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AYRES, G. W. (Monotype Staff, keyboard). Enlisted in the Oxf. & Bucks L.I. on 21 Oct. 1916, serving in England until 5 Jan. 1917. Sailed for India on 6 Jan., and proceeded thence to Mesopotamia with the 1st Oxf. & Bucks L.I. (43rd) on 25 May, remaining in that country for a year and a half. Subsequently in Macedonia from 10 Dec. 1918 to Oct. 1919. Demobilized on 17 Oct. 1919. Resumed work at the Press.
Source : War Record Of The Oxford University Press
AYRES, F. J. D. (Monotype Staff, keyboard). [Previous Service in the 2nd V.B. Oxf. L.I. from Apr. 1903 to Apr. 1908, and thenceforward in the 4th Oxf. & Bucks L.İ., T.F.J Mobilized with the 4th Oxf. & Bucks L.I. (M.G. Sergt.) on 4 Aug. 1914, and served in England in that unit until 28 Mar. 1915. Went to France with the 48th (South Midland) Divisional Transport on 28 Mar. 1915. Transferred to the M.G. Corps 11 Jan. 1916; returned to England 8 Aug. 1917, and served on the M.G. Corps Instructional Staff from that date onward. Engagements included the Second Battle of Ypres, 1915; the Somme, Aug.-Dec. 1916; the advance (Peronne), Mar. 1917; St. Julien and Steenbeck, July 1917. Promoted C.S.M. 1 Nov. 1916; appointed C.S.M.I., M.G. School, Officers’ Wing, Oct. 1918; A./R.S.M., N.C.O.’s School, M.G.T.C., Belton Park, Aug. 1918. Awarded the Meritorious Service Medal, Jan. 1917. Demobilized on 11 Jan. 1919, and resumed work at the Press. (Still serving in the 4th Oxf. & Bucks L.I. as C.S.M.)
Source : War Record Of The Oxford University Press
ANDREWS, D. G. (Warehouse). Enlisted on 6 Nov. 1916. Served in England in the 4th Roy. Berks Regt. and in the 10th Oxf. & Bucks L.I. to July 1917; in the Roy. Wilts Yeomanry (on the East Coast) to end of year; and (in Ireland) in the 1st Res. Garr. Bn. Worc. Regt. from 11 Jan. 1918 to demobilization. Appointed Lance-Corpl. Demobilized on 23 Jan. 1919. Resumed work at the Press.
Source : War Record Of The Oxford University Press
ALLSWORTH, T. (Machine Room, feeder, Miehle). Enlisted on 2 Mar. 1915. Served in England in the 2/4th Oxf. & Bucks L.I. until 24 June 1916, and thenceforward in France in the 10th Lincs Regt. In engagements on the Somme in Aug., and Armentières in Nov. 1916; Arras (May), St. Quentin (Aug.), Passchendaele (Oct.), 1917; Croiselles, Mar. 1918. Wounded and taken prisoner in the latter engagement, remaining in the enemy’s hands (at Münster, Rennbahn, Westphalia) to 6 Dec. Subsequently served in England in the 4th Lincs Regt. until discharge. Wounded in hip (at St. Quentin) and in ear and eye (Croiselles). Discharged, blind right eye, 26 Mar. 1919. Resumed work at the Press.
Source The War Record Of The Oxford University Press
ALDER, J. (Machine Room, wash-house). Enlisted on 8 Nov. 1917. Served in England in the 92nd Res. Bn. Hants Regt. to Mar. 1918, and in France in the 22nd London Regt. from Apr. 1918 to Apr. 1919, and then in the 13th Middlesex Regt. to 14 Oct. 1919. At Albert, 1 May; Combles, 1-2 Sept. Montaucourt, 17 Oct.; Lille, 6 Nov. 1918.
