no. 222277; attested Rochester 22-11-1892; 2nd Btn. home to 01-02-1894; 1st Btn. India to 01-04-1895; Chitral to 18-09-1895; India to 07-05-1898; home to 21-12-1899; South Africa 22-12- 1899 to 07-09-1902 [Boer War]; home to 01-06-1905; South Africa to 13-04-1909; home to 06-09-1914; France to 23-02-1919; served 26 yr 123 days; discharged 31-03- 1919. Service record survives.

22 Born Snodland; son of George (a bargeman) and Adelaide; occupation: labourer; married Ida Kate Gravett, Luton, Kent, 01-11-1902 (two children born Harrismith, S. Africa)

DYKE, CECIL WILLIAM. Private 43154, Middlesex Regiment, died 6 January 1919, aged 21. Buried 13 January 1919: Snodland Cemetery, grave 792. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Wounded: KM, 23 Dec 1916 Son of Mrs. Mary Teresa Dyke, of 1, Brook Gate, Snodland.

Grave of Cecil William Dyke

EARL. TOM [‘R EARL’ according to Commonwealth War Graves Commission], Private S/593, 7th Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment, British Expeditionary Force, killed in action, 25 September 1915. Born: West Malling; enlisted: Chatham; buried: St. Mary’s A.D.S. Cemetery, Haisnes, Pas de Calais, France, grave VI. B. 3. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of William and Martha; formerly a worker at Lee’s Cement Works. Grave of Tom Earl

EDGELER, Ernest Henry. Attested 24 Nov 1915; training at Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow; Royal Field Artillery; no. 182572, B Battery, 91st Brigade, 20th Division; embarked for France 15 Aug 1917; served until November 1918 Born Milton, Gravesend 21 August 1880, son of James and Fanny; married Faith Hilder, All Saints, Snodland, 13 September 1902; died 18 April 1973, aged 93; cremated. Ironmonger. Address: Hadleigh Villas (1911); Addison Villas (1918)

EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES. Private 36287, 10th Bn., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, died on 16 July 1918, aged 31. Native of Hawkhurst, Kent. Buried: Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave XVIII. C. 8.

23 Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of Thomas John and Ellen Edwards; husband of Beatrice Edwards, of 5 Malling Road, Snodland, Kent.

Thomas Edwards

EFFORD, A[lfred] B[ertie?]. British Legion list no. 33; Holborough Road. [?Son of Edward and Esther; baptised All Saints 7 January 1884; married Ethel May; outfitter’s assistant, van man (1911); buried Cemetery 21 May 1971, aged 87]

EFFORD, Thomas. Durham Light Infantry, no. [?]; attested Maidstone 11-12-1915; army reserve to 12-12-1915; mobilized 15-07-1916; 6th Btn. posted 21-07-1916; transferred 27-10-1916. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 22-07-1882, son of Thomas and Maria of 8 Victoria Cottages (1891-1901), later of 54 Malling Road; married Ella Florence Gammon Christ Church 09-07-1916; occupation cement labourer, then confectioner and tobacconist

EGGLESTON, A. S. British Legion list (no number); 1 Tomlin’s Cottages, Birling Road

ELGAR, WILLIAM CLAUDE. Born Snodland; son of William H. (a fitter/gun turner (1901)) and Husley E.; enlisted Blackheath; lance corporal no. G/1994, Royal West Kent; killed in action 27 May 1917; buried Rookery, British cemetery, Heninel, grave C.25. Medal Card: Victory, British and 1915 Star.

EMPTAGE, E. G. British Legion list no. 55; 4 Rosslyn Terrace, High Street

EPSLEY, Alfred Ernest. ‘Soldier’ aged 25 at marriage to Winnie Austin, Christ Church, 2 Feb 1918. Father: John

EVANS, EDGAR ROBERT. Private L/7922, 2nd Btn. The Buffs; Age 28; born Snodland; residence Snodland. Reported wounded 2 April 1915; died 24 May 1915. No known grave.. Memorial: Ypres, Menin Gate, Panel 12 and 14; Whitstable War Memorial. Born c.1897; son of William and Maria of 2 Evans Cottages/Medway View, Holborough Road, later of 7, Tower Parade, Tankerton, Whitstable, Kent; ‘husband of the late Maria’.

EVANS, Edgar Thomas. R.N. no. F24439 Born Snodland 15-06-1895; son of Alfred and Annie of Duley Villa, Malling Road; reeler boy at paper mill (1911)

FAIRBRASS, GEORGE THOMAS. Private East Surrey Regt., 23429; baptised All Saints Snodland 28 Nov 1887; killed in action, 17 August 1917, age 29; no known grave. Memorials: Tyne Cot, panel 79 to 80 and 163A

24 Son of Austen (a policeman) and Eliza Fairbrass; boarder at 11 Pelham Rd., South, Gravesend in 1901; a baker; married Edith Gillett at Gravesend, 1st quarter 1911; home: 4, St Andrew’s Road, Gravesend

FAIRMAN, Alfred. Roll of Honour 1-3. Joined Buffs (under age); (perhaps previously RAMC volunteer in Snodland, since red cross emblem on uniform sleeve). born ?19 Manor Terrace, Halling, 5 Oct 1899; son of Alfred (bargeman at cement works) and Lucy; later of 12 May Street, Snodland; educated at C of E School, Brook Street; died Orpington Hospital, buried Cemetery 15 April 1943, aged 79]

Alfred Fairman and Albert Ernest B. Dale (seated) - (q.v)

FEATHERSTONE, JAMES REYNOLD. Sergeant L/9221, "B" Coy. 6th Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), killed in action, 7 October 1916, aged 28. Born: Wouldham; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Buried: Bancourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave V. G. 5. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; St John Halling. [Death reported KM 9 Dec 1916] Son of James David and Amelia Jane Featherstone, of 15, Hilton Terrace, Lower Halling, Rochester, Kent. (The Battalion had returned to the Somme area on the previous day ready for a planned attack on the 7th. This took place, but there was great loss of life from German machine-gun fire.)

FEVER, Bert. Royal Army Medical Corps territorials; no. 493232; attested Maidstone 10-08-1914; service: home to 10-03-1915; B.E.F. France to 25-11-1915; B.S.F. 26-11- 1915 to 20-07-1918; home to 05-10-1918; B.S.F. to 30-07-1919; demobilised 11-09- 1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 02-10-1896; son of George and Amelia of Bramley Road; trade: butcher

FEVER, C[?riss]. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?Born c.1889; son of George and Amelia, Pleasant View, Malling Road]

FEVER, Frederick. Roll of Honour 1-3 [?Son of George and Jane, 1 Walgrave Cottages, Holborough; cooper’s apprentice (1911)

25 FEVER, GEORGE EDWARD. Rifleman R/3837, 13th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, died of wounds, 6 August 1916, aged 31. Formerly a worker at Peters’ Cement Works (The APCM Roll of Honour gives 12th Battalion and death on 2 September). Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Buried: Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, grave I. M. 35. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 26 April 1885: son of George and Amelia Fever, of Bramley Road (1901), then Pleasant View, Malling Rd., Snodland, Kent.

Grace Fever (on the right)

FEVER, Grace. A munitions worker Born 9 October 1898, daughter of Thomas and Julia of Bramley Road (1901), then Malling Road (1911-)

FEVER, H. Roll of Honour 2-3

FIELDER, Henry John. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials; no. 2740 2nd then 82nd Home Counties Field Ambulance; attested 13-09-1914; service: home to 21-12- 1914; B.E.F. France to 25-12-1915; B.S.F. to 26-03-1916; home to 23-01-1917; B.S.F. to 18-05-1919; discharged 31-03-1920; medals: 1914-15 Star; British; Victory. Service record survives] Born Burham/Snodland c.1893; son of William and Emma of 37, Malling Road

FILMER, George. Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 04-02- 1915, Cardston; occupation: motorman and cook; religion: C of E Born Snodland, 25-12-1887; married Rose Ellen […]; address: 707, Sixth Street, S. Lethbridge, Canada

FINCH, Arthur Edwin. Private King’s Royal Rifles; attested Chatham 03-09-1914; service: 8th then 11th Btn. from 06-09-1914 to 23-10-1915; appointed lance corporal, corporal, sergeant; 14th then 19th then 5th Btn. to 31-08-1919; demobilised 18-02-1919; Roll of Honour 1-3. Service Record survives. Born Snodland 10-12-1893; baptised Congregational Church 01- 02-1894; son of Frederick John and Julia of Bull Fields

Edwin Harold Finch at Ypres, 1916

FINCH, Edwin Harold. Corporal, 83th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, 27th Division, no. 497621. Served as Nursing Orderly December 1914 to December 1918, then clerk in Medal Branch, Royal Engineers Records to January 1921. Served

26 as Observer in Royal Observer Corps in WWII. Son of Frederick John and Julia of Bull Fields; baptised at Congregational Church 10 Sep 1897; married Mary Elizabeth; died 15 May 1970, aged 73; buried at Christ Church; memorial: North side: 19 N Headstone. In / loving / memory of / EDWIN HAROLD FINCH / who died 15 May 1970 / aged 73 years. / MARY ELIZABETH / FINCH / who died 15th July 1988 / aged 92 years.

FINCH, W. H. Roll of Honour 1-3. Commemorated as a Gunner on memorials at All Saints and Cemetery, but as yet not traced in records.

FINCH, Walter Henry. ‘Sapper R[oyal] E[ngineers]’ aged 27 at marriage to Ruth Eliza Ann Efford, All Saints, 5 Mar 1919. Born 5 Sep 1891; son of Frederick John and Julia, 9 Portland Place; died 22 July 1974, Preston Hall.

FINN, LEONARD H.. Stoker 2nd Class K/43204, H.M.S. "Surprise.", Royal Navy, died, 23 December 1917, aged 26. Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 24; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; All Saints, Frindsbury . Born 13 Apr 1891; son of Edith Eleanor Penny, of 1, Waghorn Road, Snodland, Kent.

FLETCHER, Fred. ‘Soldier’ aged 31 at marriage, 1917. Son of Thomas and Mary, of Princes Cottage, Holborough Road; married Mary Mabel Langridge at Christ Church, 18 Jan 1917; lived at Corona Terrace, Ham Hill; died 1948

FLETCHER, William. Roll of Honour 3

FLINT, ROBERT. Private 43158, 13th Bn., Middlesex (Duke of Cambridge) Regiment (formerly 2403, West Kent Imperial Yeomanry), killed in action, 7 April 1917, aged c.16. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Buried: Fosse No.10 Communal Cemetery Extension, Sains-en-Gohelle, Pas de Calais, France, grave I. B. 8. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 23 October 1896; son of Robert and Sarah Flint, of 4, Magnolia Place, Holborough Rd., Snodland.

FORD, CHARLES THOMAS. Private 13000, 7th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), died of wounds, 12 March 1917, aged 27. Born: Mereworth; enlisted: Maidstone, 11 Dec 1915; residence: Mayatt’s Cottages, Bull Fields; agricultural labourer. Buried: Contay British Cemetery, Contay, Somme, France, grave VII. D. 4. Memorial: West Malling. Service record survives. Son of Matthew Thomas and Mary Ann Ford of Mereworth; married Annie May Crittenden at West Malling, 1913; she of 8, Cascade Avenue, West Malling;.

FOREMAN, ALEXANDER WILLIAM. Private 99328, 5th Bn., King’s Liverpool Regiment in France; (left Whitby 13 Apr 1918 for 291130, Huntingdonshire Cyclist Bn.), killed in action, 30 April 1918, aged 29. Born 18 December 1887: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Memorials: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 27 to 30; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported [KM 22 June 1918]

27 Son of Jesse and Jane Isabella Foreman, of "Bowness", Malling Rd., Snodland, Kent; husband of Kate Foreman married at Strood, 1907), of 36, Upper Dumpton Park Rd., Ramsgate, Kent.

FOREMAN, George Thomas. Private, Royal West Kent, no. G/16601, enlisted 17 July 1916; wounded in right leg 6 June 1918, admitted to General Hospital, Trouville, Normandy; discharged xx-02- 1919. British Legion; Medals: British, Victory Born Snodland 27-02-1888; baptised All Saints 18- 04-1888; son of William and Kate Ellen of 3 Gorham’s Cottages; apprenticed to Joshua Wilford; married Eva May Cradduck, East Malling, 08-11- 1913; address: Willow Cottage, New Hythe; occupation: plasterer; died 20-03-1960

George Thomas and Eva Foreman, 1917

FOREMAN, James. Roll of Honour 3 [possibly William James?]

FOREMAN, Leonard Percival. Second Lieut. in the Buffs [KM 22 June 1918]. Born 20 Oct 1897 to Jesse and Jane of ‘Bowness’, Malling Road; eductaed at C of E School, Snodland; married Mary March, Sturminster, Dorset, June 1919

FOREMAN, William James. previous service in Grenadier Guards; Royal West Kent Special Reserve, no. 118; attested Maidstone 20-08-1914; 6th Btn., 3rd. Btn, 1st Btn between 05-09-1914 and 24-07-1916; wounded 25-07-1916; discharged no longer physically fit or war service 04-06-1917. Service record survives. Born Snodland 24-04-1880; baptised All Saints 16-06-1880; son of William and Kate Ellen of 3 Gorham’s Cottages (1881-91); married Kate Elizabeth Reeves, Malling, 28- 10-1907; address: 4 Portland Place, later 156 Pawsons Road, West Croydon; buried Snodland Cemetery from Croydon xx-06-1959; occupation: general labourer

FOREMAN, William Jesse. Royal West Kents; taken prisoner of war in Germany [KM 22 June 1918] Bapt. All Saints 4 Apr 1883, son of Jesse and Jane

FOSTER, Lionel Albert. ‘Leading Stoker’ aged 24 at marriage to Beatrice Maud Hollands, All Saints, 1 Feb 1919; son of Thomas

FOWLE, Albert Ernest. ‘Soldier’ aged 27 at marriage to Ellen Norman, All Saints, 16 May 1916; father: Thomas. Bapt All Saints 21 Mar 1888; buried Cemetery 30 Nov 1961

Frederick William Fowler

FOWLER, FREDERICK WILLIAM. Private L/9653, 2nd Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Killed in action, 3 May

28 1915. Born: Boro’ Green, c.1895; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Memorials: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 12 and 14; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Of Millbrook House, May Street, Snodland (in 1901 of Clifton Terrace, Ham Hill); parents: William and Eliza Fowler. Previously a regular soldier; working at Lead Wool Co., 1911. (The Buffs lost men (a) as new drafts who arrived on 1st May, all together in a support trench because they had not been allocated to Companies; (b) in trenches D5 and D4 (Ypres area) which were rushed by German forces resulting in heavy casualties.)

FRANCIS, Albert. Roll of Honour 2-3

FRANKLAND, R. Bombardier; awarded Military Medal [KM 6 July 1918]; of 4 Queen’s Avenue.

FREMLIN, George Edward. Roll of Honour 1-3. 40th Bgde Royal Field Artillery, Gunner 75556 Son of Lewis (cement labourer), and Rose Fremlin of 4 Orchard Cottages, Holborough, later 3 Gerda Villas, Malling Road. Cement labourer. Born 18 Mar 1893, Halling; bapt. Halling 28 R. Frankland Aug 1893, St John the Baptist (twin with Henry. Married Nellie Amelia Wallis 19 Jul 1917, All Saints, Snodland. Buried Snodland Cemetery, 18 April 1963, aged 70.

FREMLIN, JAMES HENRY. Private L/9651, 2nd Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Born: Halling 18 Mar 1893 (twin with George Edward); bapt. 28 Aug 1893 enlisted Chatham 14 Nov 1911; residence: Holborough. Posted BEF France 71 Jan 1915; killed in action, 3 May 1915, aged 21. Memorials: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 12 and 14; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Service record survives Son of Lewis, cement labourer, and Rose Fremlin of 4 Orchard Cottages, Holborough, later 3 Gerda Villas, Malling Road.

FREMLIN, Jesse Lewis. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials, no. 354; attested Maidstone 15-04-1908; 1st Home Counties Field Ambulance; appointed to nursing section; appointed corporal; attended annual training 15-04-1908 to 22-08-1914; B.E.F. France 23-08-1914 to 06-05-1915; attended 7th Argyll Sutherland Highlanders 10th Field Ambulance; discharged on termination of his period of engagement 11-05-1916. Roll of Honour 1-3. Medals: British, Victory, 1914 Star and clasp. Re-engaged for Territorial Army 26 Jan 1922 RAMC 131 (HC) Field Ambulance as Sergeant 7339133 at age of 43 until Jan 1931. Service record survives. Born Snodland 29 Oct 1883; baptised All Saints 30-01-1884; son of Lewis and Rose of 4 Orchard Cottages, Holborough, then 3 Gerda Villas, Malling Road; married Daisy

29 Caroline Barham, Maidstone, 26-12-1912; address: 13 Orchard Cottages; occupation: cement/lime labourer at Lee, Son & Co.

FREMLIN, John [Albert]. Roll of Honour 1-3. No. 2323/493230 RAMC (T) 81st Field Ambulance. Attested 10 Aug 1914, Maidstone; BEF France from 17 Dec 1914 to 8 May 1915; Egyptian Expeditionary Force 13 Aug 1916 to 24 Nov 1919; on 1 Jan 1919 discharged from 2nd Western General Hospital as no longer fit for service after contracting pulmonary TB in war. Awarded 1914-15 Star, Victory Medal and British War Medal. Cement labourer. Born 5 December 1894, Railway Place, Halling; son of Lewis and Rose Fremlin of 4 Orchard Cottages, Holborough, later 3 Gerda Villas, Malling Road. Married Edith Grace Howard 17 Jan 1925, All Saints, Snodland. Occupation: cooper

FREMLIN, THOMAS VICTOR. Gunner 178850, Royal Garrison Artillery. Enlisted 21 Nov 1917; posted BEF 30 March 1918; died at Military Hospital, Leeds, from nephritis; bronchitis and oedema of legs, on 14 July 1919, aged 21. Buried: Snodland Cemetery, from Leeds, 18 July 1919, grave 804. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Service record survives. Born at Railway Place, Halling, 11 Mar 1898, son of Lewis, cement labourer, and Rose Fremlin, of 4, Orchard Cottages, later 3, Gerda Villas, Malling Rd., Snodland.

FREMLIN, William John. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials, no. 493170; attested Maidstone 08-05-1914, no. 2237; service: home to 12-08-1916; B.S.F. to 26-05-1918 and again 27-10-1918 to 22-05-1919; promoted corporal 12-09-1915; discharged 19-06- 1919; Roll of Honour 1-3; Medals: British, Victory. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 27-02-1885; son of Louis and Rose; 1 Orchard Cottages; cement labourer BPCM; wife: Ellen Johnson; buried Snodland Cemetery 24- 05-1951 aged 66; ‘Corp. RAMC’ at baptism of son William Lewis John, All Saints, 1 June 1919.

