Service no.

M2/134509

Unit

Army Service Corps (Motor Transport), attached II Corps Heavy Artillery

Died

14 July 1916, killed in action, aged 23

Buried

Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme. Grave I. T. 30.

Family

Son of Mary Emma Atkins (née Butler) of the Bush Inn, Aylesford, and the late George Atkins

Born at Southborough, near Tunbridge Wells, where in 1901 the family lived at Bentham Hill Stables and his father was a coachman. A commercial traveller by trade, George enlisted in October 1915 and trained as a motor driver and mechanic at the Army Service Corps depot at Grove Park, Lee. He went to France in May 1916 and was killed two months later serving with No. 406 Motor Transport Company. His mother was told of his death that September.

Service no.

R/8472

Unit

7th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Died

3 August 1916, at home, of wounds

Buried

Aylesford (St Peter) Churchyard. Special Memorial.

Family

Son of Frederick and Lucy Avards

Born at Lamberhurst. In 1901 his father was licensee of the Bockingford Arms in the Loose Valley, Maidstone. Frederick went to France in May 1915 and died at home of wounds received on the Western Front. He is one of the war graves in Aylesford churchyard.

Status

Not yet identified

Possible lead

Ex-Gunner William Henry Barnes, 3925, Royal Garrison Artillery

No certain record yet. One possibility is a Royal Garrison Artillery gunner of this name discharged on 18 April 1917 as no longer fit for war service, with a Silver War Badge and a pension for lung tuberculosis aggravated by service. He is not commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission; the Kent Fallen researchers were looking into submitting his case.

Service no.

G/1291

Unit

7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Died

3 October 1916

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Pier and Face 5 D. He has no known grave.

Family

Son of the late William and Eliza Broomfield; brother of Miss Susannah Broomfield, High Street, Aylesford

Born and lived in Aylesford. A general labourer, he enlisted at Chatham on 1 September 1914, aged 32, and went to France in July 1915. After the war his sister received his 1914–15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.

Status

Not yet identified

No record has yet been found that can be tied to Aylesford.

Service no.

CH/494(S)

Unit

Chatham Battalion, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry

Born

4 October 1895, Otford

Died

7 June 1915, Gallipoli, aged 19

Commemorated

Helles Memorial, Turkey. Panel 2.

Family

Son of William and Louisa Clark of Forstal Farm, Aylesford

One of three Clark brothers on the memorial. The family had lived at Sevington, near Ashford, where Frank went to the old Willesborough School and then worked for Mr T. Chapman of Sevington Court. He served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force from February 1915.

Service no.

G/1289

Unit

6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Died

3 July 1916, killed in action, aged 26

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Pier and Face 5 D.

Family

Son of William and Louisa Clark of Forstal Cottages, Forstal Farm, Aylesford

A brickmaker, Frederick enlisted at Chatham on 1 September 1914, the same day as Albert Broomfield, whose service number is next to his. He rose from Lance Corporal in October 1915 to Serjeant in June 1916, and was killed in the opening days of the Battle of the Somme.

Service no.

T/203583

Unit

6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Honours

Military Medal

Died

21 November 1917, aged 24

Buried

Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, Somme. Grave III. B. 22.

Family

Son of William and Louisa Clark of Forstal Farm, Aylesford

Born at Otford. In 1901 the family lived at Kiln Farm, Otford, where his father William, from Rye, was a farm stockman. Brother of Frank and Frederick.

Service no.

48397 (formerly 179462, R.F.A.)

Unit

21st (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

Died

26 April 1917

Buried

Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez. Grave XV. J. 16.

Family

Son of Edward and Ellen Costin

Born at Wateringbury and enlisted at Maidstone. Also named on the Wateringbury war memorial.

Service no.

L/7195

Unit

4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

Honours

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Died

26 October 1914, aged 38

Commemorated

Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais. Panel 6.

Family

Son of the late Edward and Mary Damms; husband of Florence Ethel Damms (née Waterman) of 2 Railway Cottages, Mill Hall, Aylesford

Born at Shouldham, Norfolk; in 1891 he was in the Union Workhouse at Downham. A regular soldier, he won his gallantry medal at Onderbroek Hill, South Africa, on 24 February 1900 with the 2nd Battalion. He landed in France with the 4th Battalion on 13 August 1914 and was killed in the first autumn of the war.

