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Pte. Arthur Champ
British Army 2nd Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment
from:Beatrice Road, Cadoxton, Barry
(d.18th Aug 1917)
Arthur Champ is my great Uncle. I have been doing my family tree and came across his name with his death in France in 1917. I decided to look into it as it's 100 years since world war one has ended. From information gathered, I found he was the youngest son of Mr J Champ of Beatrice Road, Cadoxton Barry, Glamorgan. He was killed in France on 18th of August 1917 by a shell as he was returning from an attack to his trench. (I do not know as yet what battle this was)
Arthur was 19 and had joined up eighteen months before with his brother Private William Champ who was serving in France with the Warwickshire Regiment. William returned home after the War.
William Champ
British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment
William Champ served in France with the Warwickshire Regiment and Machine Gun Corps. He returned home after the War. His brother Arthur was 19 and had joined up eighteen months before William.
Lt. Benjamin William Champion
Australian Imperial Force 1st Infantry Battalion
from:Australia
Benjamin William Champion was born at Stanmore, New South Wales, in 1897. Prior to the First World War he spent four years as an army cadet and developed a career as a dental apprentice. He enlisted as an 18-year-old with the Australian Imperial Force on 11 May 1915 after gaining his father's permission. Champion departed Sydney with reinforcements for the 1st Infantry Battalion aboard HMAT Orsova on 14 July 1915.
In November 1915, Champion was sent to Gallipoli to join the 1st Battalion soldiers already serving on the peninsula. He was evacuated at the end of the month after sustaining wounds to the face and thigh. Champion rejoined his unit on the Western Front and was rapidly promoted through the ranks in 1916. His experiences at Lagnicourt, Broodseinde Ridge, and Passchendale are documented in detail in the diary he kept since the day he had enlisted. In one entry Champion mentions a German soldier who bandaged up a British soldier, only to be killed later; the allies subsequently erected the German soldier's grave. Champion's final promotion was to the rank of Lieutenant in 1917, a year in which he again sustained wounds from battle. On 15 April 1918, while at Pradelles, he sustained a shell injury to his left leg that was consequently amputated. Champion returned to Australia in June. He settled in the Newcastle area, where he established a dental practice. Several years after the war he married and remained in the Newcastle area until his death in 1978.
Pvt. Harry A. Champion
United States Army 39th MG Btn.
from:Maine
Harry A. Champion was born in 1895 in Reading, England the oldest of ten siblings. His father, a younger sister, and Harry emigrated to the US somewhere around 1914, to the state of Maine. Harry served in the US Army as a machine gunner and little else is known of his service. Following the War he returned to Maine where he resumed farming. Harry passed away in 1968.
Sgt. Henry John Champion
British Army 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
from:Worle
(d.31st October 1914)
Sjt. R. Champley
Army 2/8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Wilfred George Chance
British Army 16th Battalion, D. Coy Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Stourbridge
(d.20th October 1918)
Pte. William Chance
British Army 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment
from:Bromley, Kent
(d.22nd Aug 1918)
William Chance is buried at Ovillers Military Cemetery in France.
Pte. Alfred James Chandler
British Army 11th Btn. Border Regiment
from:Carlisle
(d.1st July 1916)
Alfred James Chandler, my great uncle was killed in action in the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 2016, aged 21 years. As a child in the 1950s I remember my grandma, his sister Lily Chandler, giving me a large bronze penny to play with. Little did I know then that this was a death penny given to her mother Ellen Hannah Chandler when her son Alfred was killed. I have no idea where this went but if anyone comes across this I hope it is in safe hands.
Pte Charles Chandler
British Army 2nd Btn East Kent Regiment
from:Broadstairs, Kent
(d.15th Jun 1927)
My great-grandfather Charles Chandler (medal #5344) 1865-07-11 in Ash, Kent joined up in 1915 when he was already in his 50s.
Before the war he had been a publican in Ash, Kent and then bred shire horses in Ashford for fire engines.
During the war he was in charge of an ammunition mule team at Salonika.
He was married twice.
He was injured during the war and discharged on 1917-09-03.
He lived at 1 Lillian Villas, Sowell Street, St Peter's in Thanet, Broadstairs, Kent, and died in Broadstairs 1927-06-15.
He was awarded the three medals: 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal, and the British Victory Medal (Medal roll #5344)
L/Sgt. Charles Henry Chandler
British Army 12th Btn Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Hyde Cheshire
(d.2nd Jun 1916)
Charles Chandler served with 12th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Gnr. Fredrick Henry Chandler
British Army 335th Seige Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Gloucester
I have my grandfather Frederick Chandler's Soldier's Own Diary. He was in France and Belgium in 1919, prior to that we believe he had been in Malta.
His brother was also in WWI and joined up in 1914. He embarked to Boulogne in July 1915 and was killed in action on 20th March 1916. This as Percy, 12th Btn., King's Royal Rifle Corps. My grandfather's diary makes several references to days, when presumably he had no duties, when he would walk to either Vlamertinghe or Poperinghe to view the military memorial registers for news of his brother. His comments after these visits was usually "no luck". Percy's memorial is at the Menin Gate. I am sure my grandfather and my father did not know this before they died.
CSM. George Chandler DCM.
