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Pte. Edward Mullins
British Army 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:High St., Dublin
(d.7th June 1917)
Pte. Ernest James Mullins
British Army 5th Btn. Dorset Regiment
from:Compton Pauncefoot
(d.11th Jan 1917)
Pte. Ernest James Mullins
British Army 5th Btn. Dorsetshire Rgt.
from:Blackford, Somerset
(d.11th January 1917)
Pte. Harry Mullins
British Army 1st/6th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Mount Street, Hyde, Cheshire
(d.13th Nov 1916)
Harry Mullins enlisted underage when he was 15 years old and still a schoolboy. He'd had a minor skirmish with the Law and was told they would forget it as long as he joined a club such as the Boys Brigade or the Scout Movement and kept out of further trouble. Harry decided that he'd enlist instead. His mother tried to get him sent home as he was underage but because he'd been on the front line for a while and was deemed an excellent soldier they decided that he'd be staying put. Harry died on Monday 13th of November 1916 in France, aged 18. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Spr. J. Mullins
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
Pte. William Mullock
British Army 13th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Crewe Cheshire
(d.8th Jan 1915)
Pte. Daniel Mulloy
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Troqueer, Kirkcudbrightshire
(d.17th Aug 1916)
Daniel Mulloy was my great uncle. He saw action in the Boer War and also in the First World War. In September 1915, during the Battle of Loos, he sustained a severe head wound and survived, though incapacitated. He was sent home to his local hospital, Kirkcudbright Cottage Hospital, where, after many months recuperation, he was deemed fit to be sent home, but not fit to return to active service and was discharged.
Soon thereafter he suffered a major epileptic seizure whilst out in the street, he was readmitted to the Cottage Hospital but did not regain consciousness and died later that day. This was reported in the local newspaper, which referred to him as a "Poor Old Soldier." He was 37 years old when he died.
Pte. Martin Andrew Mulroy
1st Battalion Royal Scots
from:Glasgow
(d.12th May 1915)
Martin Mulroy was lost at the age of 40 during fighting at Sanctuary Wood, Zillebeke. He was the son of Martin and May Mulroy of Belcarra, Castlebar, Co. Mayo and Husband of Rosean Mulroy (nee Gorman) of 1832, Maryhill Road, Glasgow. Martin in remembered in Ypres at the Menin Gate.
Pte. James Mulvaney
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
(d.10th Jul 1916)
James Mulvaney was killed in action in France.
Pte. Patrick Mulvaney
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Ireland
(d.7th September 1916)
Patrick Mulvaney was killed in action on 7th September 1916.
Thomas Kelly Mulvaney
British Army 58th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Gateshead
(d.8th Nov 1918)
Pte. James Mulvey
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Whickham
(d.1st July 1916)
James Mulvey is named on the Thiepval Memorial
L/Sgt. William Mulvey
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Little Bray, Co. Wicklow.
(d.23rd Oct 1918)
I only had a name and a single photo of my Grandad, William Mulvey in Army uniform and knew nothing about him until I received his medals from a cousin in Canada. This began a long, interesting, sometimes frustrating but deeply satisfying journey to discover something about him. Through my research and reading his Battalion War Diaries I now know he was at Hulluch, Ginchy, Guillemont, Messines and Wytschaete and would have seen the beginning of air warfare and the introduction of tanks to the battlefields.
He contracted 'Trench Fever' a debilitating louse born disease that invalided him out of the horror and filth of the trenches back home to Ireland to recover over several months whilst serving in the Labour Corps barracks in Kildare only to contract 'Spanish Flu' and Pneumonia and die in 5 short days just three weeks before the end of the war.
He had effectively been demoted because of ill health, and for a man who had the responsibilities of a L/Sgt that could not have come easily to him. I have yet to track down his service records but I consider my work as a memorial to a life I was not privileged to be part of. He had two children a daughter and my own Father who was born whilst he was away in France and whom I doubt he ever saw, like so many of his generation he was robbed of the chance of a normal life so my work is keeping his memory alive.
Pte. Joseph Mumford
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow, Co Durham
(d.8th May 1915)
Pte. Joseph Mumford
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.8th May 1915)
Joseph Mumford enlisted in Wallsend and served with the 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. he died age 30 on the 8th May 1915 and is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph, St. Paul's Church and on the Ypres(Menin Gate) Memorial. His medal card records the award of the 1915 star, War and Victory Medals.