The memorial reads Cecil Ernest Damms, D.C.M.; the source transcription gives Cecil Arthur, and also calls his medal the Distinguished Service Medal. The CWGC record and the medal roll should settle both.

Unit

Railway Supply Officer (Ham, France), Army Service Corps; formerly Driver J/331080

Died

13 November 1918, two days after the Armistice, aged 40

Buried

Bristol (Canford) Cemetery. Section V, Grave 4665.

Family

Son of Thomas and Ellen Danes of Aylesford; husband of Beatrice Frances Danes of The Pynes, Canterbury

Born in Aylesford, Thomas rose from the ranks to a commission. He is also named on a memorial plaque in All Saints Church, Whitstable.

Service no.

493530

Unit

2nd/1st Home Counties Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps

Died

21 April 1918, of wounds from a gas shell, aged 21

Buried

St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. Grave P. VII. A. 4A.

Family

Son of the late Charles David and Lydia Easton of Aylesford

Born and brought up in Aylesford High Street, where his father, from Woodford in Essex, was a draper’s assistant. A carpenter, Charles enlisted in March 1915 giving his address as The Supply Store, Aylesford, his uncle Frederick John Easton’s home. He sailed for France in January 1917 and died at No. 6 General Hospital, Rouen. His medals were held back until his brother Harold, still serving with the 10th Essex, came home.

Service no.

8023 (formerly 4041, R.W.K.)

Unit

1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

Died

8 October 1916

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.

Family

Son of Mrs Emma Francis of Aylesford

Service no.

592968

Unit

426th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps; earlier The Buffs and Machine Gun Corps

Died

20 December 1918, of influenza, aged 37

Buried

Aylesford (St Peter) Churchyard. Row 36, Grave 13 (Special Memorial).

Family

Husband of Emily Green (née Chapman), 4 Park Road, Aylesford

A labourer, married with five children, Ernest enlisted in The Buffs in December 1914 but was discharged in April 1915 as unlikely to become an efficient soldier. He joined up again, this time in the Machine Gun Corps, and by September 1918 was in the Labour Corps. He caught influenza during the pandemic of 1918–19 and died in the Military Hospital at Canterbury.

Service no.

G/1290

Unit

7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Died

18 November 1916, aged 35

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Pier and Face 5 D.

Family

Son of Jane Green of 33 Forstal, Aylesford

Born at Boxley. His service number sits between Frederick Clark’s and Albert Broomfield’s: the three Aylesford men enlisted together at Chatham. Brother of Sidney.

Service no.

592830

Unit

1st/18th Battalion, London Regiment (London Irish Rifles); formerly 14th Middlesex

Died

7 April 1917, aged 33

Commemorated

Menin Gate, Ypres. Panel 54.

Family

Son of Henry and Jane Green of 33 Forstal, Aylesford

Born in Aylesford; living and enlisted at Enfield, Middlesex. The memorial gives him simply as Sidney Green.

Service no.

207576

Unit

“B” Battery, 83rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Died

30 November 1917, aged 37

Buried

Bard Cottage Cemetery, Boezinge, Belgium. Grave V. C. 29.

Family

Son of Harry Grinham of Frant; husband of Lily Grinham of Tangier Lodge Farm, Frant Forest

Born at Erpingham, Norfolk; enlisted at Maidstone.

His Aylesford connection is not stated in the records found so far.

Service no.

5411

Unit

15th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Died

1 February 1917, aged 23

Commemorated

Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, and the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. Panel 76.

Family

Son of Alfred John and Sarah Jane Hawkins (née Foot) of Charity Farm, Hollingbourne

One of three Hawkins brothers on the memorial. Born at Greywell, Hampshire, he went to St Paul’s School, Maidstone, and emigrated to Queensland at eighteen, working as a farm hand. He enlisted in November 1915 and sailed from Sydney in April 1916. His sister Winifred asked the Red Cross how he died; his comrades said he was shot by a sniper during a night attack on a German strongpoint near Gueudecourt and killed instantly.

