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Cpl. Herbert James Plested
British Army Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Shabbinton, Bucks.
(d.25th Feb 1919)
Herbert Plested, born in 1892, was the 9th of 11 children of William Plested and Elizabeth Stretton. He was an agricultural labourer and lived in Shabbington with his parents and siblings.
He served first with the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry. He was then moved to the 3rd Royal Berkshire Regiment, finally he was transferred to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and he became a Corporal. He was attached to the 111th Company of the Chinese Labour Corps. He died in the 41st Stationary Hospital, in Gailly, France and is buried in St Pierre War Cemetery, Amiens, France.
Pte. Tom Plested
British Army 56th Company Machine Gun Corps
(d.5th July 1916)
Tom Plested was killed in action on 5th July 1916, 5 days after start of Somme offensive. He is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme France
Pte. Frederick L. Pletts
British Army 19th (2nd Tyneside Pioneers) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
Frederick Pletts was a member of Z Company, 19th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He was wounded at the Somme but survived the War and is mentioned in the 1919 census as living in School Lane, Bensham, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
Pte. Edward Plews
British Army 4th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
from:Eston, North Yorkshire.
Edward Plews served with the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment during WW1. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
Pte. John Charles Plimmer
British Army 9th Batallion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Islington, Middlesex
(d.8th June 1915)
John Plimmer died of wounds and is buried in Dickebus New Military Cemetery, Dickebus, Belgium. He had landed in Boulogne on the 20th May of 1915. KRRC's were probably brought up to support Canadian Regiment.
Rflmn. Charles Leonard Plom
British Army 12th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:London
Pte. Frank Plows
British Army 18th bat. Durham Light Infantry
from:York
(d.25th June 1916)
Pte. Frank Plows
British Army 19th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Arthur Samuel Plumb
British Army 8th Service Battalion The Rifle Brigade Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:81, Southwold Road, Clapton, London
(d.30th Oct 1915)
Arthur was a volunteer Rifleman in an Infantry Unit the 8th Service Battalion the Rifle Brigade, The Kings Royal Rifle Corps (The Prince Consorts Own), formed as part of the 'First New Army' Kitchener's Volunteers or K1 (The first 100,000 volunteers), at Winchester 21st August 1914. Attached to the 41st Brigade a.k.a. the 14th Light Division. they were deemed ready for action and arrived in France in May 1915 (The 2nd Battle of Ypres ended on 24th May 1915. The recruits could not join the front because of a shortage of rifle and artillery ammunition).
Arthur's division fought at Hooge on the 19th July 1915, 30th July 1915 and on the 9th August 1915, those who survived lived to fight again at Bellewaarde 25th and 26th September 1915. Arthur died on October 30th 1915 and is buried in a double grave at Le Treport Military Cemetery, Plot 1, Row M, Grave 3B.
Arthur was 30 years old when he died and left a wife Edith aged 33 and 5 children, 2 boys and 3 girls one of whom was named May Plumb aged 9 years. May Plumb's eldest child Edward (Ted) Noble was one of the glider born Ox & Bucks who took part in the successful coup de main at Pegasus Bridge, Normandy in the early hours of D-Day in 1944
I'd be interested to hear from anyone with photo's or information of Arthur's unit.
Pte. Arthur Plumb
British Army Suffolk Regiment
Plummer
Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Charles William Sheppard Plummer
British Army 4th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
from:Sleaford, Lincs
Charles William Sheppard Plummer, known as Bill, was my grandad. He was born on the 6th Feb 1896 in a hamlet called Limpool on the borders of Notts and Yorks. His father was a shepherd.
Bill joined the Lincs Regiment on 3.12.1914. He was awarded The Silver War Badge and discharged because of wounds on 19.9.1917. The Silver War Badge no. is 273533. He married Harriet Reek on the 30th May 1918 at Brant Broughton near Newark and he died on 28th August 1981.
I have tried to find out where he fought but to date I have been unsuccessful. I think his war records may have been amongst those burnt.
Pte. George Plumpton
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
Served with 18th DLI & 13th DLI
Pte. George Frederick Plumridge
British Army 16th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:135 Kingsley Rd., South Harrow, Middlesex
(d.12th Aug 1917)
Gnr. E. S. Plumstead
British Army 173rd Brigade, AÂ Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.15th October 1918)
Gunner Plumstead is buried in Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Belgium, Grave I.C.35.
Dvr. John William Plunkett
British Army 235th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Bethnal Green, London
Gnr. Bertie Charles Pobjoy MID.
British Army Royal Field Artillary
from:Gloucester
Trying to find more information about my wife's grandfather who was mentioned in despatches by General F.R. Cavan dated 18th January 1919. I have a plaque signed by the late Winston Churchill who was Secretary for War at that time.Can anyone help me uncover any more information please?
