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Gnr. Richard Thomas Fewings
British Army 251st Brigade, D Coy. Royal Field Artillery
from:Exeter, Devon
(d.18th April 1918)
Mrs R. Fewings of Quay lane, Exeter has been notified of the death of her husband, Gnr. R. Fewings. RFA. In a letter to the widow, Lieut. Richard Atkinson, one of the battery officers says: "Your husband's death occured while taking his first real rest after four weeks' heavy fighting. It was quite instantaneous, and he felt nothing, as he was killed by a shell which came in through the roof. We have buried him in the British military cemetery near here. We mourn a gallant comrade, who was ever ready in time of danger, and always cheery in times of great discomfort and misery. He was a general favourite with all the officers and men. I offer you, on behalf of the commanding officer, officers and men of the battery, our sincere and heartfelt sympathy." (30th April 1918)
Gunner R.T. Fewings 52505 D Bty. 251st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery is remembered on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. He was awarded three medals: the Victory Medal, the British War Medal and The 1914 - 1915 Star. Gunner Fewings lived at 3 Horse Lane, Exeter, Devon, England at the time he married Winifred Mary Waymouth.
War Diary 251st Brigade; Royal Field Artillery WO95/2819.
18th April 1918: Gonnehem.
- 1.00 am: An intense bombardment by the enemy commenced over whole area occupied by the batteries, which lasted one hour.
- 2.00 am: A pause lasting 15 minutes was followed by an intense bombardment of forward areas.
- 3.15 am: Enemy attacked, and our advanced posts were withdrawn. During the night batteries fired on SOS lines, in response to signals, at varying rates, and barraged rides through Pacquet Wood.
- 4.40 am: A/251 ordered to continue on SOS lines and remaining batteries to stand down. Enemy attempts to cross the canal frustrated with heavy losses to the enemy.
- 07.00 am: Batteries engaged enemy seen near Bois du Pacquet and La Panniere.
- 8.20 am: Road between Bois du Pacquet and La Panniere, houses in W.4a, houses and roads Q34a and La Panniere fired on by batteries.
- 9.50 am: C/251 ordered to fire on Q34.c; B/251 on ride Q33c and houses and roads Q33b. Continuous firing during afternoon with observation on enemy posts in Q34a between wood and houses.
- 8.15 pm: A barrage was heard on the left and on SOS signal being observed. A/251 fired at a very slow rate on SOS lines whilst remaining batteries stood by.
- 9.10 pm: All batteries stood down. Information received that Riez du Vinage had been retaken by us. Lieut C St Nevill (C/251) killed in action whilst on duty at Brigade Observation Post. Some casualties sustained by batteries, especially D/251, 13 killed and 76 wounded.
His daughter, Joyce Hetty Fewings, was born on 20th November 1917 and grew up wthout her father. She did, however, present him with nine grandchildren.
Gnr. Joseph Daniel Fewster
British Army 1st Hull Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
Pte. Angelo Fiaschetti
US Army 8th Machine Gun Battalion
from:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
I never met my grandfather, Angelo Fiaschetti but I have his discharge papers. Heā€™s listed as a private and a runner. He was not a US citizen at that time. However, he was in several engagements.
Pte. George Wilhelm Fickeis
US Army 304th Infantry Regiment
from:Boston, MA
These are my great uncle George Fickeis's service memories.
Reported to the Draft Board at the Roxbury Courthouse on Sunday 28th of April 1918. Left for Camp Devens on the 1 p.m. train. Arrived in camp at 3 p.m. Placed in 26th Co. 7th Battalion 151st Depot Brigade. In quarantine for two weeks. On Saturday 25 May transferred to Medical Detachment 304th Infantry Regiment
Left Camp Devens at 2:30 a.m. on Monday 8th of July. Arrived at the Charleston Navy Yard at 6 p.m.. On board an English freight ship named Cardiganshire at 9 a.m. 1865 solders on board. At 1 p.m. on 8 July sailed from Charleston, Boston, MA. At 12 noon on Wednesday 10 July arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Waited in the harbor until Thursday for 13 more ships. At 1 p.m. on Thursday 11 July eighteen ships sailed from Halifax. About 20 shots were fired at 8 p.m. on 16 July at some object which might have been a submarine. On Monday morning 22 July arrived at the mouth of the Thames River in England. Sailed up the Thames River to Tilbury about 30 miles from London. Left the boat at 6 p.m. and got on a train at 8 p.m. Arrived at Winchester Station at 1:30 a.m. and hiked to Camp Winnall Down. Arrived there at 3:30 a.m. on 23 July. Stayed in camp until 25 July. Left at 6 a.m. Hiked to Winchester Station and left on a train at 9:30 a.m. for Southampton station. Arrived Southampton 9:30 a.m. Sailed on the ship H.G. Miller E805 at 7 p.m.
At 4 a.m. on 26th of July 1918 arrived at Le Havre France. Docked at noon. Hiked up a hill to camp No. 1. Arrived there at 4:30 p.m. We remained in camp until noon the next day when we hiked back to the train yards at Le Havre. At 4 p.m. on 27 July started out of Le Havre in the cattle car.
