Full Name: Thomas Edward WILLIS Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Manchester Regiment Unit: 17th Battalion Age at Death: 26 Date of Death: 31 July 1917 Service Number: 51142 Cemetery: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium Memorial Reference: Panel 53 and 55 CWGC Certificate: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/911303/willis EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: https://www.everyoneremembered.org/profiles/soldier/911303/ Son of John Joseph Willis & Susannah Petman, of Goldstone, Ash, Canterbury; husband of Winifred M. Willis, of 2, Rushams Cottages, Wingham, Canterbury.
Full Name: Thomas Sifleet Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 1st Battalion Age at Death: 27 Date of Death: 8 December 1917 Service Number: 203960 Cemetery: Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Memorial Reference: XXXII. D. 11. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/291053/SIFLEET,%20THOMAS EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/291053/ Son of Henry Sifleet; husband of Kate Sifleet, of IO, Gore Bank, Upchurch, Sittingbourne, Kent. Born at Lower Halstow, Kent. In the 1911 Census Thomas, aged 21, was still living at…
Full Name: Charles Gammon Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: Manchester Regiment Unit: 2nd Battalion Age at Death: 21 Date of Death: 4 December 1917 Service Number: 245347 Cemetery: Poelcapelle British Cemetery, Belgium Memorial Reference: XXXII. D. 11. CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/491514/GAMMON,%20CHARLES EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/491514/ Charles was born in 1896 in Upper Hardres, Kent to parents Walter and Ada Gammon (nee Keeler). In the 1901 and 1911 Censuses, Charles’s father was listed as a farmer on Fryarne Park Farm in Stelling Minnis…
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…