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Pte. Frank Eary 8th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.24th Nov 1917)  My Great Grandfather, Frank Eary, born June 1886 was a horse keeper pre-war and, on enlistment in 1914, was a Driver T/25822 with No 2 Company, 1st Division, ASC. He later transferred to the Royal Fusiliers, 8th Battalion but, I am uncertain on the transfer date. His medal card shows a transfer to 5 Battalion but, CWGC states 8th Battalion which I see to be true as, the 5th never left the UK whereas Frank was killed on the 24th November 1917. The 5th Battalion was a training depot and he would have joined the regiment on transfer to that unit before being posted after infantry training and equipment to an active service battalion (8th Btn. as recorded) He appears on the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval.
He died leaving a wife and three children; Alexandria, William (my grandfather) and Frank.
It is likely that he never met Frank junior as he was conceived late in 1916, probably on Frank senior's last home leave, and born in July 1917.
It would have been great news to him whilst in the trenches though that his wife had born a son in July and, that she had named him Frank. Poignant too as they had first had a son, Frank, in 1912 who sadly died the same year.
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Pte. Leslie Green 5th Btn Royal Fusiliers Leslie Green served with the 4th and 5th Royal Fusiliers and transferred to 786th Area Employment Company, Labour Corps on 25th of October 1917 then back to the Royal Fusiliers on 24th of August 1918. He was with the Kings Liverpool Regiment on discharge.
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2nd Lt. Frank Gordon Strawson 5th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.1st Oct 1918) Frank Strawson attested into the Army Service Corps on the 21st of January 1915 in Aldershot. He was Commissioned on the 31st of July 1917 into the
5th Royal Fusiliers then transferred to the West Surrey Regiment (Queen's) and went to France on the 3rd of July 1916. he was killed in action near Ypres, Belgium on 1st of October 1917
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Pte. William F. Healey 5th Btn. Royal Fusiliers William Healey enlisted on the 11th of December 1915 and was discharged as wounded on the 27th of July 1918, aged 30 years.
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Sgt John Alfred Perrett 5th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Alf Perrett served with the 5th Royal Fusiliers.
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Pte. Charles George Blake 5th Btn. Royal Fusiliers Private Blake died on 13th February 1919 and is buried In the North-East part of the Tuam New Cemetery, Tuam, Co. Galway, Ireland.
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Pte. Reginald Thomas Sanders 8th Btn. Royal Fusiliers  On 22nd of August 1914 my grandfather, Reginald Sanders, aged 19, volunteered for service in the armed forces.â€
He was recruited in Stoke on Trent and then travelled to Hounslow where he joined the 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers which was part of Kitchener's First New Army.
For the next nine months he was in training at various camps in England and on the morning of 31st May 1915 he left Aldershot and at 10.30pm the same day he landed in Boulogne, France. On 12th June he went into the trenches for the first time near Armentieres.
For the next 22 months, except for a home furlough in October 1916, he was in the trenches in the Aisne, Nord and Pas-de-Calais Departments of France.
On 29th April 1917 at Feuchy he suffered a wound to his right hip whilst returning from a working party and on 4th May 1917 he was transferred to Edmonton Hospital in England. I don't know how long he was in hospital but he was granted a furlough from the 12th to 21st June 1917. He was then sent to Shoreham in July 1917 and on 8th September 1917 he left for France and joined the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers near Arras.
Excepting for a spell at 3rd Army Infantry School in Auxi-le-Chateau he was in the trenches until, on 27th March 1918, he was again wounded in action, this time a gunshot wound to the head. On 6th April 1918 he was transferred to Epsom Hospital. I don't know how long he was in hospital for but he was granted a furlough to visit his family in Newcastle under Lyme from 17th to 26th July.
On 29th July 1918 he was posted to the 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at Dover where he stayed until 22nd September when he took a trade test at Woolwich Arsenal and he subsequently transferred to the Royal Engineers. He spent the rest of the war mainly in Hampshire and was demobbed on 31st March 1919 in Halifax.
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L/Cpl. William George Smith 5th Btn. Royal Fusiliers (d.17th Nov 1917) William Smith left a widow and a daughter. He was aged 36 years.
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Private Herbert James Boyer 22nd Battalion London Regiment (d.3rd Sept 1918) Herbert James Boyer died in WW1 and the CWGC records show he fell on 3rd September 1918. He was a member of the 22nd Battalion, London Regiment and is buried in the Heilly Station Cemetery. Mericourt-L'Abbe. I believe he enlisted initially in the 5th Royal Fusiliers (G/25502). I am related on my mother's side, and have obtained replicas of his medals, which I will frame along with the relevant cap badges.
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