Service no.

M2/081433

Unit

905th M.T. Company, Army Service Corps

Died

4 May 1917, at sea

Commemorated

Savona Memorial, Italy

Family

Son of Alfred John and Sarah Jane Hawkins of Charity Farm, Hollingbourne

Frank was aboard the troopship SS Transylvania, bound for Salonika, when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-63 in the Gulf of Genoa. A Japanese destroyer was taking off troops when a second torpedo struck and the ship sank; 412 men were lost. Those recovered were buried at Savona.

Service no.

L/10928

Unit

2nd Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Died

28 October 1918, in Mesopotamia, aged 21

Buried

Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq. Grave XVIII. F. 1/29.

The third Hawkins brother. Also named on the Hollingbourne war memorial.

The family lived at Hollingbourne; how they were connected with Aylesford is still to be found.

Service no.

G/21181

Unit

“D” Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment

Born

Ditton; enlisted at Maidstone

Died

10 April 1918, aged 20

Buried

Lillers Communal Cemetery. Grave V. F. 35.

Family

Parents at 26 High Street, Aylesford

The memorial reads William Henry Hodges, the last name on the first panel. This soldier fits: born next door in Ditton, family in Aylesford High Street. The source document lists him among men not on the memorial, and records his parents as “William Henry and Jane Green”, which looks like a slip for Hodges.

Service no.

5870 (formerly 18246, K.R.R.C.)

Unit

1st/19th Battalion, London Regiment (St Pancras)

Died

15 September 1916, aged 19

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Pier and Face 9 D 9 C 13 C and 12 C.

Family

Son of Philip and Ellen Hosmer of Mill Hall, Aylesford

Service no.

G/18980

Unit

8th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Died

7 November 1918, four days before the Armistice, aged 34

Commemorated

Vis-en-Artois Memorial. Panel 7.

Family

Husband of Edith Rose Laker (née Goodhew), 4 Pollyfield Cottages, Walderslade

Born at Reigate; lived in Aylesford and enlisted at Tonbridge in 1914.

Service no.

115770

Unit

233rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Died

3 September 1917, aged 37

Buried

Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium. Grave III. E. 17.

Family

Son of John and Martha Lines of Blackheath; husband of Idina Venetia (née Walker), of Trinity Place, Aylesford

A carman from Blackheath, married with one son, George enlisted in November 1915 and went to France in December 1916. The Army struggled to find his widow after his death. Their son George was later brought up by his grandmother, Emma Walker, at Trinity Place, Aylesford. George was brother-in-law of Herbert Elvin Walker, also on this memorial.

Service no.

73903

Unit

126th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Died

24 June 1917, killed in action, aged 34

Buried

Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Ypres. Grave I. B. 2.

Family

Son of William and Isabella Mannering of 35 Forstal Cottages, Aylesford

A fishmonger in Hammersmith, Robert enlisted in December 1915 and went to France in July 1916. He was in hospital in June 1917 and returned to duty only two days before he was killed. His family had moved from Hammersmith to Aylesford, and the Army did not know: they first heard of his death from their old neighbours. His mother wrote to the War Office that August with the new address. His brother Albert, a regular in The Buffs, survived the war.

Service no.

9044

Unit

4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers

Died

22 November 1916

Buried

St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. Grave O. II. J. 7.

Family

Son of John and Rose May

Born and enlisted at Maidstone.

Service no.

D/9518

Unit

4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards

Died

15 April 1918

Buried

Verchin Churchyard, Pas-de-Calais, south of the church

Born and lived in Aylesford; enlisted at Woolwich. He is the only Commonwealth serviceman buried at Verchin.

Service no.

81349

Unit

23rd (1st Sportsman’s) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

Died

6 October 1918, aged 36

Buried

Grevillers British Cemetery. Grave XVI. A. 4.

Family

Father of Mrs H. Bibby, 14 Industry Terrace, Brixton

Born at Mill Hall, Aylesford; living in South Lambeth when he enlisted.

