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L/Cpl. Frederick John Welch 6th Battalion Middlesex Regiment My Dad, Frederick Welch, joined at Mill Hill on the 17/08/14, 2 weeks after the beginning of the War. He was posted to France in May 1915, wounded and sent home 20/11/15. He was then sent out again to France on 14/04/16, wounded on 9/11/16 and sent home, he was later discharged as being unfit for duty.
I am unable to find out where he was wounded, perhaps on the Somme. I have the large piece of shrapnel taken out of his left arm, he was left with some limited use in his arm. I was able to put my fingers in the deep wound when I was little.
He was later to become a skilled welder, carpenter and joiner. He never spoke about the War to us and was sometimes disheartened by the behaviour of If anyone has info about the whereabouts of the 6th Battalion during May 15 and November 16, please let me know. My dad's war records seem to be untraceable.
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L/Cpl. Charles Henry Ewington 2nd Btn. Middlesex Regiment I know very little about my great grandfather, Charles Ewington, except what I remember hearing as a child and what I've found in my research. I found that in 1911 he was a Lance Corporal in the 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He was born in 1888 and married to Maud Ewington from Guernesy (not sure of her maiden name). I believe they resided in Borden, Hampshire where they raised their children.
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Pte. George Barlow 6th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (d.4th November 1915) George Barlow enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment early in 1915 but was killed in the Battle of Loos in November of the same year. No known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
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Pte. James Herbert Rolfe 6th Btn. Middlesex Regiment (d.30th December 1917) James Rolfe was born in Acton in 1892, youngest of six children born to Henry and Alice Rolfe. The 1911 census shows him working as a newsagent. He served with the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment.
On the 17th December 1917 HMT Aragon (troopship) carrying around 2,700 troops bound for the conflicts in Palestine, left Marseilles in convoy on course for Alexandria. On the 30 December she lay up ten miles off shore, awaiting her escort as the rest of the convoy sailed in to the Port of Alexandria. As she waited within sight of land she was torpedoed by the German Submarine and minelayer the UC-34. The destroyer HMS Attack and every available ship within reach came to her rescue as she sank within 15 minutes. Many of the men rescued and taken onto the HMS Attack had just stripped their oil drenched clothes from their bodies and laid on the deck when she too was torpedoed by the same submarine, almost blowing her in two.
James, aged 25 years, was amongst the 610 of the 2,700 passengers on board the HMT Aragon who were killed. His body was not recovered and he is commemorated on the Chatby Memorial in Alexandria. He is also remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
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2nd. Lt. Norman Brabazon Dick 17th(1st Football)Btn. Middlesex Regiment (d.28th April 1917) Norman Dick was born on 1st August 1882 in Brighton,Sussex, son of John Semple and Leonora Jocelyn Dick (retired East India Merchant). Educated at Bedford Modern school, the 1911 census shows he qualified as a teacher, teaching at Aldenham School (assistant Schoolmaster), he also taught at Merchant Taylors School. He served with the 6th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, later attached on commission with the 17th Battalion. He was killed in action on 28th of April 1917, Pas de Calais. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Arras Memorial. He is also remembered on the grave of his grandfather Anthony Brabazon MD, St Marys church yard, Bathwick, Somerset. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1894-96, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923.
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Pte. Herbert Jollyman 6th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Extract from one of Herbert Jollyman's letters home in 1916:
"After dinner we had more skirmishing drill for an hour & a quarter & then marched off for our first lesson in firing on the miniature range.
There were some fine results I can assure you. I got 2 hits on the card but there was no sign of the other 3. Several got none at all, other remarks from our instructors were most illuminating!
After we had all finished, they took up the rifles & showed us how we ought to do it. Out of 5 shots each, they got 1 hit! & they came to the conclusion the rifles were not sighted properly."
Herbert served with the Machine Gun Section of 6th Middlesex Regiment.
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Lt. A. B.W. Allistone 6th Btn. Middlesex Regiment Lt Allistone was a POW at Torgau camp, Saxony.
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Pte. John Nelson Winchcombe 6th Battalion Middlesex Regiment (d.26th Feb 1917) John Nelson Winchcombe was my great uncle. He signed up on 24 Jun 1915 at Mill Hill. He served at 'Home' from 23 June 1915 to 7 December 1915. He joined the BEF France on 8 December 1915 and he was killed in action on 26 February 1917.
His parents were not informed of his death until 14 August 1917. His medals 1914-15 Star, Victory Medal were received by his father on 8 July 1921
John Winchcombe is buried at the Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetary, Arras - III D 15. His brother of Walter George Winchcombe died in 1916.
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