Cecil Adler Beverley

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

80th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, died 17th October 1918 in the operation to finish hostilities in the Balkans

In mid-September 1918, an advance under the new Allied commander, Franchet d'Espérey, produced a rapid disintegration in the Bulgarian forces

Lost Generation Record

Birkenhead Town Hall Memorial

George P.S. Brown

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

4th Battalion The King's Regiment, died 27th September 1917 in the third battle of Ypres, probably the Battle of the Menin Road

Tyne Cote Cemetery

Robert Glyn Griffiths

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

HOW LIVERPOOL SCHOOLMASTER

WAS KILLED.

Sergeant Griffith who for eight years was assistant master at St Anne's School Stanley, has been killed in action. He was well known as a member of the Aliens Rugby Football Club, and had obtained much repute as an artiste: he was a pupil of the Liverpool School of Art. A comrade describes his death as follows :- Some of the platoon had been mown down by a German machine gun which was enfilading from the right flank. Sergeant Griffith mustered a few men, who, at his shout of "Come on, boys," dashed at the enemy and wiped the squad out, not without, however, the loss of the sergeant, who fell morta1ly wounded. He was noticed to be lying alongside a German officer. Brave little Bob Griffith! I take my cap off to his memory.

The 19th Battalion King's Regiment was formed by Lord Derby in the Prescot Watch Factory and it joined 89th Brigade, 30th Division that landed at Boulogne in November 1915.
The operation known as the 3rd Phase of the Somme started in July 1916 and in this operation sadly Sergeant Griffith lost his life,most probably at High Wood.<small<small</small</small>

Lost Generation Record

Memorial at St Annes Primary School

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Albert Ernest Hickling

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

BRAVE WORDS.

Lance-Corporal A.E.Hickling, of the King's Liverpool Regiment, died in France from wounds. He was first assistant-master at St. Lawrence Schools, Kirkdale, and a member of the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Walton Breck. He was educated at Deacon's School, Peterborough, and at St. John's College, Battersea, where be was popularly known as "Pete." Here he had a most successful career, gaining the Government certificate with double first-class, and was a member of the college first teams. As "Pete" he was known to a wide circle of admirers in Liverpool, who mourn the loss of a valuable friendship which stood every test, but the loss is greatest to the boys of his old school A few days before he was wounded he wrote :- "I am afraid we are bound to have losses in the next few days, and if I am among the number I hope my friends will remember what an infinitely small thing the loss of one life is in comparison with the principle for which we are fighting; and therefore, my wish is that you should not grieve for me but rather that you should be proud that I have an opportunity of falling in the same cause as so many of our St. Lawrence boys have done."

20th Battalion, The King's Regiment, died 7th August 1916 in the Somme offensive at High Wood

Memorial at Holy Trinity, Anfield

Lost Generation Record

Frederick Norman Howe

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

2nd Lt. Frederick Norman Howe of Halewood

84th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, died 25th April 1918

Lt F.N Howe served with 84th Battery, RFA and was killed in action on 25th April 1918. I have the 84th Battery, R.F.A, War Diary, 1914-1919 and there is an entire Appendix that covers the "Battle of Kemmil Hill, April 25th 1918." It indicates that on that date the battery was in action below the crest about 250 yards south of Mont Rouge Windmill under the orders of the French IX Corps whose infantry the battery was covering. From 0220 hours to 0830 hours on 25 April 1918 the battery fired the preliminary bombardment for the attack on Kemmil Hill. Because of earlier casualties only the Battery Commander (Maj W.W Green) and Lieut. Howe were at the battery position at the time. By 1000 hours the battery had suffered 30 casualties and only two guns remaining in action. A 5.9 exploded at the trail of "A" sub. gun, killing all but the No. 1, including Lieut. Howe, who at the time was acting as No. 2 at the gun, and the gun was put out of action. For his bravery at the time of his death Lieut. Howe was later mentioned in despatches. Interestingly the Lieut Howe in this episode is referred to as Lieut. W. Howe, but that is a mistake and it is definitely Lieut. F.N Howe, as Lieut W. Howe lived through the war and served for some years afterwards.
The War Diary of the Lahore Division Ammunition Column indicates that Lieut F.N Howe joined that unit on 5 May 1917. On 8 July 1917 he was attached to 5th Army with a group of limbered general service wagons. He was posted to 84th Battery, RFA on 13 October 1917 while the battery was in rest billets at Nieurlet, near St Omer. (Info by Dick Flory, Great War Forum)

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St Nicholas Church Memorial

Tyne Cote Cemetery

Private J.B.Humphrey

I haven't nailed this chap down yet, but it's a challenge

Possibilties:

