Full Name: Thomas Edward WILLIS Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Manchester Regiment Unit: 17th Battalion Age at Death: 26 Date of Death: 31 July 1917 Service Number: 51142 Cemetery: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium Memorial Reference: Panel 53 and 55 CWGC Certificate: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/911303/willis EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: https://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/911303/ Son of John Joseph Willis & Susannah Petman, of Goldstone, Ash, Canterbury; husband of Winifred M. Willis, of 2, Rushams Cottages, Wingham, Canterbury.
Full Name: Harold FAGG Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Middlesex Regiment Unit: 13th Battalion Age at Death: 26 Date of Death: 13 September 1918 Service Number: G/29011 Cemetery: Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimilles de Calais, France Grave Reference: IV. A. 10. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4025275/FAGG,%20HAROLD%20ERNEST EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/4025275/ Son of William and Emily Fagg of Wingham, near Canterbury. The grave registration documents state that Harold ‘died of wounds (gas)‘.
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: Thomas Sifleet Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 1st Battalion Age at Death: 27 Date of Death: 8 December 1917 Service Number: 203960 Cemetery: Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Memorial Reference: XXXII. D. 11. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/291053/SIFLEET,%20THOMAS EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/291053/ Son of Henry Sifleet; husband of Kate Sifleet, of IO, Gore Bank, Upchurch, Sittingbourne, Kent. Born at Lower Halstow, Kent. In the 1911 Census Thomas, aged 21, was still living at…
Full Name: Charles Gammon Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Manchester Regiment Unit: 2nd Battalion Age at Death: 21 Date of Death: 4 December 1917 Service Number: 245347 Cemetery: Poelcapelle British Cemetery, Belgium Memorial Reference: XXXII. D. 11. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/491514/GAMMON,%20CHARLES EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/491514/ Charles was born in 1896 in Upper Hardres, Kent to parents Walter and Ada Gammon (nee Keeler). In the 1901 and 1911 Censuses, Charles’s father was listed as a farmer on Fryarne Park Farm in Stelling Minnis…
Full Name: Walter John HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Chief Engineer Officer Service: Merchant Navy Vessel: S.S. Maid of Kent (London) Age at Death: 54 Date of Death: 21 May 1940 Cemetery: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2789926/HOPPER,%20WALTER EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2789926/ Walter was born in 1894 in Margate, Kent and was the only child born to Charles Hopper and Rose Huxstep. In the 1911 Census Walter (aged 17) is described as a solicitor’s clerk. In 1916 Walter married Elizabeth Ford…