Service no.

L/9834

Unit

1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Died

9 August 1915, aged 23

Commemorated

Menin Gate, Ypres. Panel 12.

Family

Son of Mr and Mrs S. Poole of 40 Forstal, Aylesford

Born at Forstal, Aylesford, John was a regular soldier before the war. His battalion was in Ireland in August 1914 and landed at St Nazaire that September, going into the line on the Aisne. He was one of 23 men of the battalion killed on 9 August 1915, near Ypres.

Unit

1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Honours

Military Cross

To France

12 October 1915

Died

28 June 1918

Commemorated

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 8.

Family

Son of Mrs Scott of “Aldon”, West Malling

Inscribed as John Scott, M.C. He is also named on the Ditton memorial.

The family address comes from the Kent Fallen transcription; the CWGC record itself gives no next of kin. Aldon is near Offham and West Malling.

Service no.

177442

Ship

H.M.S. Vanguard, Royal Navy

Born

24 September 1878, Kinson, Bournemouth

Died

9 July 1917, aged 38

Commemorated

Chatham Naval Memorial. Panel 21.

Family

Son of Martha H.W. Sheppard of “The Hut”, Little Preston, Aylesford

The battleship Vanguard blew up at anchor in Scapa Flow on the night of 9 July 1917, killing almost all of her crew. The sea is his grave.

Service no.

SD/5683

Unit

9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment

Died

1 September 1916

Buried

Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz. Grave I. B. 41.

Born in Aylesford. His battalion went into the trenches at Delville Wood, by Longueval, on 30 August 1916, and the Germans attacked the next afternoon. He died the following day.

Unit

1st/4th (Ross Highland) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, attached Royal Flying Corps

Died

22 August 1917, aged 24

Buried

Camberwell Old Cemetery, London. Grave 83. 12537.

Family

Son of J.F. Smith of New Cross; husband of Emily Augusta Smith of “Glengarry”, Christchurch, Hampshire

His Aylesford connection is not stated. Captain Syddall’s parents also lived at Christchurch, so the two families may have known each other.

Service no.

30777

Unit

12th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment

Died

26 September 1917, aged 21

Buried

Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt. Grave I. B. 29.

Family

Son of Thomas and Emily Smith of Stud Farm, Aylesford

Born at Lenham. Brother of Edward.

Service no.

49115

Unit

4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment

Died

30 June 1918, aged 19

Buried

Louvencourt Military Cemetery, Somme. Plot 1, Row E, Grave 19.

Family

Son of Thomas and Emily Smith of Stud Farm, Little Preston, Aylesford

Born at Walton-on-Thames. Killed nine months after his brother George.

Service no.

56429

Unit

26th Trench Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Died

17 July 1915, aged 24

Buried

Etaples Military Cemetery. Grave II. B. 22.

Family

Son of William Thomas and Mary Jane Stone of Aylesford

Born and lived at Mill Hall.

Unit

Canadian Infantry, and 65 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps

Born

1 October 1887, Toronto

Died

4 January 1918, in a flying accident, aged 29 (CWGC); his birth date makes him 30

Buried

Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension. Grave III. E. 13.

Family

Son of George and Elizabeth Sarah Syddall (née Mattingley)

Schooled in London, George joined the Canadian Bank of Commerce in 1913 and enlisted in Manitoba in July 1916, naming his mother, then of Aylesford, as next of kin. He was commissioned in the 223rd (Scandinavian) Battalion and made Captain and Adjutant, then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in May 1917. He was killed when the wing of his Sopwith Camel collapsed in a dive on a practice flight. He is in the Canadian First World War Book of Remembrance (page 509).

The CWGC gives his squadron as 56; the source says this is an error for 65.

Service no.

17455

Unit

3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards

Died

1 December 1917, aged 30

Buried

Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery. Grave VIII. E. 9.

Family

Son of George and Emma Walker of Trinity Place, Aylesford

Born and lived in Aylesford. Killed in the fighting at Cambrai. Brother-in-law of George Edward Lines.

Service no.

