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Sgt. Ellis Molyneux
British Army 20th Btn. King's Liverpool Regiment
from:Kirkdale, Liverpool
(d.20th October 1916)
Pte. George Henry Molyneux
British Army 9th Battalion, A Coy. Cheshire Regiment
from:Chester
(d.21st Nov 1916)
Spr. Henry Molyneux
British Army 65th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
On Sapper Henry Molyneux's Medal Rolls Index Card and Service Medal and Awards Roll for the 1914-15 Star, his surname was changed from Greenwood to Molyneux. On a List Of Transfer Documents, his name reads, "Henry Greenwood alias Molyneux". This document also reveals his transfer to the R.E.'s 65th Field Company, no date was given.
According to "Mediterranean Force No. 5608, Third Echelon, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, 65th Field Company.", 41238 Molyneux Sapper H. was listed as Severely Wounded on the 17th of August 1915. He entered the French theatre on 6th of July 1915 and was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal for his service in the Great War. Henry was transferred To Class Z on 28th of July 1919, this suggests that he served through to the end of the war despite his wounding at Gallipoli.
Pte. John Molyneux
British Army 6th Btn. Army Cyclists Corps
from:Broseley, Shropshire
(d.1th Oct 1918)
Private Molyneux is remembered on the Broseley (Shropshire) Memorial and also on the beautifully produced Maw & Company (Jackfield) Memorial, made from their own ceramic tiles, in memory of their employees.
Private Molyneux, although born in Staffordshire, came to live with his grandfather in Broseley, he enlisted during the war initially as 7186 with the Shropshire Light Infantry and transferred to the cyclist corps.
L/Sea. Joseph Handford Molyneux
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Howe Btn., 188th Brigade Machine Gun Coy. Royal Naval Division
from:Kirkdale, Liverpool
(d.13th November 1916)
CSM Samuel Molyneux
British Army 9th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Litherland, Lancashire
(d.7th June 1917)
Samuel Molyneux was born in Penketh, Warrington, Lancashire, in 1883, moving to Litherland near Liverpool as a very young child, he had a twin brother Enoch who we think may have served in the same regiment. Sam joined the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in September 1914. The Regiment was transfered to Sailsbury Plain for training and deployed in France on 26th of September 1915. Before joining he worked at Liverpool Tanning company. He was a keen member of the bowls team and was well respected by all who knew him. He was a member of the 4th VB Kings Liverpool Regiment He went to France in 1915 and was involved in many battles finally arriving in Flanders to face the Messine Ridge. He was Mentioned twice in Dispatches for gallantry and it is said he would have received medals had he lived. The Captain commanding his company said, "he was brave to a fault when there was danger and was always willing to do hours of work."
I have nothing of Sam's, only the memory. Sam was my great great uncle forgotten by everyone until I researched my family history. Sam was one of Kitchener's Army. he volunteered in September 1914. He fought in a number of battles, including Vimy Ridge, the Battle of Albert, the Battle of Bazentin, the Battle of Pozieres, the Battle of the Ancre Heights. Sam was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Messines on 7th June 1917. Sam was killed instantly by a shell, his body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Menin gate.
Uffz. Albert Molzahn
German Army
(d.8th Jul 1915)
Unteroffizier Albert Molzahn is buried in the Gaub Mission Station in Namibia.
Pte. Frank Monaghan
British Army 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow, County Durham
(d.22nd Feb 1915)
Frank Monaghan.
Francis was the youngest son of William and Catherine Monaghan (nee Casey) He was born 30th April 1891 at the Caretakers house at 10 Dunn Street Jarrow. His father William had been Caretaker of Dunn Street School since about 1885. Both of his parents were Catholics from County Monaghan in Ireland. He had four older sisters and a brother. Catherine born 1881 in Watson Street. Margaret born 1883 and Mary born 1884 in Tyne Street. William born 1887 and Sarah Ann born 1889 at 10 Dunn Street. Francis was baptised at St. Bede’s RC Church in Jarrow by Fr. Denis Duggan on 23rd May 1891. In 1893 another daughter Elizabeth was born at the Caretakers house at 10 Dunn Street. Frank attended St. Bede’s RC Primary School at Monkton Road Jarrow, then at St. Bede’s RC School at Low Jarrow, were he was taught by the Marist Brothers. Frank was an amateur weightlifter who probably trained at St. Kilda’s in Wear Street.
Around 1900 his father decided to go over to North America to start a new life, and when he got established, fetch his family over. William Monaghan senior had lived and worked previously in New York for about 12 years, and had other members of his family there. He had left New York in 1880 and came to Jarrow visiting a family he knew from County Monaghan. He ended up marrying one of the daughters in Jarrow. So Catherine Monaghan and the rest of the family had to move out of the caretaker’s house in Dunn Street, when her husband left his job. They moved over to Hodgson Street in Willington Quay, next to the oldest daughter Catherine, who had just married Thomas Wadey. The oldest son William at this time was at the Chadwick Memorial, Industrial School for Catholic Boys at the Moor Edge in Newcastle, training as a Tailor, he had been sent there for some minor misdemeanour.
In early 1903 Frank’s mother Catherine died at Hodgson Street (she is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Wallsend) So the father William Monaghan had to relinquish his plans, and come home from North America. William Monaghan and his family moved back over to Jarrow again. By now Frank had followed his older brother William into the Tailoring trade. After his apprenticeship was completed, there was little work for Frank and his brother William So William joined the Army. And Frank the Royal Navy. Frank signed on at Devonport on 11th August 1909. He served on board the HMS Vivid I, Mars, Andromeda and the Monmouth It was whilst serving on HMS Monmouth 1910-11 that photo was taken (the only photo of him known that exists today) In August 1911 he got into an affray with a non-commissioned officer and spent 7 days in the cells. When HMS Monmouth got to port he was unceremoniously drummed out of the Senior Service at Devonport.
Frank was 20 years old now, when he got back to Jarrow, and there was very little work in the tailoring as times at the shipyard was hard in Jarrow. Frank’s older brother William had signed up to the Regular Army in 1908 at Haddington into the 1st Royal Scots, and was now stationed at Allahabad in India.
In July 1912 Frank signed up into the Regular Army at the Recruiting Office at 21 Ellison Street, Jarrow. He stressed he wanted to serve in India with his brother. Frank was signed up in the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers as Private 3428 to be stationed at Sabathu in India. When his father found out he said 'No true Irishman would wear the khaki' He did his basic training at Hillsborough Barracks in Sheffield and got a 3rd Class Certificate of Education awarded on the 30th July 1912.
In September 1913 the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers sailed from Plymouth (where he had seen service in the Royal Navy 2 years before) In November 1913, the 2nd NF disembarked at Karachi, to relieve 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers of the 9th Sirhind Brigade at Sabathu. It is not known if he seen his older brother William in India, as it is 585 miles from Sabutha to Allahabad where the 1st Battalion Royal Scots were stationed.
War was declared in August 1914 and by October the BEF was getting a hammering at Ypres. So Britain had to start withdrawing troops from the colonies.
- August 1914 the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in Sabathu.
- November 1914 the 2nd NF are recalled from India.
- Tuesday 20th November 1914 the 2nd NF sailed from Karachi.
- Thursday 22nd November the 2nd NF arrived at Devonport and entrained for Winchester, transferred to 84th Brigade, 28th Division.
