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…
Full Name: Archibald Gordon WILLIS Nationality: British Rank: Sergeant (Air Gunner) Service: Royal Air Force Vessel: 48 Squadron Age at Death: 20 Date of Death: 31 July 1940 Service Number: 568341 Cemetery: Carew (St Marys) New Churchyard, Pembrokeshire, Wales Reference: Row C, Grave 3 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2965510/WILLIS,%20ARCHIBALD%20GORDON Born in the Kent village of Barham in 1920, Archie was the only son of Archibald Frank Willis and Nellie Flack. His father served in the Great War as a Corporal of Horse in the…
Full Name: William Ernest Sydney SHEPHERD Nationality: British Rank: Boatswain Service: Merchant Navy Vessel: Cable Ship “Alert” (UK) Age at Death: 34 Date of Death: 24 February 1945 Service Number: 402063 Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK Reference: Panel 5 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2796820/SHEPHERD,%20WILLIAM%20ERNEST%20SYDNEY William Shepherd was born on 30 November 1908 in Plumstead, Kent – the only child of William James Shepherd and Olive Camilla Hopper. He married Winifred Imrie in December 1938 and a son was born to them…
Full Name: Stephen ROGERS Nationality: Canadian Rank: Private Service: Central Ontario Regiment, Canadian Infantry Unit: 75th Battalion Date of Birth: 7 July 1898 Age at Death: 19 Date of Death: 3 September 1917 Service Number: 1024057 Cemetery: Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery Extension, France Reference: II. A. 18. Military Records: View Stephen’s Attestation Papers – front and back CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/466625/ROGERS,%20STEPHEN EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/466625/ Stephen was born in Oare, Kent in July 1898 to Stephen Israel Rogers and Lucy Arnold. Stephen Jnr…
Full Name: Philip Henry PURSEY Nationality: Canadian Rank: Private Service: Canadian Pioneers Unit: 2nd Battalion Age at Death: 40 Date of Death: 15 Aug 1917 Service Number: 445152 Cemetery / Memorial: Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France Reference: I. H. 12. Military Records: View Philip’s Attestation Papers – front and back CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/259220/PURSEY,%20PHILIP%20HENRY EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/259220/ Philip was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1878 and married Lucy Heyman in Folkestone in April 1898. The couple emigrated to Canada in 1901…
Full Name: George PILE Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 1st and 5th Battalions Age at Death: 30 Date of Death: 19 June 1917 Service Number: 240837 Cemetery: Amara War Cemetery, Iraq Pluckley Village War Memorial, Kent, UK [picture, above] Reference: XIII. H. 9. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/629829/PILE,%20G EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/629829/ George was born in Pluckley, Kent in 1887, the fourth child of Jessie and Frances Pile. George was one of two sons from the…