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J. F. L. Ward
Australian Imperial Forces 27th Battalion
This is a extract from an Autograph Book which at a guess belonged to a nurse who treated wounded soldiers in various hospitals in the UK between 1913 and 1917. My Mother rescued the book which was about to be thrown away with the rubbish in 1968.
Pte. J. Ward
British Army 1st Btn. Loyal North Lancastershire Regt
(d.18th April 1915)
Private Ward volunteered to help during the typhus epidemic at Wittenberg POW Camp. Sadly, he contracted the disease and died on 18th April 1915. He is buried in Berlin South Western Cemetery, grave XIII.D.3.
Gnr. J. Ward
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Birr, Co. Offaly
Gunner J Ward was the son of Mrs. R Ward of Crinkle, Birr. He died on the 26th of February 1920 and is buried in the Birr (Clonoghill) Cemetery in Co. Offaly, Ireland.
Pte. James Pailing Ward MM.
British Army 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Tiddington, Warwickshire.
(d.18th Apr 1918)
James Paling Ward was born in Twyford, Leicestershire, son of George Paling Ward and Lydia Anne Ward. He is listed in the 1911 Tiddington Warwickshire census aged 16, living at home with his parents and employed as a Domestic Gardener. He enlisted at Birmingham and went to France with 8th battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on the 18th of July 1915. His award of the Military Medal for Bravery in the field was gazetted on 16th August 1917, having been notified in battalion special order of the day for 2nd July 1917. This was for his part during the Battle of Messines on 7th June 1917. The battalion war diary records:-
Wytschaete Beek Onraet Wood
7th [June] Attack launched at 3.10 a.m. by 19th Division
8.10 am. Battalion attacked Black Line in front of Onraet Wood & took its objective. Patrol pushed out & line in front of Oostaverne Wood also held.
3.10.pm. Further attack was launched against village of Oostaverne and Odonto Trench. Battalion took its objective and consolidated position. The result of the dayĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s operations was highly successful and over two hundred German prisoners were taken.
Private J P Ward was killed on 18th April 1918 when 8th Battalion was retreating during the great German offensive of April 1918. On the 18th April the battalion was withdrawing from its trenches near Beaver Corner, arriving in a field near Wippenhoek siding about 2 miles east of Abeele.
James Pailing Ward is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing at the Ypres area of Belguim. And also on the war memorial at Tiddington Warwickshire.
His brother, Mark Whitworth Ward also served in 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He was killed in action on 3rd July 1916, during the battle of the Somme.
Cpl. James Ward
British Army Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.7th Jul 1918)
James Ward served in the Durham Light Infantry and was transferred after being wounded twice to the Labour Corps, 360 Employment Company. He died age 27 on the 7th July 1918 and is remembered at St Paul's Church. He is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. His medal card shows the award of the 1914 Star, War and Victory Medals.
James was born in Jarrow 1890, son of Bernard and Elizabeth Ward nee Bruce of 22 North Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census James is listed amongst the soldiers at the Durham Light Infantry Depot in Jesmond, Durham. His parents Bernard(44), a labourer at rolling mills and Elizabeth(42) are living at 68 Gray Street, Jarrow with his sister Ellen(19) and his younger brother James Bernard who is 6 years old. James is recorded on the army returns as being 21 and married.
Without knowing which Battalion James served in, it is normally difficult to determine where he served, however the inscription on his headstone records that he was wounded at the Battle of Aisne and later at the Somme. His transfer to the Labour Company would indicate he was classed as unfit for front line action from a medical assessment. Labour Corps records are almost non-existent but it seems he must have died eventually from his wounds back in the UK.
Pte. James Ward
British Army 1st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
(d.6th Oct 1915)
James Ward enlisted at Jarrow and served with the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment(Prince of Wales Own). He died on the 6th October 1915 and is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery His medal card shows that he died from wounds and was awarded the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals. His younger brother Robert was also one of the fallen.
James was born in Jarrow 1895, son of Hugh and Mary Elizabeth Ward nee Jamieson of 92 Hope Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family are living at 3 Burn Street, Jarrow with Hugh(39)labourer in chemical works and his wife of 19 years Elizabeth(39) and their 6 children all single. Janet(18), James(15) catching rivets in shipyard, Robert(13), Bernard(8) and Ellen(6) are at school and John is age 4.
Spr. James Ward
Royal Engineers 303 Road Construction Coy.
from:Bury, Lancs
My Great Uncle James Ward joined the WW1 Army Reserves in 1915 as a reservist in the Lancashire Fusiliers but was quickly attached to the 336th Road Construction Company and in 1917 left Southampton for Le Havre. Formerly a civilian labourer according to his enlistment papers he had in fact been a night soil man (emptying domestic latrines) just prior to joining up. It could be that his 23/- a week (Ć‚Ā£75 by today's money) was less attractive than the Army pay under those circumstances!
Prior to his discharge he was back on home shores serving with the 303rd RCC and was now a Sapper (Pavior). Interestingly, three of his brothers, as well as his father, had all been (and remained) road pavers, which may well have influenced the army decision?Apart from losing a day's pay for insubordination (disrespectful language) in 1917, to an NCO his record was complimentary and his character rated as 'proficient'. James survived the war intact.
