Below is an index of the 122 Military personnel that I have identified in my family history. Most are WWI soldiers, but the list does cover 500 years of family history and so includes family present during the Spanish Armada, The English Civil War, Culloden, Waterloo, Trafalgar, the Crimean, WW2 and the Boer War.
The list also includes 23 soldiers and 1 civilian who died as a direct result of conflict and war.
John George Woods (1893 – 1915)
Private 2982, Durham Light Infantry 1st/6th Bn
Killed during the 2nd battle of Ypres – 26 April 1915
2nd great-uncle
In Memory of John George Woods
Ernest James Janes (1888 – 1942)
Private 28299, Norfolk Regiment 2nd Bn
great-grandfather
The Biography of Ernest James Janes of Maldon, Essex – My Great Grandfather
Mary Ann Janes (1864 – 1943)
Civilian Death
Killed during the blitz of Maldon, Heybridge – 11 January 1943
2nd great-aunt
11 January 1943 – Germany Bombs Maldon.
Ernest Sidney Hume (1887 – 1954)
Private 029136, Army Service Corps / Horse
1st cousin 2x removed
Stanley Hume (1889 – 1955)
Private 272608, Royal Navy
1st cousin, 2x removed
Arthur Christopher Hume (1897 – 1963)
Private 5204, Royal Air Force
19 Squad / 141 Squad
1st cousin, 2x removed
William Norman Hume (1900 – 1995)
Private 171085, Duke of Cambridge’s own (Middlesex) Regiment
1st Cousin, 2x removed
Isaac William Hume (1869 – 1914)
Chief Stoker (R.F.R., Ch.A. 1267) 141118, R.N. H.M.S Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 October 1914
Brother-in-law of 2nd great-aunt
Biography of Isaac William Hume
Harry Sidney Hume (1875 – 1949)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
Brother-in-law of 2nd great-aunt
Edward Sidney Hedgecock (1883 – 1948)
Able Seaman K39931
Royal Navy
husband of 2nd great-aunt
George William Lewis Beadle (1884 – 1962)
Private 1886, Bucks Bn and Bucks light infantry
Deafness in left ear, caused by shell bursting during active service.
2nd cousin 2x removed
Walter Henry Beadle (1894 – 1964)
Private 065084, Army Service Corps
Whilst on active service was negligent of duty – Over-issuing Rations – Was demoted from Corporal to Private.
Walter was caught smoking in the base supply depot, contrary of previous orders – was deducted 21 days pay.
2nd cousin 2x removed
Frederick James Jesse Janes (1887 – 1917)
Lance-Sergeant 502616, 18th county of London Bn / London Irish Rifles
Died of wounds in France and Flanders – 24 August 1917
1st cousin 3x removed
Archibald Tyras Miller (1892 – 1969)
Private 17278, Grenadier Guards
3rd cousin 2x removed
Tubal Tyras Miller (1857 – 1926)
Private 1509, 6 Bde
husband of 2nd cousin 3x removed
Christopher Hedley Janes (1895 – 1969)
Private 2631, 3/1st Essex Yeomanry
Private 34160, Essex Regiment
Missing in the field during the Battle of Arras, and damaging his foot at the same time.
Left leg amputated caused on active service
3rd cousin, 2x removed
Russell Charles Walliker (1890 – 1970)
Private 32546, Essex Regiment / Infantry Base Depot
Private 54776, 19th Welsh Regiment
3rd cousin 2x removed
Edward ‘Virdus’ Vincent Janes (1895 – 1981)
SSN: 519102670. U.S. Army
3rd cousin, 2x removed
John Christopher Janes (1873 – 1950)
Gunner – Royal Artillery
Boer War – 1898
2nd cousin, 3x removed
Jack Pike (1907 – 1995)
Service Number: V367431, Army Citizen Military Forces
WW2 / Australia
3rd cousin 3x removed
Herbert Edward Pike (1888 – 1917)
Private 51370, 2nd Bn Manchester Regiment
Killed in Action – 7 September 1917
3rd cousin 3x removed.
Frederick Leonard Pike (1892 – 1955)
Acting Sergeant 740097, London Regiment / 25th (County of London) Bn (Cyclists)
3rd cousin 3x removed
Henry Alfred Pike (1877 – 1952)
Private 36818 / 72237, 121st Labour Corps
Disability – Myalgia, aggravated by active service
3rd cousin 3x removed
Charles Barritt (1861 – 1902)
Private 6737, 3rd Bn Essex Regiment
Spent 1 year and 127 days in India.
