It is proving difficult, as expected, to identify with certainty all those listed on the Roll of Honour.
Those who were killed in action have been identified by Mike Willoughby, filling out the bare details supplied by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. I am glad to say we have been able to find out where the men listed in the memorial service sheet as ‘Men of St Mary Bourne’ served. We have not, however, yet had similar success with all those on the school roll of honour.
We propose therefore to list below those whom we are reasonably certain we have identified. (If any reader is in a position to correct us, please do so in the comments below). If there is a reference in the ancestry tree which I maintain for the village, the name will be followed by an asterisk*.
We will concentrate our efforts on describing the effect of the war on these men and their families.
On the list of The Unkown, we will list those about whom we are uncertain. Many of these are men whom we have identified, but whom we have been unable with certainty to match with anyone in the armed services. We will resist the temptation to guess, though we may annotate various possibilities against their names. It is hoped to be able to move many of those on the second list onto the first by 2019.
The remainder will be known unto the signwriter, those who mourned them at the time, those who still mourn them but do not read this blog, and the Almighty.
The Known
Allen Albert Ernest
b1893 Private 8621 19th Hussars from East Woodhay
WO 372/1/5746
Allen Walter Tom
b1885
Private 6256 Lancashire Fusiliers;716824 Worcestershire Regiment
Wounded at the Aisne, repatriated to hospital in Chelsea. (Andover Advertiser 26/3/15)
WO 372/1/64501
Annals Frederick John *
b 1888 Private R 2821 Kings Royal Rifle Corps buried 6 Feb 1958 SMB
WO 372/1/98351
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
NT wills & probate
Baker (Albert) Henry R
b 1893 Hurstbourne Priors Private 23119 5th Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment.
Killed In Action 26/01/1917 Basra Memorial Panel 30 & 64.
WO 372/1/193191
Barnes William John
b1899 Private 34260; 70888 2nd/4th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; Formerly 44313, Hants Regt; Devonshire Regt.
Killed in Action 12 Apr 1918 Panel 7 Ploegsteert Memorial
Son of W. J. And Mary Barnes, of Ivy Cottages, Link, St. Mary Bourne.
WO 372/2/4687
Bell Arthur
HBP 22/4/18 Driver 27709 7 Batt King’s Shropshire Light Infantry; fly T/2/016438 RASC; FLY Rifle Brigade 201665 Not in Roll of Honour;b,r,e Whitchurch 372/2/81496
Bendle Albert Henry Victor
b1897 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry 2925; Army Service Corps T4/210534
Killed in Action 30 Aug 1918. A. 22. Eterpigny British Cemetery
nephew of Frank Bendle, Crane Cottages, Lower Wyke
WO 372/2/94955
Benham Charles
b1878 Private 25271 15th (service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed at the age of 39 on 7 August 1917. Grave I. C. 38. Godewaersevelde British Cemetery
WO 372/2/95744
Benham William John*
b1895 Private 31619 Hampshire Regiment. Wounded 1 Jun 1916 Silver War Badge 129976 discharged 3 Oct 1917.
1923 (Kelly’s) fishmonger. Buried SMB 11 Sep 1929
WO 372/2/95938
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Bevis Herbert Charles
b1899 Private, 2/4 Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (44196),Warwickshire Regiment (6741), 2/7 Battalion Hampshire Regiment (44635). Enlisted 4 May 1917, discharged 7 Dec 1919.
