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William Shaw
British Army 8th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:103 George St, Hyde, Cheshire
(d.5th Apr 1916)
William Shaw was my Great Grandad, who died in action in Mesopotamia, which is now called Iraq. He is remembered at the Basra Memorial.
Pte William Frederick "Fred" Shaw
British Army 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Pontypool, Monmouthshire
(d.24th October 1917)
Able Sea. Michael Joseph Shea
Royal Navy 6th (Howe) Btn 63rd (Royal Naval )Division
from:Swansea
(d.19th Nov 1916)
Michael Shea enlisted on the 19th of July 1915, aged 19, and a week later was attached to 5th Battalion, later he was detached from Howe Battalion to Stavros for duty while serving with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. At some point he was with the 7th Reserve Battalion at Blandford. Sometime late 1915 or early 1916 he was on HMT Lake Michigan on his way to Mudros:West, where he arrived on 10th of January 1916.
He embarked on HMT Briton on 7th of May 1916 and disembarked at Marseille on 12th of May 1916. The next we know is that he was injured in fighting near the Ancre on 13th of November and died from his injuries on the 19th. He was treated at the 9th Casualty Clearing Station with a Shrapnel Wound.
Pte. W. L. Shea
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Walker
W Shea enlisted in 1914
L/Cpl. George Shead
British Army 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Stanford le Hope, Essex
(d.28th March 1918)
Reg Sgt Mjr. Arthur Shear
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Warwick
(d.14th Nov 1916)
2Lt Gavin Shearer
British Army 6th Battalion Cameronians Scottish Rifles
from:Sydney Villa, Strathaven
Pte. J. Shearer
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Sgt. Sidney James Shearer
British Army 13th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.3rd August 1916)
A/Capt. T. H. Shearer MC
British Army 173rd Brigade, A Bty. Royal Field Artillery
Pte. Thomas Doig Shearer
British Army 26th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Thomas died aged 36, he had been wounded in the head on 17th of April in France and was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He was born in Dundee, lived Jarrow and enlisted in Wallsend. He was the husband of Catherine Shearer (nee Hughes) of 65 Tyne Street Jarrow. In the 1911 Census, Thomas Doig Shearer, age 31, is listed as a Shipyard Rivet Heater, living with his wife Catherine Shearer & their 3 children lived at 14, Shakespeare Street Back, Jarrow.
Thomas is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Thomas William Shearing
British Army 1st Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:4 Copenhagen Street, Barnsbury, Islington, London
(d.10th March 1915)
Thomas Shearing Y/1166, 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, reported killed in action at Givenchy, France.
I have a photograph of the original burial by the German Army under the name Schaering in Courrières Cemetery, France. Most of the burials in this photograph are associated with Feldlazarett 4 des IV Armee-Korps [Field Hospital 4 of the 4th Army Corps]. His body was exhumed and reburied circa 1922/1923 in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. His date of death was stated to be 10th March 1915 in British Army records and in the Imperial War Graves Commission document used to prepare his current headstone; other records and the original German headstone state the 15th as the day of death. The 10th March corresponds with a failed offensive on Givenchy-lés-la-Bassée by 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, after which many soldiers were missing presumed killed. However, it appears likely that Rifleman Shearing was wounded and taken by the Germans for treatment to Feldlazarett 4 des IV Armee-Korps where he died on the 15th.
Pte. Edgar Shearman
British Army 1st Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Kings Lynn
(d.6th Dec 1914)
Private Edgar Shearman 7021, of the 1st. Norfolk Regiment, was killed in Belgium on the 6th. December 1914 near Ypres. He was born in Graywood and later moved to Scunthorpe in 1912. He was the father of one child, but no details are known. He is named on the Menin Gate Memorial. Aged 32, Edgar was the husband of Jane of Wanfords Cottages, Wood St. Kings Lynn. He was twice posted missing during fighting around Ypres. He is believed to be buried at Poelcapelle Cemetery, Belgium. Unfortunately his headstone reads “ An Unknown Soldier of The Norfolk Regiment 6:12:1914.†along with so many others. Also named on the commemorative stained glass window situated in All Saints Church South Lynn alongside his brother Edward Thomas.
Cpl. Edward Thomas Shearman
British Army 8th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:13 Coronation Sq. Kings Lynn
(d.7th May 1917)
Edward Thomas Shearman served with the 8th Norfolk Regiment, he was killed on the 7th May 1917 (Aged 39) and is buried in Rookery British Military Cemetery, Hennel. He was the husband of Isabella Jane (nee Thurlow), they were married in 1908 in Loddon, Norfolk. His father Edward Thomas Shearman and mother Mrs E. Shearman, also known as Mahala, (nee Elliot) were the parents of nine children, all of Sugar Alms Houses, Extons Road, built in 1887 by John Sugar Esq.. The Shearman children were: Robert J.C. 1847, Florence J. 1875, Elizabeth A. 1877, Edward Thomas 1878 – 1917, Ellen L. 1881, Edgar 1887 – 1914, Mary M. 1889, Rose A. 1891 and Emma 1895.
Edward was a pre-war regular soldier who completed 12 years service having joined the Territorials in 1907. He worked at the West Norfolk Farmers Co. Chemical Works Wisbech Rd. until called up at the outbreak of war. He was killed by a shell whilst leading a work party digging trenches. He is named on the commemorative stained glass window situated in All Saints Church South Lynn alongside his brother Edgar.
Pte. John Shearon
British Army 2nd Btn. Worcestershire
from:Liverpool
(d.26th September 1917)
My gt. grandfather, John Shearon, was born in Stourport-on-Severn around 1884. He worked as a chimney sweep in the Worcester area and was also a tic-tac man on Worcester racecourse. He married my gt. grandmother, Jane Kershaw, at St.George's Chapel in 1911, then moved to Liverpool later that year. His elder brother Edward was also in the Worcesters (service no. 48426)and was killed in India on 3rd December 1917 aged 43.
