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Pte. Frederick Albert Brownett Giles
British Army 20th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Cricklade, Wiltshire
(d.9th Oct 1917)
Sapper Lewis Howell Giles
British Army 38th Div. Signal Company Royal Engineers
(d.12th Oct 1918)
Lewis Giles died 12th October 1918, aged 24 and is buried in the Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery in France.
Cpl. Oliver Robert Giles
British Army 6th Battalion East Kent Regiment
from:Canterbury
(d.10th April 1917)
Cpl. Oliver Robert Giles
British Army 6th Btn. East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
from:Canterbury
(d.10th Apr 1917)
Pte. Peter Giles
British Army 14th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.24th Aug 1918)
Pte. Peter Giles served with the 14th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was shot for desertion on 24th August 1918 and is buried in Louez Military Cemetery, Duisans, France.
Pte Reginald Stephen Giles
British Army 1st Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Cirencester
(d.20th Aug 1916)
Reginald Giles is my grandfather's brother. He has no known grave he is commemorated at Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Frederick George Gilham
British Army 2nd Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Woolwich
We are trying to trace a photo as we have an old photocopy of Frederick George Gilham with a group of soldiers and in front of them there is a remarkable array of trophies. We think it may be boxing trophies? Musical trophies? Around 1916. Possibly in India. Or at East Surrey Barracks in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Also we are led to believe Frederick George Gilham was India Boxing Champion for 1918. Does anyone know anything about the Army boxing in India during WW1?
Capt. Harry White Gilhespie
British Army M.T. Royal Army Service Corps
from:East Putney, London
(d.3rd Nov 1919)
Harry Gilhespie was the son of Henry and Mary Elizabeth Gilhespie of 11, West Hill Rd., East Putney, London. He was 27 when he died and is buried in the Famagusta Military Cemetery in Cyprus.
Sgt. John Gilhooley MM.
British Army 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.28th Mar 1916)
John Gilhooley, aged 36, died at Arras on 28 March 1916. He was born and enlisted in Jarrow and was the son of the late Patrick and Ann Gilhooley. John is remembered on the Arras Memorial.
Bdmn. Frederick John Gilkes
British Army 3rd Btn. Connaught Rangers
(d.6th Sep 1916)
Bandsman Frederick Gilkes is buried against the west boundary in the Kinsale (Ringcurran) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Pte. Frank Gilks
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Oxhill, Warwickshire
(d.13th Apr 1918)
Sgt. Albert Gill
British Army 1st Btn King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Birmingham, England
(d.27th Jul 1916)
Sgt. Albert Gill served with the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps and was killed in action on 27th July1916 aged 36 years. He is buried in Delville Wood Cemetery in France. He was the son of Harry and Sophia Gill, of Birmingham, England; and husband of Rosetta Gill (nee Smith).
An extract from "The London Gazette" dated 24th October, 1916, records the following :-"For most conspicuous bravery. The enemy made a very strong counter-attack on the right flank of the battalion, and rushed the bombing post after killing all the company bombers. Serjeant Gill at once rallied the remnants of his platoon, none of whom were skilled bombers, and reorganised his defences, a most difficult and dangerous task, the trench being very shallow and much damaged. Soon afterwards the enemy nearly surrounded his men by creeping up through the thick undergrowth, and commenced sniping at about twenty yards' range. Although it was almost certain death, Serjeant Gill stood boldly up in order to direct the fire of his men. He was killed almost at once, but not before he had shown his men where the enemy were, and thus enabled them to hold up their advance. By his supreme devotion to duty and self-sacrifice he saved a very dangerous situation."
Pte. Arthur Gill
British Army 1st Btn West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Ravensthorpe
(d.21st Dec 1915)
Arthur Gill was the Brother of my Grandfather Norman Gill. He was 20 at the time of his death, is interred at the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.
Rflmn. Arthur Henry Gill
British Army 4th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Edmonton, Middlesex
(d.3rd October 1918)
My Great-Uncle Arthur Gill died on 3rd of October 1918 during the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, having served throughout almost the entire Great War. On the following day, with tragic timing for Arthur's family, but no doubt to great relief for the world at large, Germany submitted their request for the Armistice after the vigorous Allied attack to which Arthur must have contributed.
