Full Name: Jack Taylor Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Regiment: 8th Battalion Age at Death: 22 Date of Death: 18 August 1916 Service Number: G/9192 Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial, France Reference: Pier and Face 5 D. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/815073/TAYLOR,%20JACK EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/815073/ Born in Dover, the fifth of six children born to Frederick and Anna Maria Taylor (nee Hopper), Jack was a tram driver before he enlisted in Dover as a Private on 08 Dec 1915, into…
Full Name: Edwin Thomas PILE Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 5th Battalion Age at Death: 23 Date of Death: 7 January 1916 Service Number: T/1016 Memorials: Amara War Cemetery, Iraq and Pluckley Village War Memorial, Kent, UK Reference: XXXI. D. 5. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/629828/PILE,%20EDWIN%20THOMAS EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/629828/ Edwin was born in Pluckley, Kent in 1892, the sixth child of Jessie and Frances Pile. George was one of two sons from the family killed in World…
Full Name: John “Jack” PARKER Nationality: Australian Rank: Second Leiutenant Service: Australian Infantry (AIF) Unit: 30th Battalion Age at Death: 21 Date of Death: 20 July 1916 Service Number: 572 Cemetery: Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery, France Memorial Reference: III.3.11 John’s Military Service papers: http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=8005334 Online Memorial: http://www.theage.com.au AIF Project entry: http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=233545 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/721612/PARKER,%20JOHN EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/721612/ ‘Jack’ was born on 21 August 1896 in Kiama, a township 120 kilometres south of Sydney, New South Wales in…
Full Name: Sidney Mark HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: The Royal Sussex Regiment Unit: 7th Battalion Age at Death: 19 Date of Death: 5 March 1916 Service Number: G/967 Cemetery: Loos Memorial, France Memorial Reference: Panel 69-73 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/732207/HOPPER,%20SYDNEY%20MARK EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/732207/ Sidney was the fifth of eight children born to Percy and Ellen Hopper, who were married in Hastings, Sussex in 1888.
Full Name: Gilbert HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Corporal Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 6th Battalion Age at Death: 30 Date of Death: 10 March 1916 Service Number: G/460 Cemetery: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium Memorial Reference: Panels 15-19 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/732203/HOPPER,%20GILBERT 3 EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/732203/ Before enlisting he worked for 12 years in the Goods Yard at the Priory Station, Dover. In the 1901 Census Gilbert was 15 years old and living at 22 Paul’s Place, Dover…
Full Name: Alfred Edward HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Gunner Service: Royal Field Artillery Regiment: 96th Brigade Age at Death: 29 Date of Death: 13 January 1916 Service Number: 35168 Cemetery: Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), France Reference: II C 51 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/199954/HOPPER,%20ALFRED%20EDWARD EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/199954/ Born in Dover, he was the son of Alfred and Lilian Hopper, from Dover. He enlisted in Woolwich and was the husband of Lucy May Gouge (formerly Hopper), of 85 Amersham Vale, New Cross, London.