Pte. Albert Henry Shears
British Army 16th Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Shaldon, Devon
(d.2nd Sep 1918)
I know very little of my distant relative, Albert Henry Shears. He was the youngest of three children of Alfred Ernest Shears and Thomasine Trevise nee Toy
Pte. Charles Ralph Shears
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Berkshire
(d.16th May 1915)
16007 Pte Charles Ralph Shears served with the 1st Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He died on the 16th May 1915.
Cpl. Joseph Stanley Shears
British Army 7th Btn. West Surrey Regiment
from:Croydon
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Joseph Shears is buried at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery.
Pte. J. C. W. Sheath
British Army 1st Btn. Hampshire Regiment
My grandfather, Private 7491 JCW Sheath was a reservist, recalled to the colours on 4 August 1914 and wounded in action at Ypres in November 1914 whilst serving in the 1st Battalion.
He was in France from 23.08.14- the date the 1st Hampshire arrived until 6.11.14. He was admitted to hospital having sustained a gunshot wound on 2.11.14 ans returned to England on 6.11.14. A certificate issued by the recruiting authorities in Northern Ireland states that the wound was recieved at Ypres.
Sgt. Lou Sheckard
US Army 111th Engineer Battalion
Cpl. John Strachan Shedden
British Army 101 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire
(d.30th November 1917)
Sig. Herbert Sheed
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve HMS Cupar
L/Cpl. Albert Frederick Sheehan MM.
British Army 16th Btn Rifle Brigade
from:Hoxton
My Great-Grandfather, Lance Corporal Albert Sheehan, won his Military Medal on the 20th September, 1917, the same day that Sergeant William Burman, also of the 16th Rifle Brigade, won his Victoria Cross. I never had the honour to meet Albert Sheehan, he died many years before I was born. However I am fortunate and proud to have his Military Medal and a handwritten note from Major-General Edward Feetham, which reads:
“15848 Pte (A/Cpl) A. F. Sheehan, 16th Btn. The Rifle Brigade. The Major-General Commanding the 39th Division wishes to place on record his appreciation of your gallant conduct on Sept 20th 1917 S.E. of Ypres when, after a Lewis Gun Team had been killed, you took the gun and moved round to the flank of a strong point and opened fire on the door, causing the garrison to surrender.†The note is signed, E. Feetham (Major-General Commanding 39th Division), and dated 10-10-17.
I recently had the opportunity to run across a field, carrying a deactivated Lewis gun. It was heavy, and I can only imagine what it must have been like to pick one up in the heat of battle, fully loaded, the barrel red hot, and run with it across unfamiliar terrain whilst being shot at and ducking mortars. I was already proud of my Great Grandfather and his part in the Great War, and this simple experience only augmented my feelings. Like so many others who fought in that conflict - and every conflict since - he was an ordinary man who did extraordinary things. Albert Sheehan survived the war and returned to Hoxton to raise his family.
Pte. P. Sheehan
British Army Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Private Sheehan was 24 when he died on 17th November 1919 and is buried the south west part of the Fenor Catholic Churchyard, Co. Waterford, Ireland,
PO. Timothy Sheehan
Royal Navy
from:Kilbrown, Goleen, Co. Cork.
(d.20th Dec 1917)
Petty Officer Stoker Sheehan was the Son of John Sheehan, of Kilbrown, Goleen, Co. Cork. He was 32 when he died and is buried near the south west part of the Kilmoe Burial Ground, Lissagriffin, Kilmoe, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Pte. J. Sheehy
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
from:Cork City
(d.10th Nov 1914)
J Sheehy was one of my paternal uncles. I have been led to believe he ran away from home to join the Army and he was underage at the time. The official records state that he was just 17 when he was killed near Ypres on 10 November 1914. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial. His parents were Michael and Mary Sheehy of 2, Upper Quarry Lane, Blackpool, Cork.
Sgt. Michael Sheehy
British Army 13th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Carrigcannon, Listowel, Kerry, Ireland
(d.19th July 1918 )
Michael Sheehy, my 2nd great-uncle, served with the 13th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery in WW1.
Unfortunately I have no stories or information on his military career to share with you. The following information was obtained from the Kerry Library while doing research on my family's genealogy: Sheehy, Michael. Rank: Sergeant. Royal Garrison Artillery. 13th Heavy Battery. Age at death: 43. Died 19th of July 1918. Supplementary information, Son of Martin and Anne Sheehy, of Carrigcannon, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Michael was born in Duagh, County Kerry and enlisted in Dublin while living in Kerry. He died in Salonika and is buried in Mikra British Cemetery, Kalamaria in Greece
Pte. Daniel Patrick Sheen
British Army Labour Corps
from:20 Chadwick St, Westminster, London
My Grandfather, Daniel Sheen was 28 years old, when he joined the Labour Corps in 1915. He had one eye, having lost his left eye around 1904. His service record states that he was shot in the left leg during the conflict. The only photo I ever had of my Grandfather, was lost many years ago. It was a photo of him in his Labour Corps uniform.
Pte. Arthur Sheers
British Army 7th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Arthur Sheers served with 1st/7th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers as a private. He also served in the 932nd Area Employment (Garrison Guard) Company of the Labour Corps, before the latter was absorbed into the 44th (Garrison) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.
Pte William Frederick Sheers
British Army 3/17th Battalion B Coy London Regiment
from:Old Ford, East London
(d.24th October 1918)
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