G/1296

Unit

“A” Company, 6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Died

15 October 1915, aged 20

Buried

Bethune Town Cemetery. Grave IV. F. 33.

Family

Son of Robert Thomas and Alice Mary Wallis of Holden’s Cottages, Baker Street, Burham

Born and lived in Aylesford. Also named on the Burham war memorial.

Service no.

Y/1839

Unit

7th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Died

18 August 1916, aged 19

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial, Somme. Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B.

Family

Son of Phillip and Kate Wood of Forge House, Aylesford

Born at East Peckham, Cecil had been a chorister at Rochester Cathedral. On the afternoon of 18 August 1916 his battalion attacked Orchard Trench on the Somme in broad daylight. The barrage had wrecked the German front line, but 58 men of the battalion were killed that day.

Service no.

5114

Unit

1st Wing, Royal Air Force

Died

26 February 1919, aged 26

Buried

Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension, Belgium. Grave IV. M. 9.

Family

Son of William Francis and Emma Woodland of Rosemary House, Aylesford

Born in Maidstone; in 1901 the family lived at 10 Victoria Street, where his father was a gas fitter. He died after the Armistice while still serving.

Service no.

6348301

Unit

2/7th Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Honours

Distinguished Conduct Medal

Died

18 September 1944, aged 28

Buried

Ancona War Cemetery, Italy. Grave II. L. 9.

Family

Son of James Henry and Mary Bearman; husband of Alice Ellen Elizabeth Bearman of Aylesford

Service no.

14797458

Unit

7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry

Died

13 March 1945, aged 18

Buried

Uden War Cemetery, Netherlands. Grave 6. E. 8.

Family

Son of Nelson W. and Florence Dean (née Carr) of Aylesford

The youngest name on the Second World War panel.

Service no.

894139

Unit

135 (The Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Died

12 September 1940, aged 28

Buried

Aylesford (St Peter) Churchyard, north of the church

Family

Son of William and Mary Danes of Aylesford; husband of Dorothy Joy Danes of Maidstone

A pre-war Royal Artillery man. He died during the Battle of Britain and is buried at home in Aylesford.

Service no.

P/JX 212296

Ship

H.M.S. Hood, Royal Navy

Born

1912, Isle of Wight

Died

24 May 1941

Commemorated

Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Panel 51, Column 1.

Family

Son of Launcelot F. and Rose E.H. Phillips (née Woodnutt)

Lost with H.M.S. Hood when she was sunk by the Bismarck in the Denmark Strait. Only three of her crew of 1,418 survived. Photographs of him and his brother are on the H.M.S. Hood Association website (hmshood.com).

The memorial reverses his forenames, as Jack Lancelot Phillips.

Service no.

P/JX 212297

Ship

H.M.S. Hood, Royal Navy

Died

24 May 1941, aged 28

Commemorated

Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Panel 51, Column 1.

Family

Son of Launcelot F. and Rose E.H. Phillips; husband of Phyllis M. Phillips of Snodland

Lancelot’s brother. Their service numbers run consecutively, so they probably joined up together, and they died together. Also named on the Snodland war memorial.

Service no.

754015

Unit

500 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Died

30 August 1941, aged 22

Commemorated

Runnymede Memorial. Panel 50. He has no known grave.

Family

Son of Harry Arthur and Lilian Poole of Aylesford

500 Squadron flew Coastal Command patrols from Bircham Newton in Norfolk.

Service no.

58286 (formerly 52005, Cheshire Regt.)

Unit

1/5th Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)

Died

5 October 1918, aged 18

Buried

Aylesford (St Peter) Churchyard. Special Memorial.

Family

Son of the late Thomas and Annie Locke

Born at Pembroke and enlisted at Carmarthen. He is buried in Aylesford churchyard, where eleven of the seventeen war graves are men from the Preston Hall military hospital, now the British Legion Village.

The source lists him on the memorial, but his name is not on either panel in the photographs.

Service no.

4781

Unit

1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Died

6 May 1916, aged 36

Commemorated

Menin Gate, Ypres. Panel 45; and the Eccles war memorial

Family

Husband of Caroline Browning (formerly Barden), Bull Cottages, Eccles

Born at Blue Bell Hill; lived in the parish.

