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Sh.Sm. James Larkman Seales
British Army 12th Divisional Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:South Shields
(d.3rd December 1918)
Pte. William Thomas Seales
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment.
(d.8th Jul 1915)
William Thomas Seales served with the 1/5th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment during WW1 and died of enteric fever on the 8th July 1915, age 36. He is buried in East Mudros Military Cemetery on the island of Lemnos in Greece.
Pte. William Thomas Seales
British Army 1/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
(d.8th Jul 1915)
William Seales died of enteric fever aged and buried in the East Mudros Military Cemetery, Island of Lemnos, Greece.
L/Cpl. John Sealey
British Army 1st Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Swindon
(d.22nd Mar 1918)
Pte. Walter Edwin John Sealey
British Army 11th Btn. (Midland Pioneers) Leicestershire Regiment
from:Niton, Isle of Wight
(d.15th Nov 1917)
Walter Sealey died of gunshot wound to the spine, 20 days after the injury, at King Georges Hospital, Stamford Street, London. He left a son, Albert Henry Sealey, aged 3 years, as an orphan, his mother having died in 1916.
Editor's Note:- He is interred in the St. John the Baptist churchyard at Niton, Isle of Wight.
Pte. Walter Leonard Sealey
British Army 2/23rd Battalion London Regiment
(d.20th November 1917)
Walter Sealey died on 20th November 1917 from wounds received on 7th of November at the Battle of Sheria. He is buried in Cairo Military Cemetery (CWGC).
I visited the site on the anniversary of his death 20th Nov 1997. Details of the battle is recorded in a book about his battalion where he is included in The Roll Of Honour.
VAD. Sealy
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Staff Sgt. Herbert "Yang Yang" Sealy
British Army 219 Coy. Army Service Corps
from:Walall, Staffs.
I am trying to find out what my grandfather, Herbert Sealy, did in Egypt in the First World War. He was a leather worker and had his own horse. I have quite a few photos and negatives of pictures he took while there. He was also in Palestine and France. He talked of walking with his horse to help it.
L/Cpl. Ernest Seaman VC MM.
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.29th Sep 1918)
Ernest Seaman served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers during WW1 and was killed in action on the 29th September 1918, Age: 25. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. He was the son of Mrs. Sarah Seaman. Born at Norwich, Norfolk.
An extract from The London Gazette, No.31012, dated 15th Nov., 1918, records the following:-
For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty. When the right flank of his company was held up by a nest of enemy machine guns, he, with great courage and initiative, rushed forward under heavy fire with his Lewis gun and engaged the position single-handed, capturing two machine guns and twelve prisoners and killing one officer and two men. Later in the day he again rushed another enemy machine-gun position, capturing the gun under heavy fire. He was killed immediately after. His courage and dash were beyond all praise, and it was entirely due to the very gallant conduct of L/Cpl. Seaman that his company was enabled to push forward to its objective and capture many prisoners.
Pte. Albert Walter Sear
British Army 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers
from:Pancras, London
(d.26th Sep 1914)
Albert Sear was killed in 1914, we only know that he was a Runner Messenger and that he died on active service 1914.
Pte. Edmund Josiah Henry Seare
British Army 7th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Abercynon, Glamorgan
(d.14th Jul 1916)
Edmund Seare was my Great-Grandfather's Cousin. He was born in 1888 at St.Mary Cray, near Orpington, Kent. He worked as a 'Beneath Ground Worker' in a Colliery. He moved to Wales in approximately 1909 and was married in 1910. His wife was called Mary M Jones. They lived at 4 Gertrude Street, Abercynon in Llanwonno, Wales. He carried on working as a collier in Pontypridd. Edmund and Mary had 4 children together: a daughter, Sarah J Seare (born 1910) and 3 sons, Alfred (born 1912), David (born 1913) and Edmund (born 1914). He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Pte. James Searey
British Army 20th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Sunderland
Sister. Searle
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 32 Stationary Hospital
Sister. Searle
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 46 Stationary Hospital
Cpl. Alick Searle
British Army York and Lancaster Regiment
Pte. Frank Searle
British Army 2nd Battalion Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment
from:72 Park Wood Road, Sheffield
(d.11th November 1914 )
Pte. Harry Searle
Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Morpeth
Robert Searle
British Army
Lt. Ronald Spencer Searle
British Army 10th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:The Hawthorns, Willenhall Park, New Barnet, Hertfordshire
My father, Ronald Searle joined the OTC at University College, London, when a student, and was assigned to the Artists Rifles when in training, and then to the 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. He was sent to France on 24th of September 1917. He was wounded by shrapnel in the shoulder on 29th of March 1918 at Bapaume and invalided back to England, returning to France in November 1918 and finally being discharged from the Army in April 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant.
