Barnes F L/Cpl Royal Fusiliers

Barnes F L/Cpl Royal Fusiliers

Of Limehouse

Source : The Vivid 20th Mar 1915

Beale E Pte PS/3442 19th Royal Fusiliers.
Taken on 7th May 1915.
Photo copied and cropped from The Past on Glass at Sutton Archives.
Photographer David Knights-Whittome. Shared under the Creative Commons Non Commercial

Beale Edgar Sergt PS/3442 19th Royal Fusiliers.

To France with the 19th Royal Fusiliers 12th Nov 1915

Killed In Action La Bassée Road 2nd Jan 1916

BEALE, EDGAR, Sergt., No. 3442, 16th Platoon, 19th (Service) Battn. (2nd Public Schools) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), only s. of Edgar Beale, of Middle Bourne, Farnham, Miller and Farmer, Frensham Mills, co. Surrey, by his wife, Katharine Ann, dau. of William Langrishe, of Headley, co. Hants; b. Frensham Mills aforesaid, 2 Dec. 1892; educ. Mr. Poole’s Preparatory School, Hadleigh House, Littlehampton; Lancing College, where he was a member of the School Corps, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained an O.T.C. Certificate; was engaged in Milling and Farming; joined the Public Schools Battn. Royal Fusiliers in Sept. 1914, after the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Nov. 1915, when he commanded the 16th Platoon, and was killed in action on the La Bassée Road, between Annequin and Beuvry, 2 Jan. 1916. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Bethune; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 3

Antill Wilfred Frank L/Cpl. Photo copied and cropped from The Past on Glass at Sutton Archives. Photographer David Knights-Whittome. Shared under the Creative Commons Non Commercial

Antill Wilfred Frank L/Cpl PS/2404 21st Royal Fusiliers

Born 11th July 1890 in Spondon, Derbyshire. Parents Frank and Alice Antill.

To France 14th Nov 1915 to 14th Mar 1916 with the 21st Royal Fusiliers

Commissioned 6th Jul 1916 Machine Gun Corps

Died 28th Sep 1931 at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby Aged 41

Aitken R J Pte PS/7 19th Royal Fusiliers. Photo copied and cropped from The Past on Glass at Sutton Archives. Photographer David Knights-Whittome. Shared under the Creative Commons Non Commercial

Born 1st Sep 1894 Guildford Surrey. Parents Thomas and Emily Aitken.

Pte Robert John Aitken PS/7 19th Royal Fusiliers

Served In France 14th Nov 1915 to 18th May 1916.

Commissioned to Tank Corps 4th Sep 1916.

Discharged 26th Aug 1918.

Awarded 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Silver War Badge.

Address Inveresk, Bulkington Avenue, Worthing, Sussex.

Married Gladys Mary Hewitt 3rd April 1921 at Moreton, Dorset.

Worked as a poultry farmer.

ARP Warden in WW2

Died Oct 1971 Norwich Outer, Norfolk. Age 77.

Airey A L Pte PS/4368 20th Royal Fusiliers. Photo copied and cropped from The Past on Glass at Sutton Archives. Photographer David Knights-Whittome. Shared under the Creative Commons Non Commercial

Pte Arthur Leslie Airey PS/4368 20th Royal Fusiliers

Born 29th April 1891 in Salford, Lancashire.

Went to France And Flanders with the 20th Royal Fusiliers 14th Nov 1915 until 23rd July 1916.

Commissioned 2nd Lt Northumberland Fusiliers 30th Oct 1917

Married Phyllis Knowles Gillespie at St Marylebone Marylebone Road, Westminster 18th Sep 1926

ARP Warden in WW2

Died April 1977 at Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire aged 86.

Thomas-O’Donel G O Captain MC

Source : The Sphere 7th Aug 1915

Thomas-O’Donel G O’D Captain 4th Royal Fusiliers

Lieutenant George O’Donel F. Thomas O’Donel, 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. He is mentioned in despatches, and is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O’Donel, of Newport House, Newport, Co. Mayo, and grand-nephew of the late Sir George C. O’Donel, Bart. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and entered the Royal Donegal Artillery Militia as Lieutenant, from which regiment he was gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers, in which he is now serving. He was married last week at Kensington to Violet, only daughter of Mr. George Claude Braddell, of Newlands, Ferns, Co. Wexford. He is a keen sportsman, and when stationed in Mullingar was well known in the hunting field.

