Killed in action 23 Jul1917, Flanders, France. Commerated at Ypres - Menin Gate Memorial and Therfield War Memorial in St Mary's Church.  Awarded Victory and British War medals. Joseph was born Edward Joseph in 1893 at Therfield, Hertfordshire to William and Ann (or Annie) Jane (nee Hale).  Both in the 1901 and 1911 census he was shown as just [Click to continue…]

Herbert Charles Rayment, the third son of William Frank Rayment (a maltster) and Emily Rayment (née Fisher), was born on 8th January 1890 in the small village of Aspenden, which is situated just south of the town of Buntingford in Hertfordshire, England. A gardener, he lived in Aspenden for many years and on 3rd August 1914, at the age of 24, he [Click to continue…]

Sydney is the eldest child of Arthur Philip Wharton (1867-1925) and Ellen Rose Matthews (1862-1925). He had one brother called Hugh Wharton (1896-1959) and a sister called Kathleen Wharton (1899-1986). He was christened at St Andrews Church, Bircham Tofts on 22 December 1895. In 1901 census, aged 6 he was living at Pond House in Bircham Tofts, [Click to continue…]

William Charles Drake was born in 1889 in Ipswich, the grandson of Samuel Drake and Caroline (formerly Lucas). William was an unmarried Private with the Royal Lancaster Regiment serving in the Channel Islands in 1911, and was a Private with the same Regiment when he died. William died 28 Jun 1916 aged 26 and is buried at Bertrancourt Military Cemetery [Click to continue…]