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Seacunny Abdun Nabi
Royal Indian Marine
(d.24 Oct 1918)
Nabi Abdun served in Remembered at . WW1
Bugler. W. Nairn
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. William John Nairn MID
British Army 5th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Clones, Co Monaghan, Ulster.
William Nairn of Clones, Co Monaghan, Ireland joined the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1914. He landed with the Regiment at Suvla Bay on the 7th of August 1915. He took part in the Battle for Chocolate Hill where he was wounded. He was evacuated back to a hospital in England.
He next was sent to France in 1916 with the 7th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. He was Mentioned in Dispatches for conspicuous gallantry according to one of his brothers.
In Febuary 1918 he joined the North Irish Horse He was captured after 6 days of continuous fighting, in retreat, by the German Army, on 27th of March 1918, in or near the French Hamlet of Margny aux Cerises, South of Erches. He was a POW in the German Camp at Stendal. He was released at the end of 1918 and returned to Britain and Ireland.
He emigrated to New Zealand from Ulster in 1924.
Stkr. Joseph Naisbett
Royal Navy HMS Dominion
from:Seaham, Co. Durham
Fireman. Lawrence Nanton
United States Army Transport Service USS Calamares
from:New York City
I have very little information about Lawrence Nanton's (my grandfather) time on the USS Calamares. I have his discharge papers, which state that he served on the ship from 17th of March 1918, to 1st of April 1918. The reason for the discharge is that the ship was taken over by the Navy.
Sjt. J. Napier
Army 2/7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
2/Lt. J. McC. Napier
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
2/Lt Napier joined the 11th Battalion on 10th September 1916, having previously served with the 18th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
Sgt. Richard William Henry Bennett Napper
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Limehouse
Bill Napper was in the Merchant Navy as a Trimmer but came home to tell his wife Lizzie that he had left the Navy "Thank Gawd for that" she said and he replied "I've joined the Army".
He joined on 19th of September 1914 and his first day in the theatre of war was 11th of November 1914. He was badly wounded in the Battle of Arras in 1917. He spent some time in hospital, went home conceived my mother and returned to his regiment.
Pte. Clare George Napthine
British Army 9th Btn., D Coy. Suffolk Regiment
from:Blythburgh, Suffolk
(d.13th Sep 1916)
Pte John William Narvidge
British Army 1st Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Malden, Essex
(d.14th Apr 1917)
John Narvidge was my great uncle. His father, Alexander, was a Russian refugee and boot maker who moved to Maldon in Essex with his English wife, Sarah.
John enlisted at Chelmsford, Essex, joining the 1st battalion Essex Regiment in 1914, we believe he was probably underage when he enlisted, having been born in Hackney in 1897. He died in battle at Monchy-le-Preux on April 14th 1917 and is buried at Arras. He was recorded as missing on 1st June 1917 in the Essex Chronicle together with many of his comrades. His name is recorded on the War Memorial in Maldon High Street. We have no photos of him but if anyone has it would be wonderful to see his face.
Sjt. F. Nasby
Army 2/7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Naseby
British Army 1/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Upton Park, London
(d.8th October 1917)
Pte. A. E. Nash
British Army 8th Royal Veterinary Hosp. (York) Army Veterinary Corps
(d.20th May 1917)
Cpl. Alfred J, Nash
British Army Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Westbury-on-Severn
Great Grampy Alfred Nash served with the Gloucestershire Regiment.
Pte. Christopher Nash
British Army 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Christopher Nash is buried in the Waterford Protestant Cemetery, Waterford Protestant Cemetery, Waterford, Co. Waterford, Ireland.
Sgt. Enoch "Knocker" Nash MM.
British Army 10th Btn Kings own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Hemsworth
My grandfather, Enoch Nash served in the KOYLI during WW1 from 1914 until demobbed in February 1919 in the 10th Battalion. He was awarded the military medal for bravery which I have in my possession, along with his 1914/15 star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. I believe he was awarded the Military Medal for bringing in his wounded captain (Capt. W. M. Penny) although he very rarely spoke of his war "it being too terrible". I don't have the citation for the medal and have had no luck trying to trace it.
Pte. Ernest H Nash
British Army 2nd Battalion, B Company Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Easton, Bristol
(d.29th July 1916)
Flt Sub. Lt. G. E. Nash
Royal Naval Air Service B Flight 10 Naval Sqd.
from:Canada
Pte. George Everett Nash
British Army 15th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Towcester
(d.21st Oct 1918)
Everett Nash served with the 15th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in WW1. He died 21st of October 18918 and is buried in Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt, France.
Cpl. James Nash MM
British Army 173rd Brigade, B Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.22nd September 1917)
Corporal James Nash MM was aged 32 when he died. He is buried in North Weald Bassett (St Andrews) Cemetery, Grave 24.1. He was the son of James and Sarah Ann Nash, 10 Woodfield Terrace, Thornwood, Epping, Essex.
Pte. John Nash
British Army A Coy., 6th Btn. East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)
from:West Thurrock, Essex
(d.8th Sep 1915)
Extract from Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 12th Division Piece 1860/1-4: 37 Infantry Brigade: 6 Battalion Buffs (East Kent Regiment) war diary, p.37: Despierre Farm 27th of July 1915: Small rockets went up in enemy lines opposite A company's trench 95, 2358 Pte Nash wounded, 1963 Pte R Rowkins killed. Strength: 27 Officers, 976 other ranks (inc attached). Weather unsettled south west wind. TW
Private John Nash died of his wounds in 3rd General Hospital, Wandsworth on 8th of September 1915.
