Web Site Hit Counters BROADSTONE's War Memorials Broadstone War Memorial St John the Baptist Church Memorial Boards Broadstone First School Memorial Where is Broadstone? Geograph entries for gridsquare SZ 0095 Wikipedia entry for "Broadstone, Dorset UK" Broadstone Residents Association Notable Trees in UK postcode BH18 Researched by Jill Floyd This website has been compiled to keep alive the memory of the men and women who died in World Wars I and II. (A forerunner of this website is at: www.roll-of-honour.com/Dorset/Broadstone.html also compiled by Jill Floyd in 2008) I walked past the War Memorial in the recreation ground one day and wondered who all these men were. They must have had full names, families and lives, before they went off to fight for King & Country. I decided to find out. I then found names on the Memorials in St Johns Church and the Broadstone First School that were different from those in the rec. I decided to add them all to one list and find out who they were. Credit: Mike Webber. Every attempt has been made to ensure the information given is accurate, but any corrections or more information would be gratefully accepted for future publishing. There is a beautiful War Memorial Window in the church - approved in 1920 for £270, the work of Martin Travers, who was also responsible for the War Memorial Tablet in the church. It has recently been refurbished. Jill Floyd 2006 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We - will remember - them. Laurence Binyon Contents The Broadstone Memorials WW1 and WW2 The men who died in World War 1 The men who died in World War 2 also those killed by enemy action Sources of information and thanks Reader's comments Broadstone Recreation Ground – ‘Memory’ sculpted by Gilbert Bayes. "A war memorial recreation ground, embracing cricket, football, tennis and bowling greens and gardens was presented to the parish in 1920 by Miss Kennedy, of the Delph House, in memory of the men who fell in the Great War, and standing in the grounds is a handsome memorial, erected by public subscription, depicting a figure of Memory, carved in Portland stone". From Kellys Directory. 03.F J Allen 04.J R Allen 05.S C Allen 07.G Angell 08.H P Angell 09.J R Angell 10.A W Bascombe 11.A W Beament 12.E E W Beaney 13.D J Bressey 14.F S Brown 15.H H Brown 16.G Carter 17.J L Carter 18.R Cassidy MM 19.C W Coles 21.D E J Cooper 22.H Elsworth 23.A C Fall 24.F A Ford 25.V F J Fry 26.W H Gillingham 27.C V Gould 28.L T Gribbell 29.S Griffin 31.A R Hart 32.E C F Hart 33.T Hoar 34.A B G Holloway 36.E M Mansell-Pleydell 37.H G M Mansell-Pleydell MC 39.A J Newman 40.F L Northway 41.E C Pike 42.R Pond 43.J W A Pyper 44.P Rendle 45.F E Roberts 46.C M Stevens 47.C J Trowbridge 48.N V Wallis 49.H White 50.T B Wilson 51.T I W Wilson MC St John’s Church, Broadstone. In January 1921 Martin Travers produced a wooden War Memorial Tablet for £33. It was decided to include the names of those who had actually resided in Broadstone together with husbands, brothers and sons of the inhabitants. From Broadstone Church Magazine. 04.J R Allen 10.W A Bascombe 11.A W Beament 12.E.Beaney 38.H De B Nelson 13.D J Bressey 14.F S Brown 15.H H Brown 16.G Carter 17.J L Carter 18.R Cassidy 19.C W Coles 20.D E J Cooper 21.A E Dyer 22.H Elsworth 23.A C Fall 25.V F J Fry 26.W H Gillingham 28.L T Gribbell 29.S Griffin 31.A R Hart 32.E C F Hart 33.T Hoar 35.G M Hume 36.E M Mansell-Pleydell 39.A J Newman 40.F L Northway 41.E C Pike 42.A R Pond 43.J W A Pyper 44.P Rendle 46.C M Stevens 47.C J Trowbridge 48.N Wallis 49.H White 50.T B Wilson 51.T I W Wilson 52.H F Wyldebore-Smith Broadstone First School This afternoon a bronze tablet containing the names of 24 old scholars who fell in the Great War was unveiled by the Head Teacher. From Broadstone School Log Book 25 July 1924 04.John Allen 05.Sidney Allen 06.Tom Allen 07.George Angell 08.Harry Angell 09.John Angell 10.Alfred Bascombe 11.William Beament 15.Harold Brown 16.George Carter 17.John Carter 20.Eric Cooper 23.Arthur Fall 25.Victor Fry 26.William Gillingham 29.Stanley Griffin 30.Eric Harris 32.Frank Hart 31.Richard Hart 34.Albert Holloway 41.Edward Pike 42.Reginald Pond 44.Percy Rendle 49.Harold White Soldiers Fallen in World War One 03 Index WW1 Index WW2 FREDERICK JAMES ALLEN 1875 - 1914 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private FREDERICK JAMES ALLEN 3/7809, 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment. He died age 39 on 6th November 1914 and was the son of Mrs. O. Allen, of 4, George St., Salisbury. His brother Sidney Charles also fell. Remembered with honour at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 37. The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. Private Allen is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground. The First Battle of Ypres began 19th October and went on until 22nd November 1914. British troops entered Ypres in October 1914. They were unaware of the size of the German force advancing on the town. However, numbers did not make up for experience as the Germans used what were effectively students to attack professional British soldiers based north of the town at a place named Langemark. Eyewitnesses claim to have seen the German troops, with just 6 weeks training, with arms linked, singing patriotic songs as they advanced towards the British. 1,500 Germans were killed and 600 taken prisoner. Fierce fighting took place around the town and neither the British nor the Germans could claim to control the area. The first days of November directly affected the town. Each day Ypres was shelled and civilian casualties were high. This tactic set the scene for what Ypres was to suffer for several more years. By the winter, the Germans had not taken Ypres and heavy rain meant that any movement was impossible as the roads turned to mud. The first battle at Ypres limped to a halt. Broadstone Church Magazine August 1915 The Allen family, well known in Creekmoor and Waterloo, has been called upon to suffer a succession of heavy blows. Three of the sons were killed in the early stages of the war, one of whom has his place in our ‘Roll of Honour’, [JR Allen] the others not being parishioners; a fourth son was wounded and has just returned to the front.’ Frederick’s father, according to the census of 1881 & 91, was a labourer who was born in Corfe Mullen. Frederick’s mother was born in Lytchett Minster. They had moved from Lytchett Minster to Creekmoor by 1891, but were not found on the 1901 census. Frederick was listed as born at Canford, and was working as a labourer in 1891. He was the eldest son of a family of six sons and one daughter. Frederick, George, Thomas, Sidney, John, Joseph, and Elizabeth [14 years younger than Frederick]. Their father died on July 10th 1915, and is also mentioned in Broadstone Church Magazine, August 1915. 04 Index WW1 Index WW2 JOHN ROBERT ALLEN 1883 - 1914 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Lance Corporal JOHN ROBERT ALLEN 9630 2nd Bn., Scots Guards. He died age 31 on 18th December 1914 and was the husband of N. Galliott (formerly Allen), of Waterloo, Poole, Dorset. Remembered with honour at PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Belgium, panel 1. No 4, 1911 Census John Robert Allen 2 The Cottages Hillbourne Head 27 Nursery Gardener Poole, Dorset Nellie Allen 2 The Cottages Hillbourne Wife 33 Crawley, Sussex Olive Louisa May Allen 2 The Cottages Hillbourne Daughter 6 Salisbury, Wilts Nellie Frances Allen 2 The Cottages Hillbourne Daughter 3 Canford, Dorset Frederick John Allen 2 The Cottages Hillbourne Son 1 Canford, Dorset The Ploegsteert Memorial commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave. Lance Corporal Allen is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church [he was one of the first on the church Roll of Honour], and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 18 December 1914: An attack by 22nd Brigade [2nd Queen's and 2nd Royal Warwickshire] on the Well Farm position at La Boutillerie fails with heavy casualties. A further effort by 20th Brigade; 2nd Scots Guards and 2nd Border later in the day also fails.’ [Taken from www.1914-1918.net] Broadstone Church Magazine August 1915 ‘The Allen family, well known in Creekmoor and Waterloo has been called upon to suffer a succession of heavy blows. Three of the sons were killed in the early stages of the war, one of whom has his place in our ‘Roll of Honour’, [JR Allen] the others not being parishioners; a fourth son was wounded and has just returned to the front.’ See Frederick Allen for details of their family. 05 Index WW1 Index WW2 SIDNEY C ALLEN 1882 - 1914 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private SIDNEY C ALLEN 6143, 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment. He died age 32 on 9th September 1914 and was the husband of Florence G. Allen, of Waterloo, Poole, Dorset. Remembered with honour MONTREUIL-AUX-LIONS BRITISH CEMETERY II.13.1. No 5, 1911 Census Sidney Charles Allen 23 Derbys Lane, Oakdale Poole Boarder 29 Farm Labourer born Lytchett, Dorset The Montreuil-Aux-Lions British Cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields of the Aisne. It contains 171 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 102 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 16 casualties known or believed to be buried among them; in the case of eight men of the 1st Dorsets, the special memorial is a panel behind the Cross of Sacrifice. Private Allen is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and Broadstone First School Memorial. ‘The BEF played only a small part in the Battle of the Marne when compared with the titanic struggle between the very much larger French and German Armies. It was nonetheless an important part, as it struck a blow at a sensitive place in the German front. In fact, it was partly due to the British advance that such consternation was caused for the German position that the enemy decided to abandon the field of battle and withdraw to the north. The Germans withdrew to the next great river valley of the Aisne, protected to its north by the steep slopes along the top of which is the road called the Chemin des Dames. The BEF and the French Armies pursued them. The BEF received its first reinforcements, replacing losses to date. The total British casualties amounted to 1,701 of all ranks, killed, wounded and missing between 6th and 10th September.’ [taken from www.1914-1918.net] Broadstone Church Magazine August 1915 ‘The Allen family, well known in Creekmoor and Waterloo has been called upon to suffer a succession of heavy blows. Three of the sons were killed in the early stages of the war, one of whom has his place in our ‘Roll of Honour’, [JR Allen] the others not being parishioners; a fourth son was wounded and has just returned to the front.’ See Frederick Allen for details of their family. 06 Index WW1 Index WW2 TOM ALLEN Tom Allen is remembered on Broadstone First School Memorial. I have been unable to find any further information about Tom Allen. He is almost certainly a brother of the previous Allens. 07 Index WW1 Index WW2 GEORGE ANGELL 1893? - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private GEORGE ANGELL 10711, "A" Coy. 5th Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment who died age 25? on 27 September 1916. The son of Fred and Bessie Angell, of Hill Butts, Wimborne, Dorset. Remembered with honour CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY I. E. 6. No 7, 1911 Census Fred Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Head 45 Carter on farm Winfrith Newburgh Bessie Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Wife 45 Lytchett Matravers John Reginald Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 20 Carter Wallisdown George Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 18 Carter Bere Regis Amelia Rose Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 15 At home Turnerspuddle Percy Harry Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 12 School Derbys Corner, Poole Alice Mary Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 10 School Waterloo Emily Kate Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 7 School Waterloo Walter James Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 5 Hamworthy Robert Charles Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 2 Corfe Castle Contay is a village on the main road, Amiens to Arras. The site was chosen in August 1916 for burials from the 49th Casualty Clearing Station, which arrived at Contay at the end of August. It was joined by the 9th CCS in September. All the burials in Plots I to IV and the majority of those in Plots VII and VIII (the plot numbers V and VI were not used) cover the period August 1916 to March 1917. Most of them were made from these two clearing stations. The German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917 brought the medical units further east and it was not until April 1918, when the Germans advanced to Albert, that the 38th and other Divisions used the cemetery again, completing Plots VII and VIII and forming the two rows in Plot IX. The last burial took place in August 1918. Contay British Cemetery contains 1,133 First World War burials. G Angell is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on Broadstone First School Memorial as George Angell. There are three of the Angell family [George, Reginald John, and Percy Harry], remembered on the memorial in St Stephens Church, Kingston Lacy. I believe they may be the same family. On the 1901 census the family is living at Plainfield, Broadstone – father, Fred, an ‘Ordinary Farm Labourer’, and mother Bessie. The family consisted of brothers Fred, John, George and Percy Harry, two sisters Amelia/Emily Kate and Alice, and another two brothers Walter James, and Robert Charles. The same three of the Angell family [George, Reginald John, and Percy Harry], are remembered on the memorial in St Stephens Church, Kingston Lacy. The family lived at Pamphill after leaving Plainfield Farm, and at the top of Stone Lane in Wimborne is Angel Cottage where they later lived and the cottage is named after the family. The family spell the name Angel, but on both memorials in Broadstone it is Angell. 08 Index WW1 Index WW2 HARRY P ANGELL 1899? - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private H P ANGELL 27455, 6th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment who died on 23 August 1918. Remembered with honour A.I.F. BURIAL GROUND, FLERS No 8, 1911 Census Fred Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Head 45 Carter on farm Winfrith Newburgh Bessie Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Wife 45 Lytchett Matravers John Reginald Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 20 Carter Wallisdown George Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 18 Carter Bere Regis Amelia Rose Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 15 At home Turnerspuddle Percy Harry Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 12 School Derbys Corner, Poole Alice Mary Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 10 School Waterloo Emily Kate Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 7 School Waterloo Walter James Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 5 Hamworthy Robert Charles Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 2 Corfe Castle Flers was captured on 15 September 1916, in the Battle of Flers- Courcelette, when it was entered by the New Zealand and 41st Divisions behind tanks, the innovative new weapons that were used here for the first time. The village was lost during the German advance of March 1918 and retaken at the end of the following August by the 10th West Yorks and the 6th Dorsets of the 17th Division. H P Angell is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on Broadstone First School Memorial as Harry Angell. On the 1901 census the family is living at Plainfield, Broadstone – father, Fred, an ‘Ordinary Farm Labourer’, and mother Bessie. The family consisted of brothers Fred, John, George and Percy Harry, two sisters Amelia/Emily Kate and Alice, and another two brothers Walter James, and Robert Charles. The same three of the Angell family [George, Reginald John, and Percy Harry], are remembered on the memorial in St Stephens Church, Kingston Lacy. The family lived at Pamphill after leaving Plainfield Farm, and at the top of Stone Lane in Wimborne is Angel Cottage where they later lived and the cottage is named after the family. The family spell the name Angel, but on both memorials in Broadstone it is Angell. 