- Saturday 16th January 1915 the 2nd NF are mobilised to join the BEF in Belgium.
- Sunday 17th January 25 officers and 970 other ranks of the 2nd NF depart Southampton for Le Havre, France on the troopship S.S. Australind.
- Monday 18th January the 2nd NF disembark at Le Havre.
- Tuesday 19th January the 2nd NF arrived Hazebrouk by train. (first fatality) Private Robert Henry Fisher 3078 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Tuesday 2nd February 1915 moved forward in buses to Vlamertinghe. Then took over trenches near Zwarteleen, and to the south and south-east of Zillebeke. (Brigadier H. R. Sandilands records in his book "The fifth in the Great War" that the line taken over was 1,140 yards in length and ran from opposite Hill 60 to the left boundary of the 28th Division)
- Wednesday 3rd February (5 fatalities) Private Leo Manley 613 "B" Coy. - Private John Murphy 2949 – Private Bernard Pike 2027 "B" Coy. – L/Cpl Matthias William Purchase 2712 "B" Coy. (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) – Private Arthur William Taylor 2986 (buried Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery)
- Thursday 4th February (1 fatality) Private John Charles Goudie 4035 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Relieved by the 1st Welsh and moved back to support line at Zillebeke. Casualties from first tour in the trenches - 6 other ranks killed, two officers and 27 other ranks wounded.
- Friday 5th February (1 fatality) Private James Brown 3864 “A" Coy. (died of wounds and buried Hazebrouk Communal Cemetery)
- Tuesday 9th February (1 fatality) L/Cpl George Gray 2783 (died of wounds and buried Hazebrouk Communal Cemetery)
- Thursday 11th February (1 fatality) Cpl William Johnson 3147 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Carried out further tours in Zillebeke area then moved in reserve at Ouderdom.
- Friday 12th February (4 fatalities) Private George Buglass 2570 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) – Private George Burton (died of wounds and buried Les Gonards Cemetery, Versailles) – Sgt Arthur Robson 2721 – Private John Shortt 2441 (both commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Sunday 14th February (1 fatality) Private Arthur Denbigh Williams 3183 (died of wounds and buried Longuenesse St. Omer Souvenir Cemetery) Moved to Ypres then later in dug-outs on canal bank near St Eloi. Monday 15th February (4 fatalities) Private Robert Holmes 8823 – Private George McLeod 8831 – Private Stanley Pendall 3301 – Private Alfred Edward Reavell 2386 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Tuesday 16th February (5 fatalities) Private William Day 2296 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) L/Cpl Samuel Forrest – Sgt Daniel Smith 7198 (both died of wounds and buried Ypres Town Cemetery Extension) Sgt Arthur Edward Frame 920 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private Andrew Wilkinson 2083 (buried Bedford House Cemetery) 'A' and 'B' companies withdrew to Bedford House during night, then 'C' and 'D' companies took part in counter-attack on 'O' trench. Withdrew later to Bedford House. C.O. Lt Col S. H. Enderby (wounded) among the casualties. Took over front line North of Canal.
- Wednesday 17th February (5 fatalities) Private George Brookes 2798 – Private Thomas Fearnley 2987 – Sgt Edward George Harvey 1446 – Private Abram Walker (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Relieved by 1st Suffolk’s.
- Thursday 18th February (7 fatalities) L/Cpl Edward Lawson 3387 (buried Ramparts Cemetery, Lille Gate) Private William Herbert Ingram 2914 (died of wounds and buried Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery) Private Henry Poulton – Private Charles Smalles 11981 - L/Cpl Henry Sykes 3449 – Private William Webster 2937 – Private Thomas White 12483 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Friday 19th February (3 fatalities) Private Thomas Green 2942 – Private John Morgan 3355 – Private Joseph Sanderson 2269 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Saturday 20th February (1 fatality) L/Cpl Harry Forrester 2706 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) On to Kruisstraat. Moved forward again, later to La Chapelle Farm, and during night took part in attack on 'Z' trench. 'A' Company went forward at 12.30 am followed by 'C' and 'D'. (Brigadier Sandilands records that the ground to be crossed was a quagmire, the troops struggling on to within a close distance of their objective. An attempt to charge the enemy's line was met by heavy fire-two officers being wounded and the leading wave’s almost wiped out) 'B' company was later sent in, but a renewed attack at 2 am also failed. Battalion withdrew at 5 am to Kruisstraat. Casualties - 3 officers wounded, 6 other ranks killed, 61 wounded, 40 missing.
- Sunday 21st February (22 fatalities) L/Sgt Edwin Abbott – Private William Whitfield Anderson 3110 – Sgt Bertie George Annets 7878."B" Coy. – Private Thomas Blades 8930 – L/Cpl Thomas Alfred Charlesworth 1627 – Private Peter Cornwall 8735 – Private William Donnison 12743 – Private William Arthur Fuller 2308 – Private John Gilbert Hope 8745 Private William Arthur Hurley 2293 Sgt Samuel Albert Jackson 1131 – Cpl William Campbell McDonald 2640 – Sgt Henry Morris 1271. "A" Coy – Private John James O’Hare 8321 - L/Cpl Tom Priestley 819 Private John Rudd 2354 - L/Cpl Arthur Slingsby 475 – Private Hugh Smith 2458 – Private John Ernest Spencer 3049 – Sgt Wilfred George Woodward 9798 – Private Joseph Wright 3416 born Jarrow - (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private John Burn 8806 (buried Bedford House Cemetery) There is a soldier from Jarrow and he is not on a Cenotaph in Jarrow. "Hill 60" was one of the heights from where the Germans had an excellent view on Ypres and the front area. Which made it a thorn in the flesh for the British.
- Monday 22nd February (8 fatalities) Private Edward Felix Baker – Private Alexander Boothman 2822 from Jarrow – Sgt William Burnip 7839 – Private John Butler 3295 – Private Michael James Cavagin 2923 – Private Robert Reed 2459 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private Frederick Webb 3141 (died of wounds and buried Bedford House Cemetery) Private Frank Monaghan 3428 born Jarrow (commemorated Hooge Crater Cemetery) The 2 soldiers from Jarrow are not on a Cenotaph in Jarrow. To date - 69 Other Ranks had been killed.
After four days of heavy fighting near Verbrandenmolen. Zillebeke. Belgium (Hill 60) Frank Monaghan was killed at La Chapelle Farm. Years later an old soldier who had served with him, told his sister, that Frank was resting in the trench with his boots off, when the Germans led an attack. The whistle sounded to counter attack and Frank went over the top in his puttees. Frank was buried at La Chapelle Farm with a wooden cross as a marker (most probably by the Germans as they held it for most of the war) Out of nearly 50 killed from the 2nd battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, during the four days fighting Frank was the only one who got buried at La Chapelle Farm. Did he make it to the German Trenches? All the others that died in the counter attack, were lost without trace and are commemorated on the Menin Gate. Buried alongside him were 12 other crosses, 10 from the 1st Lincolnshire's, 1 from the 1st Dorsetshire's and one from the 1st Bedfordshire's. (these battalions served alongside 2nd NF)
During the preceding years the little wooden cross cemetery was pounded by shellfire and by the end of the war there was no trace of any graves. After the war the Commonwealth Graves Commission made a Duhallow (special memorial) at Hooge Crater Cemetery, to those lost graves at La Chapelle farm (the Cemetery is a kilometre away from La Chapelle farm.