Joseph was born in Jarrow 1884, son of Joseph and Ann Mumford nee Burbridge of Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family was living at 11 Hibernian Road with Joseph(63)born in Deptford, London a ships rivetter supervisor and Ann(60) his wife of 36 years, born in Bridport, Dorset. They had 5 children with 3 surviving. Joseph(27) single is the only one living here and is a ship plate rivetter.
William Mummery
British Army 8th Btn. East Surrey Rgt.
from:Peckham
(d.30th September 1916)
William was probably killed when the East Surrey Regt was attacking the Schwaben Redoubt.
Pte. Robert Wilson Muncaster
British Army 2nd Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:78 Four Lane Ends, Heston-le-Hole
(d.6th Nov 1918)
Robert Muncaster was my Grandad's brother. Grandad was 11 when his brother was killed at age 26. When Grandad had his first son (my uncle) he raced to the registry office before my Gran could stop him and named him Robert after his dear brother. I only just found this out today 11th of November 2018.
Sgt. Edward F. Muncer
British Army 40th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:London
Edward Muncer served with 40th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Lance Sjt. Bert "Butler" Munday
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.3rd May 1915)
Bert Munday served under the assumed name of Bert Butler, he is remembered on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
Gnr. Charles James Munday
British Army 173rd Brigade, D Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.1st February 1917)
Gunner Charles Munday was the son of Richard and Emma Munday, 9 Bakers Hill, Mount Pleasant Lane, Upper Clapton, London. He was aged 20 when he died. He is buried in Berks Cemetery Extension, Grave I.N.15.
Spr. John Munday
British Army 80th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:135 Stamshaw Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire
(d.8th August 1918)
My grandfather, John Munday, was a Sapper in the Royal Engineers. He died of wounds at the dressing station run by No. 56 Field Ambulance, on the Querrieu-St. Gratin road, near Heilly, Picardie, France on 8th August 1918. He is buried at Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
John Munday was born on 5th May at Havant, Hampshire to John James Munday and Kate Elliot. He was a carpenter by trade and married my grandmother, Amelia Grace Winslade, on 17th November 1912 in Portsmouth. Amelia's mother, Amelia Sarah Clarke and her eight children had moved to 135 Stamshaw Road in 1905 after the death of her husband. John and Amelia lived with her there. John and Amelia had three children, Edna May born on 6th April 1913, Doris Grace (my mother) born on 14th August 1914 and John James born on 27th May 1916. My grandmother was widowed at the age of 31 with three children under the age of six years. She worked hard to support them on her widow's pension.
When my brother was stationed in Belgium with the R.A.O.C. he found out where our grandfather was buried and took our parents to visit his grave. I too have visited my grandfather's grave.
Pte. Arthur Tom Munden
British Army 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment
from:Borden, Hants
(d.19th Apr 1917)
Arthur Munden of thee 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment, enlisted Whitehill, Hampshire. He was the Husband of Rose Ellen Munden of Butts Rd., Haylands, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Arthur died from wounds and is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun He is remembered at St. Matthew's Church, Blackmoor and Whitehill War Memorial, Ham: Arthur Thomas Munden Died in Flanders 19 April 1917
From a booklet published by the then rector, W.H. Laverty of Headley Parish, Bordon, Ham-in Autumn 1919. Listing our Sailors and Soldiers whom we lost in the Great War 1914-1918: Deadwater Hill, Munden, Arthur Thomas, 4th Hants. Died in France of gunshot wounds, head and face, 19th April, 1917, aged 31. Left widow and child.
Lt. Marwood Mintern Munden CdeG.
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Chalford, Somerset
Born at Ilminster, Somerset on 13th of June 1885, Marwood Mintern Munden (always called Mintern by the family) was the seventh of eight children, and third son, of Dr Charles Munden and Jane Lucy nee Poole, of Silver Street, Ilminster. His father was a General Practitioner and Surgeon: Mintern had three brothers, all four of whom fought in France during WW1, one in the RAMC, one driving ammunition trucks, and the third with the Somerset Light Infantry. Three of the four, including Mintern, returned home safely. His unusual names came from a previous family surname (a distant relative Thomas Cuff married an Ann Mintern in 1773) and from the name of the doctor (Dr Charles Hawkes Marwood Mules) to whom Mintern's father was articled when first training in the late 1850s.
