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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Walter Freeman
British Army 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
from:Radford, Nottingham
(d.26th September 1916)
Cpl. Walter Charles Freeman
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Bromley, Kent
(d.23rd March 1918)
Gnr. William Reginald Freeman
British Army 132nd (Oxfordshire) Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Henley-on-Thames
(d.1st Jul 1916)
William Freeman was a gardener when he signed up on 10 May 1915. He had been born in Hambledon and lived in the villages around Henley-on-Thames. When he signed up he was 32 years and 11 months and had a wife, Lizzie and five children. On 21st of September 1915 he and Lizzie added to the family with their last son.
L/Sgt. Edgar Lionel Freemantle
British Army 2nd Battalion East Kent Regiment
from:Gillingham, Kent
(d.23rd September 1918)
I never really knew that much about my paternal great uncle, Edgar Freemantel, until I researched through the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website. I had often heard his name mentioned in conversation by my grandmother and father but as a child I was kept in the dark. Being an ex serviceman myself, I wanted to know more about him. I found that he had died due to influenza approximately a month before my father's birth. I'm almost certain that had they have had the news before, my father would have had his name.
Rfmn. Ernest Freemantle
British Army 14th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Hampshire
(d.26th Jan 1915)
Lt. Ronald Percy Cowen Freemantle
Royal Flying Corps 9 Squadron
(d.30th April 1917)
2Lt. Ronald Percy Cowan Freemantle
Royal Flying Corps 9 Squadron
from:South Africa
(d.30th April 1917)
Ronald Freemantle Royal served with 9 Squadron, Flying Corps I have Ronald's two medals and his Death Plaque. Also a photo of him in uniform.
Pte. William Raylton Freemantle
British Army 4th Btn Yorkshire Regiment
from:Middlesbrough
(d.20th Sept 1914)
Private William Raylton Freemantle died on Sunday the 20th September 1914 at Greenbank Hospital, Darlington. He had committed suicide by shooting himself whilst temporarily insane. This can mean one of two reasons; either he deserted or just could not face the war. I truly would like to know the truth on either case as William was my Great Uncle and as I am compiling my Freemantle Family Tree I do need to enter all the correct facts for future generations.
CSM Arthur Martin Freer
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Commissioned 29-5-17
Pte. Stephen Thomas Freeth
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Acton, London
(d.26th September 1916)
Stephen Freeth was born in Southall in 1882, son of Ellen Freeth. The 1901 census shows him living with his mother and siblings at 18 Wilmot Place, Hanwell; he is a general labourer. On the 12 June 1905 he married Fanny Bridges and they had two children, Charles and Arthur. The 1911 census shows his occupation as a bricklayer's labourer and the electoral register of 1914 lists his address as 23, Steyne Road, Acton.
He served with the 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers arriving in France on 17th August 1915. He was killed in action on the 26 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme.
On the 26th September an attack by the Reserve Army succeeded in defeating the German Army to take control of Thiepval but at great cost. The 18th Division were heavily involved and the 54th Brigade were tasked with capturing the western part of Thiepval and the Schwaben Redoubt on top of the ridge.
Stephen has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval memorial, Somme, France. He is remembered on the War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Acton, London.
Pte. Edward Fremson
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Edward Fremson was wounded on the 1st of July 1916
Pte. Arthur William French
British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Whittlesey, Cambs.
(d.24th September 1916)
P/Off. Benjamin James French
Royal Navy HMS Paxton
from:Portsmouth
Benjamin French was a Reserve when called up to work on Lady Christine and Q25 (HMS Paxton).
Maj. Charles John French
British Army Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Ranelagh, Dublin
(d.2nd July 1916)
Major Charles French died of wounds in France on 2nd July 1916.
Lt. Charles Stockley French
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
(d.25th April 1915)
Charles French, of the 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers was killed in action in Belgium on 25th of April 1915, aged 22. He was the son of John Alexander French, LL.D., and Elizabeth Mary French (nee Stockley), of St. Ann's, Donnybrook, Co. Dublin. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Dublin. B.A., 1914. He had also been wounded near Armentieres in December 1914.