- Tuesday 23rd February 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers left the 28th division and joined the 5th division for a month due to heavy casualties in the 5th division.
- Wednesday 24th February Heavy snow blizzards.
- Thursday 25th February (1 fatality) Private George Jewitt 3513 (died of wounds and buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery)
- Saturday 27th February (1 fatality) Private James Moorhead 9619 (died of wounds and buried Zantvoorde British Cemetery)
- Sunday 28th February (1 fatality) Private Frank Tanner 3193 (died of wounds and buried Entratat Churchyard)
- Monday 1st March 1915 (1 fatality) Private Frederick Foster 3529 (buried Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery)
- Friday 5th March (1 fatality) Private William Henry Holmes 3098 (died of wounds and buried Netley Military Cemetery)
- Saturday 6th March (1 fatality) L/Cpl Edward Eddy 8603 (died of wounds and buried St. Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery)
- Sunday 7th March Private Arthur Thomas Barron 581 (died of wounds and buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery)
- Thursday 11th March (1 fatality) L/Cpl Edward George Burling 2317 (died of wounds and buried Wimereux Communal Cemetery)
- Friday 12th March (7 fatalities) Private James Allison 9923 from Jarrow – Private Albert Brown 1518 - L/Cpl Michael Coyne born Jarrow - Private Arthur Lake 3921 – Private Alfred Scott 1830 "A" Coy. (all commemorated Ploegsteert Memorial) Private James Hough 9758. "D" Coy. (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private Henry George Reinbach 3281 (commemorated Loos Memorial) - (his date could be wrong?) The 2 soldiers from Jarrow are not on a Cenotaph in Jarrow. Saturday 13th March (2 fatalities) Private Walter Starling 2128 (died of wounds and buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery) Private George Whitham 3235 (died of wounds commemorated Ploegsteert Memorial) Monday 15th March (1 fatality) Private Anthony Sanderson 9621 (died of wounds and buried Loker Churchyard) Sunday 21st March (2 fatalities) Private Francis Cannon 2990 – Private Benjamin Stewart (both commemorated on Ploegsteert Memorial) Wednesday 24th March (2 fatalities) Private Felix Leonard Chatter 16895 (commemorated on Ploegsteert Memorial) Private William Dews 7805 (died of wounds and buried Brompton Cemetery)
- Saturday 27th March (2 fatalities) L/Cpl Jeffrey Liddell 7905 (died of wounds and buried Newcastle-upon-Tyne Byker and Heaton Cemetery)
- Monday 29th March (1 fatality) L/Cpl Frederick Smith 3858 (died of wounds) Commemoration not known
- Tuesday 30th March (2 fatalities) A/Cpl Joseph Holland 8805 (buried Dranoutre Military Cemetery) Private George Patterson 8466 (buried Dranouter Churchyard)
- Friday 2nd April 1915 (1 fatality) L/Cpl Thomas Crossland 9707 (died of wounds and buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery)
- Friday 16th April (8 fatalities) L/Sgt Arthur Adcock 2729 – Private William Ewart Gladstone Bagshaw 3072 - Private William Brown 3209 – Private George Francis Lawrence 2896 – Private Matthew McMillam 17200 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private George Henry Anderson 4209 (buried La Laiterie Military Cemetery) L/Cpl John Skelton 8844 Commemoration not known Private Peter Welsh 2488 (died of wounds and buried Newcastle-upon-Tyne Byker and Heaton Cemetery)
- Saturday 17th April (6 fatalities) Sgt. Albert Henry Gold – Private Horace Green 16669 – L/Cpl James Kyle 4799 – Cpl Albert Arthur Moran – Private Alexander Walker 6901 – Private Frederick Young 7440 (all buried La Laiterie Military Cemetery
- Wednesday 21st April (1 fatality) Joseph James Hughes 3020 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) 2nd battle of Ypres.
- Thursday 22nd April (1 fatality) Private Robert Jackson 2998 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Friday 23rd April (2 fatalities) Private Henry Devlin 8590 (buried Divisional Cemetery) Private David Lynn Wharton 8554 (died of Wounds and buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
- Saturday 24th April (10 fatalities) Private John James Ashton 9102 – Cpl Frederick Barnes 2325 – Private John Alfred Brown 8960 – Private Morris Dawson 9742 – Private Daniel Doran 9107. "B" Coy – Private Private Henry Snow Foy 1769 – Private Henry Small 8958 – Private Fred Woolf 3324 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private Charles Emmerson 6828 (buried Bedford House Cemetery) Private John Hodd 2848 Commemoration not known
- Sunday 25th April (9 fatalities) Private Patrick Carroll 7911 - Private Robert Fuller 9363 – Private Gilbert Greening 3562 – Private Robert Savage 6319 (all buried Tyne Cot Cemetery) ('Tyne Cot' or 'Tyne Cottage' was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road) Private William Dunn 9452 – Cpl Herbert Green 452 – Private Matthew Leach 9904 – Private Maurice Simmonds 4945 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) L/Cpl Alweyne Montague Fisher Turner 3532 (buried Bedford House Cemetery)
- Monday 26th April (7 fatalities) Private George Henry Blanch 8385 – Private William Davison 16492 – Private William Willett 16889 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private James Fitzpatrick 3134 (buried Bedford House Cemetery) Private Walter Fletcher 2753 – Private Harold Snowdon 3395 (both died of wounds and buried Bedford House Cemetery) Private Charles Albert Musgrove 3247 (buried Tyne Cot Cemetery)
- Tuesday 27th April (1 fatality) Private Sidney Clarence Wheels 3143 (died of wounds and buried Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery)
- Wednesday 28th April (1 fatality) Private William Brayson 8947 (buried Bedford House Cemetery)
- Thursday 29th April (1 fatality) Private James Edwin Tait 15395 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Friday 30th April (2 fatalities) Private Earnest Payne 2888 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private John Smith 8218 Commemoration not known
- Saturday 1st May 1915 (3 fatalities) Private George Gunn 12370 – Private William Rowan 3488 (both buried Tyne Cot Cemetery) Private James White 2388 (died of wounds and buried Le Treport Military Cemetery) Sunday 2nd May (1 fatality) Private Thomas Lamb 328 (buried Bedford House Cemetery)
- Monday 3rd May (2 fatalities) L/Sgt Bert Butler 939 real name Bert Munday – Private George William Darling 2490 (both commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Thursday 6th May (1 fatality) Drummer William Albert Titterton 2586 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Friday 7th May (6 fatalities) Private Thomas Crone Brown 5125. ‘B’ Coy. – Private Tom Denton 3923 – William Elsdon 2996 – Private Michael Morton 3327 – Sgt James Henry Spaxman 3362 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) Private Hugh Makin 4846 Commemoration not known
- Battle of Frezenberg (8 - 13 May) The battle began on May 8 with a bombardment that disrupted the 83rd Brigade holding trenches on the forward side of the ridge but the first and second assaults by German infantry were repelled by the survivors. The third German assault of the morning pushed the defenders back. While the neighbouring 80th Brigade stopped the advance, the 84th Brigade was broken giving a two mile gap in the line. Further advance was stopped through counterattacks and a night move by the 10th Brigade.
