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L/Cpl. Thomas William Denison MM.
British Army 21st Btn. "B" Coy. Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
from:Moor End, Dunkerwick
(d.5th to 10th Oct. 1916)
Thomas William Denison was from Moor End, Dunkerwick, Harewood, Leeds. He was awarded a Military Medal but was killed in action between 5th October & 10 October 1916. I have found a record of the award of his MM but not able to locate a reason for the award. I am also trying to locate a photograph of Thomas William Denison or a photograph with him in it. Can anyone help?
Gnr. Howard Denley
British Army 58th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.26th Aug 1917)
Gnr. Howard Denley was my grandfather's brother. He served with the Royal Field Artillery 58th Brigade.
Pte Clarence Benjamin Denman
Canadian Expeditionary Force 14th Btn, 3 Coy Royal Montreal Regiment
from:1836 Esplanade Avenue, Montreal, Quebec. Canada
(d.25th May 1915)
A letter was mailed to my grandfather William Moore, from Clarence Benjamin Denman. It was a very interesting letter filled with details of life on Salisbury Plain for the Canadians and an inspection by King George V in February 1915. I have done much research and found an article which was very interesting. Clarence Benjamin Denman - St. John Evangelist. Very touching to see the care shown from the Holmfirth Military Cottage Hospital and people of the community for a Canadian boy.
Pte. David Robert Denman
British Army 4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Horsham
Pte. H. F Denman
British Army 1/20th Btn. London Regiment
from:9, Plover St., Hackney Wick, London.
(d.10th Jul 1917)
Cpl. Alfred Dennett
Royal Navy HMS Zealandia Royal Marine Artillery
from:Milton Abbas, Dorset
Alfred Dennett served aboard the Zealandia from 1912 to 1917. He earned the L.S.G.C and 1914-18 star.
Ord.Sea. Richard Frid Dennett
Royal Navy HMS Weymouth
from:Leyton
(d.19th March 1917)
Rufigi River Hero, The Son Of A Leyton Amition Worker.
We are asked to state That Richard Frid Dennet the heroic seaman of H.M.S. Weymouth who refused to sign a declaration of neutrality and in consequence died a prisoner of war in German Fast Africa was not the son of a widow as reported by a news agency. His father is Mr James R. Bennett of 27 Waterloo Road Leyton Essex who is a munition worker. Richard Bennett was serving on a tug reconnoitering at the mouth of the Rufigi River in German East Africa in 1915 when the vessel came under the fire of a German shore battery and was struck in the engine room. The tug drifted ashore and Dennett who was badly wounded in the abdomen was taken prisoner. He was looked after by the wife of the captain of the German cruiser Konigsberg and for eight months he lay in hospital at Dar-es-Salaam. He was then removed to Magdawa. There were no means of extracting the bullet there and the Germans offered to release him if he would sign a declaration of neutrality. Dennett a true hero persistently refused to sign and paid for his fidelity to the flag with his life.
Extract from the Star. 24th Dec. 1917
Spr. Edward "Teddy" Denney
British Army 4th Signals Coy. Royal Engineers
from:London
My Grandfather, Edward Denney, was born 1st April 1882, in Earls Road, Camberwell, South London. The 1901 census has him living in East London with his Mother and is listed as a Horse Keeper and Groom. He joined the 15th Hussars circ.1902 as a Private, Groom, Reg 4497.I know that on 3rd June 1908, he was based in Ampala, India, he was doing a Military course in Telegraphy, apparently he could do 20.4 words in Open circuit, 20.8 in Closed circuit and send 20.9 words by Morse code, no idea if that's good but he passed. He was also trained as a Linesman and telephone operator. On 16 Apr 1909, he was in Dehli, India, taking a Signalling test, this is according to his Pay Book, which has the 15th lined through and replaced with the 13th Hussars at some unknown time. Sometime during his time aboard with the regular Army, he contracted Malaria. In the early part of the 20th Century both the 13th Hussars and the 15th Hussars were stationed in India. The 15th left for South Africa on October 30th 1909,it is possible that grandfather either remained in India with the 13th or more likely returned from South Africa around March 1911. His Pay book is missing entries from Oct 1909 to April 1911 and my Mum remembered having a pressed flower, which only grows on Table Top Mountain, SA. The 15th returned to England from SA, Jan 1913. On the 20 Aug 1910, he was in Trimulgherry, India. (from his Telegraphy Instruction Certificate. In the 8th of Mar 1911 he was in Meerut, India with 13th Hussars, Reg. No.4838. On the 2nd Apr 1911 in Meerut he is recorded on the Census as with the 13th Hussars. On the 3rd of Jun 1911 he is at Roorkee, India.