WO 372/2/128449
Bevis (Alfred) Lloyd
b1898 (medal card ‘Alfred L’) Driver T/739, 324890 Army Service Corps, 6 London Regiment
| DESCRIPTION: on Ancestry tree http://person.ancestry.co.uk/tree/8179812/person/25101869154/facts | “His uniform identifies him as a Lewis Gunner” |
WO 372/2/128374
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Bevis Thomas
b1882 Private Royal Berkshire 26638, Labour Corps 96043, Hampshire Regiment 07109
WO 372/2/128500
Biggs Joseph [Joe]
attested 5 July 1915 Private 96227; 2761 Machine Gun Corps Cavalry; Trooper Berkshire Yeomanry, in Palestine 1918 (Andover Advertiser 20 April 1918)
Address: Cress View, SMB
WO 372/2/138047
Biggs Walter
enlisted 21 Aug 1914
Corporal 53008 32nd Brigade, Q M S Royal Field Artillery
WO 372/2/138316
Biggs (Arthur) William
e 10 Dec 1915
Private 2281 Royal Marine Light Infantry; Portsmouth Division-Short Service. Prisoner of War at Limburg
Woodbine Cottage SMB
ADM 159/207/2281
Blake Frank
b1880 21/10/1917 Private 26329 6th Battalion DOE’s Wiltshire Regt St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen killed aged 38
WO 372/175660
Boys Geoffrey Vernon
b 3 Oct 1893 No Corporal 28033 Royal Engineers (Signals) captured at Mons and made prisoner of war SMB d 3 Mar 1945 # Buried SMB 17 Mar 1945 @51
WO 372/3/23512
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Brighty Charles William
Driver T4/21053 Royal Army Service Corps WO 372/3/71870 (TNA ref, medal card)
Born 1893 Warley, Essex. bur 5 Jan 1988 @94 SMB churchyard #287
Broad Thomas William John
b1886 enlisted 1916 Driver T4/143056 Royal Army Service Corps 287th Company
WO 372/3/79092
Bunce Harry b 22 Aug 1901 (1939 Register #8)
Builder’s Lorry Driver, Assistant Ambulance Driver (1939R)
bur SMB #456 26 May 1982 @80 2 Jubilee Villas
Burne Christopher Haworth
b 1889 Captain, Special & General Lists Intelligence Corps France 30/1/18 – 21/9/22; OBE; son of William Christopher, Upper Link House d 23 Feb 1952
WO 372/3/186255
Burne Sambrooke Frank
4 Feb 1885-1953 Lt Col;RA, DSO 1911: Lt 2nd ACRFA (?Australian contingent, Royal Field Artillery?)
d 12 Apr 1953 son of William Christopher, Upper Link House #429
WO 372/3/186306
Choules Charles
b 1885
enlisted 29 Sep 1914 Sergeant T529 501st Company Army Service Corps
discharged 4 Feb 1916 Silver war badge S343
WO 372/4/112155
Choules George Edward
b1890
enlisted 1 Dec 1914
T/670, Private 324900 London Regiment 6th Battalion; Kings Royal Rifle Corps wounded 12 Jan 1918 discharged 6 June 1918.
d 5 Oct 1965 @75 Buried SMB #313
WO 372/4/112170
Choules Henry
b 1891
enlisted 22 Jan 1916
Corporal 3133, 2218 Household Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment (Andover Advertiser 18 Jan 1918)
WO 372/4/112173
Choules William Frank
b 14/11/1897
enlisted19 Dec 1915
Private Ply. 2293/S Royal Marine Light Infantry: Plymouth Division Short Service
Buried SMB 13 Apr 1986 #478 @88
ADM 159/179/2293
Cook Alfred
Driver Army Service Corps 246 Company, serving under Lt Col H L Cooper Territorial [from Doiley] who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
born 14 July 1878 . Friendly Society Agent SMB (1939 Register #9)
Known from Andover Advertiser to be from ‘Doiley’; confirmed from 1911 census to be under-carter born in Market Lavington, living with his parents Leonard and Matilda (also from Wiltshire) at Lower Doiley, Hurstbourne Tarrant.
Cook Reginald Harry
b1898 e 3 May 1915 Corporal 17446 3rd Battalion, Hampshire Regt brother to Frank & S L; Silver War Badge 191229 bur 3 Jan 1978 SMB #434
WO 372/4/242484
Cook Stanley J
L/Cpl 2421; 040222 Royal Fusiliers; Army Ordnance Corps wounded 27 Sep 1917?
