Taylor C H Pte 1785 15th London Regiment

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Taylor C H Pte 1785 15th London Regiment

TAYLOR, CLEMENT HAROLD, Private, No. 1785, 1/15th Battn. Prince of Wales’ Own (Civil Service Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), 3rd s. of Francis Taylor, of 6, Church Street, Leominster, Postmaster there, by his wife, Florence Annie, dau. of the late John Andrew Brewer, of Poulteney Gardens, Bath; b. Chippenham, co. Wilts, 9 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Paul’s National School, and Wiltshire County Secondary School, Chippenham; was a Civil Service 2nd Division Clerk in Comptroller and Accountant General’s Department of the G.P.O.; joined the Civil Service Rifles, in March, 1914; was in camp when war was declared on 4 Aug. 1914; went to France, 17 March, 1915, and died there, 25 July, 1915, of wounds received from an accidental bomb explosion; unm.

Buried at the Military Cemetery, Noeux-les-Mines. Lieut. Scott wrote that he was wounded on Saturday afternoon at about 3.30 p.m. and that although he lived till morning was unconscious the whole time, and continued: “It may be some consolation to you to know that he was one of the very best soldiers and one of the very best men in my platoon. He was always entirely reliable, and always willing and eager to undertake any job that was going. He proved his worth, especially on night patrols between our lines and the Germans, for which he would always volunteer whenever it fell to our platoon to furnish one. His loss is deeply felt by all his comrades whose admiration and affection he had soon won.” On the day before the accident he wrote to his mother: “The battalion has now done 16 days in the trenches and came out last night, I believe. I left on the 14th day with a small party to come here for a course of four days at a bombing school. Bombs are fast becoming a most important factor in trench warfare, so a good many men are being trained to use them. It is a nice change after a fortnight’s trench life, and very interesting, too.” Private C. H. Taylor, was a keen student of Economics, and in an examination held by the Society of Arts in 1914 he won first place in all England.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

Johnstone D H 2nd Lt Hertfordshire Regiment

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Johnstone D H 2nd Lt Hertfordshire Regiment

SECOND LIEUTENANT DAVID HARRY JOHNSTONE, Hertfordshire Regiment, was the son of D. Y. Johnstone. He was born in 1881, and educated at Marlborough College.

Lieutenant Johnstone was an accomplished musician. After leaving school he studied at the Royal College of Music. He was one of the first violins in the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society, and he was also a brilliant pianist. Several of his compositions were published in the Stock Exchange Annual.

He was in partnership with his father on the Stock Exchange, having become a member in 1904.

On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Anti-Aircraft Corps, and later was given a commission in the Hertfordshire Regiment. He had only just joined his regiment when he developed influenza, from which he died on 2 August 1916.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

James E E Lt North Somerset Yeomanry

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James E E Lt North Somerset Yeomanry

L IEUTENANT ERNEST EDWARD JAMES was the eldest son of the Rev. Canon Edward James. He was educated at Charterhouse and St. John’s College, Oxford, and in 1901 became a member of the Stock Exchange.

He was for some years in the North Somerset Yeomanry, but when war broke out he was unfit for active service.

In October 1914 he was given the post of Censor of Foreign Cables at the Central Telegraph Office, which carried with it the honorary rank of lieutenant.

Owing to a serious breakdown in health he was forced to resign this post, and he died on 9th January 1918.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Jackson C G Lt Royal Naval Air Service

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Jackson C G Lt Royal Naval Air Service

LIEUTENANT CHARLES GEORGE JACKSON, R.N.V.R., (known to his friends on the Stock Exchange as Peter”) was born in 1872 and educated at private schools and the Independent College, Taunton. He joined the firm of Vivian, Gray, and Co. during the South African boom and became a member of the Stock Exchange in the year 1901. Later, he joined in partnership with E. W. Bose and Co. as a jobber.

At the outbreak of war, being then forty-two years of acted for some time as a Special Constable before receiving his commission as a lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. He rendered valuable service until he contracted pneumonia, following influenza brought age, he on by exposure in the discharge of his duties during the Zeppelin raids.

Lieutenant Jackson was very popular among his brother officers and a favourite with his men, who on his death bore eloquent testimony to the esteem in which they held him and the loss they had sustained.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Ionides A C Lt 15th Attd 9th Kings Royal Rifle Corps

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Ionides A C Lt 15th Attd 9th Kings Royal Rifle Corps

LIEUTENANT AMBROS CONSTANTINE IONIDES, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was the second son of the late Alexander Ionides, Consul-General for Greece. He was born in 1878 and educated at Eton.

After leaving school he became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1900.