Private 2nd Dorset Regiment
Served 344 days in Arden
2nd great-grandfather
Charles Barritt (1861 – 1902) His story continued.
Original Adelphoi Zangaki Photograph – c. 1880 – HMS Crocodile, Suez Canal
Ernest Charles Barritt (1896 – 1978)
Private 250394, 1/5 Essex Regiment
Private 2260, 1/5 Essex Regiment
2nd great-uncle
Frank Bean (1869 – 1957)
Private, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own)
Spent 4 years and 153 days in East India
Trooper 39496, 135 Company Yeomanry
Spent 156 days in South Africa
2nd great-grandfather
Clifford Gray (1882 – 1944)
Royal Air Force
3rd great-uncle
John Grey, of Tawney and Bradford (1588/9 – 1647)
Soldier during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
Slain – Possibly during the siege of Carlow Castle on 10th April 1647
11th great-grandfather
Albert Gray (1865 – )
Royal Navy
1st cousin 4x removed
Thomas Charles Gray (1890 – 1915)
Lance-Corporal 7152 / 10220, 2nd Bn Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regiment
Killed in Action – 13 March 1915
1st cousin 3x removed
Reginald James Gray (1900 – 1917)
Ordinary Tel, J.38455 (Division)
Royal Navy
Killed as a result of Enemy Action onboard HMS Tornado – 23 December 1917
1st cousin 3x removed
George Gray (1877 – )
Private 3258, 1-8th Essex Regiment T.F
1st cousin 4x removed
James Gray (1881 – )
Private 6254, Essex Regiment
Ethelbert Harold Aubery Myhill (1894 – 1974)
Private 241862, 5119 1/6th Bn. Notts and Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Regiment
Ebenezer Janes (1736 – 1808)
Lieutenant, fought in the American Revolution 1765 – 1783
1st cousin, 7x removed
Leonard George Mumford (1882 – 1940)
Private 24218, Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
1st cousin 4x removed
Frederick Charles Barrett (1889 – 1925)
Private 23302 Army Service Corps
Private 23302 Army Veterinary Corps
Discharged from Military service due to chronic Bronchitis
1st cousin 3x removed
Frederick Arthur Jay (1889 – 1915)
Private, Essex Regiment Special Reserve
Private 10437, 1st Bn Royal Scots
Killed in action – 23 March 1915
1st cousin 3x removed
Stanley Harold Jay (1897 – 1982)
Royal Navy
able seaman SS117000
1st cousin 3x removed
James Harden (1742 – )
Sergeant, Eastern Regiment of Essex Militia
7th great-uncle
Edward Styles (1772 – 1856)
Private, African Corps
husband of 4th great-grandmother
Frederick Victor Diskett (1888 – 1955)
Private 14952 / 12189, Royal Dublin Fusiliers
1st cousin 3x removed
Alfred Edward Diskett (1889 – 1969)
Private 266785, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
1st cousin 3x removed
Arthur Edward Ackerman
Able seaman 3005, Royal Marine Light Infantry
1st cousin 3x removed
Albert Edward Baker (1897 – 1917)
Private 18164, 15th Hussars
Private 26001 2nd Bn Durham Light Infantry
Killed in Action – 26 June 1917
1st cousin 3x removed
John Draper ‘alias; Galliver’ (1620 – )
Cavalier, Royalist Soldier during English Civil War
10th great-grandfather
Richard Draper of Haselbury & Crewkerne (1598 – 1658)
Cavalier, Royalist Soldier during English Civil War
11th great-grandfather
Sir John Browne (1558 – 1627)
Rear Admiral
Fought during the Spanish Armada
husband of 1st cousin 13x removed
Arthur Gordon of Carnousie (1691 – )
Jacobite – 1745
Major
2nd cousin 9x removed
George Steuart, 8th of Tannachy (1685 – 1748)
Jacobite 1715
9th great-uncle
Sir William Gordon, 5th Laird of Park (1712 – 1751)
Jacobite 1745
8th great-uncle
James Gordon Esquire of Cobairdy (1723 – 1773)
Jacobite 1745
7th great-grandfather
John Gordon, 6th Laird of Park (1714 – 1781)
Jacobite 1745
Captain
2nd Lt Sir James Woods afterwards Campbell’s 21st Foot
1st Lt Powlett’s 9th Marines
Captain 14th Marines
Captain 20th Foot 2nd Battalion
8th great-uncle
William Elphinstone (1689 – 1715)
Jacobite 1715
Died at the Battle of Preston
9th great-uncle
James North (1819 – )
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
5th great-uncle
James North (1848 – 1885)
Able Seaman / Quatermaster
Royal Navy
4th great-uncle
James North, Quatermaster (1848 – 1885)
James ‘Jimmy’ Edward Plaskett (1920 – 1943)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
Died in action onboard HMS Fidelity, ship went down in the North Sea.
