Strike S G Pte 1455 8th London Regiment

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Strike S G Pte 1455 8th London Regiment

STRIKE, STANLEY GEORGE, Private, No. 1455, 1st Battn. (Post Office Rifles) The London Regt. (T.F.), s. of George Barham Strike, Post Office Pensioner; b. London, 21 Oct. 1891; educ. Havist Road Council School, Queen’s Park, W.; killed in action at Festubert, 24 May, 1915; unm. Buried on the field of battle. A comrade wrote he “was shot through the head and died instantly. Stan had to lie with several others behind a ridge to keep the gentlemen in grey from becoming too troublesome, and while there was sniped. I can only say that he died doing his duty and none of us can do more.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Stranger R H Lt 1st Notts And Derby Regiment

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Stranger R H Lt 1st Notts Derby Regiment

Source : The Illustrated London News 17th April 1915

Stranger R H Lt 1st Notts And Derby Regiment

STRANGER, RICHARD HENRY, Lieut. and Adjutant, 1st Battn. The Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.), only s. of Richard John Stranger, of Franchise, Burwash, Sussex, Yeoman and Land Owner, by his wife, Wilhelmina Key, dau. of the late Melchior George Klingender, of Waterloo, Liverpool; b. Court House, North Molton, Devon, 19 Dec 1889; educ. The Hermitage, Bath, and Allhallows, Honiton ; joined the Royal Sussex Militia, 6 Jan. 1908, and was appointed to the Sherwood Foresters, then at Secunderabad, India, 28 May, 1910. He was promoted Lieut. 10 Aug. 1912, and became Adjutant, 31 July, 1913. On the outbreak of war he returned to Europe with his regt. and died, 13 March, 1915, of wounds received in action at Neuve Chapelle, being buried in Boulogne Cemetery ; unm. Lieut. Stranger was mentioned in Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 31 May, 1915, for gallant and distinguished conduct in the field.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Strange A J W Pte 2190 5th Royal Sussex Regiment

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Strange A J W Pte 2190 5th Royal Sussex Regiment

STRANGE, ARNOLD JOHN WARD, Private, No 2190, 5th (Cinque Ports) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.), only s. of Charles James Strange, of Brackleigh, Crowborough, Sussex, retired Farmer, by his wife, Mary Jane, dau. of Thomas Ward; b. Silsworth Lodge, Crich, Rugby, 8 Sept. 1896; educ. King Charles’ School, Tunbridge Wells. On the outbreak of war joined the Sussex Territorials and signed on for foreign service, 14 Aug. 1914; went to France, 18 Feb. 1915, the battn. being held in reserve for the 2nd Sussex; selected as sniper for his platoon, 4 March, 1915; mortally wounded by a shell on Sunday, 17 Oct. 1915, and died the following day at Sailly-au-Bois; unm. Buried in the military cemetery at Louvercourt. His commanding officer spoke highly of him, describing him ” as most intelligent, a keen soldier, always ready to volunteer for everything, brave as a lion and a splendid shot.”

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

 

Strachan H Pte 3472 1st Black Watch

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STRACHAN, HUGH, Private, No. 3472, 1st Battn. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), 5th s. of the late James Strachan, Ploughman, by his wife, Jean, dau. of John Ross; b. Johnshaven, near Montrose, 16 Jan. 1870; educ. Montrose Public School; enlisted in the Black Watch, and served under Gen. Wauchope, and was invalided home with malarial fever and discharged just before the South African War; became a Signalman on the North British Railway: re-enlisted in his old regt. after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; left for the Front with the 1st Battn. in Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at La Bassée, 25 Jan. 1915. Private Strachan was a first-class shot. He m. at Edinburgh, 13 Oct. 1899, Isabella (3, South Gayfield Lane, Edinburgh), dau. of the late Donald Robertson, and had two children: Hugh, b. 16 July, 1900; and Eleanor, b. 16 Oct. 1902.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Storer R T Pte 237 5th London Regiment

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Storer R T Pte 237 5th London Regiment

