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BQMS. George Frank Hamlet
British Army 7th Divisional Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:Islington, London
Pte. John James Hamlett
British Army 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
(d.8th June 1917)
John Hamlett died on Mount Sorrel (Hill 60) the day after the huge explosion instigated by the Australians.
Pte. John George Hammell
British Army 8th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Keighley
(d.10th Jul 1916)
John Hammell served with the 8th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment On the 10th of July 1916, 2nd Lieutenant Bell was detached with a bombing party to the 8th Battalion who were ordered to attack a position to the west of the village. By 5.30 in the evening, they had successfully captured the village along with 9 machine guns and more than 300 unwounded prisoners. Then, from 7.30 onwards on that evening, the Germans counter-attacked. At 9:00 that evening, one of the counter attacks threatened to become more dangerous when a group of 40+ German soldiers were seen to be lining a hedge at Point 93 on the road to Mametz. A hasty barricade was built and machine guns were put into position. The defence was successful and drove off the German soldier counter attack but John Hammell, and many others including 2nd Lieutenant Bell lost their lives during the thick of the action.
Rflmn. Edward Walter Hammer
British Army 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Haworth, Keighley, West Yorkshire
(d.14th September 1914)
L/Cpl. John Hammersley
British Army 9th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Salford
(d.7th Aug 1915)
Nellie Hammersley
British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment
from:13 Eastgate, Macclesfield
Cpl. T. C. Hammersley
Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd/7th Btn.
from:Bedworth
(d.27th August 1917)
Capt. Stephen Frederick Hammick
British Army Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
(d.18th April 1916)
Capt. Hammick died on 18 April 1916 at the age 45, from wounds received in action. He is buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.
Lt. Arthur William Hammond MC.
British Army Royal Flying Corps
from:Walton-on-the-Haill, Lancs
Arthur Hammond was born on 29 August 1890 in Walton on the Hill, Lancashire. He was the son of Henry and Alice (née Kincaid) Hammond. His father was a Master Mariner. Hammond joined the Royal Horse Guards as a trooper, but in October 1915 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer in the Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8 biplane. Whilst the prime purpose of his duties was reconnaissance, he was also the aircraft's gunner and engaged in ground attack.
Hammond received the Military Cross for action on the 22nd of April 1918 “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When acting as observer on photographic work, though his machine was attacked by six enemy aeroplanes, he with great coolness shot down two of these. On two later occasions a large number of hostile battery positions were photographed, engaged and successfully silenced, as well as some of our long range batteries calibrated on hostile targets. The eminently satisfactory manner in which all these tasks were accomplished is due to this officer's keenness, conscientiousness and devotion to duty."
He was awarded a bar to his Military Cross for action on the 26 July 1918: “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in aerial fighting. Whilst attacking hostile troops at about 500 feet he was encountered by eight triplanes, which dived from all directions, firing their front guns. He fired bursts at each machine in turn, shooting three of them down out of control. He was wounded himself six times, but continued the action until his machine caught fire. The pilot, although wounded five times, with great skill and coolness managed to climb to the left hand bottom plane and controlled the machine from the side of the fuselage, side-slipping to the ground. The machine crashed in "No Man's Land," and the pilot managed to extricate Hammond from the flames and dragged him to a shell-hole, from which they were rescued by the infantry." His pilot on this mission (mentioned in this citation) was Alan McLeod, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for the same action. Hammond lost a leg due to his wounds and left the RFC. At the end of the war, he emigrated to Canada. In the Second World War, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
He died in Victoria, British Columbia, on 22 December 1959, aged 69
Sgt. Arthur Morgan Decon Hammond
British Army 2/17th Btn. London Regiment
from:Edmonton, Canada
Elsie Emily Sarah Hammond
Woman's Forage Corps Norfolk
from:Norwich
My Grandmother, Elsie Emily Sarah Hammond, was born and bred in Norwich. She joined the Woman's Forage Corps in Norfolk in 1915. She met my Grandfather, Pte Francis Patrick Lewis AIF, who was recovering from wounds inflicted in France at the Norfolk War Hospital in 1917. They were engaged in Norwich October 1918 then married December 1918 in Norwich.
Elsie returned with her Digger to Australia in 1919 to make a life in a new country. Elsie and Francis had 2 sons, Francis Walter Lewis who served in the RAN and Alexander Gordon Lewis who served in AIF in WW2.
Pte. George Hammond
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:St Lukes, Middlesex
Pte George Hammond joined the Royal Berkshire Regiment of Infantry in June 1914 shortly after his 18th birthday. A month later he was transferred to the 1st Battalion. In his civilian life he was a Porter of Fancy Leather Goods. George had originally joined the Special Reserves in February 1914 at Stratford and his medical history describes him as having a fair complexion, light brown hair and dark blue eyes. At 5' 5" tall and weighing only 108 lbs he was considered to be in fair physical shape with a fully expanded chest measurement of 33".