Grandfather is not listed with the 13th in 1914; His RE service number 23697, would suggest he joined the Royal Engineers in late 1912. On the 22nd Aug 1914 he was with the BEF, 4th signals Coy Royal Engineers Reg No.23697 and on the 8th of Sep 1915, he was discharged after thirteen years service.
Abt. 1916 he re-enlisted with the Royal Engineers, his new Reg No.165507 On the 3rd of Mar 1917, wearing his Royal Engineers Uniform, he married Ethel Foster, a Postwoman from Hornsey, in Christ Church, Hornsey, North London. They had first met around 1912 and Ethel always said she had fallen for his very smart Hussars uniform, I have photos of him in Dress Blue and White Tropical uniforms and I can see why. In August 2010 one of their wedding photos appeared in The Daily Mirror newspaper as an example of 1910s wedding fashions.
After the war he joined the GPO as a telephonist, well, being a signaller, I suppose that would be a good move. Edward was one of the lucky ones, in so much as he lived through the war and died in Romford, December 1950. I say this but he was never really a well man after the war.
He was a member of the Old Contemptibles Association. The "Old Contemptibles" title was adopted by the men of the BEF who saw service before 22nd November 1914. The honourable title comes from the "Order of the Day" given by Kaiser Wilhelm to exterminate first the treacherous English; and walk over General French's contemptible little Army." Unfortunately, unless someone knows better, his records must have been destroyed during the bombing of London in WW2 as I cannot trace either service or pension records for him.
Pte. John William Denning
British Army 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Middlesborough
(d.7th Oct 1916)
L/Cpl. Charles "Scotty" Dennis
British Army 1st/9th Btn Royal Scots (Lothian) Regiment
from:Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
(d.9th April 1917)
Charles "Scotty" Dennis lived and worked in Prince Rupert, BC, Canada. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Dennis, he emigrated from Edinburgh to Canada in 1913, joining his older brother, William George, in the pioneer city of Prince Rupert, where William worked as a printer for a local newspaper, The Daily News.
Scotty was an active community member, playing football on the Merchants team and serving as secretary of the St. Andrews Society. He was often mentioned in the newspapers, and was noted for the original verse he would write and recite for every special occasion. While most of the young men in town, including his brother, enlisted with Canadian units, Scotty chose to go back to Edinburgh to sign up with the Royal Scots. He communicated regularly and continued to write poetry. The Daily News reported that one of his poems had been accepted for publication by the Weekly Scotsman.
Scotty died on the 9th of April 1917, in an advance during the Battle of Arras. At least six of his friends from Prince Rupert died the same day on nearby Vimy Ridge. Scotty was 28. He is buried in Roclincourt Valley Cemetery. His brother survived the war and returned to Prince Rupert. One can imagine that the significance of the date and place of his death would not have been lost on Scotty, and if it had been possible, would have been the subject of a new poem.
Pte. George Dennis
British Army 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
from:Hucknall, Nottinghamshire
(d.18th May 1918)
George Calladine Dennis, was born in Oct or Nov 1890 in Hucknall Torkard, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters on 28th January 1916, approved 1st March 1916 in Derby. On 18th May 1918 he was fighting with the 1/5th & 1/6th Battalion Territorial Force in Béthune, Pas de Calais when he was killed by shell fire. He is buried in the Fouquieres Churchyard Extension, France. Fouquieres Churchyard Extension contains 387 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 29 from the Second World War. There are also five German war graves. He is remembered on the war memorial at Hucknall's St Mary Magdelaine church.
Tpr. Gilbert Dennis
British Army att. 9th Lancers Hampshire Yeomanry
from:West Meon
(d.21st Aug 1918)
Great grandfather Gilbert Dennis, from what I have been told went to Italy with his unit after which he was moved to France in 1918 or before, he was then attached to the 9th Lancers who saw action in the Villars Bretonneux to hold of the German break through I believe. The sketchy details we have was that he received a direct hit from a shell and body never recovered.
Sgt. J. Dennis
British Army The West African Frontier Force Royal Field Artillery
from:2nd Bty. Nigeria Regiment
(d.6th September 1914)
Serjeant Dennis is remembered on a special memorial in the Limbe Botanical Gardens Burial Grounds in the Cameroons.
Pte. J. H. Dennis
British Army 9th (County Tyrone) Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1916)
Private Dennis is buried at Authuille.
Pte. John J. Dennis
British Army 1st Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
(d.30th Jan 1916)
Pte. J. J. Dennis served with the Northamptonshire Regiment 1st Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 30th January 1916 and is buried in Lillers Communal Cemetery, Lillers, France.