My late mother told me that when she was two years old she remembered her uncle Arthur on leave, standing in the living room in front of the fireplace, in his uniform, at their home in Edmonton, giving her a green glass bead necklace that he had brought back from France, as a present. I still have those beads, together with two embroidered postcards that he sent, one, embroidered "My Dear Niece" signed "From Uncle Arthur xxxx" and the other, sent much earlier, at Christmas 1915, embroidered with Christmas Wishes, containing a card insert within the lace pocket, showing flags of France, Britain and Belgium, stating "Souvenir de Glorieuse Memoire, 1914 1915, Merry Christmas and Happy Future", addressed to "Mother and Dad with love from Arthur xxxx".
He was much loved, deeply missed, and has never been forgotten, and he now rests in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Gouy, located south of Cambrai in France. I am submitting this on 2nd October 2018, in memory and appreciation of his service and tragic sacrifice almost exactly a century ago.
Pte. Bernard Gill
British Army 4th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Ilford
Bernard Gill guarded the Suez Canal. He was wounded in 2nd Battle of Gaza and strapped on camel to be taken back for medical treatment, but swas hot in backside by Turkish sniper while being so carried. He said, however, that the most dangerous thing was using the latrines.
Pte. Ernest Gill
British Army 1st Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Bower Road, Starbeck
Pte. Frank Gill
British Army 1st Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
from:Reddish
(d.10th Apr 1917)
Frank Gill was the fourth born son to Hartley & Sarah Gill (nee Higginbottom) registered in the Sept quarter 1895. Little is known of his youth but was listed on the 1911 census at 15 years old and still at home but working in the cotton mill owned by the Reddish Spinning Co - Elisabeth Mills on Houldsworth Road Reddish. He worked there with his brothers. His role was as a Cotton Mule Bobbiner. Frank was a member of St Elisabeth's Church and, in his teens, was an officer in the Church's Boys' Brigade company.
Frank was just 18 years old when the war started and he immediately signed up. He was enlisted as a Private in the 1st Battalion, Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Frank survived almost three years fighting multiple battles on the Western Front in France. He eventually lost his life at Fampoux during the Arras offensive of April - May 1917. He died 10th of April 1917 at the age of 21 years. Frank is remembered with honour at the Arras Memorial in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel, approximately 2 kms due west of the railway station.
L.S. Frederick Wilhelm Bernard Gill
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Queen Mary
from:London
(d.31st May 1916)
Frederick Gill was killed in action on the 31st of May 1916 during the Battle of Jutland, he was aged 25. The son of Frederick Massey Gill and Annie Beatrice Gill, of 131, Church St., Lower Edmonton, London. He was educated at Enfield Grammar School. For 7 years he worked for the North British and Mercantile Insurance Coy., London. He was present at Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914.
Pte. Frederick Gill
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Stok. Frederick William Gill
Royal Navy HMS Hogue
from:95 Waldeck Street, Reading
(d.22nd September 1914)
Frederick Gill was my step grandmother's brother who lived in Reading. He was killed in action on 22nd of September 1914 on HMS Hogue by action with the German U-Boat UP.
Pte. Henry Gill
British Army 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
from:Old Basford, Nottingham
(d.29th March 1918)
Pte. James Henry Gill
British Army 11th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Middlesex
(d.8th Jul 1916 )
James Henry Gill, died in action in France on 8th July 1916, aged 29. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. He was the son of Henry Gill and had married Kathleen Gray on 7th June 1909 Kingston Surrey Middlesex England. Their daughter,Lillian Kathleen Gill, was born 8th September 1910, followed by a son, James Henry Gill Jnr., on 24th May 1913. Kathleen and the children immigrated to Perth, Western Australia in 1919. Life was a struggle and the children were place in care in 1925. James Henry Gill Jnr. is buried in Pinjarra, Western Australia. Still trying to find the stories behind James Snr.,Kathleen and Lillian.