Some of the largest cities that we passed through were Rouen, Mantes, Versailles and Orleans. At 6 p.m. on Sunday 28 July after twenty-six hours of riding we arrived in the town of Chateauneuf - Sur - Cher. Remained in Chateauneuf until Wednesday August 28th. Hiked 5 miles to Lapan. Remained in Lapan until 1 October and then moved to Levet.
This is one of the letters that my great uncle George sent from the front. He sent this letter to his sister Eva.
Miss Eva Fickeis, 855 Columbus Ave. Roxbury, Mass. United States of America 1918-10-09
Dear Eva,
This is my day on duty at the infirmary, and we have only a few patients at the present time, so I have time to write a letter. This infirmary is in a three room house. The kitchen we use to give out pills, the parlor and bedroom we use for a hospital. We keep sick men in the infirmary unless they develop some contagious disease. If we have a lot of patients it keeps us busy taking their temperatures and giving them pills at regular hours. I will miss my bunk in the loft tonight, not because the bunk is anything special, but because we have visitors during the night. The rats chew up our candles while we sleep. One afternoon a rat was playing leap-frog over our bunks. Nerveless we are lucky to have a loft to sleep in, instead of a field or a trench.
They set the clocks back an hour Sunday and also changed our working hours. Reveille used to blow at 5:30 a.m. and taps at 10 p.m. Now Reveille blows at 5 a.m. and taps at 21.50 oā€™clock. It is very dark in the town soon after sunset. It was so dark one night at eight oā€™clock that three of us out walking almost bumped into a house.
We had several varieties of weather yesterday. First it rained, then the sun came out, then it hailed for a few minutes after which the sun came out again and at night the wind started to blow. It is pretty cold eating our breakfast out in the open these mornings. Ever since we left the boat we have been eating our meals standing up, and I am getting so used to it that you may as well sell one chair at home. I wonā€™t know what a chair is made for by the time I get back.
I am expecting some more mail very soon, which I will have to answer, so I will close now, wishing you all the best of health.
Your brother George
Pvt. Geo. W. Fickeis, Med. Det., 304 Inf. Army P.O. 773. American E.F.
Dvr. Albert Victor Adam Fiddes
British Army 82nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Pewsey, Wiltshire
Albert Fiddes was born on 30th July 1897 in Toxteth Park, Liverpool. Both parents died in December 1904 and Albert and his sister were put into an orphanage where they stayed until they were 16 years old. After leaving the Orphanage Asylum Albert stayed with his aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs Adams in Aberdeen and started as pattern maker working for Trawlowners & Traders Engineering Co.
He joined the artillery and was sent France. On return he was sent to Pewsey, where his future wife lived, but he did not meet her until he went to London where she worked as a maid. They met at St John's Wood, London. Following the war he returned to his job at Aberdeen. As he hadn't finished his apprenticeship he had to go back on apprentice wages so he only stayed until June 1920. Albert's records are among the 60% of the burnt series covering war survivors and war dead. These records were destroyed by enemy action during the Second World War.
Sgt. Victor Herbert Fidgett
British Army C Coy, 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Parkeston, Harwich
(d.22nd Nov 1914)
Victor Fidgett served with C Coy, 1st East Yorkshire Regiment. I believe that Sjt Fidgett was a casualty of enemy artillery when shelled in billets in Chapel De Armentieres on 3rd of November 1914. He died on 22nd of November 1914 and was buried in Aldershot, so may have been repatriated as a wounded soldier and died in Aldershot or the area hence his burial there.
Pte. Frank Fletcher Fidler
British Army 10th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
(d.1st July 1916)
Frank Fidler was the only son of Albert John and Julia Emma Fidler of Havana House, Hucknall, Notts.
Pte. Harcourt Fidler
British Army
Harcourt Fidler was the husband of my 2nd great-aunt. He was reported on 3rd of November 1914 as wounded in action and sent to the 1st Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge.
Capt. Field
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.10th April 1915)
Captain Field was one of six doctors who were sent by the Germans to Wittenberg POW Camp to deal with an outbreak of typhus. Sadly, he caught typhus and died in April 1915. He is buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, grave XIX.C.3.
CSM Albert Walter Field
British Army 8th Battalion East Kent Regiment
(d.3rd September 1916)
Pte. Albert Henry Field
British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Gresham
(d.27th May 1918)
My great uncle Albert Field was born in October 1886 in Gresham, Norfolk, his father, James, was 27 and his mother, Sarah, was 30. He had three brothers and three sisters. He died on 27th of May 1918 at the age of 31, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
CSM. Albert Walter Field
British Army 8th Battalion East Kent Regiment
from:Poplar, Essex
(d.3rd September 1916)
Albert Field was killed in action at Delville Wood whilst in Carlton Trench and is buried in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval.
He has rejoined the army on 9th of September 1914 having previously served in Kent RGA which he bought out from in 1906. He was the younger brother of my grandmother. My father was named after him. During WW1 my grandmother had both her sons and her brother serving in France, my father was the only one to return home.
