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Pte. J. W. Fielder
British Army 14th Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Batheaston, Bath
(d.25th Aug 1917)
J.W. Fielder was the son of William and Elizabeth Fielder of Batheaston and husband of Alice Fielder, of Batheaston, Bath. He was enrolled in the Devonshire Rgt but transferred to (92556) 155th Coy. Labour Corps. He was killed on 25th August 1917, aged 37 and is buried in the Adinkerke Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Pte. Arthur Frances Fieldhouse
British Army 18th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Great Warley, Essex
Pte. Arthur Bernard Fielding
British Army 15th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
2Lt. Arthur William Fielding
British Army 6th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Sheffield
(d.15th Apr 1918)
Arthur Fielding was born in 1890. He was married with 3 children and lived in in Sheffield when he joined the army in 1914. He served with the 6th York and Lancaster Regiment and was killed in action on the 15th of April 1918. He is buried in Cambrin Cemetery, south of Le Basse in France. Remembered on his parent's gravestone in Ecclesfield Churchyard, Sheffield
L/Cpl. George Fielding
British Army 8th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
(d.11th Apr 1917)
Pte. John William Fielding
Canadian Expeditionary Force 10th Btn. (Alberta)
from:Edmonton, Alberta
(d.15th Aug 1917)
John Fielding served with the 10th (Alberta) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during WW1 and was killed in action on the 15th August 1917. He is buried in Loos British Cemetery, Loos-en-Gohelle, near Lens, France.
John was born on the 30th October 1888 in Salford, Lancashire and emigrated to Canada on the 28th October 1910. He married Ruth Wild in Edmonton on the 14th October 1911. He joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the 6th July 1915. He was killed by a sniper whilst on guard duty in trench near Loos-en-Gohelle, France 15th August 1917.
Pte. Jonathan Fielding
Army 6th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Rgt.)
(d.13th Sep 1915)
Pte. Joseph Fielding
British Army 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Owston Ferry
(d.8th June 1917)
Lt. Col. Rowland Fielding DSO.
British Army 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers
Pte. William Thomas Fielding
British Army 7th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
from:Accrington
(d.19th Oct 1916)
William Fielding was quite old for a serving private during the Great War (40 plus). He was wounded on May 28th 1916. He returned to service not long afterwards only to be mortally wounded and died on 19th of October 1916, we think in a Boulogne hospital. He is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. We assume that he was wounded during the Somme Offensive. We found a report in The Accrington Observer. We also know that he trained on Cannock Chase which coincidentally turned out to be a stone's throw from the home of his grandaughter and great-grandchildren. We have his medals and a couple of photographs. We would like to know more about him and his family.
Stkr1. James Fields
Royal Navy HMS Pintail
from:Lifford, Donegal
(d.10th June 1941)
James Fields was a Stoker 1st Class in HMS Pintail.
Drmr. John William Fields
Royal Dublin Fusiliers 1st Btn.
from:Mullaloughan, Co. Monaghan
(d.19th July 1917)
WO1. John William Fields
British Army 1st Southern General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Great Yarmouth
John Fields was conscripted into R A M C and rose to be WO1 in the 1st Southern General Hospital, situated in the University of Birmingham.
Pte. Samuel Fields
British Army 23rd Btn Durham Light Infantry
served with 19th & 18th DLI
Pte. Maurice Fienbugh
Seaforth Highlanders 4th Btn.
from:Bradford
Stkr/1st Cl. Bertram Figg
Royal Navy HMS Begonia
from:Risley, Derbyshire
(d.6th October 1917)
Pte. John Francis Filbey
British Army 2/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Brentford
(d.27th Dec 1917)
John Filbey took his oath on the 10th May 1915 at Kew Bridge. This was approved in Hounslow on 11th May 1915. At the time he was 34 years old and married with 6 children. His life ended on 27th December 1917 in Egypt.
Dvr. Ernest Filby
British Army 161st Brigade, A Bty. Royal Fiield Artillery
from:Hull, East Yorkshire
(d.13th July 1917)
Ernest Filby was born in Hull circa 1880 and he had siblings: Francis b.1888, George William 1892-1964, James Harold b.1894, Wilfred 1896-1971, Fred Rubert b.1901, Annie b.1907 and Stanley Filby b.1909.
Ernest Filby's first job about 16 years of age was with G Elvin & Co. Printers and Stationers, Hull. The 1911 Census shows Ernest to be 21 years of age and living at 72 Rosemead Street, Hull, East Yorkshire. He was employed in the shipyard as a Labourer Fitter.
Ernest joined the Royal Field Artillery and on 13th July 1917, aged 27, he died of his wounds and is buried at Adinkerke, Arrondissement Veurne, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium.
His brothers George William Filby served in the Labour Corps on short service attestation and Wilfred Filby served in the Navy from 25th Marrch 1916 his first sShip was HMS Victory II and his last service date was 26th April 1919 on HMS Hecla.
