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Pte. William Furnival
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. North Staffordshire Rgt.
from:Fenton, Staffs
(d.21st March 1918)
Pte. William Furnival
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:staffordshire
(d.21st March 1918)
Pte. A. S. Furth
Australian Imperial Force. att. 3rd Salvage Coy. 10 M.G. Coy
Maj. Leslie George Fussell MC.
Australian Imperial Force 17th Batn.
from:Australia
Leslie George Fussell was born at Ballarat on 3rd November 1883. He was married to Ruby Evelyn Fussell and was employed as a bank clerk, when he was commissioned into the Australian Imperial Force as a lieutenant on 7th May 1915. He departed Australia with the 17th Battalion aboard HMAT Themistocles only five days later.
The 17th Battalion trained in Egypt before landing at Anzac Cove on 20th August 1915. At Gallipoli, the Battalion participated in the last action of the August Offensive and then spent the remainder of its time defending Quinn's Post. After the evacuation, Fussell proceeded to France with the 17th Battalion and by June 1916 had become a captain. He fought at Pozières between 25th July and 5th August 1916 and in Belgium until the end of the year.
Fussell spent most of 1917 away from the 17th Battalion as between 3rd January and 23r July 1917, he was seconded for duty to the Ist Anzac Corps School. He was awarded the Military Cross on 5 June 1917 for his consistent devotion to duty, and was promoted to major on 22nd June 1917. After a short period back with the 17th Battalion, he was attached to the 2nd Australian Division as a brigade major trainee from 13th August 1917. He returned to his unit on 23rd November 1917 and remained with the 17th Battalion through most of 1918. The 17th Battalion helped to thwart the German Spring Offensive of 1918 after which the Allied armies turned to the offensive. During this period, the 17th Battalion participated in a number of battles: Amiens on 8th August, the attack on Mont St Quentin on 31st August, and the forcing of the Beaurevoir Line around Montbrehain on 3rd October. Montbrehain was the battalion's last battle as it was in training when the armistice was declared. Active throughout 1919 with demobilisation of the AIF, Leslie Fussell returned to Australia in early 1920 and his military appointment was terminated on 16th June 1920.
Lt.Col. Thomas Barnes Futcher
Canadian Expeditionary Forces Orpington Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps
Thomas Futcher, M.D., was my grandfather. He was raised in St. Thomas, Ontario, the son of farming family. Went to medical school in Toronto and became one of Sir William Osler's chief medical residents at the newly founded Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD, USA. My grandfather, who had a successful private medical practice in Baltimore in 1917, at Dr. Osler's urging, I believe, (or perhaps he was drafted, I don't know. He would have been 46 years old at the time) joined the Canadian Forces in England and became medical director at Orpington Hospital No. 16 from Oct. 1917 through much of 1918. He was a colleague and friend of Thomas McCrae, MD, who preceded him as medical director, and I believe he knew T. McCrae's brother Col. John McCrae, who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields" and died in the war.
I have some of the letters my grandfather wrote to his wife and his two sons from Orpington during his service there. He talks very little about the war and the patients he treated, who no doubt had many heart-wrenching medical problems. But he talks eloquently about the farm animals and the natural delights he experienced on his Sunday walks through the country roads of Orpington.
If you know more about what it was like to serve as a nurse or physician or to be a patient at Orpington No. 16 during WWI, please contact me. Thanks! I am writing a novel inspired by my grandfather and his experiences during the Great War.
Pte Robert Futter
British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Martham, Norfolk
(d.15th Sep 1916)
Robert Futter, a carpenter from Martham, near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, Robert volunteered on 7th of September 1914 aged 19. He was listed as missing in action, presumed killed during the battle of Guillemont on 15th of September 1916.
Cpl. Alexander Fyfe
British Army Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Corporal Fyfe was captured in September 1914 and was sent to Giessen and Merseburg POW camps.
Pte. Joseph Kelsall Fyfe
British Army 7th Battalion King's Own (Royal Lancaster)
from:Hyde, Cheshire
(d.31st July 1917)
Pte. Joseph Kelsall Fyfe
British Army 7th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
from:Hyde, Cheshire
(d.31st Jul 1917)
DH Thomas Fyfe
Royal Naval Reserve H.M. Trawler "George Milburn"
from:Cowie, Stonehaven
(d.12th July 1917)
Deckhand Fyfe was the Son of John Lees, of 4, Helen Row, Cowie, Stonehaven,
On July 12th, 1917, George Milburn was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-42 (Otto Heinrich Tornow), off Waterford, 1.5 miles south of Dunmore Point. 11 persons were lost.
He was 27 when he drowned and is buried Between the Church and the North boundary of the Templetown Graveyard,Templetown, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Pte. William Henry Fyles
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Burnley, Lancashire
(d.16th July 1917)
William Fyles died on 16th July 1917 of heatstroke, aged 33 and is buried in the Baghdad North Gate Cemetery, Iraq. He lived at 55 Spencer Street, Burnley, Lancashire.
Pte. James Henry Fynn VC.
British Army 4th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Bodmin, Cornwall
(d.30th March 1917)
James Fynn died on the 30th of March 1917, aged 23 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq. He was the son of Mr. J. Fynn, of 19, Downing St., Bodmin, Cornwall.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated, 26th Sept., 1916, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery. After a night attack he was one of a small party which dug in in front of our advanced line and about 300 yards from the enemy's trenches. Seeing several wounded men lying out in front he went out and bandaged them all under heavy fire, making several journeys in order to do so. He then went back to our advanced trench for a stretcher and, being unable to get one, he himself carried on his back a badly wounded man into safety. He then returned and, aided by another man who was wounded during the act, carried in another badly wounded man. He was under continuous fire while performing this gallant work."
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