Service no.

R/8507

Unit

10th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Died

3 September 1916

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial. Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B.

Born in Aylesford; living at Darlington, County Durham.

Service no.

3799 (formerly 4476, R.W.K.)

Unit

1st Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Died

25 September 1915, first day of the Battle of Loos

Buried

Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy. Grave III. A. 2.

Born and lived in Aylesford.

Service no.

L/10789

Unit

“A” Company, 1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Born

28 April 1898, Boxley

Died

10 April 1917, aged 18

Commemorated

Arras Memorial. Bay 7; and the Boxley war memorial (initials reversed)

Family

Son of Alfred William and Harriett Chapman, 11 Pratling Street, Aylesford

A gardener at Sandling when he enlisted in May 1915; in France from February 1917. Brother of Robert.

Service no.

G/5397

Unit

7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Died

12 October 1917, aged 23

Commemorated

Tyne Cot Memorial. Panel 17; and the Boxley war memorial

Family

Son of Alfred William and Harriett Chapman, 11 Pratling Street, Aylesford

In 1901 the family lived at Stream Cottages, Sandling, where his father was foreman at a clay pit.

Service no.

G/25358

Unit

6th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Died

30 June 1918, aged 19

Buried

Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert. Grave II. D. 10.

Family

Brother of Mrs A. Wildish, 8 Mill Road, Strood

Born in Aylesford; living in Strood.

Service no.

2045

Unit

Royal East Kent Yeomanry

Died

12 December 1915, aged 24

Buried

Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt. Grave D. 216.

Family

Son of the late Charles and Elizabeth Collins of Aylesford

Unit

2nd Battalion, East Surrey Regiment; formerly Serjeant, Artists Rifles

Died

12 March 1915, aged 27

Buried

Messines Ridge British Cemetery. Grave II. B. 3.

Family

Son of William Warwick and Mary de Buriatte (née Huxley) of The Mill House, Wraysbury

Born in Aylesford, son of the paper manufacturer William Warwick de Buriatte. The family name appears in several spellings, and was probably Isaac originally. Brother of Warwick.

Unit

92nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery; formerly Artists Rifles

Died

19 October 1918, aged 32

Buried

St Andrew’s Churchyard, Wraysbury

Family

Husband of Dorothy Wentworth (later Claye)

Having come through the fighting, Warwick was killed in a motorcycle accident at Enfield. His daughter Elizabeth was born four months later.

Service no.

TF/290501

Unit

1st/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment

Died

22 August 1917, in India, aged 27

Commemorated

Kirkee 1914–18 Memorial, India. Face 7; Dover war memorial; Dover Grammar School

Family

Son of Thomas Morris and Eliza Durban, 154 High Street, Hythe

Born in Aylesford; the family was in Dover by 1901.

Unit

“B” Company, 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment

Died

24 November 1914, aged 36

Buried

Le Touret Military Cemetery. Grave I. C. 8.

Family

Son of the Rev. Canon Grant of Aylesford; husband of Cara Grant

A Boer War veteran, Mentioned in Despatches.

Service no.

S/154

Unit

6th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Died

22 February 1915, aged 35

Commemorated

Aylesford (St Peter) Churchyard. Special Memorial.

Family

Son of William Grigsby; husband of the late Hetty Grigsby

Born at Boughton Monchelsea; lived at Eccles.

Service no.

G/26565

Unit

East Surrey Regiment, posted to 1/23rd Battalion, London Regiment

Died

13 July 1918, aged 19

Buried

Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension. Grave IV. H. 18.

Born in Aylesford; lived at Kettering, and named on the Kettering memorial.

Service no.

115590

Unit

67th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Died

25 October 1917

Buried

White House Cemetery, St Jean-les-Ypres. Grave III. M. 6.

Family

Husband of Elizabeth Harber (née Hogarth), 51 Mabel Street, Woking

Born in Aylesford. An excavator living at Plumstead when he enlisted in 1916. Named on the Woking memorial.

Service no.

