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L/Sgt. John William Russell
British Army 6th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment
from:12 Cook St, Skipton
(d.7th May 1918)
Corporal John Russell, of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, who lived at 12 Cook Street, Skipton, whose father was John William Russell (deceased) and who had been a boatman, married Dorcas Isobel Amy Gray, who lived at Devonshire, House, West Grove, Hersham, Surrey, whose father was William Day(deceased)and who had been a gardener. The marriage was carried out in Hersham Parish Church and the witnesses were members of the bride's family. John William Russell is listed as a 29 year old bachelor but his birth certificate, seen by me, reveals his age to have actually been 31. Dorcas Isobal Amy Gray nee Day is listed as a 22 year old widow. Her first husband was Walter Edwin Gray, a private in the 9th. Battalion, East Surrey Regiment who had been killed at the Battle of Loos in 1915, and she had a son, Walter James Gray aged just over 3 years. No information has become available as to how and when the couple met but the date of the wedding was after the Battle of Poelcapelle and John William Russell was presumably on leave. There are no known children from this marriage.
Lance Sergeant Russell died in Farnham, Surrey, Military Hospital of wounds on the 7th of May from gunshot wounds to the chest & shoulder received in action 24 days earlier. He was buried in Skipton (Waltonwrays) cemetery on 11th of May 1918, where his grave is marked by a C.W.G.C. headstone. His widow, Dorcas Isobel Amy Russell, organised the burial and is presumed to have travelled from Surrey to Skipton with the coffin. This grave became a family grave, although only John William Russell's name appears, and his younger sister, Margaret Ann Dawson nee Russell, and his aunt, Margaret Smith nee Birtle, also lie here.
Pte. Joseph Russell
British Army 7th Btn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Springburn, Glasgow
In 1965 my grandfather Joseph Russell wrote a set of memoirs (hand-written in ink) and sent copies off to my father and my uncle. These memoirs record his experiences during the war. There is a section on his memories of the camp at Ripon in 1916.
"... My brothers and cousins came with me to St. Enoch station, Glasgow to bid me good-bye, Alec (his brother), had already been severely wounded in the Battle of Loos, so much so that the Army authorities had to discharge him from all further service. The journey to Leeds and then to Ripon was uneventful so I arrived on time in order to prepare for the great adventure to France where life seemed to be much cheaper than muddy water.
The march of four hundred 51st Division of Highland soldiers armed to the teeth down from North Camp to Ripon station a distance of a mile and a half and led by Pipe bands was certainly no silent affair. The scenes were indescribable, the animal natures of men seemed to be predominant, even the writer seemed to have gone hay-wire yet I was brought up in the fear of God. Army training in war time either creates a recoiling product in the mind or a moulded product into its image, if a recoiling product then heavy measures are engineered whereby the stereotyped condition becomes plastic through a high fahrenheit of tears. Fear of death is not so much a means of escape from the toiling, unmitigated and unending burden of viewing slaughter and blood rather than the cancelling of the telegram which brings continuity of despair and grief to those whom you love. We board the train at Ripon station, it is crowded with people, civilians and soldiers, the excitement of war in action has now generated into a passionate flame, the last is without description, I'm sure that not even a bugle can have been heard above its noise.
I had a hundred and two rounds of ammunition in my equipment so I put a clip of five rounds in my magazine. On the station platform stood Major X he was our official conductor from the Camp to the station and I had a score to settle with him, then immediately across the road on the near side of the platform was encamped a battalion of Yorkshires and I didn't like them. The reason was this, the Major was a bullying brute, he had two golden chevrons on his left sleeve, signifying that he was wounded twice in action yet his reputation was incorporated in his nick-name "more sandbags", the soldiers who knew him in action said that if a sniper's bullet hit the top of his deep dug-out then the parapet must be reinforced to make it doubly secure.