09 Index WW1 Index WW2 JOHN R ANGELL 1891? - 1915 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private JOHN ANGELL 10712, 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment who died on 07 August 1915. Remembered with honour HELLES MEMORIAL Panel 136-139. No 9, 1911 Census Fred Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Head 45 Carter on farm Winfrith Newburgh Bessie Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Wife 45 Lytchett Matravers John Reginald Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 20 Carter Wallisdown George Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 18 Carter Bere Regis Amelia Rose Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 15 At home Turnerspuddle Percy Harry Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 12 School Derbys Corner, Poole Alice Mary Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 10 School Waterloo Emily Kate Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Daughter 7 School Waterloo Walter James Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 5 Hamworthy Robert Charles Angell Affpuddle, Dorchester Son 2 Corfe Castle The Allies landed on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25-26 April 1915. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916. The Helles Memorial serves the dual function of Commonwealth battle memorial for the whole Gallipoli campaign and place of commemoration for many of those Commonwealth servicemen who died there and have no known grave. The United Kingdom and Indian forces named on the memorial died in operations throughout the peninsula, the Australians at Helles. There are also panels for those who died or were buried at sea in Gallipoli waters. The memorial bears more than 21,000 names. J R Angell is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on Broadstone First School Memorial as John. On the 1901 census the family is living at Plainfield, Broadstone – father, Fred, an ‘Ordinary Farm Labourer’, and mother Bessie. The family consisted of brothers Fred, John, George and Percy Harry, two sisters Amelia/Emily Kate and Alice, and another two brothers Walter James, and Robert Charles. The same three of the Angell family [George, Reginald John, and Percy Harry], are remembered on the memorial in St Stephens Church, Kingston Lacy. The family lived at Pamphill after leaving Plainfield Farm, and at the top of Stone Lane in Wimborne is Angel Cottage where they later lived and the cottage is named after the family. The family spell the name Angel, but on both memorials in Broadstone it is Angell. 10 Index WW1 Index WW2 WILFRED ALBERT BASCOMBE 1897 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Lance Corporal WILFRED ALBERT BASCOMBE 17542, 5th Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment. He died age 19 on 18th September 1916 and was the son of Edwin Frank and Bessie Bascombe of "Sunnynook," Clarendon Rd., Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme. Pier and Face 7 B. No 10, 1911 Census Edwin Frank Bascombe Guest Villa Hillbourne Head 40 State Pensioner Waterloo, Dorset Bessie Bascombe Guest Villa Hillbourne Wife 42 Slepe, Wareham, Dorset Albert [Wilfred] Bascombe Guest Villa Hillbourne Son 13 School Hillbourne, Dorset Fred Bascombe Guest Villa Hillbourne Son 12 School Hillbourne, Dorset Nora Bascombe Guest Villa Hillbourne Daughter 6 School Hillbourne, Dorset On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Despite a preliminary bombardment lasting seven days, the German defences were barely touched and the attack met unexpectedly fierce resistance. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following weeks, huge resources of manpower and equipment were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German Army resisted tenaciously, and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The village had been an original objective of 1 July. Attacks north and east continued throughout October and into November in increasingly difficult weather conditions. The Battle of the Somme finally ended on 18 November with the onset of winter. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. L.Cpl. Bascombe is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground as AW Bascombe, on St Johns Church Memorial as WA Bascombe, and on Broadstone First School Memorial as Alfred Bascombe. Broadstone Church Magazine Nov 1916 Wilfred Bascombe, son of Mr Bascombe, Sandy Lane, was killed after being a very short time at the front. On the 1901 census Albert W Bascombe is listed as living with his parents at Hillbourne. His father was a carpenter & joiner. He had two younger brothers, Edwin & Herbert. 11 Index WW1 Index WW2 ARTHUR WILLIE BEAMENT 1882 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private ARTHUR WILLIE BEAMENT 50595, 19th Bn., The King's (Liverpool Regiment). He died age 35 on 19th December 1917 and was the son of James and Emma Beament, of Bruce Villa, Broadstone. Remembered with honour RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND Zillebeke, Ypres Grave VII.U.1 No 11, 1911 Census James Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Head 61 Jobbing Gardener Critchel, Dorset Emma Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Wife 55 Poole, Dorset Bill Beament [full name Willie Arthur] Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Son 28 Contractor, haulier, own account Hamworthy, Dorset Elsie Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Daughter 26 Cook, unemployed Hamworthy, Dorset John Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Son 21 Carter, Builders Merchant Broadstone, Dorset Alice Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Daughter 18 Housemaid, unemployed Broadstone, Dorset Winifred Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Daughter 15 Daily Nursemaid Broadstone, Dorset Edgar Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Son 13 Schoolboy Broadstone, Dorset Belmont Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Daughter 10 Schoolgirl Broadstone, Dorset William Beament Bruce Villa Wimborne Rd Grandson 5 Taunton, Somerset The commune of Zillebeke contains many Commonwealth cemeteries as the front line trenches ran through it during the greater part of the First World War. Railway Dugouts Cemetery is two kilometres west of Zillebeke village, where the railway runs on an embankment overlooking a small farmstead known to the troops as Transport Farm. The site of the cemetery was screened by slightly rising ground to the east, and burials began there in April 1915. They were continued until the Armistice, especially in 1916 and 1917, when advanced dressing stations were placed in the dugouts and the farm. They were made in small groups, without any definite arrangement; and in the summer of 1917 a considerable number were obliterated by shell fire before they could be marked. The names "Railway Dugouts" and "Transport Farm" were both used for the cemetery. At the time of the Armistice, more than 1,700 graves in the cemetery were known and marked. Other graves were then brought in from the battlefields and small cemeteries in the vicinity, and a number of the known graves destroyed by artillery fire were specially commemorated. The latter were mainly in the present Plots IV and VII. The cemetery now contains 2,459 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War. 430 of the burials are unidentified and 261 casualties are represented by special memorials. Other special memorials record the names of 72 casualties buried in Valley Cottages and Transport Farm Annexe Cemeteries whose graves were destroyed in later fighting. It seems likely that Arthur Beament was first buried at Beaumont-Hamel and later his remains were moved for permanent burial at Zillebeke. Private Beament is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, [with incorrect spelling Beatment]. He is also remembered on the Memorial in St Johns Church Broadstone and on the First School Memorial. According to John Owens papers, deposited with the vicar of Broadstone at St Johns Church : Private A W Beament – No 50595 formerly No 176403 Royal Field Artillery. Broadstone Church Magazine Feb 1918 The death of Arthur Willie Beament has removed from our midst a well-known and much respected figure. Our sincerest sympathy is due to his widow and to his parents in their great loss. He belonged to the 19th Battalion Liverpool Regiment and was killed in action on December 19th. A Memorial Service of a simple but touching character was held in our church and was attended by a large congregation. On the 1891 census Willie Arthur is living in the Parish of Canford Magna, which included Broadstone, with his parents; James, a general labourer, born at Critchel, and Emma, born at Poole; with brothers James, an apprentice at the Iron Foundry at Waterloo, Sydney and John, and sisters Florence, Elsie and Elizabeth. On the 1901 census Willie A. is a labourer on the Golf Course and is still living in Wimborne Road, Broadstone with his parents, James, by then listed as a ‘gardener, not domestic’, and Emma. Living at home also at that time were Elsie, Elizabeth, John, Alice, Winifred, Edgar, and a baby girl of 11 months called Belmont. In 1915 Kellys lists Arthur Willie Beament as a Haulier living in Victoria Road [now Northbrook Road]. Arthur Beament left a widow, Louisa, and their son, Geoffrey. Louisa later married George Knight, milkman, from Corfe Mullen. His brother Edgar is in Kellys of 1927 and 1931 still living at Bruce Villa. Elsie Rose Beament, Arthur Willie’s sister, married Albert Edward Horwood on 3rd Oct 1915 at St Johns Church. Her son Richard Horwood was a well known member of Broadstone British Legion until his death. 12 Index WW1 Index WW2 ERNEST EDWARD BEANEY 1893 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private ERNEST EDWARD BEANEY PO/15681, H.M.S. "Motagua.", Royal Marine Light Infantry who died age 25 on 19 March 1918. He was the son of William Beaney, of Southampton, and the husband of Maisie Bertha Beaney, of Wimborne Rd., [now Dunyeats Road], Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Ref.30. No 12, 1911 Census Ernest Beaney Royal Marine Barracks, Walmer, Kent Royal Marine 18 Private R.M.Southampton Portsmouth Naval Memorial Hampshire. After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping. Portsmouth Naval Memorial commemorates almost 10,000 sailors of the First World War and almost 15,000 from the Second World War Private Beaney is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. HMS Motagua was a British auxiliary cruiser, a merchant ship taken over for conversion into a vessel armed with cruiser-size guns. These were employed either for convoy protection against true cruisers, or for commerce-raiding missions, where its appearance was used to trick merchant ships into approaching. On March 19, 1918 USS Manley (DD 74) was severely damaged and 56 of her crew killed after an accidental detonation of 18 depth charges when the ship rolled against the HMS Motagua off the Irish coast. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1918 ‘As we go to press I am deeply grieved to hear of the death of two of our men on Naval Service – Francis Brown and Ernest Beaney. I am sure you will sympathise very deeply with their widows.’ 13 Index WW1 Index WW2 DENYS JOHN BRESSEY 1898 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Second Lieutenant DENYS JOHN BRESSEY 12th Bty., Royal Field Artillery [35BDE]. He died age 19 on 14th October 1917. The son of Herbert & Amy Bressey, of "Durlstone," Hayes Lane, Bromley, Kent. Remembered with honour THE HUTS CEMETERY Ypres grave A2. The Huts Cemetery takes its name from a line of huts strung along the road from Dickebusch (now Dikkebus) to Brandhoek, which were used by field ambulances during the 1917 Allied offensive on this front. Much of the cemetery was filled between July and November 1917 and nearly two thirds of the burials were of gunners from nearby artillery positions. There are now 1,094 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery. Second Lieutenant†Bressey is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Broadstone Church Magazine Nov 1917 ‘We regret exceedingly to say that two names have been added during the past month to our Roll Of Honour of those who have laid down their lives in the service of King and Country – a nephew of Mrs Luke and – especially sad is it to record the death of an only child, Denys John Bressey, 2nd Lieutenant in the RFA laid down his life on October 14th 1917. We tender our deepest sympathy to his sorrowing parents, who, although they have not been with us long, are so universally known and respected in Broadstone.’ On the granting of probate Denys Bressey's address was given as The Hersel, Broadstone. 14 Index WW1 Index WW2 FRANCIS SAMUEL BROWN 1880 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private FRANCIS SAMUEL BROWN PO/8971, (RMR/B/582). H.M.S. "Motagua", Royal Marine Light Infantry. He died age 39 on 19th March 1918. The son of Francis Samuel and Mary Brown, of Portsmouth and the husband of Alice Maud Mary Brown, of Bourneville, Hillbourne, Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, 30. No 14, 1911 Census Francis Samuel Brown Bourneville, Hillbourne Head 32 Gardener, domestic, for private gentleman St Lukes, Southsea, Hants Alice Maud Mary Brown Bourneville, Hillbourne Wife 45 Dressmaker Broadstone, Dorset Sarah Gale Bourneville. Hillbourne Mother-in-law 75 Pamphill, Wimborne, Dorset After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping.. Portsmouth Naval Memorial commemorates almost 10,000 sailors of the First World War and almost 15,000 from the Second World War. The Memorial is situated on Southsea Common overlooking the promenade. Private Brown is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone HMS Motagua was a British auxiliary cruiser, a merchant ship taken over for conversion into a vessel armed with cruiser-size guns. These were employed either for convoy protection against true cruisers, or for commerce-raiding missions, where its appearance was used to trick merchant ships into approaching. On March 19, 1918 USS Manley (DD 74) was severely damaged and 56 of her crew killed after an accidental detonation of 18 depth charges when the ship rolled against the HMS Motagua off the Irish coast. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1918 ‘As we go to press I am deeply grieved to hear of the death of two of our men on Naval Service – Francis Brown and Ernest Beaney. I am sure you will sympathise very deeply with their widows.’ Broadstone Church Magazine May 1918 ‘Mrs F Brown of ‘Bourneville’ desires to express her warm thanks for the many letters and for the kind sympathy shown her in her recent bereavement.’ 15 Index WW1 Index WW2 HAROLD HENRY BROWN 1891 – 1915 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Corporal HAROLD HENRY BROWN No 8975, 1891-1915 2nd Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment. He died on 22 November 1915. Remembered with honour BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq, panel 22 and 63. No 15, 1911 Census Harold Henry Brown, Alma Barracks, Blackdown, Farnborough 20 Private 1st Bn. Dorset Regt.Compton, Dorset The Basra Memorial bears the names of more than 40,500 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the Autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known. Corporal Brown is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the memorials in St Johns Church, Broadstone and Broadstone First School. Basra Memorial is built of ochre coloured stone and is the creation of a lost imperial age. It is formed in roughly a semi-circle; there is a walkway, which extends for several hundred yards, and set into the stone are the names of hundreds of fallen British and Commonwealth troops. There is a pillar at the centre, which informs the visitor that these are men who died in the Iraq campaign of 1914 to 1921. They fell here around Basra and in the hellish siege of Kut and at other nameless places in the Arabian desert. They fought the soldiers of the declining Ottoman empire and when that fight was done they fought the Shia of southern Iraq who rose to claim their own freedom. Over the decades the desert winds have done their work: segments of the slate have collapsed on the ground. There are little fragments of names scattered in the sand. [From an article by Fergal Keane, BBC correspondent in Basra 2003] Church Magazine Feb 1916 – With deep regret we add another name to our Roll Of Honour. It is that of Harold H Brown son of Mr & Mrs Brown of Springfield Lodge, who was a Corporal in the 2nd Dorsets, and who was killed in the fighting on the Persian Gulf Front on Nov 22nd. Everybody in Broadstone speaks very highly of Harold Brown and the deepest sympathy is felt with his parents. 