STORER, RAYMOND TRITTON, Private, No. 237, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), yr. s. of Henry Norris Storer, of Belle Grove, Welling, Kent, Market Gardener and Fruit Grower, by his wife, Ellen Eliza, dau. of William Rush Tritton; b. Welling, 16 Feb. 1894; educ. Hope Lodge, Welling, and Roam School, Greenwich, and on leaving the latter entered the employ of Mr. V. A. Litkie, Diamond Merchant. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for foreign service, and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 31 Aug. 1914, and after six months’ training at Haywards Heath and Crowborough, sailed for France on his twenty-first birthday. They were sent up to the trenches, and he was killed two months later at the second Battle of Ypres, 26 April, 1915. It was on this occasion that a General, speaking of the London Rifle Brigade, remarked that he had never seen a finer regiment. Storer was buried at Fortuin; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Stonehouse C B Pte 13612 6th East Yorkshire Regiment

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Stonehouse C B Pte 13612 6th East Yorkshire Regiment

STONEHOUSE, CHARLES BROWELL, Private, No. 13612, 6th (Service) Battn. E. Yorks Regt., 7th and yst. s. of John James Stonehouse, of Sunderland, Bricklayer, by his wife, Ann, dau. of Ann Browell, of Sunderland; b. Bishopwearmouth, co. Durham, 2 Jan 1878; educ. there; was employed at the Hylton Colliery; enlisted 16 Oct. 1914; trained at Grantham, arrived at the Dardanelles, 6 Aug., and was killed in action there three days later, 9 Aug. 1915. He m. at Southwick-on-Wear, 31 July, 1904, Ada Jane (30, Nelson Street, Southwick- on-Wear), dau. of John Griffin, of Sunderland, and had issue: Charles Browell, b. 15 Jan. 1909; Thomas, b. 26 Feb. 1914; Margaret, b. 22 May, 1905; Christine, b. 19 July, 1906; Lilian, b Nov. 1907; Annie, b. 22 Aug. 1910; and Ada Jane, b. 19 May, 1915.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Stone J W Pte 5510 2nd Coldstream Guards

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STONE, JAMES WILLIAM, Private, No. 5510, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 1st s. of the late James Stone, Maltster, by his wife, H. (43, Albert Street, Horncastle), dau. of John Would; b. Horncastle, co. Lincoln, 1 March, 1883; educ. there; was a Maltster and Labourer before he enlisted in the Coldstreams, 7 April, 1904; went to France, 26 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at Rentel 12 Nov. following. Buried in the woods there. He m. at Horncastle, Harriet (43, Albert Street, Horncastle), dau. of John Would, and had a son, James Walter, 5. 12 July, 1913.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Stokes H D Lt 2nd Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

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Stokes H D Lt 2nd Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

LIEUT. HALDANE DAY STOKES, M.V.O. 2ND BATTN. THE KING’S OWN ROYAL LANCASTER REGT.

KILLED IN ACTION AT THE TUILLERIES, ZILLEBEKE, FEBRUARY 17TH, 1915. AGED 29.

At the School 1896-1902 (School House).

Lieut. H. D. Stokes was the only son of Lieut.-Col. Henry Haldane Stokes, late R.A.M.C., of Devonshire House, Cowley, Oxford, who retired in 1902, after serving with distinction in India, and grandson of the late Lieut.-Col. P. D. Stokes, of Tralee, Co. Kerry.

Entering the School in May, 1896, he left from the Army Class at Christmas, 1902, as a Lance-Corporal in the Cadet Corps, as it then was, and joined the Militia in 1904, receiving a commission in the Militia Battalion The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. In 1905, on the occasion of the presentation of Colours to the 3rd and 4th Battn., he and another O.T., Captain, then 2nd Lieut., Percy Bruce Lendon (Sc. 1897-1901), who also gave his life in the War, being killed on October 21st, 1914, carried the King’s Colours of these Battalions, and they were both appointed to the 5th Class of the Victorian Order.

