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Sgt. Thomas Lovatt MM.
British Army 5th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Tunstall, Staffordshire
Thomas Lovatt came from Tunstall near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and saw service during the Great War as a Private later Sergeant (No.19443) with the 5th Pioneers Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Seeing service on the Western Front from 17th of July 1915, his Battalion, formed as part of Kitcheners 2nd New Army, came under the orders of the 58th Brigade, in the 19th (Western) Division, and had originally been converted to a Pioneer Battalion back in January 1915. Lovatt had arrived on the Western Front with the main body of his battalion which would land at Le Havre on 16th July 1915.
Lovatt was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field in the London Gazette for 29th August 1918, which indicates an award won during the period of the German Spring Offensive during March to April 1918. Lovatt was subsequently discharged to the Class Z Army Reserve on 22nd February 1919.
L/Cpl. Alexander Love
British Army 6th Bn Highland Light Infantry
from:Glasgow
(d.8th Aug 1917)
Alexander Love served with the 1st/6th Bn, Highland Light Infantry.
Frank Love
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Hammersmith
(d.2nd Oct 1918)
Pte. J. Love
British Army 1st Garrison Btn. Royal Scots
(d.26th Jan 1919)
Private Love was buried in the Famagusta Military Cemetery in Cyprus.
Sgt. Matthew Love
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Consett
Matthew Love was wounded in August 1916
Sgt. Walter Shirley Love
British Army 11th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Peckham, London
(d.2nd April 1918)
Walter Love is my great uncle. Brother to my maternal grand mother Daisy Parkes (nee Love). He was born in Southwark, London on 30th January 1887.
ASto I William Love
Royal Navy HMS Vivid II
from:Atlantic House, Ballydevlin, Goleen
Acting Stoker 1st Class Love was the son of Michael Love, of Atlantic House, Ballydevlin, Goleen.
He was 20 when he died on the 6th March 1920. He is buried near the north boundary of the Kilmoe (St. Brendan) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Kilmoe, Co. Cork, Ireland.
PO Albert George Loveday
Royal Navy HMS Gibraltar
Pte. Arthur Edward Loveday
British Army 2nd Btn., No.1 Coy. Coldstream Guards
(d.5th November 1914)
Mjr. Francis William Loveday DSO
British Army 230th Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
Major Francis Loveday was in command of the 230th Battery in 1917. He died in the Spanish 'flu epidemic that followed the war.
Frederick George Loveday
British Army 6th Btn. London Regiment
from:London
(d.6th Apr 1918)
Pte. Arthur Stephen Franklin Lovegrove
British Army 8th Btn Seaforth Highlanders
from:87 Wakehurst Rd. Clapham Junction, London
(d.10th Apr 1918)
I knew my father had an older brother, Arthur Franklin, but Dad never spoke of him. Only recently have I discovered that his brother served in Seaforth Highlanders 8th Bn . & died in April 1918. He is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France. I presume he was injured in Battle for Arras in 1917. He died from injuries. I have no idea whether the family have ever visited his grave, as they have all passed on. My Dad came to Australia in 1920 & only had one brief trip back to UK in 1950 & he only had one sister still living then. I was very shocked & dis-appointed that I had never been told of my Uncle's service & death. I have no photos of Arthur.
Editors Note: 235272 Private Arthur Stephen Franklin Lovegrove served with the 8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders during WW1 and died from injuries on the 10th April 1918. He is remembered at Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France. Arthurs medal card records the award of the British War and Victory Medal. It also records him as having served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - Service number 302443 (no dates recorded).
Pte. Albert James Lovejoy
Australian Imperial Forces 33rd Btn.
from:Beaudesert, Queensland
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Cpl. Charles Frederick Lovejoy
British Army 2/7 Middlesex Regiment
from:Tottenham
(d.25-28th August 1918)
Dvr. Elizabeth Lovejoy CdG
Womens Legion
from:Bull Inn, Windsor, Berks
Elizabeth Lovejoy, (nee Laver, and adopted c.1911 by Charles Lovejoy), was born in 1898 in Windsor, Berks and died in 1954 at Southend-on-Sea.