Cpl. Charles Ernest French
British Army 7th Battalion Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
from:Croydon
(d.27th Feb 1917)
Charles French was one of four brothers who died in battle during WW1. Two served in the BEF and two in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Sadly, their deaths so weighed on the family that these gallant brothers were rarely mentioned after the war. My grandmother Josephine was their sister.
Gnr. Christopher French MM.
British Army 117th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Handswirth, Birmingham
(d.11th Jan 1917)
Christopher French was in attendance during a funeral party on 2nd of January 1917. The group came under fire and apparently Gunner French protected his ammunition from fire, sustaining injuries from which he died on 11th of January 1917. He was my great uncle and was 22 years of age when he died.
Capt. Claude Alexander French
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.1st June 1915)
Claude French was the son of John Alexander and Elizabeth French.
L/Cpl. Frederick Thomas French
British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Newton, Blackwell, Derbyshire
(d.30th October 1917)
Born in 1888, Fred French was the eldest child of George and Alice Ellen French of Ashbourne Derbyshire. In 1915 he married Mary Dransfield Beeston in Kirk Ireton. Fred had moved to Newton for employment as a green grocer before 1915. Fred and Mary had a daughter Kathleen, born in 1916, just a few weeks before Fred was posted to his regiment and shipped to France.
Fred enlisted at Tibshelf in July 1915 with the 7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment and entered France in December 1916. Wounded in July 1917, he was promoted to Lance Corporal on 1st October 1917, having been put in charge of a Lewis Gun. He was killed in action just 29 days later on 30th October 1917.
2nd Lt. John French MC.
British Army 254th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers
from:Cornwall
Rfm. Patrick William French
New Zealand Expeditionary Force A Coy. 1st NZ Rifle Brigade.
from:Meeanee, New Zealand.
(d.6th Aug 1917)
2nd Lt. Robert Douglas French
British Army 1/6th Btn. London Regiment
from:North Finchley
(d.15th September 1916)
Douglas French went to Epsom College and then to the London Hospital as a medical student. He was killed by machine gun fire leading his men at the battle for High Wood on the Somme on 15th September 1916. He was only eighteen.
His CO wrote to his parents to tell of his selfless courage, carrying on when first wounded because all his fellow officers had already been killed. His name is inscribed on the Thiepval Monument.
L/Cpl Sidney Harold French
British Army 23rd (Football) Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:25 Mundella Road, Battersea
(d.11th Oct 1917)
Valentine Douglas French
British Army 5th Btn King's Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Ranelagh, Dublin
(d.16th June 1915)
Valentine French died of wounds in France.
L/Sgt. William Henry French
British Army 2nd Battalion London Regiment
from:Bermondsey
(d.28th Feb 1918)
I don't know much about my great grandfather William French, apart from he joined around 1916. I haven't been able to find his service records but have a photo of his grave in France. He was a lance sergeant in the 2nd Battalion London Regiment. He died of his wounds on the 28th of February 1918 and is buried in Maroeuil British Cemetery in France.
Pte. William French
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Berkshire Rgt.
(d.24th June 1917)
L/Cpl. William S. French
British Army 18th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Duntocher, Clydebank
(d.4th Oct 1916)
William French was killed by a mortar along with three men and one officer at Roclincourt, France.
Rfmn. Moses Fresco
British Army 12th London Regiment
from:Whitechapel, London
(d.7th April 1917 )
Moses Fresco served with the 12th London Regiment. I am trying to trace his family, he came from Whitechapel, London and was born in 1896 approx.
Sapper Fred Fretwell
British Army 104th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Rawmarsh/Parkgate, Rotherham
(d.26th June 1917)
Pte John Fretwell
British Army 1st/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Compton Row, Leeds, West Yorkshire
(d.9th October 1917)
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