- Saturday 8th May (96 fatalities) Private James Askew 9527 – Private George Bartley 8670 – Private Samuel Bennett 8886 – Private Charles Birkitt 2244 – Private Thomas Bowman 8938 – L/cpl Thomas Boyd 1387 – Cpl James Bradford 2593 – Private John Brooks 2971 – Private Samuel Broome 3708 - Private Walter Browne 8579 – Private James William Bulmer 3521 – Private George Henry Calvert 2947 – Private Thomas Gregory Chambers 7356. "A" Coy. – Private Joseph Chater 5114 – L/Cpl Peter Clarke 2152 – Private James Connolly 9937 – Private Joseph Craik 3260 from Jarrow - Private Robert William Daglish 2439 – Private James Davison 2086 – Private Matthew James Disberry 8397 – L/Cpl William Henry Dixon 8744 – Sgt William Donaldson 7703 – Private Martin Duffy 8512 from Jarrow – Sgt William Donaldson 7703 – Private Arthur Dye 16608 – Private Eaton Horace 2599 – L/Cpl Ernest Edgar Elsworth 3263 – L/Cpl Frederick Evans 3212 – L/Cpl Joseph Fogarty 1763 – Private George Garrett 16890 – Private Henry Gibson 9892 – Private Robert Hall 8405 - Private George Hallam 8348 – Private George Edward Halliday 10718 - Private William Henderson 2158 – Private Joseph Hine 2159 – Private John Thomas Hirst 9183 – Private Stirling Hood 12473 - Private Andrew Jardine 3371 from Jarrow – Cpl Walter William Kerner 2281 "G" Coy. – Private George Lichfield 2654 – Private Edward Marshall 4134 – L/Cpl William Martin 17019 – Private Peter McCluskey 8667 – Private Edward McCormack 4112 – L/Cpl John McGurk 8697 - Private James McMorris 8650 - L/Cpl James Melville 9718 born Jarrow – Private Thomas Mulgrew 4831 - Private Joseph Mumford 8111 born Jarrow – Private Ronald Murray 9738 – Private Thomas Frederick Newbury 3427. "F" Coy. – Private Robert Oliver 16715 – Private Robert Penrose 3304 – L/Cpl Frederick Pierson 2897 – Private Ernest Price 16640 – Private Charles Edward Puxty 2405 – Private Peter Guinn 3158 – L/Cpl Arthur Rhodes 3019 – Private Albert Robson 3383 – Private Thomas Rutherford Robson 3680 - Private Thomas William Robson 9324 – Private Harry Seed 16674 – Private David Smith 3754 – Private James Herbert Spencer 3489 – Private Joseph Stanley 2627 – Private Geoffrey Leonard Storey 16610 – Private John Thomas Straker 9929 – Private Michael Talbot 8415 – Sgt Thomas Taylor 7536 – Private Joseph Thoms 20927 - Private Ernest Towler 1124 – Private Fred Charles Waite 9914. "B" Coy. - Private Maddison Horsley Watt 3294 – L/cpl Frank John Wiffen 830 – Private George Vincent Wilkins 16509 – Private Thomas Wilks 8955 – Private John Wilson 253 – Private Robert Wilson 11223 – Private Thomas Wright 16703 born Jarrow – Sgt James Young 2377 – L/Cpl John Young 2381 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) All 83 soldiers from one battalion killed on the same day have no known grave. Out of the 6 soldiers from Jarrow, only one, Private Joseph Mumford 8111, is on a Cenotaph in Jarrow. Private Peter Byrne 2808 – Private James Christie 3091 – Private James Albert Hardy 2880 – L/Sgt Percy Douglas Webb 2625 (all buried Sanctuary Wood Cemetery) Private David Scott 2938 (buried Perth Cemetery, China Wall) Private John Sheard 2650 (buried New Irish Farm Cemetery) Private James Trall 16639 – Private Robert William Daglish 2439 – Private Basil Clement Ferninger 1980 – Private Lionel William Kennersley 3097 – Private Alexander McCleanghan 17199 – L/Cpl Patrick McDonald 8711 - Private George Miller 2611 (all Commemoration not known) 96 soldiers from one battalion (10%) Private Charles Lazenby (wounded taken POW)
- Sunday 9th May Frank Monaghan’s older brother Private William Monaghan 9918 1st Battalion Royal Scots, was killed today, within a mile of here at Sanctuary Wood (Hill 62)
- Monday 10th May (1 fatality) Cpl Charles William Finch 2725 (buried Roeselare Communal Cemetery (POW) Tuesday 11th May (3 fatalities) Sgt Hugh Frazer 2091 (died of wounds and buried Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery) Private John William Hall 16846 (buried Cologne Southern Cemetery (POW) Private Harold George James Woodbridge 3903 (buried Tyne Cot Cemetery (POW)
- Wednesday 12th May (1 fatality) L/Cpl James Higgins 8366 (buried Poelcapelle British Cemetery)
- Sunday 16th May (1 fatality) Bernard Reynolds13852 (buried Tyne Cot Cemetery (POW)
- Thursday 20th May (1 fatality) Sgt George Ernest Victor Cullingworth 2492 (buried Cologne Southern Cemetery (POW)
- Friday 21st May (1 fatality) Private Thomas William Morris 3365 (buried Cologne Southern Cemetery (POW) Sunday 23rd May (1fatality) L/Cpl William Bell 2840 (buried Tyne Cot Cemetery (POW)
- Battle of Bellewaarde (24 - 25 May) On 24th May the Germans released a gas attack on a 4.5-mile (7.2 km) front. British troops were able to defend against initial German attacks but eventually they were forced to retreat to the north and south. Failed British counterattacks forced a British retreat 1000 yards northwards. Upon the end of the battle the Ypres salient was 3 miles (4.8 km) deep. By the end of the battle the size of the Ypres Salient had been reduced such that Ypres itself was closer to the line. In time it would be reduced by shelling until virtually nothing would remain standing. The surprise use of poison gas was not a historical first (poison gas had already been used on the Eastern Front) but did come as a tactical surprise to the Allies.
- Monday 24th May (45 fatalities) Private Arthur Surtees Adamson 16374 "A" Coy. – Private George Frederick Atkin 17009 – Private Robert Bell 20909 – Private John Bennett 1577 – Private Stanley Birlinson 2565 – Private Neville Bell Bradford 15537 – Private John Robert Brown 20895 from Jarrow – Private Edward Carroll 8647 born Jarrow – L/Cpl George Collinson 20906 – Private John Cooke 17008 – Private Samuel Drydale 5960 – Private John Fenton 21075 from Jarrow – CSM John Fletcher 9273 – Sgt Benjamin Hague 8625 – Private John Edward Hamplett 16549 – Private William Joseph Hann 3167. "H" Coy. – Private Charles Edward Higgins 6833 – Private Frank Howard 16817 – Frederick William Howes 8697 – Private John Hutson 44767 – Private John Hynes 3190 – Cpl John Innerd 3244 – Private Stephen Joyce 2182 from Jarrow - Private John William Kemp 8493 – Private James Logue 3215 (DCM) – Private Albert Makin 6066 "B" Coy. – Private Archibald Alexander McCorkindale 2130 – Private James William McCoy 21069 – L/Cpl Robert James McIntyre l 8710 – Patrick McMullen 21054 – Cpl Richard Mitchell 2877 – Private Richard Newton 21013 – Private James Nicholson 20993 – L/Cpl Joseph Paddin 3940 – Private John Pumford 1086 – Private Ernest Reed 6065 – Private Alfred Shinn 2505 Private William Stewart 4193 – Sgt George Wilson 20915 – Private Ralph Wilson 21084 – Private William Wynn 17348 – Cpl George Henry Yendell 3303 - (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) All of the above 42 soldiers from one battalion killed on the same day have no known grave. Private John Ayres 20936 – Private James Erby 14054 – L/Cpl George Victor Whitford 8210 (all Commemoration not known) Out of the 4 soldiers from Jarrow, only one, Private Edward Carroll 8647, is on a Cenotaph in Jarrow.