William George Filer
British Army 6th Battalion Territorial Force
William Filer born 1882 in Devas Street, Bromley. He served in the 6th Battalion 1909-1912. In 1914-1916 he signed up for further service on 7th of March 1916.
Francis Fillary
British Army 12th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Haywards Heath, Sussex
(d.31st July 1917)
I believe Francis Fillary is my great, great uncle. I was adopted at birth and my research is in it's infancy. I have found Francis listed on on The Menin Gate in Ypres.
Pte. William Frederick Filler
British Army 19th Btn. London Regiment
from:Paddington, London
(d.15th Sep 1916)
William Filler was 25 years old when he died of his wounds at the Battle of the Somme. He left a widow, Maude E Greenhalgh, nee Smith.
Pte. Alexander Fillis
South African Army South African Medical Corps
Alexander Fillis was my grandfather (born 1884), he was born in Canada, then to Bechuanaland Protectorate. He was a private in the S.A.M.C, no 668, he was a patient at the South African Military Hospital in Richmond Park, He met my grandmother Elsie May Taylor, who was either a nurse or a civilian helping in the hospital. They fell in love and married at The Richmond Register office on the 18 October 1919, They later came back to South Africa, had 3 sons, one of which was my father. My grandmother Elsie was from England, so when my grandfather died in SA, she went back to England.
Pte. Charlie Fillis
British Army 6th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Devizes
(d.6th November 1916)
Charlie Fillis returned to England on the outbreak of war from Michigan USA. He was was wounded at Gallipoli serving with 5th Wiltshires and transferred to the 6th Battalion. He died of Wounds at 44th CCS at Puchevillers and is buried Puchevillers British Cemetery in France. He was originally from Church Walk, Devizes, my maternal grandmother's uncle.
Pte. Albert Filsell
British Army 10th Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Keysoe, Bedfordshire
(d.23rd September 1918)
Pte. Frank Mark Finan
British Army 10th Btn Sherwood Foresters
from:Dromore West, Sligo, Ireland
(d.24th Aug 1918)
Frank Finan was born on the 4th May 1894 in a village called Dromore West in County Sligo. As far as I know he was an only child. He lived in a one or two room house with his grandparents and two aunts and his mother. The house is still standing to this day.
He joined the 3rd Battalion Irish Guards on the 20th of Jan 1916 and was transferred to the Connaught Rangers 22nd of June 1916 then posted to the 3rd Battalion at Kinsale on the 4th of July 1916. His transfer to the Royal Irish Rifles took place on the 1st of Nov 1916 and he was then transferred to the RFC as 3rd Class Airman on the 19th of December 1916. He served with No.2 Balloon Section, RFC and was attached to 63rd Royal Naval Division from the 3rd to 24th of Sept 1917 for Infantry Training, after which he was transferred to 10th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment. Frank was 5ft 9 inches in height, with red hair and grey eyes.
There was mention in the 10th Bn history of a heavy gas attack on 15th August. "All remained quiet until very early on 15th. About 12.15 a.m. the enemy started a very heavy gas bombardment on the whole area occupied by the 17th Division; mustard gas presominated. For three hours he kept up a steady stream of shells; he chiefly bombarded the ridges, and as the night was absolutely still the gas floated down into the valleys and clung to the dense undergrowth. The area shelled stretched from our support line some 2000 yards westward, and this all became saturated with the deadly stuff. The sunrise brought with it a ghastly state of affairs; the casualties from the gas poisoning steadily mounted up, and long strings of men with their eyes bandaged, each holding the man in front, trailed slowly backwards down to the dressing station. Lieut-Col King, D.S.O. and Adjutant Capt. G F March M.C. both became casualties, and in all the battalion sustained losses to 18 officers and 510 other ranks; a total which for the moment made it almost cease to exsist as a fighting unit; only the garrison of the forward posts escaped the effects of the gas."
This is the date of the gas attack that Frank died from on the 24th of August 1918. His mother died 3 yrs to the day after Frank died, she had never married and the whole immediate branch of his family died out when he died. Frank is buried in Mont Huon Cemetery in France, he was 24 years old.
Capt. Aubrey Cecil Malcolm Finch
British Army 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
(d.7th July 1919)
Aubrey Finch is believed to have been promoted on the battlefield, due to extremely high casualties. Aubrey married Mabel Dorothy Glover (approx) 1st June 1918 at Woolwich, Kent while on leave. The family has lost track of her. Apparently, he then left immediately aboard RMS Olympic, bound for New York, arriving there on 8th June 1918. He was part of an elite international force sent to Arkangelisk and was killed in action on 7th July 1919.
His older brother, Lt. Ernest Wilfred Rupert Finch, also in the Seaforths, was killed in action in August 1916. He, too, had been promoted to Captain on the field, but did not live long enough to receive papers to that effect.
Cpl. Charles William Finch
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.10th May 1915)
Charles William Finch died whilst a POW, he is buried Roeselare Communal Cemetery.