Pte John Edward Gill
British Army 2nd (West Lancs.) Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Michael, Isle of Man
(d.28th Dec 1917)
From my earliest days I remember that my (adoptive) Grandma Teare, who lived with us, had a framed photograph in her bedroom of a soldier in uniform. When I asked who he was she told me it was John Gill who died in the First War. Not until much later did I realise that John was her only son.
John was born in Andreas, Isle of Man, on 19th December 1894, when his mother was 20. His birth was registered in his mother's maiden name of Cormode. I think his father Robert Gill died at the age of 29 when John was about 8 years old. Soon afterwards Mary married Philip Teare who worked at the White House Farm in Kirk Michael, and they lived in one of the farm cottages on Main Road, and attended Park View Wesleyan Chapel a few yards away on the opposite side of the road. Mary and Philip had one daughter in 1904, Ella, who married Edward Kennaugh and had a daughter Enid (born 1924).
I am not sure whether John volunteered for active service or not, but in any case I think conscription was extended to the Isle of Man and the other Crown Dependencies sometime in 1916. Clearly, John's death occurred just a few months before my mother Phyllis was born, so not only did I not know him, but neither did my mother. Nevertheless I feel increasingly that I ought to have known him and the war robbed me of the opportunity.
It is difficult to discover exactly where John was and what he did during World War I, because, like many other service records, his detailed record was lost. What is certain is that he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps as Private 339576 in the Second (West Lancashire) Field Ambulance. He died a week after his 23rd birthday. No cause of death is given in the military records. I was told simply that John died in the war (not very informative!), and I am aware that as many service people died of illnesses as were killed in action. However, I have recently obtained a copy of the death certificate giving the cause of death as acute pulmonary tuberculosis, 1 year 6 months. The TB could have been contracted anywhere, but it was sometimes caused by gas poisoning on active service. Was John involved in France and/or in Belgium? I should like to find out.
I have discovered much about the Uncle I never knew, but there is much more that, to date, I have been unable to unearth. For example, I know nothing about his childhood and youth in Andreas and Michael. As I have mentioned, my Grandma Teare, who lived with us until she died when I was 12, hardly ever mentioned him, except when asked about the picture of the soldier on her bedroom wall; even then she would say only tat it was John Gill who died in the war. Only much later did I discover that he was her only son.
I could not understand why she never talked about her son, but almost everyone in the village had lost somebody in the war, and I think that in many cases their grief remained a private matter. It seemed as if they had agreed to get on with life and put a good face on things. By that time, of course, Mary had her daughter Ella, and I suppose too that her loss of John might have been a factor that led her sister Margaret to leave baby Phyllis in her care when she died. From John's death certificate I find that before his military service he was a grocer. I remember two grocery shops in Michael, one of which was Callows. John might have worked in one of these.
This is the sum of my knowledge about John. I should like to know more about his short life, his childhood and youth, and the details of his service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. If anyone is able to give me such information, or to steer me in the right direction, I should be very grateful.
John Armitage Gill
British Army York and Lancaster Regiment
I have a desire to find out more about my grandad, John Gill. I have searched several websites but can find very little apart from being able to verify his service name and part of his number. I have a photo of him with my grandmother and my mother but that is all. I would dearly love to know more about his service in WW1
Dvr Michael "Gilly" Gill
British Army 110 Bty Royal Field Artillery
from:St Helens, Lancashire
Drvr. Richard Gill
British Army "K" Bty. 4th Bde. Royal Horse Artillery
from:Cliviger, Burnley
(d.26th Oct 1918)
Richard Gill died on the 26th of October 1918, aged 27. He is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery, son of James and Elizabeth Gill, of 27 Longfield Terrace, Cliviger, Burnley. Native of Cliviger.
WO1 Robert Henry Gill
British Army Welsh Horse
from:Cardiff
Pte. W. Gill
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Rflmn. W. Gill
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.9th August 1916)
Rifleman Gill was the son of Mrs E. Gill, Ballyskeagh, Lambeg, Lisburn.
He is buried in Ration Farm Cemetery (La Plus Douve) Annexe, Grave III.B.5.
Pte. Walter Henry Gill
British Army 8th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Harpenden, Herts
(d.23rd Sep 1918)
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