- Tuesday 25th May (8 fatalities) Private Edward Burke 20918 (buried Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery)
- Private James Clark 3091 – Private John Elliott 20974 – Private James Fish 21021 – Private George Richardson 20976 – Private William Sanderson 9526 – Private George Webster 20903 – Private Richard William Winter 615 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Wednesday 26th May (62 fatalities) Private James Aram 16767 – Private Patrick Aspell 12468 from Jarrow – Private Stanley Robert Atkinson 16701 – Private John Bailey 21031 – Private Richard Bayldon 8799 – Private Stephen Blyth 2561 – Private Arthur Bell Browbank 21038 – Private William Burton 20928 – Private Robert Carr 16934 – Cpl Harry Cave 2747 – Private Charles Edward Chapman 20949 – Private William Clelland 16808 – Private John Crawford 20899 – Private Robert Croft 21000 – Cpl Thomas Edwin Cummin 6634 – Private Robert Dixon 17076 – Private Patrick Dorian 20958 Private Joseph Dyson 21014 – Cpl William John Donald Stuart Frazer 8774 "B" Coy. – Private James Goodman 20990 – Private Joseph Henry Hall 14658 born Jarrow - Private James Edward Harwood 21005 - Private William Hutcheon 21003 from Jarrow – Private John William Irving 21076 – Private John George Lawson 21088 – Private William Lee 3403 – Private William Lynn 20972 – Privte Robert McGuire 16717 – L/Cpl William George Malyon 3726 – Private Samuel Martin 21052 – L/Cpl Martin McCail 21043 – Private Robert McDonough 20984 – Private William James Merritt 20931 – Private Robert Walter Nealings 19357 – Private Thomas Alfred Newell 3018 Private Alfred Noble 3777 – Private Robert Paul 2919 – Cpl Archibald Pearson 3815 – Private Edward Pearson 20992 born Jarrow – Cpl Herbert Roe 2963 – Private John Sanderson 20980 – Private Albert James Scott 3381 - Private Samuel Spears 21062 – Private Frank Stephenson 6875 – Cpl Albert Stone 3264 – Private David Storey 5111 – Private George Swaddle 21072 – Private Edward Theaker 16577 – Private John Thompson 21091 – Private George William Urwin 21055 – Sgt John Walker 2847 – Private Matthew Musk Ward 20902 – Private Charles Waterhouse 21060 - Private Stephen Watt 21058 from Jarrow – Private George Robert Wheatley 10985 – Private Robert Edward White 9440 – Private James Younger 2667 (all commemorated Ypres Menin Gate) All of the above 58 soldiers from one battalion killed on the same day have no known grave. Private John McCauley 20932 born Jarrow (buried Brandhoek Military Cemetery) Private John Thomas Smith 16712 (buried Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery) Private John Barraclough 20896 – Private Thomas Ealy 20904 – Private Charles Francis Sowell 20908 (all Commemoration not known) The 5 soldiers from Jarrow are not on a Cenotaph in Jarrow.
- Thursday 27th May (2 fatalities) Private Thomas McClusky 15383 (died of wounds and buried Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery) Private John Wilson16680 (died of wounds) Commemoration not known
- Friday 28th May (1 fatality) Private Edwin Shanks 8528 (died of wounds and buried Cologne Southern Cemetery)
- Wednesday 29th May (1 fatality) L/Cpl Jim Harold Fletcher 2587 (died of wounds and buried Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery)
- Monday 31st May (1 fatality) Sgt Henry Victor 1258. "D" Coy. (died of wounds and buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery)
- Wednesday 2nd June 1915 (1 fatality) Sgt George Shepherd 3084 (died of wounds and buried Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery)
- Monday 7th June (1 fatality) Private Matthew Ellison Wood 8979 (died of wounds and buried Newcastle-upon-Tyne All Saints Cemetery)
- Tuesday 8th June (1 fatality) Sgt Samuel Barlow 197 (died of wounds) Commemoration not known
- Thursday 10th June (1 fatality) Cpl William Hoare 2865 (died of wounds and buried Paddington Cemetery)
- Saturday 12th June (1 fatality) Private William Mirrilees 3086 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Monday 14th June (1 fatality) Private Thomas Robey 21158. "C" Coy. (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Monday 28th June (1 fatality) Cpl John Sinclair 20962 (died of wounds and buried La Clytte Military Cemetery)
- Wednesday 30th June (1 fatality) Private Frederick Allen 7793 (died of wounds and buried Leicester Welford Road Cemetery)
- Thursday 8th July 1915 (4 fatalities) Private Thomas Hirst – Private William John Little 8504 – Private William Murray 21111 – Private Sharp Watson 21179 (all buried Ridge Wood Military Cemetery) Monday 12th July (1 fatality) Private Frederick Richard Rowden 2911 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Tuesday 13th July (1 fatality) Private Edward Rumney 16763 (died of wounds and buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery)
- Saturday 31st July (2 fatalities) Private Harry Elcock 980 – Private Patrick Masterson 9607 (both buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery) Tuesday 3rd August 1915 (1 fatality) Private Robert Dunn (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Saturday 7th August (1 fatality) Private Frederick Evans 16936 (buried Etaples Military Cemetery) Wednesday 11th August (1 fatality) Private John Mason 20901 born Jarrow (buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery) The soldier from Jarrow is not on a Cenotaph in Jarrow.
- Saturday 28th August (2 fatalities) Private Andrew Hedley 17339 (buried Bailleul Communal Cemetery) Private James Thompson 2478 (Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery)
- Sunday 29th August (2 fatalities) Private William Harris 8379 – Private Thomas Shannon 335 (both Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery)
- Monday 30th August (1 fatality) Private Henry Woodcock 14681 (buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery) During the First World War, the village of Lijssenthoek was situated on the main communication line between the allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close to the front, but out of the extreme range of most German field artillery.
- Monday 6th September 1915 (1 fatality) Private John Alfred Tillotson 2791 (died of wounds and buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery) Friday 10th September (1 fatality) L/Sgt Snowden Foggan Orange 14588 (died of wounds and buried Loker Churchyard) Saturday 11th September (1 fatality) Private Tom Whittles 21446 (buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery)
- Thursday 16th September (1 fatality) Private William Edward James 3371 born Jarrow (died of wounds and buried Loker Churchyard) The soldier from Jarrow is not on a Cenotaph in Jarrow.
- Saturday 18th September (1 fatality) Private Joseph Harold Darling 17129 (buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery)
- Sunday 19th September (6 fatalities) Private Joseph Cawley 21145 – Private James William Elliott 21378 – Private Charles Gott 15328 – Private John James Ramsey 21372 – L/Cpl Edward Sykes 9115. "B" Coy. – Private Alan Young 15337 (all buried Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery)
- The Battle of Loos (25 September – 14 October) The first time the British used poison gas during the war, and is also famous for the fact that it witnessed the first large-scale use of new army or "Kitchener's Army" units. The battle opened on 25 September and the British were able to break through the weaker German trenches and capture the town of Loos, mainly due to numerical superiority. However, the inevitable supply and communications problems, combined with the late arrival of reserves, meant that the breakthrough could not be exploited.
