UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1918

Extracted from army records

 





Charles Aldous
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Sudbury Death Date: 2 Nov 1918 Rank: L/Corporal Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment Battalion: 2/5th Battalion (Territorial). Number: 242060 Type of Casualty: Died of wounds Theatre of War: Aldershot

Edward Alliston
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Hertford Death Date: 10 Jul 1916 Enlistment Location: Hunedon, Herts Rank: Private Regiment: Bedfordshire Regiment Battalion: 6th Battalion. Number: 13003 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Walter Charles Bowtell:
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Bures Death Date: 24 Apr 1915 Rank: Private Regiment: Suffolk Regiment Battalion: 1st Battalion. Number: 15801 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Ernest Frank Burrows
Birth Place: Bures St. Mary, Suffolk Residence: Colchester Death Date: 25 Apr 1917 Enlistment Location: Parkeston, Harwich Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 7th Battalion. Number: 301192 Type of Casualty: Died of wounds Theatre of War: Austria

Charles Cansdale
Birth Place: Bures, Essex Residence: Warley, Essex Death Date: 21 May 1915 Enlistment Location: West Thurrock Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 1st Battalion. Number: 3/2226 Type of Casualty: Died of wounds Theatre of War: Austria

Arthur Allen Cansdale
Birth Place: Bures St. Mary, Suffolk Residence: Sudbury, Suffolk Death Date: 7 Oct 1916 Rank: Private Regiment: Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Battalion: 6th Battalion. Number: G/15148 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Charles Cansdale
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Bury St. Edmunds Death Date: 14 Mar 1916 Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps Number: 46380 Type of Casualty: Died of wounds Theatre of War: Aldershot

Charles James Cansdale
Birth Place: Bures, Essex Residence: Bury St. Edmund's Death Date: 13 Jun 1916 Enlistment Location: Bures Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 11th Battalion. Number: 18715 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Frank Cansdale
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Sudbury, Suffolk Death Date: 3 Sep 1916 Enlistment Location: Bures Rank: Sergeant Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment Battalion: 3rd Battalion. Number: 8819 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

John Thomas Cansdale
Birth Place: Bures St. Mary, Suffolk Residence: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Death Date: 5 Aug 1917 Rank: Private Regiment: East Surrey Regiment Battalion: 12th Battalion. Number: 25387 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot
Name: Edward Chaplin Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Colchester Death Date: 24 Nov 1915 Rank: Private Regiment: Suffolk Regiment Battalion: 5th Battalion. Number: 2206 Type of Casualty: Died Theatre of War: Brough - Sic

William Cole
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Ipswich, Suffolk Death Date: 15 Jul 1917 Enlistment Location: Felixstowe, Suffolk Rank: Private Regiment: Manchester Regiment Battalion: 2nd Battalion. Number: 50903 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot Comments: Formerly 28077, Norfolk Regt.

Frederick Cudmore
Birth Place: Bures, Essex Residence: Warley, Essex Death Date: 6 Aug 1915 Enlistment Location: Bures Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 1st Battalion. Number: 9473 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Antwerp

Sidney Cudmore
Birth Place: Mount Bures, Essex Residence: Bures, Essex Death Date: 12 Oct 1916 Enlistment Location: Bures, St. Mary, Suffolk Rank: Corporal Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 1st Battalion. Number: 30569 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Arthur Diggins
Birth Place: Bures Hamlet, Essex Residence: Bures Death Date: 27 Nov 1917 Rank: Private Regiment: Suffolk Regiment Battalion: 5th Battalion. Number: 240163 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Austria Comments: Formerly 1470, Suffolk Regt

Harry Thomas Dyer
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Redhill, Surrey Death Date: 8 Aug 1918 Rank: Private Regiment: Tank Corps Number: 301613 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot Comments: Formerly 4828, Middlesex Regiment.

Walter Everitt
Birth Place: Bures Sudbury, Suffolk Residence: Sudbury Death Date: 24 May 1915 Enlistment Location: Bures Hamlet Rank: Private Regiment: Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps) Battalion: 4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish). Number: 6223 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Ernest William
Eves Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Bury St. Edmunds Death Date: 8 Aug 1918 Rank: Private Regiment: Suffolk Regiment Battalion: 12th Battalion. Number: 265614 Type of Casualty: Died Theatre of War: Brough - Sic

Frank James Harrington
Birth Place: Bures, Essex Residence: Chelmsford Death Date: 21 Feb 1915 Enlistment Location: Bures Rank: Gunner Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery Number: 54347 Type of Casualty: Died Theatre of War: Brough - Sic

Archibald Howard
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Clacton-On-Sea, Essex Death Date: 13 Apr 1918 Rank: Private Regiment: Lancashire Fusiliers Battalion: 18th Battalion. Number: 22788 Type of Casualty: Died of wounds Theatre of War: Aldershot Comments: Formerly 155174, R.F.A.

