20 March 1915 : Sergt. Charles Lewis Burini

20 March 1915 : Sergt. Charles Lewis Burini

20 Mar 1915

Son of Louis (a Brewer’s Clerk) and Maria (née Winslow) Educated at Bower Memorial Schools, Norton. At the 1901 Ce…

Read More
21 March 1915 : 2nd Lieut. Lewis Neil Griffith Ramsay

21 March 1915 : 2nd Lieut. Lewis Neil Griffith Ramsay

21 Mar 1915

Parents Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, Professor of Classical Archaeology in Oxford and Lady Ramsay, Agnes Dick (née Mar…

Read More
24 March 1917:  2nd Lieut. Richard Patrick Hemphill

24 March 1917:  2nd Lieut. Richard Patrick Hemphill

24 Mar 1915

His parents were the Rev, Samuel and Flora (née Delap). The family lived at Townparks, Birr Urban, King’s County, Irel…

Read More
25 March 1915 : Lieut. Eric Robert Meade Odling, Royal Engineers

25 March 1915 : Lieut. Eric Robert Meade Odling, Royal Engineers

25 Mar 1915

Eric's parents were Charles and Alice (née Meade). His father Charles Odling was the chief engineer for the India Publ…

Read More
26 March 1915: Pte Hugh Ching (Alias Hugh William Power)

26 March 1915: Pte Hugh Ching (Alias Hugh William Power)

26 Mar 1915

He was the only son of Richard Ching (a grocer’s assistant) of 180, Eswyn Road, Tooting and his wife Annie.  He was e…

Read More
27 March 1915 : Sgt John Robert Bannister

27 March 1915 : Sgt John Robert Bannister

27 Mar 1915

The son of John Bannister, a nut and bolt maker and his wife Mary Ellen, a cotton weaver. At the 1891 there were some…

Read More
29 March 1915: 2nd Lieut. John Ollis Mullins RFC

29 March 1915: 2nd Lieut. John Ollis Mullins RFC

29 Mar 1915

His parents were E. Roscoe Mullins (sculptor) and Alice (née Felton) of West Heath Avenue, Hampstead.  9 January 19…

Read More
18 April 1915: Pte. Edward Dimmock

18 April 1915: Pte. Edward Dimmock

18 Apr 1915

Parents Jonathan (a general labourer) and Sophie (née Mann)  In 1881, Edward, the youngest of 4 children, lived in Gree…

Read More
22 April 1915 : Pte Albert Troughton

22 April 1915 : Pte Albert Troughton

22 Apr 1915

Albert was the son of Nathaniel Troughton (a coal miner) and Ann Elizabeth (née Warner)  At the 1901 Census that fami…

Read More
26 April 1915 : Captain Percy D’Aguilar Banks

26 April 1915 : Captain Percy D’Aguilar Banks

26 Apr 1915

Only son of Col Samuel Henry O’Brien of Eaton Place, Brighton, mother Katherine Rosa D'Aguilar (née Burton) daughter o…

Read More
28 April 1915:  Pierre Scheurer

28 April 1915: Pierre Scheurer

28 Apr 1915

Pierre left Thann to engage in his compulsory military training with the French Army at Epinal and became an eleve-off…

Read More
30 April 1915: Pte A H Smith

30 April 1915: Pte A H Smith

30 Apr 1915

A coal-carter with the Nelson Co-operative Society pre war (in the town where he lived:7, Cross Street), 21 year old Pte…

Read More