Lady Londonderry's privately-founded and hugely-successful Women's Legion accepted girls as young as 16 years, though parental permission was needed to join the Legion, up to the age of 21 years. My Auntie Betty joined the Legion at the age of 17 with Grandpa Charlie Lovejoy's permission, in one of the first intakes in 1915. She trained as a motor driver and mechanic at Twickenham, and drove Ambulances, first in Flanders for the Belgians because the War Office wouldn't allow Legionnaires to serve in France, and then in Northern France for the British Army (after General Haig grudgingly-agreed to accept the help of the Legionnaires) until 1919. Somewhere I have a faded photo print of her leaning on the bonnet of a WW1 period Ambulance, and scribbled on the back is "Betty in Flanders"
She was either seconded to work with the RASC at that point or with a Casualty Clearing Station, she never told me which. She did tell me she'd actually captured the crew of a downed German Observation plane, which crash-landed almost alongside the road she was driving with a casualty in the ambulance back to the CCS to which she was attached. Apparently she and her crew had "acquired" both a pistol and a rifle, from casualties she'd transported, so she and her colleague were armed, and the German aircrew surrendered to the girls! She got a couple of souvenirs out of that, the German Observer's Mondragon Rifle (which I was allowed to play with on special occasions when I visited her house, she told me gleefully she'd smuggled it home in a cello case), and the tail empennage of the aircraft (I recall she told me it was an Albatross) which she kept on display in her hallway at their house in Winchmore Hill.
In 1919 and 1920, she continued in France as a driver working with the Labour Units Recovering The Fallen, because she'd lost her dear Uncle, Sgt. C1027 Walter Tindall, MM. 16th KRRC and she wanted to do her bit in recovering the remains of the dead.
Then, on returning to the UK, she lived with Grandma Maud and her younger sisters Mercia and Jose at Grandpa's Bull Hotel in Peascod Street Windsor, until he died. Grandma Maud, almost prostrate with grief at the loss of her second husband (Charlie had adopted my Aunts Betty and Mercia Laver in 1911) they moved to Southend on Sea after Grandpa Charlie died suddenly in 1921.
Auntie Betty wanted to earn her own living, and became a Companion and Chauffeur to a French widow who had a big house on the Cliffs at Westcliffe on Sea taking her employer touring all over the UK and the Continent. She sent daily picture post-cards home to the family on each trip, which were stuck into an album, eventually coming into my hands when my Mother died, until she met Uncle Phillip Denham, and married him sometime around 1930 or 31. They bought a house in rural Winchmore Hill. So her WVS Service during WW2 was in that part of London.
She joined the WVS at the outbreak of the 1939-45 War, since it didn't look like the Legion was going to be successfully revived and by then she had a young daughter, my cousin Brenda born in 1934. After Uncle Phillip retired from the Board of Sarson's, they bought a house in Fermoy Road, Thorpe Bay, not far from my parent's house in Marlborough Road. I can remember her clearly, taking part in official post 1945 Parades marching with ex-WVS members, wearing her medals, the BWM and BVM from 1914-18, plus a Croix de Guerre from both Belgium and from France, and the Defence Medal, and the 1939-45 War Medal. I was still a teenager when she died of lung cancer in 1954, and I'm sad that I never got to know her better.
Hopefully, this bit of family history will survive as a memorial.
2nd Lt. Arthur George Lovelace-Taylor
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Yardley, Birmingham
(d.9th Oct 1916)
L/Cpl. Charles Thomas Lovell
British Army 9th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:London
(d.9th Apr 1918)
I do not know much about this poor lad. Charles Lovell lost his mother when he was three and was put in an orphanage. I can only imagine he came out of this and went straight to war. He was the only brother of my nan.
L/Sgt. Francis Lovell
British Army 1st Batallion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Penryn, Cormwell
(d.25th Aug 1914)
Frank Lovell was born in Templemore Co. Tipperary, Ireland on 2nd May 1890 to English parents. Frank's father had served in the second Afghan wars in the 66th Foot and had won a D.C.M. Frank and his brothers, Alfred, Archie, Jesse and half brothers Thomas and John Hall, were all brought up to be professional soldiers. He was one of the first British soldiers to arrive in France after war was declared. Frank was killed in action on the 25th August 1914. He is buried in a war grave in the little French village of Maroilles in the Maroilles Communal Cemetery where approximately a dozen other soldiers are also buried. He was my Grandmother's younger brother.