WO 372/4/242916
Cooper A(lbert) G(eorge)
b 1898 Stoke
bur SMB 25 Oct 1973 @75 #409 3
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Cooper Henry Longfellow
b 1866
Major HQS Command, Salisbury (1918-21 Absentee VL). Lt Col 29th Divisional Training Royal Army Service Corps. WO 372/5/11027. Arrived Gallipoli 15 Mar 1915
Wakeswood; Butlers (1913 VL) Buried SMB 22 Oct 1926 @59;
Cooper Percy Thomas
b1895 son of Thomas Cooper b1871, brother of Albert George b 1898
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Cooper Thomas
b 1871 enlisted 1914
Army Service Corps T1/SR/777.102nd Battalion
Father of Percy Thomas, wife Alice nee Dudman, Church St; discharged physically unfit on 23/3/17.Buried SMB 5 Mar 1945 @74
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Coster John Albert
b Andover 1889 Gunner 27564 16 Co Royal Regiment of Artillery
married Emily Mercy Bradbury SMB 3 Mar 1915
WO 372/5/35585
Cox Hubert Samuel
b1888 Coombe 20 Oct 1916 Private 7994 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regt Ix K 15 Bancourt British Cemetery, France Brother to William
Cox William Edward
29 Mar 1917 Private 23170 5th Batt Wiltshire Regt Mesopotamia Basra Memorial Brother to Hubert
Cox William ?Percival b1895 No ?Stoker 1st class; Dev/295210(RFR) NELSON005 (source fwr)
Creighton Arthur
b1877 Alton district, Hampshire; Link St, SMB
2nd Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant) 6th Dragoon Grenadier Guards
awarded M C 1916
WO 372/5/84502
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Creighton Albert
b1889 No Sgt ?T/23391 ” Army Service Crps (280 HT Coy)” South View SMB; entered battle 5/10/14
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Culley The Revd Ewart
b1898
entered theatre of war 3/4/15 Egypt
Driver T4/056532 Army Service Corps 246 Company, serving under Lt Col H L Cooper
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914) WO 372/5/120177
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Cummins Frank
b 1889 in Stoke. Son of Edwin and Mary. attested 1 Sep 1914. A/204652 ASC; 11th Kings Royal Rifle Corps 3 Belle View Buried 21 Oct 1974 SMB #405;
WO 372/5/124591
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Davis Charles George
born 1871 in SMB
employed by his father, a farmer, as a Wheeler.
enlisted 9 May 1908 witnessed by Capt. Henry Longfellow Cooper
SSM T2 or T4/212417 Army Service Corps 878th Company
WO 372/5/203339
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Davis Richard
b 1895 son of Mrs M Brown, Lower Rank (Andover Advertiser 25 October 1918)
Private 42463 Army Service Corps, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Buried SMB 1957
Day [Edward] Frank
b1897 son of Mr and Mrs George Day of Lower Rank (Andover Advertiser 4 Dec 1914)
Wessex Army Service Corps (number not known at present)
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Day Frederick Charles
b1901 11666 Drummer 2nd Scots Guards enlisted aged 14 years 169 days
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Discharged 11 Jun 1920 on payment of £35 under Acts 1130 (1) PW para 39.2(xiv) KR
Day Frederick George
b1888 son of Mr and Mrs George Day of Lower Rank (Andover Advertiser 4 Dec 1914)
Private 7422 ‘B’Coy 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment
Killed in action 2 Nov 1914; Panel 6 Ploegsteert Memorial Belgium
Day William James
b1889 son of Mr and Mrs George Day of Lower Rank
Private 14923, Hampshire Regiment (Garrison)
served in France 1915 (Andover Advertiser 1917)
Buried SMB 14 Aug 1935 @44
WO 372/5/226383
Dawes William Frederick
b1886 Sergeant 035677 Royal Army Service Corps Buried SMB 1950 #236 @63 3 May 1950; Castle Farm SMB
Gibbons Eli
born 1885 in St Mary Bourne
Service #: 46760 Wiltshire Regiment 1/4th Depot enlisted 1919
Not in Roll of Honour
Gibbons William
b 1894 1 Sep 1918 Lance Corporal 37587 1st Batt Somerset Light Infantry Panel 4 Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France formerly S/4/044259 RASC
Gibbons Walter Jr
b1883 Driver T436 L S Col Div H 2”C. A S C d 25 Jun 1933 bur SM mem # 172 York Cottage, SMB; e 1914 discharged as physically unfit 1915
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Golding Norman George
b1899 Pte 133860 Machine Gun Corps
WO 372/8/49634
Golding William (James)
b1895 ?Pte R/257666 Royal Army Service Corps
Goodyear (Alfred) Charles
14 Jun 1915 Driver T4/071627 Army Service Corps, Base Horse Transport Depot Not in Roll of Honour
Goodyear Frederick John
Gunner 213034 A 336 Bde Royal Field Artillery bur SMB 14 Oct 1967 @80 17 Stevens Green
WO 372/8/66277
Goodyear George
b1887 1st Life Guards 1915 Regimental number: 4116 (discharged 1920) (source: grandson Alec)
bur SMB 25 Mar 1982 @92 #455 Belle Vue
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914.