Again, while I was under a slight narcotic of alcohol one Saturday night in the town of Ripon I wandered aimlessly or maybe not into the Yorkshire Camp and my mind as I write is as clear as if it happened yesterday. No doubt I was aggressive but I don't think their action was justifiable or warrantable by the extent of my crime. I got into their physical instructors hut for N.C.O.s, my outstanding portrait is of a man about half a head taller than myself, he had a small gingerly moustache and was wearing a white jersey. I don't remember seeing trousers for all I could see of him was from his elbows upwards. What followed is in the darkness of oblivion and all I know is that I came to on the Sunday morning lying on the floor of a wash-house belonging to the Yorkshires. A gift I got from my sister a wrist watch with a spring bracelet was ruined with blood and water and my face resembled a butcher's shop, for this I got three days detention but I swore revenge on the Yorkshires. The moment had now arrived, the Major and the Yorkshires, the guard's whistle sounded, I have five rounds in my magazine, I extended my mark VII rifle out of the open window, I saw the Major about forty yards down the platform towering above everyone under the station canopy. I took aim and fired two shots; not to hit him but in a line between the top of his head and the glass roof of the canopy, when I looked up he was taking a nose dive down the stairs to get out of sight and no doubt shouting "more sand bags".
The Yorkshire Camp was now in full view, there could have been about a hundred tents and men were walking to and fro, raising my rifle I fired three quick shots into the Camp then withdrawing it I turned to the soldiers in compartment, they looked speechless as if they were afraid to speak in case I would have turned my rifle on them. I aimed not at any man with the intent to kill although it could have happened in the Yorkshire Camp, momentarily I had gone hay-wire with recrimination. I half anticipated that the train would be stopped for investigation but luck seemed to be on my side as well as the Yorkshires in the Camp...."
Pte. Joseph Russell
British Army 9th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Dudley
Joseph Russell was my great-grandfather, who was born 1 February 1877 at Dudley, Staffordshire, and was married on Christmas Day, 1903 to Faith Hope Davies.
He enlisted in 1895 and served in 5th Worcestershire Regiment and in E Coy., 2nd Worcestershire Regiment, and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps in Wittebergen, Cape Colony, Transvaal for service during the Second Boer War.
On 29th of August 1914, he enlisted for the Great War with the 2nd Worcester Regiment and was sent to France, disembarking there on 5th of January 1915. On 1st of May 1915, he joined the 5th Worcestershire Regiment. He was listed as wounded on the Casualty List issued by the War Office from 15th if September 1915 while serving with the 9th Worcestershire Regiment. He was discharged on 14th of May 1916. He died on 29th of November 1925, leaving behind a wife and 5 daughters.
L/Cpl. P. R. Russell
British Army 12th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
from:Scotland
(d.19th Sept 1918)
L/Cpl. P. R. Russell died on the 19th of September 1918 and is buried in the Doiran Military Cemetery in Greece.
Pte. P. Russell
British Army 1st Garrison Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:United Kingdom
(d.27th November 1918)
Private Russell is buried in the Jhajha Cemetery in India, Grave 43.
Pte. Patrick Joseph Russell
British Army 17th Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Isle of Man
(d.30th Jul 1916)
PO R. Russell DCM
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Hawke Btn. Royal Naval Div.
(d.9th October 1918)
Petty Officer Russell died aged 25 at 29 Casualty Clearing Station, Delsaux on 9th October 1918. He was the son of Robert and Martha Russell of 7 East View, Bolden Colliery, Co. Durham. He is buried in Delsaux Farm Cemetery, Beugny in Grave I.D.11.
Cpl. Robert Russell
British Army 1st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle-upon-Tyne
(d.17th Dec 1916)
Robert Russell died of wounds on the 17th of December aged 20 and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. He was the son of Mrs Russell of 118 Percy Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Pte. T. H. Russell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Dunston
T Russell served with the Tyneside Irish and the Labour corps.
Pte. Thomas Russell
British Army 19th Btn. Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regiment
from:24 Steel Road, Willesden
Sgt. Thomas Joseph Russell
British Army 8th Bnt., B Coy. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:4 High Road, Kilmainham Lane, Dublin
(d.29th April 1916)
Thomas Russell is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Pte. Thomas Jardine Russell CdG.
British Army 6th Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Glasgow
Thomas Russell was injured and suffered with the affects of mustard gas. We have a Croix de Guerre which he was presented with.
Pte. William Russell
British Army 13th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Harswell, Yorkshire
(d.13th Nov 1916)
William Russell is my recently become known great-uncle, who the living members of his family were unaware of his existence. He joined up late 1914 or early 1915 only to be killed in action on 13th of November 1916 aged about 22 years. His resting place is somewhere on the Somme, he is remembered at his home village in two churches and named at the Thiepval Memorial in France. R.I.P.
Cpl. William Russell MM.
Canadian Army 52nd Battalion
from:Peterborough, Ontario
William Russell was captured near Amiens on the 13th of August 1918. He survived the war and lived until the 1970's.