1st cousin 3x removed
James Edward Plaskett & HMS FIDELITY
James Edward Plaskett (1920 – 1943)
Joseph Wood (1803 – 1855)
Sailmaker
Royal Navy
4th great-uncle
Llewellyn Woods (1910 – 1967)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
2nd great-uncle
Henry Carter (1826 – )
Drummer
Royal Navy
1st cousin 7x removed
Josiah Burn (1844 – 1896)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
husband of 3rd great-aunt
Charles John B Bayliss (1866 – 1904)
Edward George Leggett (1881 – 1914)
George Gilham (1839 – 1928)
George Norris (1858 – )
Alexander Beane (1656 – 1695)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
9th great-uncle
Richard Beane (1631 – 1658)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
Died at sea and buried in Jamaica
9th great-grandfather
William Sheppard (1785 – )
Landsman
Royal Navy
fought at the Battle of Trafalgar onboard HMS Victory.
2nd cousin 8x removed
William Ethelbert Myhill (1840 – 1910)
Private, 13th Foot
onboard HMS Collossus in 1861
In service in South Africa in the late 1870’s
3rd great-grandfather
George Christmas Leggett (1849 – 1914)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
Killed in action on-board HMS Aboukir – 22nd September 1914
1st cousin 5x removed
George Christmas Leggett & Edward George Leggett – Disaster at Sea
James Taylor Lording (1766 – 1837)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
7th great-uncle
John Brocket, Mariner of Stebonheath (1660 – 1701)
Captain
Royal Navy
11th great-grandfather
John Martin, of James Town (1560 – 1632)
Captain
2nd cousin 15x removed
James Duff (1729 – 1780)
Captain
1st cousin 8x removed
James Bollen (1630 – 1682)
Captain
2nd cousin 11x removed
Isaac Johnson (1668 – 1738)
Captain
9th great-uncle
Edward Hutchinson of Alford (1564 – 1631)
Captain
13th great-uncle
Edward Hutchinson (1613 – 1675)
Captain
2nd cousin 12x removed
Benjamin Sheldon (1697 – 1773)
Captain
1st cousin 8x removed
Alexander Innes, of Orkney and Blackhills (1506 – )
Captain
16th great-uncle
James Innes of Rothmagenzies (1502 – 1547)
Soldier
Killed in action during the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh – 10 September 1547
15th great-grandfather
Alexander Gordon, of Balmuir (1780 – 1842)
Captain
husband of 1st cousin 7x removed
Adam Gordon (1612 – )
Captain
11th great-uncle
John Ogle (1621 – 1686)
Captain
1st cousin 10x removed
Henry Ogle (1600 – 1669)
Captain
10th great-uncle
Nehemiah Bourne (1611 – 1691)
Rear Admiral
Royal Navy
1st cousin 13x removed
John Allen (1665 – 1702)
Able Seaman / Mariner
Royal Navy
11th great-grandfather
Thomas Howard (1622 – 1672)
Able Seaman / Mariner
Royal Navy
9th great-grandfather
Thomas Howard (1643 – 1691)
Able Seaman / Mariner
Royal Navy
9th great-uncle
William Gordon (1744 – 1768)
Lieutenant
Russian Navy
7th great-uncle
John Johnson, of Roxbury (1588 – 1659)
Captain
10th great-grandfather
William Llewellyn Bean (1931 – )
Corporal / Sergeant 4279877
Royal Artillery Pay Corps
Grandfather
William Ethelbert Bean (1897 – 1971)
Private 3753
Duke of Cambridge’s own (Middlesex) Regiment
1/7th Middlesex Pte
2nd great-uncle
Ernest Edward Palmer (1883 – )
Private 28148
Army Ordinance Corps
1st cousin 3x removed
Edward John Atkins (1897 – 1973)
Private A201382
King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Private 497515
London Regiment
2nd cousin 2x removed
Alfred Thompson (1874 – 1915)
Private 9997 2nd East Lancashire Regiment
Killed in Action – 9 May 1915
husband of 1st cousin 3x removed
Claxton Winter (1880 – 1943)
Driver 219987 Royal Engineers
husband of 1st cousin 3x removed
Walter Henry Gray (1876 – )
Private 6297 R E Transportation Branch
husband of 1st cousin 3x removed