Goodyear Henry James b1882 14 Oct 1918 Private 18816 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regt Grave A.37 Ledeghern Military Cemetery, Belgium Grandson of Nathaniel
WO 372/8/66336
Goodyear Wilfred Lawson
Jan 1915 Private 17073 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regt d St Austell died 9 Jan 1978 Buried 16 Jan 1878 @85 no #361
WO 372/8/66440
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Goodall Sidney Herbert b1893 18 Sep 1917 Gunner 152650 Royal Garrison Artillery 21st Siege Battery Klein Vierstraat British Cemetery
Gunnell Sidney
baptised 23/4/1886 enlisted 24 Aug 1914 Private 7399 (7389?) 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regt; killed in action 23 Nov 1914 aged 30 according to CWGC Lancashire Cottage Cemetery #156
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Hatten Alfred Charles
b1889 Private 4280 Hampshire Regiment, Private 205529 Bedfordshire Regiment
WO 372/9/83342
Hayward Arthur L
b1897 ??6564 Royal Defence Corps
Harding Charles George
b 1897 50401, T/220418, 562668 Worcestershire Regiment 50401 Private
Labour Corps 562668 Private
WO 372/9/8575
Heard Alfred George (Herde)
born c.1877 Private Army Service Corps M1/8060, d 16 Mar 1962 @85 (#313), bur 21 Mar 1962 SMB #222 not on prayer board
WO 372/9/118938
Hibberd Henry (Harry) Charles Woolford
b1884
Sergeant 94661, Army Service Corps 246 Company, serving under Lt Col H L Cooper Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
200864 Machine Gun Corps
94661 Private Wiltshire Regiment
WO 372/9/167002
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Hibberd Hector Frederick
b 5 Mar 1890 emigrated to Saskatchewan 1911
enlisted 24 Sep 1914 Private 267273 3rd Machine Gun Coy, Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 16 Sep 1918; buried Bailleul Road East Cemetery, FrancePlot II. E. 10.
Hibberd Wyndham
b1895 23201 Wiltshire Regiment
Holbrooke Bernard Frederick Roper
b1871 Sussex
Major (Acting Lt-Col) 129th Baluchistan Infantry; Lieutenant Colonel, Indian Army;
124th Baluchistan Infantry Lieutenant Colonel
Wounded at Ypres (Andover Advertiser 4 June 1915)
DSO 11458 Gazette Date: 12/09/1919 Duty Location: Operations in Persian Gulf.
Buried 1948 Bournemouth
WO 372/9/235740
Holbrooke Gerald Howard
bSussex 1877 Emigrated to Canada 1909.
enlisted 24 Sep 1914 Private 28912 16th Battalion Canadian Infantry
Killed in action 18 April 1915 or 18 May 1915 France
Holbrooke Philip Lancelot
b Sussex 1873
Royal Garrison Artillery (Lt Col), Royal Garrison Artillery; BEF 1914, Salonika Legion d’Honneur, DSO (1915)
died 1958 Bournemouth
WO 372/24/30454, 30455, 30456, 30457
Holloway Albert b1887 No Private M1/5884 Royal Army Service Corps 1/MAC ?c/w George or Colson (Stoke) (Kellys) ? WO 372/10/7927
Holdway H(?erbert J)
Driver N 57494″ Royal Horse Artillery? Gallantry Medal MM Gazette #29864, p 1222,12/12/16
WO 372/9/241286
Holman Alexander McArthur
b1890 Dunley Manor, law student.
EF/6/6736 6th Dragoon Guards
Hopgood Frederick
b1889 23 Sep 1917 Private 24806 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regt Gangbridge St, left wife and baby son
Hurst William Cyril
b1888 Sutton Scotney Private 401567 47th Motor Amb. Convoy ASC & MT
1960: Stevens Green #309 SSMB 19/10/60 aged 71 Egbury Road;
Judge Charles Edward
b1898 in Herts
25 Sep 1915 Lance Corporal S/2292 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Grave Vi.H qo Dud Corner Cemetry, Loos son of Edward, Bourneside (Kellys)
Kent George Andrew Bacon
b1894 Hurdlers Arms, Binley
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
King Bertie George
b1889 Whitchurch 10 Mar 1915 Rifleman Z/222 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade
King Osborne
b1882 Wilts 26 Mar 1917 Private 5617 28th Batt Australian Infantry Villers-Brettoneux Memorial, France Swampton
Kislingbury William Alfred
b1881 Private 15758 Royal Berkshire Regiment Bur SMB 4 Feb 1922 @41; Stoke SWB 11989; He born in Benson, Emily Binley, living in Ashmansworth 1911, e 01-Dec-1914 d 12-Dec-1915
Kneller William
b1891
(??) 31 Oct 1918 Serjeant 30248 7th Battalion Wiltshire Regt Dunley; wife Mary [queried with CWGC, discrepancy in date of birth and reported age at death]
Langford Thomas
b1872 179343 Royal Engineers Hampshire (Fortress)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Lawrence A(?lbert)
b1885 Weeke Drummer 3rd Battalion Hampshire Regiment Not in Roll of Honour
Lawrence William Charles 10 May 1916 Private 200612 1st/4th Battalion Wiltshire Regt Not in Roll of Honour
Levett, Ernest Christopher
Captain, 3rd company (Territorials), London Electrical Engineers, Royal Engineers
Haven Hill
(1921 Absent Voters List)
Loader Bertram Charles
b1892 No Pte 30760, 98691, 44367 Royal Berkshire Regiment, Labour Corps, Durham Light Infantry
buried SMB, d 9 July 1965 @73 #320 family all born Wiltshire
Longman Gifford Chalcraft
bap 13/4/1890
267274 Canadian Expeditionary Force
Longman Roland Percival
born c 1894 Occupation: Carpenter
7574 Royal Flying Corps Attested 11 Aug 1915 @21
Regimental Number: 1973 Winchester. Archive ref: AIR 79/99
d 1973 @79 SMB #403
Luxton E(Edward Charles)
Able Seaman Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve pres c/w Thomas Luxton Farmer, Hilliers (1920 Kellys);
Mein Dudley Gerald
b1 May 1898 India
Lieutenant 31st Duke of Connaught’s Own Lancers. Killed in action 26 Oct 1918 near Aleppo Grave 259 Beirut War Cemetery mem #16 i/c
Gangbridge House; MC;
WO372/27
Miley Arnold John
b 1890 Lieutenant Royal Navy; Sqd Ldr RAF
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Haven Hill
(1921 Absent Voters List)
Miley Miles
b1889 Hampstead 30 Dec 1915 Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery Grave IIA10 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery;SMB memorial Haven Hill see #375
WO 372/13/232641
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
McIntosh James Robert Hay
b1893 22 Mar 1918 2nd Lt (DCM) 7th Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) Bay 6 Arras Memorial, France Transvaal ?SMB connection
Moorse Francis [Frank] Edward
bap 4/12/1887
Sergeant 25245 Royal Army Medical Corps
At Netley Hospital for some time [but in 1916] was drafted to Salonika, where he ‘has been ever since’. (Andover Advertiser 8 Feb 1918)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Moorse Harold Henry
bap 11/6/1890; Riverside, SMB
1908: joined Hampshire Regiment aged 18 (Andover Advertiser 8 Feb 1918)
Lieutenant 1st Battalion York & Lancaster Regiment
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Arrived in theatre of war, France, in February 1915. Killed in action 18 Mar 1915.
Grave IB1 Wulverghem-Lindhoek Rd Military Cemetery, Belgium memorial 147
(Andover Advertiser 26 March 1915)
Moorse Walter James
b1889
Driver T4/071645 Army Service Corps Wessex Division.
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
In Jerusalem for Christmas 1917 (Andover Advertiser 8 Feb 1918)
Moorse William John
baptised 13/12/1886
Sergt T4/056567 Army Service Corps 246 Company, serving under Lt Col H L Cooper
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Moses Robert Hay Wanford
bap 11/6/1890 1 July 1916 Private 16156 1st Battalion Hampshire Regt
Moy W(?)illiam J (presumably-only 1) No 89205 Royal Garrison Artillery
Mundy, Alfred George
Gunner 1413321 8th Battery, 2nd Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery
Egbury
(1921 Absent Voters List)
Neale Norman George James
bap 7/9/1890
728, 100076, 204965, 521729 Hampshire Yry(2), Hampshire Regt, Royal Engineers Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Neale Lawrence King
b1898 M/284589 Army Service Corps
Nottage Charles John
b1888 Farnham Private 272500 (fly # 46110) Labour Corps: 368th Coy ex N. Hants
sister Ellen buried SMB 1982 SWB 310361 e 16/9/16 dis 6/10/17
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Nottage Jack Edward
b1900 d1965 RN F48380 Royal Navy sister Ellen buried SMB 1982
ADM 188/640/48380
Page William Jacob
9 May 1917 Private 17916 1st Battalion Hampsire Regt
Page William John
Trooper 2748 Household Battalion, Household Cavalry
kia 17 Sep 1917, Grave VI A36, Duisans British Cemetery, France
Parker, Norman Anderson
Lieutenant, 6th Res. Cavalry, Tidworth,
Gangbridge (1921 Absent Voters List)
Parker Reginald Thomas
68599, 311552 Royal Garrison Artillery, Royal Engineers
born 14 Nov 1895. Carpenter (1939 Register #31)
buried SMB 3 Jan 1970 @ 74
Penny, Leslie Fred
Gunner 15409 RMA HMS ‘Malaya’ (1918/21 Absent Voters List)
Stoke
Penny William John
Corporal Army Service Corps 246 Company, serving under Lt Col H L Cooper. Driver T/8298 #1 Dep.Co. ASC.
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Stoke
Pescod James
b1893 SMB
Private 23393 1st Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regt) kia 18 Feb 1918 Grave V. F. 8A. Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport
Pike Edwin
b1881 19 Dec 1914
Private 5876 ‘D’Coy 1st Battalion Hants Regt Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Grave IIC3 Lancashire Cottage Cemetery Belgium
Pike James
b1884 26 Apr 1915
Private 7390 1st Battalion Hampshire Regt Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Panel 35 Menin Gate Memorial Lower Rank, SMB
Parker William Edward
?Private CH/14715 Royal Marine Light Infantry
Thatcher (1895 Kellys) or farmer Egbury Castle?