16 Index WW1 Index WW2 GEORGE CARTER 1898 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private GEORGE CARTER No 18927, 6th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment. He died on 11 October 1917 age 19. Remembered with honour TYNE COT MEMORIAL panel 92 [One mile from Passchendale] Zonnebeke, near Ypres. No 16, 1911 Census James Carter Station Yard Station Road Head 47 Railway Signalman West Howe, Kinson, Dorset Alice Jane Carter Station Yard Station Road Wife 44 Wareham, Dorset Winifred Charlou Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 17 General Day Servant Domestic Waterloo, Poole, Dorset John Laws Carter Station Yard Station Road Son 15 Errand Lad for grocer Poole, Dorset George Carter Station Yard Station Road Son 13 School Poole, Dorset Flora Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 9 School Broadstone, Dorset Dorothy Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 7 School Broadstone, Dorset Mary Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 4 School Broadstone, Dorset Frederick Carter Station Yard Station Road Son 3 Broadstone, Dorset The Tyne Cot Memorial now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which was established around a captured German blockhouse or pill-box used as an advanced dressing station. The original battlefield cemetery of 343 graves was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when remains were brought in from the battlefields of Passchendaele and Langemarck, and from a few small burial grounds. It is now the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world in terms of burials. At the suggestion of King George V, who visited the cemetery in 1922, the Cross of Sacrifice was placed on the original large pill-box. There are three other pill-boxes in the cemetery. There are now 11,952 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in Tyne Cot Cemetery. 8,365 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to more than 80 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 20 casualties whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. Private Carter is also remembered on the Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone, and the Broadstone First School Memorial. In the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendale. Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after 16 August 1917 are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Broadstone Church Magazine December 1917 ‘It is with much regret that we record the death of George Carter, of the 6th Battalion of the Dorset Regiment, who was killed in action on October 11th. He was a Chorister of this church and afterwards Organ Blower for a time. He was confirmed and a communicant at our Altar. It is a pleasure to remember that he received the Holy Communion last Easter Day in our church, when home on leave. May God grant him rest.’ George appears to be the brother of John L Carter who was to die the following year. Their father was a signalman who was living at the station yard at Broadstone in 1901, but had moved to Lewell Crossing at Dorchester by the war years. They had also lived at Sway where George’s sisters Emily & Ellen were born. 17 Index WW1 Index WW2 JOHN LAWS CARTER 1896 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records. In Memory of Private JOHN LAWS CARTER No 26746, 1st Bn, Wiltshire Regiment, Duke of Edinburghs He died age 22 on 10 April 1918 The son of James and Alice Jane Carter, of Lewell Crossing, Dorchester. Remembered with honour PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Belgium, panel 8 No 17, 1911 Census James Carter Station Yard Station Road Head 47 Railway Signalman West Howe, Kinson, Dorset Alice Jane Carter Station Yard Station Road Wife 44 Wareham, Dorset Winifred Charlou Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 17 General Day Servant Domestic Waterloo, Poole, Dorset John Laws Carter Station Yard Station Road Son 15 Errand Lad for grocer Poole, Dorset George Carter Station Yard Station Road Son 13 School Poole, Dorset Flora Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 9 School Broadstone, Dorset Dorothy Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 7 School Broadstone, Dorset Mary Carter Station Yard Station Road Daughter 4 School Broadstone, Dorset Frederick Carter Station Yard Station Road Son 3 Broadstone, Dorset Ploegsteert Memorial Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium, commemorates more than 11,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave. The memorial serves the area from the line Caestre-Dranoutre-Warneton to the north, to Haverskerque-Estaires-Fournes to the south, including the towns of Hazebrouck, Merville, Bailleul and Armentieres, the Forest of Nieppe, and Ploegsteert Wood. Those commemorated by the memorial did not die in major offensives, such as those which took place around Ypres to the north, or Loos to the south. Most were killed in the course of the day-to-day trench warfare which characterised this part of the line, or in small scale set engagements, usually carried out in support of the major attacks taking place elsewhere The cemetery contains 83 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and four German war graves. The sounding of the Last Post takes place at the Ploegsteert Memorial on the first Friday of every month at 7 p.m. Private Carter is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone, and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1918 It was a pleasure to see John Carter looking so well on his recent leave. Broadstone Church Magazine June 1918 I am sure we all sympathise very sincerely with the parents and other relatives of John Carter who laid down his life in the Great War on April 10th. He was a chorister in our church, was confirmed there, and a regular and devout Communicant. This is the second of their three sons whom his parents have lost in the War, the youngest still being in the Choir. John appears to be the brother of George Carter who died the previous year. Their father was a signalman who was living at the station yard at Broadstone in 1901, but had moved to Lewell Crossing at Dorchester by the war years. They had also lived at Sway where John’s sisters Emily & Ellen were born. 18 Index WW1 Index WW2 ROBERT CASSIDY M.M. 1892 - 1918. On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Lance Corporal ROBERT CASSIDY MM 13186, "Y" Coy. 8th Bn., Northumberland Fusiliers who died age 26 on 19 July 1918. The husband of Elsie May Cassidy, of "Maniton," Grove Rd.[now Charborough Rd], Broadstone, Dorset. A native of Hebburn-on-Tyne. Remembered with honour PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE, III.E.17 No 18, 1911 Census Robert Cassidy 36 Harvey Street, Hebburn Nephew 19 Coal Miner [Water leader] Sheerness, Kent Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas De Calais, was started in August 1915. In 1916 it was taken over by the 16th (Irish) Division, who held the Loos Salient at the time, and many of their dead were brought back to the cemetery from the front line. Succeeding divisions used the cemetery until October 1918, and men of the same division, and often the same battalion, were buried side by side. After the Armistice, many isolated graves from the Loos battlefield were brought into the cemetery, including those of 41 men of the 9th Black Watch. There are now 1,996 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the cemetery, 277 of them unidentified. Lance Corporal Cassidy is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Broadstone Church Magazine Sept 1918 We offer our deep sympathy to Mrs Cassidy, whose husband has been instantaneously killed in France. His death seems all the more sad since he and his wife were only married at our church last September. An entry in Broadstone First School log book for 1st March 1915 “The children have knitted a 100 pairs of socks for the men of the Northumberland Fusiliers billeted in Broadstone……the regiment is leaving this week”. The 9th Battalion had presented a Litany Desk to St Johns Church on leaving their billets in Broadstone. The Military Medal was established in wartime Britain by King George V on 25 March 1916, a year and a half after Britain declared war against Germany. Its inception was intended to meet the enormous demand for medals during the First World War. The medal was initially awarded to NCOs and men of the Army (including the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Division) for individual or associated acts of bravery, which were insufficient to merit an award of the Distinguished Conduct Medal. The medal was not however restricted to British or Commonwealth subjects. Awards of the medal were announced in the London Gazette, as above, (without an accompanying citation). Recipients of the medal, which was silver and circular of 36mm in diameter and which featured the head of the monarch on the front, were allowed to list the letters 'MM' after their name. 19 Index WW1 Index WW2 CYRIL WILLIAM COLES 1892 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Gunner C W COLES No 205764, "D" Coy. Tank Corps who died age 23 on 15 September 1916 Son of Mr. W. C. Coles, of "Stoneleigh," Wimborne Rd., Poole, Dorset. Remembered with honour BULLS ROAD CEMETERY, FLERS, Somme, III.E.6 No 19, 1911 Census William Clement Coles Creekmoor Mill, Nr Poole Head 50 Miller & Corn Merchant Creekmoor Sarah Ann Coles Creekmoor Mill, Nr Poole Wife 57 Fordingbridge Cyril William Coles Creekmoor Mill, Nr Poole Son 18 Working in Corn Mill Creekmoor Donald Durant Coles Creekmoor Mill, Nr Poole Son 16 School Creekmoor Flers is a village in the Department of the Somme; it was captured on 15 September 1916 in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, when it was entered by the New Zealand and 41st Divisions behind tanks, the innovative new weapons that were used here for the first time. The cemetery was begun on 19 September 1916 and was used by fighting units (mainly Australian) until March 1917. The rest of the cemetery consists of graves (mainly of September 1916, or August 1918) brought in after the Armistice from the fields between Flers and Longueval. Gunner Coles is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. ‘The very first battle involving tanks took place on the Somme on Friday 15 September 1916, when around 30 British Mark 1 tanks attacked German positions between the villages of Flers and Courcelette. The entry of the tank into the war signalled the end of trench warfare, which had suffocated both sides in the 1914-18 conflict. During this action the Press seized on a report from an aircraft crew, which reported that, "a tank is walking down the main street of Flers with the British Army cheering behind it." This was "D" Company.’ [Taken from the 1st RTR web site, via the Army Home Page] The Battle of Flers-Courcelette. An attack was launched across a 12 km front from Rawlinson's Fourth Army salient on 15 September. Twelve divisions were employed, along with all the tanks the British army possessed: 49. These early tanks proved notoriously unreliable during testing and application. Weighing approximately 28 tons, they could only move forward at a snails pace, a half mile per hour. They were impervious to small arms fire, and to a lesser extent machine gun fire (metal chips would fly inside the tank, resulting in the issue of chain-mail visors to the operators, uncomfortable and seldom worn). However shell fire could (and did) easily destroy a tank. Navigation and visibility were poor and radio communication was not available until late in the war: carrier pigeons were used instead. The attack was preceded by an artillery-bombardment designed to leave unshelled lanes open for the advance of the new mobile weapon. Accordingly, on 11 September the 49 tanks began to move slowly into position in the line. As a measure of their fundamental unreliability, 17 tanks were unable to make it as far as the front line. Of the 22 that did, a further 7 failed to work at zero hour. Thus 15 of the 49 tanks rolled slowly into No Man's Land with the start of the attack on 15 September. Led by tanks the villages of Martinpuich, Flers and Courcelette fell to the Allies, as did the much sought-after High Wood. Nevertheless, a combination of poor weather and extensive German reinforcements halted the British and Canadian advance on 17 September; the Allies had again suffered heavy casualties, including Raymond Asquith, the son of the British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. The attack was called off on 22 September. The use of tanks had by no means led to any anticipated breakthrough, but they nonetheless impressed Haig, who requested that 1,000 more be constructed. Broadstone Church Magazine July 1917 Details have only recently been obtained of a Broadstone man in the first of those wonderful ‘tanks’ which created so much excitement on their first appearance. Gunner C W Coles of the Machine Gun Corps was attached to the first tank and was killed in action near Flers on Sept 15th 1916. May he rest in peace. Cyril Coles appears on the 1901 census living at Creekmoor with his parents William, a corn miller who was also an employer, his mother Sarah and brother Donald two years his junior. The family also had a domestic servant, a young girl called Mary Old. 20 Index WW1 Index WW2 DOUGLAS ERIC JOHN COOPER 1894 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private DOUGLAS ERIC JOHN COOPER No 4729, 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex Yeomanry). He died age 22 on 25th February 1916, the son of John and Ruth Cooper, of Church Rd [now Tudor Rd], Broadstone. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY grave A.20 No 20, 1911 Census John Cooper Kintore Church Rd Head 45 Market Gardener Own Account Poole, Dorset Ruth Cooper Kintore Church Rd Wife 45 Waterloo, Dorset Dorothy Cooper Kintore Church Rd Daughter 19 Winton, Bournemouth, Hants [Douglas] Eric Cooper Kintore Church Rd Son 17 Works in garden Broadstone, Dorset Private Cooper is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, and on Broadstone First School Memorial [as Eric]. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1916 D E J Cooper was killed accidentally during training. The funeral, which was a military one, was conducted at the Wesleyan Chapel in Broadstone. The Cooper family can be found on the 1901 census living in Church Road, Broadstone. Eric, aged 7, lived with his parents Ruth and John, a journeyman butcher, and his sister Dorothy, two years older than Eric. They also had a boarder living with them called James Gowans, a Professional Golf Player from Edinburgh. Mrs Cooper is still listed as living at ‘Kintore’ Church Road in Kellys Directories of 1920 and 1923. 21 Index WW1 Index WW2 ALBERT EDWARD DYER 1888 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private ALBERT EDWARD DYER 28720, 3rd Bn., Grenadier Guards who died age 29 on 27 November 1917. Son of Ernest and Matilda Dyer; husband of Jessie Dyer, of 36, Purbeck Rd., Bournemouth. Remembered with honour CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL Panel 2 No 21, 1911 Census Albert Edward Dyer 3 Sunny Cottages, Palmerston Rd, Parkstone 21 Assistant to window cleaner Oxford Cambrai Memorial, stands on a terrace at one end of Louverval Military Cemetery and commemorates more than 7,000 servicemen of the United Kingdom and South Africa who died in the Battle of Cambrai in November and December 1917 and whose graves are not known. The proposed method of assault was new, with no preliminary artillery bombardment. Instead, tanks would be used to break through the German wire, with the infantry following under the cover of smoke barrages. The attack began early in the morning of 20 November 1917 and initial advances were remarkable. However, by 22 November, a halt was called for rest and reorganisation, allowing the Germans to reinforce. By 29 November, it was clear that the Germans were ready for a major counter attack. During the fierce fighting of the next five days, much of the ground gained in the initial days of the attack was lost. The results of the battle were ultimately disappointing but valuable lessons were learnt about new strategies and tactical approaches to fighting. The Germans discovered that their fixed lines of defence were vulnerable. Private Dyer is also remembered on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Broadstone Church Magazine Jan 1918 Albert Edward Dyer is posted as missing. Albert Dyer was almost certainly found on the 1891 & 1901 census, both times living with Matilda, his mother, at his grandparents’ houses in Taunton. There is no mention of his father on these census returns. 