Herbert Edward Lovell
British Army Bedfordshire Yeomanry
from:Northampton
My grandfather Bert Lovell was wounded in WW1 while serving 1915 in the Bedfordshire Yeomanry. My great uncle was also in the same unit. The family story says that he was injured while mounted on a horse and his horse was killed. Fours others accompanying him were killed along with their horses. He was the only survivor because as he was blown off his horse from the shell shockwave and impact of the explosion (the shell exploded between them) He was also shielded from some of the shrapnel by the body of his horse. He then crawled in a badly injured state to the aid station to notify them that his horse was dead; as horses were more valuable than people. Even though shielded by his horse and a survivor he still spent months in hospital with physical injuries and shell shock and thereafter had to take anti epilepsy drugs for the rest of his life. He still had unremoved metal and scars on his neck and head until he died at 82 yrs old. He never talked about the war (my grandmother said the information was relayed from his unit) and he would get very agitated if anyone whistled. He was reported to be relaying war stories to the nurses in hospital the day before he died when they had taken him off all his heavy doses of medication.
Sgt. William Lovell
British Army 2nd Battalion Duke of Cambridgeshires Own Middlesex Regiment
from:North Kensington, London,
(d.25th Mar 1918)
William Lovell joined the Army as a regular soldier at Mill Hill on 2nd April 1914. He had been apprenticed from school as a Boiler Riveter on Scrubs Lane, West London and was a Fitters Mate when he joined up. His papers said he was joining up "to better himself". He was with his unit in Malta when war broke out and arrived back in Southampton on 25th September 1914. After a brief spell at Hursely Park he sailed to Le Havre with 23rd Brigade, 8th Division to reinforce the BEF. He rose through the ranks despite being busted a couple of times for being late on parade whilst back in England at Bridgewood Camp, Rochester in 1916. He was on almost continuous active service throughout WW1.
His parents received messages regarding two of their sons in the same week. William and his brother both went missing in March 1918. William's brother Henry (My Grandfather) subsequently turned up, he had been taken POW. Sadly however, William was Killed in Action on 25 March 1918. He had just turned 21 years old. He is commemorated at Assevillers New British Cemetery. I wish I could have known him he sounds quite a character from his records. We are so grateful for what he endured and the sacrifices he made. RIP William
Pte. Frank Harold Lovelock
British Army 11th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Hanwell
(d.18th July 1916)
Frank Lovelock was born in 1897 in Hanwell, Middlesex, he was my great uncle through my mother's side of the family. I recently found a locket amongst my mother's possessions. I suspect it came from Frank's mother and was subsequently handed down to my mother, from her mother. Frank was only 19 when he died in the Great War. I have no memories or stories passed to me other than this locket which we will continue to pass down to our own children and grandchildren as a memorial to a young life so tragically lost during that horrible war.
L/Cpl. Edward Loveridge
British Army 5th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
(d.18th Apr 1916)
Edward Loveridge was the son of John and Louisa Loveridge. He served in France and in Mesopotamia, he died on the 18th April 1916, aged 24 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Pte. Henry Loveridge
British Army 16th (Cardiff City) Battalion Welch Regiment
from:Wolvercote, Oxford
(d.7th July 1916)
Henry Loveridge was one of 10 sons of Absalom and Elizabeth Loveridge all of whom went to fight in the war. Three of these men, Henry included, died in action while at least one other brother died as a result of injuries sustained during the war.
Sgt. Joseph C. Loveridge
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Hampshire Regiment
from:High Street, Winchester
Joseph Loveridge was my great grandfather who fought in France between 1916 and 1918. He survived the war but suffered greatly as a consequence. Before his involvement in the Great War he was a successful confectioner and owned a cafe and chocolate shop at the top of Winchester High Street. On returning from France in early 1918 after the 14th Btn. were disbanded his circumstances were very different. His business was collapsing due to the recession and I suspect PTSS had taken a strong hold. Sadly on 8th July 1922 he committed suicide. None of our family knew what he had experienced and I do not think he spoke about it to anyone. I am glad we started researching his life three years ago and last year traveled to France and back to Winchester to remember him and all he did to give us our freedom today.
