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Arthur William ALLPORT
Private 3190
1st/5th Batallion, North Staffordshire Regiment
Died 1st July 1916 aged 24
Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 14 B and 14 C.
Remembered on the memorial in the Methodist Church, Weston.
Son
of Mary Ann Allport, of Lodgefields, Tittensor, Stoke-on-Trent, and the late
Arthur George Allport
Birth registered in Quarter 4, 1891 in Stafford Registration District [6b 20, Q4 1891]
Appears in the 1901 census living in Turnpike Road, Weston upon Trent, Staffordshire, with his father Arthur (aged 55, bricklayer), mother Mary (aged 49), married sister Amy (aged 23) and her daughter Amy COOPER (aged 2), His sister Mary (aged 20) and her husband Albert SIMCOX (aged 27, livery stable groom), and his mother’s father Edward DODD (aged 84).
Howard
BARLOW
Private 268795 Royal Garrison
Artillery, Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
Died on 26/09/1917 aged 21,
France and Flanders
Remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial,
Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
Remembered on the memorial in
the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
There are memorials to members of the Barlow family in the churchyard of St. Andrew’s, Weston.
The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September.
Stephen G
DAINTY
Private G/64240 North
Staffordshire Regiment
Died on 04/10/1917, France and
Flanders
Buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery,
Grave VI.A.18.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
Remembered on the memorial in
the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
Remembered on a memorial in the
churchyard of St. Andrew, Weston.
Stephen (aged 9 born Great Haywood, Staffs) appears in the 1901 census for Weston on Trent parish with his parents James (aged 46 born Ingestre, Staffs, a railway plate layer) and Mary (aged 45 born Walsall, Staffs), and his brothers Herbert (aged 20, born Weston on Trent, an agricultural labourer), Frederick (aged 14 born Weston on Trent, a gardener), and William (aged 7 born Weston on Trent), and his sisters Mary (aged 12, born Great Heywood, Staffs, a domestic nurse), Elizabeth (aged 11, born Great Heywood, Staffs), and Olive (aged 3 born Weston on Trent).
There is a memorial stone in the churchyard of St Andrew’s, Weston on Trent: “Treasured memories of our dear parents James and Mary Ann DAINTY also my dear brother Stephen.”
Charles and William Cartwright Dainty appear on panel 3 of the memorial. There are memorials to Charles and William Cartwright in the Churchyard of St. Andrew’s, Weston.
Hooge Chateau and its stables were the scene of very fierce fighting throughout the First World War. On 31 October 1914, the staff of the 1st and 2nd Divisions were wiped out when the chateau was shelled; from 24 May to 3 June 1915, the chateau was defended against German attacks and in July 1915, the crater was made by a mine sprung by the 3rd Division. On 30 July, the Germans took the chateau, and on 9 August, it and the crater were regained by the 6th Division. The Germans retook Hooge on 6 June 1916 and on 31 July 1917, the 8th Division advanced 1.6 kilometres beyond it. It was lost for the last time in April 1918, but regained by the 9th (Scottish) and 29th Divisions on 28 September. Hooge Crater Cemetery was begun by the 7th Division Burial Officer early in October 1917.
Alfred
J. DEVEY
Rifleman S/13152 Rifle Brigade
(King’s Own Consort)
Born and residing in
Shirleywich, Staffs; enlisted Stafford, Staffs
Killed in action on 13/08/1916
aged 27, France and Flanders
Remembered on Thiepval Memorial,
Pier and Face 16 B and 16 C.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
Remembered on the memorial in
the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
Remembered on a memorial in the
churchyard of St. Andrew, Weston.
Alfred (aged 12 born Shirleywich, Staffs) appears in the 1901 census in Weston on Trent parish with his parents Edward (aged 42 born Burslem, Staffs, a general laybourer) and Gertrude (aged 42 born Highgate, Warks), and his brothers Harold (aged 9 born Shirleywich, Staffs) and Edwin (aged 2 born Shirleywich, Staffs).
C.E. and E. Devey appear on panel 3 of the memorial.
The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 officers and men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. Over 90% of those commemorated died between July and November 1916.
Sydney FRADLEY
Private 55758 Welch Regt, 2nd
Battalion, formerly 32076 N Staffs Regt
Born and residing in Weston,
Staffs; enlisted in Lichfield, Staffs
Son of Thomas and Winnifred
Fradley, of Rose Cottage, Weston, Stafford.