22 Index WW1 Index WW2 HERBERT ELSWORTH 1887 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private H ELSWORTH No 8509, 2nd Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment who died age 29 on 29 July 1916 Mesopotamia. The son of Mr E. Elsworth & Mrs Elsworth (step-mother), of The Uplands, Blandford Rd, Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY, XXI.C.22 No 22, 1911 Census Herbert Elsworth Serving in Ceylon or India 23 Private in 2nd Battalion Dorset Regiment Blandford In 1914, Baghdad was the headquarters of the Turkish Army in Mesopotamia. It was the ultimate objective of the Indian Expeditionary Force 'D' and the goal of the force besieged and captured at Kut in 1916. The city finally fell in March 1917, but the position was not fully consolidated until the end of April. Nevertheless, it had by that time become the Expeditionary Force's advanced base, with two stationary hospitals and three casualty clearing stations. The North Gate Cemetery was begun In April 1917 and has been greatly enlarged since the end of the First World War by graves brought in from other burial grounds in Baghdad and northern Iraq, and from battlefields and cemeteries in Anatolia where Commonwealth prisoners of war were buried by the Turks. At present, 4,142 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War are commemorated by name in the cemetery, many of them on special memorials. Private Elsworth is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. According to Broadstone Parish Magazine: Emmanuel Elsworth was long connected with the family of Mrs Lane of ‘Widworthy’, Herbert Elsworth can be found on the 1891 census aged 3 [having been born at Milton Abbas], living at Parley with his father Emmanuel, a groom, and his mother Martha. Also listed are his sisters Winifred aged 2 and Emily just 8 months old. On the 1901 census Herbert is living near Glendon, Corfe Mullen, with his father and his father’s wife, Amy, his mother apparently having died. His sisters Winifred and Emily having been joined by brothers Frederick aged 3 and Arthur aged 1 year. 23 Index WW1 Index WW2 ARTHUR CHARLES FALL 1889 or 92 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In memory of ARTHUR CHARLES FALL 75th Bt Canadian Infantry [Central Ontario Regt.]. Born in Broadstone, he was the husband of Marion L Fall of Seven Falls, Ontario. He died on 30th September 1918 aged 25. Buried at CANTIMPRE CANADIAN CEMETERY, SAILLY NORD, FRANCE, A.32 The Allied advance in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 did not reach this district and it was not until September 1918 that the villages of Haynecourt, Sailly and Cantimpre fell into Allied hands. The "Marcoing Line," one of the German defence systems before Cambrai, ran from Marcoing northward through Sailly, to the west of Cantimpre and the east of Haynecourt. On 27 September 1918, the 1st Canadian and 11th Divisions took Haynecourt; and on the next day Sailly was taken. Two cemeteries were made by units which took part in the advance. Cantimpre Canadian Cemetery (originally called Marcoing Line British Cemetery) contains 224 First World War burials, 21 of them unidentified. All but two of the burials are of Canadian soldiers, largely of the 54th, 75th and 87th Infantry Battalions. Private Fall is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and the Broadstone First School Memorial. He is also commemorated on Page 405 of the First World War Book of Remembrance of the Veterans Affairs, Canada, see over the page. Broadstone Church Magazine March 1918 The name of Arthur Fall has been added to our list of wounded. He has been gassed in France but is going on well I’m told. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1918 We are glad to say that Arthur Fall has recovered from his recent gassing and was able to be present at the funeral of his father on 15th March, although he still feels the effect of his trying experience from time to time. Broadstone Church Magazine Dec 1918 Just as we go to press we are grieved to hear of the death of Arthur Fall, Canadian Contingent, who was killed in the late fighting in France. He was a native of Broadstone and was, we believe, brought up by his Uncle and Aunt, Mr & Mrs Racket, to whom we offer our very sincere sympathy. From Veterans Affairs Canada www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers In 1911 Arthur Charles Fall was living with his wife Marion in Canada, he enlisted at Toronto on 11 November 1916. Arthur Charles Fall was brought up by his Uncle and Aunt Mr & Mrs Racket and can be found on the 1901 census living at Providence Cottage, Hillbourne, with them. His father, a widower and brakesman on the railway, was visiting and his sisters Gertrude age 7 and Ada aged 13 were living with them. By 1911 his father Charles Thomas was working and living in Eastleigh for the L&SW Railway, and his mother Clara Fall had died. 24 Index WW1 Index WW2 FREDERICK AUSTIN FORD 1898 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In memory of Second Lieutenant F A FORD Guards Div., Signal Coy., Royal Engineers Who died on 27th August 1918 The son of Walter and Julia Ford Buried at DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY Grave ref II B 21 No 24, 1911 Census Walter Bertram Ford Higher Merley, Nr Wimborne Head 40 Builder & Wheelwright Canford Magna Julia Mary Ford Higher Merley, Nr Wimborne Wife 45 Canford Magna Walter Bertram Ford Higher Merley, Nr Wimborne Son 14 Canford Magna Frederick Austin Ford Higher Merley, Nr Wimborne Son 12 Canford Magna Dorothy Rita Ford Higher Merley, Nr Wimborne Daughter 10 Canford Magna The British Cemetery was begun in August and September, 1918, by the 3rd Division Burial Officer; and the 81 graves then made are scattered among eight Rows in what are now Plots II and IV. It was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of Arras and the Ancre and from other burial grounds. The following were among the burial grounds from which British graves were taken to this Cemetery, Ransart M.D.S. Cemetery, in the village, where 12 soldiers from the United Kingdom were buried at the end of August, 1918. Willow Road Cemetery, Boiry-Ste. Rictrude, in which 25 soldiers from the United Kingdom (largely of the Guards Division) were buried in 1918. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens & George Hartley Goldsmith F A Ford is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground. His father was a Wheelwright and builder according to the 1911 Census and the family lived in Higher Merley. I have not been able to ascertain any more information so far. 25 Index WW1 Index WW2 VICTOR FREDERICK JOHN FRY 1895 - 1915 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private VICTOR FREDERICK JOHN FRY No 10269, 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment who died age 20 on 21st August 1915 The son of Frederick F. & Emma Elizabeth Fry, of Grantley, Broadstone. Remembered with honour HELLES MEMORIAL [Gallipoli] Turkey, Panel 136-139 No 25, 1911 Census Frederick Fertus Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Head 42 General Labourer Wimborne Emma Elizabeth Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Wife 44 Longfleet, Poole Margaret Edith Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Daughter 17 Longfleet, Poole Victor Frederick John Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Son 15 Golf Caddy Wimborne Dorothy Thirza Grant Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Daughter 12 Longfleet, Poole Daisy Irene Hannah Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Daughter 10 Waterloo, Nr Poole Roland Henry Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Son 7 Waterloo, Nr Poole Wilfred Howard Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Son 6 Waterloo, Nr Poole Ernest Edward Fry Waterloo, Nr Poole Son 3 Waterloo, Nr Poole The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916. The Helles Memorial serves the dual function of Commonwealth battle memorial for the whole Gallipoli campaign and place of commemoration for many of those Commonwealth servicemen who died there and have no known grave. The United Kingdom and Indian forces named on the memorial died in operations throughout the peninsula. Private Fry is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. Church Magazine October 1915 ‘We regret to record the addition of another name to our Roll of Honour, that of Victor Fry, son of Mr Fry of Sandy Lane, who was killed in the Dardanelles. We desire to express our deepest sympathy with his parents in this sad loss.’ Victor is listed on the 1901 census as aged 5 living at Waterloo with his parents Frederick and Emma. He had three sisters at that time: Margaret, Dorothy and Daisy who was only 6 months old. She would have been only 14 when her brother died. Between 1915 and 1935 his father is listed in Kellys directories as living in Sandy Lane [now Clarendon Road], presumably at ‘Grantley’. 26 Index WW1 Index WW2 VICTOR WILLIAM HENRY GILLINGHAM 1892 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private V W H GILLINGHAM 8964, 2nd Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment who died age 27 on 10th December 1918 He was the son of William Henry and Bessie Gillingham, of Grove Road, [now Charborough Road], Broadstone. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY grave B108 No 26, 1911 Census Victor [William Henry] Gillingham Alma Barracks, Blackdown, Farnborough, Hants 19 Private 1st Bn Dorset Regt Poole, Dorset Private Gillingham is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial as William. Broadstone Church Magazine Jan 1919 To Mr Gillingham also our sympathy is extended on the death of his son, lately invalided out of the Army. – Victor William Henry Gillingham aged 27 years. On the 1901 census William Gillingham is living at the brickyard, Broadstone, with his parents Henry & Bessie, his sister Kate and brother Edward. His father is a brickyard labourer. The brickyard in Broadstone was in Grove Road [now Charborough Road]. 27 Index WW1 Index WW2 CHALKLEY VIVIAN GOULD 1879 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Major CHALKLEY VIVIAN GOULD, 115th Bty. 25th Bde., Royal Field Artillery who died age 37 on 9th June 1917. He was the son of Chalkley and Nellie Gould; husband of Lily Ann Gould, of St Bedes, Melrose, Roxburghshire. Returned from U.S.A. to join the Army, Sept., 1914; gazetted Nov., 1914. Born at Loughton, Essex. Remembered with honour KLEIN-VIERSTRAAT BRITISH CEMETERY, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen Belgium. II.C.15. Klein-Vierstraat British cemetery was begun in January 1917 and Plots I to III were made by field ambulances and fighting units before the middle of January 1918. After the Armistice, graves were brought into Plot I, Row H, and Plots IV to VII, from two smaller cemeteries (Ferme Henri Pattyn Vanlaeres, Poperinghe and Mont-Vidaigne Military Cemetery, Westoutre) and from the battlefields of Dikkebus, Loker and Kemmel. Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery now contains 804 First World War burials, 109 of them unidentified. Major Gould is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground. Broadstone Church Magazine July 1917 Eldest son of Mrs Gould of ‘Redroofs’, who was killed on June 9th. He was a Major in the RFA. Broadstone Church Magazine August 1917 The following notice recently appeared in ‘The Times’ concerning Major Gould whose death we recorded last month. “Major Chalkley Vivian Gould RFA who was killed on June 9th while directing the fire of his battery, was born in 1880. In 1902 he took his mining degree of Bachelor of Science, Durham University. In 1908 he went to America following his profession of mining engineer, returning to England in October 1914 to join the Army. He was gazetted lieutenant in the RFA on November 1st 1914, and went to the front in August 1915. His Colonel writes:- ‘I know I have lost a very fine, courageous, and able battery commander, and I am certain this is felt by all those with whom he came in contact’. Major Gould was the eldest son of the late Chalkley Gould and Mrs Gould of ‘Redroofs’, Broadstone, Dorset, and a great-great grandson of the late Commodore Pearce RN who served under Nelson. In 1904 he married Lily, youngest daughter of the late Robert Steel, of Newcastle on Tyne.” On the 1881 census Major Gould’s father was a bookseller, and in 1891 a photographer living in Surrey Road, Branksome. In 1901 there were no listings for Chalkley Gould or his father, but it is believed his brothers, John and Horace, were living in Alumhurst Road, Bournemouth, both photographers. 28 Index WW1 Index WW2 LESLIE TERRELL GRIBBELL 1884 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Second Lieutenant LESLIE TERRELL GRIBBELL Temp 2nd Lt 3rd Bn., Devonshire Regiment who died age 32 on 31 March 1916. Son of Paymaster-in-Chief W. H. Gribbell (R.N.) and Jessie Helen Gribbell, of "Kennaa," Broadstone, Dorset. Born in Zanzibar, East Africa. Remembered with honour at BROADSTONE CEMETERY Grave B,41 Second Lieutenant Gribbell is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground but erroneously as LT Gribbrell. He is also on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Broadstone Church Magazine May 1916 We deeply regret to record the death of Lt Gribbell of 3rd Bn., Devonshire Regiment, the son of Mr & Mrs WH Gribbell, of Kennaa, 14 Golf Links Road. 2nd Lt. Gribbell came home from the Argentine about a year ago in order to offer his services to the Motherland in her hour of need, and soon afterwards was given a commission in the Devons. He was so keen on his work that, unfortunately, he continued to go on with his duties after he had been attacked by measles with the result that double pneumonia set in. Everything possible was done for him at the hospital in Devonport but he sank and in a few days passed away. He was accorded a military funeral from the hospital to the railway station, and representatives of the officers together with three buglers, came up from the regiment to pay him the last honours at Broadstone Cemetery. At the conclusion of the service at the graveside the Last Post was sounded. He was honoured and beloved alike by officers and men. He had received his education at the United Service College at Westward Ho and was the last Captain of the college and recipient of the Gold Medal before the institution was moved. Our sincerest sympathies go out to the bereaved parents and other relatives. According to the 1891 census the Gribbell family was living at Prussia Road, Hoylake. Leslie aged 7, his brother William aged 14 and sister Ethel aged 19. His father was at this time the Navy Fleet Paymaster RN. In 1901 they were living at Wear Villa, Raleigh Estate, Northam, near Barnstaple and William was not with them. This was perhaps when Leslie was attending the United Services Colllege at Westward Ho! where Kipling had been a pupil before him. His father is recorded in Kellys of 1911, 1915, 1920 and 1923 as living in Broadstone and is also buried in Broadstone Cemetery. 29 Index WW1 Index WW2 STANLEY GRIFFIN 1893 – 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private STANLEY GRIFFIN 436140, 46th Bn., Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment) who died on 27 March 1917 age 24 Remembered with honour VILLERS STATION CEMETERY, VILLERS-AU-BOIS, Pas De Calais, VII.F.20 No 29, 1911 Census Elias Sharland Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Head 48 Builder, Employer Portsmouth, Hants Annie Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Wife 47 Bookkeeper, butcher's South Petherton, Somerset Nora Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Daughter 20 Bricklayer Broadstone, Dorset Stanley Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Son 18 Caddy Broadstone, Dorset Frederick J Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Son 15 School Broadstone, Dorset Arthur C Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Son 12 School Broadstone, Dorset Flora E Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Daughter 9 Broadstone, Dorset Doris Madge Griffin Guildford Villa Wimborne Rd Daughter 4 Broadstone, Dorset Villers Station Cemetery was begun by the French but was used by Commonwealth divisions and field ambulances from the time they took over this part of the front in July 1916 until September 1918. It is associated particularly with the Canadian Corps whose headquarters were nearby and many of the graves in Plots V to X date from April 1917 and the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Villers Station Cemetery now contains 1,208 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 32 German war graves. Private Griffin is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. He is also commemorated on Page 248 of the First World War Book of Remembrance of the Veterans Affairs, Canada, see over the page. The 46th Battalion served with the 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Division from 11 August 1916 until the Armistice. The unit has come to be known as "The Suicide Battalion". The 46th Battalion lost 1,433 killed and 3,484 wounded - a casualty rate of 91.5 percent - and won 16 battle honours in 27 months. After relief on 24 November, the 46th Battalion spent two weeks in Bruay, about ten miles behind the front lines. On 19 December they moved back into the line at Vimy Ridge, taking over a portion of the line dominated by German positions on The Pimple, a natural fortress atop the north end of the ridge. They and the 50th Battalion served alternating shifts in the fire trenches until the 46th was relieved by the 13th Middlesex Regiment on 4 April 1917. From Veterans Affairs Canada www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers Broadstone Church Magazine May 1917 Stanley Griffin son of Mr Sharland Griffin killed on March 27th. On the 1901 census Stanley Griffin is aged 8, living next door to ‘Berwyn’ in what is now Dunyeats Road. This is possibly where Griffins office can still be found. His father Elias S. is a builder and brother Alfred a carpenter. He has two sisters Rosella and Nora, both older than him, and two brothers Fred and Arthur, both younger than him. On the 1891 census Elias Sharland Griffin can be found as a Carpenter & Joiner, and Bird Stuffer. 