The Roll of Honour

Category: Regiments & Units

Full Name: Walter John HOPPER Nationality: British   Rank: Chief Engineer Officer Service: Merchant Navy Vessel: S.S. Maid of Kent (London) Age at Death: 54 Date of Death: 21 May 1940 Cemetery: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2789926/HOPPER,%20WALTER EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2789926/ Walter was born in 1894 in Margate, Kent and was the only child born to Charles Hopper and Rose Huxstep. In the 1911 Census Walter (aged 17) is described as a solicitor’s clerk. In 1916 Walter married Elizabeth Ford…

Full Name: Archibald Gordon WILLIS Nationality: British   Rank: Sergeant (Air Gunner) Service: Royal Air Force Vessel: 48 Squadron Age at Death: 20 Date of Death: 31 July 1940 Service Number: 568341 Cemetery: Carew (St Marys) New Churchyard, Pembrokeshire, Wales Reference: Row C, Grave 3 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2965510/WILLIS,%20ARCHIBALD%20GORDON Born in the Kent village of Barham in 1920, Archie was the only son of Archibald Frank Willis and Nellie Flack.  His father served in the Great War as a Corporal of Horse in the…

Full Name:  William Ernest Sydney SHEPHERD Nationality:  British   Rank:  Boatswain Service:  Merchant Navy Vessel:  Cable Ship “Alert” (UK) Age at Death:  34 Date of Death:  24 February 1945 Service Number:  402063 Memorial:  Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK Reference:  Panel 5 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2796820/SHEPHERD,%20WILLIAM%20ERNEST%20SYDNEY William Shepherd was born on 30 November 1908 in Plumstead, Kent – the only child of William James Shepherd and Olive Camilla Hopper.   He married Winifred Imrie in December 1938 and a son was born to them…

       Full Name:   Stephen ROGERS Nationality:  Canadian   Rank:  Private Service:  Central Ontario Regiment, Canadian Infantry Unit:  75th Battalion Date of Birth: 7 July 1898 Age at Death:  19 Date of Death:  3 September 1917 Service Number:  1024057 Cemetery:  Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery Extension, France Reference:  II. A. 18. Military Records:  View Stephen’s Attestation Papers – front and back CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/466625/ROGERS,%20STEPHEN EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/466625/ Stephen was born in Oare, Kent in July 1898 to Stephen Israel Rogers and Lucy Arnold. Stephen Jnr…

Full Name:   Philip Henry PURSEY Nationality:  Canadian   Rank:  Private Service:  Canadian Pioneers Unit:  2nd Battalion Age at Death:  40 Date of Death:  15 Aug 1917 Service Number:  445152 Cemetery / Memorial:  Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension, France Reference:  I. H. 12. Military Records:  View Philip’s Attestation Papers – front and back CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/259220/PURSEY,%20PHILIP%20HENRY EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/259220/ Philip was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1878 and married Lucy Heyman in Folkestone in April 1898.  The couple emigrated to Canada in 1901…

Full Name:  George PILE Nationality:  British   Rank:  Private Service:  East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit:  1st and 5th Battalions Age at Death:  30 Date of Death:  19 June 1917 Service Number:  240837 Cemetery: Amara War Cemetery, Iraq Pluckley Village War Memorial, Kent, UK [picture, above] Reference:   XIII. H. 9. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/629829/PILE,%20G EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/629829/  George was born in Pluckley, Kent in 1887, the fourth child of Jessie and Frances Pile. George was one of two sons from the…

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