Break of dawn at Lone Pine, Gallipoli

I hope that David, the photographer who took this shot, will not mind me re-posting it here again on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.

13047 Pte Arthur Kirton, 6th Bn, Lincs Regt

13047 Private Arthur Kirton of the 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, died of wounds on the 28th July 1915. He was born in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire and was living there when he enlisted at Newark, Nottinghamshire in late October or early November 1914. He is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery on Gallipoli.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2184 Pte Irving Frank Noakes, 1/7th Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

2184 Private Irving Frank Noakes of the 1/7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, died of wounds at Gallipoli on the 31st May 1917. He was born in Bridgenorth, Shropshire, and enlisted at Salford, probably on the 6th or 7th of August 1914. His medal card records his name as Frank Noakes and indicates that he arrived in the Balkans on the 5th May 1915. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records him as Irving Noakes and gives the additional information that he was the son of John and Eliza Noakes of Burwarton, Salop. He is buried in the Lancashire Landing Cemetery in Turkey.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

6519 L/Cpl Joseph Gullen, 1st Bn, KOSB

6519 Lance-Cpl Joseph Gullen of the 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers, was killed in action on the 26th April 1915. Joseph was 34 years old when he died. He was the husband of Agnes Gordon Gullen of 126, 1st Street East, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Joseph, who had arrived in Egypt as early as the 16th November 1914, is commemorated on a special memorial in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery in Gallipoli, Turkey.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

11869 Pte William Sass, 6th Bn, Loyal North Lancashire Regt

11869 Private William Sass of the 6th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regt, was killed in action on Gallipoli on the 27th November 1915. He was born in Kirkdale, Lancashire and enlisted in Liverpool towards the end of August 1914. His number indicates that he was an original member of the 6th Battalion, the first service battalion to be formed by the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

William arrived in the Balkans on the 15th June 1915 and therefore endured the privations of that desperate front for five months before he was killed; one of 14 Loyal North Lancs men to die on this date. He is buried in Green Hill Cemetery in Turkey.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

23142 Pte Edwin Hayward, 4th Bn, Worcestershire Regt

23142 Private Edwin Hayward of the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, died of wounds on the 21st November 1915.

He had arrived in the Balkans on the 29th October that year and died in a hospital in Malta, presumably after being wounded at, and evacuated from, Gallipoli. Edwin was born in Arlingham, Gloucestershire and was still living there when he enlisted. His army service number indicates that he joined the Worcesters in June 1915, and Soldiers Died in The Great War tells us that he enlisted at Gloucester.

Private Hayward is buried in Pieta Military Cemetery on Malta. This from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

"From the spring of 1915, the hospitals and convalescent depots established on the islands of Malta and Gozo dealt with over 135,000 sick and wounded, chiefly from the campaigns in Gallipoli and Salonika, although increased submarine activity in the Mediterranean meant that fewer hospital ships were sent to the island from May 1917. During the Second World War, Malta's position in the Mediterranean was of enormous Allied strategic importance. Heavily fortified, the island was never invaded, but was subjected to continual bombardment and blockade between Italy's entry into the war in June 1940 and the Axis defeat at El Alamein in November 1942. At the height of Axis attempts to break Malta's resistance in April 1942, the island and her people were awarded the George Cross by King George VI. Malta's defence relied upon a combined operation in which the contributions made by the three branches of the armed forces and Merchant Navy were equally crucial. Although heavily pressed in defence, offensive raids launched from the island by air and sea had a crippling effect on the Axis lines of communication with North Africa, and played a vital part in the eventual Allied success there. There are 1,303 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated at Pieta Military Cemetery, including 20 Indian servicemen who were cremated at Lazaretto Cemetery. Second World War burials number 166. The Commission also cares for 772 non-war graves in the cemetery and 15 war graves of other nationalities."

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

22897 Pte Robert Hewson, 6th Bn, Border Regiment

22897 Pte Robert Hewson of the 6th Battalion, Border Regiment, died of wounds on 30th September 1916.

I have been unable to locate this man on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Roll of Honour database, althuogh Soldiers Died in The Great War indicates that he was born in Bishopsgate, London and enlisted in London. His medal index card indicates that he formerly served with the East Surrey Regiment and his army service number with the East Surreys indicates a joining date of around June 1915.

Robert Hewson arrived overseas (Gallipoli) on 24th November 1915 and thus qualified for the 1915 Star along with the British War and Victory medals.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918

1445 Pte Samuel Ernest Buckel, Hertfordshire Yeomanry

1445 Pte Samuel Ernest Buckel of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry is commemorated on a special memorial plaque in Green Hill Cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsular. The cemetery was made after the Armistice when isolated graves were brought in from the battlefields of August 1915 and from small burial grounds in the surrounding area.

Samuel Buckel was a pre-war Territorial, his number dating to 1912/1913 and he arrived overseas quite early on. His medal index card indicates he landed in Egypt on 3rd November 1914. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission notes that he was the son of George and Eliza Buckel of Clapton, London, whilst Soldiers Died in The Great War confirms that he was born in Hackney and enlisted there.

The War Graves Photographic Project holds a photo of Samuel's memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission