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 The
Fallen of Ewhurst and Ellen's Green, Surrey
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1914
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June |
28 |
Assassination
of Archduke Ferdinand |
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August |
04 |
Great Britain declares war on Germany |
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August |
12 |
Private
William Rose, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR).
Arrives in France.
Private Frank Sellings, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR).
Arrives in France. |
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August |
13 |
Private
Frederick Aylwin. 1st Bn South Wales
Borderers. Arrives in France.
Rifleman
Charles Barnett.1st Bn King's Royal Rifle
Corps. Arrives in France |
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August |
22 |
British Expeditionary Force completes arrival in France. |
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August |
23 |
Battle of Mons. |
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September |
05 |
Battle of the Marne. |
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September |
26 |
Private
Frederick Aylwin. 1st Bn South Wales Borderers.
Killed in Action above the River Aisne (France). |
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October |
06 |
Captain
Raymond Heath, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR)
arrives in France. |
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October |
19 |
First Battle of Ypres commences. |
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October |
21 |
Captain Raymond
Heath, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR) Wounded in
Action, Ypres. |
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November |
02 |
Rifleman
Charles Barnett. 1st Bn King's Royal Rifle
Corps. Killed in Action on the Menin Road near Gheluvelt, near Ypres
(Belgium) |
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November |
22 |
First Battle of Ypres closes. |
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November |
23 |
Private
Timothy Benjamin Woodley, 2nd Bn Border
Regiment, Died of Wounds in hospital, Wimereux, (France). |
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December |
17 |
Private
Victor Lawrence, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR) arrives in France. |
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1915
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January |
01 |
Able Seaman
Oliver Tidy, HMS Formidable. Killed in Action
when Formidable was torpedoed off Start Point. |
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January |
14 |
Private Alfred
Tidy, 2nd Bn East Surrey Regiment. Arrives in
France. |
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January |
26 |
Captain Evelyn
Webb. 3rd Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps. Arrives
in France |
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February |
14 |
Private Alfred
Tidy, 2nd Bn East Surrey Regiment. Killed in
Action near Ypres, (Belgium). |
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March |
10 |
Battle of Neuve Chappelle (France) commences. |
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March |
11 |
Captain
Euston Sartorius. 1st Bn The Grenadier Guards.
Seriously wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle (France). |
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March |
13 |
Battle of Neuve Chappelle (France) closes. |
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April |
05 |
Captain
Euston Sartorius. 1st Bn The Grenadier Guards.
Died in Boulogne of Wounds sustained at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle
(France). |
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April |
22 |
Second Battle of Ypres commences. Germans use poisonous gas
offensively for the first time. |
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May |
15 |
Battle of Festubert commences. |
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May |
16 |
Private George
Eldridge, 2nd Bn The Queen's (RWSR) Killed in
Action at the Battle of Festubert (France) |
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May |
25 |
Battle of Festubert closes.
Captain Evelyn
Webb. 3rd Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps. Wounded
in Action in Second Battle of Ypres, (Belgium). |
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June |
01 |
Private
Harry Kilhams, 8th Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Arrives in France.. |
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June |
02 |
Lance
Corporal Frank Dedman, 6th Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Arrives in France |
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August |
06 |
Gallipoli Campaign opens. |
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August |
09 |
Captain
William Frecheville, 12th Field Company, Royal
Engineers, Wounded in Action, Hooge, near Ypres, (Belgium). |
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August |
13 |
Pte
Harry Duffell, DCM MM, 8th Bn The Queen's
(RWSR), later 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regiment, Arrives in France.
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August |
31 |
L/Cpl
William Haffenden, 8th Bn The Queen's (RWSR)
Arrives in France. |
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September
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25
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Battle of Loos commences. British use poisonous gas offensively for
the first time.