FRENCH, David. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Ernest Victor at Christ Church on 24 Mar 1918. Address: Tomlin’s Cottages (wife Mary Elizabeth, deceased)

FRIDD, Ernest. Roll of Honour 3

FRYER, Reginald. MM. Roll of Honour 1-3. King’s Royal Rifles; enlisted September 1914; much active service; wounded in right arm c. April 1917; awarded Military Medal [KM 2 June 1917] Born 1893, son of George and Helen of 10 Waghorn Road; attended Hook’s School, Holborough Road; bowler for Snodland Cricket Club; employed as a clerk

FRYER, Stuart Stanley. Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 11-11-1915, Hamilton; occupation unspecified; religion C of E

30 Born Snodland, 23-07-1884; baptised All Saints, 10-09-1884; son of John E. and Elizabeth, formerly of Malling Road; in 1915 of 133 West Avenue North, Hamilton West

FUDGE, George. Corporal, Royal Field Artillery, no. 4019 or 127608; enlisted 10-08- 1914; discharged 19-05-1917. British Legion application; 33 Hook’s Cottage, East St; labourer

FULCHER, Albert. Roll of Honour 2-3. ?Son of Alfred and Clara of 1 Vine Cottages, Holborough Road

FULLMAN, STANLEY GEORGE. Private 20093, 4th Bn., Grenadier Guards, killed in action, 27 September 1915, aged 19. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Caterham 3 November 1914. Memorials: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 5 to 7; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial: Snodland Cemetery. Baptized at Christ Church: 28 June 1896; third son (fourth child) of William James and Mary Ann Fullman, of 99, Malling Rd., Snodland, Kent. (‘About 16 of us were cut off in a dip on Hill 70. I was there for 30 hours laying on my stomach. Your brother was laying there beside me. He was hit in the back on his left side with shrapnel. A piece went through his pack. I don’t know what his injuries were - I dare hardly lift my head. But he was not mutilated and did not bleed at all. He went off in a deep sleep & I left him about 24 hours after he was hit. I rolled away. When I left him he was warm though stiff & this at dusk on the Tuesday evening. And this was between the lines. I managed to get on though fired on by our own men.’) [Private Harry Carr].

GARLAND, Joseph. ‘Chief E[ngine] R[oom] A[rtificer], R[oyal] N[avy]’ aged 30 at marriage to Hilda Elizabeth Tong, Christ Church, 10 Nov 1918; baptism of daughter Heather, 19 Oct 1919. Address: 7 Beaconsfield Terrace

GARRETT, Rupert Archibald. Engineer Lieutenant (retired), no. 141 C.E. Born 13 Feb 1886, son of Ernest and Sarah of Bull Fields

GASH, Alfred Henry Walter. Attested Maidstone, 9 Aug 1915; Royal Engineers, Sapper 109846; to Longmoor on 11 Aug 1915 for service in Inland Water Transport; promoted to corporal 26 Aug 1915; embarked 23 Sep 1915; acting sergeant 16 Mar 1916; promoted to sergeant 16 Jun 1916 I.W.T. for B.E.F; in hospital for a week in Mar 1917; promoted to C.S.M. tugmaster; assumes rank of C.Q.M.S. 24 Jun 1918; volunteered for extra service 8 May 1919; demobilized 27 Sep 1920. Service record survives. Baptised All Saints, 26 Nov 1882, son of Alfred and Edith, Langford Cottages, Queen’s Avenue; married Edith Ethel Whitehouse at All Saints, 25 Dec 1905; a bargeman

GASH, Victor Walter. Royal Navy, No. J66589, from 1917

31 Son of Alfred and Martha of Church Terrace; born 4 Mar 1901; educated at C of E School, Brook Street

GASH, William Thomas. Australian Infantry. Enlisted in Australia ‘in the early days of the war; saw considerable service in Gallipoli; promoted to Sergeant; granted a commission for good services in the Somme offensive in 1916; received his second star in September 1917; awarded Military Cross for good service on 4 Oct 1917 [KM 8 Dec 1917] Eldest son of William and Eliza Gash of the Red Lion, Snodland; bapt at Congregational church 6 Nov 1891; attended C of E School, Brook Street; helped with business.

GATEHOUSE, G.C. Private, Royal Warwickshire, enlisted xx-05-1918; discharged xx-02-1920. British Legion application: The Cosy, Queen's Road; fitter

GATES, V. G. British Legion list no 10; Ham Hill

GEORGE, Ernest Arthur. ‘Driver R[oyal] E[ngineers]’ aged 22 at marriage to Florence Hendy, All Saints, 23 Sep 1917; father: Ernest

GERAGHTY, William. Royal West Kent no. L/11176; attested 22-01-1916; service 9th and 2nd Btn. to 01-09-1916; tried for theft - 28 days detention at Fort Clarence from 26- 05-1917. Service record survives. Born Snodland 16-01-1902; son of John and Christine of 2 Dover Street, Maidstone; pupil Royal Hibernian Military School

GIBBON, Alfred. Roll of Honour 3

GIBBS, E. Roll of Honour 2-3

GILES, Albert. Roll of Honour 3

GILES, Christopher. Royal Field Artillery Territorials, Gunner no. 98134; attested Gravesend 31-08-1914; service in France from 09-09-1914 to 21-10-1918. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 01-08-1883; wife: Alice [...]; son of Caleb and Mary A. of 11 Portland Place (1891); 5 Orchard Cotts (1901); occupation: factory hand, paper mill

GILES, Caleb George. Roll of Honour 1-2. Son of Caleb and Mary Ann, born c.1877, Teynham, married Elizabeth Jessie […]; died 11 March 1953; buried at Christ Church 14 March 1953, aged 76 [memorial, S side, 1 I. Lived at 36 Malling Rd (1914); 11 Birling Rd (1917); 12 Hollow Lane at death. Bargeman (1914). ‘Munitions worker’ at baptism of son George Arthur, All Saints, 13 Dec 1917

GILES, Thomas Jeffrey. ‘Private R[oyal].F[ield] A[rtillery]’ at baptism of son William Thomas, All Saints, 23 June 1916. Address: 6 Dorking Place; wife Alice Rachel

32 GILES, WILLIAM HERBERT. Private L/9531, 2nd Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Killed in action, 8 February 1915, aged 20. Born Frindsbury; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. No known grave; memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 12 and 14. Son of John and Emma Giles, formerly of Temperance Terrace, Constitution Hill; later of 4, Victoria Cottages, Rainham Mark, Rainham, Kent,.

GLADDISH, H. Roll of Honour 1-3

GLOVER, Henry Alfred. 1st Royal Dragoons; 2nd Dragoons, Private No. 5974. Attested Woolwich, 14 April 1902; posted 1 July 1904; granted G.C.Badge; Army reserve 18 Nov 1905; discharged 13- Apr 1914 on termination of 1st period of engagement. Service record survives. Son of Alfred and Julia; guardian = Mrs Abery of 3 Mayatt Cotts., Bullfields.

GLOVER, WILLIAM EDWARD. Driver 54072, 10th Div. Ammunition Col., Royal Field Artillery, died 31 October 1916, aged 33. Born: Snodland; educated C of E School, Brook Street; enlisted 1914: London; to Egypt in February 1915; to Salonika in October 1915; in Marquetta which was torpedoed; died of malarial fever; buried Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery, Greece, grave 646. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 18 Nov 1916] Baptized at All Saints, Snodland, 11 April 1883; son of Edward (a greengrocer) and Maria Glover, of 6, Bramley Rd., Snodland, Kent.

GOBLE, ALBERT EDWARD. Stoker 2nd Class; K/22061; H.M.S. "Pathfinder", Royal Navy, aged 18. Died 5 September 1914; no known grave; memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 6; Christ Church, Lower Birling. Son of Frederick and Margaret Goble, of 2, Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill; born Birling (Ham Hill) 8 Nov 1895; educated at C of E School, Brook Street

GOBLE, Archibald. Roll of Honour 3 Born 21 July 1899, son of Frederick and Margaret Goble, of 2 Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill; educated at C of E School, Brook Street

GOBLE, B[ertie]. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?son of Frederick and Margaret Goble, of 2 Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill; born c.1896]

GOBLE, FREDERICK. Stoker 2nd Class K/31374, H.M.S. "Negro.", Royal Navy who died on Thursday 21st December 1916. Age 26. Born East Malling. Memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 17; Christ Church, Lower Birling. (The ‘Negro’ was in collision with the ‘Hoste’ off Fair Isle, Shetland, which detonated depth charges.) [Death reported HM 7 Feb 1917] Born 26 Feb 1892; son of Frederick and Margaret Goble of 2, Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill. Formerly a worker at Lee’s Cement Works. Husband of Annie Elizabeth Goble, of 2(5?),

33 Rayfield’s Cottages, Ham Hill, Snodland.

GODDARD, Arthur Victor. ‘Soldier’ at birth of son Arthur Francis Victor on 2 May 1917. Address: 10 Malling Road, with wife Florence Ethel.

GODDING (GODDEN), ERNEST WILLIAM. Private 252689, 2nd/3rd Bn., London Brigade Royal Fusiliers; enlisted 24 Mar 1916; to France January 1917; killed by a shell 16th May 1917, aged 34. No known grave. Memorials: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Bay 9, All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial: Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 16 June 1917] Born Upper Halling. A cement labourer. Son of John and Maria of Clara Place, Constitution Hill.

GODDING, Frank. Roll of Honour 3 [?son of Eliza Ann Card, wife of Alfred Card, of Constitution Hill; born Snodland, c.1896; paper bag maker in 1911

GODDING, Henry. Corporal, Army Veterinary Corps. Son of John and Maria of 3 Clara Place, Constitution Hill; clay labourer in 1911

GODFREY, William Francis. British Legion list no. 32; Hillcrest, Malling Road Born Snodland 10 Mar 1899, son of Charles and Edith, School House, Brook Street; educated at C of E School, Brook Street, Rochester Mathematical School

GOLDING, GEORGE EDWARD. Private G/43166, formerly 2218 West Kent Imperial Yeomanry; transferred to 2nd Bn., Middlesex Regiment 22 Nov 1915; died of wounds in a hospital in France, 20 February 1918; badly shattered thigh and right arm; about to take up a commission. Enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Buried: Nine Elms British Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave XIII. D. 3. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 9 Mar 1918] Born Egerton, c.1895; son of William (shopkeeper/fishmonger) and Ellen Jane of 4, East Street (1911); educated at C of E School, Brook Street.

GOLDING, [William] Leonard. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Ulcombe, c.1894; son of William (shopkeeper/fishmonger) and Ellen Jane of 4, East Street (1911).

GOLDSMITH, Ernest Edward. ‘Sailor’ aged 21 at marriage to Dorothy Joan Randell, All Saints, 23 Jan 1919; son of Thomas William

GOLDSMITH, H. Roll of Honour 2-3

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GOMAR, E. H. British Legion list no. 21; Manor Terrace, Halling. Roll of Honour 2-3

GOMAR, F. G. Private, 41110, Norfolk Regt.; wounded: KM, 20 Apr 1918

GOODCHILD, EDWARD BERTIE [‘HERBERT’ on Christ Church memorial]. Private G/10499, 10th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 16 September 1916, aged 25. Born Meopham; enlisted Maidstone; residence: Snodland; Guards’ Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France, grave IV. C. 3. Memorial: Christ Church, Lower Birling. Son of John Edward and Ellen Eliza, of 28, Queen St., Gravesend, Kent. In 1911 was farm labourer at New House Farm, Wrotham, so presumably moved to Ham Hill after that.

GOODING, Leonard Arthur. Kent (Fort) Royal Engineers, no. 1768; attested Gillingham 15-01-1915; served as clerk in England to demobilization 24-02-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland 11-11-1891; baptised All Saints 31-01-1892; son of William and Ellen Elizabeth of 1 Church Villas, then Belle Vue Villa; unmarried; died of TB/cardiac; buried Snodland Cemetery 20-05-1927, aged 35; occupation; clerk at Lead Wool Co.

GOODING, WALTER HUBERT PETERS. MM. Lance Corporal 32933, 1st Bn., No. 16 Platoon, Z Company, Essex Regiment, killed in action, 30 November 1917, aged 33. Enlisted: Warley in mid-November 1916; posted to Z Company, 3rd Btn, Essex Regiment; posted to France 20 August 1917; residence: 16 Water Lane, Seven Kings, Ilford; Memorials: Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France, Panel 7 and 8; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 12 Jan 1918]; St John, Halling. Son of William (Prudential Agent) and Ellen Elizabeth; born at Snodland on 1 February 1884; married Florence Elizabeth Scholey at Halling in 1908; residence: 5 Church Fields in 1891 = 1 Church Villas in 1901 (when he was a ‘clerk to an oil merchant’); children: Alan, Eileen, Sybil. (Further details at )

GOWER, Aubrey. Joined West Kent Yeomanry 22 Nov 1915; trained at Canterbury, Dymchurch and Crowborough; left for France 7 Aug 1916 attached to Middlesex Regiment as Machine Gunnner: private 43167; wounded on 30 Sep 1916; in hospital at Exeter [Wounded report KM 21 Oct 1916 and 25 Nov 1916] Born c.1897; adopted son of George and Mary Viney of 8 East Street; educated at the British Schools, Holborough Road; cutter boy at Snodland paper mill.

35 GREEN, Charles Sidney. Corporal, 3708, 1st Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment. Reported missing on 23 April 1917 in KM 23 June 1917; Prisoner of War; information sought: KM, 18 Aug 1917 British Legion list no. 41; 6 Rayfield Cottages, Ham Hill; married; born c.1886; died 16 Apr 1948; buried at Christ Church, aged 62; wife Mabel Nellie died 10 Sep 1935.

GREEN, Edward Thomas. ‘Munitioner’ aged 21 at marriage to Ada Lily Gray, All Saints, 10 Aug 1918; ‘Soldier R.A.S.C.’ at baptism of son Douglas George, All Saints, 28 Oct 1923. Address: 1 Constitution Hill

GUNNER, Joseph George. ‘Private G.A.M.’ at baptism of son James, All Saints, 30 Apr 1915. Address: 2 Oldbury Villas, Malling Road; wife Sophia

GUYATT, LEONARD ARTHUR. Private 17338, 10th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), died of wounds, 10 August 1917, aged 19. Born Snodland; enlisted Maidstone. Buried: Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, France, grave I. C. 47. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 30 January 1898; only son of Frederick Thomas and Eleanor Maria Guyatt, of 44, Hill's Terrace, Ordnance Place, Chatham, formerly of Birling Road, Snodland.

HADLER, LEE. Corporal 52103, attd. 15th General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps; died at General Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt of pneumonia, 28 April 1915. Born: Tovil; joined R.A.M.C. c1899; was in South African War; then at Netley Hospital for 2 years; enlisted: Maidstone at outbreak of WWI; trained Aldershot; then to Egypt; residence: Snodland; married; worked at paper mill; member of Amalgamated Society of Papermakers and National Union of Paper Workers. Buried: Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, grave C. 169. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 1 Sep 1915]

HAGGERTY, CHARLES. Private 8173, Royal West Kent Regiment. Killed in action 26 Mar 1915 [reported in KM 10 Apr 1915 as from 'Snodland']; memorial: Menin Gate, panels 45 and 47. [Not on Snodland memorials]

HAMMOND, John Joseph. Acting Corporal; 1918: had served 3 years in Army 2¼ years in France; of 214, Malling Road at death (formerly of 8 Providence Place, Holborough Road). British Legion list no. 25; 8 Holborough Road; Royal Engineers in France and Belgium; awarded Military Medal on 26 Sep 1918 for gallantry in rescuing wounded under fire; died 8 September 1940; buried Christ Church 12 September, aged 59; milkman [award reported KM 26 Oct 1918; reported wounded

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HARDING, Frank. Royal West Kent, private, no. G/10747; attested Maidstone 01-11- 1915; posted (10th Btn.) same day. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1891; unmarried; address: Home farm; occupation: milkman.

HARDY, Cecil Howard. ‘Soldier’ aged 23 at marriage to Kate Olive Maud Peck, Christ Church, 13 May 1915. Father: James Thorpe Hardy

HARMAN, Albert Frank. ‘Sergeant on active service’, aged 25 at marriage to Florence May Gammon, All Saints, 8 Jan 1919; son of Robert (deceased)

HARNOR, OSWALD THOMAS.. Lance Corporal 10086, 8th Bn., Seaforth Highlanders, killed in action, 26 June 1916, aged 26. . No known grave. Memorial: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 112 to 115. Born: Snodland [but 1911 census has Sittingbourne]; enlisted: Shepherds Bush; [son of Frederick and] Mrs. Elizabeth Harnor, of 58, Netherwood Rd., West Kensington, London. No known grave. Memorial: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 112 to 115.

HARRINGTON, George Ewart. Roll of Honour 1-3. Lance Corporal, King’s Royal Rifles. Enlisted at outbreak of WWI; in France (only 5 days furlough); awarded Cross Militaire by French Government; slightly wounded by a piece of shrapnel. [Award reported KM 20 Nov 1915] Born Eythorne, c.1893; son of George (a milkman) and Mary, of 38 Malling Road; baker in 1911; married Alice Rose Gibson at Christ Church, Snodland, 3 January 1917

HARRINGTON, [William James] Victor. Added to Roll of Honour Born Betteshanger, c.1897; son of George (a milkman) and Mary, of 38 Malling Road; baker’s boy in 1911

HARRIS, ALBERT WILLIAM. Private 360, 6th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), died of wounds, 10 August 1918, aged 28. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone. Buried: Pernois British Cemetery, Halloy-les-Pernois, Somme, France, grave IV. A. 1. Service record survives. Son of John and M. A. Wells, of Snodland, Kent. Married Maude Louisa Freeland, Christ Church, 4 Feb 1917

HARRIS, Frederick Henry. No. 10412, 2nd Btn. Buffs; prisoner of war at Ypres on 24 Apr 1915 [KM 19 June 1915] at Gottingen, Germany. Son of Frederick Henry and Rose Ann of 4 Birling Road (1911); employed at Snodland paper mill.

HARRIS, H. R.N. Roll of Honour 1-3.

37 HARRIS, Henry Amos. Private No. 2151, R.A.M.C. Attested Maidstone 25 April 1913; discharged as medically unfit for further service 10 Aug 1914; Service record survives.

HARRIS, Roland. Army Service Corps, private, no. 029032; service: France 07-04- 1915 to 20-02-1919; demobilized 21-03-1919; Medals: British, Victory, 1914-15 Star. Service record survives. Born Barming, c.1885; later 1 Dorking Place, Holborough; 33 Wellington Street, Chatham; 40 Hooper’s Place, Rochester; married Agnes Annie Coomber, West Malling 11-12-1907 (6 children); occupation: town carter/cement worker

HARRIS, Walter Henry. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Frederick Albert, All Saints, 4 Aug 1916. Address: 4 Constitution Hill, with wife Jane

HARRYMAN, George. R.N. Roll of Honour 1-3. Son of Thomas (d.1903) and Eliza Harryman; born Holly Hill, Snodland, c.1893; cement worker (1911)

HARRYMAN, Harry. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials. Roll of Honour 1-3.

HART, ALFRED GEORGE. Private G/4984, 1st Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Enlisted Rochester. Killed at Hill 60, 18 April 1915, age 45 (KM 12-6-1915). No known grave. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 45 and 47; War Memorial, All Saints, Snodland; Snodland Cemetery; St John Halling Cement worker; husband of Edna Hart, of Friezeland Cottages, Upper Halling,

HART, H. R.N. Roll of Honour 1-3.

HART, S. H. Commemorated on memorials at All Saints and cemetery, but currently not traced.