30 Index WW1 Index WW2 ERIC HARRIS Eric Harris is remembered on Broadstone First School Memorial. I have been unable to find any other confirmed information about Eric Harris. 31 Index WW1 Index WW2 ALBERT RICHARD HART 1888 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Lance Corporal ALBERT RICHARD HART No 200759, (3061). 1st/7th Bn., Middlesex Regiment , who died age 29 on 23 February 1917. He was the son of Richard and Ellen Hart, of Oak Cottage, Broadstone. Remembered with honour PONT-DU-HEM MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE grave III.A.4 No 31, 1911 Census Albert Richard Hart 41 Southcroft Road, Tooting SE London Boarder 23 Assistant Teacher for L.C.C. Dorset The Cemetery was begun, in an apple-orchard, in July, 1915, and used until April, 1918, by fighting units and Field Ambulances; these original burials are in Plots I, II and III, and Rows A and B of Plot IV. In April and May, 1918, German burials were made in Plots III and IV. After the Armistice, 426 German graves were removed to other cemeteries; and British graves were brought in from smaller burial grounds and from the surrounding battlefields. There are now over 1,500 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over half are unidentified and special memorials are erected to nine soldiers from the United Kingdom believed to be buried among them. Lance Corporal Hart is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church Broadstone, and Broadstone First School Memorial as Richard. The 1st Battalion and the 18th of the 33rd Division, were out of the line occupying an area 5 or 6 miles East of Abbeville when the New Year of 1917 dawned, but by 11th February had moved down to the Somme again and were in the ClËry sector. The Battalion Diary for 15th contains the following entry: "26 suits of armour arrived for use of bombers," but details of the armour are not given. The use of armour was, however, abandoned, being considered too heavy and cumbersome, and after trial it was withdrawn. The front-line trenches were about 1200 yards east of ClËry, and here the 1st Battalion had, between 11th and 16th February, a very uncomfortable time. The enemy, very much on the alert, kept the Die-Hards under periodical, but violent, bursts of rifle-grenade and trench-mortar fire, whilst the guns of both sides indulged in artillery duels. The next day "D" Company, then in reserve on Marne Crest, had a bad time, as the German guns plastered their position with H.E. shells. Dug-outs were blown in. The tour ended on 16th, the next beginning on 25th near Road Wood, to reach which the men had to move along communication trenches knee-deep in parts in mud and water. In the midst of purgatory, however, the Battalion Diary still reports "men very cheerful." [Taken from http://freespace.virgin.net/howard.anderson/winter1916.htm] Broadstone Church Magazine April 1917 ‘Albert Hart was a man who inspired respect wherever he went, by his lofty aims and devotion to duty, and his death is mourned by a large circle of friends in Broadstone.’ On the 1891 census Albert Hart is found living next to the school in Broadstone with his father, Richard, a mariner, his mother Ellen, four sisters, Mary [a pupil teacher], Emma, Annie & Flora, and two brothers William and Edward only 8 months [who was killed in July 1916 in Iraq]. In 1901 he is living in Wimborne Road [now Dunyeats Road, possibly the same as in 1891]. His father is not listed, his mother is the head of the household. Emma is now a dressmaker, Annie a school mistress, William a pupil teacher, and Albert is aged 13, Edward aged 10, and another brother Henry aged 7. William Percy Hart is listed in Kellys of 1927 and 1931 at the School House, and on Kellys 1935 and 1939 living at ‘Kilndown’, Upton Way. He is still remembered by his past pupils in Broadstone in 2014. 32 Index WW1 Index WW2 EDWARD CLIFFORD FRANK HART 1891 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private EDWARD CLIFFORD FRANK HART No 1850, 1st/4th Bn., Hampshire Regiment who died age 26 on 11 July 1916 Son of Richard and Ellen Hart, of Oak Cottage, Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour AMARA WAR CEMETERY, Iraq, IX.H.20 No 32, 1911 Census Edward Clifford Frank Hart 10 Church Street, Lyme Regis Boarder 20 Teacher Canford, Dorset Amara was occupied by the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force on 3 June 1915 and it immediately became a hospital centre. The accommodation for medical units on both banks of the Tigris was greatly increased during 1916 and in April 1917, seven general hospitals and some smaller units were stationed there. Amara War Cemetery contains 4,621 burials of the First World War, more than 3,000 of which were brought into the cemetery after the Armistice. 925 of the graves are unidentified. In 1933, all of the headstones were removed from this cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the cemetery engraved upon it. Private Hart is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church Broadstone, and Broadstone First School Memorial as Frank. Broadstone Church Magazine August 1916 We desire to express the sympathy of the whole parish to Mrs Hart and her family in the death of her son Frank, of 2/4th Bn. Hampshire Regiment, who died in hospital at Basra. On the 1891 census Edward F Hart is found living next to the school in Broadstone with his father, Richard, a mariner, his mother Ellen, four sisters, Mary [a pupil teacher], Emma, Annie & Flora, and two brothers William and Albert [who was killed in action in February 1917]. In 1901 he is living in Wimborne Road [now Dunyeats Road, possibly the same as 1891]. His father is not listed, his mother is the head of the household. Emma is now a dressmaker, Annie a school-mistress, William a pupil teacher, Albert aged 13, and brother Henry aged 7. William Percy Hart is listed in Kellys of 1927 and 1931 at the School House, and on Kellys 1935 and 1939 living at ‘Kilndown’, Upton Way. NB. There is a discrepancy between the Commonwealth War Graves commission and the Church Magazine. The first gives him as 1st/4th Bn., Hampshire Regiment and the second as 2/4th Bn., Hampshire Regiment. 33 Index WW1 Index WW2 THOMAS HOARE 1884 – 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private THOMAS HOARE 3/7938, 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment who died age 32 on 26 September 1916 Son of George and Emma Jane Hoare, St. James Terrace, Birchington, Kent. Remembered with honour VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY, Somme. V.I.A. No 33, 1911 Census Thomas Hoare Bryanston Mews, St Marylebone West. Head 26 Groom, domestic Birchington [Kent] This cemetery was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other burial grounds in the area and from the battlefields. There are now 2,141 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 608 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to five casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to 15 buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found. Private Hoare is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. St Johns Church Magazine November 1916 Remembering Thomas Hoare whose home was not in this part of the country but who had been employed by Miss Kennedy for the past four years. Miss Kennedy owned Delph House in Broadstone. 34 Index WW1 Index WW2 ALBERT B G HOLLOWAY 1899 - 1920 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private A B G HOLLOWAY 27380, Depot, Wiltshire Regiment. He died age 21 on 19 May 1920. He was the son of Charles and Sarah Holloway, of Creekmoor, Poole. Born at Hampreston, Dorset. Remembered with honour in BROADSTONE CEMETERY A.13 No 34, 1911 Census Charles Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Head 41 Cowman on farm Corfe Mullen, Dorset Sarah Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Wife 42 Corfe Mullen, Dorset Ethel Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 20 Sweet Packer Hampreston, Dorset Charles Hollloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Son 17 Butchers Assistant Hampreston, Dorset Bertie [Albert B.G.] Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Son 12 Hampreston, Dorset Winnie Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 10 Hampreston, Dorset Flossy Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 7 Waterloo, Dorset Lilly Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 5 Waterloo, Dorset Minnie Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 4 Waterloo, Dorset Irene Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 2 Waterloo, Dorset Louie Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 1 Waterloo, Dorset Dorothy Holloway 136 Wimborne Road, Waterloo Daughter 2 months Waterloo, Dorset Private Holloway is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. It would appear that Albert died of wounds after returning home. On the 1901 census Albert was aged 2 living at Waterloo with his father Charles, a cattleman, and his mother Sarah. He had two sisters Ethel aged 10 and Winifred aged 6 months, and a brother Charles who was 7. By 1911 there were 10 siblings listed on the census. 35 Index WW1 Index WW2 GEORGE MINCHIN HUME 1897 - 1915 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Second Lieutenant GEORGE MINCHIN HUME 2nd Northumbrian Field Coy., Royal Engineers who died on 12 June 1915. Remembered with honour SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY, Zillebeke, IV.T.10 Sanctuary Wood is one of the larger woods in the commune of Zillebeke. It was named in November 1914, when it was used to screen troops behind the front line. There were three Commonwealth cemeteries at Sanctuary Wood before June 1916, all made in May-August 1915. The first two were on the western end of the wood, the third in a clearing further east. All were practically obliterated in the Battle of Mount Sorrel, but traces of the second were found and it became the nucleus of the present Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. At the Armistice, the cemetery contained 137 graves. From 1927 to 1932, Plots II-V were added and the cemetery extended as far as 'Maple Avenue', when graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields. Second Lieutenant Hume is also remembered on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. George Minchin Hume is to be found on the 1901 census living at 61 Osborne Road, Jesmond, Northumberland. His father was a surgeon, Geoffrey Haliburton Hume. His mother Francis was born in Canada. George had two brothers at this time: William and Norman who were both Medical Students, and two sisters Phyllis and Constance. Olive Hume is not included on this census return, but a nurse, cook, waiting maid, housemaid and nursemaid are part of the household. Church Magazine July 1915 ‘It is with sincere regret that we record the addition of two more names to the Roll Of Honour. They are those of JW Anderson Pyper and George Hume son of Dr Hume of ‘Maradana’. ‘ [20 Lower Golf Links Road according to ‘Kellys’ 1915] Church Magazine November 1916 ‘We are grateful to Miss Olive Hume who has presented a beautifully bound Altar Book to the church in memory of her brother Lt George M Hume whose name is upon our Roll of Honour. The book is so large that the present stand will not hold it conveniently, and a red velvet cushion has been presented anonymously on which the book may rest upon the Altar.’ I believe George, if he lived, would have been the Uncle of Cardinal Basil Hume. 36 Index WW1 Index WW2 EDMUND MORTON MANSEL-PLEYDELL 1887 – 1915 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Lieutenant EDMUND MORTON MANSEL-PLEYDELL 3rd Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment attd. 3rd Bn., Worcestershire Regiment who died age 28 on 12 March 1915. Son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Mansel-Pleydell, of Whatcombe, Blandford, Dorset. Remembered with honour YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Panel 37 No 36, 1911 Census Edmund Morton Mansel-Pleydell 1 Cecily Hill, Cirencester Head 24 Agricultural Student Bangalore, India Lt Mansel-Pleydell is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. He was the first to be mentioned on the church Roll of Honour. Spanbroek Mill - On the morning of March 12th on the Messines Ridge the British artillery had been bombarding the enemy’s positions since 7 a.m. but the mist made it impossible to observe the result. The assembly trenches were only half dug and were full of water. In such cover as those shallow trenches afforded the two battalions crouched all the morning while the German shells crashed down about them in answer to the British fire. There were many casualties but a message arrived to say that the First Army were making excellent progress down south, that there were indications of the Germans withdrawing troops from these parts and the attack should not be delayed a moment longer than possible. The British artillery opened their bombardment at 2.30 p.m., and at 4.10 p.m. the leading companies of the two battalions rose from the waterlogged ditches, crossed the front-line trenches under a hail of bullets and plunged forward through knee-deep mud to the assault. The enemy’s fire was fierce and deadly, and officers and men went down at every step. The survivors reached the German wire entanglements and struggled through such gaps as they could find. The leading party broke through the wire and stormed the hostile parapet. Further to the right another small party had succeeded in breaking through the German lines and seizing a group of ruined houses. That was the total success. The rest of the two attacking companies of the 3rd Worcestershire had been shot down, and were lying killed or wounded on the broken mud between the trench-lines. The other two companies of the Battalion had been ordered not to move from the assembly trenches. Soon the enemy began to press inwards along the trenches with bomb and bayonet against the two little parties, which had penetrated their position. Isolated though they were, the Worcestershire lads held firm and repulsed all attacks for over three hours. But no help came: instead the British artillery, misinformed as to the position, commenced again to bombard the German front line, and annihilated the helpless party in the ruined buildings. Darkness closed down and Lieut. Martin was ordered to evacuate the captured trench. They sent back all their wounded before they finally withdrew. The losses were severe. The casualties of the Battalion were nearly 180, including nine officers killed including E. M. Mansel-Pleydell (Dorsets, attached), and 38 other ranks. Wounded, 99. Missing 32. One VC, four DCMs were awarded that day. Taken from the De Ruvgnys Roll of Honour Broadstone Church Magazine The Roll of Honour in the church porch contains a name of which it seems that some notice should be taken in our magazine. Lt. EM Mansel-Pleydell had gone up and down amongst us for more than two years but beyond that, his great interest and pleasure were, first the Broadstone Boy Scouts, and latterly the Sea Scouts of Poole. When the news of his death came, the one remark made who spoke of him was, “He had such a good influence on the boys of Broadstone”. Constant in his attendance at our Sunday services, his devout manner will not soon be forgotten by his fellow worshippers. He has been, and will be, specially remembered by many of us as we join in the prayer, “We also bless Thy holy name for all thy servants departed this life in Thy faith and fear.” 37 Index WW1 Index WW2 H G M MANSEL-PLEYDELL MC 1895 – 1916 In Memory of Lt. HENRY GROVE MORTON MANSEL-PLEYDELL, MC 1st Dorsetshire Regt. Died 17th May 1916 Aged 21. Son of Mrs K. E. Mansel-Pleydell, of 13, Foulis Terrace, South Kensington, London. Remembered with honour MIRAUMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Somme A5 14 although almost certainy died at Thiepval. No 37, 1911 Census Henry G M Mansel-Playdell 12 Bath Road, Littlefield, Marlborough Boarder 16 Student Blandford, Dorset Miraumont was occupied by British troops at the end of February, 1917, lost on the 25th March, 1918, and retaken by the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division on the following 24th August. It was later "adopted", with Colincamps and Courcelles, by the town of Burnley. The Communal Cemetery was largely used by German troops, and soldiers from the Commonwealth were buried in it by the enemy. There are now nearly 30, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site. H G M Mansel-Pleydell MC is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground. London Gazette Issue 29215 published on the 2 July 1915. Military Cross Military Cross Instituted by King George the Fifth in 1914. The Military Cross is awarded to commissioned and warrant officers for distinguished and meritorious service in battle. For additional acts of bravery, a straight silver bar was awarded. During the Great War 2,885 of these medals were awarded to British officers. Here is an extract from the excellent ‘Poets and Pals of Picardy’ by Mary Ellen Freeman: Both Mansell- Pleydell and his friend Capt William Algeo, son of the Rector of Brownsea Island, were both immensley popular with their men. The Batttalion War Diaries cite the following tribute to 21 year old Henry Grove Morton Mansell-Pleydell – ‘….dauntles courage and tireless activity had singled him out as an incomparable intelligence officer. He was out in No Man’s Land night after night, seeking and obtaining information. His cheerful disposition enabled him to create a light hearted atmosphere under the most appalling conditions. He was a fine sportsman.’ Mansel- Pleydell’s adjutant wrote of him – ‘ … He does not know the meaning of the word fear and a more gallant and brave officer could not be found. He was always so immensley popular, and by his courage and example had a such a beneficial effect upon all with whom he came into contact.’ The action which resutled in the deaths of the two distinguished Dorsets was reportedly a joint venture of their own initiative into No Man’s Land in order to locate the exact position of a troublesome machine gun emplacement which had been causing the battalion problems…… an eyewitness account given by CSM Ernest Shephard described what happened on that morning: At 10am this morning, without saying anything, Capt. Algeo and Lt. Mansel-Pleydell went out from sap. They were seen crossing No Man’s Land between sap and wood. When nearly up to the edge of the wood Mansell-Pleydell was seen to beckon, and he and Captain ran into wood. There was a scuffle and Capt Algeo was heard shouting ‘Hands up, hands up, put it down’. A volley of rifle fire and revolver shots followed, a scream, then silence…… the enemy reported to the American Embassy both Algeo and Mansell-Pleydell as ‘found dead near Thiepval’. [In fact they had been buried at Miraumont]. 38 Index WW1 Index WW2 HAMILTON De BEAUVOIR NELSON 1896 - 1915 The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private B Nelson 16802. 7th Bn., Canadian Infantry who died on 24 April 1915. He was the son of William H de B Nelson of 124 Fourth Avenue, North Pelham, New York, USA. Remembered with honour YPRES, MENIN GATE MEMORIAL No 38, 1911 Census Hamilton de Beauvoir Nelson Framlingham College, Suffolk Boarder 14 School New York The War Diary of the 7th Battalion Canadian Light Infantry, Bristish Columbia Regiment shows the position they were in that day. “At about 4pm on 24th April we were subject to a severe gassing, which was borne by light wind from the enemy trenches in a southerly direction, and as it passed over the skyline we occupied it seemed to settle and thicken. We were almost overcome by the fumes. I have since heard that two of my men died from the effects of the gas in my trench at this time. About 5pm a terrific artillary bombardment broke over our trench, which owing to its exposed nature was easily seen by direct fire. As this trench would accommodate a battalion I was enabled to extend the men along to the left, thereby saving a great many casualties. Just as I had completed my dispositions we saw two battalions along our front retiring towards us from their trenches. I prepared to receive them in our trenches by closing on my right, leaving the left of the trench vacant, and deirected the retiring trops sin it. They suffered most severely whilst falling back.” Hamilton Nelson’s name can be found on the Memorial in St Johns Church Broadstone. The New York Times of May 1915 reported – William Nelson of North Pelham Notified by Canadian War Office William Nelson, editor of the International Studio … received official notice from the Adjutant General of the Canadian War Office at Ottawa yesterday that his son Private Hamilton de Beauvoir Nelson, had been killed in the trenches in France. Private Nelson was in the seventh battalion which was sent direct from Salisbury Plain to France three months ago. He was only 18 years old and was about to receive a commission as Second Lieutenant in the East Yorkshire Regiment. His Uncle, Colonel Benson, was Commander of this regiment and was killed at the beginning of the fighting near Ypres. Nelson enlisted in the Eighty Eighth Victoria Fusliliers at Lake Shawnigan, British Columbia. From there he was sent to Val Cartier Camp in Quebec where he was in training before being ordered to Salisbury Plain. He was to be made a Second Lieutenant for bravery on the firing line. Broadstone Church Magazine Nov 1916 Hamilton de Beauvoir Nelson – the nephew and adopted son of Mrs Benson, who was in the British Columbia Regt and who has been missing for so many months that there now seems no hope that he can have become a prisoner of war. 39 Index WW1 Index WW2 ALFRED JAMES NEWMAN 1889 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private ALFRED JAMES NEWMAN No PS/9708, 17th Battalion,Royal Fusiliers who died age 27 on 27 July 1916. He was the son of John A Newman and Elizabeth Newman, of "Lynton," York Rd., Broadstone, Dorset; and the husband of Sarah Newman, of 7, Greenhill Terrace, Portland. Remembered with honour THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, Pier & Face 8C,9A & 16 A No 39, 1911 Census Alfred James Newman 7 Greenhill Terrace, Fortuneswell, Portland Boarder 22 School Teacher [Government] Chickerell, Dorset On 1 July 1916, supported by a French attack to the south, thirteen divisions of Commonwealth forces launched an offensive on a line from north of Gommecourt to Maricourt. Losses were catastrophic and with only minimal advances on the southern flank, the initial attack was a failure. In the following weeks, huge resources were deployed in an attempt to exploit the modest successes of the first day. However, the German Army resisted tenaciously and repeated attacks and counter attacks meant a major battle for every village, copse and farmhouse gained. At the end of September, Thiepval was finally captured. The Battle of the Somme finally ended on 18 November. The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916. Private Newman is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Found on the 1891 census living at the grocers shop in Chickerell, Alfred was the son of the grocer and provisions dealer John Newman and his wife Elizabeth. Alfred had two sisters Matilda and Charlotte, and two brothers William and Robert. In 1901 the family is living at 13 Ventnor Road, Portland, their father still a grocer. By this time Alfred is aged 12, Matilda is a grocers assistant, William an electrical engineer on his own account, Robert a carpenters apprentice, Charlotte a grocers clerk and there is another son Charley aged 8. "Soldiers Died in the Great War" shows Pte Alfred James Newman: 17th Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment): died 27/07/16 as a Resident of Ashtead, Enlisted Epsom. See: Ashtead-War-Memorials for more information 40 Index WW1 Index WW2 FRANCIS LOUIS NORTHWAY 1874 - 1914 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Lieutenant FRANCIS LOUIS NORTHWAY 1st, South African Mounted Rifles who died on 26 September 1914. He was the son of John and Frances Holdsworth Northway. Remembered with honour WARMBAD CEMETERY, Namibia. At Warmbad Cemetery, Namibia, there are seventeen Commonwealth burials and a memorial stone commemorating five who have no known graves. All but one grave were brought in after the armistice. Thirteen are graves of men killed at the battle of Sandfontein on 26 September 1914 and originally buried there and the memorial stone commemorates five who were killed in the same battle. Lieutenant Northway is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Lt. Northway was part of a small scouting party holding Sandfontein, at the end of a lengthy line of communication. It proved impossible to reinforce this detachment rapidly when they were attacked by a superior force of Germans amounting to 1800 men with 10 guns. The German force was able to move rapidly and securely by means of the railway whereas the South African forces in the area were dependent on lengthy, slow and insecure reinforcement by ox-cart. The S.A. force resisted until their C.O. was made aware of the number of guns opposing them. He then surrendered in order to avoid unnecessary and pointless loss of life, a decision supported by his Brigadier General, H. T. Lukin. Lieutenant Northway was the brother of Roland Thomas Northway of ‘Southmead’ Hillbourne [York Road], a solicitor in Kellys 1907, 1911 and 1915. He had grown up, according to the census returns of 1891, and 1901, in Sussex and the Isle of Wight. 41 Index WW1 Index WW2 EDWARD C PIKE 1889 – 1915 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private E C PIKE 8243, 2nd Bn., Somerset Light Infantry who died age 26 on 3rd May 1915. Son of George and Maud Pike, of 4, The Firs, Wimborne Rd., Broadstone. (Buried Quetta Govt. Cem. 2227.). Remembered with honour DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE), Face 1 No 41, 1911 Census Edward Charles Pike Malta [Barracks] 21 Private 2nd Bn Somerset Light Infantry Wimborne, Dorset Delhi Memorial (India Gate) - Of the 13,300 Commonwealth servicemen commemorated by name on the memorial, just over 1,000 lie in cemeteries to the west of the River Indus, where maintenance was not possible. The remainder died in fighting on or beyond the North West Frontier and during the Third Afghan War, and have no known grave. Private Pike is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and the Broadstone First School Memorial. Broadstone Church Magazine June 1915 We regret to state that a third name has now been added to our Roll of Honour. It is that of Edward Pike, the son of Mrs Pike of Wimborne Road, who died of Diphtheria at Quetta on the North-west frontier of India. Although not killed in action, Edward Pike undoubtedly died in the service of his country in connection with the Great War, for if war had not broken out he would have left the Army some time ago, his time having expired. Our sincerest sympathy is offered to his relations and friends. The Church Roll of Honour was given by Mrs Pike. On the 1901 census Edward Pike was living in Wimborne Road, Broadstone, with his father George, a retired Ironmonger and his mother Edith. There were 5 boys and 5 girls in the family, with an age range between 2 and 25 years. Two of Edward’s brothers were employed – George was a confectioners assistant at a bakery, and Walter was a grocers assistant. The other children were all at school. At this time Edward lived next door to Arthur Willie Beament, another of the War Dead of Broadstone. There are still members of the Pike family living in Broadstone. 42 Index WW1 Index WW2 ALBERT REGINALD MARK POND 1898 – 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private ALBERT REGINALD MARK POND 82994, 7th Bn., Royal Fusiliers, who died age 20 on 2nd October 1918 Son of Frederick G. and Caroline Edith Pond, of ‘Woodcote’, Sandy Lane [now Clarendon Road], Broadstone. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY grave B47 No 42, 1911 Census Frederick Pond Gravel Hill Head 41 Labourer in brickyard Corfe Mullen, Dorset Caroline Pond Gravel Hill Wife 38 Corfe Mullen, Dorset Laura Pond Gravel Hill Daughter 16 Daily Work, domestic Broadstone, Dorset Louisa Pond Gravel Hill Daughter 15 Daily Work, domestic Corfe Mullen, Dorset Reginald Pond Gravel Hill Son 12 School Corfe Mullen, Dorset Agnes Pond Gravel Hill Daughter 7 School Gravel Hill, Wimborne Private Pond is also remembered as R Pond on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, AR Pond on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and Reginald Pond on the Broadstone First School Memorial. Broadstone Church Magazine Nov 1918 ‘Our sympathy is given to the family of Pte Reginald Pond, who died in hospital after wounds received in France. Mrs Pond wishes to thank all the kind friends of Hillbourne and Broadstone for the beautiful wreaths and collection towards her son’s funeral expenses. Pte Pond of the 7th Royal Fusiliers was wounded on August 27th, transferred to hospital in England on Sept 1st and died on Oct 2nd. After suffering much from wounds in back and spine, pneumonia set in, probably induced by having had to lie in a shell-hole for three days before being found. He was conscious to the last and expressed his gladness at giving his life for his country.’ Broadstone Church Magazine Jan 1919 ‘We offer our sympathy to Mr & Mrs Pond who, so soon after the death of their soldier son, have now lost their youngest daughter, after an illness of two days. She was at church the Sunday before she died. Agnes Ivy Rosamund aged 15. ‘ On the 1901 census Frederick Pond, a repairer of roads, his wife Caroline, daughters Laura aged 6 & Louisa aged 5 and Reginald aged 2 can be found living at Haywards Lane, Corfe Mullen. 43 Index WW1 Index WW2 JOHN WILLIAM PYPER Died 1915 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Lance Corporal JOHN WILLIAM PYPER 828, 2nd (Wessex) Field Coy., Royal Engineers who died on 10 June 1915. Remembered with honour ERQUINGHEM-LYS CHURCHYARD EXTENSION. I.B.20. No 43, 1911 Census John William Anderson Pyper Epsom College Public School Epsom Boarder 14 Pupil Ceylon [resident] The Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension was begun in April 1915 and used by units and field ambulances until April 1918. It was continued down to the stream by the Germans (who also used the churchyard) in the summer of 1918, and in September and October 1918, it was used again for some Commonwealth burials. The extension now contains 558 Commonwealth burials of the First World War (eight of them unidentified). Lance Corporal Pyper is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. The village of Erquinghem-Lys was occupied by German forces early in October 1914, and taken by the 1st Somerset Light Infantry on 16 October. It remained in Allied hands until 10 April 1918, when the 101st Infantry Brigade and the 1st/4th Duke of Wellington's evacuated the village during the great German offensive. The village was finally retaken in September 1918. Broadstone Church Magazine July 1915 It is with sincere regret that we record the addition of two more names to the Roll Of Honour. They are those of JW Anderson Pyper, son of Mrs Pyper of ‘Rosemeryon’, Roman Road and George Hume son of Dr Hume of ‘Maradana’. A memorial service for John Pyper was held on Friday June 18th at 9 o’clock. Broadstone Church Magazine 1916 Mrs Pyper presented a Rood Beam and Cross in memory of her son killed in action at Ypres on June 10th 1915. Broadstone Church Magazine September 1916 The rood beam and cross, presented in memory of JW Anderson Pyper, was dedicated on July 18th 1916 by the Lord Bishop with a very impressive service for those who have died in the War. The service was well attended and was deeply appreciated by the mourners who were present. 44 Index WW1 Index WW2 PERCY WALTER RENDLE 1885 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Stoker 1st Class PERCY WALTER RENDLE K/40297, H.M.S. "Hazard.", Royal Navy who died age 33 on 28 January 1918. He was the son of Harry and Louise Rendle, of Broadstone, Dorset; husband of Ethel May Rendle, of "Stodham," Winston Avenue, Branksome, Bournemouth. Remembered with honour PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL 30. After the First World War, an appropriate way had to be found of commemorating those members of the Royal Navy who had no known grave, the majority of deaths having occurred at sea where no permanent memorial could be provided. An Admiralty committee recommended that the three manning ports in Great Britain - Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth - should each have an identical memorial of unmistakable naval form, an obelisk, which would serve as a leading mark for shipping. Portsmouth Naval Memorial commemorates almost 10,000 sailors of the First World War and almost 15,000 from the Second World War. The Memorial is situated on Southsea Common overlooking the promenade. Stoker Rendle is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. On January 28th 1918 the Hazard was steaming in the eastern Solent when it was rammed by the large casualty-clearing steamer ‘Western Australia’. The Hazard was virtually sliced in half and sank very quickly. Although it carried a complement of 120 men, all but three were saved and a fourth one later died from his injuries. Broadstone Church Magazine March 1918 ‘We all, I am sure, feel sympathy for Mrs Rendle of Wimborne Road, in the death of her son Percy who was drowned in a collision in the channel, leaving a widow and two children who reside at Branksome. I find that he is everywhere well spoken of.’ Broadstone Church Magazine April 1918 – possibly Percy’s brother ‘We are glad to hear that Sgt C Rendle of the Machine Gun Company gained the DCM “for gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the field”. Mrs Rendle is to be congratulated on the fact that she has six sons and two grandsons serving their country nobly in the war. ‘ 45 Index WW1 Index WW2 F E ROBERTS Died 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private F E ROBERTS 45962, 8th Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died on 04 November 1918 Son of Mr. F. G. Roberts, of Cottage Farm, Creekmoor, Poole, Dorset. Remembered with honour MONTAY-NEUVILLY ROAD CEMETERY, MONTAY. IV.A.19 This cemetery was made by the 23rd Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, on 26 and 27 October 1918. It contained originally 111 graves, mainly of officers and men of the 38th (Welsh) and 33rd Divisions, and the 6th Dorsets, but after the Armistice it was increased when graves were brought in from the battlefields west, north and east of Montay, and from certain small cemeteries. There are now 470 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the First World War in this cemetery. 61 of the burials are unidentified but there is a special memorial to one casualty believed to be buried among them. All fell in the period October or November 1918. Private Roberts is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the Recreation Ground 46 Index WW1 Index WW2 CHARLES MAXWELL STEVENS Died 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Gunner CHARLES MAXWELL STEVENS 78223, "B" Siege Depot, Royal Garrison Artillery who died on 13 March 1917. Remembered with honour WIMBORNE MINSTER CEMETERY grave C.8.4975 No 46, 1911 Census Charles Stevens Wharncliffe Blandford Road Head 67 Retired Stationer Brixton, Surrey Ellen Stevens Wharncliffe Blandford Road Wife 68 London Dorothy Stevens Wharncliffe Blandford Road Daughter 24 Earleswood, Surrey Charles Maxwell Stevens Wharncliffe Blandford Road Son 23 Earleswood, Surrey Rosetta Sarah Morris Wharncliffe Blandford Road Servant 62 Cook, domestic Netherbury, Dorset Margaret Beatrice Hartry? Wharncliffe Blandford Road Servant 23 Housemaid, domestic Street, Somerset Gunner Stevens is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. According to the papers of John Owen he was born at Earleswood, Surrey, enlisted Bournemouth, lived in Broadstone, and died at home. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1917 The only son of Mr & Mrs Stevens of ‘Wharncliffe’, Broadstone, passed away after a painful illness at the hospital in Poole and the deepest sympathy is felt with his parents in their bereavement. Kellys Directories of 1907, 1911, 1915, 1920 and 1923 – all give Charles William Stevens at ‘Wharncliffe’ which was on the corner of Fairview and Upper Blandford Rd. 47 Index WW1 Index WW2 CHARLES JAMES TROWBRIDGE 1900-1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private CHARLES JAMES TROWBRIDGE 12608, Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, who died age 18 on 26 March 1918. Son of Charles and Caroline Sarah Trowbridge, of Northbrook House, Broadstone. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY grave B.55 No 47, 1911 Census Charles Trowbridge Vale Farm, Sutton Waldron Head 39 Farmer, employer Motcombe Caroline Sarah Trowbridge Vale Farm, Sutton Waldron Wife 38 Compton Abbas Charles James Trowbridge Vale Farm, Sutton Waldron Son 11 Iwerne Minster Officer Training Corps were formed in 1908, at Universities and Public Schools to attract young men into the Army and carry out training sufficient to allow the recruit to be commissioned. The Inns of Court, part of the legal establishment in the United Kingdom, also had an OTC. Private Trowbridge is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1918 James Trowbridge has, we regret to say, been seriously ill from pneumonia, following on measles, but we hear he is now out of danger. Broadstone Church Magazine May 1918 We regret to record the death of Charles James Trowbridge at the Military Hospital at Berkhampstead. After the improvement noted in our last issue he had a relapse and soon afterwards passed away. He was laid to rest on Easter Eve, followed by a large number of men and boys from his father’s farm. His father is to be found in Kellys 1923 and 1927 still living at Northbrook House. On the death of Charles Trowbridge senior in 1955 his address was given as Greycroft, Upper Golf Links Road, Broadstone. 48 Index WW1 Index WW2 NOEL VEDER WALLIS 1882 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Second Lieutenant NOEL VEDER WALLIS 9th Bn., Cheshire Regiment, who died age 35 on 10 April 1917. He was the son of William E Wallis, and the late Alice Sarah Seabrooke Wallis. Remembered with honour KLEIN-VIERSTRAAT BRITISH CEMETERY, Kemmel, Belgium. grave I.E.12 No 48, 1911 Census William Emerson Wallis 3 Queenswood Road, Forest Hill SE London Head 65 Retired Insurance Broker Louth,Lincolnshire Margaret Fanny Wallis 3 Queenswood Road, Forest Hill SE London Wife 60 Grantham, Lincolnshire Noel Veder Wallis 3 Queenswood Road, Forest Hill SE London Son 29 Solicitor Grays, Essex Alec Sidney Wallis 3 Queenswood Road, Forest Hill SE London Son 25 Clerk Grays. Essex Marion Underdown 3 Queenswood Road, Forest Hill SE London Servant 28 General Domestic Sydenham, London The village of Kemmel and the adjoining hill, Mont Kemmel, were the scene of fierce fighting in the latter half of April 1918, in which both Commonwealth and French forces were engaged. The cemetery was begun in January 1917 and Plots I to III were made by field ambulances and fighting units before the middle of January 1918. 2nd Lieutenant Wallis is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Broadstone Church Magazine April 1918 The death has been announced of Noel Veder Wallis, the third son of William Emerson Wallis of Lloyds, and Mrs Wallis of Broadstone. He was educated at Tonbridge and University College Oxford, and was a solicitor in London. He left his business to join the army and served in Egypt and Salonica whence he was sent home suffering from malaria. He was attached to the Cheshire regiment and left for the front. A brother officer writes “Although he had been with the regiment so short a time his quiet and pleasant disposition made many friends, and as an officer he will be a tremendous loss.” William E Wallis is listed in Kellys of 1911 and 1915. 49 Index WW1 Index WW2 HAROLD WHITE 1892 - 1917 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private HAROLD WHITE 31279, 1st Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment who died age 25 on 10 July 1917. He was the son of Albert Henry and Alice White, of "St. Margaret's," Broadstone. Remembered with honour NIEUPORT MEMORIAL, Belgium No 49, 1911 Census Albert Henry White Station Road Head 46 Builder, Employer at home Broadstone, Dorset Alice White Station Road Wife 42 Oldbury on Severn, Glos [Albert William] Harold White Station Road Son 19 House Painter Broadstone, Dorset Alice Mary Cecelia White Station Road Daughter 17 Broadstone, Dorset Dorothy May White Station Road Daughter 13 School Broadstone, Dorset Agnes Frances Mabel White Station Road Daughter 10 School Broadstone, Dorset Edward Charles White Station Road Son 8 School Broadstone, Dorset Arthur Clifford Donald White Station Road Son 5 School Broadstone, Dorset Eric George White Station Road Son 3 Broadstone, Dorset The memorial bears the names of 548 officers and men of United Kingdom forces who died during the First World War in operations on the Belgian coast, and whose graves are not known. Private White is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone, and on Broadstone First School Memorial. By June 1917 the British had decided to attack the German forces defending the Belgian coast. Had this area been taken the U-Boat bases in the triangle of Ostende, Zeebrugge and Bruges would have been overrun. Unfortunately German intelligence detected the British preparations and reinforced their line and brought up large amounts of very heavy artillery. They commenced bombarding the British lines on 6th July 1917 and opened up with massed artillery on 10th July following up with mustard gas, [used for the first time], all but one of the bridges over the Yser River were demolished isolating the 1st Northants and 2nd KRRC. British artillery attempted a counter-barrage but were overwhelmed. By 8pm on 10th July the two British battalions had suffered 70 – 80 casualties. After a gallant defence they were overwhelmed and only four officers and 64 other ranks managed to reach the west bank of the Yser. According to the papers of John Owen deposited with the vicar of St Johns Church, Broadstone: Pte. 3 No 31279 Harold White [formerly 80365 RAMC] Born Broadstone, enlisted Bournemouth, and was killed in action. Broadstone Church Magazine Sept 1917 Our sympathy will also be very deep for Mr & Mrs White whose son, Harold, has been ‘missing’ since the time when the Northamptons were so severely cut up in the Battle of the Dunes on the coast of Flanders. We sincerely trust that further and favourable news of him may soon be received, for which we shall not cease to pray. Broadstone Church Magazine Oct 1917 We regret to say that no further news has been received of Harold White. We hope and pray that definite information may soon arrive and relieve his parents and many friends of their deep anxiety and suspense. Broadstone Church Magazine Nov 1917 No news has been received, we regret to say, of Harold White and it is to be feared that this name is not upon the list of prisoners in Germany. Broadstone Church Magazine Dec 1917 We are sorry to say that there is no further news of Harold White. Broadstone Church Magazine May 1918 We are grieved to hear that definite news has been received that Harold White was killed in the Battle of the Dunes last July. This long period of uncertainty has been a terribly trying time to his parents and the family, and they have borne it with wonderful courage and patience. They have been helped and cheered by the sympathy of countless friends, for everybody liked and admired Harold. There is no need to say how devoted he was to the church where he sang in the choir for many years. A Requiem was held for him at the request of the family and was attended by a large number of friends. Broadstone Church Magazine Feb 1919 Mr & Mrs White and their family have presented to the church a Sanctuary Lamp in memory of their son, Harold, who laid down his life in the war. A special little Service of dedication was held after evensong on January 4th. The Lamp is a great addition to the dignity of the Sanctuary, both from its symbolism and its artistic merit. It is old Italian and judging by the plaques which ornament it, must probably have belonged to a Bishop. Albert Henry White & Sons listed in Kellys 1935 & 39 - Corfe Dale and Brook Nurseries. 50 Index WW1 Index WW2 TURLE BARBER WILSON 1891 - 1918 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission: In Memory of Private TURLE BARBER WILSONPO/16093, Portsmouth Div., Royal Marine Light Infantry, who died age 27 on 13 October 1918. Son of Frank Turle Wilson and Maria Wilson, of Turle Cottage, Church St., Poole. His brother George Frank Wilson also fell. Remembered with honour POOLE CEMETERY. 14.U.10335. No 50, 1911 Census Frank Turle Wilson 45 Kingston Road, Longfleet, Poole Head 58 Bricklayer Blandford Maria Wilson 45 Kingston Road, Longfleet, Poole Wife 47 Poole Theresa Wilson 45 Kingston Road, Longfleet, Poole Daughter 24 Domestic Servant Poole Turle Barber Wilson 45 Kingston Road, Longfleet, Poole Son 20 Bricklayers Labourer Poole Elizabeth Wilson 45 Kingston Road, Longfleet, Poole Daughter 14 at home Poole George Wilson 45 Kingston Road, Longfleet, Poole Son 11 at home, schoolboy Poole Private Wilson is also remembered on the Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. On the 1901 census the Wilson family were living in Garland Road in Poole. Frank Wilson, a bricklayer, and his wife Maria had five daughters and two sons. I have not found any more about T B Wilson but hope to add more in the future. 51 Index WW1 Index WW2 THOMAS I Ward WILSON MC 1883 - 1916 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Captain T I W WILSON MC 21st Bn., Manchester Regiment, who died age 34 on 28 November 1916. Son of Augusta L.Wilson, of Bonshaw, Ridgeway, Broadstone, and the late T. W. Wilson. Remembered with honour ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL VIII.E.26. No 51, 1911 Census Thomas Irving Ward Wilson High Street, Repton, Burton on Trent Boarder 28 Secondary Assistant Master Repton Public School Sherborne, Dorset The village of Beaumont-Hamel was attacked on 1 July 1916 by the 29th Division, with the 4th on its left and the 36th (Ulster) on its right, but without success. On 3 September a further attack was delivered between Hamel and Beaumont-Hamel and on 13 and 14 November, the 51st (Highland), 63rd (Royal Naval), 39th and 19th (Western) Divisions finally succeeded in capturing Beaumont-Hamel, Beaucourt-sur-Ancre and St. Pierre-Divion. Following the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917, V Corps cleared this battlefield and created a number of cemeteries, of which Ancre British Cemetery (then called Ancre River No 1 British Cemetery, V Corps Cemetery No. 26) was one. The original burials were almost all of the 63rd and 36th Divisions, but after the Armistice the cemetery was greatly enlarged when many more graves from the same battlefields and from smaller burial grounds in the area were brought into it. The majority of those buried in the cemetery died on 1 July, 3 September or 13 November 1916. There are now 2,540 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 1,335 of the graves are unidentified, but special memorials commemorate 43 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Captain Wilson is also remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Broadstone Church Magazine Jan 1917 Extract from daily paper “Captain Thomas Ward Wilson MC, Manchester Regiment, was eldest and only surviving son of Mr & Mrs TW Wilson of Broadstone, formerly of Sherborne. Before the war he was a Lieutenant in the Repton School OTC and he had his commission as Captain in the Manchesters in December 1914. Captain Wilson was decorated with the Military Cross in August of this year for ‘conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when leading his company to reinforce another battalion. He continued in action after being badly wounded.’ London Gazette Issue 29684 published on the 25 July 1916. Page 18 of 28 Mr TW Wilson was, in 1891 and 1901 census, a schoolmaster at Sherborne School. TW Wilson is listed in Kellys Directory of 1915, 1920, 1923 for Broadstone. Mrs K Wilson is listed in Kellys 1927. She was Canadian, born at Guelph, Ontario. 52 Index WW1 Index WW2 HUGH FRANCIS WYLDBORE-SMITH 1869 - 1919 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission: In Memory of Captain H F WYLDBORE-SMITH Royal Navy, who died on 08 May 1919. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY B. 60. No 52, 1911 Census Hugh Francis W Wyldebore-Smith View Mount, Netley Abbey, Hants Head 42 Royal Naval Commander Tarrant Rushton, Dorset Kate A Wyldebore-Smith View Mount, Netley Abbey, Hants Wife 38 Fareham Kathleen E Wyldebore-Smith View Mount, Netley Abbey, Hants Daughter 6 Fareham Hugh D Wyldebore-Smith View Mount, Netley Abbey, Hants Son 4 Southsea Alfred R Wyldebore-Smith View Mount, Netley Abbey, Hants Son 8 months Hound, Hants Four servants - a Nurse, Cook, House Parlourmaid and Under Nurse Captain Wyldebore-Smith is remembered on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Mrs Wyldebore-Smith lived at Marston Lodge, 24[?] Lower Golf Links Road according to Kellys 1920 and 1923. The inscription below is to be found in St Marys Church, Tarrant Rushton. To The Glory Of God In Beloved Memory Of Hugh Francis Wyldbore-Smith Captain R.N. Born 1869 Eldest Son Of Francis Alfred Smith Sometime Rector Of This Parish, He, Having Served His Country In The Great War, Died May 1919 “Crux Una, Via Una, Spes Unica” Soldiers Fallen in World War Two 1939-1945, Killed on Active Service (Recreation Ground, Broadstone) 53.C.Andreasen 54.R J Bascombe 55.G D Belben 56.L Bough 57.D A J Brown 58.C A Cotterill 59.C Crumpler 60.D Davies 61.C Doyley 62.T Freeston 83.L M Bankes 84.J S Coates 1939-1945 Killed on Active Service 63.L Hawkins 64.W J F Jarmain 65.J R Jay 66.S Kearley 67.W J Matthews 68.W B McLellan 69.E McComish 70.R McComish 71.I W J Myles 72.L Nelson Killed by Enemy Action 85.T O Coates 86.V G Hatcher 73.M H Peach 74.W Phillips 75.F Samborne 76.J Samborne 77.B L W Squire 78.J W T Strange 79.W Tyndale-Biscoe 80.J Waterman 81.R Watkins 82.D Williams 87.E G Smith 88.R A D Sparkes On Broadstone’s War Memorials in the recreation ground, St Johns Church and Broadstone First School Broadstone Ratepayers Association launched an appeal for funds in May 1945 to erect the War Memorial Hall in Tudor Road. It was opened in 1956. 