Poynter Frank
b1889 (?bap 5/2/1886- ch) probably 2336, 860668, 281624 Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force), Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force), Royal Field Artillery
Poynter William Henry
b1886 No ?M/321736 Army Service Corps id/w ‘Henry William’ b1886
Pritchard Henry James b1897
31 May 1916 Ordinary Seaman J/29741 HMS Defence, Royal Navy Panel 14, Portsmouth Naval Memorial
Purver Joseph b1871
8064, SS/20430, Scots Guards (discharged 1902), ASC, Labour Corps 301593 27292
Originally enlisted 24 Apr 1891. Discharged London 1919
bur SMB 11 Nov 1943 @73 Descendant of author of Quaker bible, Anthony Purver
Pyle Stanley Herbert
b1890 No F45516 Royal Naval Air Service
Archive ref ADM 188/637/45516
Randall Albert Edward
abt 1896 prob T680, 43827 Royal Army Service Corps, Hampshire Regiment bur SMB 23 Nov 1962 #329 born Reading; 1 Stevens Green
Randall Alfred William
b abt 1894 Reading
Driver 33230 Army Service Corps 246 Company, serving under Lt Col H L Cooper
Leicester Regiment
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Randall Ernest Charles
b abt 1897 in Reading
Trumpeter Army Service Corps 246 Company, serving under Lt Col H L Cooper
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Royds George Freeman
Captain 1st/4th Dorsets Brother of Kathleen Innes, son of Dr William Alexander Slater Royds
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
died 13 Mar 1954 @73 (#333) buried in SMB
Richards William Robert
b1875 Bermondsey 24 Aug 1917 Private 43609 19th Batt Durham Light Infantry Grave 1D 21 Tincourt Cemetery France
His great grandson comments:
My great grandfather, William Robert Richards originally signed up on 31st August/1st September 1914 in the Royal Field Artillery (service number 12013). He was discharged after 86 days (24th November 1914) with the comment “not likely to become an efficient soldier”. He was then called up for service on 8th July 1916. It appears the military could afford to be more selective in 1914!
Sandall William
b1896 T4/210623 Army Service Corps
Selfe John Lionel
2nd Lieutenant 210979 The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
c/w Mrs (Frances) Selfe, Springhill (1911 Kellys, 1913 VL); emigrated to Bonnievale South Africa;
WO 339/111875
Sellwood Ernest
b1889 ?: T4/262214″ Army Service Corps
Selwood Thomas Frank
b1893
Corporal 36774 Royal Garrison Artillery
WO 372/17/226663
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Sellwood Jesse
b1897 Carter, Upper Wyke Farm. Father John Gangbridge Road.
Attested 18 Aug 1914, joined Hampshire Regiment 4 September, transferred to 29th Coy Machine Gun Corps 10/5/16 in Middle Eastern Force. Served in Greece 3 years 5 months.
13024, 10th Hampshire Regiment; Driver 48492 Machine Gun Corps
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Sellwood Stanley Herbert
b1900 T4/185629, 44123 Army Service Corps, Durham Light Infantry
Sellwood William Alfred
b1896 9793 Hampshire Regiment
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Smith William Edmund
b1879[?W E] No “?Air Mechanic 1st Class 35071” Royal Air Force
Sims Sidney
b1880 No 327745 Royal Engineers Waterways & Docks bur SMB 7 Feb 1963 #322
Sims Walter
b1878 2 July 1915 Private 5718 1st Battalion Hampshire Regt
WO 372/18/83297
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Strange Maurice
b1897 (?M H) No (?Lieutenant M H) Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Grandmother at Gangbridge House
Swatton F(rank b1890)
?W No ” Air Mechanic 1st Clss 51544″ s Royal Air Force
Tanswell Frederick
b1893 son of Frank, a shepherd, and Sarah Jane,r all from East Knoyle, Wiltshire.
(5 possibles in TNA, but the SMB Frederick Tanswell reported by Andover Advertiser to have left for the front in August).
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
1918/21 Absent Voters List: T211477 Private 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers. Eggbury.
Theobalds Reginald O’Hallaran Pringle
Private 33156 Hampshire Regiment Memorial SMB # 378 d 6 Dec 1941; 1923 Kellys Poultry Farmer, Binley
Thring Frederick George
b Alderbury Jun 1891
Sergeant enlisted Sydney 5 Aug 1914, served in German New Guinea, Gallipoli, Egypt, France.(Andover Advertiser 1917).
Died of pneumonia in St Mary Bourne (Western Times 30 Nov 1918)Buried SMB 29 Nov 1918 @27.
Thring William Henry
b1889 Salisbury
Private G/14963 7th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment enlisted 1915
Wounded in an attack at Beaudricourt on 20 November, died 22 Nov 1917.