Killed in action on 23/10/1918
aged 21, France and Flanders
Buried in Highland Cemetery, Le
Cateau, Grave V.A.5.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
Remembered on the memorial in
the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
Sydney (aged 3 born Weston) appears in the 1901 census in Weston on Trent parish with his parents Thomas (aged 37 born Kingstone, Staffs, a railway ganger platelayer) and Winefred (aged 36 born Bridgenorth, Shropshire), with his brothers William (aged 12 born Kingstone, Staffs), John Eli (aged 9 born Kingstone, Staffs), Walter (aged 4 born Weston), and sisters Nellie (aged 16 born Gnosall, Staffs, a general domestic servant) and Minnie (aged 6 born Weston)
Rose Cottage stood in the paddocks where villagers kept the ponies for their traps. It was demolished and replaced by a small group of houses, the paddocks being remembered by the street name ‘The Paddocks’.
Sydney’s brother John Eli appears on panel 3 of the memorial and his brother William C. appears on panel 4. There is a memorial to John Eli in the churchyard of St. Andrew’s, Stafford Road, Weston.
Honnechy was part of the battlefield of Le Cateau in August 1914, and from that time it remained in German hands until the 9th October 1918, when the 25th Division and the 6th Cavalry Brigade captured it. It had been a German Hospital centre, and from its capture until the end of October it was a British Field Ambulance centre. The village was inhabited by civilians during the whole of the War. The cemetery stands on the site of a German Cemetery begun in the Battle of Cambrai 1917 and used by German troops and then by British until the 24th October 1918.
Albert
GODRIDGE
Private 44526 Prince Albert’s
(Somerset Light Infantry) 1st Battalion; formerly 12626 Shropshire
Light Infantry
Born Weston, Staffs; enlisted
Stafford, Staffs
Killed in action on 02/09/1918,
France and Flanders
Remembered on Vis-en-Artois
Memorial, Panel 4.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
Remembered on the memorial in
the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
Albert (aged 9 born Shirleywich, Staffs) appears in the 1901 census in Weston on Trent parish with his parents John (aged 37 of Croft, Leics, a railway signalman) and Agnes (aged 37 born Armington, Cambs) and his brothers Ernest (aged 10, born Shirleywich, Staffs), George (aged 7 born Weston), Wilfred (aged 4 born Weston), Reginald (aged 1 born Weston), and his sisters Mabel (aged 8 born Weston) and Elsie (aged 5 born Weston)
Albert’s brothers Ernest G., George W., Wilfred C. and Reginald W. appear on panel 4 of the memorial.
Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt are villages on the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai about 10 kilometres south-east of Arras. Within the grounds of Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, which is west of Haucourt on the north side of the main road, will be found the Vis-en-Artois Memorial. This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave.
John HART
Remembered on the memorial in the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
I have not been able to identify John HART
The 1901 census for Weston on Trent shows John HART, a farmer, (aged 27 born Weston on Trent) and his sister Mary (aged 27 born Weston on Trent). I do not know if they have any relationship with the John HART above.
Fred HEATH
Private
Remembered on the memorial in the Methodist Church, Weston.
I have not been able to identify Fred HEATH.
Joseph George HAYWOOD
Lance Corporal 202956 1st/5th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
Died 17 August 1917 aged 28,
Son of the late Joseph and Sarah Haywood, of Gayton; husband of Lucy Annie Haywood, of "Oak Leigh," Gayton, Staffs
Remembered on the memorial in the Methodist Church, Weston.
Buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France, Plot I, Row U, Grave 46Joseph George appears in the 1901 census at Gayton with his father Joseph (a farmer), mother Sarah J. and siblings John and Elizabeth. His birth was registered in Stafford in 1888. His marriage to Lucy Annie TORR was registered in 1912.
His widow Lucy Annie married William Bernard MARTIN, and was the mother of Lilian BAILEY.
[Thanks to Lilian Bailey for correcting this entry.]
John
(Jack) JOHNSON
Private L/10858 Royal West
Kents; formerly 9193 17th Lancers
born Weston, Staffs; residing
Fenton, Staffs; enlisted Stafford, Staffs
Killed in action on 09/03/1916
aged 19, France and Flanders
Remembered on Loos Memorial,
Panel 95 to 97.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
There is a memorial to a Johnson in the churchyard of St. Andrew’s, Weston.
The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery, and commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay.
I have not been able to identify John JOHNSON
Henry (Harry) LEE
Guardsman 18195 Grenadier Guards
Born London; enlisted Stafford,
Staffs
Killed in action on 27/09/1915,
France and Flanders
Remembered on Loos Memorial,
Panel 5 to 7.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
Henry LEE's family was detailed by his father George in February 1920. His mother was Sarah A. His brothers were: George 31, William 29, Walter 20, Stanley 9, His sisters were: Alice Rowley 33, Ethel 23, Gladys 18 and Nellie 15. They were living in Winchester Road, Lower Edmonton, London N9. Henry appears in the 1901 census in Islington, London with his father George (aged 42, a railway carter), mother Sarah A (aged 36), sister Alice (aged 14), brother George (aged 12), brother William (aged 10), sister Ethel (aged 5) and brother Walter J (aged 2).
Henry was killed during his 2nd tour of duty in France, and received 1914-15 Star, together with British War and Victory medals. He enlisted in Stafford in September 1914, little more that 1 year prior to his death.
[Thanks are due to Peter MacDonald, who is researching the Grenadier Guards, for help with this identification.]
Kenneth
Archibald LEE
Private 86772 Lincolnshire
Regiment; Machine Gun Corps; formerly 22820 North Staffordshire Regiment
Weston, Staffordshire
Died of wounds on 30/05/1918
aged 32, France and Flanders
Buried in Contay British
Cemetery, Contay, Grave VII.C.18.
Remembered on the parish
memorial of Weston on Trent.
The birth of Kenneth Archibold LEE was registered in Quarter 3, 1886 in Derby registration district. He appears (aged 5) in the 1891 census for Derby at 38 Campion Street with his father John H (aged 38, a civil service telegraph clerk), his mother Ellen (aged 36), his brother Frank H (aged 10) and his sister Lilian M (aged 2). He appears (aged 15) in the 1901 census for Derby at 48 Wilson Street, with his father John H (aged 48, a widower, assistant superintendant civil service telegraphs) and his brother Frank (aged 20).
The site of Contey British Cemetery was chosen in August 1916 for burials from the 49th Casualty Clearing Station, which arrived at Contay at the end of August. It was joined by the 9th CCS in September. The German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line in the spring of 1917 brought the medical units further east and it was not until April 1918, when the Germans advanced to Albert, that the 38th and other Divisions used the cemetery again.
Thomas
LEE
Remembered on the memorial in the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
I have not been able to identify Thomas LEE
Holford Charles
Fourdrinier PLANT
Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion
Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment
Killed in action 03/05/1917 aged
22
Remembered ARRAS MEMORIAL, Bay 7
and 8
Remembered on the memorial in
the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
Appears in 1901 census aged 5, born and living in Tillington, Stafford with his parents Samuel (born 1861, Weston on Trent, solicitor) and Ethel (born 1874 in Malta), and his brothers John (born 1889, Tillington) and Samuel (born 1899, Tillington) and sister Margaret (born 1901, Tillington), together with his aunt Emily PLANT (born 1857, Weston on Trent).
John WILLIAMS
Private
Remembered on the memorial in the Methodist Church, Weston.
I have not been able to identify John WILLIAMS.
John Huskisson Everett
Gunner 894422 Royal Artillery
Died on 21/04/1943 aged 24, Tunisia
Buried in Medjez-El-Bab War Cemetery, Grave 12.E.5.
Remembered on the parish memorial of
Weston on Trent.
Remembered on the memorial in the church of St. Andrew, Weston.
John Huskisson EVERETT’s family lived in Abbeylands, Stafford Road, Weston. They are shown as living there in the 1912 Kelly’s Directory of Staffordshire and in the 1901 census. They were a family of solicitors.
In May 1943, the war in North Africa came to an end in Tunisia with the defeat of the Axis powers by a combined Allied force. The campaign began on 8 November 1942, when Commonwealth and American troops made a series of landings in Algeria and Morocco. The Germans responded immediately by sending a force from Sicily to northern Tunisia, which checked the Allied advance east in early December. In the south, the Axis forces defeated at El Alamein withdrew into Tunisia along the coast through Libya, pursued by the Allied Eighth Army. By mid April 1943, the combined Axis force was hemmed into a small corner of north-eastern Tunisia and the Allies were grouped for their final offensive. Medjez-el-Bab was at the limit of the Allied advance in December 1942 and remained on the front line until the decisive Allied advances of April and May 1943.
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