P/88

Unit

Military Mounted Police

Died

21 August 1915, aged 49

Commemorated

Basra Memorial, Iraq. Panel 43.

Family

Son of George and Harriet Hedgcock; husband of Mary Hedgcock, 20 Dane Park Road, Ramsgate

Born in Aylesford.

Service no.

38403

Unit

73rd Field Company, Royal Engineers

Died

2 July 1917, aged 22

Buried

Brandhoek Military Cemetery. Grave II. L. 9.

Born in Hampshire; living in Aylesford when he enlisted at Maidstone.

Service no.

18876 (formerly G/8703, The Buffs)

Unit

3rd Battalion, Machine Gun Corps

Honours

Military Medal, won with The Buffs

Died

5 May 1918, aged 29

Buried

Etaples Military Cemetery. Grave LXVIII. A. 27.

Born in Aylesford; lived at Eccles.

Service no.

127672

Unit

6th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers

Died

29 April 1918, aged 20

Buried

Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery. Grave XIII. G. 13.

Born in Aylesford; his parents were later at Keeper’s Lodge, Thorndon Park, Brentwood.

Service no.

88862

Unit

122nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Died

30 October 1918

Buried

Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension. Grave I. E. 11.

Family

Son of George and Louisa Annie Jones, 1 Varnes Street, Eccles

Service no.

156204

Unit

47th Company, Machine Gun Corps

Died

5 September 1918, aged 22

Commemorated

Vis-en-Artois Memorial. Panel 10; and the Tenterden war memorial

Born at Tenterden; living in Aylesford.

Service no.

99888

Unit

167th Company, Labour Corps; formerly Devonshire Regiment

Died

6 July 1919, aged 40

Buried

Aylesford (St Peter) Churchyard. Grave 16.

Family

Son of Mrs Eliza Fidge; husband of Annie Wooding (formerly May), 6 Pleasant Row, Ditton

Born in Aylesford. He is named on the Ditton memorial.

Service no.

G/21970

Unit

8th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment)

Died

28 March 1918

Commemorated

Pozières Memorial. Panel 14.

Born in Aylesford; lived at Borden.

Service no.

35205

Unit

2nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery

Died

13 November 1918, aged 36

Buried

Tehran War Cemetery, Iran. Grave IV. G. 11.

Family

Husband of Edith Mabel Baker (formerly McLellan), 2 High Street, Aylesford

Born at Ayr.

Service no.

9645

Unit

2nd Battalion, Border Regiment

Died

26 October 1914, aged 20

Commemorated

Menin Gate, Ypres. Panel 35.

Born in Aylesford; family later at Lewisham. In France from 5 October 1914.

Service no.

25246

Unit

12th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment

Died

7 June 1917, first day of the Battle of Messines

Commemorated

Menin Gate, Ypres. Panel 34.

Born in Aylesford; lived at Chatham.

Service no.

G/24733

Unit

6th Battalion, The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Died

21 November 1917, aged 40

Buried

Tincourt New British Cemetery. Grave II. E. 20.

Family

Husband of Mabel Alice Ruck (née Monk), 1 Hosier Lane, New Hythe

A Boer War veteran living in Aylesford. Named on the East Sutton memorial.

Service no.

794603

Unit

“A” Battery, 155th Army Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Died

20 July 1918, aged 40

Buried

Bellacourt Military Cemetery. Grave III. B. 6.

Family

Son of Trayton William and Harriett Sands of Aylesford; husband of Alice M. Sands, “Rockhurst”, Alma Road, West Malling

Service no.

62858

Unit

20th (3rd Public Schools) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

Died

20 May 1917

Commemorated

Arras Memorial. Bay 3.

Born in Aylesford; lived at Eccles.

Service no.

2096

Unit

1st/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Died

1 July 1916, first day of the Somme

Commemorated

Thiepval Memorial. Pier and Face 9 A 9 B and 10 B.

Born in Aylesford; enlisted at Aston, Birmingham.

Service no.

S/32447

Unit

2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade

Died

31 March 1918, aged 19

Commemorated

Pozières Memorial. Panels 81–84.

Born in Aylesford; living at Grays, Essex.

