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Pte. James Gault
British Army 13th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
from:Seapatrick, Banbridge
My Grandfather, James Gault was a POW. As far as I can tell he was taken prisoner on the first day of the Battle of the Somme July 1st 1916. He also served in the Army in WW2.
L/Cpl. Thomas Gault
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Clogher, County Tyrone
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. Harry Gaunt
British Army 2nd Btn South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Bradley, Staffs
(d.18th May 1915)
Pte. Harry Gaunt died at the Battle of Festubert.
Cpl. Joseph Edward Gaunt
British Army 2nd/6th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Chesterfield
(d.27th Apr 1917)
Cpl. Joseph Edward Gaunt
British Army 2/6th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
(d.27th Apr 1917)
Joseph Gaunt was killed in action on 27th Apr 1917 in an offensive against Cologne Farm in France, along with 4 Officers and 31 men.
Bmbdr. William Gaunt
British Army 7th Division Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:Bradford
(d.28th April 1917)
William Gaunt died of wounds and is buried at Arras.
Pte. John Gavaghan
Australian Imperial Force 37th Battalion
from:Lecarrow, Charlestown, Co. Mayo, Ireland
(d.8th June 1917)
John Gavaghan was born in Lecarrow, Charlestown, County Mayo, Ireland in 1889. He had 3 sisters and 5 brothers. He left Ireland to try and find work in Australia. He joined the 37th Battalion on 23rd of May 1916. At the time he was living in Seymour, Victoria and was working as a laborer. He embarked from Port Melbourne, Australia on the ship Shropshire on 25th of September 1916 arriving in Plymouth, England on 11th of November 1916. On 16th of December he proceeded to France on the Princess Victoria although it is noted on 23rd December he marched in from England. He was taken on strength on 19th of January 1917. He was killed in the Battle of Messines on 8th of June 1917. His body was never located.
Pte. Thomas Gavaghan
British Army 7th Btn Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Swinford, Ireland
(d.5th Sep 1916)
Thomas Gavaghan served with the 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers and was Killed In Action on 5th of September 1916. Thomas and his comrades dug in at a German stronghold of Falfemont Farm taken earlier that day. They later assaulted a nearby trench known as Combles Trench. As the Battalion struggled through a waist-high corn field mixed with dense weeds and hidden barbed-wire entanglements, the battalion was attacked by heavy German machine-gun fire which cut them apart. The battalion was decimated with the casualty figures for the day at 273 men. Thomas's body was never recovered and his name is carved into the Thiepval Memorial. He had previously served with the Connaught Rangers.
Pte. Edward Gavin
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Mullingar, Co. Meath
(d.28th December 1914)
Private Gavin was the Son of Edward and Kate Gavin, of Stoneyford, Dalystown, Mullingar, Co. Meath.
He was 27 when he died and is buried In the North-East part of the Meedian Catholic Churchyard, Co. Westmeath, Ireland.
Pte. Robert Gawler
British Army 1st Btn. East Kent Regiment
from:Canterbury, Kent
(d.24th Feb 1916)
Robert Gawler was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gawler, of 10, Staplegate Place, Canterbury. He served with The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1st Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 24th February 1916, aged 29 and is buried in White House Cemetery in Belgium.
Pte. Sidney Ernest Gawler
British Army 6th Batalion Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Stalbridge, Dorset
(d.9th Nov 1916)
Sidney Gawler was my grandfathers' brother who was killed in action. As a family we know little about him, but he will be mentioned on the Roll on Honor reading at the Tower of London on 25th September 2015
L/Cpl Thomas William Gawthorpe
British Army 11th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.2nd Sep 1917)
Thomas William Gawthorpe was the son of Benjamin George and Mary Jane Gawthorpe (nee Bird) of 29 St Paul's Road, Jarrow. He was born in Willington Quay and enlisted in Newcastle. Thomas went to France on the 6th of July 1915. He died of his wounds aged 22 on 2nd September 1917. He is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen.