HATCH, Henry. Royal West Kent, 62 Provisional Btn., private, no. 7218 (also 225919); attested Maidstone 23-10-1916; served at home on account of poor health. Service record survives. Licensee, Monk’s Head, Snodland (previously at Yalding); born c.1880; married Rebecca McDonnell, West Malling, 10-11-1914

HAWKS, Arthur. Royal Garrison Artillery, no. 67874; blacksmith and copper mechanic; Dover Depot 15-11-1915; 47 Coy 17-02-1916; Plymouth to Karachi 05-05- 1916 to 05-06-1916; served with no. 1 Armoured Train to 24-01-1919; demobilization 22-02-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1889; baptised All Saints 14-12-1892; son of Henry and Ann of 3 Constitution Hill (1891) Birling Road (1901); married Ellen Palmer, All Saints, Maidstone, 05-10-1912 (2 children); buried Snodland Cemetery 16-02-1963, aged 74. Address (1916): 14 Tomlin’s Cottages

HAWKS, HERBERT EDWARD. Rifleman R/732, 11th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, died, 9 November 1918, aged 28. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence:

38 Snodland. Buried: St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France, grave S. III. O. 18. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 31 March 1889; son of Henry, a carpenter, and Emma Hawks, of 1 Mount Pleasant, Holborough Rd., Snodland, Kent.

HAYES, George [William?]. Roll of Honour 1-3. ‘He was an artilleryman and (i) was the only survivor when a bomb hit his gun carriage. When he came around, the first thing he saw was dead horses in the trees. From then on, his hair grew white. ii) a small group of German prisoners were being marched under guard when the order was given to "Halt". The guards were then told to "Fall out", and then the Sergeant threw three hand grenades. George and his comrades dived for cover and the Germans perished. I expect such atrocities happened on both sides.’ [family reminiscence] Born Halling, 2 Oct 1895, son of George and Eliza Elizabeth of Poynder Terrace

HAYES, Harry Burton. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials; no. 2256; attested Snodland 27-05-1914; home to 06-12-1914; B.E.F. France to 25-11-1915; B.S.F. 26-11- 1915 to 23-04-1919 (with some leave); demobilized 22-05-1919 Address: High Street; cooperage sawyer.

HAYES, Henry. Stoker on HMS Lord Nelson (Dardanelles 1915-16, then flag-ship in Eastern Mediterranean, mostly based at Salonika) Born Halling, 15 Feb 1887, son of George and Eliza Elizabeth; married Maud Mary Longley, Christ Church, 18 Nov 1911; died 3 Oct 1963; buried: Cemetery; house boy at Holborough Manor, then a cooper

Henry Hayes

HAYLOR, Thomas. Roll of Honour 3.

HAYMAN, Herbert Edward. ‘Discharged Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Florence Eva, All Saints, 9 Apr 1920. Address: 2 Victoria Cottages; wife Florence

HAYWARD, F. Sapper 121484, Royal Engineers; wounded: KM, 23 Feb 1916

HAYWARD, William Henry. Royal Army Medical Corps. Territorials; no. 2322; attested Maidstone 10-08-1914; home to 28-10-1914; India with 1068 Battery to 14-10- 1919; demobilized 31-03-1920. Service record survives Born Snodland c.1893; labourer; next-of-kin: Rhoda Pew, 11 Monarch Hill, Upper Halling

HAZEL, Henry. Sapper, Royal Engineers, Inland Water Transport, no. 109743; attested London 13-07-1915; embarked for France 17-09-1915; appointed lance corporal, then corporal on 01-03-1918; demobilization 03-04-1919. Service record survives. born c.1877; unmarried; waterman; 8 Church Terrace, Snodland; mother Mrs E. Hazel, 5 Bencan Cottages, Rickmansworth

39 HEASMAN, Albert. Army Service Corps (Motor Transport), no. 117232; motor lorry driver; attested Coventry 13-08-1915; home to 29-08-1915; B. E. F. France from 30-08- 1915; left unit at Bonn, Germany; Service record survives. Born 1897; address: 1 Portland Place, Bull Fields; occupation: chauffeur; 5 Queens Avenue on 17-06-1919

HEDGECOCK, Albert [George]. Roll of Honour 3 [He or Allan: Private, King’s Royal Rifles; wounded, KM, 7 Oct 1916 [?Born Halling 27 April 1896; twin; son of Charles (a cooper) and Florence Elizabeth of Hadleigh Villas, Holborough Road; apprentice to builder]

HEDGECOCK, Allan G Roll of Honour 3. Private, King’s Roy [?Born Halling 27 April 1896; twin; son of Charles (a cooper) and Florence Elizabeth of Hadleigh Villas, Holborough Road; apprentice to plumber]

HEMSLEY, Amos. 31 Home Counties Royal Engineers, no. (T)3722 & 538562; Royal Sussex Regiment G/743; attested Eastbourne 15-11-1915; service in France from 31-05- 1915; Medals: British, Victory. Service record survives. Born c.1884; Mill Cottage, Holborough

HENDY/HANDY, F. G. Private, 27173, Wiltshire Regiment; reported wounded KM 22 Sep 1917.

HENMAN, ARCHIBALD. No. 2219 West Kent Imperial Yeomanry, joined Nov 1915; trained at Canterbury and crowborough; to France in August 1916 attached: Private G/43177, 13th Bn., Middlesex Regiment; killed in action, 24 August 1917, aged c.21. Enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 113 to 115; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland. [Death reported KM 22 Sep 1917 and 13 Oct 1917] Son of David, a furnace stoker, and Ruth of 3 Prospect Place; educated at British Schools, Holborough Road; worked at Snodland paper mill; husband of Nellie Elizabeth Mary, née Hodges, married at New Jerusalem Church, Snodland, on 28 May 1917, his address then given as Shoreham-on-Sea; hers as Parkstone Terrace, Bramley Road.

HERRINGTON, MELBOURNE. Private G/6138, 1st Bn ., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 4 October 1917, aged 41. Born: Birling; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Memorials: Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 106 to 108; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Reported missing KM 1 Jan 1918]. Service record survives. Son of Ambrose and Eliza; husband of E. M. G. Herrington, of 17, Birling Rd., Snodland, Kent.

HESELDEN, Herbert. ‘Munitions worker’ aged 25 (residence Sidcup) at marriage to Annie Wenham, All Saints, 29 Aug 1915. Father: William

40 HILLS, F. Royal Army Medical Corps. Roll of Honour 1-3

HINDS, Frederick Charles. British Legion list no 2; The Cosy, Queen’s Road. Roll of Honour 1-3. Born 13 July 1894, son of Charles William and Mary; [daughter Monica]: ‘did forge work during the war until he lost half a thumb and two fingers in France. While walking along the road he had to take cover in a ditch and put his hand on a bomb.’ Married Agnes Ayres, Hitchin, 3 Apr 1920.

HINDS, Henry William. Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, no. 144621; B. E. F. France 08-08-1917 to 06-11-1917; (291 Siege Battery 13-08-1917); Tank Corps 17-03-1918. British Legion application; Medals: British, Victory. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1881; shop manager; married Mary Ann Collins June 1910, Rochester;

HINES, Ernest Henry. Army Service Corps, no. S/4/072346; attested Aldershot 25-03- 1915; service: home to 02-06-1916; B.E.F. France to 17-04-1917; home to 02-05-1918; discharged no longer physically fit for war service 02-05-1918. Service record survives. Born c.1894; parents: William Wallace and Agnes Maud; address 29 Malling Road

HODGE, Alfred Edwin. Enlisted 2/4 City of London R.F., xx-02-1918; Private; discharged 28-02-1919; British Legion application: address: Malling Road [?born Wouldham 23 Dec 1899; baptised All Saints, Snodland, 16 February 1900; son of John Rufus and Isabella of Malling Road (1907); Queen’s Avenue; educated at C of E School, Brook Street; a paper maker; buried Cemetery, 24 January 1930, aged 30]

HODGES, EDWARD. Private 166799, 2nd Canadian Pioneer Battalion., Canadian Pioneers. Enlisted Toronto, Canada; residence Mount Dennis, Ontario, Canada. Died at Epsom Hospital, 4 September 1916, aged 20. Buried: Snodland Cemetery, grave 703. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Born Snodland 23 July 1897, son of John and Hannah Kathleen Hodges of Bramley Road educated at the C of E School, Brook Street

HODGE(S), F. J. Roll of Honour 1-3. HODGE, F. T. Private 15566, Grenadier Guards; wounded, KM, 4 Nov 1916

HODGE, H. Private 23116, King’s Royal Rifles; wounded: KM, 28 Oct 1916

HODGES, John. Household Cavalry, no. 700; attested London 04-07-1898; service in South Africa [Boer War 1898-1900] and UK to 1912; France 22-08-1914 to 09-06- 1915; wounded left leg and right shoulder; home 10-06-1915 to 30-07-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1878; father John of Bramley Road (1898); labourer

HODGE(S), Walter. Roll of Honour 1-3 [?born Snodland c.1884; son of John and Hannah/Kate of 12 High Street, later Bramley Road; bricklayer’s labourer (1901), then furnace stoker (1911)

41 HOLLANDS, Thomas William. ‘Stoker, Petty Officer R.N’ aged 28 at marriage to Alice Elizabeth Nye, All Saints, 26 Feb 1916 and at baptism of daughter Vera Alice, 13 Dec 1917. Address: 2 Mizpeh Cottages, Bramley Road

HOLMAN, FRANK REGINALD. Rifleman 574950, 17th Bn., London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles), killed in action, 2 November 1917, aged 27. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Woolwich; residence: Belvedere. Buried: Gaza War Cemetery, Israel, grave XIV. D. 1. Son of Thomas and Agnes Holman, of Maidstone, formerly of 1 Princes Terrace, Holborough Road; husband of Edith C. M. Harvey (formerly Holman), of 12, Nelson Rd., Belvedere, Kent.

HOLMAN, HARRY. ‘Soldier’ at birth of daughter Beryl Gladys on 25 June 1916. Address: 7 Birling Road, with wife Ethel.

HOOD, E. J. British Legion list no. 42; 2 East Street

HOOK, Harry R.N. Roll of Honour 1-3.

HOOK, Henry James. ‘Munitioner’ aged 25 at marriage to Marion May Morris, All Saints, 29 June 1918; father Alfred (also a munitioner). Born Boughton Monchelsea, c.1893; son of David Alfred and Julia of 6 Holborough Terrace (1901); Vine Terrace (1911); labourer; buried: Cemetery 8 Apr 1937, aged 44

HOOK, HORACE. Private L/6501, 1st Bn., Queens Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 14 September 1914, aged c.31. No known grave. Memorials: La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Born c.1883, Boughton Monchelsea; husband of Harriet Lily; address 1 Dorking Place, Holborough (1911); cement labourer; daughter Dorothy

HOR, BERNARD THOMAS. Private T/270955, 10th (R. East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry) Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), died in hospital of wounds, 3 November 1917, Palestine, aged c.19. Enlisted 1915, Maidstone; trained at Canterbury in West Kent Yeomanry; to Egypt, then Palestine where he was mortally wounded; residence: Snodland. Buried: Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel, grave P. 59. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 2 Feb 1918] Born Stangate 19 Sep 1897; bap. All Saints, Birling, 31 Oct 1897; son of William (cement labourer) and Jane Hor, of 6 Dorking Place, then of 1, Covey Hall Place, Holborough Rd., Snodland; educated at Hook’s School; employed at Lead Wool Co. labourer. HOR, George Herbert. Royal Army Medical Corps. Roll of Honour 1-3. Born Birling, c.1894; son of William (cement labourer) and Jane Hor, of 6 Dorking Place, then of 1, Covey Hall Place, Holborough Rd., Snodland; cement worker

HOWELL, Bethel. ‘Sailor’ at baptism of son Edward Douglas at Christ Church, 6 Nov 1921. Address: 1 Oxford St.

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HOWLAND, E. E. Cpl, Army Service Corps (of Sissinghurst, late Snodland) Awarded Serbian Gold Medal for zealous service: KM, 13 Oct 1917

HUBBARD, James H. Roll of Honour 1-3.

HUCKS, Bert[ie]. Roll of Honour 1-3. Born 1889, Holborough Road; bapt. 17 Apr 1889, All Saints, Snodland; son of George Frederick and Caroline Ansley Hucks of Bramley Road (1901); buried Cemetery, 21 November 1969, aged 80]

HUCKS, JOHN. Private G/14501, 8th Bn., The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.), killed in action, 31 July 1917, aged 41. Born Snodland; bapt. 3 Oct 1897 at All Saints, Snodland. Enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland;. Memorials: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 11 -13 and 14; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. (APCM Roll of Honour gives a John Hucks, former worker at Peters’ Cement Works, ‘killed’ - no date – as a private in the Royal West Kent Regt.) Son of John and Mary Ann (nee Masters), of Rookery Farmhouse; husband of the late Mrs. A. E. Hucks (Ann Eliza Bishop).

HUCKS, WILLIAM ERNEST. Rifleman 5171, 3rd Bn., Rifle Brigade. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Killed in action, 26 October 1914, aged 21. No known grave; memorials: Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium, Panel 10; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Joined the Rifle Brigade in 1912 and was a member of the local detachment R.A.M.C. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 29 September 1893; a cement worker at Peters Works, Wouldham; son of George Frederick and Caroline Ansley Hucks of Alma Villa, Holborough Rd., Snodland, Kent;

William Ernest Hucks

HUGGETT, ALLAN. Sergeant 493148, 2nd/1st Home Counties Field Amb, Royal Army Medical Corps, died on 21 December 1918, aged 32. Buried: Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, Bouches-du-Rhone, France, grave IV. B. 37. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of Clara Ruth Huggett, of 5, Victoria Terrace, Snodland, Kent, and the late Henry Huggett.

HUGGINS, P. A. Royal Army Medical Corps, 493019; wounded: KM, 8 June 1918

43 HUMPHREYS, ALBERT WILLIAM. Rifleman R/2455, 2nd Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, died of wounds, 10 October 1918. Born: Maidstone; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland; buried: Calvaire Cemetery, Montbrehain, Aisne, France, grave B. 15. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of William, a cement labourer, and Grace Humphreys, of Bull Fields, Snodland. Worked at Peters Cement Works, Wouldham.

IVELL, George Edwin. Formerly of 100th Winnipeg Grenadiers; Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 28-03-1916, Winnipeg Born Snodland, 21-12-1871 or 1872; in 1916 of 376, King Edward St., St James, Manitoba, Canada; married Eliza […] 4th qtr. 1906, Malling District; occupation: handyman/labourer; religion: C of E

JACKSON. R.N. Roll of Honour 1-3 [no Christian name in any of the lists]. Is probably: JACKSON, Thomas John. ‘Navy Reserve’ at baptism of son David, All Saints, 27 Sep 1918. Address: 5 Holborough Terrace.

JEFFREY, Christopher. Roll of Honour 1-3

JEFFREYS, F. Roll of Honour 2-3

JEFFERYS, LOUIS THOMAS, MM. Rifleman R/3396, 12th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action, 18 September 1916. Born c.1897, Birling; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France: Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial: Snodland Cemetery. Awarded MM : London Gazette Suppl. 17-02-1917. Service record survives. Born Snodland 1 Mar 1897; son of Thomas, a bricklayer, and Ada Jefferys of Bramley Road (1904), then Oxford Street.

JENNER, S. W. L/Cpl, 632368, London Regt.; wounded: KM, 26 Jan 1918

JENNINGS, Charles. Roll of Honour 1-3

JESSUP, Harold. Born Snodland c.1890, son of Amos and Ellen of 1 Portland Place; married Doris Hilda […], St Alban’s, Teddington, 17-02-1923; occupation: labourer 3rd Btn. the Buffs; Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry, no. 8265 (later 5273104); attested Chatham 24-07-1906; machine gunner; served in India 1910-1914, Turkey in Asia 1914-15; India and Iraq to1919; various promotions to C.S.M. in 1923; discharged 05-08-1924. Service record survives.

JOHNSON, BERTIE JAMES. Gunner 154063, 286th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery, killed in action, 29 November 1917. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Tunbridge Wells; residence: Snodland. Buried: Oxford Road Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave V. A. 7. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; mentioned on family memorial at Snodland Cemetery NE P 5; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland, 11-10-1882; married Jessie Maud Wingate at the New Jerusalem Church, 24-2-1906; a cooper; lived in Malling Road. Worked at Peters Cement Works, Wouldham. Memorial in Cemetery: [P 4-5] 570, 687. Book memorial

44 and double-sized kerb. JAMES JOHNSON / who died / March 28th 1916 / aged 56 years / And his wife / SOPHIA EMILY / who died November 16th 1931, aged 69 years / Thy will be done; // Also his sons JAMES WILLIAM / JOHNSON / who died / October 1st 1912 / aged 25 years / Signaller BERTIE [JAMES] / JOHNSON / R. G. A. / who was killed / in France / November 28th / 1917 / aged 35 years

JOHNSON, Robert Henry. Attested Chatham, 23 [?] [?] papers very damaged; service 1 yr 45 days. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1893, son of William George and Anne of London & County Westminster Bank, High Street; farm labourer

JOHNSON, WILLIAM GEORGE. Private 9674, 8th Bn., Yorkshire (Alexandra, Princess of Wales) Regiment, died in England, 5 February 1917, aged 19. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; to France ‘at beginning of the war’; head wound January 1915; received bullet in right foot; residence: Shirebrook, Derby. Died in Newcastle Hospital; buried: Newcastle-upon-Tyne (St. Andrew’s and Jesmond) Cemetery, Northumberland, grave W. U. 453. [Death reported KM 7 Feb 1917] Born c.1897, son of William and Elizabeth, formerly of Bramley Road (1901) and High Street (1911); she later Elizabeth Excell of Fernland Cottage, South Ascot, Berks. Educated at Hook’s School, Holborough Road

JONES, H[arold] G[lover]. Reese. Roll of Honour 1-3 Son of Congregational Pastor, John Reese Jones (at Snodland 1911-1918); aged 17 on 2 April 1911, when the family was living in Goddington Road, Strood

JOY, Henry Ulgar. Private 15547, R.A.M.C.; attested Maidstone 15 April 1901; joined at Aldershot 17 April 1901; South Africa 1901-4; discharged on termination of his initial engagement 14 April 1913. Service record survives. Son of William and Eliza, Meadow Villa; b. Aylesford; bapt. All Saints Snodland; bur. Snodland cemetery 1968

JOYCE, Arthur Daniel. ‘R.N.’ at baptism of son Kenneth Arthur Victor, All Saints, 6 Apr 1919; ‘Leading Cook’ at baptism of daughter Hazel Mary Enid, 22 July 1923. Address: Brook House; wife Gertrude Mary Eugenie

JUDGES, AMOS. King’s Royal Rifles, rifleman no. 1677; attested Chatham 10-09- 1914; service in France; various transfers; wounded: gun shot wound to head 10-05- 1915; forearm and right hand 08-04-1916; BPCM Roll of Honour states he was wounded three times and gassed; 100% tuberculosis of lungs; discharged 26-06-1918 to 48 Goddington Road, Strood. [Assumed to be the 'A. J. Judges' on memorials at Cemetery and All Saints.] Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 04-06-1882; son of George and Ellen M. of 13 Orchard Cottages; occupation: lime loading and burning at Lee & Son; married Ethel Nash, Registry Office, Sheerness, 11-10-1916; buried Cemetery 02-02-1920, aged 38

JUDGES, E[rnest Arthur?]. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?born c.1882, Aylesford; married Ada; address: 2 Wells Terrace; cement labourer]

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JUDGES, FRANCIS ALFRED [Also Alfred J.]. Lance Corporal 19089 [or 69089], 37th Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Inf), (formerly Royal West Kent Regiment 120), killed in action, 30 November 1917, aged 21. Enlisted 18th Aug., 1914. No known grave. Memorials: Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France, Panel 12 and 13; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of Francis and Alice Judges, of 32, Churchill Rd., Gravesend.