Source : Our Heroes Mons To The Somme August 1914-July 1916

Thomas-O’Donel G O’D Captain 4th Royal Fusiliers

THOMAS-O’DONEL, GEORGE O’DONEL FREDERICK, M.C., Capt. and Adjutant, 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, only 8. of Edwin Thomas-O’Donel, of Newport House, Newport, co. Mayo, J.P., D.L., by his wife, Melicent Agnes, dau. of Capt. Richard Annesley O’Donel; b. Dublin, 21 Oct. 1884; educ. Cheltenham College, and abroad; joined the Royal Donegal Artillery Militia in 1902; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the 4th Royal Fusiliers, 23 May, 1906; promoted Lieut. 10 April, 1909, and Capt. 26 Nov. 1914; appointed Adjutant, 15 Jan. 1913; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 13 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Hooge, near Ypres, 16 June, 1915. Capt. O’Donel was awarded the Military Cross [London Gazette, 19 Feb. 1915]; and was twice mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatches [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914, and 18 Feb.. 1915]. Brig.-Gen. McMahon, commanding the Brigade, wrote on 5 Nov. 1914: “I think the Battn. has done very well out here, and I hope it will continue to do so. George is going strong and is fitter than when he started, and  can claim a very large share in producing such good results as may have been attained”; and Col. Hely-Hutchinson wrote: “I cannot tell you what a shock the whole thing has been to me, we were the closest of friends, we slept together, we fed together, we rode together, and we fought together, and we never had a row for seven months, and the only time we had been separated, George goes and gets killed, and I get off. It is too sad after all the months he had been out and the good work he had done. I myself got a small touch of a shell on the head and have come home for a bit, thank God, as I don’t think I could have carried on any longer out there without George and the rest- we lost six killed and nine wounded officers, and I had no heart and was just tired out and so was George, he just went on till he dropped.

Major F. R. Mallock: “His death is a great loss to his country and the regt.-he served so gallantly and so well; there are few of us left who went out with the Battn., George was the only one of the combatant officers left after the fighting at Ypres. I had a great affection and admiration for him, he did work splendidly right through.” Brig.-Gen. Reginald Pinney, formerly commanding 4th Battn. Royal Fusiliers, also wrote to the late Capt. Thomas O’Donel’s father: “I am most distressed for you and his mother at George’s death-also for the regt. and the army, for he was fulfilling all the promise he showed when he joined; seeing his name gave me a special shock, for I had just heard of my getting a division, and had been talking of Staff and had hoped to get George appointed a G.S.O.” He m. in London, 26 Nov. 1914, Florence Violet (Newlands, co. Wexford), only dau. of George Claud Flood Braddell, of Newlands, co. Wexford, and Luckington, co. Wilts; s.p.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Hoare W J G Captain DSO 11th Royal Fusiliers

CAPTAIN WALTER JOHN GERALD HOARE, D.S.O., Royal Fusiliers as the only son of the late Rev John Hoare, Vicar of St. John’s, Keswick. He was educated privately.

He joined his uncle’s firm, Hichens, Harrison and Co., and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1912.

Soon after the outbreak of war he obtained a commission in the Royal Fusiliers, and went to the front in July 1915 as a Captain.

Captain Hoare had a distinguished military record. He was three times mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the D.S.O. for conspicuous gallantry when “with two sergeants, one of whom was wounded by the intense shell-fire, he dug out a buried sergeant and rescued him alive. He has done fine work throughout the operations.”

He was killed on 25 October 1916.

A brother officer wrote: “There never could be a man more respected and loved in the Regiment. He was the soul of kindness to the subalterns; we should never want to be under anyone else.”

Captain Hoare married in 1915 Alix, daughter of Maurice Ruffer, by whom he had one son.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Swan G Pte 15479 1st Royal Fusiliers

SWAN, GEORGE, Private, No. 15479, 1st Battn. Royal Fusiliers, s. of David Swan, of 21, Sloan Street, Leith, by his wife, Helen, dau, of Robert Fairweather; b. Bathgate, co. Linlithgow, 25 Aug. 1878; educ. Bathgate Academy; enlisted in the 2nd Battn. Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 5 Nov. 1899; served in the South African War, 1899-1902, with the 1st Battn. (Queen’s medal with five clasps); transferred to the 1st Battn. Royal Fusiliers in 1913; went to France, 9 Sept. 1914, and was killed in action at Chapelle d’Armentières, 18 Oct. 1914; unm. Buried there. His brother, Pioneer James Blair Swan, was killed in action at the same place (see following notice).

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1