Service no.

350804

Unit

15th Battalion, Essex Regiment

Died

25 March 1917

Buried

Great Yarmouth (Caister) Cemetery. Grave E. 7. 285.

Born in Aylesford; lived at Larkfield.

Unit

10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

Died

22 July 1918, aged 26

Buried

St John the Baptist Churchyard, Harrietsham

Born in Aylesford. Wounded at Bazentin-le-Petit in August 1916. Named on the Harrietsham memorial.

Service no.

G/392

Unit

6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Died

13 October 1915

Commemorated

Loos Memorial. Panel 19.

Born in Aylesford; lived at Eccles.

Service no.

T/5346864

Unit

516 Divisional Composite Company, R.A.S.C.

Died

10 September 1943, aged 33

Buried

Bone War Cemetery, Annaba, Algeria. Grave VIII. B. 13.

Family

Son of William and Avis Botten of Aylesford

Service no.

6346538

Unit

4th Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Died

12 April 1944, during the siege of Kohima, aged 25

Commemorated

Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar. Face 16.

Service no.

1259856

Unit

57 Squadron, R.A.F.V.R.

Died

18 August 1942, aged 22

Commemorated

Runnymede Memorial. Panel 80.

Family

Son of Ernest and Gertrude Rose Collins, British Legion Village, Aylesford

Service no.

2339398

Unit

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Died

24 December 1942, aged 27

Buried

Caserta War Cemetery, Italy. Grave IV. D. 20.

Named on the Eccles war memorial.

Died

27 September 1940, at Maidstone East railway yard, aged 61

Home

2 Bank View, Aylesford

Service no.

6350156

Unit

4th Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Died

4 September 1942, aged 27

Buried

El Alamein War Cemetery. Grave XXI. B. 12.

Family

Husband of Doris Mary Ann Firman of Aylesford

Service no.

14514073

Unit

1/7th Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment

Died

3 September 1944, aged 19

Buried

Canadian War Cemetery, Leubringhen. Grave 3. F. 7.

Named on the Eccles war memorial.

Service no.

1892933

Died

14 April 1944, aged 27

Buried

Aylesford Cemetery. S.E. Plot, Grave 6.

Family

Husband of Hilda Florence Gouldstone of Aylesford

Named on the Eccles war memorial.

Service no.

975974

Died

13 April 1945, aged 23

Buried

Karachi War Cemetery, Pakistan. Grave 1. A. 7.

Family

Husband of Dorothy Hurley of Aylesford

Service no.

7006373

Unit

30th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers

Honours

Military Medal

Died

2 January 1943, aged 52

Buried

Armagh (St Mark) Churchyard

Family

Husband of Aileen Caroline Love of Aylesford

Service no.

1506261

Unit

195 Battery, 61st Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Died

6 December 1943, aged 25

Buried

Catania War Cemetery, Sicily. Grave II. E. 11.

Family

Grandson of Mrs M.C. Pearce of Aylesford

Service no.

1255721

Unit

58 Squadron, R.A.F.V.R.

Died

9 May 1943

Commemorated

Runnymede Memorial. Panel 162; and the Birling war memorial

Family

Son of Arthur and Isabella Jane Rabjohn (née Calder) of Aylesford

Died

3 August 1944, at Maidstone West goods station, aged 34

Family

Son of Bert Tomlin of 39 Teapot Lane, Aylesford; husband of Violet Tomlin, 8 Carey Street, Maidstone

Service no.

14752854

Unit

1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment

Died

3 May 1947, in Malaya, aged 23

Buried

Kuala Lumpur (Cheras Road) Civil Cemetery. Grave 894.

Family

Nephew of William and Lucy E. Moon of Aylesford

Service no.

7681380

Unit

Corps of Military Police

Died

1 May 1946, aged 60

Buried

Aylesford Cemetery. S.E. Plot, Grave 13.

Family

Husband of Gertrude Cavanagh of Aylesford

Service no.

11402184

Unit

51 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Died

13 April 1947, aged 32

Buried

Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya. Grave 13. B. 8.

Family

Son of Charles and Lilian Herrington of Aylesford