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Pte. Joseph Zaleski
British Army 2nd Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Regents Park Road, London
Joseph Zaleski served with the 2nd Btn. Grenadier Guards
Sgt. Raphael Louis Zengel VC, MM.
Canadian Expeditionary Force 5th (Western Cavalry) Battalion.
from:Canada
Raphael Louis Zengel was born at Faribault, Minnesota. As a young boy, he and his mother Mary proved up a homestead near the village of Plunkett, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in December 1914. Zengel received the Military Medal in March 1918 for taking command of his platoon when his officer and sergeant had been put out of action. The citation for his VC reads:
"On 9 August 1918 east of Warvillers, France, Sergeant Zengel was leading his platoon forward to the attack when he realised that an enemy machine-gun was firing into the advancing line. He rushed forward ahead of the platoon to the gun emplacement, killed the officer and operator of the gun and dispersed the crew. Later in the day he was rendered temporarily unconscious by an enemy shell but on recovering continued to direct harassing fire on the enemy. His utter disregard for personal safety and the confidence he inspired in all ranks greatly assisted in the successful outcome of the attack."
Pte. James William Zimmer
British Army 1/7th Btn. London Regiment
from:30 Holloway Road, London
My great grandfather James William Zimmer was with the 7th London Regiment, he ended up in the Labour Corps in 1919, disabled with bronchitis which I have read can be brought on by mustard gas. He was also attached to the 4th battalion Essex Regiment. I am trying to find more information on him.
Pte. Charles Jacob Zorn
British Army 6th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
(d.9th Apr 1916)
Charles J. Zorn was born in Manchester. He was married with three children and lived in Hotel Street, Earlestown. He worked at Collins Green Colliery, and had in earlier days been a sailor. He was born in Germany and in 1911 was working as a butcher and living at 23 Thomas Street in Birkenhead with his wife Annie who was born in Liverpool and their son Charles J. Zorn, age 2 months, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire.
He enlisted in May 1915 and, according to the obituary published in the Newton and Earlestown Guardian on 5th of May 1915, after a few weeks training was drafted to Suvla Bay in Gallipoli. From there he was sent to Egypt, and finally to the Persian Gulf, where he was attached to the force that was attempting to relieve Townshend at Kut.
Charles's name is on the Basra Memorial in Iraq which bears the name of more than forty thousand members of the Commonwealth Forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known.
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