Spr. Colin Augustus David Finch
Australian Army 2nd Australian Divisions Signals Coy
from:Kew Australia
(d.20th Sep 1917)
Sapper Colin Finch served with the 2nd Australian Divisions Signals Coy
This 10 page letter to his brother Malcolm, found recently during our family history research - we think may be of interest to you. Some words in italics are not deciphered yet. Malcolm would have been 17 in 1916.
Addington Park War Hosp.My dear old Malc, Ten minutes ago I received your letter from Scotch College dated 12th June. By jove it did me good to get such a fine long letter from my fat old brother .I hope you’ll write again soon, as it’s deuced good to get letters, especially from one’s little “brovers”. At present its so blessed cold, that I can go hardly push this old pen along, but as five other letters have just come along from the Base, in answer to my notes of appeal, I must get a move on.Croydon, London
Thurs. 14th Sept 1916
These are the first I’ve had now for months. Two from “Koromiko”, one from George Mc D, one from Joan Hurst. & the last from Miss Hunt in Melbourne. But you see I’m answering your letter first, being the most important. The last letter I got from home, before these two, was one written while I was on my way to Egypt. I don’t know where all the others are tho? for there must be many more somewhere. I’m very glad that you are once again at school, for I know you will like it!! I can well imagine how you feel about the tucker; especially as you are used to having nearly all you want in “plenty’.
As regards meat, I think that one can very easily eat too much for his health. A good feed of meat once a day should be plenty provided that you have any amount of vegetables & other foods to fill up the cracks. I’ve been in some places in Egypt where one can get little else to eat except eggs & meat, but I often used to go hungry to bed rather than fill up on boil eggs. Two (or more) eggs for breakfast & tea, with half a chicken or so for a mid day meal was too much for me in hospital & I was very soon a mass of pimples. At this place, the trouble is the reverse, as some gets a miserable bit of bacon on a bit of bread, (sometimes with porridge, without milk or sugar) for breakfast, with a fair dinner & for tea, bread & marmalade. But we manage to get along very nicely.
You don’t say whether you like the school or not, but I’m sure, you can make yourself fairly comfy, where ever you are, which is just as well.
I’m sure you would like to be here for a little while, as there is such a lot of very interesting places & things to be seen, everywhere you go. This house is a beautiful old stone building, & was built in time of Henry V!!!, when the old rogue used to come here & make love to some of his 6 wives! We are only a few miles out of London, altho’ neither leave or money is given to us.
When I came from Egypt, I happened to have a sovereign in my pocket, so I’ve been able to slip out & go into London. Three times I’ve been in, & would soon be in again if I had any money left, but 20/- does not go far when there are two to spend it. My friend & I have been all through St Pauls Cathedral, & Westminster Abbey, also through the magnificent Houses of Parliament, where the two Parliaments sit, - The Lords & Commons. It is wonderful! We’ve also been up to Piccadilly, Strand, Trafalgar Sq. Whitehall, Hyde Park, St James Park & Green Park, also the King’s Palace at Buckingham & many other wonderful sights & places. We’ve been very lucky & on all three trips into town managed to dodge the M.P.’s (Military Police).
We left Egypt nearly five weeks ago. I came up to Southampton in N0. 2 Australian Hospital Ship, where we had a great old time for a fortnight, calling in Malta & Gibralta on our way. We had a lovely trip & very few Were sick. I wasn’t.
A comfortable Hospital Train met us at the Pier & brought us here, & now we’ve been here nearly three weeks. We expect to leave shortly now though & after a little necessary buzzing round to get our furlough, (I think six weeks) when I hope to go up to Scotland & perhaps to Ireland, & call in & see Auntie Kit, on my way back. I intend to have a good time while I’m about It, as it is quite probably that it will be my last. Amongst other things I hope to bust up a quid or so in going up in an aeroplane.
I’m all anxious to get over to France to join up my old unit where all my old friends are, or where were. Some of them are dead I’m sorry to say, but I hope that most of them are still as lively as of yore. So you see, a fellow might just as well have a good time when the chance offers, for when his time comes he’ll be dead a jolly long while, you know.
Well, old chap, I must finish as I have five more letters to answer as well as others to write. Cheer up, old boy, & keep smiling, & don’t forget that you have a skinny old brother who is always so glad to hear from you, even if it is only a very short letter, so don’t forget to remember!
Give my love to Mum & dad. When you write & with much love from myself, your affectionate brother Colin.
Lt. Ernest Wilfred Rupert Finch
British Army 4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Beckenham, Kent
(d.7th Aug 1916)
Ernest Finch was the older brother of Capt. Aubrey Finch, also of the 4th Seaforths. He was promoted to Captain on the battlefield, but did not live long enough to receive papers to that effect and is buried at Puchevillers Military Cemetery, France.
Pte. George Walters Finch
British Army 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
from:57 Prospect Street, Stonegravels, Chesterfield
(d.9th Aug 1916)
I never knew my grandfather George Finch. The only reference i had was after my fathers death I found a piece of tissue type paper folded to about 1.5 inches square in a tin in his drawer and it was the last letter. Everything else was detective work amongst the family and record offices.
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