Thomas Huckle (1893 – )
Able Seaman / Stoker
Royal Navy
1st cousin 3x removed
Frederick Huckle (1895 – 1962)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
1st cousin 3x removed
George Huckle (1898 – 1918)
Private 43278 Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Killed in action 24 March 1918
1st cousin 3x removed
Horace Huckle (1900 – 1988)
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
1st cousin 3x removed
Harry Bean (1883 – )
Private 41129 (unknown regiment)
1st cousin 3x removed
William Charles Crook (1891 – 1916)
Private 641 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment
Private L/9409 2nd Bn Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment
Killed in action – 31 July 1916 / Iraq
1st cousin 3x removed
Frank Thomas Sibley (1893 – 1956)
Private 2609 London Regiment
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
1st cousin 3x removed
Walter Richard Myhill (1879 – 1945)
Private M2/077648 Army Service Corps
3rd great-uncle
John Baylis (1818 – 1896)
1st Bn Coldstream Guards (Joined 1836)
1st Bn embarked for Crimea in 1854 and played an important part in the Battle of Alma
husband of 4th great-aunt
Robert Alfred Baylis (1876 – )
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
Thomas Hudson (- 1916)
Private 16364
1st Bn King’s own Scottish Borders
Killed in action France and Flanders – 1 July 1916
husband of 2nd great-aunt
Robert Ernest Rollings (1899 – 1955)
Private, Canadian Army
husband of 2nd great-aunt and cousin
William Price Barker Leggett (1884 – 1973)
U.S.A WW1 & WW2 Soldier
1st cousin 4x removed
Magnus Flett (1884 – 1942)
Steward
S.S Laconia
Died at sea on-board S.S. Laconia
1st cousin 4x removed
Edward Flett (1892 – 1929)
Acting Sergeant 204107 The King’s (Liverpool) Regiment
1/9th K.L.R.
7415 Cpl, 1st K.L.R
1st cousin 4x removed
Percy William Leggett (1883 – )
Able Seaman
Royal Navy
1st cousin 4x removed
Charles Albert Rollings (1891 – 1917)
Private 234852 52nd Battalion
killed in action – 18 July 1917
1st cousin 4x removed
Edmund Lionel Plaskett (1881 – 1952)
Private 80788 1st London Regiment
Private 374947 The Labour Corps
2x great-grandfather
John Challen (1810 – 1882)
Private with the 52nd foot
Corporal with Royal Canadian Regiment of Rifles
5th great-uncle
John Gordon (1775 – 1839)
Sergeant Gordon Highlanders – 75th & 92nd foot
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo
6th great-uncle
William Thomas Challen (1892 – 1914)
Acting Sergeant 8219 – Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
2nd cousin 4x removed
Stephen Henry Challen (1897 – 1916)
L Corporal 12856 – 8th Bn Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
2nd cousin 4x removed
Leonard Edward Hanson (1892 – 1917)
Third Engineer, Mercantile Marines
Killed in Action onboard HMS Lux – 8 February 1917
2nd cousin, 4x removed
Hercules Hopkins (1881 – 1916)
Private 3303, Coldstream Guards
Killed in Action – 14 November 1916
2nd cousin, 6x removed
Alfred George Woodhouse (1893 – 1917)
Private 38632, 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
Killed in Action – 9 October 1917
1st cousin, 4x removed
Harry George Prior (1880 – 1917)
Rifleman S/31936, 16th Battalion Rifle Brigade
Killed in Action – 23 October 1917
1st cousin, 4x removed
Reginald Prior (1881 – )
1901, Dragoons of the Line
1st cousin, 4x removed
John Woodhouse (1889 – 1965)
Private 178036
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex) Regiment
1st cousin, 4x removed
George Aylott (1860 – 1936)
Private / Corporal 2353
2nd Dragoon Guards
4th great-uncle
Richard Curtis Gilham (1895 – )
Private / 151713
Royal Engineers
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