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: 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…
Full Name: Edwin Charles PILE Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Unit: 7th Battalion Age at Death: 19 Date of Death: 21 Aug 1918 Service Number: 27803 Memorials: Vis-En-Artois Memorial, France and Pluckley Village War Memorial, Kent, UK Reference: Panel 8 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/1747716/PILE,%20EDWIN%20CHARLES EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1747716/ Edward was born in Pluckley, Kent in 1899, the third child of Lewis Pile and his second wife, Eliza Wills.
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: 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.