53 Index WW1 Index WW2 CARL CHRISTIAN ANDREASEN 1917 – 1942 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Private CARL CHRISTIAN ANDREASEN 5729360, 5th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment, who died age 25 on 21 November 1942. The son of Julius Christian and Nora Andreasen, and husband of Iris Myrtle Andreasen, of Broadstone. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY Sec. B. Grave 488. Private Andreasen is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. ALSO REMEMBERED ON ELMSWELL WAR MEMORIAL, SUFFOLK. 54 Index WW1 Index WW2 R J BASCOMBE R J Bascombe is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 55 Index WW1 Index WW2 G. D. BELBEN G.D. Belben is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground. On 18 February 1944, HMS Penelope (Capt. George Devereux Belben, DSO, DSC, AM, RN) was leaving the Anzio area to return to Naples when she was torpedoed in position 40º55'N, 13º25'E, by the German submarine U-410. The torpedo struck her in the after engine room and was followed, 16' later, by a second one which hit in the after boiler room, causing her immediate sinking. The remarkable point of the attack by U-410 is that the cruisers was making 26 kn when hit. As far as can be ascertained, this is a unique case in the history of submarine attacks in all of WWII, no other ship running at such speed was ever successfully attacked. 415 of the crew, including the captain went down with the ship. There were 206 survivors. From uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/4007.html (Eyewitness detail from www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/68/a2947368.shtml Information here about the U-410 and the HMS Penelope. 56 Index WW1 Index WW2 LESLIE BOUGH On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Driver LESLIE MICHAEL JOHN BOUGH 2007914, Royal Engineers who died on 11 August 1940. Son of Richard John Tregaskis Bough and Beatrice C. R. Bough, of Poole. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY Sec. B. Grave 433. Leslie Bough is also remembered on Broadstone First School Memorial. 57 Index WW1 Index WW2 DENNIS ALFRED JAMES BROWN 1921 – 1939 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Stoker 2nd Class DENNIS ALFRED JAMES BROWN P/KX 97906, H.M.S. Royal Oak, Royal Navy who died age 18 on 14 October 1939 Son of Ernest and Beatrice M. Brown, of Broadstone, Dorsetshire. Remembered with honour PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Stoker Brown is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Information here about the U-47 and the HMS Royal Oak. 58 Index WW1 Index WW2 CHARLES ARTHUR COTTERILL 1915 – 1942 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records: In Memory of Trooper CHARLES ARTHUR COTTERILL 407088, 'B' Sqn. Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), Royal Armoured Corps who died age 27 on 25 October 1942 Son of Francis and Mable Cotterill, husband of Hazel Cotterill, of Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY Trooper Cotterill is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 59 Index WW1 Index WW2 CHARLES J CRUMPLER 1915 – 1945 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private CHARLIE JOSHUA CRUMPLER 10542496, Pioneer Corps who died age 30 on 24 June 1945 Son of David Joshua and Sarah Jane Crumpler, of Poole; husband of Audrey Eileen Crumpler, of Poole. Remembered with honour WAREHAM CEMETERY Sec. B. Row O. Grave 29. Private Crumpler is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 60 Index WW1 Index WW2 D DAVIES D Davies is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 61 Index WW1 Index WW2 REGINALD CLARE HASTINGS D'OYLY Died 1941 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Lieutenant (E) REGINALD CLARE HASTINGS D'OYLY H.M.S. Bonaventure, Royal Navy who died on 31 March 1941 Son of Vice-Admiral Warren Hastings D'Oyly and Sylvia Agnes Alicia D'Oyly, of Broadstone, Dorsetshire. Remembered with honour PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Panel 44, Column 3. Lt D’Oyly is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Information here about the Submarine "Ambra" and the HMS Bonaventure. 62 Index WW1 Index WW2 THOMAS SMITH FREESTON 1918 – 1944 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Lance Corporal THOMAS SMITH FREESTON T/172028, Royal Army Service Corps who died age 26 on 24 May 1944 Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Freeston; husband of Norah Lilian Freeston, of Broadstone, Dorsetshire. Remembered with honour CASSINO WAR CEMETERY Lance Corporal Freeston is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 63 Index WW1 Index WW2 LEO HAWKINS L Hawkins is remembered on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 64 Index WW1 Index WW2 WILLIAM JOHN FLETCHER JARMAIN 1911 – 1944 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Major WILLIAM JOHN FLETCHER JARMAIN 137983, 193 Bty., 61 Anti-Tank Regt., Royal Artillery who died age 33 on 26 June 1944 Son of William Jarmain and of Mary Jarmain (nee Fletcher); husband of Beryl Susan Jarmain (nee Butler), of Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY Major Jarmain is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 65 Index WW1 Index WW2 JOHN ROBERT JAMES NORMAN JAY 1905 – 1940 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Petty Officer Stoker JOHN ROBERT JAMES NORMAN JAY P/KX 75773, H.M.S. Esk, Royal Navy who died age 35 on 01 September 1940 Son of John and Flora Jay; husband of Cicely Hilda Jay, of Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL J R Jay is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and in the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Information here about the Texel Disaster and the HMS Esk. 66 Index WW1 Index WW2 SIDNEY KEARLEY 1908 – 1943 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Gunner SIDNEY KEARLEY 1094798, 85 Anti Tank Regt., Royal Artillery who died age 35 on 09 August 1943 Son of Tom and Mary Ann Kearley, of Poole, Dorset, husband of Bertha Kearley, of Waterloo, Poole. Remembered with honour CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY 1.O.9. containing the remains of those who died on the Burma Railway. Gunner Kearley is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 67 Index WW1 Index WW2 WILLIAM JOHN MATTHEWS 1928 – 1942 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records of Civilian War Dead In Memory of Civilian WILLIAM JOHN MATTHEWS who died age 14 on 17 December 1942 Son of William George and Frances Matthews, of Walton Cottage, Wimborne Road, Oakdale. Injured 16 December 1942, at Poole Foundry; died at Cornelia Hospital, Longfleet Road. Remembered with honour POOLE MUNICIPAL BOROUGH William Matthews is remembered on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 68 Index WW1 Index WW2 W. B. MCLELLAN Probably William Bernard McLellan H/10153, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, R.C.I.C. who died on 13 September 1944 Age 20 W B McClellan is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 69 Index WW1 Index WW2 ERNEST SYDNEY FRANK McCOMISH 1915 – 1941 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Ordinary Seaman ERNEST SYDNEY FRANK McCOMISH D/JX 253077, H.M.S. Drake, Royal Navy who died age 26 on 30 April 1941 Son of William and Rose Anna McComish; husband of Grace M. McComish, of Parkstone, Dorsetshire. Remembered with honour PLYMOUTH (WESTON MILL) CEMETERY E McComish is remembered on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 70 Index WW1 Index WW2 REGINALD WILLIAM CHARLES McCOMISH 1908 – 1942 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Mechanician 2nd Class REGINALD WILLIAM CHARLES McCOMISH D/KX. 82314, H.M.S. Trinidad, Royal Navy who died age 34 on 14 May 1942 Son of William and Rose McComish; husband of Eira Maud McComish, of Parkstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL R McComish is remembered on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. Information here about the Ju-88 and the HMS Trinidad. 71 Index WW1 Index WW2 FRANK WILLIAM JOHN MYLES Died 1941 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Aircraftman 2nd Class FRANK WILLIAM JOHN MYLES 1293271, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died on 31 January 1941 Husband of Katie Ivy Myles, of Broadstone. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY Sec B Grave 449 Aircraftman Myles is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 72 Index WW1 Index WW2 J NELSON J Nelson is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 73 Index WW1 Index WW2 MARCUS HAROLD PEACH 1901 – 1945 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Signalman MARCUS HAROLD PEACH D/JX 179935, Royal Navy who died age 44 on 18 March 1945 Son of Henry and Sarah Peach; husband of Violet Elizabeth Ellen Peach, of Poole. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY Sec. B. Grave 521. Marcus Peach is remembered on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 74 Index WW1 Index WW2 WILLIAM LEWIS PHILLIPS 1916 - 1941 In Memory of Air Mechanic 2nd Class WILLIAM LEWIS PHILLIPS FAA/FX. 77670, H.M.S. Goshawk, Royal Navy who died on 17 January 1941 Age 25 Remembered with Honour Lee-On-Solent Memorial Bay 2 Panel 12 Ship: SS Almeda Star - Torpedoed & sunk by German Submarine U96 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records W Philips is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. His home address was 20 Northbrook Rd, Broadstone. He attended Broadstone School and worked at W H Smiths Bookstall on Broadstone Station (probably until time of conscription/enlistment). He was the youngest of 5, with 1 Brother & 3 Sisters. William Phillips was Single. Information here about the U96 and the SS Almeda Star. [Thanks to Bob Taylor, nephew of W L Phillips, for this information.] 75 Index WW1 Index WW2 FRANCIS PALMER SAMBORNE 1913 – 1943 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Private FRANCIS PALMER SAMBORNE 2616728, 1st Bn., Parachute Regiment, A.A.C. who died age 30 on 05 February 1943 Son of John Stucley Palmer-Samborne and Kathleen Elsie Palmer Samborne, of Broadstone, Dorset. Remembered with honour MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY, Tunisia. Private Samborne is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 76 Index WW1 Index WW2 J. SAMBORNE 1919 – 1940 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Sergeant JOHN PALMER SAMBORNE 924480, 70 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died age 21 on 18 November 1940 Son of John Stukely Palmer Samborne and Kathleen Palmer Samborne, of Broadstone. Dorset. Remembered with honour BELGRADE WAR CEMETERY Coll. 2. E. 5-8. Sergeant Samborne is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 77 Index WW1 Index WW2 RALPH LESLIE WILFRED SQUIRE 1903 – 1944 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Gunner RALPH LESLIE WILFRED SQUIRE 14621570, 196 H.A.A. Regt., Royal Artillery who died age 41 on 07 August 1944 Son of Edward and Elma Ann Squire, of Lytchett Minster. Remembered with honour LYTCHETT MINSTER CHURCHYARD S.E. part. Ralph Squire is remembered on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 78 Index WW1 Index WW2 JAMES WALTER TOM STRANGE 1917 – 1939 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Ordinary Seaman JAMES WALTER TOM STRANGE JX171240, H.M.S. Royal Arthur, Royal Navy who died age 22 on 31 December 1939 Son of Tom and Annie Florence Strange, of Poole. Remembered with honour BROADSTONE CEMETERY Section B Grave 68 James Strange is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 79 Index WW1 Index WW2 WILFRED JULIAN TYNDALE-BISCOE Died 1944 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Major WILFRED JULIAN TYNDALE-BISCOE No. 47 R.M. Commando, Royal Marines who died on 21 January 1944 Son of Brigadier General Julian Dallas Tyndale Tyndale-Biscoe and Agnes Dorothy Tyndale-Biscoe, of Broadstone, Dorsetshire. Remembered with honour DALMAHOY (ST. MARY) EPISCOPALIAN CHURCHYARD Major Tyndale-Biscoe is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 80 Index WW1 Index WW2 J WATERMAN J Waterman is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 81 Index WW1 Index WW2 RICHARD BRINSLEY WATKINS 1921 – 1943 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records In Memory of Lieutenant RICHARD BRINSLEY WATKINS 207790, Dorsetshire Regiment who died age 22 on 07 April 1943 Son of Edward Victor and Rosalie Nellie Watkins, of Broadstone. Dorset. Remembered with honour OUED ZARGA WAR CEMETERY Tunisia. Lt Watkins is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 82 Index WW1 Index WW2 DAVID WILLIAMS is remembered on the Broadstone First School Memorial. Civilians Killed in World War Two 83 Index WW1 Index WW2 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records of Civilian War Dead. In Memory of ELLEN MARGARETTA BANKES of Weston Cottage, Broadstone, who died age 79 on 24 April 1944. Daughter of the late John P and Elizabeth M Bankes, of Willow Green, Little Leigh, Cheshire. Died at Weston Cottage. Remembered with honour at Poole Municipal Borough. Ellen Bankes is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 84 Index WW1 Index WW2 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records of Civilian War Dead In Memory of JOHN SPENCER COATES who died age 63 on 11 April 1941. Firewatcher; of Northbrook Farm, York Road, Broadstone. Son of the late John Spencer Coates; husband of Flora Oliphant Coates. Died at Northbrook Farm, York Road, Remembered with honour Poole Municipal Borough, 85 Index WW1 Index WW2 and his wife On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records Civilian War Dead In Memory of Civilian FLORA OLIPHANT COATES who died age 43 on 11 April 1941 Firewatcher; of Northbrook Farm, York Road, Broadstone. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. H. J. Edwards, of Dursley, Cricket Field Road, Horsham, Sussex; wife of John Spencer Coates. Died at Northbrook Farm, York Road. Remembered with honour Poole Municipal Borough. Mr & Mrs Coates are both remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 86 Index WW1 Index WW2 On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records of Civilian War Dead In Memory of GWENDOLINE VERA HATCHER who died age 26 on 22 June 1942. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Cobb, of The Broadway, Broadstone, Dorset, wife of Donald James Hatcher, of 238 Vale Drive, Bitterne. Died at 238 Vale Drive. Remembered with honour Southampton County Borough. Vera Cobb is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground, on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone and on the Broadstone First School Memorial. 87 Index WW1 Index WW2 E G SMITH Civilian E G Smith is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. 88 Index WW1 Index WW2 REGINALD ALBERT DASH SPARKES On Commonwealth War Graves Commission records of Civilian War Dead In Memory of REGINALD ALBERT DASH SPARKES who died age 43 on 27 March 1941 Husband of Daisy I. H. Sparkes, of Pen Y Bryn, Roman Road, Broadstone. Died at Bourne Valley Gas Works. Remembered with honour POOLE MUNICIPAL BOROUGH R. A. D. Sparkes is remembered on Broadstone War Memorial in the recreation ground , and on the Memorial in St Johns Church, Broadstone. Sources Sources used in my researches: - Kellys Directories for Canford Magna and Broadstone Broadstone Church Magazines 1914 - 1920 Broadstone School Log Book The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records www.historylearningsite.co.uk 1891 and 1901 census for Canford Magna and Broadstone www.1914-1918.net An article by Fergal Keane, BBC correspondent in Basra 2003 London Gazette online archive The 1st RTR web site, via the Army Home Page The First World War Book of Remembrance of the Veterans Affairs, Canada A letter from John Owen after his researching for the National Inventory of War Memorials An archive recording of Laurence Binyon reading his "For the Fallen" shows slight pauses in the last line, after "We" and before "Them" Thanks: - My thanks go to my husband Edward for his help and patience while I spent hours on the computer compiling the information, and wandering around the cemetery finding the graves of those buried here. Thanks too for his proof reading. To Father Martin Fredriksen for allowing me to borrow the Church Magazines covering the war years and for allowing me to photograph the War Memorial Tablets To Broadstone First School for allowing me to photograph the War Memorial Tablets in the school. To Julia Wenham for her information and encouraging words. John Palmer for setting up this website. If anyone finds any of the information to be incorrect I would very much like to correct it. Please contact me on

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