He was based in Aldershot when war broke out and was soon sent to the front line with the British Expiditionary Force, moving to the 3rd Battalion on 8th August 1914 then back to the 1st Battalion on 4th May 1915.
Just over a year later, fighting at Vimy Ridge, on 23rd of May 1916 George was seriously wounded, suffering gunshot wounds to his right knee and having to have part of his left forearm amputated before being sent back to England on the 23rd of July 1916. George spent the next year in hospital having his forearm re-amputated and operations on his right leg. Finally, fitted with an artificial limb he was discharged from the Army and released into his mothers care at 22 Every Street, Kingsland Rd, London N.
At only 22 years of age George's life was over. Despite having grown to 5' 10" he now had an artificial hand and his right leg was virtually useless, wearing a caliper and a 5" high boot. Little is known of what happened next to George Hammond, but it appears he never married, and in the 1939 Register he can be found without any family and shown as a boarder in Shoreditch and described as having 'No Occupation, Disabled Ex-Soldier'.
George passed away on the fifteenth of January 1947 at the age of 50 years. He had finally found work and was employed as a Time-Keeper. His death was a sad and lonely one at 79 Hows Street, Shoreditch, with Cause of Death stated as a) Pneumonia, b) Myocardial degeneration, and c) Influenza. His landlord found his body and caused it to be buried.
This is my tribute to a Great Uncle I never knew and have never seen a photograph of. My Grandfather was separated from his brother and they never found one another, despite searching in the 1930's. It is thanks to DNA testing I have found my ancestor's family and feel a great sadness reading about a young man, proud to fight for his Country but ended up broken and lonely. God Rest Your Soul, Great Uncle George, not forgotten.
Sgt. Herbert Samuel Hammond
British Army 4th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Hertford
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Herbert Hammond was born in Ware in 1887, son of Herbert and Susan Hammond. He had lived in the Cherry Tree in Amwell End Ware. Then was living in Hertford with his with Sarah and two children. He was my 1st Cousin 3x removed.
Pte. Herrbert Hammond
British Army 6th Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent
from:26 Samaritans Grove, Northfleet, Kent
(d.4th August 1916)
Pte. J. Hammond
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. James Charles Hammond
British Army 12th Btn. East Surrey Regiment
from:12 Layton Grove, Southwark, London
(d.15th August 1918)
My great grandfather, James Hammond, tried to enlist in 1914 but was refused. He was finally accepted on 3rd August 1915 and spent the war in France and Flanders. He was wounded on 17th July 1918 and died exactly a month later of his wounds.
Pte. Jesse Roy Hammond
British Army 6th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Oadby
(d.25th March 1917)
Jesse Hammond was my uncle, about whom I only knew had died in WW1. I have found his date of death, 25th March 1917 and see that he died 100 years ago. He apparently died of his injuries and I presume he was repatriated as I know he was buried in his home village.
Pte. John George Hammond
British Army 8th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Sunderland
(d.10th July 1916)
John Hammond was my great grandfather. He was born in Sunderland in 1884 and died in service on either 10th or 11th July 1916. He left behind a wife and 3 children, the youngest child, Peter Hammond was my grandfather.
Peter was born in 1910 and died in 1992. He served in the merchant navy from the age of 14 until he was in his 50's. He served during the second world war and I'm proud to be the custodian of his medals.
The whereabouts of my great grandfathers medals are unknown.
Sgt. John Robert Hammond
British Army 7th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Stoke on Trent
John Hammond was my maternal great-grandfather, and I believe from my other research that he served in the 7th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment in the First World War. He was mentioned in a local newspaper as being transferred to the Military Hospital at Alexandria in December 1915. Unfortunately nobody alive in the family ever met him as he died shortly after the war ended. If anybody has any information on him, I would be most grateful.
Pte. John Rowland Hammond
British Army 12th Btn. East Surrey Regiment
from:Battersea, London
(d.5th Apr 1917)
On the night of 5th of April 1917 my great-grandfather, Private John Hammond, was in the cookhouse on the reserve line at Dikkebus, near Ypres. The line came under heavy fire between 8.45 and 10.15pm and during that bombardment the cookhouse took a direct hit, a shell exploding through the roof. He was killed instantly. He left behind a widow and three children, the oldest of whom was Amelia, my grandmother. She was nine years old when the family was informed. John had volunteered aged 39 in 1915, a few weeks later and he would have been exempt. He, along with many men from the 12th East Surreys, had survived The Somme, having fought at the terribly challenging battle of Flers-Courcelette, but sadly didn't make it home, like so many thousands of others.