Sgt. Albert Charles Field
British Army 237th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Woolwich
Gunner. Charles H. Field
British Army Royal Horse Artillery
from:Stratford, London
My great uncle Charles Field served in the Royal Horse Artillery. I cannot find his service record but have found out he was in '13 Conveslescent Depot' for Christmas 1918 so I assume he was wounded. He survived the war and ran a tobacconist shop in Stratford, East London. He died in Worthing in the 1970s.
L/Cpl Charles Edmund Field
British Army 10th Btn West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds, Yorkshire
I hold two brown paper hand written receipts for secret papers, together with a typed note: "on 1918-03-21 the about was commissioned by H.A G. Neville MC to carry the Battalion's secret papers under murderous bombardment to Brigade HQ.
The Battalion were defending the Front Line near Lock 7 Canal du Nord. Brigade HG was at Backworth Spoil Heap. Left soon after dawn and reached HQ at noon and was presented by Brigade Major Ruthven to Brigadier General Yatman.
In further retreat at midnight was entrusted all the Brigade's secret papers; East Yorks, West Yorks and Dorsets and took same to Viller au Flos. Above are receipts on being handed over."
This is my grandfather. My mother said that he was to be recommended by his officer for an award but the officer was killed.
My grandfather was very proud of the receipts and he was under heavy fire all the way - he had to cross a road where there was a sniper.
He laid down and counted how long the sniper waited during his burst of fire and then he made a dash across.
Capt. Francis Morgan Field
British Army 7th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.31st Mar 1918)
Francis Field was born in Dewsbury, United Kingdom in April 1894. He was the son of Amelia Elizabeth Gibson and George Henry Field. He died on March 31st 1918 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Calais.
Pte. Frederick Stanley Field
British Army 12th (Bristol) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Dock House, Sharpness, Glos
(d.3rd Sep 1916)
Frederick Stanley Field was born in 1886 in Sharpness Gloucestershire, son of Frederick Griffiths and Clara Mary (nee Camm.) He worked as a Seaman. He is buried in Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont, France.
L/Cpl. George Tilt Field
British Army 13th (3rd South Downs) Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
(d.21st May 1918)
George Field went missing in action on the 25th of April 1918 whilst with the 13th Royal Sussex Regiment. It is recorded in the Sussex Daily News on the 26th of June 1918 that he died as a POW on the 21st of May 1918.
Pte. Harry Ernest Field
British Army 10th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Leeds
(d.12th October 1918)
Pte. John Field
Australian Imperial Force 54th Btn.
(d.24th October 1917)
John Field died on 24th October 1917 and is buried in the Ste. Marie Cemetery in France.
Rflmn Leslie George Field
British Army 9th (Queen Victoria's Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
(d.8th Sep 1918)
Leslie Field was killed in action on the 8th of September 1918 and is buried in Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
2nd Lt. O. Field
Army Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Reginald Field
Army 1/4th Btn. Ox and Bucks Light Infantry
from:High St, Thame
Reginald Field landed in France on the 30th of March 1915. He later served as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers.
Sgt. Thomas Walter Henry Field
British Army 137th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Maidenhead, Berks
(d.19th Sep 1917)
Thomas Field was killed in action on the 19th of September 1917, aged 25. Buried in the Barlin Communal Cemetery Extension in France, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ernest Field, of Plymouth, husband of Stephanie Grace Field, of Cricketers Cottage, Littlewick Green, nr. Maidenhead, Berks Thomas died when his oldest son Cecil Thomas Field was just 2 years old, and before his second son Thomas Walter Douglas Field was born, so his family never knew him.
Gunner Thomas Walter Henry Field
British Army 48th Heavy Battery Garrison Artillery
(d.19th September 1917)
Pte. W. Field
British Army 3rd Btn. Rifle Brigade
I have Pte W, Field's medal, inherited from my grandfather to my father, I am just cleaning the house would love to return it to Private Field's Family, I have no idea how it came to be in my Grandfather's possession.
Cpl. Walter Thomas Field
British Army 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:Harrow, Middlesex
(d.5th Sep 1916)
My Great Uncle, Corporal Walter Thomas Field, was killed in WW1 in France. He died on 5th September 1916. He volunteered at Winchester on 9th September 1914. I would love to find out where he actually died and where he is buried.
Pte. Samuel Fielden
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
from:Burnley,
(d.30th April 1917)
Samuel Fielden served with the 6th Battalion Kings Own Lancaster Regiment during WW1 and was killed in action on the 30th April 1917 age 25. He is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq. He was the son of John William and Frances Fielden, of 534, Accrington Rd., Burnley.
Pte. Samuel Fielden
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
from:Burnley
(d.30th April 1917)
Samuel Fielden was the son of John William and Frances Fielden of 534, Accrington Rd., Burnley. He died on the 30th April 1917, aged 25 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Pte. Alfred John Fielder
British Army 3rd Battalion Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
from:Mill Hill, Middlesex
(d.15th Feb 1915)
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