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10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
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Colour Sgt. Frederick Henry Weaving Military Police Corps (d.20th June 1918) Frederick Weaving was born in Hammersmith in 1891, son of Thomas and Henrietta Weaving. The 1911 Census shows him living with his parents and siblings at 2 Apsley Terrace in Horn Lane, Acton, London. For a while he was employed by Acton Council in the Education Department as a clerk.
It is believed he initially enlisted with the British Army at Chiswick in November 1913 or January 1914 (possibly with the East Kent Regiment). He was Acting Warrant Officer with the 10th Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. In late 1917 he was serving in the Middle East as Colour Sergeant, Military Foot Police, Military Police Corps, with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force. At this time he contracted Malaria and in early June 1918 he was admitted to 31 BSH at Baghdad where further symptoms of Typhus appeared. On the 20th June 1918 he was transferred to the Isolation Hospital at Baghdad and died four hours later from Typhus. He is buried in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery in Iraq and is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
Courtesy of www.stmaryacton.org.uk
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Sgt. Harold Victor Wageman 1/8th Btn. Middlesex Regiment (d.10th April 1917) Harold Wageman was born in Acton on the 14 November 1896, youngest child and only son of Thomas and Caroline Wageman. His father was an accountant and bank inspector. By 1911 the family had moved to 48 Chatsworth Gardens, Acton. After leaving school he started working in a bank and his army records show that when he enlisted he was employed as a bank clerk at the LCM Bank, Marylebone .
He had been a Cadet with the 10th Middlesex Regiment and on the 9th of September 1914 he enlisted at Ealing with the 8th Middlesex Regiment (Reserves). On the 1st of February 1915 he embarked with the Regiment from Southampton to Gibralter, remaining there for a few months. During this time he was promoted to Lance Corporal on the 27th of February and then to Corporal on the 31st of July. The Regiment left Gibralter on the 23rd of August travelling first to Alexandria and then on the 4th of December 1915, as part of the Western Frontier Force, travelled to Western Egypt.
On the 4 March 1916 he was admitted to hospital in Mersa Maturah with a diffused lacerated wound on face, after treatment and a short 5 day stay in hospital he returned to his unit. On the 8th of May 1916 the Regiment embarked from Alexandria and after a week arrived in Marseilles, where they were then sent to Rouen, arriving on the 13th of June 1916. 11 days later on the 24th June he was admitted to Hospital with an inflamed stomach, after treatment and a period of respite he rejoined his unit in Etaples on the 2 September 1916. He was promoted to Sergeant on the 19th of September 1916 with the 1/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
On the 10th of April 1917 he was killed in action aged 20 years, believed by shell concussion, during the Battle of Arras.
He has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Northern France. He is remembered on both the War Memorial at the Territorial Army Drill Hall, Hanworth Road, Hounslow and the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
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Pte. Lionel Raymond Hopkins 10th Btn. A Coy. Middlesex Regiment (d.27th April 1916) Lionel Hopkins, born on 26th July 1894 in Turvey. Bedfordshire was the son of George Edward and Francis Maud Hopkins of 1 Burnham Road, St. Albans, Hertfordshire. From 2nd January 1912 he was a teacher at Elstow Board Lower School. When he enlisted in Battersea on 1st November 1912 he was living in St. Johns Green, Battersea. He served with A Company 1st/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. He died of a fractured skull received in a fall on 27th of April 1916 aged 21 years in India and is buried in Kala Khan Cemetery, Naintal, India. He is commemorated on the Madras 1914-1918 War Memorial, Chennai, India and on the War Memorial, All Saints church, Turvey, Bedfordshire.
A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1907-11, he is also commemorated on the School War Memorial. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
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Ernest Dervereux Ferris 10th Battalion Middlesex Ernest D. Ferris served with his regiment in India. He was a champion swimmer and represented his unit/army in competitions.
He suffered from malaria which he caught in India.
In civilian life he was a partner in a family business of ironmongers & builders.
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