A further complication for many British soldiers was the failure of their artillery to cut the German wire in many places in advance of the attack. Advancing over open fields in full range of German machine guns and artillery, British losses were devastating.
- Sunday 26th September (1 fatality) Private Joseph Hartshorne Newsome 6072 (commemorated Ypres Menin Gate)
- Thursday 30th September (1 fatality) Private William Chalk 8338 (commemorated Loos Memorial)
- Friday 1st October 1915 (61 fatalities) Private Robert Bailey 17286 – Private Arthur Barker 21482 – Private William James Beal 3017 – Private Thomas Bell 16947 - Private James Henry Bentley 18055 – Private Thomas Bisset 10101 – Private Thomas William Bland 18364 - Private James Brankston 21034 – Private John Byrne 9817 – Private Arthur Calladine 16908. "D" Coy. – Private Albert Carr 4817 – Private James Carroll 17360 – Private Thomas James Dixon 17665 – Private Alexander Douglas 8998 – Private Frank Dunlavey 17560 – Private John Farrier 5618 – Sgt Edgar Gater 17250 – Private George Getley 16995 – Private John Allison Hall 9189 – Private James Henderson 667 – Private Harry Hill 17466 – Private John Howitt 8530 - Private Alexander Mather Johnson 15445 – Private Thomas Johnson 15289 – Private John William Johnston 15520 – Private Walter Kitching 18386 – Private Harry Lawson 6022 – Private Thomas James Leather 21006 – Private William Lowery 15458 – Private Charles William Marsden 16690 – Private George Horace Massey 16901 – Private Alfred Mawhood 21444 - Private John Mole 5814 (real name McCarthy) – Private Peter William McDonald 9737 – Private Harold Mercer 16463 – Private Henry Morrison 21068 - Private Robert Chrishome Pearson 14626 – Private Harry Pettit 17060 – Private Edward Poole 8402 - Private John Alfred Preddy 16836 – Private James Punton 18497 – Private William Pyecroft 21019 – Private Benjamin Rackham 17542. "D" Coy. – Private Joseph Robshaw 3548 – Private Alfred Henry Saunders 1925. "D" Coy – Private Jack Scholes 17227 – Cpl John Shearer 8622 – Private John Sheehan 17203 – Private George Henry Speller 2699 – Private John Storey 15890 – Private Joseph Tinnion 15336 – Cpl George Vose 9540 "A" Coy. – Private Richard Warden 18116 – Private Albert Edwin Webb 2967 – Private Thomas Williams 21082 – Private Walter Richard Willis 17741 Private Joseph Young 21480 (all commemorated Loos Memorial) Private John Auld 21033 (buried Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery) Private Thomas Frisby 9709 (buried Cabaret-Rouge Cemetery Souchez) Private Charles Baines 21070 – Private Edward Hutchinson 10162 (both Commemoration not known) 59 soldiers from one battalion in one day with no known grave
- Saturday 2nd October (13 fatalities) Private Michael Brannan 20898 – L/Cpl Alfred Brierley 1257 – Private Herbert Carrier 5735 – Private Isaac Longbottom 18384 – Private John Macdonald 15241 – Private Thomas Smith 3013 – Private William Smith 20952 – Private James Stonehouse 15211 – Private Henry Sweet 16349 – Private John William Taylor 9500 – Private Claude Eugene Turton 8663 – Private Thomas Hagarty Watson 21140 (all commemorated Loos Memorial) 2nd Lt. Ivan Hamilton Learmouth Gilchrist (buried Vermelles British Cemetery) 12 soldiers with no known grave
- Sunday 3rd October (1 fatality) Private Albert Battle 18473 (commemorated Vis-En-Artois Memorial)
- Monday 4th October (25 fatalities) Private James Albert Barnes 15095 – Private Frederick Binks 21491 – Private John Robert Burns 18331 – Private John Smith Coggings - 21506 Private Benjamin Byron Crossly 21016 – Private William Finnigan 17513 – Private Frederick Hall 16803 – Private John William Hall 17194 "D" Coy. – Private Thomas King 2481 – Private Thomas Lockyer 16705 – Private William Henry Marsh 16810 – Private Frederick Wallace McKay 8506 – Private William Reed 17328 – Private John Rose 3936 – Private Christopher Skipsey 16941 – Private Arthur Percival Smith 21489 "D" Coy. – Private John Stewart 17904 – Private Ralph Taylor 17418 – Private Frederick George Usher 17228 - Sgt Frank Wilkinson 2612 – Private Andrew Young 16939 (all commemorated Loos Memorial) Private John Hegarty 16938 – Temp 2nd Lt Geoffrey Wilkins (both died of wounds and buried Chocques Military Cemetery) Private John William Proctor 2084 (buried Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt) Private John Stoker 15486 (buried Canadian Cemetery No.2, Neuville-St, Vaast) 21 soldiers with no known grave
- Tuesday 5th October (2 fatalities) Private Thomas Currey 22154 (died of wounds buried Abbeville Communal Cemetery) Sgt Stanley Dundas Stanley 16939 (died of wounds buried Longuenesse St. Omer Souvenir Cemetery)
- Sunday 10th October (1 fatality) Private John Jenkins 3470 (died of wounds buried Les Gonards Cemetery, Versailles)
- In the second week of October 1915, the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers pulled out of Ypres for good, with the remnants of the Battalion. The 9 months the 2nd NF spent at Ypres 1915, 2 officers and 525 other ranks had been killed.
- In January 1915, the 2nd NF had went out with 25 officers and 970 other ranks. There are 380 of the other ranks on Memorials to the missing (73% of those who died have no known grave) The 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers lost 23 soldiers from Jarrow at Ypres, and 20 of the 23 who died from Jarrow have no known grave. Only 2 of the 23 are on a Cenotaph in Jarrow. By the end of 1915 most of the Regular Army ceased to exist. That's why in mid 1915 Britain had to hurriedly formed a new army from scratch (Kitchener's Army)
- 24th October 1915 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers sailed from Marseilles.
- 29th October arrived Alexandria.
- 21st November 1915 left Alexandria.
- 24th November arrived Salonika.
- 24th November 1917 arrived in Italy
- 26th to 27th June 1918 sailed from Itea to Taranto, Italy.
- June 1918 left 28th Division and sailed for France.
- 16th July 1918 to 150th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division at Martin Eglise.
- 11th November 1918 located at Dourlers, north of Avsesnes, France.
- 25th March 1919 a new 2nd Battalion was formed of 6 officers and 30 other ranks from the Depot of the Northumberland Fusiliers, although the original 2nd Battalion was still at Wargnies le Grand.
- 9th April 1919 2nd Battalion NF moves to Catterick.