The 1891 Census shows Mintern still living at home with his parents, aged 5, described as a scholar. By 1901 he was attending (with his brother Henley, also later a doctor in the RAMC) the Misses Alston and Rawes Boys and Girls Preparatory School, at Mary Street House in Taunton (this was also the school that his two other brothers Charles George and William Poole Henley attended, as noted in the 1891 Census). He later attended Crewkerne Grammar School before deciding to follow his father into the medical profession . I have an address for him, from the address book of his brother, Charles George Munden, which shows him at Medical School, living in Honour Gate Park and then Stondon Park, in London SE23. In 1911, Mintern completed his medical training at Guys Hospital (as had his father in the 1860s), qualifying MRCS Eng. and LRCP (London), and registering as a Medical Practitioner on 10 November 1911, becoming a house surgeon. In 1912 he married with Alice Archer, daughter of Mrs Emily Keith Archer and the late Henry Archer of Alfaxton, Holford, Somerset, taking up a general medical practice at Chalford, Gloucestershire in 1912 - though the 1913 Medical Directory still shows his address as Silver Street, Ilminster.
Mintern and Alices first child, Charles Harry Munden, was born on 10 May 1913, but died before his first birthday, on 18 March 1914. Kellys 1914 Directory shows him as physician and surgeon, medical officer and public vaccinator Sapperton District, Cirencester Union and 5th district, Stroud Union. His address was Wickham Grange, Chalford: a photograph of him and his two sons (see following page), taken in c1919, appears to be on the steps at the front of the Grange, suggesting he lived there for some years. A second child, Richard Cuff Munden, was born on 22 October 1915. (Richard died in Egypt in 1950 ).
In 1916 (according to family stories) Mintern joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in France in 1916 and went to France with the Royal Fusiliers though the Army List and the London Gazette show he was commissioned Temporary Lieutenant on 12 February 1918 and resigned his commission on 20 December 1918. We know very little about the specific detail of his time in the Army. The Guys Hospital Reports records that he served in the 89th Field Ambulance (29th Division) in 1917 and with 2nd battalion of the Royal Fusiliers from 1917 to 1918 (again, I have been unable to confirm these details. Although I have obtained access to copies of the War Diary for 2nd Royal Fusiliers, there is no mention by name to Mintern. I have yet to obtain access to the War Diary for the 89th Field Ambulance.
A short description of the functions of the Field Ambulance, and the movements of the 29th division, to which the Royal Fusiliers belonged, is detailed at Appendix 1 to this document).
During this time he won the Belgian Croix de Guerre, reportedly for evacuating Belgian wounded under shell-fire (but note that I have not been able to find official corroboration of this award being made). This award had been instituted on 25 October 1915 to recognise formally acts of heroism performed by individuals of any of the Allied powers during World War I, whilst on Belgian soil. The medal was awarded for Mention in Dispatches by differing levels of command, which was shown by the attachment to the ribbon (bronze palm = awarded by the army; bronze lion = regiment; gold lion = land forces). The ribbon was red with five green stripes.
After the War, Mintern returned to Chalford. As rents had increased considerably, he bought �The Triangle� at Eastcombe, modernising it to incorporate a new surgery. This property had previously been a small-holding with a number of outbuildings and the new surgery was actually built from a converted pigsty. His telephone number was Brimcombe 45. Two further children were born after the War: John Mintern Munden on 23 April 1918 and Lucy Joyce Munden, on 17 January 1921. Both were born at Chalford.
As well as running the practice on his own, Mintern kept up an interest in sport. A family photograph in 1893 shows him with a cricket bat; in 1908 he played three matches for Somerset (Wisden shows 3 matches, 5 innings, total 31 runs, highest score 11, average 6.2, but no bowling figures); he had played rugby and cricket for Guy�s and had toured overseas with its rugby team. After the war he ran the Gloucester Gypsies cricket team, recruited from Cheltenham College, and used to take them on a fortnight�s tour of the West Country, playing club and ground at Taunton and Devonshire Dumplings at Plymouth. He was also a member of the Stroud Cricket Club which he captained for some years and was President after he finished playing; and was a founder member of the Cheltenham Steeplechase Club.