Rfmn. James Ward
British Army 9th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
from:Glasgow
(d.25th October 1918)
James Ward was serving with the 9th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) when he was killed in action on the 25th of October 1918. He served with his two brothers John who was evacuated with shrapnel wounds, and Edward who also lost his life on 14th of October 1918.
Pte. Jessie Ward
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Cookham
(d.30th Nov 1917)
Pte. John Serley Ward
British Army 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment
from:Tottenham
My Mum said that my great grandmother received a certificate of death from the Army in 1918 for John Serley Ward her husband, but he returned home after the war and frightened the life out of her, as he was meant to be dead. He went on to have another child, which I am trying to track down.
Pte. John Gilbert Ward
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
also served att 257th Tunnelling Coy RE
Pte. John Thomas Ward
British Army 1st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hunslet, Leeds
(d.23rd July 1916)
John Ward was the Brother of my Husband's Grandma. John Thomas Ward, or John T as he was sometimes known, was a soldier at the time of his marriage to Miss Lillian Link in February 1916. A few months later he was injured in Flanders and died of wounds on 23rd July 1916. He is buried in Abberville Communal Cemetery in Somme, France. He was posthumously awarded the British War and Victory Medals on 31st of March 1920. According to that medal roll, John Thomas also served in the 5th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment.
It would be great to find out more information about John Thomas, so we could know more about him. I have no photos.
Pte. John Thomas Ward
British Army 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.23rd July 1916)
Pte. John Ward
British Army 5th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Luton
Some years ago, when my grandfather died and we cleared his house, we found a page from an old newspaper. It was a report on the actions of some of the members of my family during the First World War. My grandfather was the Pte. John Ward mentioned in the last section.
Pte. John Ward
British Army 8th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
(d.23rd Apr 1917)
John Ward was married to Jane Sherwin.
John Ward
British Army Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
John Ward was evacuated with shrapnel wounds while serving with the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).
Pte. Joseph Ward
British Army 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment
from:Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
(d.23rd April 1915)
Joseph Ward died of enteric fever in hospital in France on Friday April 23rd 1915. He was married and lived in the Stourbridge Road in Catshill. He was 32 years of age. He was a reservist and was called to the colours in August 1914 and, after nine days, was in France. He fought in the opening battles without injury before being struck down with fever. He left a widow and six children.
Cpl. Leonard Richard Ward MID.
British Army 58th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Peterborough
(d.24th March 1918)
Leonard Ward died on the 24th of March 1918 aged 23, he was the son of Mr and Mrs S Ward of 52 Eastgate, Peterborough. Remembered with Honour on the Pozieres Memorial. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in November 1917.
Pte. M. Ward
British Army Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
(d.15th Jan 1919)
Private M Ward was the son of Mrs Jane Ward of Harbour St., Ballinasloe. He was 25 when he died and is buried in the north-east part of the Ballinasloe (Creagh) Old Graveyard, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Pte. Mark Witworth Ward
British Army 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Tiddington, Warwickshire.
(d.3rd Jul 1916)
Mark Whitworth Ward was born in Melton Mowbray and enlisted at Stratford on Avon. He went to France with 8th Battalion on 18th July 1915. He was killed in action on 3rd July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
At 03.15 the battalion took part in an assault on eastern end of the village of - the western end of which had been taken by other British troops the previous day. A German counter-attack drove 57th Brigade, including 8th Battalion out of the eastern end of the village again and furious fighting raged in the village for the rest of the day. 8th Battalion lost over 300 men in killed, wounded and missing that day.
Mark Whitworth Ward is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing at the Somme area of France. And also on the war memorial at Tiddington Warwickshire.
His brother James Pailing Ward also served with the 8th Gloucester Regiment and lost his life in April 1918.
Michael Ward
British Army 9th Btn. Dublin Fusliers
from:Cook St, Dublin
My Great Grandfather, Michael Ward left Dublin in 1916, 3 years after the death of his wife Elizabeth. He left 8 young children behind in a tenement house. He served for 2.5 years and returned to Dublin where he worked in Guinness's. He died at the age of 92. I am so proud of him.
2Lt. Neville Lascelles Ward
British Army 1st Battalion East Surrey Regiment
from:Ealing, London
(d.23rd August 1914)
Neville Ward died aged 20 on the very first day of fighting by British troops, leading a charge at Mons. He would have been my great uncle, had he survived. This is all I know.
Pte Percy Edwin Ward
British Army 132nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Northampton
(d.4th Jul 1917)
Rfn Percy Randall Ward
British Army 9th Btn London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
(d.26th Mar 1918)
Percy left a widow: Albertina Olga and a three year old daughter Joyce
Capt. Peter Francis Ward
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Tuam, Co. Galway
(d.12th Sep 1915)
Peter Ward was the son of Thomas W Ward of Tuam, Co. Galway. He is buried in the Cloughanover Graveyard, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Sgt. Philip Henry Ward MM, DCM.
Australian Imperial Force 3rd Battalion
from:Ipswich, .