In WW1 The Northumberland Fusiliers raised more battalions, than any other of the regular army regiments. It raised 52 in all, and its total of dead was the highest, 16,159. They also had five Volunteer Battalions affiliated to them from the Northumberland Volunteer Regiment in 1918. They raised a further two battlefield clearance battalions in 1919. The Northumberland Fusiliers had a total of 59 Battalion's from 1914-1919. The Northumberland Fusiliers was one of the oldest regiments in the British Army. Descended from an Irish regiment raised in Holland by Lord Clare in 1674 it became part of the British Army in 1688. In 1747 it was numbered the 5th Regiment of Foot "Fighting Fifth" During the next 155 years it fought in North America, Canada, South America, the West Indies, the Peninsula, India (where three VCs were won during the Mutiny) and South Africa. In 1968 the Northumberland Fusiliers became the 1st Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.
Pte. Frank Monaghan
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.22nd Feb 1915)
Frank Monaghan served with the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers during WW1. He was killed at La Chapelle Farm at Ypres (Hill 60) on the 22nd February 1915, aged 23 and is commemorated on La Chapelle Farm Special Memorial 13. Also Commemorated at Hooge Crater Cemetery West Vlaanderen, Ypres, Belgium on the Special Memorial 13 to those who died at La Chapelle Farm
He was born on 30th April 1891 at 10 Dunn Street Jarrow Son of William Monaghan of 46 Lord Street Jarrow, and the late Catherine Monaghan (Casey). Frank was a regular soldier and had enlisted aged 21 in Jarrow June/July 1912. On 22nd February 1915 after four days of heavy fighting near Verbrandenmolen, Belgium. Frank was mortally wounded and died shortly after from his wounds.
Out of nearly 50 men killed from the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers during the four days fighting, Frank was the only one who was buried at La Chapelle Farm. All of the rest were lost without trace and are commemorated on the Menin Gate He was buried at La Chapelle farm with a wooden cross as a marker. Buried alongside Frank were 12 other men, 10 from the 1st Lincolnshires, 2 from the 1st Dorsetshires and one from the 1st Bedfordshires. During the following years the little wooden crosses in the cemetery were pounded by shellfire and by the end of the war there was no trace of any graves, After the war the Commonwealth Graves Commission made a Special Memorial to those buried and lost at La Chapelle Farm at Hooge Crater Cemetery just a few kilometres.
Frank had served in the Royal Navy prior to WW1 (hence the photograph of him in Naval uniform which was taken 1910-11 and which is the only surviving photograph of him). He was dishonourably discharged from the Royal Navy 5th August 1911 for striking a non commissioned officer. The photograph was taken between 10th March 1910 to 5th August 1911 when he served on HMS Monmouth a Battle Cruiser built in 1903. It was sunk by the Nurnberg at the Battle of Coronel in the Falklands on the 1st of November 1914 with the loss of all hands.
Sgt. J. P. Monaghan
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Hebburn Colliery
Pte. James Monaghan
British Army 12th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
from:Glasgow
James Monaghan joined up in the first quarter of 1915 at Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow. He fought at the Battle of Loos, Huluch, Pozieres and Flers-Courcelette. There is no further actions after this, presumed captured at Flers-Courcelette, and spent remainder of the war as a POW.
Pte. James Monaghan
British Army 7th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Brookhill, Fermanagh
(d.16th Sep 1916)
Rough Rider. L. Monaghan
British Army 2nd Remount Depot (Woolwich) Royal Army Service Corps
Rough Rider Monaghan was 39 when he died on 23rd February 1919 and is buried close to the north-west corner of the ruin in the Old Kilcarne Cemetery, Kilcarne, Co. Meath, Ireland.
WO2. Thomas Monaghan
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Scotland
My Grandfather, Thomas Monaghan, was born in Stirling in 1879. As a teenager he ran away from home to join up but as he ran only as far as Stirling Castle his mother was able to buy him out. Next time he ran away to Fort William and joined the Garrison Artillery. I know he was posted to Southampton before 1900, went to Hong Kong in 1899, was, I think, in China with the international troops to relieve the siege of Peking, was in Ireland, then Gibraltar and afterwards Bermuda, where he and the family remained until 1919 or 1920. I think he may have been training troops for the Western Front. He never served on the Western Front. I do not know when he was demobbed but he returned to live in Stirling and was later employed at Queen Victoria School, Dunblane.
During WW2 he was a security guard in Birmingham and then returned to Scotland where he died in 1953 of heart disease in Bannockburn. Four of his five sons were regular army and served in WW2 with the Royal engineers. Two later became Majors.
Pte. William Monaghan
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
from:Jarrow
(d.9th May 1915)
William Monaghan served with the 1st Battalion Royal Scots Regiment. He was aged 27 when he died on 9th May 1915 at Sanctuary Wood (Hill 62) Zillebeke, Belgium. He had been born on the 29th of June 1887 at 10 Dunn Street Jarrow, the eldest son of William Monaghan and Catherine Monaghan (nee Casey) from Jarrow (both formerly from Tedavnet, County Monaghan) His younger brother Frank Monaghan served with the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers was also one of the fallen who died at La Chapelle Farm (Hill 60) within a mile of each other William is commemorated on Menin Gate in Ypres and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church in Jarrow.
William had four sisters and a brother. Catherine born 1881 in Watson Street, Jarrow. Margaret born 1883 and Mary born 1884 in Tyne Street Jarrow. Sarah Ann born 1889, Frank born 1891 and Elizabeth born 1893 at 10 Dunn Street Jarrow. William attended St. Bede’s RC Primary School at Monkton Road Jarrow, then at St. Bede’s RC School at Low Jarrow, were he was taught by the Marist Brothers.
Around 1900 his father decided to go over to North America to start a new life, and when he got established, fetch his family over. William Monaghan senior had lived and worked previously in New York for about 12 years, and had other members of his family there. He had left New York in 1880 and came to Jarrow visiting a family he knew from County Monaghan. He ended up marrying one of the daughters in Jarrow. So Catherine Monaghan and the rest of the family had to move out of the caretaker’s house in Dunn Street, when her husband left his job. They moved over to Hodgson Street in Willington Quay, next to the oldest daughter Catherine, who had just married Thomas Wadey. William at this time was at the Chadwick Memorial, Industrial School for Catholic Boys at the Moor Edge in Newcastle, training as a Tailor, he had been sent there for some minor misdemeanour.
In early 1903 Frank’s mother Catherine died at Hodgson Street (she is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery Willington Quay, Wallsend) So the father William Monaghan had to relinquish his plans, and come home from North America. William Monaghan and his family moved back over to Jarrow again. By now William and his younger brother Frank were into the Tailoring trade. But as there was little work for William and his brother Frank. So William signed up with the 1st Royal Scots in Haddington Edinburgh about 1909 and was sent overseas and stationed at Allahabad in India. The 1st Battalion Royal Scots were recalled from India on the outbreak of war, arriving in England on the 16th of November 1914.
