10721 Rfm William Piper, 1st Bn, KRRC

10721 Rifleman William Piper of the 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, was killed in action on the 5th October 1914. William was the ward of Mrs F Francis of 23 Buckingham Street, Brighton. He joined the KRRC in August 1912 and he arrived in France on the 13th August 1914. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

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L/8126 Sgt Zebulum Barden, 1st Bn, RWK

L/8126 Sergeant Zebulum Barden of the 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, was killed in action on the 19th September 1914. He was a long-serving soldier who was born at Deptford in 1887 and enlisted at New Cross around September 1905. He arrived in France on the 15th August 1914 and is commemorated on the La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France. There is a marriage recorded for a Zebulum Barden in 1939 and this is probably his son.

In February 1910, Sergeant Barden's memorial plaque and letter of condolence were offered for sale on eBay with a starting price of 70 pounds. Chat in the RWK forum noted that, "Sergeant Barden was killed near the village of Missey during a artillery barrage on the road during a wet and rainy day. He was killed alongside Sergeant Fitzgerald and Sergeant Warnett, all three belonging to B Company." The 1911 census has him at the RWK depot in Maidstone as a 24-year-old single lance-sergeant; a rivet carrier by trade.

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

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193 Rfm William Owen 2nd Bn, KRRC

193 Rifleman William Owen of the 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, died on the 17th September 1914. He was killed in action and, having no known grave, is commemorated on the La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France.

Wiliam was born in Peckham and living in Brixton when he enlisted. He was overseas by the 13th August 1914 and his number either dates to a regular enlistment in April 1897 or to enlistment in the 5th (Special Reserve) or 6th (Extra Reserve) Battalion in early August 1914. Either way, William would certainly have had prior military service under his belt to have been sent to France so soon after war was declared.

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

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10980 Pte John Finan, 1st Bn, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt)

10980 Private John Finan of the 1st Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), was killed in action on the 15th September 1914. He was born in St Anne's, Lancashire and enlisted at Ashton-under-Lyne in late July or early August 1913. He'd therefore only be a regular soldier for just over a year when Britain went to war. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission adds no additional information other than that he is commemorated on the La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France.

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

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8656 Pte Frederick G Newton, 2nd Bn, HLI

8656 Private Frederick George Newton of the 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, died on the 13th September 1914. He was born in Kensington, a cook by trade, and he joined the HLI in London in late June 1903. At the time of his death he was 28 years old and married (in February 1909) to Fanny Newton (nee Jennings). The couple lived at 193 Victoria Dock Road, Custom House, London with their three children, the youngest of these just a few months old when Frederick went to war.

Pages from Frederick's service record survive in the WO 363 series at the National Archives. This shows that he was transferred to the Army Reserve on the 26th June 1906 (having originally attested for three years with the colours and nine on the reserve) and that he was subsequently mobilized on the 5th August 1914. He was posted missing on the 13th September and later assumed, for official purposes, to have died on that day. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France. CWGC gives his age at death as 28 and yet the age stated on his 1903 attestation papers notes that he was 20 years and three months old at the time of his enlistment.

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

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Capt Rowland H M Moody, 2nd Bn, Lancashire Fusiliers

Capt Rowland Harry Mainwaring Moody of the 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, died on the 31st August 1914. He was 39 years old, the husband of Sybil Marie Moody (nee Bishop). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial in France.

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

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6485 L/Cpl Patrick McLoughlin, 1st Bn, Lincs Regt

393 British Army officers and men died on the 24th August 1914. Dublin-born 6485 Lance-Corporal Patrick McLoughlin was killed in action on this day. He was 27 years old, the husband of Catherine McLoughlin of 22 Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the La Ferte sous Jouarre Memorial in France.

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

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