KAY, Robert Taylor. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Flora Mercy, All Saints, 19 Aug 1918. Address; Snodland; wife Alice Elizabeth

KEATING, Arthur James. ‘Soldier on active service’ aged 24 at marriage to Violet Annie Austin, Christ Church, 1 Jan 1916. Father: John

KEELEG, A. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?Error for KEELEY?]

KEMSLEY. JACK. Rifleman 2200, 4th Bn., Rifle Brigade, died of wounds, 25 May 1915, London Hospital, Whitechapel, aged 26. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Mill Hill; residence: Ightham. Buried Snodland Cemetery, 28 May 1915, grave 95. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Service record survives. ‘He was at the Front for six months from the commencement of the war, was wounded in the hand at the retreat of Mons, and sent home. He returned to the front about eight weeks ago and had his leg broken by shrapnel at the terrible battle at Ypres. He crawled out of the trench for about 18 yards, and then got the gas fumes, which rendered him unconscious. He was picked up and conveyed to Boulogne Hospital, and subsequently to the London Hospital, where, after a few days care and attention, his leg had to be amputated. He succumbed to the shock, etc.’ [KM 12 June 1915] Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 6 August 1890; son of John (1847-1917), retired licensed victualler, of Constitution Hill and Mary Ann Kemsley Husband of Florence Emily Teideman (formerly Kemsley), of 18, Lennox Buildings, Wandsworth Rd., Vauxhall, London.

KENYON, George Lewis. Royal Defence Corps, no. 32263; attested 21-07-1915. Service record survives. Born Snodland, c.1870; Vine Cottages, High Street

KIMBER, Herbert. Royal West Kent, private no. 7985; attested 15-12-1904; service in India to 1912, then home; active service 14-08-1914 to 28-12-1918; service record survives. Born Snodland, son of George of 14 Birling Road

KING, Edward Arthur. British Legion application: enlisted Royal Field Artillery 08-01- 1916, no. 212019; B.E.F. France; driver from 27-09-1917; discharged 11-02-1919. Service record survives. Woodlands Farm, Snodland, cowman; mother Eliza Ann of Larkfield.

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KING, Sidney Alec. Roll of Honour 2-3 Born 1890, Snodland; baptised All Saints 26 February 1890; son of John and Mary Ann of 6 Church Fields (1891)

KINGSBURY, Daniel Albert. ‘Discharged Soldier’ at baptism of son Jesse Humphrey, All Saints, 22 Aug 1918. Address: 7 Bull Fields, with wife Florence Ethel

KNIGHT, JAMES STANLEY. Private T/202706, The Buffs, 7th Btn., joined 5 Feb 1917; to France July 1917; married; address 3 Queen’s Road; missing since 12 October 1917; employed at Gravesend Imperial Mills. Killed 12 Oct 1917; buried Cement House Cemetery, north of Ypres, grave VII.A.8 Memorial: Gravesend Imperial Mills

KNOTT, Albert William. ‘Discharged Wounded Soldier’ at baptism of son Harry Albert William, All Saints, 11 Apr 1920. Address: Ferry House; wife Bertha Elizabeth

KNOTT, Edward. Roll of Honour 3. [?born c.1895, West Malling; son of George and Ruth of East Street (1911); inmate in Industrial School (1911)]

KNOTT, George [Edward]. Roll of Honour 1-3. 1st Gloucestershire Regiment; wounded [KM 2 and 5 June 1915], in London Hospital with compound fracture just above the ankle. [?born Snodland or Burham; baptised All Saints, 18 February 1891; married Florence Elizabeth; son of James and Minnie; address Queen’s Avenue from 1914 to death; buried Cemetery 20 August 1942, aged 51; Commission Agent; paper maker (1911-14); ship’s steward (1917)]

LAMBETH, Bernard. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials, no. 495285; Royal Army Medical Corps, no. 41448; attested [illegible]; service from 11-11-1919; discharged 17-12-1919 unfit - left knee. Roll of Honour 1-3. Service record survives. Baptised All Saints 18-12-1896, son of Thomas and Icitt A., formerly of 9 Mount Pleasant (1901); then of 89 Milton St., Maidstone; Labourer

LAMBETH, Frank. Roll of Honour 1-2 [?Baptised All Saints 18 December 1896, son of Thomas and Icitt A., formerly of 9 Mount Pleasant (1901); then of 89 Milton St., Maidstone

LAMBETH, Frederick. Roll of Honour 1-3. [?son of Thomas and Icitt A., born c.1897]

47 LAMBETH, GEORGE EDWARD. Enlisted in King’s Royal Rifles 3 Sep 1914; to France July 1915; transferred to R.F.C.: Flight Sergeant 88285, 22nd Sqdn., Royal Flying Corps; killed during an aerial fight 9 September 1917, aged 22. Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord, France, grave IV. G. 5. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death recorded KM 3 Oct 1917]: ‘After our formation crossed the lines, a patrol of several German machines was seen and attacked. Unfortunately, during the engagement another large German formation came up, and your son was suddenly seen to fall over his gun, the pilot being killed almost at the same moment, and the machine fell out of control and crashed in hostile territory.’ Born c.1895, son of Walter James and Caroline E. Lambeth, of 6 Parkstone Terrace [55] Bramley Road, Snodland, Kent.

LAMBETH, [Thomas] William. Roll of Honour 3 [?Baptised All Saints 7 April 1886; son of Thomas and Icitt A. formerly of 9 Mount Pleasant (1901); then of 89 Milton St., Maidstone]

LAMBERT, Leslie George. formerly 13th R.R.; Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 23-08-1915; occupation: chef; religion: C of E Born Snodland, 06-11-1896; baptised 19-01-1896, Christ Church; son of George Samuel Sharp and Mahala, 31 Malling Road

LANGRIDGE, AMOS ALFRED. Lance Corporal 64031, 10th Bn., Royal Fusiliers (formerly Private 5325, 4th Btn, The Buffs), killed in action, 25 August 1918, aged 34. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France, grave III. B. 3. [Death reported KM 28 Sep 1918.] Walthamstow War Memorial. A gas fitter; 3rd son of James (a cement labourer) and Sarah Langridge of Portland Place (1881), Birling Road (1891-1911); later Walnut Tree Farm, Birling (1918); husband of Winifred Annie Fisher (formerly Langridge), of 98, Carr Rd., Walthamstow, Essex; a gas fitter.

LANGRIDGE, Jesse Luke. ‘Naval stoker’ at baptism of daughter Edith Muriel at Christ Church on 21 January 1918. Address: Malling Road, with wife Edith Aylmer

LANGRIDGE, ROBERT NEIL ALFRED. Rifleman R/729, 11th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, killed in action, 9 April 1916. Born Tonbridge; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Folkestone. Buried: Essex Farm Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave II. E. 2. Memorial: Christ Church, Lower Birling. [KM: In Memoriam: 6 Apr 1918] Baptized at Christ Church: 4 February 1894; son of Robert and Mary of the Freemason’s Arms, Ham Hill.

LANGRIDGE, Thomas George. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Thomas William at Christ Church 11 Aug 1921. Address: Canary Cottage; wife Verona Susannah

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LANSDOWN, Frank. British Legion: address: Bramley Rd; Royal Army Service Corps; enlisted 01-01-1915 as Warrant Officer; discharged 05-04-1921; occupation: Civil Service

LATTER, Leonard C.; British Legion: address: May St; 2nd Batt. Royal West Kent; enlisted 01-03-1916; L/Cpl; discharged xx-08-1919; occupation: Engine Driver

LAURENCE, R. R.N. Roll of Honour 1-3

LAURENCE, W. Roll of Honour 2-3

LAVENDER, A. Roll of Honour 2-3

LAVENDER, C. E. British Legion, no. 62: 43 Malling Road

LAVENDER, Harry. British Legion: 3 Temperance Terrace ‘Soldier’ aged 26 at Marriage to Maude Charlotte Nye, Christ Church, 24 Feb 1917; baptism of son Harold Thomas, 27 Oct 1918. Address: Bramley Road

LAVENDER, Oliver Thomas. ‘Private R.A.M.C.’ aged 34 at marriage to Elizabeth Avery, All Saints 29 June 1915. Father: Thomas

LEDGER, Alfred. ‘Stoker R.N.’ at baptism of daughter Olive Bertha, All Saints, 2 Oct 1914. Address: 1 East St; wife Marianne

LEE, Frank. ‘Private, Worcestershire Regt.’ At baptism of daughter Nellie Victoria, All Saints, 10 Oct 1913. Address: 1 The Brook; wife Jane

LEVER, Sidney. Roll of Honour 3

LILLEY, British Legion, no. 58; Snodland

LIPSCOMBE, JOHN. Sergeant 200999, 2nd/4th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); fought in Dardanelles, invalided home with poisoned hand; to Egypt, then Palestine; killed in action near Gaza, 19 April 1917, aged 34. Enlisted: Tonbridge; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Jerusalem Memorial, Israel, Panel 41; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported 26 May 1917] Educated British Schools, Holborough Road; former worker at Peters’ Cement Works. Husband of Annie Harriet Lipscombe, of 21, Birling Rd., Snodland, Kent.

LONG, Leonard. Roll of Honour 2-3

LONGHURST, Frank Thomas. ‘Late of R.A.M.C.’ at baptism of son Albert, All Saints, 30 Aug 1916. Address: 43 Canterbury Street, Hillfield, Coventry

49 LONGHURST, George. ‘Munitioner’ at baptism of daughter Doris Ada, All Saints, 3 Sep 1918. Address: 8 Woodlands Terrace, Malling Road; wife Ada.

LONGHURST, GEORGE. Private 42826, 1st Bn., Worcestershire Regiment, died of wounds at convalescent centre, Tourgeville, 10 May 1918, aged 25. Born: Chatham; enlisted Maidstone; residence: Snodland. Buried: Tourgeville Military Cemetery, Calvados , France, grave IV. A. 2. Son of George and Eliza Longhurst, of 8, Woodland Terrace, Malling Rd., Snodland, Kent.

LOVE, Alfred. ‘Soldier’ at birth of daughter Isabel on 3 Nov 1916. Address: Birling Road; wife Minnie Elizabeth.

LOVE, H[arold?]. Private 572888; reported wounded KM 15 Dec 1917 ?Born Birling c.1892, son of Harry and Mary Ann of Constitution Hill

LOVE, J. British Legion, no. 43; 10 Council Cottages

LUTMAN. Roll of Honour 1-3 [No Christian name given]

MABBOTT, Albert John. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Maude Nellie, All Saints, 4 Oct 1918. Address: 10 Birling Road; wife Elizabeth Mary Frances

MACAULAY, Charles Thomas. ‘Soldier at baptism of daughter Ivy Kathleen, born 28 Nov 1915; also of son Jack Charles on 27 Jan 1918; also of daughter Dorothy on 3 April 1921. Address: Ham Hill; wife Elizabeth Maria.

MACE, Charles. ‘Canadian Expeditionary Force’ at baptism of sons Thomas and Albert Edward and daughter Kathleen Ada, All Saints, 23 May 1918. Address: 38 Malling Road; wife Catherine Annie

MADERS, Frank. Labour Corps., no. 696725; attested: Chatham, 02-06-1919; posted 03-06-1919 to demobilization 23-04-1920. British Legion, no. 3; Prince of Wales; 5 Mount Pleasant, Holborough Road; occupation: labourer. Service record survives.

MANNERING, G. Roll of Honour 2-3

MANNERING, T. Roll of Honour 2-3

MANSER, Alfred Henry. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Cecil Ernest, All Saints, 23 May 1918. Address: 1 Hollick’s Cottages, Malling Road

MANTLE, Albert Edward. Roll of Honour 1-3 ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Hubert Edward M, All Saints, 8 Jan 1915. Address: 3 Bullfields

MANTLE, Walter Henry. Royal Army Medical Corps territorials, no. 740; attested 03- 11-1909; joined H.C.F.Ambulance on 03-03-1911, no. 493049; then 81st Field Ambulance; attended annual training camps in 1912-1914; home: 03-03-1911 to 20-12-

50 1914; B.E.F. France: 21-12-1914 to 30-03-1916; B.S[alonika].F. 31-03-1916 to 26-05- 1918; home: 27-05-1918 to 17-04-1919 when discharged. Service record survives. Baptised 04-10-1893 All Saints, Snodland. Son of Walter Lewis and Rose Ellen of Birling Road; occupation: gardener; employed by M.E. Balson, Little Buckland, 70 Sandling Road, Maidstone. Address on 06-03-1920: 65 Sandling Road, Maidstone.

MARTIN, S. Private No. 40409 reported wounded in The Times, 29 Mar 1917 and KM 7 Apr 1917.

MASTERS, A. Roll of Honour 2-3

MAY, Harry. [record very damaged] mother: Mildred of Aylesford; address: 33 Malling Road; occupation: saddler; saddler in Army Veterinary Corps, from 29-11-1915; posted to no. 5 reserve Veterinary Hospital; The Curragh, Bebington, 02-12-1918. Service record survives.

MAY, Richard. Royal Army Veterinary Corps, private SE 2615; later L/Cpl Enlisted 1 Jan 1915; posted to France 5 Jan 1915; discharged 7 or 17 Aug 1916; of 6 Rosslyn Cottages, Ham Hill; labourer

MAY, WILLIAM RICHARD. Stoker 1st Class SS/108083 (RFR/CH/B/10340). H.M.S. "Hogue.", Royal Navy. Died 22 September 1914. No known grave; memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 5; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Born 20 Dec 1884, Bearsted; married Elsie Kate Wingate, All Saints, 24 Dec 1904; address: 7 Salem Street, Stone Street, Maidstone; on HMS Diamond, Falmouth (1911 census)

MAYATT, ALFRED JOHN. Private G/13088, transf. to (137986), Labour Corps; enlisted 3? September 1914, Maidstone; previously R.A.M.C.; died in a London hospital, 15 December 1918, aged 29. Buried 21 December, Snodland Cemetery, grave 887. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Discharged 6 October 1914 ‘not being likely to become an efficient soldier (para. 392 (iii) (e) King’s regulations; served from 8-9-1914 (32 days) Born c.1889, baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 27 November 1896, aged 6; son of Mrs. Ellen and the late Edward Phillips Mayatt, of [36], East St., Snodland; husband of Elsie Kate Mayatt (married 1916), of 1, May St., Snodland. Worked at Lee’s Cement Works.

MAYATT, Herbert; born Cuxton; carman; enlisted The Buffs, 7942; 4 June 1904; SS Dilwara 2-6-1905; S. Africa 27-06-1905; Harrismith (hospital: 4 times between 19-7- 1905 and 19-9-1906); Dover 3-5-1907; military hospital, Canterbury: 14-8-1918: malaria; served in France, Egypt and Salonika with 2nd Battn.; March 1915; right arm wound: to 2 Sta: Hospital, Boulogne; to England; posted to 3rd Buffs, Dover; chronic malaria so returned to England under scheme in May 1916; landed France; embarked Marseilles; disembarked Alexandria (for Salonika) Home address 10-1-1919: 11 Victoria Road, Bridgend, Glamorgan

MAYATT, HENRY WILLIAM. Private 903, 1st Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); enlisted ‘soon after war broke out’; died of wounds, 6 July 1917, aged 40. Born Snodland; enlisted Maidstone Buried: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de

51 Calais, France, grave IV. N. 53. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 8 Aug 1917] (On 17 April 1916, suffered a burned face in the trenches) Baptized at All Saints, 30 September 1877; paper cutter in 1891; labourer in lime works in 1901, lodging with his sister Nellie and her husband Alfred Wallis at 2 Holborough Terrace; son of Edward Phillip and Ellen Mayatt, of 3, East St. Married to ?. Eliza Wright, at Lewisham, 16 August 1902.

MAYATT, JOSEPH HENRY. Rifleman 592953, 2nd/18th Bn., London Regt (London Irish Rifles), killed in action, 23 December 1917, Egypt, aged 22. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Sittingbourne; residence: Sittingbourne. Memorial: Jerusalem Memorial, Israel, Panel 51. Sittingbourne War Memorial. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 25 January 1896; son of Joseph Charles and Sarah Ann Mayatt, of 257, Park Rd., Sittingbourne, Kent; formerly of East Street, May Street and Bramley Road, Snodland.

MAYATT, RUPERT. Trimmer 947238, M.M.R. H, Mercantile Marine Reserve, died, 1 March 1918, aged 17. Memorial: Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, Panel 31; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Service record survives. Born 21-04-1900 at 44 May Street, son of Nellie Amy Mayatt; grandson of the late Joseph R. P. and Eliza E. Mayatt; educated at the C of E School, Brook Street. [Service Record for Royal West Kent Regt: MAYATT, Rupert; born 21 April 1897; factory hand; joined at Maidstone 29-5-1915; under age: discharged 3-6-1915; enlisted 26 May 1916; 10801; grandmother: Eliza Mayatt of 44 May St.]

MAYATT, WALTER M. Private 8315, 2nd Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died of haemorrage, result of shell wound to thorax, at Duchess of Westminster's Hospital, Le Touquet, 22 February 1915, land; enlisted Chatham 4 July 1906; residence: Snodland. No known grave; memorials: Le Touquet-Paris Plage Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 1. A. 32; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Baptized, All Saints, Snodland, 13-01-1886; Son of Edward Phillip and Mrs. Ellen Mayatt of 3, East St., Snodland, Kent. (Previous army service: South Africa; to October 1906; Hong Kong to December 1910; Singapore to January 1913; served 8 years in India to November 1914)

MAYGER, G[eorge] A[ugustus]. British Legion, no. 44; Snodland [?Served in Royal Navy ‘Northampton’ in 1881; later worked at Paper Mill; buried Cemetery 11 October 1935, aged 77]

MAYGER, R[alph] W[alter]. British Legion, no. 38; Bramley Road [?born Snodland, c.1879; son of Joseph and Martha married Ethel Eliza; of Bramley Villas (1911-12); a cooper; died at Brendon Main Rd. Store, Greenhithe; buried Cemetery 25 October 1948, aged 70]

MAYGER, Rowland. British Legion, no. 13; 26, Bramley Road [Collingwood Villas].

52 Born Snodland, c.1874, son of Joseph and Martha; married Dulcie Jenner; a cooper

MAYNARD, CHARLES EDWARD. Private 9243, 1st Bn., Royal Munster Fusiliers, killed in action, Gallipoli, 5 July 1915, aged 23. Born: St John’s, Chatham second quarter of 1892; enlisted Chatham; at Tidworth barracks, 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1911; memorials: Helles Memorial, Turkey, Panel 185 to 190; Christ Church, Lower Birling. [Letters from him in KM 26 June 1915; death reported KM 25 Sep 1915] Son of John and Ada Martha Maynard, of 5, Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill, Snodland, Kent.

