Full Name: Algernon Frank W KINGSNORTH Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Army Service Corps Unit: Mechanical Transport Spare Parts Department Age at Death: 36 Date of Death: 19 September 1917 Service Number: M2/194805 Cemetery: Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania Memorial Reference: 3. A. 7. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/898525/KINGSNORTH,%20FRANK%20WESLEY EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/898525/ Algernon was born on 15 February 1881 in Faversham, Kent, the second child born to Alfred Kingsnorth and his second wife, Vashti Wilmot. Algernon married Ada Dunn in 1910…
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: Albert Edward HOPPER Nationality: British Rank: Lance Serjeant Service: Northumberland Fusiliers Regiment: 27th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Age at Death: 34 Date of Death: 11 March 1917 Service Number: 27/320 Cemetery: Faubourg d’Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France Reference: II. F. 11. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/284466/HOPPER,%20A%20E EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/284466/ Albert was born in 1883 in Dover, son of James and Emma Hopper (nee Ovenden) and enlisted in Sunderland. In the 1901 Census – at the age of 18 – he was…
Full Name: John Henry Thomas HOGBEN Nationality: British Rank: Stoker, First Class Service: Royal Navy Unit: HMS Imogen Age at Death: 20 Date of Death: 16 July 1940 Service Number: C/KX 93531 Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, UK Reference: 38, 2 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2468693/HOGBEN,%20JOHN%20HENRY%20THOMAS John Hogben was born in 1920 in Dover, the eldest of eight children born to John and Alice Hogben (nee Willis). On July 16th 1940 HMS “Imogen” was in collision with HM Cruiser “Glasgow” in thick fog…
Full Name: Victor Dominic BENEFIELD Nationality: New Zealander Rank: Flying Office (Instructor) Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force Unit: 11 Operational Training Unit Age at Death: 28 Date of Death: 16 September 1942 Service Number: 41302 Cemetery: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany Reference: 2 H 6 View Victor’s entry on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database Military Awards: 1939-1945 Star; Aircrew Europe Star; War Medal 1939-1945; New Zealand War Medal CWGC Certificate: hhttp://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2036875/BENEFIELD,%20VICTOR%20DOMINIC Victor was born on 8…
Full Name: Thomas Charles Benefield Nationality: New Zealander Rank: Private Regiment: New Zealand Entrenching Battalion, N.Z.E.F. Unit: 23rd Battalion Age at Death: 23 Date of Death: 24 March 1918 Service Number: 52935 Cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium Cemetery Reference: Enclosure No.2 III. E. 13. View Thomas’ Military records: http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE11339111 View Thomas’ details on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/483041/BENEFIELD,%20THOMAS%20CHARLES EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/483041/ Thomas was born in 1895 in…