In 1907 he transferred to the line, and was posted to the 2nd Battn., with which he served at Colchester, in Jersey, at Dover, and in India. He was promoted Lieutenant June 26th, 1910, and he was serving with the 2nd Battn. in India when war broke out. He left India with his Battalion on November 19th, 1914, and served with it in France in the 83rd Brigade, 28th Division, mainly in the trenches near Ypres, from January 16th, 1915, till he was killed in action at the Tuilleries, at Zillebeke, on February 17th, 1915.

Source : Tonbridge School And The Great War Of 1914-1919

STOKES, HALDANE DAY, M.V.O., Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regt., only s. of Lieut.-Col. Henry Haldane Stokes, of Devonshire House, Cowley, co. Oxford, late R.A.M.C., by his wife, Florence, dau. of Samuel Browne, and grandson of the late Lieut.-Col. Patrick Day Stokes, of Tralee, co. Kerry; b. Dublin, 21 Sept. 1885; educ. Tonbridge School; joined the Earl of Derby’s 3rd Royal Lancaster (Militia) Regt. in 1904, and received a regular commission in the 2nd Battn. 6 July, 1907, and was promoted Lieut. 26 June, 1910; served in India, and returned with his regt. after the outbreak of the European War, landing in England 23 Dec. 1914; left for the Front 15 Jan. following, and was killed in action near Ypres, 17 Feb. 1915; unm. Buried at Zillebeke. He received the fifth class of the Victorian Order in June, 1905, when only 19 years of age.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

Eccles J V W 2nd Lt Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

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Eccles J V W 2nd Lt Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

L IEUTENANT JOHN VIVIAN WILLIAM ECCLES, King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, the eldest son of the late John Lamont Eccles of Trinidad, was born in 1879 and educated at St. John’s College, Hurstpierpoint.

At the age of seventeen he joined the firm of Price Bros. and became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1904. A member of Coombe Hill and Acton Golf Clubs, he was a keen golfer and won many prizes in competitions. On the outbreak of war he immediately enlisted in the H.A.C. and obtained his commission in the 8th Battalion, King’s Own Royal Lancasters in the December following. He went out to Egypt and Salonica in January 1916, being attached to the 9th Battalion of his regiment. In November of that year he was transferred to G.H.Q., Salonica.

He came home on leave in April 1917, and on his return to Salonica in H.M. Transport Transylvania, the vessel was torpedoed on 2 May. Lieutenant Eccles was among those reported “Missing.”

“Both I and my Staff are deeply shocked at the news,” wrote his Chief at G.H.Q., Major-General Webb Gillman. “I miss him greatly, as he was so reliable. His work, though perhaps tedious, was one of great responsibility and he never betrayed the trust that was imposed on him.”

An officer who served with him at home and in Egypt and Salonica wrote: “After he came down from the line (where his job, I know none of the easiest, was well done) he became a frequent and always welcome visitor. . . . We all feel his loss personally and keenly, and all are absolutely sure that he died gallantly and consistently with his quality, which, by some considerable experience, we have found to be of the finest.”

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918

Driver G D Lt Army Service Corps

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Driver G D Lt Army Service Corps

LIEUTENANT GRAHAM DUDLEY DRIVER, Royal Army Service Corps, son of Sheldon Dudley Driver, a member of the Stock Exchange, was born in 1872 and educated at Dover College. He himself became a member in 1894.

An enthusiast in all sports he was especially keen on tennis, lawn tennis and squash racquets. He competed in and won many prizes at lawn tennis tournaments, and was a member of Hurlingham and Queen’s Clubs.

Though over forty when war broke out, he enlisted in September 1914, in the Sportsmen’s Battalion, the 23rd Royal Fusiliers, and in March of the following year received his commission as a Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps.

He died of spotted fever at the age of forty-three, within a few weeks of obtaining his commission, on 5 May 1915.

He married Evelyn, youngest daughter of the late William Blencowe of Brackley, Northants, and left one daughter.

Source : The Stock Exchange War Memorial 1914-1918