Joseph Hagger (Edward Joseph) Posted 19 June 2014 by Peter HaggerKilled 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…]
Oswald Robert Bowey Posted 15 May 2015 by Departed MemberOswald Robert Bowey was the son of Thomas Bowey and Sarah Jane (formerly Oswald) and was born in Leeds in 1899. His Bowey line goes back to Alnwick in Northumberland. He was a Rifleman in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and was one of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy [Click to continue…]
Fred Gregory Bampton Posted 24 April 2014 by Philip TaylorFred Gregory Bampton was born in 1891, the third of four children born to John Robert Bampton and his wife Jane Maria nee Gregory who married in 1884. The family appear in the 1891 census living at 1 York Place, Chalvey (which is now a suburb of Slough). Listed were John Bampton (aged 27, hammerman in iron works), his wife Jane (29) and their children [Click to continue…]
Ivan Orbell Posted 18 February 2014 by Ivan Douglas Scott Orbell, to give him his full name, was born in New Zealand on the 18th July 1889. He was the 9th and youngest child of Henry Orbell and his wife Margaret. Henry was born in Suffolk and emigrated to New Zealand in 1849 with his parents when he was 18. The family were quite well to do by the 1890s and young Ivan was sent to school [Click to continue…]