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10th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
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Cpl. Charles James Powell 10th Btn. East Surrey Regiment My Grandfather Corporal Charles Powell was injured in Villers-Bretonneu. He was 23 years old when he was attestated on the 12th of December 1915. He was made Kings Corporal in the field of Battle in WW1. He survived the war and died in 1955. Lest we forget. RIP.
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C/Sgt William James Godfrey 10th Btn. East Surrey Regiment (d.21st July 1916) Born in 1862, my great-grandfather William Godfrey, worked as an Agricultural Labourer until 1894 when he enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment. For some inexplicable reason he gave his enlistement age as 18, despite being 32!
After seeing action in Malta and South Africa, he was in the battle of the Somme in July 1916 where he was seriously wounded. He was brought home injured to England, but died 2 days later in Dover Hospital, his wife never seeing him again as she was unable to travel that far to visit him as she was pregnant with my grandfather who was born 4 months later - and named William James after his father. Although his widow, left with 4 young children, remarried, she was eventually buried in WJ's grave in Woking Cemetary. William James junior, my grandfather, also joined the East Surrey Regiment as a professional soldier.
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2nd Lt. Montaque Adolph Stimson 10th Btn East Surrey Regt. (d.30th Sep 1916) Montague Stimson was 21 years old when he was killed, he was serving with the 10th Btn. East Surreys, attached to the 8th Btn. He had previously served with the Honourable Artillery Company enlisting in 1914. His brother Douglas also served with the Honourable Artillery Company and younger brother Eric was killed whilst serving with the Rifle Brigade.
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