Captain
Raymond Heath, 2nd Bn The Queen's (RWSR) Killed in Action
at the Battle of Loos (France)
L/Cpl
William Haffenden, 8th Bn The Queen's (RWSR) Killed in Action
at the Battle of Loos (France)
Private Joseph
Parsons, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR) Killed in Action
at the Battle of Loos (France)
Private
Victor Lawrence, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR) Killed in Action
at the Battle of Loos (France)
Private Frank Sellings, 1st Bn The Queen's
(RWSR). Wounded in Action at the Battle of Loos (France). |
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October |
01 |
Sergeant
Samuel Randall, Army Veterinary Corps attached
RFA, Killed in Action at the Battle of Loos (France) |
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October |
15 |
Battle of Loos closes. |
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October |
20 |
L/Corporal
Edward Whitty, 7th Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Killed by a mine explosion near Fricourt, Somme, (France). |
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December |
19 |
Private Urban
Carpenter. 11th (Pioneer) Bn Hampshire
Regiment. Arrives in France. |
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1916
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January |
21 |
Private
Alfred Etherington,
29th Bn Canadian Infantry, Arrives in France |
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January |
30 |
Gunner Robert
Dodman, 28th Div. Ammunition Park, Royal Field
Artillery, Drowned at Le Havre (France) |
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February |
02 |
Conscription begins in Great Britain. Applied to single men between
18 and 41 years of age. |
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February |
21 |
Battle of Verdun commences. |
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April |
06 |
Private
Alfred Etherington,
29th Bn Canadian Infantry, Wounded in Action, St
Eloi, (Belgium). |
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May |
03 |
Conscription in Great Britain extended to married men. |
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July |
01 |
Battle of the Somme commences. |
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July |
03 |
Private
Frederick Killick, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Killed in Action, Nr Loos, (France). |
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July |
06 |
Private Thomas
Elliott, 1st Bn Coldstream Guards. Killed in
Action near Ypres (Belgium). |
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July |
23 |
Captain Evelyn
Webb. 2nd Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps. Killed
in Action at Pozieres in the Battle of the Somme (France). |
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September |
15 |
First use of tanks by British forces on the Somme. |
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November |
03 |
Private Albert
Killick, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Killed in Action, Somme, (France). |
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November
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18
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Battle of the Somme closes.
Private John
Scammell, 7th Bn The Queen's (RWSR), Killed in
Action, Somme, (France). |
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December |
05 |
Lance
Corporal Frank Dedman, 6th Bn The Queen's (RWSR), Killed in Action near Arras, (France). |
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December |
07 |
Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister. |
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December |
28 |
Allied forces evacuate Gallipoli. |
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1917
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January |
04 |
Private Urban
Carpenter. 11th (Pioneer) Bn Hampshire
Regiment.
Killed in Action. |
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January |
19 |
Samuel
Saunders.
Munitions worker, Killed in the Silvertown
Explosion, London. |
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February |
17 |
Lance
Sergeant Lionel Walker, 22nd Bn Royal
Fusiliers, Killed in Action on the Somme, (France) |
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February |
24 |
Private George
Denyer, 10th Bn The Queen's (RWSR)<Killed in Action> |
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February |
27 |
Sergeant
James Dedman, 7th Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Wounded in Action and taken Prisoner on the Somme (24th-27th February) |
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March |
23 |
Private
Albert Stemp, 15th Bn The Queen's (RWSR), Died of Illness, St Pol,
(France) |
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March |
24 |
Shoesmith Ernest
Smithers, 21st Lancers, Wounded, Somme,
(France). |
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March |
25 |
Shoesmith Ernest
Smithers, 21st Lancers, Died of Wounds,
Somme, (France). |
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April |
06 |
America declares war on Germany. |
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April |
09 |
Battle of Arras commences |
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April
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25
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Private
Thomas Gravett, 2nd Bn Royal Fusiliers, Killed
in Action, Arras, (France).