On the 8th of May 1915 the 1st Battalion were fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke, Belgium and were ordered to form part of Composite Brigade with 2 Companies each. 2nd Brigade Royal Irish Fusiliers and 2nd Brigade Leinster Regiment. Lt. Col. Callender was to command composite Brigade with Captain H. E. Stanley-Murray as Staff Officer - Command of the battalion devolved upon Major H.F. Wingate with Cap. J. Burke as Acting Adjutant. The composite dissolved at 6pm and the battalion proceeded with all speed to the Zouave Wood (Hooge) under command of Lt. Col. Callender. The Germans attacked the area of woods south of the Menin Road after a horrendous artillery bombardment all day. There was heavy fighting near Hooge and North of Menin Road. The 1st Battalion Royal Scots were sent up the line in support of 81st Brigade. The 81st were in a small salient and the northern side was 'sagging'. When the 1st Royal Scots arrived they found the unit to their left had been forced from their trenches and the Germans were in the process of occupying them. The 1st RS fixed bayonets and charged, evicting them in disarray. The 1st Royal Scots and their territorial companions in the 9th Royal Scots held these trenches, without losing a sap, until relieved on the night of 22nd/23rd May. About 6 pm orders were received to proceed to Sanctuary Wood. The battalion arrived soon after dusk and were halted at Zouave Wood. Officers went ahead and inspected trenches held by 2nd Gloucester's, and the battalion took over these trenches before dawn the following day. Disposition of battalion - A & D Coys fire trenches, B & C Coys support trenches.
On the 9th of May 1915, 1st Battalion were fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke, Belgium, under heavy artillery bombardment. By 2am the battalion was moved up to Sanctuary Wood. They had heavy fighting in Sanctuary Wood and got badly cut up. At dawn the order came to fall back and occupy the GHQ line some 2 miles West. This was done. The enemy's guns had the range of this line to a nicety, and put in a number of shells. Line maintained. Two hundred men out digging at night. Casualties this day: Killed 4 men. Wounded Lt. G. M. V. Bidie 25 other ranks.
William Monaghan was one of the 4 soldiers killed this day. And was one of the 52 (1st Battalion Royal Scots) who were killed between April and May 1915 at Sanctuary Wood and have no known graves 'Known unto God' The 52 are commemorated on the Menin Gate. 'We now know where they lay'
William's younger brother Frank Monaghan Private 3428 of 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers was also of the fallen a few months earlier at La Chapelle Farm (Hill 60) less than a mile away.
L/Cpl William Monaghan
British Army 7th Btn Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Paisley, Scotland
(d.9th August 1915)
William Monaghan served with the 7th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers in WW1. He died 9th of August 1915 and is remembered on the Helles Memorial in Turkey.
Capt. Charles Henry Stanley Monck
British Army 3rd Btn., 3rd Coy. Coldstream Guards
(d.21st Oct 1914)
Charles Monck fought at the Battle of Landrecies, 25th-26th August 1914 and is mentioned on page 90 of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The British Campaign in France and Flanders". Charles was killed at the First Battle of Ypres on 21st October 1914.
L/Cpl. Oswald Thomas Monckton
British Army 7th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Tunbridge Wells, Kent
(d.3rd Jun 1917)
Owen Albert Monery
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Stoke Newington
(d.1st June 1915)
Owen Monery was killed in action and is buried at Cambrin.
A/Sgt. George Money
British Army 4th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Ampthill
(d.29th May 1917)
Acting Sergeant George Money, born in Maulden, living and enlisted in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Served with the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment (service no. 23251).
He was killed in action on 29th May 1917 in France and Flanders and is commemorated on Arras Memorial, France. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Sgt. John William Money MM.
British Army 64th Company Machine Gun Corps
from:Corby
(d.31st July 1916)
John William Money was born in Burton-on-Trent in 1885. He was a professional soldier serving in the 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers before transferring to the Machine Gun Corps. His wife and child were living in Corby, Northamptonshire during the First World War. He was wounded on 17th July 1916. He was transferred back to England but died in Regents Park Hospital, Southampton on 31st July 1916. The London Gazette no. 29719 (23rd August 1916) indicates he was awarded the Military Medal.
PFC. Silver Silvanous Money
US Army 12th Machine Gun Battalion
from:Huntington, Indiana, USA
Silver Money was my Great-Grandfather. He served with the 12th Machine Gun Battalion, US Army in WW1. My father says that Silver never spoke of the war. But when my father was a small boy he remembers hearing Silver tell a friend that in one battle he was firing continually for almost two hours and that the water cooled gun ran out of water and the barrel was drooping so badly that it stopped firing. This is all that my family has.
Pte. Thomas John Money
British Army 6th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Ampthill
(d.9th August 1916)
Private Thomas John Money, son of William Money, Baker Street, Ampthill, Bedfordshire, husband of Ada Money, 2 Westbeach Road, Wood Green, London; born in Maulden, living and enlisted in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. Served with the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment (service no.26703).
He was killed in action on 9th August 1916 in France and Flanders age 24 years and is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. He is remembered on both The War Memorial and The Alamada, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. John James Mongan
British Army 11th Battalion Royal Scots
from:Glasgow
(d.27th Sept 1915)
Pte. John James Mongan
British Army 11th Battalion Royal Scots
from:62 Surrey St, Glasgow
(d.27th Sep 1915)
This is all I know about my great uncle John James Mongan. He served with the Royal Scots 11th Battalion and was aged 23 when he died in September 1915. He was never found and his name is commemorated on the Loos memorial.
Pte. John James Mongan
British Army 11th Btn Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
from:62 Surrey Street, Glasgow
(d.27th Sept 1915)
John James Mongan was the eldest son of James and Mary Anne Mongan. They came to Glasgow in 1890 from Ireland with John James's sister Mary. John James was born in Glasgow in 1892 and he had another brother, Francis Joseph, who was born in 1894. When John James left his home to join the Army his parents never saw him again. He was never found, all we have is a memorial panel in Loos Cemetery; he died in France. It is sad because I don't even know what he looked like as there are no photographs of him. John James's brother Francis Joseph was my Grandfather and my father and brother's name is John James in memory of John James who never came home.
Pte Alfred George Esau Monk
British Army Wiltshire Regiment
from:Leytonstone
Pte. Charles Monk
British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
Charles Monk served with the Leicestershire Regiment and survived the war.
Pte. F. C. Monk
British Army Lincolnshire Rgt.
Private Monk was a prisoner at Sennelager POW Camp.
L/Cpl. Thomas Monk
British Army 1st/6th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment
from:Settle, Yorkshire
(d.15th Sep 1916)
Thomas Monk was born in Settle in 1897 to his parents Thomas and Lavinia Monk. He continued to live in Settle until he went overseas. At the age of 13 he worked as a Quarryman at the Delaney Horton Limestone works close by. In May 1913 he joined the 6th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment (a Territorial Battalion). He served with them through to 1915 when in April he and his Battalion crossed to France as part of the 147th (2nd West Riding) Brigade within the 49th (West Riding) Division.
He served through the Battles of Aubers Ridge in May 1915 as well as the Defence against the Phosgene Attack on 19th/20th December 1915. He was injured (gassed) during this attack and was taken to No.12 CCS at Hazebrouck and then on to the St. John Ambulance Base Hospital at Etaples. From there he was returned to a hospital in the U.K. Before he returned to France in June 1916 he married a young lady named Lilly Watson at Settle.
He returned to his Battalion at Forceville. From there the Battalion moved up to the Front near Authuille to the Support Trenches arriving in the early hours of July 1st. The Battalion did not participate in the first days fighting but took part in the subsequent Battle of Albert, Battle of Bazentin Ridge and Battle of Flers - Courcelette. On 14th September the Battalion was called to the Front lines near Leipzig Salient to relieve the 32nd Infantry Brigade. Just as the relief started the Germans made a bombing attack on the line. D Company was sent in to reinforce the line but Thomas was killed by shrapnel just after 09.10 hours on the 15th. He is buried at Blight Valley CWGC Cemetery at Authuille Wood.
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