MAYNARD, J[ames Edward]. British Legion, no. 52; 5, Crayford Terrace. Roll of Honour 3 [? Born Snodland c.1884; son of George and Sarah Ann; married Louisa Adelaide; a postman of 11 May Street (1911)]

MAYNARD, HERBERT. Private 22194, 12th Battalion Suffolk Regiment; killed in action 12 April 1918; buried Suffolk la Rolanderie Farm, grave I. C. 3. memorial: Christ Church, Lower Birling; Victory and British medals Born West Malling. 1897; son of John and Ada Martha of 5, Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill

MAYNARD, T. Roll of Honour 2-3

MAYTUM, G[eorge Henry?]. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?Born East Malling, c.1885; son of Joseph Edward and Fanny of Dyke’s Cottages, Ham Hill; cement labourer]

MAYTUM, J[ohn?]. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?Born Snodland, c.1887; son of Joseph Edward and Fanny of Dyke’s Cottages, Ham Hill; cement labourer (1911)]

MAYTUM, PERCY CHARLES. Rifleman 392896, 9th Bn., London Regt (Queen Victoria's Rifles), (formerly 4909, Essex Regiment), killed in action, 21 October 1917, aged 19. Born: Snodland; enlisted: West Ham; residence: Chatham. Buried: Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France, grave I. E. 10. .Memorial: Christ Church, Lower Birling. Service record survives. Son of Joseph and Fanny Maytum, of Dykes Cottages, Ham Hill, Snodland, Kent.

McELVIES [McELVIE?], P. Private No. 12922 in Royal West Kents; reported wounded KM 9 Dec 1916.

McPHERSON, George. ‘Cartridge filler’ at baptism of daughter Norah at Christ Church, 16 Mar 1919. Address: 29 Malling Road; wife Leonora

MEADOWS, R.N.

53 MEARS, Frederick Walter. ‘Coy Quartermaster’ at baptism of daughter Joan, All Saints, 31 Dec 1916. Address: Queens Avenue, with wife Phoebe MERCER, Francis Charles. ‘Soldier’ aged 34 at marriage to Minnie Bevan, Christ Church, 7 June 1919. Father: Alfred

MILES, James. British Legion, no. 40; 39 May Street Born Snodland 22 Jan 1900, son of James and Emma, May Street; educated at C of E School, Brook Street

MILLER, JOHN WILLIAM. Private L/9359, 2nd Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died, 17 August 1915, aged 22. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Chatham. Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), Nord, France, grave I. C. 54. Service record survives. Son of John Frank (a fitter’s labourer) and Ada Miller, of 187, New Rd., Chatham, Kent, formerly of 12 May Street, Snodland. Formerly employed in H.M. Dockyard, Chatham.

MILLS, ERNEST WILLIAM CORNELIUS. Baptised, All Saints, Snodland, 13-08-1890; son of William (a papermaker) and Emily Mary of 8, Burley Road, Sittingbourne, formerly of 1 Western Cottages, May Street. In Grenadier Guards at 1911 census. Sittingbourne War Memorial.

MILLS, FRANK EDWARD. Trooper, no. 2783, 2nd Life Guards, died 30-10-1914, aged 23. memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate), panel 3; Sittingbourne War Memorial Baptised, All Saints, Snodland, 03-02-1892; son of William and Emily Mary of 8, Burley Road, Sittingbourne, formerly of 1 Western Cottages, May Street.

MITCHELL, Richard William. Attested 06-02-1917, Gravesend; Royal West Kent Army Service Corps, no. 71640. passed as lorry driver. Transferred from Military Hospital Weymouth to Military Convalescent Hospital, Woldingham, on 18-06-1918. Service record survives. Baptised All Saints 28-04-1899, son of Richard and Minnie Keziah of 6 Prospect Place (1901); machine boy Lead Wool Co..

MITCHELL, William. Roll of Honour 3

MONK, Abel. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 16 December 1885; son of Albert and Louisa of 3 Church Terrace (1891)

MONK, Albert. Royal Artillery, no. 73900; attested 04-06-1889, Rochester; promoted to sergeant 24-09-1901; service: home: 04-06-1889 to 26-01-1900; Gibraltar: 27-01- 1900 to 08-01-1901; India: 09-01-1901 to 08-12-1908; home: 09-12-1908 to 03-06- 1910. Royal West Kent, no. 22346; attested 21-09-1914; private, promoted to Colour Sergeant; discharged 03-07-1918. Roll of Honour 2-3. Service record survives. Baptised 10-01-1869 All Saints, Snodland; married Blanche Eleanor […]. Son of Albert and Louisa, 7 Mill St; Waghorn Rd at death; buried Cemetery 4 December 1930, aged 63; occupation: labourer

54 MONK, Allan. Army Service Corps., no. 15057; attested: Maidstone, 18-07-1897. Service: 03-07-1899 to 06-02-1911 (South Africa: 24-11-1899 to 05-08-1900, otherwise home); re-engaged; mobilized, Aldershot, 09-08-1914; from Liverpool (12 Aug to Rouen 14 Aug); posted to D.S.C. posted to unit 8, Field Butchery, B.E.F.: 22-08-1916 Transferred to Royal Irish Rifles 1st Btn. 27-09-1917; to England 10-01-1918; demobilization: 13-03-1919. Roll of Honour 1-3. Service record survives. Baptised 16-08-1882 All Saints, Snodland. Son of Albert and Louisa, 7 Mill St; then of 3 Church Terrace (1891); occupation: butcher; married Bridget Dempsey, Newbridge, 14-08-1901 (6 children).

MONK, Arthur. Roll of Honour 3 Born c.1870; married Sarah Jane Goodhew, All Saints, 2 June 1900; waterman, then cement labourer ‘sailor’ at birth of daughter Hilda Vivian on 3 June 1917; buried Cemetery, 25 January 1951, aged 70. Address: Hollick’s Cottages (1917).

MONK, A[lfred] J[ames]. British Legion, no. 25; 2, High Street Born Halling, c.1887; married Eleanor Annie; buried Cemetery, 9 December 1940, aged 53

MOODY, Percy. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland 8 May 1897; son of William and Agnes of 3 Railway Terrace (1911); educated at the C of E School, Brook Street; labourer at Lead Wool Co.

MOODY, WILLIAM JOHN. Private 16086, 7th Bn., East Surrey Regiment, killed in action: fragment of rifle grenade through his helmet; died on the way to the dressing station, 24 January 1917, aged 25. Born: Snodland; enlisted Kingston- upon-Thames; residence: Merton. Buried: Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, Pas de Calais, France, grave II. C. 18. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 9 September 1891; son of William (a cement cooper) and Agnes Moody, of 3 Railway Terrace (1911); educated at C of E School, Brook Street; employed by J. H. Burke; husband of Maud Moody.

MOORCROFT, THOMAS. Petty Officer Stoker, No. 304130; HM TB ‘No. 12’; died 10 June 1915, aged 30; memorials Gillingham; Chatham Naval Memorial Born 4 Apr 1885, Son of Daniel and Caroline; bap. All Saints, Snodland, 26 July 1885; married Ada …], address: 45 Beresford Road, Gillingham

MOOREY, JESSE. Rifleman R/12896, 1st Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, died of wounds, 27 July 1916. Born: Strood; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery.

MORGAN, Walter. Previous service with Royal West Kent Teritorial Engineers 1904; Royal Engineers, no. 114577, employed in road making; attested London 17-08-1915; B.E.F. France from 24-08-1915 to 22-09-1916; home 23-09-1916 to 13-11-1918;

55 discharged no longer physically fit for war service 13-11-1918. Roll of Honour 2-3. Service record survives. Born c.1870; labourer, quarryman with Mr. Eagleton, stone merchant, Ditton; married Rose May, East Malling, 14-04-1894 (4 children); 8 Rose Cottages, Ham Hill.

MORRIS, Charles. Roll of Honour 1-3

MORRIS, John Thomas. Born c.1880, son of Charles and Susan of 2 Prince of Wales Row (1881); 3 (2 in 1901) Princes Terrace (1891); occupation: lime loader (1901); Royal Army Medical Corps, no. 51632; attested Maidstone 22-01-1915; transferred to 3rd Royal Lancaster Regmt., no. 20210 02-06-1915 (but requested return to RAMC on 01-08-1915, route marches caused suffering ‘with rheumatics’; in France 27-09-1915; to England 27-10-1915; in hospital suffering from gun shot wound to left jaw and is seriously ill; discharged as permanently unfit 15-08-1916. British Legion, no. 61; 9 Mount Pleasant, Holborough Road. Service record survives.

MORRISON, Edward. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Howard Edward at Christ Church on 5 Dec 1920. Address: 2 Clara Place; wife Evelyn

MORWOOD, J. British Legion, no. 51; 4 Horne Street

Grave of George Moyse

MOYSE, GEORGE. Private 17433, 2nd Bn., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, died of wounds, 28 June 1915. Born: Snodland; enlisted: East Ham. Buried: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave VIII. B. 50.

MULLER, Frank. King’s Royal Rifles, no. 3397; attested Chatham 07-09-1914; B.E.F. France from 23-07-1915 to 01-11-1915; wounded: 25-09-1915, 15-10-1915, 25-10- 1915; left leg amputated; home 02-11-1915 to 09-08-1916; discharged no longer fit for war service. Roll of Honour 2-3. Service record survives. Born 02-02-1894, Crayford; father Paul, Prospect House, Snodland; married Annie Eliza Penny at New Jerusalem 30-03-1918; occupation engineer/fitter; address: Holborough Road

MUNN, CHARLES. Sergeant, 144th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers, no. 89416. Died 1 Feb 1918, aged 47. Served in France from 7 Oct 1915. Discharged. Born Headcorn, c.1871; buried Snodland Cemetery, 6 Feb 1918, where he had been caretaker for a short time, having been appointed at the Council meeting of 13 Nov 1917. He said he had had previous experience and was chosen from 120 applicants. He and his wife Louisa Ellen moved to Snodland from Biddenden, where he had been a builder (1911). Memorial: Headcorn

NELSON, Harold. ‘Corporal R[oyal] E[ngineers]’ aged 23 at

56 marriage to Grace Elizabeth Gladdish, All Saints, 22 Feb 1919

NEWMAN, Ernest. Royal Garrison Artillery, no. 9791; served 1902-01-01-1914; admitted Basra 14-06-1916; invalided to India 18-06-1916. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 6-10-1881, son of Harry and Mary of Veles Cott (1891)

NEWMAN, Horace Frank. Attested at Woolwich and joined at Avonmouth 10-08-1914, no. 2701 - employed as fitter; home to 21-03-1918; B.E.F. France 22-03-1918 to 20-12- 1919; home 21-12-1919 to 18-01-1920. service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 11-07-1883; son of Harry and Mary of Veles Cottage; married Grace Mary Norman, London, 16-11-1907; died 13-01-1954 at bus stop outside King's Cross Station

NORLEY, Sidney. ‘Sailor’ at baptism of son Cyril Thomas, All Saints, 13 Dec 1917. Address: Constitution Hill; wife Daisy

NORMAN, Edward. Royal Engineers Inland Water Transport, no 505422; lance corporal from 01-09-1917; embarked B.E.F. France; fireman; joined unit from England 25-02-1917; demobilization 30-03-1919; 4 Princes Terrace, Holborough Road. Service record survives.

NORTH, H[erbert?]. Lance-Corporal No. 3835 King’s Royal Rife Corps reported wounded KM 11 Sep 1917 [? Son of George and Lily Mary, 3 Queen’s Road; born c.1897]

NYE, George. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Alfred Henry, All Saints, 21 May 1916. Address: 16 Birling Road; wife Edith Clara

O’BRIAN, William. 45th AA Coy Royal Engineers, no. 540522; attested, Gravesend, 06-10-1914; electrician and motor tyre maker (in England); demobilization 06-02-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 16-07-1897; son of William and Clara of Birling; later of 9 Gordon Road, Gravesend

O’FLAHERTY, William Edward George. Formerly 97th Regiment; Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 13-04-1916, Haileybury, Ontario; occupation: papermaker; religion: Roman Catholic Born Snodland 30-12-1891; baptised 10-03-1892, Congregational church. Son of William Henry and Minnie, 28 Malling Rd; in 1915 of Iroquois Falls, Ontario

OLIVER, ROBERT. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Dorothy Joyce Ada at Christ Church, 22 Sep 1918. Address: Birling.

OUTRAM, Frederick George. ‘Munition worker’ aged 21 at marriage to Lilian Gladys Dickety, Christ Church, 23 Dec 1917; baptism of son Frederick George at Christ Church, 29 September 1918. Address: Birling Road

OXLEY, Reuben Thomas. British Legion no. 31; 36 Malling Road

57 PACKHAM, Herbert J. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials); Roll of Honour 1-3

PALMER, Charles Louis. British Legion, no 56; Brook Street ‘Pensioner’ at baptism of daughter Gladys Phyllis Joyce, All Saints, 14 Jan 1923. Address: 18 Birling Road; wife Marie Nella

Grave of William Albert Pankhurst

PANKHURST, WILLIAM ALBERT. Private 10333, 5th Bn., Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), died at home, 11 September 1915, invalided soldier, buried at Snodland Cemetery, 11 September, aged 26, from Bramley Road: grave 666. Husband of Winifred Clifford (formerly Pankhurst), of 5, Church Field, Snodland.

PAPWORTH, William. British Legion [no address] no. 22; Roll of Honour 3

PARKER, Edward James. Royal Field Artillery, no. AFB2505; attested Chatham 20- 10-1906; service: home 30-10-1906 to 17-11-1908; India 18-11-1908 to 22-12-1910; home 23-12-1910 to 14-01-1914; [another person?] L20255, driver; enlisted 26-11- 1915; France 12-12-1915 to 02-11-1916; sister Ada at 5 Frere St., Battersea. Service record survives. Born Snodland; son of James and Sarah E. of 17 Church Fields; later of 5 Nimfort Road/88 Grove Road, Strood; occupation: bargeman

PARKER, Major William. Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 41-12-1917 Born Snodland, 07-11-1888; Son of Charles and [?] of Mill Street; married Margaret; in 1915 of 96 Beechwood […], Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; occupation: cabinet maker; religion: Methodist

PARKINSON, LEONARD Corporal G/19124, "D" Coy. 1st Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), (formerly 2097, W. Kent Yeomanry), killed by a shell on 23 August 1918. Born: Maidstone; enlisted Maidstone, October 1915. Buried: Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont, Somme, France, grave IV. C. 38. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 21 Sep 1918]

PARRIS, Alfred Thomas. Royal Garrison Artillery, Gunner, no. 204972; attested Maidstone 14-01-1916. Service record survives. Born Snodland, c.1894; married Alice Mary Allingham. West Malling, 27-03-1915; cement worker; Baptist; address: Baker’s Cottages, Bull Fields, formerly 7 Jessamine Cottages

58 PARRIS, James Capon. Royal Army Veterinary Corps, no. 24409; attested Maidstone 11-12-1915; to France 26-02-1917; to England 07-02-1919; demobilization 09-03-1919; Pretoria Cottage, Waghorn Road. Service record survives. Born Birling, c.1890, son of Alfred and Mary Ellen of Payne's Cottage, Birling; married Lillian Alice Cackett, Malling, 27-07-1912; address 12 Oxford Street; cement worker; Baptist

PATEY, Harry. ‘Munitions worker’ at baptism of daughter Jessie Louisa, All Saints, 13 May 1917. Address: 3 Alma Place; wife Ada

PATTERSON, William Albert. Royal Fusiliers, no. 177137; attested Chatham 11-12- 1915; service in UK. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 25-09-1878, son of William and Keziah of 3 Alma Place (1881); married Ellen Louisa Lucas, All Saints, 25-12-1903; buried Cemetery 15- 01-1938, aged 59; Woolley's Cotts (1891); Stanley Terrace (1901); May St at death; fitter’s labourer; crane driver

PAYNE, Arthur. Roll of Honour 3

PAYNE, Charles. Roll of Honour 3 [?Born Strood c.1882; married Annie; cement works (1911)]

PAYNE, Frederick. R.N. Roll of Honour 3 [?Born Strood c.1883; married Rosina; cement works labourer (1911); 3 Dover Terrace]

PAYNE, George. Roll of Honour 3

PAYNE, Henry. Royal Engineers, Road Construction Coy, no. 228267; attested Maidstone 11-12-1915; to France 11-02-1917; to UK 21-10-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland, c.1894, son of William, of Brook St, Northumberland Heath, Erith; lead ring caster (Lead Wool); unmarried in 1915

PAYNE, Stanley Colman. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials) , no. 2239; attested Maidstone 08-05-1914; in France 21-12-1914 to 25-11-1915; in Salonika 26-11-1915 to 07-05-1919; Roll of Honour 1-3. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 18-02-1891; son of Henry and Hannah of 10 Malling Rd E (1891); 7 Waghorn Rd. (1901); occupation: cooper

PENNY, Arthur W[illiam]. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials). Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland c.1893-4; son of Josiah Alfred/Alfred Josiah and Frances Margaret of Glencot, 16 Waghorn Road (1911); apprentice engineer at paper mill (1911)

PENNY, Benjamin M. British Legion; High St; RMLC; joined 11-04-1917; corporal; discharged 13-12-1919 ‘P H Marine Transport’ at baptism of daughter Mabel Madeline, All Saints, 27 Apr 1917. Address: Hope Terrace; wife Ellen

59 PENNY, William Joseph. Royal West Kent, no. G 44113; attested Maidstone 27-05- 1916; B.E.F. France 06-03-1917 to 05-01-1919; demobilised 22-02-1919; Roll of Honour 2-3. Service record survives. Born Snodland 24-05-1898, son of Hubert and Eliza Ann of 41 May Street; buried Cemetery 05-04-1944, aged 45; occupation: apprentice wheelwright at Lee’s works; religion: Swedenborgian

PERRIN, Leonard. ‘Army Pensioner’ at baptism of daughter Jean Iris, Christ Church, 3 Jan 1926. Address: Bell Cottages, Sutton Road, Maidstone; wife Olive.

PETERS, Frederick. Labour Corps, no. 32827; attested Dartford 27-11-1915; France from 07-05-1918 to 24-08-1918. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 25-01-1883; son of Thomas Frederick and Mary Ann of 5 Dover Terrace (1915); occupation: medicine oilmaker

PETERS, George. Roll of Honour 1-3

PETERS, Henry Silas [also George Edward?] Roll of Honour 2-3 Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 27-11-1877; married Annie [...]; son of Silas and Emma of Court Lodge, Mill St (1881); 10 Monarch Hill (1901); occupation: bargeman (1901)

PETERS, Henry Victor Thomas. [Record very damaged: no service number or regiment shown] attested Chatham 18-09-1914; B.E.F. France 25-05-1915 to 08-09-1915; India 26-02-1916 to 25-11-1919; served in Calcutta police to 05-08-1920. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 22-11-1895; son of Silas and Betsy Emma of Church Terrace; occupation: bargeman

PETERS, Herbert. ‘Soldier’ aged 24 at marriage to Harriet Lavinia Hodges, Christ Church, 23 Dec 1916

PETERS, Robert Henry. ‘R.A.F.’ aged 27 at marriage to Norah Hawks, All Saints, 3 Sep 1918; father Nathan

PHEBEY. Herbert Ernest. The Buffs Mounted Rifles (Reserve), private no 2126/270243; attested Sittingbourne 03-10-1914; Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from 24-09-1915 to 28-04-1918 (Gallipoli, Mudros, Alexandria); B.E.F. from 07-05- 1918. Service record survives. Born Snodland, son of Ernest; by 3-10-1914 an apprentice at Johnson’s Tile Works, Queenborough

PHYALL, Edward Charles. Royal West Kent, no. 521; attested Tonbridge 31-08-1914; awarded Military Medal 29 March 1918. Service record survives. Son of Henry and Rose; born Snodland c.1895; occupation: baker; married Elizabeth Josephine Kelly in 1925; died 25 May 1958 at Epsom; 2 children: Thomas and Sheila.