Thank you Joseph. RIP
George Lovett
Royal Navy HMS Amphion
My mother's father George Lovett was a survivor from the sinking for HMS Amphion on the 6th of August 1914. She is now 96 years old and would dearly love any more information as to where the survivors were taken. She has some mementos of the ship as I think her father was the purser? I would be interested in any more info that you have.
A/C.S.M. William Charles Lovett
British Army 13th (1st Barnsley) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:London
(d.21st June 1917)
William Lovett was my grandfather's eldest brother. He never married and was the eldest child in a family of 9. He was born in April 1883, making him 34 years old. He was born in Bethnal Green in London so a mystery how he came to be in this regiment and for how long. No photographs exist to my knowledge although still searching. He is buried with his comrades just outside Calais, France.
Pte. Reginald Lovis
British Army 1st Btn. Welsh Guards
(d.10th Sep 1916)
Reginald Lovis died and is buried in Ypres, Belgium
Rflmn. Harold Ayling Low
British Army 7th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Arlesey, Bedfordshire
(d.21st March 1918)
Harold was the eldest son of Thomas William Low and Julia Ayling of Breachwood Green, near Welwyn Hertfordshire. He was born in Lower Clapton, Middlesex in 1891. Shortly after his birth Harold was living with his parents in Wratten Road, Hitchin and Thomas was working as a police constable. In 1901 Harold was living with his parents and brothers John & Albert and sister, Lily in Cole Green, Hertingfordbury, Hertford. Thomas was a police constable. In the 1911 census Harold is living with his mother, brothers John and Albert and sisters Lily and Edna at Grantham Cottage, Knebworth, Hertfordshire.
He enlisted in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps in London on the 3rd July 1915, at the age of 25 years. Before enlisting he had been employed as a clerk by The Great Northern Railway Company, and was living on Hitchin Road, Arlesey. Harold was posted to the Kings Royal Rifle Corps on 9th July 1915 and posted to BEF on 23rd December.
Harold was admitted to hospital on 4th July 1916 suffering from wounds to his face that were described by the Medical Officer as being "of a trivial nature". His injury occurred while he was in the performance of military duty. He was granted a furlough from 23rd November to 3rd December 1917 to visit his parents and stayed at the Queen's Head in Breachwood Green. Harold was reported as missing on 21st March 1918 and his death was presumed to have occurred on this date.
Harold was awarded the 1914-15 Star and this was sent to his father in February 1920. Remembered with honour at Pozieres Memorial
L/Sgt. James Low
British Army 1st Battalion Black Watch
from:Lochee, Dundee
(d.9th May 1915)
James Low was my great grandfather. His address was 3 Yeamans Alley, Lochee, Dundee. He was the son of Mary Jean Scrimgeour but was raised by his Grandmother, Mary Low aka Granny Booth, who married John Gibson Booth after she gave birth to Jane. James's father was never in the picture along with Jane's father so he went by his grandmother's maiden name which was Low as she was Low when she gave birth to James's mother Jane. Neither his grandmother nor his mother married but neither of those men were blood relatives to James hence why he went by his Grandfather's surname.
He was in the 1st Battalion of the Blackwatch (Royal Highlanders) service number 874. While serving in Ireland he met my great grandmother Nellie Hoare. Nellie became pregnant with my granfather Patrick Low and James and Nellie got married on the Isle of Wight on the 12/01/1914.
James joined the war with the Blackwatch on the 14/09/1914. They fought in The Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, the First Battle of Ypres and the Winter Operations of 1914-15. It was on the 09/05/1915 during the Battle of Aubers Ridge when he died. James won the WW1 Victory Medal.
Pte. James Brown Low
British Army 1/6th (Perthshire) Btn. A Coy. Black Watch
from:Enochdhu, Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
(d.31st Jul 1917)
For a number of years given the horrendous cost of human lives lost in WW1, I felt everybody must have lost someone. A recent attempt at a family tree has found the one my family lost. David Low served with 6th Battalion, Black Watch. He enlisted at age 16 and died aged 19 there is no known grave. He died during the 3rd Battle of Ypres and is remembered on the Ypres Memorial (Menin Gate) in Belgium.
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