Grave II G9 Tincourt New British Cemetery France
Memorial SMB #408;
Titt Edwin James
b 29 Feb 1896 HBP (1939R #65)
?Corporal 347313, 20909, 31442, T/T/04, WR/278996 Royal Engineers, Hampshire Regiment, Royal Defence Corps, Army Veterinary Corps, Royal Engineers bur 3 Apr 1974 @79 #227 Bourne Cottage
Titt Ernest William
b1903 HBP ? 110, 369060 Wiltshire Regiment, Labour Corps
Tovani Luigi Lionel [Louis]
b1896 Perthshire son of vicar (Italian origin)
Lieutenant Loyal North Lancashire (1918/21 Absent Voters List)
WO 339/3288, WO 372/20/62347 1
Tovani William Richard
Captain, Royal Highlanders and Lieutenant Lincolnshire Regiment
WO 372/20/62349
Trubridge Benjamin James
62211 Royal Field Artillery
Turnell George
b 9 March 1884 Kew
Able Seaman 206844 Royal Navy Killed in action at sea on 9 Aug 1915 when HMS Lynx hit a mine in the North Sea (Andover Advertiser September 1915)
ADM 188/360/206844
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Widow: Ida K, 4 Nesdon Cottage, SMB
Vaukins Ernest Albert
b1886 And. Dist No 7060, 223235 Hampshire Regiment, Labour Corps
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Vaukins Frederick
b1881 Finkley No PO/9627 Royal Marine Light Infantry
ADM171 Ref 171/331
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Vine Edward A (?E A J Vine)
Private 3334 Rifle Brigade, Reserve Unit, Tank Corps
WO 372/20/152592
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Vollard Charles
b1892 HBT 21 Jan 1916 Private 4/3445, 201223 1st/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Territorial Force (both) “Panel 21 & 63 Basra Memorial
Panel 21 and 63. Basra Memorial” Stoke
Waters John James
b1871 Wherwell Gunner ?316176, 79224 Royal Field Artillery, Devonshire Regiment
Wedge E C [Charles Edward]
b 9 Apr 1889 (1939 Register #63)
Royal Field Artillery 2329 Wessex Brigade, Gunner;
Royal Field Artillery 851192, Gunner
Royal Field Artillery 287129, Gunner
Enlisted 22 May 1916. Posted to Meerut, India 8 Aug 1916. ‘Effective with unit 15 Jun 1919 Jullundur, India’
WO 372/21/67254
1939: Gardener, Spring Hill Lodge
Wedge Frederick William
baptised 2/11/1885
Enlisted Andover 10 Aug 1914 Reg # S/4/232663
Private 48904 Worcestershire Regiment
Army Service Corps Private ?B8663
?Marriage or baptism of child: Ethel Ruby 30 Jun 1917 The Laurels, Link SMB
Buried SMB 20 Dec 1934
Territorial who went to war before 14 Aug 1914 (Andover Advertiser 14 Aug 1914)
Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
WO 372/21/67283
Wedge Frank Edward
b 1891
Royal Horse Artillery; Driver 139121
Died 22 Oct 1964 aged 73, buried 24 Oct 1964 SMB #350
WO 372/21/67278
Wells George
b1882 SMB [h/o Ada] 9 Jun 1917
Company Sergeant Major 5980 14th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Recorded by the Andover Advertiser as having ‘joined the war effort’ by 23 October 1914
Grave VI N1 Vlamertinghe Cemetery, Belgium
Willis Charles William b1897 No (T)851193,287130 Royal Field Artillery, Royal Field Artillery
Willis Alfred Frank
b 1894 29 Apr 1918 Private 51261 18th Field Ambulance RAMC
III. A. 24 Brandhoek New Military Cemetery (Ypres)
Young Charles Edwin
b 18/3/79;bap 18/9/81 Private TR10/49210 Training Reserve 101st Battalion
Wells Thomas (Tarrant)
b1895 9/8/1916 Private 18049 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment A27 Potijze Chateauwood (Ypres) Not in Roll of Honour, had moved to HBP
St Mary Bourne Goes To War 
My great grandfather, William Robert Richards originally signed up on 31st August/1st September 1914 in the Royal Field Artillery (service number 12013). He was discharged after 86 days (24th November 1914) with the comment “not likely to become an efficient soldier”. He was then called up for service on 8th July 1916. It appears the military could afford to be more selective in 1914!
Thank-you so much Malcolm! This is extremely helpful and valuable to us.