Philip Ward enlisted in Sydney, New South Wales, where he was working as a labourer. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal: 'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 9th August, 1915, at Lone Pine (Dardanelles). During a strong counter attack by the enemy, he, with the greatest coolness and bravery, mounted the parapet under a heavy and continuous fire in order to bring more effective fire on the enemy. His gallant conduct set a fine example and materially contributed to encourage the men of his section in repelling the attack.'
He received his medals from George V on Salisbury Plain and was supposed to have received the Freedom of Ipswich, Suffolk England but with family and dignitaries waiting at Ipswich Station, he never arrived and returned home with his Anzac mates instead. (He is listed as departing for Australia on 20th December 1918) This story was from my mother his sister but I cannot find any confirmation of this.
Philip was born in Ipswich in 1895. He was 21 when he embarked from Australia, he was 5' 5.5" and his weight was 126 lbs. He listed his Next of kin as his Mother, Mrs Annie Naylor, 19 Pottery Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, when he enlisted on the 29th of January 1915. His unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A9 Shropshire on 17 March 1915
He was awarded the Military Medal, listed in the 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 174, on 11th of October 1917
He was taken on strength, with the 3rd Bn, at Gallipoli, 31 May 1915. Disembarked Alexandria, 29 December 1915 in the general Gallipoli evacuation and embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, on 22 March 1916, arriving at Marseilles, France, on 28th of March 1916.
Philip was wounded in action, 26 July 1916 (gun shot wound, chest: severe) and admitted to 9th General Hospital, Rouen then transferred to England, 26 July 1916, and admitted to 1st Southern General Hospital, 28 July 1916. He was discharged to No 1 Command Depot, Perham Downs on the 28th of September 1916; granted furlough, 30 September 1916; marched in to No 1 Command Depot, from furlough, 20 October 1916. He was found guilty, on the 20th of October 1916, of being absent without leave from 3 pm, 16 October, till 4 pm, 19 October 1916: admonished, and forfeited 4 days' pay. He was found guilty, on 10th of January 1917, of being absent without leave from midnight, 26 December 1916, to midnight, 4 January 1917 and given 9 days' detention, and forfeited 23 days' pay.
He proceeded overseas to France, 14th February 1917 and rejoined 3rd Bn, in the field, on 14th March 1917. He was promoted Corporal, on 20th of April 1917.
Philip was detached to 1st Australian Division School, on 12th of May 1917 and rejoined his Battalion on 14th June 1917. Appointed Lance Sergeant, 18 July 1917 and Detached to 1st Brigade Musketry Class on 23rd August 1917; rejoining his Bn on 4th September 1917. He had leave to Paris, from the 16th to 22nd of September 1917 and was promoted to Sergeant on the 27th.
On the 1st of October 1917 he was admitted to 17th Casualty Clearing Station and transferred to 39th General Hospital, Havre, on 3 October 1917 and discharged to duty, 27 October 1917; total period of treatment for venereal disease: 27 days; rejoined Bn, 20 November 1917. He was admitted to 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, on the 8th of December 1917 with scabies and transferred same day to 20th General Hospital, Camiers and rejoined his Battalion, in the field on the 26th of December 1917.
He was on leave to United Kingdom from the 19 January 1918 and detached for duty with 1st Training Bn, in England, on expiration of his leave on the 2nd of February 1918. He was admitted to the Isolation Hospital on the 20th February 1918 again suffering from scabies and marched in to 1st Training Bn from hospital on 5 March 1918.
He left England to return to Australia on board HT 'Orontes', 20 December 1918 and disembarked Sydney, 1 February 1919; He was discharged, in Sydney, 9 April 1919.
Pte. R. Ward
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Drvr. Richard Ward
British Army 277th Brigade, B Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Liverpool
Richard Ward was my maternal great-grandfather. Very little is known about him. It stated on his marriage certificate that he was a driver in "B" Battery, 277th Brigade, RFA. He received Pip, Squeak and Wilfred medals.
Pte. Robert Ward
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.30th Nov 1917)
Robert Ward, Private 56556, enlisted at Jarrow and served with the 2nd Battalion Welsh Fusiliers. He died on the 30th November 1917 and is remembered at St. Paul's Church and Tyne Cot Military Cemetery. His medal card shows that he was awarded the War and Victory Medals. His older brother James was also one of the fallen.
Robert was born in Jarrow 1897, son of Hugh and Mary Elizabeth Ward nee Jamieson of 92 Hope Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family are living at 3 Burn Street, Jarrow with Hugh(39)labourer in chemical works and his wife of 19 years Elizabeth(39) and their 6 children all single. Janet(18), James(15) catching rivets in shipyard, Robert(13), Bernard(8) and Ellen(6) are at school and John is age 4.
Rflmn. Samuel Ward
British Army 11th Btn., A Coy. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st September 1916)
Samuel Ward died on 1st September 1916 and is buried in Ration Farm (La Plus Douve) Cemetery Annexe, Grave II.C.25.
Samuel was the 18-year-old son of Matthew and Mary Ward of 8 Sandymead, Longstone Street, Lisburn. Co. Antrim.
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