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26 August 1914 : Lt Sir Robert Cornwallis Maude, 6th Viscount Hawarden
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Robert Maude was born 6 September 1890, London, the first son of Robert Henry Maude, 5th Viscount Hawarden and Caroline Anna Mary (née Ogle). At the time of the 1901 Census the family of three - parents and 7 month old Robert, lived at White Hill Chase, Hants with their four domestic servants: cook, parlour maid, house maid and nurse. At the 1...
25 September 1916 : Capt. Herbert Percy Meakin
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Herbert Percy Meakin was born in Poona, Maharashtra, India on 10 January 1891 the son of Henry George Meakin, a brewer, and his wife Alice. His father died in 1895 while in Australia. Meakin was privately educated before going up to Queen's College, Oxford. While a student, his mother now a widow, lived in Belgravia Mansions, Hanover Square. S...
The Coldstream Guards and Irish Guards at Cuinchy 1915
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Cuinchy is a village astride the La Bassée Canal and is referred to by Robert Graves in his classic memoir Goodbye to All That: 'Cuinchy bred rats. They came up from the canal, fed on the plentiful corpses, and multiplied exceedingly. While I stayed here with the Welsh, a new officer joined the company... When he turned in that night, he heard a...
26 January 1915: Pte Simeon Sharratt
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Simeon Sharratt was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire on 21 September 1894. He was the son of Simeon (a felt hat maker) and Elizabeth Ann and they lived at 1 High Fields Road, Hinckley, Leicestershire. Simeon (junior) was one of six children. At the 1901 Census he was at home with his parents and three siblings Elizabeth (10), Herbert (8) and Will...
1 February 1915: 2nd Lieut. Harold Norton Clifton
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Harold was born on 7 May 1894 in Ashley Gardens, Westminster. He was the son of William Edward Clifton (architect and surveyor and Isabel Clifton (née Nelson) from Carlisle, living at 7, East India Avenue, London. In 1901, aged 6, he can be found on the census records living with his parents, a 1 year old sister and four domestic servants in Cam...
2 February 1915: Philip Arthur Blanshard
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Phillip was born on 18 September 1894 in Hull. His parents were Henry and Alice (née Hurdman). He was educated at Park Road Board School, Hull and employed in the Sanitary Department of Hull Corporation. Above: A street scene in Hull. (ww1hull.com/hull-before-1914/) At the 1911 Census, himself 16 years of age, he is given as a ‘general labourer...
Herbert Percy Meakin
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Capt. Herbert Percy Meakin, 3/Coldstream Guards, Attd Guards Trench Mortar Battery Killed in action 25 September 1916.No known Grave. Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial Memorial: A stone column beside the Ginchy to Lesboeufs Road, south of the Guards Cemetery. Location on Google Map Guardian: L'Office Culturel d'Albert. Herbert Percy Meakin wa...
9 July 1916 : 2/Lieut: Harold Masters Brown MC
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Born Slinfold, 31 July 1888, Harold was the third son (of four) of parents William, Head Master of Slinfold Church of England School, Essex and Kezia Harriet (née Evans, an assistant certified school teacher) and living at Park Street Cottages, Slinfold, near Horsham, Sussex. At the time of the 1901 England Census, 12 year old Harold was at hom...
The Rededication service for the Meakin Memorial close to the Lesboeufs to Ginchy 10 September 2022
On Saturday 10th September I attended the rededication service for the Meakin Memorial at its new location close to the Lesboeufs to Ginchy road took place, attended by over sixty people including five members of the Meakin family, Etienne Dubruque , the Mayor of Lesboeufs and other invited guests Sadly, owing to the death of Her Majesty, Queen...