60 PHYALL, Frederick Ernest. Royal West Kent, no. 295; attested Tonbridge 24-08-1914; wounded in action 13-10-1915 (shell wound to arm); captured; prisoner of war from 30- 11-1917; repatriated. Service record survives. Son of Henry and Rose; born 21 Mar 1894, Snodland; baptised All Saints 02-05-1894; married Edith Emmeline Wickham 4 Apr 1920 St Lawrence Seal Chart; died 29 May 1975 at Kemsing. A gamekeeper (1914), stone digger (1920).

PHYALL, Harry Nelson. British Legion no. 29; 38 Malling Road ‘Soldier’ aged 25 at marriage to Edith Harriett Wells, Christ Church, 16 Sep 1916. Son of Henry and Rose; born 27 Nov 1890, Snodland; lived in Snodland before military service in Kamptee, India (1911): private, 1st Manchester Regt. In WWI private 10639, Liverpool Regt.; sailor in merchant navy; died 27 Nov 1952

PHYALL, W. British Legion (pencil list) [no other details]

PILE, Leslie. Roll of Honour (added to) 2

PINNEY, Horace G. Roll of Honour 1-3

PLUMMER, Frederick John. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Audrey Olive, All Saints, 4 Aug 1916. Address: Tomlin’s Cottages; wife Violet

PLUMMER, George. ‘Munitions worker’ at baptism of daughter Brenda Kate Annie, All Saints, 7 June 1918. Address: 13 Tomlin’s Cottages; wife Kate

POINTER, WILLIAM. Private 48709 (The Prince Consort’s Own) Rifle Brigade 2/10th London Regiment. Born Snodland; enlisted Chatham; residence Gillingham; died of wounds, 11 August 1918. [No record of him in the CWGC Debt of Honour, but he appears on the Soldiers Died in the Great War CD and there are medals allocated to him. He is probably the son of William and Lucy Pointer, living at 5 Railway Terrace in 1891.]

POND, HERBERT GEORGE. Lance Sergeant No. 10461, 1st Btn. Wiltshire Regiment. Killed at Neuve Chapelle 12 Mar 1915, aged 24 or 26; no known grave; Menin Gate Memorial, panel 53; Marlborough War Memorial. [Death reported KM 5 Apr 1915] Son of Henry T.C. Pond, of Teignmouth, Devon; in Snodland for four years c.1910-14 as engineer at Lead Wool Company; Secretary to Snodland Cricket and Football Clubs; trained at Swindon Gas Works; lived at Marlborough.

POTTER, BERT CHARLES. Stoker 1st Class 284614 (RFR/CH/B/2622). R.N. H.M.S. "Aboukir.", Royal Navy. Age 38. Died 22 September, 1914. No known grave; memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 5; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery.

61 Born 7 Nov 1876; son of Mr. C. and Mrs. F. Potter, of Sandling Road, Maidstone, Kent; husband of Florence Potter, of 4, Piersons Cottages, Constitution Hill, Snodland, Kent; labourer at water company.

POULTNEY, Albert. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Albert, All Saints, 23 Nov 1917. Address: 4 Woodlands Terrace; wife Rebecca

POWELL, WILLIAM HERBERT. Sergeant 203251, 2nd/4th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 4 November 1917, Palestine, ‘fighting against the Turks’. Born Harbourne, Birmingham; enlisted Sept.-Oct. 1914: Bromley. (Assistant Master at National Schools, Boys, from 26 Sept., 1910.) Memorials: Jerusalem Memorial, Israel, Panel 41; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. (From the National Schools Log Book: 22 September 1914: ‘Mr Powell, Cert. Asst., has received permission from the K.E.C. to join the Army for Active Service.’ 10 November 1917: ‘I have had a letter stating that Mr Powell, late Assistant Master in these Schools has been wounded and is missing in Palestine fighting against the Turks.’ 19 November 1920: ‘The Rector visited and unveiled a memorial picture [now lost] of the late Mr W.H. Powell, Assistant Master for 4 years in this School, and who was killed in Palestine in 1917.’

PRESCOTT, CHARLES WILLIAM. Corporal Y/1370, 11th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, died of wounds, 11 July 1916, aged 22. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Tooting. Buried: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave VIII. C. 14. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 27 December 1893; son of George Edward (a fitter at the paper mill) and Frances Prescott; husband of Eva Alice Prescott, of 2, Wells Terrace, Malling Rd., Snodland, Kent; formerly of East Street.

PRESCOTT, R. Roll of Honour 3

PRESTON, ALBERT VICTOR ERNEST. Gunner 55130, 64th Bty. 5th Bde., Royal Field Artillery. Signaller and telephonist killed in action, 17 July 1915, aged 21, ‘after volunteering to do a rather risky piece of work near Neuve Chapelle’; joined R.F.A. as a trumpeter, aged 15, in 1909; 1913 went to India with 64th Battery R.F.A.; to France in 1914 with Indian Expeditionary Force; enlisted: Chatham; Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord, France, grave I. A. I. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported in detail KM 21 Aug 1915]

62 Youngest of three brothers, sons of John Stephen and Mary Preston; born Bangalore, India. The family returned from India in April 1894 and settled in Sheerness, moving to 9 Waghorn Road, Snodland, in 1897, and c.1903/4 to 4, Queens Avenue, Snodland, Kent. (His unit was serving in support of 3rd Lahore Infantry Division)

PRESTON, Ernest. Roll of Honour 1-3 [?Possibly Albert Victor Ernest?]

PRESTON, Frederick S. Roll of Honour 1-3. A Battery Sergeant- Major [KM 21 Aug 1915]. Brother of Albert and Henry; reported wounded KM 3 Oct 1914

PRESTON, Henry [John Berridge]. Roll of Honour 3 Born 25 Oct 1883, Bareilly, India, son of John Stephen and Mary Preston. The family returned from India in April 1894 and settled in Sheerness, moving to 9 Waghorn Road, Snodland, in 1897, and c.1903/4 to 4, Queens Avenue, Snodland, Kent. He was a Kent County cricketer 1907-1913; died 23 Apr 1864, Hastings

PRICE, H.W. British Legion no. 45, 1 Rayfield Terrace, Ham Hill

PRICE, John. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son John Adrian, All Saints, 6 Apr 1919. Address: Sunnyside, Ham Hill, with wife (?partner) Winifred Evans [but surname might be Price Evans]

PUGH, Thomas. ‘Private, Royal West Kent’ at baptism of daughter Rose Ellen Mary, All Saints, 15 June 1917; also ‘soldier’ at baptism of daughter Hilda Alice Preston’, 6 Feb 1918. Address: 4 Alma Place, with wife Rose

QUARRINGTON, Arthur Alfred. Royal Navy, No. K34281, from 1916 Son of Edward and Eliza, born 25 July 1891, 16/23 Malling Road

QUARRINGTON, WALTER EDWARD. Rifleman R/3398, 3rd Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, Killed in action, 23 August 1915, aged 21 years 96 days; general labourer. Born: Snodland, c.1894; enlisted: Chatham 7 September 1914; residence: Snodland. Landed in France 6 July 1915. Buried: Chapelle- d'Armentieres Old Military Cemetery, Nord, France, grave D. I.; memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Service record survives. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 27 September 1893; youngest son of Edward (a greengrocer) and Eliza Quarrington of 23 Malling Road, Snodland. (Two brothers and two sisters); member of Snodland Rifle Club and won several prizes.

QUICK(E), Ernest. British Legion list no. 7; Eva Villa, Malling Road ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Queenie Katherine at Christ Church on 27 Apr 1919. Address: Malling Road; wife Roselie Georgina

QUINNELL, Thomas. ‘Pensioner’ at baptism of son Victor, All Saints, 12 Mar 1922; ‘Disabled soldier’ at baptism of son Leslie Eric at Christ Church on 25 May 1924. Address: 1 Dorking Place, Holborough; wife Lilian Edith

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RAGGATT, STEPHEN THOMAS. Gunner 93460, 213th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery, killed in action,28 April 1917, aged 33. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone; buried: Henin Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France, grave I. A. 9. Husband of Clara Elizabeth Raggatt, of 9, Hope St., Maidstone.

RAND, F. British Legion list n. 19; East Street

RANDELL, Herbert Charles. Kent (Fort) Royal Engineers, sapper no. 1769; attested Gillingham 26-01- 1915; clerk; promoted corporal 01-02-1916; demobilization 01-04-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1888, son of William Charles and Drusilla; married Violet Constance Hodgkinson, New Jerusalem, 14-04-1917; 2 High St (1901), later Stockbury (1917)

RANDELL, Thomas. Roll of Honour 1-3

RANDELL, WALTER JAMES. Private 27160, 2nd Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment, (formerly 5347, Linconshire Regiment), killed in action, 4 May 1917, aged 34. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Bay 3; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Son of William Charles (buried Snodland Cemetery, 13 July 1921, aged 69, paper maker, from Normanhurst, Holborough Road) and Drusilla

RAYFIELD, Ernest. ‘Private, West Kents’ at baptism of son Sidney John, All Saints, 13 Feb 1916. Address: 3 Waghorn Road; wife Emily

READ, Frederick. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Cicely Violet, All Saints, 7 June 1918; ‘Pensioner’ at baptism of son Albert Frederick, 18 Feb 1921. Address: 8 Tomlin’s Cottages; wife Gwen

REEVES, George Alfred. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Daisy, All Saints, 29 Nov 1918. Address: 4 Holborough Terrace, with wife Daisy Martha

RHODES, George. In A.P.C.M Roll of Honour, Peters’ Works: Gunner, R[oyal] G[arrison] A[rtillery]. Born Tenterden, c.1881, son of John and ?; married at All Saints, Snodland, 23-12-1905 to Annie Bertha Jenner; buried at Christ Church, Snodland, 8-12-1949, aged 68; address: Church Fields (1911); later Malling Road. Cement labourer at Holborough

RICHARDS, Ernest. ‘Munition worker; soldier’ aged 23 at marriage to Lily Vivian Bates, All Saints, 18 May 1918; father: Richard

RICHARDSON, A. W. British Legion list no. 34; Ham Hill

64 RICHARDSON, B. Roll of Honour 2-3

ROBINS, JOHN EDWARD. ‘Of May Street’. Private SS/9012, Army Service Corps, 3rd Labour Coy; died aged 49 at Rouen 22 Dec 1916 of bronchial pneumonia; [death and memorial service reported KM 20-1-1917]: buried Bois-Guillaume Communal Cemetery, II. B. 18; joined 3 May 1915, in France on 12 May attached to Army Service Corps; formerly employed by Herbert Monckton, Maidstone, as gardener, and of Miss McAlpine of Loose; leaves widow and 8 children. Death reported in The Times, 20 Jan 1917. Son of Henry and Annie Robins of Banbury, Oxon.

ROBBINS, JOSEPH FREDERICK. Private 14503, 4th Bn., Worcestershire Regiment. Died 12 May 1915, age 20. Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, Panel A. 144 All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of Wilson John and Sarah Jane Robbins, of Culliter's Cottage, Lower Broadheath, Worcester.

ROBERTS, ‘Lt’ Frederick R[ookhurst]. Roll of Honour 3; Captain in Rifle Brigade, 1914-1918; reported at the Front KM 10 Oct 1914 Born 28 March 1881, son of William Henry and Edith; married Adelaide M. Breckenridge (nee Murphy), 20 Sep 1916, Chapel Royal, Savoy; died in France but resident in England, 16 January 1969; buried Cemetery; brass memorial in All Saints

ROBERTS, William Lee Henry. Roll of Honour 3 Born 15 January 1871, Birling House, son of William Henry and Edith; unmarried; educated at Eton and Sandhurst (Sep 1890 to Oct 1891; Commissioned into 1st Royal Dragoons 10 Oct 1891; became a lieutenant 14 Dec 1892; resigned 23 Sept 1893; rejoined in WWI; reported at the Front KM 10 Oct 1914; disembarked in France 25 Nov 1914; died at Roydon Hall, East Peckham, 22 Oct 1928, aged 57; buried Snodland Cemetery

ROOTS, B. Roll of Honour 2-3

65 ROOTS, FREDERICK WALLIE. Private 119827, 21st Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Inf) [77759, Gunner Royal Field Artillery?], killed in action, 21 March 1918, aged 19. Born: Marden; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France, Panel 90 to 93 All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Reported wounded KM 5 Jan 1918; death reported KM 15 June 1918] Born Marden 12 Oct 1898, son of ? and Annie, of 4 Rose Villas, Malling Road; educated at Horsmonden infants, then C of E School, Brook Street.

ROOTS, HERBERT HENRY. Private, then Sergeant 10668, 19th Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment), killed in action, 30 July 1916. Born Trottiscliffe; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Memorials: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France: Pier and Face 1 D 8 B and 8 C; Christ Church, Lower Birling. Victory and British medals and 1914 Star with clasp. Son of Herbert Henry; in 1911 at 5 Wells Terrace, Malling Road

ROTHERHAM, Edward Thomas. Royal Engineers, sapper no. 65247; joined at Whitehall 22-01-1915; ‘proficient’ gas fitter; to France 27-09-1915; wounded 20-10- 1918; gun shot wound right arm and shoulder; left arm; scalp; hospitals in UK; discharged no longer fit for war service 27-10-1919. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised Christ Church 25-10-1896, son of Henry and Georgina of Eva Villa, Malling Road (1901); 28 Birling Road 1963; married Florence Mabel [...]; buried Christ Church 20-03-1963, aged 66; gas works labourer (1922)

ROWLES, J. E. British Legion list no. 59; 4, Bramley Road

RUSSELL, Montague Llewellyn. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials), no. 2306; attested Maidstone 08-08-1914; B.E.F. France 17-12-1914 to 25-11-1915; B.S.F. 26-11- 1915 to 24-10-1917 and 14-12-1917 to 03-03-1919; discharged 31-03-1920. Roll of Honour 1-3. Service record survives. Born Snodland, c.1891, son of Stephen and Sarah A.; plumber

RUSSELL, Sidney Ewart. MM. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials), no. 2240; attested Maidstone 08-05-1914; Roll of Honour 1-3; joined at outbreak of war; to France December 1914; attached to Field Ambulance of West Lancashire Regiment 1918; awarded Military Medal for bravery in the field on 9 Apr 1918 [reported KM 8 June 1918]. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1890 [son of Albert and Emma of 4 Waghorn Road; worked at Townsend Hook

SAINT, Albert. Royal West Kent, no. 1584; joined at Maidstone, 09-09-1914; posted to B.E.F. 3rd Btn. 20-11-1916; wounded in action 19-07-1916; then 6th Btn. 05-01-1917; missing 03-05-1917; prisoner of war at Dutman; repatriated 08- 01-1919; address then 3 St Margaret Road, Perry Street, Gravesend. Service record survives.

66 Born Snodland, c.1892; carman

SAUL, Jesse. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland, c.1888; baptised All Saints 12-04-1893; son of Daniel A. and Mary A. of 3 Delamere Rd (1891); The Brook (1901). Grocer's assistant (1901)

SAUL, Nelson Charles. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 15-08-1883; son of Daniel A. and Mary A. of 3 Delamere Rd.

SAUL, Stephen James Oliver. Roll of Honour 1-3. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials). Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 12-04-1893; son of Daniel A. and Mary A. of The Brook; admitted to Nat. Sch.: 21-11-1895

SAUL, William Frederick. 11th Hussars, no. 5850; service in France from 15-08-1914; applied for prison service, 1920. Roll of Honour 1-3; ‘Corporal A.S.C.’ at baptism of daughter Mildred Ellena, All Saints, 25 May 1917; ‘ex Soldier’ 23 Aug 1924 at baptism of daughter Vera Alberta. Service record survives. Born Snodland c.1885; baptised All Saints 12-04-1893; son of Daniel A. and Mary A. of 3 Delamere Rd (1891); The Brook (1901); butcher's assistant (1901); married Ellen Alberta. Address: East St on 11 Sep 1914

SAUNDERS, Bernard Stanley. Royal Navy, no. L10440, 1917 Son of John and Sarah Ann, born 29 Apr 1899; baptised Congregational Church 15 June 1899; address: Bramley Road (1901); Portland Place (1911)

SAUNDERS, JAMES FREDERICK [also Frederick James]. Royal Navy no. K17862. Roll of Honour 2-3; HMS Triumph. Died 25 May 1915 Born 22 Nov 1894, son of Henry and Eliza C. of 2, Mulberry Cottages, High Street (1901); Horn Street (1911)

SAUNDERS, Harry. Royal Navy no. 272344. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born 09-12-1885, Snodland; son of Alfred and Ellen of [11] Malling Rd E (1891-1901); fitter's apprentice (1901)

SAUNDERS, Jesse. ‘Sea plane worker’ aged 27 at marriage to Maud Mary Cripps, Christ Church, 11 June 1916. Father: John

SAUNDERS, JOHN JAMES. Lance Corporal 232315, 2nd/2nd Bn., London Regt (Royal Fusiliers), killed in action, 15 June 1917, aged 22. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Southwark; residence: Southwark. No known grave. Memorials: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Bay 9; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 19 June 1895; son of Stephen and Charlotte Saunders, of 5, Oxford St. (formerly of May St.), Snodland, Kent.

SAUNDERS, William George. Born Snodland c.1889; K.F. Royal Engineers, sapper, no. 1298; joined at Gravesend 06-10-1914; telephonist. Service record survives.

67 SELL, ARTHUR HERBERT. Private G/78663, 2nd Bn., Royal Fusiliers, died of wounds in chest and back, 5 September 1918, aged 18 yrs 8 mnths. Born: Snodland; enlisted Maidstone; January 1918; to France July 1918 after 6 months training at Stafford and Newmarket; residence: Snodland. Buried: Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave V. E. 13. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 21 Sep 1918] Born Snodland 17 Dec 1899, son of Albert Henry and Edith Sell, of 12 East Street (1907), then 2 Temperance Terrace, Constitution Hill; educated at C of E School, Brook Street.

SELL, Harold. ‘In Salonika’, aged 24: KM 21 Sep 1918; son of Albert and Edith.

SHAW, WILLIAM JAMES. Sergeant 52055, 19th Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment), who died on Monday 9th April 1917. Memorials: Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Bay 3; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Death recorded in The Times, 16 May 1917. Husband of Edith Mary Shaw, of 1, Roman Villas. Church Fields, Snodland, Kent.

SHEPPARD, HARRY. Private 2349, 7th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Regiment) attd. 178th Coy. , Royal Engineers, killed in action, 22 December 1915. Born: Greenwich; enlisted: New Cross; residence: Snodland; buried: Norfolk Cemetery, Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France, grave I. C. 33. Baptism of son William Arthur, All Saints, 21 Jan 1916 (father deceased’). Address: 2 East St, widow Ellen

SHIRLEY, W. Roll of Honour 2-3

SHIRLEY. [?]. Roll of Honour 1-3

SILVER, Erenest Albert. ‘Munition marker’ at baptism of daughter Jane Lilian at Christ Church, 24 Feb 1918. Address: 3 Church Terrace.