On the 1911 England and Wales census, he is listed as a student aged 15. His father was aged 41 and a railway clerk working for the North Eastern Railway. His father was born in York. His mother was aged 44 and was born in Shotton, Durham. They were residing at 48 Bury Terrace, Willington Quay, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Pte. William Gawthorpe
British Army 34th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Ossett, West Yorkshire
(d.21st Mar 1918)
William Gawthorpe worked at Messrs. Archer, Ritchie and Co.'s Millfield Mill at Horbury Junction, and lived with his parents Paul and Ada at 2 New Street, Ossett. He enlisted in 1915, served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as Private 25613, then transferred to the 103rd Company (later part of 34th Battalion) of the Machine Gun Corps attached to 34th Division. His service record has not survived. His older brother George was reported missing at Poelcapelle during Passchendaele on 9th Oct 1917, and his brother Guy served and survived the war.
William was aged 23 when he was reported missing on 21st March 1918. The machine gunners were posted in strongpoints or "keeps" around the trenches, supporting 103rd Brigade (Tyneside Irish), beside the River Sensee at Croisilles. The great German spring offensive on that day used new so-called "stormtrooper" tactics. This broke through British lines and pushed back the British Army for many miles, resulting in large numbers of casualties and prisoners. He is commemorated on Bay 10 of the Arras Memorial, Calais.
Cpl. Benjamin Charles Gay
Briish Army 1/6th Btn. Gloucester Regiment
from:St George
(d.25th Apr 1915)
Benjamin Charles Gay died from wounds on The Western Front. He was my great grandfather. We believe Benjamin's brother John Frederick known as Fred, was also in the Gloucester Regiment as a Machine Gun corp and died in France in 1918
Pte Ernest Frederick Gay
British Army 1/10th (Hackney) Btn. London Regiment
from:109 Hertford Road, Dalston
Ernest Gay joined 1/10th Hackney Rifles and was sent, after Gallipoli, to Alexandria and fought through Palestine to the end of the war. He had joined up in the Spring of 1915, under age he was born on 10th of November 1897.
Pte. Charles Frederick Gaydon
British Army 4th (City of London) Btn. London Regiment
from:Finsbury, Middlesex
(d.11th Aug 1918)
Charles Gaydon was my great-grandfather. He died aged 35 and is buried at Beacon Cemetery, Sailly-Laurette, France. He left a wife Sarah and two daughters, 11 year-old Jane and 3 month-old Louisa. He lived at 10 Sidney Street, London.
Edward Alfred Gaydon
Army 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corp
My great grandfather, Edward Alfred Gaydon, was in the 8th battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
Edward Gaydon
British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps
My great grandfather, Edward Gaydon, served with the KRRC. I think he also served in the Finsbury Rifles during the Great War.
Rflmn. Andrew George Gayes
British Army 12th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Billericay, Essex
(d.30th November 1917)
Capt. Thomas Samuel Gayes
British Army 11th Btn. Border Regiment
from:Billericay, Essex
(d.10th April 1918)
Sjt. F. Gayfer
Army Durham Light Infantry
Pte. John Thomas Gaymer
British Army Kings Coy. 1st Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Wandsworth
George Gaze
British Army Machine Gun Corps
from:Liverpool
George Gaze served with the MGC in 89th Brigade.
L/Cpl. Percy Oswald "Tom" Geal
British Army
Percy Geal served in the Great War.
Pte. Richard Geaney
British Army 3rd Bn. Leinster Regiment
(d.13th January 1915)
Private Geaney is buried In the outh-West part of the Rathcormac Church of Ireland Churchyard, Rathcormac, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Pte. Arthur Gear
British Army 16th Battalion Rifle Brigade
(d.17th Nov 1917)
Arthur Gear never saw his 2nd son, who was born a few months after his death. Arthur died as a result of wounds while in action in Belgium.
Pte. Frederick Thomas Gearey
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Fusiliers
(d.15th September 1916)
Private Frederick Thomas Gearey served with the 1st (City of London) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers London Regiment (service no.5014).
He was killed in action on 15th September 1916 in France and Flanders and is buried in Combles Communal Cemetery, France. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Rfmn. James Thomas Gearing
British Army 1st/6th (City of London Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Walthamstow, Essex
(d.15th Sep 1916)
James Gearing has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Arthur Thomas Geary
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Groby
Pte. Donald Desmond Geary
Australian Imperial Force 36th Btn.
from:Moonan Flat, NSW
(d.10th Jun 1917)
Donald Geary was the son of James Joseph Geary, my great grandmother's brother, my paternal grandmother's first cousin. He was killed by a shell at Messines on 10th of June 1917 whilst covering a trench digging section with a Lewis gun, he has no known grave.
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