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Pte. William Sells
British Army Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
(d.1916)
Capt. Frederick Courtney Selous DSO MID
British Army 25th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Heatherside, Worplesdon, Surrey
(d.4th January 1917)
Frederick Selous served with the 25th Btn. Royal Fusiliers.
Staff Nurse Kate Selwood Selvey
Territorial Force Nursing Service
from:46 Alexandra Place, Sirhowy, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales
My great aunt Kate Selwood Selvey (born 29th June 1889 in Portishead, Somerset, England) worked during the Great War as a Nurse in the Territorial Force Nursing Service in several hospitals including the 1st Southern Hospital.
Pte. Edward Semper
British Army 11th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
Edward Semper was shot in the arm on the 7th of June 1917, transferred to a hospital ship on 11th June.
Rflmn. Samuel James Semple
British Army 11th (South Antrim Volunteers) Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
from:34 Derry Street, Belfast
Samuel Semple served as a Rifleman with the 11th (South Antrim Volunteers) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles. He wrote to his wife, stating that he is now a prisoner of war at Dulmen, Germany. Two of his brothers were missing in action at Battle of the Somme in 1916. Prior to volunteering he was in the employment of Messrs. Harland & Wolff, Ltd. (shipyard). His mother lived at 34, Derry Street, Belfast. As reported in The Northern Whig, 5th of August 1916.
Cpl. John Henry Sendall
British Army Postal Section Royal Engineers
from:Derby, Derbyshire
John Sendall (with approval of the Postmaster-General) enlisted into the Postal Section of the Royal Engineers on 3rd of December 1914. Per his Medal Rolls Index Card, he entered the French theatre on 9th of July 1915. His service record indicates that he remained in the R.E. Postal Section throughout the war. As of 1st of August 1915, he was assigned to the 9th Infantry Brigade HQ, evidently throughout his war service in France.
He was awarded his 1st Good Conduct Badge 1917 and was promoted to Acting Corporal the same year, his rank became substantive later on. According to his Service Medal and Award Roll (1914-15 Star), Corporal Sendall was transferred to Class Z Reserve status on 24th of April 1919, and returned to Derby. For his service in the Great War, he was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
At home, he continued his service with the Post Office, retired as Postal and Telegraph Officer, Derby and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal in May 1947. John Sendall had been born in 1887 to Robert and Eliza Jane Sendall of Derby. On 2nd of March 1912, he married Rose Edith Mottershaw, who was born in 1885 to James and Sarah Ann Mottershaw, also of Derby. The Sendalls apparently remained in Derby throughout their lives. Rose Edith Sendall passed in March 1963, followed by John in September 1966.
Pte. George Senior
British Army 2nd Btn. Cheshire Regimeny
(d.25th May 1915)
Geroeg Senior is remembered on the Menin Gate in Ypres.
Lance Corpral Joseph Fearns Senior
British Army 1st / 7th Bn West Yorkshire Regt (Prince of Wales Own)
from:Leeds
(d.17  Nov 1917)
Would like to find out my relations military history
Lt. W. E. Senior DSC.
Royal Naval Reserves HMS Night Hawk
My husband’s grandfather, Lt W E Senior RNR, was captain on the minesweeper Night Hawk in the North Sea on Christmas Day 1914. His story involved the bombardment of Scarborough by German ships in December 1914 as probable cover for the laying of mines in the North Sea. The Night Hawk was a former trawler from Grimsby under the command of Lt Senior. She hit a mine on Christmas Day and from a crew of 13 seven survived, of whom Lt Senior was one. The ship went down in 10 seconds.
Lt Senior was awarded the DSC and the Croix de Guerre (May 31, 1917) for his service to minesweeping, he later became dockmaster in Grimsby. In Grandpa Senior’s honour, the [Croix de Guerre] sword is used at family weddings to cut the cake.
Private William Senior
British Army 1st / 5th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Leeds
(d.9th Oct 1917)
Would like to find out the military record of my relation.
Pte Edwin Sephton
British Army 15th (1st Salford Pals) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:45 Reed St., Burnley
(d.1st April 1917)
CPO. Frederick Sercombe
Royal Navy HMS Monmouth
from:Bude, Cornwall
(d.1st Nov 1914)
Frederick Sercombe was killed in action on 1st November 1914, aged 51. He is Commemorated 1 on the Plymouth Naval Memorial in Plymouth and was the son of William George Sercombe, of Bristol and husband of Annie Sercombe, of 3, Berries Mount, Bude, Cornwall.
Pte. Charles Raynor Sergeant
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Sgt. John "Mad Jack" Sergeant
British Army Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Portadown
John Sergeant was my Great Grandfather. He was part of Carson's Ulster Volunteers and went to France with the Royal Irish Fusiliers as part of the 36th Ulster Division. He was transferred at some period to the Labour Corps but we don't know why. We do believe he suffered from gas inhalation which apparently took his life in his early 50s from lung problems.