Pte. L. Dennis
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Liverpool
L Dennis was wounded in 1916
2nd Lt. Richard Thomas Dennis
Royal Irish Rifles 2nd Btn.
from:Balbriggan, Dublin
(d.19th Dec 1918)
Richard Dennis was the only son of Richard and Marianne Dennis of Balbriggan. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Montigny, 28th May 1918, and died at Wimereux on the 19th of December 1918 on his return from Rastatt, Germany, aged 19 years. Interred at Terlincthun Cemetery, Boulogne, France.
Pte. Albert Christopher Dennison
British Army Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers
from:Drumkerran, Ireland
(d.1st July 1916)
Albert Dennison was my great grand uncle, his father Carson and brother Tom were both killed by the Black and Tans in 1921. Carson was a shopkeeper in Drunkerren, and it was here that both men were shot. Albert's mother died in 1919, and his younger sister Gladice also passed away at the age of four.
Pte. Ernest William Dennison
British Army 619th M. T. Coy Army Service Corps.
from:Golders Green, London
(d.22nd May 1916)
Ernest William Dennison served with 619th Motor Transport Company Army Service Corps during WW1 and died on the 22nd May 1916, aged 33. He is buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Son of William and Susannah Dennison, of St. Annes-on-the-Sea, Lancs. Husband of Gertrude Valentina Dennison, of 96, Brookside Rd. Golders Green, London. Ernest is one of three brothers killed during the First World War, his siblings being Thomas & Charles.
Pte. Ernest William Dennison
British Army 619th M.T. Coy. Army Service Corps
from:Golders Green, London
(d.22nd May 1916)
Ernest Dennison died on the 22nd of May 1916, aged 33 and is buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Cairo, Egypt. He was the sn of William and Susannah Dennison, of St. Annes-on-the-Sea, Lancs; husband of Gertrude Valentina Dennison, of 96, Brookside Rd. Golders Green, London. One of three brothers killed during the First World War, the others being Thomas and Charles.
Sgt. Henry Beckett Dennison
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Private Herbert Dennison
British Army Durham Light Infantry
from:Frosterley, County Durham
(d.15th Oct 1916)
A. Denny
British Army 8th Btn. British West Indies Regiment
(d.20th Jan 1919)
Private A Denny served with the 8th Battalion British West Indian Regiment during WW1. He was executed for murder 20/01/1919 and buried in Taranto Town Cemetery Extension in Italy.
Pte. George Denny
Australian Imperial Force 33rd Btn.
from:Riverleigh Castlereagh, NSW.
(d.8th Jun 1917)
Bdr. Russell Edward Denny
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hales, Norfolk
Rifleman Stephen Hugh Densham
Army The London Regiment
(d.10 Dec 1917)
Rflmn. Stephen Hugh Densham
British Army 5th Btn. London Regiment
from:Croydon, Surrey
(d.2nd Dec 1917)
Stephen Densham died of wounds on the 10th of December 1917, received near Arras on 2nd of December. He was aged 21 and and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lane Densham. Native of Croydon, Surrey.
2nd Lt. Alan Dent
Royal Air Force
from:Bishop Auckland, Co Durham
Alan Dent of Bishop Auckland, followed his elder brother Eric into the Royal Air Force. He trained in Egypt at the end of the Great War and was still in training when the war ended.
Captain Eric Dixon Dent
Royal Flying Corps Observation Corps
In 1971 I bought a house in Yelverton, Devon. In the loft I found literally hundreds of old photographic slides. these were a mixture of pictures of a Dent family dating from the 1890's and WW1 shots. It would seem that the second son, Eric Dixon Dent, served in the Observation Corps of the Flying Corps in WW1. Thus the collection contains annotated reconnaissance shots; interior and exterior shots of aircraft; views of aircraft engines and other educational slides. There are also one or two photos taken with a hand held camera of aircraft in flight. Eric Dixon Dent continued to serve with the RAF and, I conjecture, finished his career at the Meteorological Office at RAF Mountbatten in Plymouth. Because of its situation in Yelverton and because I have seen a photograph of him in a Swordfish,I would further conjecture that he served at RAF Harrowbarrow during WW11 but I have not been able to confirm this. There is also a single photograph of his elder brother William in the uniform of Major in The Durham Light Infantry (I think). Finally there a few slides taken on a family visit to Ripon Volunteer Camp in July 1907. The slides were found in very military looking boxes where they still remain. I would be interested to learn of any information that anyone have on Captain Dent
Capt. Eric Dixon Dent
Royal Flying Corps 52 Sqd.
from:Bishop Auckland, Co Durham
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