Pte. Benjamin Russon
British Army 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
from:Eckington
(d.2nd Oct 1917)
Benjamin Russon is buried at Mendingham War Cemetery.
Pte. Sidney Morris Rust
British Army 9th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Pebmarsh, Essex
(d.20th Oct 1915)
Sidney Rust was the son of Edward and Susannah Rust of Pebmarsh Essex.
Pte. Wilfred Rust
British Army 8th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
(d.9th Apr 1917)
Wilfred Rust was born in 1879 in Pentney, Norfolk. He had two elder brothers and 5 elder sisters. He was in the 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment and died on 9th April 1917, aged 20. Wilfred is buried in Roclincourt Valley Cemetery.
Pte Ernest Edward Ruth
British Army 9th Battalion Suffolk Regiment
from:Wingfield, Suffolk
(d.23rd Feb 1916)
Pte. Edwin Robert Rutherford MID
Australian Imperial Force 42nd Btn
from:Ipswich
I don't know much about Edwin Rutherford as he died long before I was born, but I have his photo and his framed MID letter.
Pte. Harry Rutherford
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
(d.10th June 1917)
Harry Rutherford is my Great Uncle. All I know is a story related via my father from his father (Harry's brother). Apparently the brothers (being in the same regiment) crossed paths as Harry was going up to the line and Albert, my grandfather, was returning from the line and Albert warned Harry in what we assume to be a jocular way to "be careful of the Belgians, they're bloody big buggers!"
Pte. James Rutherford
British Army 9th Btn. Duke of Wellingtons Regiment (West Riding)
(d.12th Oct 1918)
James Rutherford, Private 34978, enlisted at Jarrow and served in the 9th Battalion the Duke of Wellingtons Regiment (West Riding). He was killed in actionage 19 on the 12th October 1918 and is remembered at St. Paul's Church also Selridge British Cemetery, Montay. His medal card records that he was killed in action and the award of the War and Victory Medals. James was born in Jarrow 1899,son of Thomas and Elizabeth Bridekirk Rutherford nee Chambers.
Pte. James Rutherford
British Army 11th Btn. A Coy. East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Fallow Terrace, South Hetton
(d.8th Sept 1918)
Pte. T. A. Rutherford
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. Thomas Rutherford
Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte Rutherford was wounded on the 16th of December 1914 whilst serving at the Heugh Battery during the Bombardment.
Pte. Thomas James Rutherford
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Hebburn
(d.17th Feb 1918)
Thomas James Rutherford, Private 25549, enlisted at Bramshott and served in the 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. He died age 22 on the 17th February 1918 and is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph and Roclincourt Military Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory medals. Thomas was born in Jarrow in 1895. No further details of his family have been found.
Pte. W. Rutherford
Army 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Lt William Cecil Rutherford
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:8, Beech Grove, Whitley Bay, Northumberland.
(d.10th Mar 1919)
Rutherford, William, Cecil. Lieutenant, Died on 10th March 1919. Aged 25 years.
Buried in Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, St.Omer, in grave V. F. 51.
Son of John George and Annie Rutherford, of 8, Beech Grove, Whitley Bay, Northumberland.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. William Rutherford
British Army 6th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle-on-Tyne
(d.26th Feb 1919)
My great uncle William Rutherford was a self taught artist. I have copy of his diary mentioning various battles. Greenland Hill 6th June, Hargicourt Villeret, (?) Ypres, Poelcappel, Houthoulst Forest, Passendaele Ridge. Then Arras sector between Mouchy and Fontaine. He sustained 5 bullet wounds at Greenland Hill and shrapnel at Ypres. In the German offensive of 21st March, he endured the shelling by Germans of mustard gas shells for 4-5 hours. The brigades then the 34th and 59th divisions combined. He returned to England for operations then returned to camp 23 7.18 and diary ends.
I have copies of his death certificate, some of his artworks. I searched through Newcastle cemetery and found his grave and took pictures. Death certificate says died of pneumonia, syncope few months after war. I believe he might have died from the effects of mustard gas as he has a military headstone.
Sgt. William "Rusty" Ruthven VC
Australian Imperial Forces 22nd Battalion
from:Australia
Flt.Lt. Frederick Joseph Rutland DSC.
Royal Naval Air Service HMS Engadine
from:Weymouth
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