Captain Harold Serginson
British Army 16th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:18A Larchfield St, Darlington
(d.27th February 1918)
Pte. William Serginson
British Army Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Sunderland, County Durham
William Serginson is my 2nd cousin 2 x removed. William was born in 1884 in Darlington Co Durham and died at the ripe old age of 67 in Sunderland.
British War Medal and Victory Medal
Lt. Cyril Lawson Serjeant
British Army 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
(d.21st June 1916)
Cyril Serjeant was my great uncle whom I never had a chance to meet.
Able Sea. Herbert Maurice Serjeant
Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal
(d.5th July 1916)
Herbert Serjeant was my Great uncle whom I never had chance to meet.
Pte. Joseph Serjeant
British Army 1st Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Halsall, Ormskirk, Lancashire
(d.30th Mar 1918)
Joseph Serjeant served with the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Pte. Arthur Frank Sermons
British Army 10th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Barley
(d.12th Feb 1916)
Frank Sermons was Harry Moulton's assistant at the butchers in Barley, he enlisted at Cockspur St. London into the 10th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (the so-called “Stockbroker Battalionâ€Â, largely made up of city employees). A private, he was killed aged 22 by shrapnel from a shell at Bailleulval near Bellecourt at the southern end of the battlefront for the Battle of Arras on the 12th Febuary 1916. He is buried at Douchy Les Ayette Cemetery.
Pte. Charles Serrels
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Edinburgh
Charles Serrels was a piper with 1st Battalion of Royal Scots Fusiliers. He joined on 20th Nov 1907 and was honourably discharged on 19th Feb 1919 due to disability having been gassed twice in WW1.
Fanny Session
Munitions Factory Worker
from:Tunbridge Wells.
My grandmother Fanny Session worked in a munitions factory during the great war. She came from Tunbridge Wells. How can I find out which factory she worked in?
Drvr. Charles Joseph Seston
British Army 7th Divisional Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:Aston, Birmingham
Charles Seson was a seasoned soldier by the time World War I broke out. He was married with a daughter. He experienced the worst of Ypres, the Somme and Loos. Riding the horses, as he had before becoming a soldier, only this time dragging cannon behind him. He was found in 1917 wandering around no mans land in Passchendaele in a state of total disassociation. Had he been found like this only months before he would have been shot for leaving his post for cowardice, but thankfully shellshock was now recognised and his PTSD was highly evident.
L/Cpl. William Henry Setchell
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Stratford On Avon
(d.30th May 1918)
Pte. Harry Severn
British Army 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters
from:Blackwell, Derbyshire
(d.18th Sep 1918)
Pte Herbert Severn
British Army 7th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Mansfield, Notts
(d.3rd May 1918)
Herbert Severn served with the 7th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment having transferred from the Sherwood Foresters. His home town was Mansfield, Notts.
Pte. Joseph Severs
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
also served with 14th & 2nd DLI
Pte. Samuel George Seward
British Army 3rd Battalion
Lt. Cecil Howell Sewell VC
British Army 3rd (Light) Tank Bn. Tank Corps
from:Greenwich, London
(d.29th August 1918)
Cecil Sewell was killed in action on 29th August 1918 aged 23 and is buried in the Vaux Hill Cemetery in France. He was the son of Harry Bolton Sewell and Mary Ann Sewell, of 26 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London. His brothers Harry Kemp Sewell and Herbert Victor Sewell also fell.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 30982, dated 29th Oct., 1918, records the following:- "When in command of a section of Whippet Light Tanks in action this officer displayed most conspicuous bravery and initiative in getting out of his own Tank and crossing open ground under heavy shell and machine-gun fire to rescue the crew of another Whippet of his section which had side slipped into a large shell-hole, overturned and taken fire. The door of the Tank having become jammed against the side of the shell-hole, Lt. Sewell, by his own unaided efforts, dug away the entrance to the door and released the crew. In so doing he undoubtedly saved the lives of the officer and men inside the Tank as they could not have got out without his assistance. After having extricated the crew, seeing one of his own crew lying wounded behind his Tank, he again dashed across the open ground to his assistance. He was hit in doing so, but succeeded in reaching the Tank when a few minutes later he was again hit, fatally, in the act of dressing his wounded driver. During the whole of this period he was within full view and short range of the enemy machine guns and rifle-pits, and throughout, by his prompt and heroic action, showed an utter disregard for his own personal safety."
Pte. Edwin Hatchett Sewell
US Army 6th Trench Mortar Battery
from:Queens County, Md
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