James Boyd Humphrey born 1898 in West Derby (1901 Census)

Moved to Preston for 1911 Census, perhaps Boyd was his father
George Willacy Isaac

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

Company Sergeant Major George Willacy Isaac

63rd Field Ambulance, died 22nd November 1918 (after Armistice Day)

Lived in Bagot St, Wavertree and taught at St Clement's School

Lost Generation Record

Kingsley School Memorial

RAMC Record

William Johnson

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

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Died 12th October 1916 in the Somme offensive, during the Battle of Transloy Ridges 1st - 20th October

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Horace Tolson

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

Second Lieutenant Horace Tolson, 8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
He enlisted as a Private in September 1914, originally in the 87th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, after several months in hospital following a knee injury, he sailed for Lemnos on October 9th 1915. He served at Gallipoli, Egypt and France with the 29th Division, until July 1917, when he returned to England for officer training at Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in November 1917 and sailed for France in January 1918, this time with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

A report said that three officers were chosen for a special duty and only one of them came back. The survivor said that Lieutenant Tolson had been wounded when in charge of a machine-gun at Demuin, but he had continued fighting until he was killed on Friday 29th March 1918. There is no known grave.

Pozieries Memorial

James Frederick Venmore

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

LIVERPOOL OFFICER

HONOURED.

LIEUTENANT VENMORE RECEIVES

THE MILITARY CROSS.

It is officially announced that the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery has been awarded to Lieutenant J Frederick Venmore of the 14th Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

On the night of January 30 last Lieutenant Venmore was on duty as patrol officer in front of the British trenches in France, when a sentry in the firing trench reported that three men in an advanced listening post had been wounded. Two of these men were just able to crawl back to the British lines over the barbed wire, but the third man was too seriously wounded to follow, being shot through both legs. Lieutenant Venmore volunteered to go to his assistance, and took with him a non-commissioned officer (Corporal William Williams, a Carnarvon man), who is also awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

They went out under heavy fire over the parapet, and after great difficulty successfully brought in the man over the wire and two ditches. This brave action was succeeded by a further gallant act on the following morning, when a message was received that a man had had his arm blown off at another listening post, practically unapproachable by daylight. Lieutenant Venmore again undertook to go to his aid, once more taking with him Corporal William Williams. They crawled across the open ground in the face of heavy machine gun fire. The sufferer was reached his wounds tended to, and he was subsequently brought to safety. Both the officer and his companion were most highly congratulated by the brigade and divisional officers.

Lieutenant Venmore is a son of Mr. James Venmore, a citizen of Liverpool and a justice of the peace in the city. He is twenty-seven years of age, and educated at Liverpool College and at Mill Hill School. He subsequently studied architecture at Liverpool University, and was engaged in that profession in Liverpool until at the outbreak of war he enlisted as a private in the 3rd Battalion of the Liverpool "Pals". He received his commission in the 14th Royal Welsh Fusiliers in December, 1914 and proved himself a capable and popular officer.

Lieutenant Venmore's well-earned distinction will give pleasure to his many friends in Liverpool and North Wales.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 14 JANUARY, 1915.

14th Battalion

James Frederick Venmore to be temporary

Second Lieutenant. Dated 3rd December, 1914.

Battle of Mametz Wood July 1916

The Wood was strategically important and strongly defended by German infantry and artillery; successive assaults on 7 to 8 July failed as the advancing troops were cut down while crossing open ground.

However, a renewed attack by the 113th and 114th Brigades (the former consisting of four Royal Welch Fusilier battalions) early on 10 July gained a foothold in the Wood, and until late the following day Welsh battalions fought their way through the chaotic, shattered and bewildering mass of broken timber and dense undergrowth against an unseen enemy, preceded by a creeping artillery barrage which added to the deafening noise and further uprooted or brought down trees. To add to the horror and confusion, this even fell at times on their own men. But on the night of 11/12 July the Germans withdrew from the Wood, leaving behind hundreds of dead.

Medal Card at the National Archives

Lost Generation Record

Memorial at Liverpool College

Memorial at Liverpool University

James Herbert Weights

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

10th Battalion Tank Corps, died 9th August 1918 in the Battle of Amiens

Lost Generation Record

Liverpool University Memorial

Jack Williams

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

17th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died 29th August 1918.

Morval, NE of Amiens remained under allied control until 24 March 1918 when the Germans advanced, and was later regained by the 38th Welsh Division after fierce fighting on 1 September 1918.

Lost Generation Record

Ffestiniog Hospital Memorial

CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

Alexander Williamson

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link

9th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, died 31st January 1916 holding the line around Ypres

Memorial at Liverpool University

Lost Generation Record

WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES

D.P.Bohl (Sefton RUFC)1