SIMPKIN, Edward. ‘Soldier’ aged 23 at marriage to Daisy Mabel Sears, Christ Church, 8 July 1917; ‘Aero fitter’ at baptism of daughter Bernice Margaret, 1 Sep 1918. Address: Bramley Road

SLADEN, William. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Patricia Gwendoline Dorothy at Christ Church on 27 Apr 1919. Address: Malling Road

SLYTHE, Arthur William. ‘Pensioner (soldier)’ at baptism of son James Henry at Christ Church on 26 Aug 1923; also son Arthur William on 16 Jan 1926. Address: 9 Tomlin’s Cottages with wife Daisy Edith Maud.

68 SMALLMAN, Albert Edward. Born Snodland, c.1896; labourer/chauffeur; Royal Field Artillery, no. 40956; wounded 03-05-1917. Awarded Belgian Croix de Guerre. Service record survives.

SMITH, George. Born Snodland. Royal Army Service Corps, No. 1 Coy, 41st Divl.Train., no. T/26973; fishmonger; embarked S.S. Minneapolis 22-09-1914; B.E.F.; died of influenza 05-02-1919; next of kin: wife: R. Smith, 4 Eldon Villas, Brownlow Road, Church End. Service record survives.

SMITH, HAROLD ROBERT. MC. ‘Private of Inns of Court Officers Training Corps promoted to Second lieutenant in 9th Btn., Royal West Kent [KM 7 Aug 1915]; reported wounded in the nose in the battle of the Somme KM 23 Sep 1916; Captain, 8th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); died on 7 November 1918, aged 26. Memorials: Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 7; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland; Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School; St Nicholas, Rochester; St Nicholas Guild Memorial Childrens Ward St Barts Hospital. Son of Robert Heane and Harriet Smith, of Woodcroft, Snodland, Kent; husband of Bessie Mary Smith, of 111, Fernside Rd., Balham, London.

STANDING, [?]. Roll of Honour 1-3

STAPLEY, Richard. Born Snodland; paper maker; Royal Army Service Corps, [no.lost]; joined 22-10-1902. Service record survives [pre WWI]

STARTUP, RALPH BARNABAS (BARNEY). In the Regular Forces; had come from India just before war was declared; rejoined at Maidstone; at Chatham for 4 months; was Sergeant-Major; to France; wounded and sent home; returned Feb 1916 but killed on 5 August 1916. [Death reported KM 9 Sep 1916]. Memorial: West Malling; St John Halling Born 16 September 1884, West Malling, son of William and Eliza; married Beatrice Bertha May Morgan, Christ Church, 24 Aug 1915; baptism of daughter Lily, born 25 January 1916. Address 8 Rosslyn Cottages, Ham Hill [In Memoriam KM 11 Aug 1917]

STATE, Frederick. Royal Navy. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born 20-11-1890, Purfleet; died 24-12-1937; son of Charles John and Emma of Bramley Road.

STATE, GILBERT GEORGE. Stoker 1st Class. K/13014(PO), HMS Bonaventure. Died 3 May 1917. Buried Blyth Cemetery, Northumberland, C.100. Born Purfleet, Essex, 6 January 1893. Son of Charles John and Emma State, of Bramley Road.

STATE, WILLIAM JOHN . Rifleman R/3399, 12th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps, died 25 September 1915. Age 27. Born Eynsham, Oxon; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Buried: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, grave XXIII. D. 5. Memorials: All, Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery.

69 Son of Charles John, a beater-man at the paper mill, and Emma State, of 1, Queen's Avenue, (formerly of 90 Bramley Road) Snodland.

Gilbert George State William John State

STEVENS, ALBERT EDWIN. Private L/9469, 7th Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment); twice wounded at Ypres; in Manchester to recuperate, then returned to Front [KM 23 Oct 1915]; wounded twice more; killed in action, 21 March 1918 [KM 11 May 1918 reported him missing on that date - a lance- corporal then]. Born: Burham; enlisted: Maidstone; residence: Snodland. No known grave. Memorials: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France, Panel 16; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. (In Ft. Vendeuil area: the Germans used aeroplanes to direct their shelling, resulting in heavy English losses.)

STEVENS, Charles. Roll of Honour 1-3

STEVENS, George. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials). Roll of Honour 1-3; seaman Born 23-04-1897, Snodland, son of Charles and Alice of Brooks Street, then of 19 Waghorn Rd.

STEVENS, Joseph. Attested Maidstone 06-12-1915; Royal West Kent/Labour Corps; to B.E.F. France 07-05-1916 to 20-10-1918. Service record survives. Born c.1879, Birling; buried 24-11-1951, Snodland CC, aged 72; parents William and Harriet; bricklayer's lab. (1901); address: 2 Rayfield Cottages, Ham Hill; farm labourer

STEVENS, OWEN. Private 1193, 6th Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps, Age 23. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham. Died 14 March 1915. Buried: Longueness (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave I. A. 58.

70 Son of John (born c.1852, Strood, fitter’s labourer) and Elizabeth A. Stevens, born c.1852, Hoo, of 2, Bell Lane, Ditton, Maidstone (formerly of 10 Mill Row, Snodland).

STEVENS, Sydney. Born Snodland. Labourer. Buffs, private; Royal Army Service Corps, no. T/26443; attested xx-02-1908. Service record survives. [pre WWI]

STEVENS, Thomas Douglas. Attested Maidstone 25-10-1912; Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials), no. 2079 and 493084; address: 2 The Brook; demobilization May 1919. Roll of Honour 1-3. Service record survives. Born Snodland, 1896; baptized All Saints 10-60-1898; died West Kent Gen. Hosp. 03- 04-1934; buried Cemetery, aged 38; parents Charles and Alice of 19 Waghorn Rd. (1901); Labourer

STILES, Arthur Edwards/Edmeads. Royal Navy, No. J62730, from 1916 Son of James Henry and Ellen Florence of 11 Orchard Cottages (1911); baptised at Christ Church 31 July 1898 (when living at Ham Hill)

STILL, WILLIAM THOMAS. Private 59541, 6th Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment, died [of wounds?], 3 November 1918, aged 29. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone. Buried: Tourgeville Military Cemetery, Calvados, France, grave IV. F. 20. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Brother of Ralph Henry Still, of 2, Jessamine Cottages, Holborough Rd., Snodland, Kent. Son of William (a paper mill labourer) and Ann, of Mill Row.

STOCKLEY, Albert Henry. Attested Maidstone 08-12-1915; Royal Garrison Artillery, gunner, no. 120054; served in France 12-05-1917 to demobilization 23-07-1919. Service record survives. Grocer’s assistant; married Edith Mary Sutton, Strood, 17-11-1908; Methodist; address: 4 Albion Villas, Malling Road;

STONE, D'ARCY VALENTINE SEYMOUR. Private G/21248, 2nd Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment, died 10th July 1917, aged 29. Buried: Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery, Nieuwpoort, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave III. D. 20. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Formerly worked in Africa, but returned to England to fight in the war. Husband of Edith Annie Stone, of Malling Road/Bramley Rd., Snodland, Kent. Son Gerald Henry born 3 Mar 1917; bapt at Christ Church 13 May 1917.

STREET, Sidney Herbert. Royal Navy. Roll of Honour 2-3 ‘Sailor R.N.’ at baptisms of four children, Douglas John, George Sidney, Dorothy Ada, Violet Rose, All Saints, 28 June 1923. Address: 9 Victoria Cottages, Holborough Road; wife Elizabeth Mary

STROUD, Alfred G. Roll of Honour 3

STROUD, John Oliver. ‘Munitions worker’ at baptism of daughter Florence Elizabeth Annie, All Saints, 25 May 1917. Address: 6 Waghorn Road; wife Annie Elizabeth

STUART, Percy. ‘Corp[oral] R[oyal] E[ngineers]’ at baptism of son William Bishop, All Saints, 13 Dec 1918. Address: 5 Waghorn Road; wife Ruby Emma

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STYLES, HARRY EDWIN. Private CH/16499, H.M.S. "Vanguard.", Royal Marine Light Infantry, who died on 9 July 1917, aged 25. Memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 25; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of Mrs. Ellen Austin (formerly Styles), of 47, Lower Murston, Sittingbourne, Kent; and the late Thomas H. Styles.

SUMMERS, Valentine. Attested Maidstone 24-09-1915; Royal West Kent no. G/10034 Born c..1876, East Malling; married Emily Eliza Evenden, West Malling, 07-06-1919; address: 6 Rosslyn Cott. (1901-14-); plate layer on railway (1901); gas stoker (1914); 2, School Cottages, Ham Hill; age 37 y 3 m at September 1915; Service record survives.

SUNNUCKS, Alfred. Simmons. Royal Garrison Artillery, gunner, no. 67879; posted 29-11-1915; gas and shell wound adm. hospital 19-09-1917 Born c.1877-8, Ryarsh; married emma Frances; address: Constitution Hill; aged 38 years 115 days in November 1915; cement labourer; buried Cemetery 20 July 1959, aged 82

SUTHERLAND, James. ‘Warrant Officer R.N.’ at baptism of son James, All Saints, 14 Jan 1918; ‘Chief Petty Officer, M[erchant] N[avy]’ at baptism of son John Sydney, 19 Mar 1920. Address: 5 Railway Terrace; wife Robertina

SWAN, Gordon Leonard. Formerly 13th regiment; Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 22-09-1914 Born Snodland, 23-10-1894; baptised 26-06-1896 at All Saints. Son of Edward Thomas and Eliza Ellen, Malling Road; occupation: machinist; religion: C of E

SWEENEY, Alfred. Roll of Honour 2-3

SWEETSER, PERCY JACK. Joined 14 Feb 1916; Private G/12246, 8th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), killed by a shell, 1 September 1916, aged 27: ‘At the time of his death your son was guiding a platoon to the front line.’ Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone. No known grave. Memorials: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France: Pier and Face 11 C; Christ Church, Lower Birling; memorial in churchyard: 12 P Headstone/kerb. In / loving memory of / JAMES SWEETSER / died 19th January 1906 / aged 58 years. / Also of ANN SWEETSER / wife of the above / died 19th May 1935 / aged 86 years. / Also PERCY SWEETSER, son / killed in France / 1st September 1916. / Peace, perfect peace, with loved ones / far away / In Jesus’ keeping we are safe and they. / R.I.P. [Death reported KM 6 Jan 1917] Service record survives. Baptized 24 November 1889 at All Saints, Birling. Son of Ann of 3, Clifton Terrace, Ham Hill, and the late James Sweetser; educated at C of E School, Brook Street; employed at Paper Bag factory; footballer with Snodland Football Club.

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SYKES, ARTHUR VICTOR. 15th Btn, 48th Canadian Highlanders [enlisted in England?] Taken prisoner of war 24 April 1915 ‘about midday just outside Ypres’ [KM report 29 May 1915] to Giessen, Germany; letter in KM 12 June 1915 thanking for parcel. Born Birling parish 18 Jan 1890, son of Thomas and Amy of 1 Clara Place (1911). Played football for Maidstone United, Snodland and Kent Juniors (won medals); ‘useful bat’ at cricket; died Pembury Hospital; buried Snodland cemetery 2 Oct 1951 aged 61.

TAPLEY, William Thomas. The Buffs, private, no. G/8856; BEF. 1916-1918; reported wounded 12 August 1916; buried Cemetery 1958. Service record survives. Born in Somerset, son of Ellen Millen; 3 Church Terrace; pulp runner (paper mill)

TATE, Frank. Attested at Devonport 07-11-1911, aged 16 y 11 m. Service record survives. Born Snodland; grandson of Thomas and Eliza Bates; carter at brass foundry, Mill Street, Plymouth; resident at boys home, Millbay

TAYLOR, Frederick. Royal West Kent, private 3rd Btn., no. G/23537; B.E.F. 1917- 1919; wounded 21-03-1918; transferred to King’s Royal Rifles; demobilised 08-12- 1919 to 11 Portland Place, Bull Fields. Service record survives. Born Snodland 03-02-1898; parents Congregationalists; son of Frederick and (Maryann) Alice of Bull Fields (1898); Portland Place (1901); educated at C of E School, Brook Street; dryman in paper mill; unmarried in 1916

Grave of Joseph Henry Taylor

TAYLOR, Harry Bruce. ‘Aviation worker’ at baptism of son Percy George Douglas at Christ Church, 30 Mar 1919. Address: Malling Road

TAYLOR, JOSEPH HENRY. Private 34, 6th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Died 8 November 1915, aged 24. Buried: Vermelles British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave I. M. 12. Memorial: War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; St John Halling. Formerly a worker at Lee’s Cement Works. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Taylor, of 13, Poynder Terrace, Lower Halling.

TERRY, FRANK ALBERT. Stoker 1st Class K/15464 H.M.S. "Aboukir.", Royal Navy, Age 20. Born at Boro' Green, Kent. Died 22 September 1914. No known grave; memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 5; Christ Church, Lower Birling. Born 12 Aug 1893; son of Edward and Elizabeth Rosina Terry, of 1, Drivers Cottages, Ham Hill, Snodland, Kent; paper bag maker (1911)

73 TERRY, SIDNEY. ‘Sailor’ at baptism of daughter Alice Irene at Christ Church on 5 Dec 1920; ‘naval stoker’ at baptism of son Sydney Charles Cyril on 8 Oct 1922. Address: 3 Hook’s Cottages [Ham Hill]; wife Alice

THOROGOOD, George William Dixon. ‘Private, XVth Middlesex Regiment’ aged 30 at marriage to Florence Maytum, All Saints, 13 Mar 1915; baptism of son George Arthur, All Saints, Jan 1916. Address: 2 Victoria Terrace, Constitution Hill

TOLHURST, WALTER ROGER. Chief Stoker 157015 (RFR/CH/A/1852). H.M.S. "Hawke", Royal Navy. Died 15 October 1914. Memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 4; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Born 29 Dec 1870, Thurnham; Baptized at All Saints, Snodland: 6 September 1896; son of Walter (formerly a stoker in HMS “Janus”) and Florence Amy Tolhurst.

TOMLIN, GEORGE HARRY. Private 24355, 16th Bn., Welsh Regiment; joined Army February 1915; Cardiff City Btn.; to France December 1916; killed instantaneously, 7 July 1916. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Bargoed; residence: New Tredegar. Buried: Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France, grave X. E. 8. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 5 and 8 Aug 1916] Bapt All Saints 2 Apr 1894, son of John William and Sophia of 7 Alma Place; educated at C of E School, Brook Street; employed at Lead Wool Works.

TOMLIN, John William. ‘Munitioner’ at baptism of daughter Georgina Alice, All Saints, 30 Aug 1918. Address: 6 Mill Row; wife Minnie Alice

TONG, ALBERT EDWARD RAYMOND. Roll of Honour 2-3. Private 027635, Royal Army Ordnance Corps/ King’s Royal Rifles, who died on Monday 25th November 1918, aged 24. Buried 30 November 1918: ‘ex soldier’: Snodland Cemetery, grave 782. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; Snodland Cemetery NE M 3: Book memorial. In loving / memory / of / Rfm. ALBERT / EDWARD / RAYMOND / TONG / 11th Batt. K.R.R. / died from injuries / by wounds / received at / Hebutern, France / and /exposure / while on / active / service / Nov. 25th 1918 / aged 24 years / Underneath / are the / everlasting / arms; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Son of Albert, blacksmith, and Louisa Tong, of 1, Waghorn Rd., then of "Delhi", Malling Rd., Snodland.

TROOTE, James Owen. Roll of Honour 2-3 ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Joyce Frances at Christ Church on 15 May 1921. Address: 2 Ivy Cottages, Bramley Road; wife Amy Frances

74 TROWELL, ERNEST BERTRAM. Royal Army Ordinance Corps, Sub-Conductor S/4634, killed in action, 23 April 1915, aged 32. Born Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; son of Charles Trowell (bricklayer, born c.1866, Thurnham), and Emily Trowell (born c.1859, Birling), of Cranbrook, Kent (formerly of 2 Alma Place, Snodland (1891)); husband of Annie Janet Harriet Trowell, of "Aldesthel", Old Top Rd., Ore, Hastings, Sussex. Buried: Poperinge Old Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave II. L. 23.

TUCKER, S. H. Roll of Honour 2-3

VALLINS, George. Roll of Honour 2

VANE, Oliver. Reported wounded KM 5 Sep 1916. Son of Charles and Lucy Sophia of 1 Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill (1911); a cement labourer

VEITCH, HENRY JOHN. Private 14962, 2nd Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), killed in action, 28 May 1915, age 34. Born: Loose; enlisted Maidstone, 7 Dec 1914; to France 11 May 1915; residence: Snodland. Formerly a worker at Peters’s Cement works. No known grave. Memorials: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panels 12 and 14; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial: Snodland Cemetery. [Missing: KM 1 Sep 1915; presumed dead KM] (APCM Roll of Honour gives date of death as 14 May.) Born Loose 17 May 1881; son of George and Mary Ann; married Cecilia Terry at St Philips, Maidstone, 3 April 1904; she of 6 Mount Pleasant, Holborough Road.

VERRALL, Percy [Edwin]. Roll of Honour 1-3 [?son of Horace and Selina of the Post Office (1911); b. c1893, St Mary’s, Ealing]

VERRALL, Walter [John]. Roll of Honour 1-3 [?son of Horace and Selina of the Post Office (1911); b. c1896, St Paul’s, Hammersmith]

VICKERY, REGINALD GEORGE. Private G/4872, 2nd Bn., The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.) killed in action, 25 September 1915, aged 16. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Gravesend; residence: Northfleet; Gravesend. Memorial: Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 13 to 15; Gravesend, Imperial Paper Mills Baptized at Christ Church, 8 January 1899; son of Charles and Caroline Vickery, of 24 Peer Road, Rosherville, Northfleet; also sometime of 62, Darnley Rd., Gravesend, Kent; formerly of 28 Malling Road.

VOUSDEN, Walter Herbert. Royal Engineers, Inland Water Transport Corps, sapper no. 228547; mobilized and posted 09-01-1917; fireman. Service record survives. Born 1885; married Mary Hollman, 26-12-1910; stoker; father: Walter Herbert

75 WAGHORN, THOMAS HENRY. Sergeant S/9139, 6th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), died, 25 November 1917, aged 21. Buried: Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, Nord, France, grave III. B. 17. Son of William and Emma Waghorn, of 6, Woodland Terrace, Malling Rd., Snodland, Kent.

WAGHORN, William Edwin. Roll of Honour 1-3. [?married Emma; lived in Malling Road; died 9-8-1940; buried Christ Church 12-8- 1940, aged 72]

WALLER, James Francis. ‘Soldier’ aged 25 at marriage to Frances Clara Mary Peck, Christ Church, 31 Mar 1915. father: James

WALLIS, Albert Thomas. ‘Sailor’ aged 28 at marriage to Lily May Judges, All Saints, 4 Jan 1919. Born 1 Aug 1890, son of William and Rosa, 10 Birling Road; a baker; buried Cemetery, 7 May 1931, aged 40

WALLIS, Alfred. Roll of Honour 1-3 ‘Corp. R.A.M.C.’ at baptism of daughter Margaret Madeline, All Saints, 29 Oct 1915. Address: 2 Holborough Terrace; wife Nellie

WALLIS, Alf. Edward. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials). Roll of Honour 1-3

WALLIS, Charles George. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 23-04-1890; son of Charles George and Ellen of 6 Holborough Terrace (1891); 2 Old Cotts (1901).

WALLIS, Charles John. Royal West Kent, no. 23220; attested, Maidstone 04-12-1915; Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 08-09-1916; transferred to R. E. Railway 07-07- 1918; demobilized 02-12-1919. Service record survives. Born Halling 17-08-1886, son of Daniel and Flora Elizabeth; married Ada Wickenden, Malling, 22-04-1913; painter of 9, Oxford Street.

