The First World War

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

 

 The men and women from Martin who served their country during the 1914 – 1918

 

Maurice Beale                                     Wiltshire Yeomanry

Sydney G. Bennett                             Wiltshire Regiment

Harold Bennett                                   Royal Tank Corp

Montague Bennett                              18th Hussars

Nurse S. Bennett

Thomas Bishop                                   Devon Regiment (D.I.A.)

Frederick Bradford                             2nd Life Guards

Thomas Browning                              R.F.A.

Arthur Butcher                                    Royal Navy

Frank Butcher                                      M.G.C.

George Cox                                          Wiltshire Regiment (D.I.A.)

Lewis Cox                                             Royal Navy

Leslie Crawshaw                                 R.F.A. (D.I.A.)

Nigel Curtis                                          Hampshire Regiment

James Daily                                          Wiltshire Regiment

Edgar C. Dibben                                  Wiltshire Regiment (D.I.A.)

Walter E. Diment                                 Wiltshire Regiment

Ned Gray                                              Royal Navy

Percy Haines                                        Dorset Regiment

E.M.H. Hardiman                                Union Defence Corp

Albert Harris                                        Labour Battalion

Edgar H. Harris                                    M.G.C.

Edward J. Harris                                  Wiltshire Regiment

Reggie Harris                                       R.A.F.

Walter A. Harris                                  R.A.M.C.

Miss Harvey                                         V.A.D.

Neville Ings                                          Duke of Cornwall’s Regiment

Fred Jacobs                                           Hampshire Regiment

Charles Jeans                                       Royal Warwickshire (D.I.A)

Henry Jeans                                         R.C.A.

Richard Jeans                                      Gloucester Regiment

Alfred Kerly                                        Wiltshire Regiment

Henry Kerly                                        Hampshire Regiment

Charles W. Lewington                       Hampshire Regiment

Edward G. Marlow                           Hampshire Regiment

Edward Martin                                  Royal Engineers

Fred Martin                                        R.M.L.I.

Robert Martin                                    R.M.L.I.

Rev. E. W. Michell                              C.F.

Hawden G. M. A. Michell                Royal Dragoons

Jim Newman                                      Royal Navy

George Poore                                     Wiltshire Regiment

Hilsty Runyeard                                Hampshire Regiment (D.O.W.)

George Ryall                                      Royal Warwickshire

Edward Selwood                               Grenadier Guards

Henry C. Selwood                             Wiltshire Regiment

Herbert G. Selwood                          Hampshire Regiment

Sgt. William Shearing                       Scots Guards

Christopher Shering                         Wiltshire Regiment

David Shering                                    Field Ambulance

Jesse Shering                                      4th Hampshire Regiment

Levi Shering                                       Devonshire Regiment

Montague Shering                             Wiltshire Regiment

Samuel Shering                                  R.A.S.C.

Alexander Smeeth                             Hampshire Regiment

Cyril Smith                                         Dorset Regiment

Cyril Thick                                         Royal Warwickshire

Frank Thorne                                     Hampshire Regiment

Thomas Thorne                                  M.C.C.

George W. Waters                              Dorset Regiment

Frederick E. Witt                                R.A.O.C.

Charles Wooderson                           R.A.M.C.

Frank Woodford                                Royal Navy

George Woodford                              M.G.C. (D.O.W.)

 

Seven of the men who served lost their lives during the conflict…

Private Thomas Edward Bishop

Private George Cox

Gunner Leslie Crawshaw

Private Edgar Charles Dibben

Private Charles Jeans

Private Hilsty Marris Aquilla Runyeard

Private George Woodford

 

The information above is reproduced from the ‘Roll of Honour Book’ which can be found in the Church at Martin. Research and text by Lt. Col. Mike Richardson OBE and reproduced here with his kind permission.

Further details about the men who died will soon be available on a new Royal British Legion website.