My father never spoke of what happened to him during his war service except to say that there could be no God if such things were allowed to take place. As he had been brought up in a very deeply religious Methodist family, one that had produced a number of Methodist ministers, his complete loss of any religious faith was clearly the direct result of World War One. His experiences during Operation Michael at Bapaume in March 1918 must have been horrific, especially considering that he was then only 19 years old.
When in hospital at the end of his life in 1986 my father believed himself to be back in wartime France, and kept saying that the boys shouldn't keep being moved around. His wartime memories must therefore have remained vivid, even though during his life after World War One he managed to suppress them.
Pte. Walter Searle
British Army 12th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:St Pancras, London
(d.19th October 1916)
Walter Searle died on H.S. Western Australia, France.
Sgt. William Searle MM.
British Army 46th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Collerston Rd., Greenwich
(d.3rd Nov 1916)
L/Cpl. Richard Roy Sears
Canadian Army 3rd Battalion Central Ontario Regiment
from:Canada
(d.5th April 1915)
Roy Sears was born 15th October 1892 at Nassau, Bahamas. He died at Ingress Abbey Military Hospital of wounds. He had been injured in the knee on 24th of March 1915 but it was not thought to be serious. He is buried at Swanscombe Cemetery, Swanscombe in Kent.
L/Cpl. Sidney George Seary
British Army 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
from:Canterbury, Kent
(d.3rd May 1915)
Cpl. Harry Clement Seates
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Chedworth, Glos.
(d.29th Jan 1919)
Harry Seates was the son of Mr. C. A. and Mrs. K. A. Seates of Fairview, Chedworth, Glos. He was 22 when he died on 29th January 1919 and is buried in the Muranga (St. James and all Martyrs) Churchyard in Kenya.
L/Sgt. Bernard Seaton
British Army Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(d.1st October 1916)
Pte. Sydney Seaton
British Army 7th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Stoke-on-Trent
(d.5th Apr 1916)
My great great uncle Sydney Seaton who sadly died of wounds he received in action while fighting in Mesopotamia on the 5th of April 1916.
Gnr. Richard Seaward
Royal Navy Royal Marine Artillery
from:Plymouth, Devon
Richard Seaward served from 13th October 1899 to 12th October 1920.
Rifleman Henry George Seccombe
British Army 16th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:15 Oliver Street, Plumstead
(d.3rd Jun 1917)
Henry George Seccombe was born at Charlton, Kent in April 1896. He was the son of William Henry and Isabella Eliza (nee Butt). He worked as a general labourer and signed up at Woolwich.
He was killed in action on 3rd June 1917 and is buried at Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Belgium, grave VII.F.11.
Update - Although the official records show his date of death as 3rd June 1917, the CWGC have it recorded as 13th June.
Pte. Richard Seccombe
British Army 8th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:17 Maesteg Row, Maesteg, Bridgend, Wales
(d.8th Aug 1915)
Richard Seccombe was my great-grandfather; my grandmother's father, who she could hardly remember as he was killed when she was 5 years old. She was named Violet and she was the eldest with three younger siblings: Clara, Caroline and her brother Jonny. Her mother Gertrude was also pregnant at the time but miscarried the baby on hearing the news of her husband's death.
My grandmother did talk about her father. One of the things she remembered was that he was a Master Stonemason working in the quarry that was in Maesteg, but that has now been filled in and houses built on top. She said she on the day he left in his uniform he knelt down and hugged them all very hard and kissed them all over their faces, and that was the last time she saw him.
I have since discovered that he joined up in Porthcawl, and then travelled near to Brighton to do his training. He was then transported by ship to Gallipoli in Turkey and arrived on August 5th 1915. He was killed three days later aged 32. I do not know where he was buried but he is commemorated on Panel 140 to 144 of the Helles Memorial on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The battle area where he died was fought over for another four months and then all the Allies were pulled out not having gained any ground after very stiff Turkish resistance. All those men from both sides killed for nothing. What a waste.
Pte. George Edward Seddon
British Army 32nd Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Liverpool
(d.19th Oct 1917)
I was researching my Grandmother's family and discovered she had a brother George Edward Seddon born in 1894. According to the documents I have found George was a Private in the 3rd Btn King's Liverpool Regiment but between, 27 June 1917 when he wrote his soldier's will and his death on 19 October 1917 he had been transferred to the 32nd Btn Royal Fusiliers.
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