He also had an interest in field sports: a fine fly fisherman, he held various stretches of river in the district, enjoyed shooting over farms of patients and syndicates and also went on fishing holidays with the family. In the early 1930s he was whipper-in for the South Cotswold Beagles and the family used to walk beagle puppies. During this time he collaborated with Dr Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, who had been at Guy�s Hospital with him. Dr Laidlaw was awarded the Royal Society�s Medal in 1933 for his work on diseases due to viruses and who started the inoculation for distemper in dogs (see Appendix 1 for a description of this work). Mintern used to inoculate all his own dogs, and those of his friends, as well as the Cotswold Beagles� pack, and would advise Dr Laidlaw of the results. He was also a Freemason, and according to his family practised his speeches in the bath. From 1939 to 1945, Mintern was President of the local British Legion and Medical Officer to the local Home Guard.
Mintern died on 8 March 1952 at Eastcombe, Gloucestershire, aged 66, having worked in the practice until a few days earlier � he had always said that he would never retire. His estate was announced in the London Gazette on 22 April 1952. His wife and two of their four children survived him: one son had died young in 1914, and another son (in the Gloster Regiment) died of polio whilst serving with the Army in Fayid, Egypt, in 1950. After Mintern�s death, his wife built a bungalow on some land adjoining the practice and lived there with her daughter Joy. Mrs Alice Munden died in 1973.
Pte. Samuel Mundy
British Army 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Andover, Hampshire
(d.9th Sep 1918)
Samuel Mundy was born at Shipton, Hampshire in 1899. Samuel served in the 8th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and was killed in action on 9th of September 1918, 336 days after Samuel's brother, Walter, who died in action on 10 October 1917.
At enlistment at Andover, Hampshire, Walter went with his younger brother, Samuel, to enlist in the British Army. In the queue at the enlistment table, Walter deliberately stood directly in front of his younger brother for processing, giving all his details for the enlistment form. Walter's service number was 22384 and Samuel's was the number directly after ie. 22385. It is interesting to note that the brothers were mobilsed into different regiments, Walter in the Hampshire Regiment and Samuel in the Gloucestershire Regiment.
Samuel fought in The Battles of the Somme, 1916; operations on the Ancre, 1917; the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, 1917; flanking attacks in Battle of Arras (Bullecourt and Lagnicourt), 1917; Third Battles of Ypres, 1917; First Battles of the Somme, 1918; the advance in Flanders, 1918 and at Ypres and Cambrai, at Polygon Wood and the Menin Road, at Passchendaele and at Saint Quentin. He fought under General Sir William Birdwood, Commander of the Fifth Army.
Pte Frank Munkman
British Army 1st Btn Hertfordshire Regiment
from:Potton
(d.10th Jul 1916)
Pte. Frank Munkman
British Army 4th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Potton
(d.11th July 1918)
Frank Munkman enlisted with the 4th Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment in July 1916. The regiment landed at Le Havre on 25th of July 1916 and due to earlier heavy British losses were posted into the 190th Brigade of the 63rd Royal Naval Division.
He was killed in action on 11th July 1918 at Bucquoy. He is buried at St Amand British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais.
There is extensive information on Frank and his military history online at ripfrankmunkman.wordpress.com
Pte/ George Munn
British Army 15th (North Belfast) Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
Born on 28th Jan 1895 I know that my grandfather, George Munn joined the 15th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles as a private. He must have been transferred to the Labour Corps at some time because according to his Unit Register Card he served 4 years 5 months, 2 years 1 month in the field as a private in the Labour Corps (POW) Unit, 376 Prisoner of War Company.
I remember him well, and I remember him telling me that he was wounded on a couple of occasions (shot through & through, and shrapnel wounds), and I remember he once showed me the scars of his wounds, and his hands and arms covered with the black spots of shrapnel.
Sgt. Henry Munn
British Army 11th Btn. B Coy. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Knockmore, Lisburn
Henry Munn served with B Coy. 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Sgt. William Munn
British Army 10th Battalion Scottish Rifles
from:12 Harmony Rd, Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland
(d.25th September 1915)
William Munn was killed on the first day of the Battle of Loos.
LBdr Arthur G Munning
British Army 68th Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Old Castle, Hakin Point, Milford Haven. Pembrokeshire, Wales
(d.5th April 1918)
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