On the outbreak of war he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. and obtained his commission in the following January in the 15th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

He went to the Front in August 1915 and was drafted to the 9th Battalion of his Regiment.

He was killed on 16 October, whilst out with a wiring party in front of the trenches. The mist, under cover of which they had been working, suddenly lifted. Lieutenant Ionides ordered his men to lie down, but remained standing himself till all his men had got the order. In so doing he himself was seen by the Germans.

His colonel wrote: “Although he had only been with us for a few months he was extremely popular, and had proved himself an excellent soldier. We all liked him and are proud to have had him as a brother officer.”

The sergeant of his platoon wrote: “He was loved by his men for his kindness, his bravery and his many soldierly qualities. He set us a good example of coolness under fire, and his platoon was willing and ready to follow him anywhere.”

Lieutenant Ionides married in 1911, Effie, daughter of the late D. M. Spartali, and left a son and a daughter.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Inman L Y 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Scots

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Inman L Y 2nd Lt 3rd Royal Scots

SECOND LIEUTENANT LESLIE YARDLEY INMAN, Royal Scots, attached 5th Wiltshire Regiment, was the younger son of G. Talfourd Inman, of Highmoor Hall, Oxon, and the Stock Exchange, and was born in 1888. Educated at Radley, where he was in the football eleven and captain of cricket, he proceeded to Hertford College, Oxford.

He became a member of the Stock Exchange, and a partner in the firm of Inman and Co. in 1914.

On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Public Schools and University Corps, and obtained a commission in the Royal Scots in May 1915. In October he took out a draft of the 5th Wilts to Gallipoli, to which regiment he was attached, and was present at the evacuation of Suvla and Helles.

Thence he went with the 5th Wilts to Mesopotamia. He was fatally wounded, being then in command of his company, in the attempt to relieve Kut, 6 April 1916.

“One of the gallant 13th Division.”

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Hose R H 2nd Lt 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment

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Hose R H 2nd Lt 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment

LIEUTENANT ROBERT HENRY HOSE, Bedfordshire Regiment, was the son of Robert John Hose of Bromley, Kent, and was born in 1887. He was educated at Forest School.

On leaving school he joined the firm of John Gibbs, Son and Smith, and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1910.

Early in 1915 Lieutenant Hose joined the Royal Naval Anti-Aircraft Corps as a despatch-rider. In October he transferred to the 3/5 Bedfordshire Regiment in which he was given a commission. He was appointed Adjutant in the following March.

He remained with this battalion, which was on East Coast Defence duty, till January 1917, when he volunteered for foreign service and joined the 2nd Battalion in France in the following month.

Lieutenant Hose was killed at Arras on 18 March 1917. He left a widow and one son.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Hoare W J G Captain DSO 11th Royal Fusiliers

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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

Hilder H S 2nd Lt 7th East Kent Regiment

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Hilder H S 2nd Lt 7th East Kent Regiment

SECOND LIEUTENANT HAROLD SALTON HILDER, The Buffs, was born in 1885 and educated at Ardingly and King’s College, Cambridge. He represented his school at cricket. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1914.

On the outbreak of war he joined the 10th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and afterwards was given his commission in the 7th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs).

He was reported wounded and missing at Cherisy on 3 May 1917, and it is presumed he was killed on that day.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Hichens J B Lt 16th Kings Royal Rifle Corps

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Hichens J B Lt 16th Kings Royal Rifle Corps

L IEUTENANT JAMES BYRN HICHENS, 16th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was the son of the late J. K. J. Hichens of Sunninghill, a former chairman of the Stock Exchange Committee. While at Winchester he lost the sight of one eye playing football. He went to Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1891, took a First in Moderations and a Second in “Greats” and graduated in 1895. He became a member in 1900 and joined his father’s firm (Hichens, Harrison and Co.).

He always took a keen and active interest in local affairs and in 1900 helped to found the Sunninghill Church Lads’ Brigade, to which he never ceased to devote a good deal of his time, becoming Captain of the company. Though over forty-one when war was declared, he at once offered himself for the Army. He was three times rejected but persisted in his efforts, until he at length obtained his commission in a K.R.R. Battalion that was mainly recruited from the Church Lads’ Brigade.

In the autumn of 1915 he went to France. He took part in various engagements before the Battle of the Somme opened, and was injured in a German gas attack. Speedily recovering, he re- joined his Battalion. He was killed in action near High Wood on 15 July 1916. Earlier in the day he had been wounded but refused to retire and went on with his men.

‘He was one of the pluckiest of men I ever met,” wrote his Major, “and was most popular with both officers and men.”

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918