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: 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: 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 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: David Keith O’DONNELL Nationality: New Zealand Rank: Flying Officer Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force Unit: 214 FMS Squadron Age at Death: 21 Date of Death: 15 January 1943 Service Number: 402063 Memorial: Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK Reference: Panel 197 View David’s details on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database CWGC Certificate:http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/1803537/O’DONNELL,%20DAVID%20KEITH David O’Donnell was born on 21 July 1921, the son of David and Esther O’Donnell (nee Collard), of Aramoho. David was Navigator aboard Stirling…