Private
Charles Tudor, 7th Bn The Queen's (RWSR), Died
of Wounds, Somme (France). |
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May |
13 |
Private
Albert Sellings, Royal Engineers. Died of
Illness in Ewhurst. |
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May |
16 |
Private
Harry Kilhams, 8th Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Killed in Action near Ypres (Belgium). |
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June |
07 |
Battle of Messines Ridge commences. |
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June |
13 |
Gunner William
Doherty, 4th Reserve Bde, Royal Field
Artillery, Died of illness in UK. |
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June |
25 |
First American troops arrive in France. |
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July |
31 |
Third Battle of Ypres commences. |
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August |
28 |
Sergeant
James Dedman, 7th Bn The Queen's (RWSR), Died of Wounds as a Prisoner of War, Germany. |
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October |
05 |
Private William
Childs, 2nd Bn The Queen's (RWSR),
Killed in Action, Nr Ypres, (Belgium). |
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November |
04 |
Private
Thomas Duffield, 21st West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince
of Wales's Own), arrives in France. |
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November |
06 |
Third Battle of Ypres closes with the capture of Passchendaele
village. |
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November |
20 |
Battle of Cambrai commences. |
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December |
09 |
Allied forces capture Jerusalem. |
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December
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10
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Private
Thomas Duffield, 21st West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince
of Wales's Own), Died of Wounds, Arras, (France).
Private
Nelson Whitty, 12th Bn, Somerset Light
Infantry,Killed in Action, whilst entering Jerusalem. |
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1918
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January |
26 |
Sergeant
George Ransom, 16th (The Queen's) Lancers.
Died of Illness whilst in hospital in Epsom |
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February |
25 |
Food rationing begins in Great Britain. |
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March |
21 |
Germans commence Spring Offensive along 50 mile front. |
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March |
22 |
Private Albert
Buck The Queen's (RWSR) Transferred to (67257) 146th Company Labour Corps. Killed in Action. Arras |
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March |
24 |
Corporal
Thomas Mathew 20th Bn Durham Light Infantry,
Died of Wounds. France |
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March |
27 |
Captain
William Frecheville, 74th Field Company, Royal
Engineers, Wounded in Action, Hamel, (France). |
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March |
28 |
L/Cpl Frank
Jenkins, 91st Field Company, Royal Engineers,
Died of wounds, Duisans, near Arras (France). |
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April |
04 |
German Spring Offensive halted at Villers-Bretonneux, near
Amiens. |
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August |
09 |
Private
Alfred Etherington,
29th Bn Canadian Infantry, Killed in Action,
France |
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August |
21 |
L/Cpl Harry
Duffell, DCM MM, 2nd Bn Royal Irish Regiment,
Killed in Action, near Bapaume, (France). |
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September |
29 |
Allied forces attack the Hindenburg Line
Private
Alfred Jenkins, 16th Bn Royal Sussex Regiment,
Died of Wounds, Doingt, (France) |
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November |
11 |
Armistice signed, general cease fire at 11am. |
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November |
12 |
Private
Alfred Wallis, 51st Bn Royal Sussex Regiment.
Died in hospital in Thetford, aged 18 |
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1919 and Onwards
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Jun 1919 |
01
28 |
Private
Daniel Newman, 13th Kensington Bn The London
Regiment. Died of Illness, Hove, England.
Treaty of Varsailles signed. |
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Oct 1919 |
04 |
Private
Frank Sellings,
The Queen's (RWSR). Died
of Wounds. Ewhurst, Surrey. |
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Jan 1920 |
09 |
Captain
William Frecheville, Royal Engineers, British
Military Mission. Executed after capture by Bolshevist forces. Russia. |
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Feb 1920 |
08 |
Charles
Westbrook, Died in Ewhurst from wounds
incurred during the war. |
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Nov 1920 |
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Remembrance Sunday,
Ewhurst
War Memorial Dedication Service |
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Oct 1921 |
10 |
Private William
Rose, 1st Bn The Queen's (RWSR). Died
from illness incurred as a Prisoner of War. Ewhurst, Surrey. |
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Andrew Bailey, Ewhurst, Surrey
andy@ewhurstfallen.co.uk
Copyright©2005 |