Pte. John Nash
British Army 3rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:London
(d.13th Oct 1915)
Great great Uncle John Nash served with the 3rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment. He is buried in Le Treport Military Cemetery.
Pte. Thomas Nash
British Army 15th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Pendleton, Salford
(d.1st July 1916)
Thomas Nash was the elder of my two uncles both in the same battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, and both killed on 1st July 1916. He was 34 and his younger brother James was 20 when they died. They were 2 of 5 brothers who all fought in the war, the other three surviving. They are both remembered on Thiepval memorial, and at St Thomas church, Pendleton.
Pte William David Nash
British Army C Company Border Regiment
from:Bolton-on-Swale
(d.1st July 1916)
My uncle, William David Nash, enlisted on 6th October 1914 aged 19 years 4 months. He was in the 11th Lonsdale Battalion of the Border Regiment. Although a Yorkshire lad, he was working at Orton Hall in Cumbria as a groom or footman and so he enlisted at Kendal. His father had been a groom and carter at Kiplin Hall in Yorkshire, so in his choice of job William was following in his father's footsteps. He died on 1st July 1916 during an advance on the Leipzig Redoubt from Authuille Wood. The Battalion lost 516 men that day. He is buried in the Lonsdale Cemetery at Authuille, grave ref 1.C.18. He was very much mourned by his (much younger) sister Agnes - my mother.
Act. Sgt. William Frederick Nash
British Army 9th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Halberton Street, Smethwick
Pte. Bertram Francis Nason
British Army 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:9 Newbold Place, Leamington Spa
Bertram Nason served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was the son of Francis Nason and Esther (nee Adams) of Pillerton Priors and Pillerton Hersey. At the time of Bertram's birth, his father was working on the Chastleton Estate, where he became farm bailiff. Bertram was born at Brookend Farm, Chastleton. In 1901, when he was 16, Bertram was living with his parents at 15 Ryland Street, Stratford and he was a telegraph messenger. His older sister had died aged 11 and is buried in the churchyard at Chastleton. He had an older brother who had moved away and married in Baldock that same year. By 1906, Bertram was a fully fledged postman, as shown in the appointments books, and a year later, he had transferred to Leamington. His patch in the Stratford area was very rural and he would cycle miles, including delivering to the Alscot Estate. He remembers being invited to the staff Christmas parties there. Soon after becoming a postman, he met and fell in love with the head waitress, Lizzie Melville, at the Shakespeare Hotel in Stratford. They were married in Stratford Parish Church on 11 November 1911. The hotel presented them with a silver tea service. The couple lived at 9 Newbold Place, Leamington Spa.
Bertram remained a postman until he enlisted with the 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 8th of December 1915. He served at Passchendaele. By acquiring the war diaries for the battalion and visiting the museum at Passchendaele, we have discovered that he was gassed at Hill 60. This was an important strategic point for undermining. We have a telegram sent to his wife to inform her that on a certain date in 1917, he was injured and sent to the military hospital at Etaples, on the coast of France. This would have been a hospital largely under canvas. From there he was sent to the Beaulieu Auxiliary Hospital in Harrogate, where he remained, convalescing, for some months. During his convalescence, his wife Lizzie upped sticks and moved to Yorkshire with the dog to be near him. We have a photo of Bertram at Harrogate, the middle man in the front row with the dog on his knee. The suits would have been a statutory blue. In January 1919 he was discharged on the ground of sickness.
Bertram and Lizzie continued to live in Leamington and had one daughter. After he was widowed in 1953, he lived alone in Leamington. When he was older, he moved to live with his daughter and her husband and their two children in Radway. He died in 1967, having lived to the age of 82 despite the damage he suffered at Passchendaele. His two grandchildren and their partners still live locally.
Lt. G. Nathan
Army Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Henry Charles Nation
British Army 1/5th Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Liverpool
Henry Charles Nation was my grandfather, I never knew. The photograph I had given to me by my mother of her 'father' was of an English looking man. I only found out that Henry was my grandfather when I traced his death record and found that he had died in the County Asylum in Liverpool in 1941. With this information I went to the archives in Liverpool who managed to find a case file for him and a photograph. I knew I had Jamaican blood in me but thought it was several generations back, but looking at the photo of Henry I realised it was only one generation back.
Henry had enlisted in July 1916. He had a wife and 3 girls. On his medal roll it says that Henry had been with the Kings Liverpool Regiment and had been demobbed in July 1919. It says in Remarks: "Medals forfeited under Art. 1236.B. of the Pay Warrant as amended by A.C. 298 of 1920". I'm not sure what that means! Henry returned home, but sometime in 1922 his wife and children left him, which was the final straw I believe for Henry. He ended his days in Rainhill County Asylum.
Pte. Charles William Naughton
Australian Imperial Force 19th Btn.
from:Rawdon Island, NSW
(d.3rd May 1917)
Charles Naughton was my great uncle, he grew up on a dairy farm at Rawdon Island in the Hastings River near Wauchope NSW. He departed Australia on HMAT Euripides on 9 September 1916. He died in the Second Battle of Bullecourt on 3rd of May 1917.
Rifl. James Naughton
British Army B Coy.2nd Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Longford
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