“ADVENTURE IS WORTHWHILE.” – AESOP
Percy Schwartz 1/6th Battalion Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment. Regimental number 1861 Died10 August 1915 Buried at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Ypres (Ieper), Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders Belgium. Panel 39 and 41. The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, often … Read More
Corporal George Henry Smith, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Registration number PO 162(S), 2nd Royal Marines Battalion. Died 8 June 1917. Duisans British Cemetery, Etrum, France but his grave is not known. INDEX No Fr 113. Part II M-Z … Read More
Private William Smith 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards, Regimental No. 13261. Died 9 October 1917 . Buried Ruisseau Farm Langemarck. Index No B 87 Langemark is located north of the town of Ieper off the N313. From the Mark take the … Read More
Private William Taylor ex-Private King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, & transferred to Plymouth Short-Service RMLI (Royal Marine Light Infantry), into the Plymouth Bn R.N. Div. on 16/9/14 ; Plymouth Bn. MEF . Service number PLY/138(S). Died 3rd May 1915, Buried Pink … Read More
Private Walter Hebblewhite – 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, Regimental No 28080. Died 23 December 1917 Buried – Tincourt New British Cemetery, France. The inscription on his grave says: “Resting in Peace” Tincourt is a village about 7 kilometres east … Read More
Private John William Snowden – Private King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry & transferred to Plymouth Short-Service RMLI 16/9/14; Plymouth Bn. No.3. Company MEF 6/2/15. Regiment number PLY/119(S). Private John William Snowden was missing, assumed killed in action at Kum Kale, … Read More
Harry Hayes Notts and Derby Regt (Formerly 16133 11th) then went into 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers Regimental no. 6533. Died 11 July 1917 Buried Basra Cemetery Mesopotamia Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 40 and 64. The Basra Memorial commemorates more than … Read More