Cpt. Brian Colden Antill Pockley
Australian Imperial Force Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
from:Australia
(d.11th Sep1914)
Brian Colden Antill Pockley was born at North Sydney, New South Wales, on 4 June 1890. Pockley studied medicine at the University of Sydney and was a medical practitioner when the First World War broke out in 1914. At the age of 24, he applied for a commission in the Australian Imperial Force and was appointed as a captain in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (ANMEF). He departed Australia to serve with the ANMEF in German New Guinea on 19 August 1914.
Captain Pockley was part of the first landing force of the Naval Brigade at Kabakaul on 11 September 1914. During the advance towards a German wireless station, Able Seaman William Williams was shot in the stomach, becoming the first Australian casualty of the First World War. After tending to Williams, Pockley gave his Red Cross armband to another naval serviceman, Stoker Kember, so Kember could carry Williams to the rear. Shortly afterwards, Pockley was also wounded
Pockley and Williams were taken aboard HMAS Berrima, where they both died that afternoon. The author of "The Australians at Rabaul", S.S. Mackenzie, later wrote, "Pockley's action in giving up his Red Cross badge, and thus protecting another man's life at the price of his own, was consonant with the best traditions of the Australian army, and afforded a noble foundation for those of Australian Army Medical Corps in the war."
Pockley, with Williams, was buried at Herbertshohe cemetery on 11 September 1914. On 11 July 1919 Brian Pockley's remains were reinterred at Rabaul Cemetery, with full naval and military honours. In 1950 his grave was among the First World War graves that were relocated to Rabaul War Cemetery (Bita Paka), Papua New Guinea. Pockley's brother, Lieutenant John Graham Antill Pockley, served with the Australian Army in the First World War and was killed in action, in France, on 30 March 1918.
Pte. John Pocknell
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:London
(d.4th Jun 1916)
John Pocknell served with the 6th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
Sgt. Frederick Charles "Frank" Pocock
British Army 3rd Btn. Worcester Rgt.
from:Yapton
(d.24th August 1916)
Pte. Frederick William Noble Pocock
British Army 2nd/4th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Andover, Hampshire
(d.22nd December 1918)
Private Pocock was the son of Frederick and Harriet Pocock, of Basildon, Berkshire; husband of Clara Marian Pocock, of 14 Council Houses, Lugershall, Andover, Hampshire.
He was 43 when he died and is buried in Benares Cantonment Cemetery in India, Plot L, Grave 38.
Pte. William Henry Pocock
British Army 2nd Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Dartford
(d.13th May 1917)
William Pocock was at Dartford Grammar Sschool between 1908 and 1910. He enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps (Supply) on 31st March 1916 and transferred to the 2nd Suffolk Regiment in February 1917. He was sent to the front in France in March 1917. His regiment was part of the 3rd Division and was involved at the battle of Arras, particularly the battles around the River Scarpe and at Arleux. He was killed on 13th May 1917 in the Arras area and is buried in Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt.
The Summer 1917 Dartfordian included the following obituary: "We much regret to report the death in action of yet another Old Boy, William Henry Pocock of Eynsford, who was at the school from 1908 to 1910. After leaving school W H Pocock entered his fathers business and became manager of the Eynsford branch. Early in the war he enlisted in the ASC (Supply) hoping to be able to turn his trade to good account there, but being disappointed in this he transferred to a battalion of the London Regiment and went with it to France. He was killed in action during a recent big advance. All at DGS wish to convey their deep sympathy with his sorrowing relations."
Pte. Albert Podbury MM.
British Army C Sqd. Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queens Own Hussars)
from:Wytham, Oxford
(d.4th July 1917)
Albert Podbery MM served with C Squadron, Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queens Own Hussars) Service.
Sgt. Jeremiah "Victor" Podd MM.
British Army 4th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Letheringham, Suffolk
My grandfather Jeremiah Podd, died the year before I was born, so I never knew him. Recently, I've done some research and managed to locate his final resting place, something which was unknown to the rest of my family.
Pte. Rowland Sydney Podmore
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. Notts and Derby Regiment
from:Derby
(d.8th Apr 1917)
Rowland Podmore served with the Sherwood Foresters.
L/Sgt. Samuel Podmore
British Army 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
L/Sgt. Samuel Podmore
British Army 8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Newcastle Under Lyme
Pte. James Henry Poet
British Army 7th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Mark Beech, nr Edenbridge, Kent
(d.15th July 1916)
James Poet is buried in Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Corbie was a town 20 km from the frontline during the Somme and became a medical centre. The majority of soldiers buried in the extension died of injuries sustained during the Battle of the Somme.
Pte. James Henry Poet
British Army 7th Btn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment
from:Mark Beech, Kent
(d.15th July 1916)
Pte. Stafford Pogson
British Army 8th Btn. Green Howards
from:Sloweth, Huddersfield
(d.2nd Jul 1917)
Stafford Pogson enlisted in Huddersfield and served with the 29th Northumberland Fusiliers, he was transferred to the 8th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment and died of wounds on the 2nd of July 1917.
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