Source : War Record Of The Oxford University Press
Vicat H J Lt 1st West Kent Regiment
Source : The Army And Navy Illustrated
Vicat H J Lt 1st Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment
VICAT, HORATIO JOHN, Lieut., 1st Battn. Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regt., eldest surviving s. of the late Horatio Nelson Vicat, of Sevenoaks, by his wife, Miriam Frances Kate (East Lodge, Sevenoaks), dau. of Henry Augustus Prevost Holland, of Quebec, Canada (grandson of Capt. Samuel Holland, R.A., A.D.C. to General at the capture of Quebec, and afterwards Surveyor General of Quebec and Director of Surveys in British North Americal) b. Melbourne, P. Quebec, Canada, 24 June, 1885; educ. Cheltenham College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal West Kents, 25 Jan. 1905, and promoted Lieut. 26 May, 1908; was seconded for service with the West African Frontier Force (Gold Coast Regt.), from Nov. 1910 to Oct. 1912; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 21. Aug. 1914, and was killed in action near Missy, during the Battle of the Aisne, 13 Sept. 1914. He was in command of his company when they were forming advanced guard to the Brigade and he was leading his men down to make good a bridge-head which was held by the enemy when they opened fire with a machine-gun. and he was killed instantly. Buried 300 yards East-South-East of Missy Bridge on the south side of the river; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1
Verge A Captain Australian Army Medical Corps Attd 6th Australian Light Horse
VERGE, ARTHUR, Capt., A.A.M.C., attd. 6th Light Horse, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd s. of Austral Verge, of Kempsey, Macleay River, New South Wales, Grazier, by his wife, Matilda Jane, dau. of Henry Flavelle, of Hamilton Terrace, London; b. Kempsey, 12 Feb. 1880; educ. The King’s School, Parramatta, where he was Burton Exhibitioner in 1898, and St. Paul’s College within Sydney University, where he graduated M.B., Ch.M., in 1905; was for two years (1905-6) resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital; then proceeded to England, where he attended the leading London hospital skin departments, and took courses in Bacteriology and Vaccine Therapy. After a post graduate course at Edinburgh University he qualified F.R.C.S. there in 1908, and then visited Paris, Vienna, Prague and Berlin, and attended the skin clinics and took courses in the treatment of skin diseases under Sabarand, Brocq, Thebierge, Albaran (Paris), Finger, Rail, Oppenheim,Cape Sammer (Vienna), Blaschko, Josephs and Wasserman (Berlin). Returning to Edinburgh, he was appointed Clinical Assistant to the Skin Department for three months, and later non-resident house physician for one year (1909-10), at the Royal Infirmary, and while holding these positions had charge of the X-Ray department, and the radium treatment under Dr. Cranston Low. He took a six months’ course in Vaccine Therapy and Bacteriology of the Skin at the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1910 published in the “British Medical Journal” (31 Dec.) an article on “The Treatment and Diagnosis of Lupu Vulgaris by Tuberculin Ointment.” He then returned to Australia and practised as a skin specialist in Sydney, and in 1911 obtained the position of Hon. Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Skin at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital there. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial service, and was given a commission as Capt. A.A.M.C., 2 Oct. 1914 ; left Sydney as medical officer to the 6th Light Horse with the second reinforcements, and died in No. 17 General Hospital, Alexandria, 8 Sept. 1915, of dysentery contracted while on active service with his regt. at Anzac Cove; unm.
He represented both King’s School and St. Paul’s College in cricket, football, tennis and rowing. He played with the University Union Football Team, and was full-back for three seasons. He played full-back for New South Wales against Queensland in 1902 and 1904, and while in the old country played rugger with Blackheath and other Rugby clubs. Dr. Verge was also a capital all-round cricketer, and at one time was the most successful bowler at the University. He played in two matches against Melbourne University, scoring 10 and 2, and taking two for 22 and six for 20 in 1903; and scoring 4 and 5, and taking four for 70 and three for 69 in 1904. His yr. brother, Dr. C. A. Verge, is now with No. 32 General Hospital, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1
VEREKER, ROBERT HUMPHREY MEDLICOTT, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Grenadier Guards, 2nd s. of George Medlicott Vereker, of Sharpitor, near Salcombe, South Devon, J.P. for co. Galway, Freeman of the City of Dublin, late Capt. Kildare Militia, by his wife, Frances Gore, eldest dau. of Robert Manders, of Landscape, Dundrum, co. Dublin, and grandson of the Hon. John Prendergast Vereker (3rd son of John Prendergast, 3rd Viscount Gort); b. Dublin, 15 Oct. 1894; educ. Cheam, Osborne Naval College and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to 2nd Grenadier Guards, 17 Sept. 1913, and joined his battn. the following month at the Tower of London; went to France with the Expeditionary Force, Aug. 1914, and was killed in action during the desperate night battle at Landrecies, on the 25th of the same month. Buried at Landrecies; unm.