WALLIS, Harry. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials). Roll of Honour 1-3 ‘Lance Corporal RAMC’ aged 29 at marriage to Ellen Rose Fremlin, All Saints, 18 Dec 1915. Father: Charles George (‘Private, Buffs’); butcher’s assistant (1901); cement labourer (1911); buried Cemetery from West Kent General Hospital, 24 Apr 1928, aged 41

WALLIS, William. Attested 05-09-1914; the Buffs, no. 3242; B.E.F. 28-07-1915 to 29- 07-1916; gunshot wound, leg: 13-07-1916; discharged as no longer physically fit for war service 06-06-1917 [?]. Service record survives. Born Snodland, c.1895, son of Thomas Michael and Jane, later of 8 Richmond St, N. Kensington; bedding maker.

WARNE, WILLIAM. ‘Soldier’ at birth of daughter Florence Lilian on 15 May 1916. Address: 9 May Street; wife Julia.

WARREN, Walter William. Sergeant, Essex Regiment.

76 Born c.1878; married 1904; address at death: Bull Fields; buried Christ Church 25 Nov 1926, aged 48

WATKINS, JAMES WILLIAM. Gunner No. 966, 52nd Anti-Aircraft Bty, Royal Garrison artillery; killed 25 June 1916, aged 20; buried Albert Communal Extension Cemetery; memorial: All Saints, Frindsbury. Son of Thomas and Emma, bap. All Saints, Snodland, 2 Jan 1896, of Bramley Rd (1901); Constitution Hill (1911); 29 Bill Street, Frindsbury

WATKINS, Thomas William. Stoker, Royal Navy, no. K15510. Born 05-10-1892. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born 5 Oct 1892, aged 24 at marriage to Beatrice Caroline Cook, All Saints, 20 Nov 1915. Father: John Thomas WEAIRE, George Henry. 3rd Btn. Royal West Kent, no. G/23363; attested Maidstone, 21-10-1916; B.E.F. from 01-01-1917. Service record survives. Born c.1880, East Grinstead; Bramley Road; grocer’s assistant; widower in 1916

WEAVER, Harry. Royal Navy. Roll of Honour 1-3. [?Born Halling, 16-01-1895; son of Albert George and Ann Jane of 3 Alexandra Terrace, Queen’s Avenue (formerly of Upper Halling); cowman on farm]

WEBB, George James. ‘Private, 3rd Essex’ at baptism of son William Charles, All Saints, 18 Jul 1915. Address: 2 East St Gardens, with wife Ada

WEBB, John Henry. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of son Bernard William Jack, All Saints, 14 July 1918. Address: 1 Covey Hall Place, with wife Edith Caroline

WEEDEN, Albert. Born Snodland, c.1881. cement labourer. Joined Lancers of the Line, no. 6174, 18-07-1901; served to 17-07-1913; discharged. Service record survives.

WELLS, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM A. Corporal T/270838, 10th (Royal East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry) Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), (formerly 1756, 1/1st Royal West Kent Regiment), killed in action, 21 September 1918, aged 23. Enlisted: Tonbridge; residence: Snodland; No known grave. Memorials: Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 3; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. (Served in Squadron B of West Kent Yeomanry: shown in Roll of Officers and Men of the WKY (Queen’s Own) who were posted to “C” Company 10th (Yeomanry) Batt. The Buffs on 1st March 1917. Served in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and France.) Son of Mrs. S. A. Wells, of 4, Vine Terrace, Holborough Rd., Snodland, Kent, and the late James Wells.

Archibald William Wells

77 WELLS, ERNEST ALBERT. Youngest son of John Henry and Emma Wells of May Street; born 23 Aug 1898; attended C of E School, Brook Street; entered Navy aged 17; discharged suffering from shell shock; died at Woodford, Essex; buried Snodland cemetery 3 June 1918, aged 21 [not commemorated on Snodland war memorials, unless he is the 'Pte. A. H. H. Wells' not otherwise known].

WELLS, GEORGE. Lance Corporal S/10416, 1st Bn., The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), killed in action, 10 October 1916. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Guards’ Cemetery, Lesboeufs, Somme, France, Sp. Mem. 58. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Service record survives. Born c.1896; son of George and Mary Wells of 1, Temperance Terrace, Holborough Road, Snodland.

George Wells

WELLS, H[orace]. Roll of Honour 3. Of 99 Malling Road in 1912; wife Mary Maria; chief stoker.

WELLS, Nina Lily. Born Snodland 30 June 1894; baptised at Congregational Church 5 Aug 1894; daughter of George and Fanny Louisa of Portland Place, then 5 Bramley Road. Served in France in Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps. Married Albert Harry Nicol at Christ Church 26 March 1921 (he died on active service in WWII, drowned 25 March 1941).

WELLS, Percy. Roll of Honour 1-3 Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 04-07-1875; son of George F. and Mary Wells of Brook St (1881); 6 Church Fields (1891); Barge boy (1891)

WELLS, Vincent. Snodland 3rd Btn. Royal Sussex Regt, no. G/8888; attested Maidstone 10-12-1915; France 02-11-1916 to 26-07-1918; wounded; discharged unfit 25-01-1919. Service record survives. Baptised 09-11-1890, Snodland IC; buried 04-07-1940, Cemetery, aged 49; son of George and Fanny Louise of 7 Portland Place (1891); 5 Harold Terrace, Bramley Road (1901); May St at death; carpenter and labourer.

WELLS, WILLIAM. Private 24557, 14th Bn., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killed in action, 29 December 1917. Born: Rochester; enlisted: Menai Bridge; residence: Snodland. Buried: Croix-du-Bac British Cemetery, Steenwerck, Nord, France, grave I. D. 3. ?Born Snodland 5 Nov 1896, son of Alec William and ? of Tomlin's Cottages, Birling Road (1903)

WENHAM, Charles. Roll of Honour 3 Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 30-09-1894; buried 01-01-1973, Cemetery; son of James and Elizabeth R. of 6 Covey Hall Place (1901).

WENHAM, Edward James. Seaman [service not traced]

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WENHAM, Frank. Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials). Royal Army Medical Corps (territorials), no. 2328; attested Maidstone 10-08-1914; served India 29-10-1914 to 17-05-1918; South Africa 18-05-1918 to 29-01-1919; demobilized 17-04-1919. Roll of Honour 1-3. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 10-02-1892; married Emily Sarah [...]; died at County Hosp., Chatham, buried 01-04-1944, Cemetery, aged 52; son of James and Elizabeth R. of 6 Covey Hall Place (1901); Labourer.

WENHAM, Frederick. Royal Engineers, no. T3030/542038, Sapper Born Snodland; baptised All Saints, 26-03-1890; son of James and Elizabeth R. of 6 Covey Hall Place [army information unchecked]

WENHAM, James William. [army service not traced] Born Snodland; baptised All Saints, 07-07-1875; married Emma Elizabeth Dabner, Chelsea district, 4th quarter 1897; died `4-02-1947; lived 5 Queens Road (<1901>), then 3 Beaconsfield Terrace (<1911>); cement labourer

WENHAM, THOMAS. Private 104618, 47th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regt.), died 27 September 1918, aged 32. Buried: Triangle Cemetery, Inchy-en-Artois, Pas de Calais, France, grave D. 5. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Born 13 December 1885 at 14, Mill Street, Snodland, son of Elizabeth Rebecca Wenham, of 6, Covey Hall Place, Holborough Rd., Snodland, Kent, England, and the late James Wenham, cement labourer. Thomas Wenham (Employed as ‘carrier’s boy’ in 1901; was a fireman at Broad Street city power house, Regina, Canada, 1912-1915; left Canada 21 September 1915. He ‘was with his company on 27 September 1918; when not far from the assembly position, to the West of the Canal du Nord, he was hit by a piece of enemy shrapnel and instantly killed.’ He ‘had a splendid record of faithful service. He was a brave soldier and a loyal comrade and very popular with all his fellows, particularly because of his prowess as a footballer.’)

WENHAM, William. Royal Artillery, gunner/driver, no. 178766 [army service not traced] Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 08-12-1880; son of James and Elizabeth R. of 14 Mill Row (<1881>), 2 Prospect Place (<1891>); 6 Covey Hall Place (<1901-1911>); butcher’s assistant (1901)

WEST, ALBERT JOHN THOMAS. Private [No.?], 20th Bn., King’s Royal Rifle Corps, demobilised soldier, aged 33, from Birling Road. Died 26 February 1920. Buried

79 3 March 1920 at Snodland Cemetery, grave 821. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. Son of William and Betsy West, of Stangate [Birling]; husband of Kathleen Bertha Povis (formerly West).

WEST, Arthur. Royal Navy

WEST, Ernest George. Canadian Expeditionary Force; attested 30-11-1915 Born Snodland, 05-03-1880; son of William and Hannah R. of 1 Deacon's Cotts; occupation: labourer; religion C of E; in 1915 of 172 Simcoe Street, Toronto, Ontario; wife Annie H., at 45 Acacia Road, Lordship Lane, Wood Green, London

WEST, LEONARD CHARLES. Stoker 1st Class K/21112, H.M.S. "Vanguard.", Royal Navy, died 9 July 1917. Born Larkfield. Memorials: Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 24; All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. (The ‘Vanguard’ was destroyed by an internal explosion, caused by unstable cordite.) Born 19 Sep 1895; son of Charles Thomas and Dorcas, 11 Orchard Cottages, Holborough.

WEST, Sidney [Herbert]. Royal Navy. Roll of Honour 1-3. Baptized 21-9-1892, All Saints, son of William Henry and Mary Elizabeth of Bramley Road

WEST, Walter R. Royal Navy. Roll of Honour 1-3

WHITE, ARCHIE. Gunner 33277, 17th Heavy Bde. H.Q., Royal Garrison Artillery, formerly 60785., R. F. A.), died 10 November 1918, aged 30. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; residence: Snodland. Buried: Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France, grave V. B. 49. Son of George and Mary White of Birling, Kent, formerly of Paddlesworth.

WHITE, Frank James. Holborough Road, schoolmaster. Honourable Artillery Company, no. 23-08-1915; promoted to sergeant; France 1916-1919. Service record survives.

WHITEHEAD, William Edward Richard. ‘Sailor’ at baptism of son William James Donald at Christ Church 26 Jan 1919; also son Leonard Edward Bartel on 4 Apr 1919. ‘Ex R.N.’ at baptism of son Victor Godfrey, All Saints, 23 June 1922. Address: Church Place/ 8 Church Terrace; wife Mabel

WHITEHOUSE, Joseph. ‘Soldier’ at baptism of daughter Ada, All Saints, 27 May 1917. Address: 4 Church Place, with wife Rachel

WHITNELL, ALBERT RICHARD. ‘Sailor’ at birth of daughter Sophie Rhoda on 2 Nov 1916; also son Albert, 12 Sep 1918. Address: 13 Birling Road, with wife Mary Sophia.

WHITNEY, A. Roll of Honour 2-3

WICKENDEN, Charles William. Royal Navy, No. 355453 in 1906

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WILLARD, [Humphrey] Cecil. Roll of Honour 1-3. Born, c.1898, Halling; son of William and Alice Jane of The Lodge, Holborough

WILMSHURST, ERNEST WALTER ALBERT.. Rifleman 593457, 1st/18th Bn., London Regt (London Irish Rifles), killed in action, 11 January 1918, aged 32. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Sittingbourne; residence: Grays, Essex. Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, Pier and Face 13 C. Husband of Elizabeth Wilmshurst, of 67, William St., Sittingbourne, Kent.

WIMSETT, B[ertie Edward]. Roll of Honour 2-3. Born c.1890; of Ham Hill; In 1915 had served 7 years with the 2nd Gloucester Regiment; stationed at Malta and China; then to England and France; wounded at Ypres on 18 Feb 1915, ‘while coming in from the trenches for a rest’; sent to Sheffield, then Derley Hospital; buried Christ Church 26-9-1960, aged 70 [memorial stone south side, 20 O] [KM reported him wounded 29 May 1915] Son of William and Emma Wimsett of 2, Hilda Terrace, Ham Hill.

WIMSETT, FREDERICK THOMAS. Private 2280, 83rd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, [= Maidstone Section] died of wounds, 13 May 1915, aged 18: shot through the head while picking up wounded on the field; to General Hospital at Boulogne. Born: Snodland; residence: Snodland. Buried: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, grave VIII. C. 31. Memorial: Christ Church, Lower Birling. Son of William and Emma Wimsett, of 2, Hilda Terrace, Ham Hill, Snodland, Kent; cycle repairer (1911)

WINGATE, FREDERICK JOHN. Private 23157, 6th Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), died of wounds Wednesday, 16th May 1917. Formerly a worker at Lee’s Cement Works. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Maidstone. Buried: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, Pas de Calais, France, grave IV. G. 49. Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery; New Jerusalem, Snodland. Service record survives. Baptized at All Saints, Snodland, 30-12-1877, son of Henry and Jane E.; husband of M. Wingate of Beaconsfield Terrace, Holborough, Snodland, Kent. Formerly a butcher’s assistant, then a paper mill labourer.

WINGATE, George. Roll of Honour 2-3

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WISDOM, FREDERICK GEORGE. Private G/5012, 1st Bn., Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Formerly a worker at Peters’ Cement Works (APCM Roll of Honour gives date of death as 1 August.). Born: Larkfield; enlisted: Maidstone. Died 8 August 1916 [KM gives 22 July]. Buried: Caudry Old Communal Cemetery, Nord, France, grave C. 3. [NB KM 14 July 1917 records Private 5012 F. G. Wisdom of RWK ‘died as prisoner in German hands’.] Memorials: All Saints, Snodland; War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery. [Death reported KM 2 Sep 1916] Had previously served in the Navy, leaving with an exemplary character; prior to that was 7 years in the Buffs Militia; volunteered for war in December 1914, and, being a trained man, was kept for a time in the Military Police at Chatham. Baptism of daughter Eva Blanche, All Saints, 21 July 1916. Address: Gorham’s Cottages, with wife Matilda Maude and six small children

WOOD, A. Roll of Honour 2-3

WOOD, W. Roll of Honour 2-3 [?William Thomas Wood, born Addington c.1896; son of Edward and Ada M., 1 Crayford Terrace, Ham Hill; sheet layer, paper mill; buried, cemetery, 4-6-1923, aged 27; ‘ex-sailor’]

WOODCOCK, HENRY ALBERT. Guardsman 25210, 3rd Bn.,Grenadier Guards, died 5 December 1917. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Chatham; resided Westwell nr. Ashford.. Memorials: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France, Hordain Com. Cem. German Extn. Mem. 10.; Westwell memorial.

WOODEN, N. Roll of Honour 2-3

WOODGER, HARRY. Lance Corporal 18793, 13th Bn., Welsh Regiment, who died in England, 29 September 1915. Born: Snodland; enlisted: Bargoed; residence: Snodland. Buried: Winchester (West Hill) Old Cemetery, Hampshire, grave 16134. [? son of William and Louisa, baptized 16 December 1885 at All Saints, Snodland, a paper mill labourer.]

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Harold Bertie Woodhams James William Woodhams

WOODHAMS, Harold Bertie. Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery, no. 138469; entered theatre of war after 31 Dec 1915; served in Mesopotamia; wounded and honourably discharged in 1919. Born Maidstone, 8 Nov 1896, son of James William and Mary Ann; married Violet May Pearson, Christ Church 3 Feb 1921; plumber and hot water fitter at Paper Mill for 37 years; address 1 The Cedars (157) Malling Road; died 1987 in Chatham.

WOODHAMS, James William. Corporal 20th London Regt. Born Maidstone 14 March 1873; son of John William and Clara; married Mary Ann Relf 11 Oct 1891 bricklayer / plumber; address: Holborough Road, then Oxford Street; died 28 Mar 1949; buried cemetery 2 Apr 1949, aged 73

WOODING, George. Served from 06-03-1889 to 1902 Boer War; 1919; Royal Field Artillery, no. 71366; India; Boer war 1899-1902; Malta 1903-04; S. Africa 1904-05. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised 12-06-1870; son of Richard and Jane of 1 Alma Place, Brook St (1871), 2 Providence Terrace (1881);

WOOLLETT, Edward William Patterson. Roll of Honour 1-3. Lived at 56 Tovil Rd, Maidstone. 21st Home Counties Field Ambulance, no. 4920 or 2082: Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorials). attested 15-11-1912. Service record survives. Born Snodland; baptised All Saints 10-07-1895; son of Edward C. and Rose A. of Bramley Road; dairyman

WOOLMER, AMOS. Private, No. TT/01514, Home Counties Div Vet Hosp, Army Veterinary Corps; ‘Driver A.V.C.’ aged 23 at marriage to Ivy Violet Day, All Saints, Snodland, 12 Aug 1916. Father: Thomas (deceased) of 2 Parker’s Way, Cuxton; address: 1 Pitt Cottage, Upper Halling; died 3 Nov 1918; buried St Michael, Cuxton.

83 WRAY, Frederick Charles. Royal Army Medical Corps Territorials, no. 2363; attested. Maidstone. 02-09-1914; appointed lance corporal 20-11-1915; promoted corporal 04- 12-1915; promoted sergeant 01-04-1916; served in France from 21-12-1914 to 01-06- 1915. Roll of Honour 2-3. Service record survives. Baptized 19-10-1892; son of Edward and Kate, 4, Corona Terrace, Ham Hill; baker’s assistant; married Philadelphia/Phyllis Annie Lambert, Christ Church, 6-7-1915; buried, cemetery, 22-3-1971, aged 78

The following men listed on Snodland War Memorial have not yet been identified from Commonwealth War Graves Commission records or the ‘Soldiers Died in the Great War’ CD - or there is some doubt about the identification – initials/names/spellings do not match.

F. DUNCAN, Private WALTER H. FINCH, Gunner S. H. HART, Private J. WELLS, Stoker [Possibly John Wells, aged 17 in 1911, son of George and Mary Ann of Temperance Terrace; a paper mill worker, born c.1894] A. H. H. WELLS, Private

Special Constables in 1914 [listed in Roll of Honour 1]

J. Fletcher H. Morris H. G. Russell Rev. C.R.de Wall J. Whitman W. Papworth E. Baldock A. Penny R. Gower F. C. Butcher R. J. Parris F. S. Dedrick F. C. Bates E. Thorndycraft H. Draycon T. Cowen J. Wenham N. Beal H. Watts H. Milton J. Wooding J. Coleman A. Sells F. R. Roberts H. Barnes F. Fever E. Ashby H. Wells F. P. Harris W. H. Hodgson A. Weaver W. R. Hodgkinson J. H. Burke A. Mayatt T. H. Wilford T. Hilder W. Gooding A. N. Hambrook E. Edgeler J. E. Brown H. Beadle Jr. H. T. Beadle E. Burgess H. Farley F. Oliver A. Batchelor J. Golding E. Burr J. Gunner C. Godfrey A. Monk J. E. Gammon E. Moore E. Withers W. Fielder E. Prescott W. Hilder G. North W. H. Tutchener L. Wraight A. Wallis E. Barron

‘On Peace Day July 19th [1919] a dinner was given to 370 demobilised Sailors & Soldiers and those at home on leave and in the evening a tea was given to 800 Sailors, Soldiers & their wives and sweethearts.’ [Parish Council: minutes of annual meeting, 1920]

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