Pte. Lionel Gooderham Hammond
British Army 28th (1st Artists Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:Wembley Hill
(d.30th October 1917)
Lionel Hammond was born in 1893 in Stevington, Bedfordshire son of Robert Thomas and Amelia Hammond, of The Bedford Arms Hotel, Woburn, Bedfordshire. He lived in Wembley Hill and enlisted in Shorditch with the 1st/28th (Artists' Rifles) Battalion, London Regiment. He was killed in action on 30th October 1917 aged 25 years during the 2nd Battle of Passcehendaele (3rd Battle of Ypres). The Roll of Honour for the Regiment shows that over 150 men from his Battalion were killed or injured on the same day. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He is remembered on the War Memorial in Woburn, Bedfordshire which stands next to the hotel his parents were running. A pupil of of Bedford Modern School 1905-08, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
L/Cp. Robert Henry Hammond
British Army 7th Btn. Border Regiment
from:Runhall, Norfolk
(d.7th Aug 1916)
Robert Hammond lived in Runhall Norfolk at the outbreak of war. He was a team master on a local farm and married to Laura Amelia Hurrell. They had 5 children, the oldest being my father John. He enlisted in Norwich with the Norfolk Regiment and was transferred in 1916 to the 7th Border Regiment. He was involved in a suicidal attack at 4.30 pm on the 7th of August 1916 in Delville Wood, the same attack as Harold Cope who's tunic is on display at the IWM. He was listed as missing and has no known grave. I have seen a letter in our local paper from his wife asking if anyone knew of his whereabouts, with a picture. He is commemorated on a plaque in Runhall church and also on the board for hymn numbers.
L/Cpl. Robert Henry Hammond
British Army 7th Btn. Border Regiment
from:Hardingham, Norfolk
(d.7th August 1916)
Pte. Sidney Hammond
British Army 8th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Dudley
(d.23rd April 1917)
Pte. Sutton Hammond
British Army 4th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Garden House Lanr, Cockfield, Durham,
Pte. Thomas Daniel Hammond
British Army 3th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.5th Sep 1916)
Thomas Daniel Hammond was my grandfather serving with 3rd Battalion Royal Worcester Regiment. Thomas died of wounds on 05/09/1916, being initially wounded by machine gun on 03/09/1916. He was treated at a field post then he was transferred to Etaples where he died of his wounds, he is buried at Eastern Cemetery,Boulogne
Cpl. Thomas James Hammond
British Army 3rd Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire
Thomas James Hammond was my great grandfather. From 4th of August 1914 until 13th Sept 1917 he served as a Private with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. From the 14th of Sept 1917 until the armistice and worked some clean-up after end of war, he was a Corporal with the 28th Coy. Chinese Labour Corps. He also was injured in action and spent time in hospital. This shrapnel is what eventually led to his leg being amputated and his death in 1957 in Hendon, London, Middlesex, England. After the clean-up duty, he came home from the war and found out about the death of his wife- Julia Bruder from scarlet fever, which she had contracted at the war-end party.
I would love to find more information about his duties, war job and his injury!
Pte. Thomas Hammond
British Army 1st Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
(d.4th June 1915)
Thomas Hammond died on the 4th of June 1915 and is commemorated on on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli in Turkey.
Pte. Vincent Edward Hammond
British Army 11th Border Regiment
from:Knighton
(d.18th Nov 1916)
Vincent E Hammond served with the Herefordshire Regiment, King's Shropshire Light Infantry and the Border Regiment. He was killed in action on the 18th of November 1916. Vincent was a tailors outfitter in Knighton, an only child to Edward and Bertha Hammond of Knighton
A/Capt. Walter Hammond MC and Bar.
British Army 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Tressillian Crescent, Brockley
Walter Hammond's Military Cross citation dated 9th Jan 1918 reads: T./2nd Lt. Walter Hammond, attd. Midd'x - For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led a raiding party with great coolness and dash against enemy concrete dug-outs which were strongly garrisoned. He shot the Serjeant-Major in charge of the garrison, and by his fine leadership compelled a number of the enemy to surrender. He then returned to his trench under heavy machine gun fire, taking nineteen prisoners with him. The war diary of the 1st of January 1918, mentions Hammond leading a raid which captured 19 prisoners.
On the 18th of Feb 1918 he was awarded a Bar to the MC, the citation reads: 2nd Lt. (A./Capt.) Walter Hammond, M.C., Midd'x R. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When in command of a large raiding party he carried out a successful operation, and brought his party back with three prisoners and only a few minor casualties, despite heavy shell and rifle fire. Previously to the raid he had been of the greatest assistance to his commanding officer both in; making preparations, reconnaissance, and in training the men for the operation. His skill and gallant leadership throughout were most marked.
He was discharged on the 25th of Oct 1919 at the completion of his service. Walter had enlisted with the 21st Btn, KRRC and was commissioned on the 29th of May 1917. The War Diary of the 23rd Bn Middlesex Regt for the 25th of Mar 1918 lists him as being wounded, the same day as Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British Army, was killed, he served in the same unit.
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