The Rev. Benjamin G. O. Rorke, Chaplain to the Forces, wrote: “You have probably already heard that your brave son met his death in action on the 25th inst. while trying to draw Corpl. Bacchus of his regt. out of the range of the German fire. Corpl. Bacchus, who was wounded, is now convalescent, and, if spared, can tell you all about it. He showed me the exact spot at Landrecies, on the town side of the railway level-crossing, on the left of the road. It was a brave man’s death. There were in his pocket a silver flask from his mother and his own ‘Onoto’ diary. I gave them into the custody of the medical officer, Major Fry (brother of C. B. Fry), to take charge of for you. He was buried in the next grave to Lord Hawarden and the Hon. Windsor Clive on the one side, and eight men of the Coldstream Guards on the other, and on the same occasion we erected a rough wooden cross inscribing the names. The following day the wife of the ‘Garde Cimetière’, brought me a wooden cross of a more substantial kind, and I left instructions for the names to be painted on it; it was her own thought and her own tribute. Mme. Bocquet, The Pharmacie, Grande Rue, Landrecies (a very kind lady), undertook to see this done. I have heard from the regt. how much he is missed. He died like a brave man. This will be a great consolation to you.” The house and grounds at Sharpitor were lent to the Red Cross Society for the duration of the war by Mr. and Mrs. George Vereker in memory of their son.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1
Venning E G Captain 1st Suffolk Regiment
Source : The Sphere 4th Sep 1915
Venning E G Captain 1st Suffolk Regiment
VENNING, EDWIN GERALD Capt., 3rd, attd. 1st, Battn. The Suffolk Regt., yst. s. of the late Rev. Edwin James Venning, Chaplain in Cassel, Germany, by his wife, Amy, dau. of William Lawrence; b. Southsea, 7 June, 1883; educ. St. Edmund’s, Canterbury, and afterwards took up acting. From about 1911, he travelled in the provinces with touring companies, playing important parts, and when war broke out in Aug. 1914, he was acting at Brighton. He at once volunteered, and enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regt. in Sept. and was subsequently gazetted Lieut. 3rd Suffolks, 1 Jan. 1915, and promoted Capt. 9 June, 1915; went to the Front, 3 May, 1915, and was killed in action at Ypres, 6 Aug. following; unm. Buried in Locre Churchyard. Sergt. Major Utting, in writing to his sister, said: “Your brother, Capt. Venning, was my company officer, and he has treated myself and the men of my company in such a manner that he has gained a respect that will last as long as there is a man of the present B Coy. alive.”
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1
Vavasour L O Lt 2nd North Staffs Regiment
VAVASOUR, LIONEL ORMISTON, Lieut., 2nd Battn. North Staffordshire Regt., 2nd S. of Albert Carter Vavasour, M.A., J.P., of Weston Manor, Otley, co. York, by his wife, Eliza, dau. of C. H. Dawson, J.P., Weston Hall; b. Killwick Hall, Beverley, 29 Aug. 1889; educ. Rugby; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the North Staffordshire Regt. 28 May, 1910, from the Special Reserve, and promoted Lieut. 28 Dec. 1913; went to India with his regt. in 1912, and died at Gharial, 24 July, 1915, while on active service; unm. Lieut. Vavasour was a keen sportsman, a clever cricketer, and while at school won several silver cups, especially for the eight miles’ race. In the regt. he found cricket and football “going to pieces,” but soon established a revival of keen interest, and regularly made his century with his team. He was the crack shot of his regt., and sent many trophies home to witness to his prowess with the rifle, including the heads of three urial and three chinkara from Kashmir, which was said there. to be the biggest bag an officer had ever secured.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1