British Army 6th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Cheadle, Staffordshire
Pte. George Ernest Chandler
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Berkshire
(d.30th July 1916)
Pte. Joseph Chandler
British Army 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.11th Aug 1919)
Pte. J. Chandler served with the Lincolnshire Regiment 10th Battalion.He was executed for murder on 11th August 1919 and is buried in Les Baraques Military Cemetery. Sangatte, France. He was the husband of Nora Chandler, of 5, Burndon Street, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
Chf Officer Joseph Chandler
HM Coastguard
from:Whitehead, Co. Antrim
(d.5th February 1916)
Chief Officer Chandler was the son of Mrs Chandler of 4 Windsor Terrace, Whitehead, Co. Antrim.
He is buried near the south-west boundary of the Omey (Christ Church) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Omey, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Pte. Les Chandler
Australian Imperial Force Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Melbourne
Rflm. Percy Reginald Chandler
British Army 12th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
(d.20th Mar 1916)
Cpl. Reuben Chandler
British Army 215th (1st Wessex) Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Portsmouth
I never knew my Uncle Reuben, as he died before I was born, but his brother, my grandfather, also joined the army at the same time and like Reuben served in India. My family have only just discovered his war records from a visit to Fort Widley in Portsmouth where he, along with my Grandfather, are remembered in a book "The National Roll Of The Great War 1914 - 1918".
Reuben Chandler Cpl, R.F.A. (1st Wessex Brigade) He volunteered in August 1914 and in October of the same year was sent to India. In 1915 he proceeded to Mesopotamia landing at Basra on 12th/13th of October 1915, where he took part in the operations for the Relief of Kut and in the Capture of Baghdad, Ramadich and Tekrit. He was demobilised in May 1919, and holds the 14-15 Star and the General Service and Victory medals.
Pte William Stephen Chandler
British Army 15th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
(d.1st October 1918)
Pte. George Wesley Chaney
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1st Battalion
from:Orangeville, Ontario
George Chaney served with the 9th and 1st Battalions, Canadian Expeditionary Force.
Pte. Thomas Charles Chaney
British Army 8th Squadron Machine Gun Corps
from:25 Granville Road, Willesden
(d.15th Apr 1917)
Thomas Chaney of the 8th Sqdrn. Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) is buried at Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France, and the date of death is recorded as 15th of April 197. It lists the wife of Thomas as A. E. Chaney of 25 Granville Rd, Kilburn, London.
Pte. W Chaney
British Army 2nd Btn. C Coy. London Regiment
Private W. Chaney served with C Company, 2nd London Regiment.
Gunner Frederick Channell
British Army 176th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:1, Catherine Cottage, Long Ditton, Surrey
Gnr. Arthur Henry Channon
British Army 1/1st Kent Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Chatham
(d.29th October 1916)
Arthur Channon was a Blacksmith for the Jackson Steam Roller Company, and also a member of the Territorial Force. One of 10 living children when the war started (6 brothers and 4 sisters). Four of the men in the family were serving from 4 August 1914 when the war began, and the other two also later served in the forces.
Pte. Frederick Chant
British Army 6th Btn. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Stockbridge, Hanta
(d.20th February 1917)
Cpl. William Chant
British Army 18th Btn. Welsh Regiment
A WW1 postcard that I found in an old empty house in the 1970s. It's addressed to a Corporal W Chant of the 18th Welsh Regiment and it was sent to a V.A.D. Hospital in Torrington Devon. The postcard is from Tylorstown in the Rhondda and sent by an 'Auntie Anna' from 9 Station Terrace Pontygwaith. I've taken a picture of the front and back of the postcard. I know nothing of the people involved. It was posted on the 31st December 1917 and formerly addressed to a location in Exeter.
Pte. Henry Chantler
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Liverpool
Iā€™ve been finding out bits and pieces about my Granddad's Military Service. Harry Chantler started out in the Liverpool Regiment then the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and finally the Machine Gun Corps. I only know bits of family history. I know he was shot, got shrapnel in his eye and couldnā€™t eat greasy food because of effects of gas. He was invalided out at some point and sent to Scotland where he learned how to embroider but he went back.
He was a very funny, nice and humorous person, always telling jokes and liked to watch boxing matches, always had minty sweets in his pockets for us all when he visited us. He wasnā€™t very tall, probably about 5ā€¯7 something like that.
In WW2 he was an Air Raid Protection. Iā€™ve some photos of a couple of soldiers, I presume were friends, but I donā€™t know who they are. None of him in uniform. I donā€™t know where he fought and Iā€™d like to find out and maybe visit to pay respects. He had a little cry in front of the telly every Armistice Sunday, I think he lost quite a few friends.
Pte John Chantler
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:16, Faraday Grove, Gateshead-on-Tyne
(d.13th Jul 1917)
Chantler, John. Private 19/38, Killed in Action on 13th July 1917. Aged 22 years.
Remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 10 B 11 B and 12 B. CWGC record shows his service number as 19138, his number is infact 19/38.
Son of Mary Chantler, of 16, Faraday Grove, Gateshead-on-Tyne, and the late John Chantler.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Richard Edward Chantler
British Army 10th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
Dick Chantler served with the 10th Cheshires.
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