William Hume
Birth Place: St. Mary's Bures, Suffolk Residence: Sudbury Death Date: 3 Nov 1915 Rank: Private Regiment: Suffolk Regiment Battalion: 5th Battalion. Number: 1838 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Antwerp

George Hurrell
Birth Place: Bures, Essex Residence: Colchester Death Date: 7 May 1917 Enlistment Location: Bures Rank: L/Corporal Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 1st Battalion. Number: 28805 Type of Casualty: Died Theatre of War: Aldershot

Cyril Harry Johnson
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Birmingham Death Date: 5 Oct 1917 Enlistment Location: Burnes Rank: Sergeant Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Regiment Battalion: 15th Battalion. Number: 222 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Harry Juniper
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Ipswich Death Date: 9 Aug 1916 Rank: Corporal Regiment: Suffolk Regiment Battalion: 7th Battalion. Number: 13384 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Ernest Juniper Birth Place: Bures, Soffolk Residence: Colchester Death Date: 12 Apr 1918 Enlistment Location: Bures Rank: Sergeant Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 10th Battalion. Number: 12901 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot Comments: M.M.

Ernest Nelson Kemp
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Godstone Death Date: 9 Apr 1917 Enlistment Location: Godstone Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Battalion: 13th Battalion. Number: 41270 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Ernest Nelson Kemp
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Godstone Death Date: 9 Apr 1917 Enlistment Location: Godstone Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Battalion: 13th Battalion. Number: 41270 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

George Peake B
irth Place: Bures, Colchester, Essex Residence: Colchester Death Date: 2 Jun 1915 Enlistment Location: Fufulham, S.W. Rank: Sergeant Regiment: Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps) Battalion: Corps of Dragoons. 1st Kings Dragoon Guards. Number: 3870 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

George Pettitt
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Chelmsford, Essex Death Date: 27 Oct 1917 Enlistment Location: Clacton-On-Sea Rank: Private Regiment: Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) Battalion: 12th Battalion. Number: G/40121 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot Comments: Formerly 1676, Royal Fusiliers.

Ernest S. G. Pile
Birth Place: Bures St. Mary, Suffolk Residence: Weymouth Death Date: 30 Sep 1917 Enlistment Location: West Bridgeford, Notts Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers Battalion: 6/7th Battalion. Number: 201422 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Stanley Arthur Prior
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Colchester, Essex Death Date: 13 Aug 1918 Enlistment Location: Bures, Suffolk Rank: Private Regiment: Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) Battalion: 10th Battalion. Number: 103375 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

John Sadler
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Sudbury, Suffolk Death Date: 8 Aug 1918 Rank: Sergeant Regiment: Cambridgeshire Regiment Battalion: 1st Battalion. Number: 6955 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Robert Sealey
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Warley, Essex Death Date: 11 Jan 1917 Enlistment Location: Navestock, Essex Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment Battalion: 9th Battalion. Number: 21639 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Horace Ephraim Shead
Birth Place: Bures Hamlet, Suffolk Residence: Bury St. Edmunds Death Date: 8 May 1915 Rank: Private Regiment: Suffolk Regiment Battalion: 1st Battalion. Number: 16678 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Frank Spencer
Birth Place: Bures, Essex Residence: Tadworth Death Date: 20 Nov 1917 Enlistment Location: Tadworth Rank: Private Regiment: Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) Battalion: 2/7th Battalion. Number: 58639 Type of Casualty: Killed in action Theatre of War: Aldershot

Charles Albert Ward
Birth Place: Bures, Suffolk Residence: Eastbourne Death Date: 30 Apr 1916 Rank: L/Corporal Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment Battalion: 11th Battalion. Number: SD/128 Type of Casualty: Died of wounds Theatre of War: Aldershot

Herbert Francis
Herbert Francis, Born 6th January 1899 Framlingham
Moved with his parents to Bures from around 4 years of age.
Parents, Samuel and Clara Francis, High Street, Bures.
Killed in Action' 10th April 1918, (age 19) with no known grave
Regimental number: 21252. 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium (panel 3)
he enlisted in August 1915 and therefor an 'under-age' soldier. (being just over 16 and a half years old)