The Men on the

War Memorials

World War 1 1914-1918

Broadwey

Drew Reginald (James Blakeney)

Approx 1888 - 1918

Died: 16/09/1918

Age : 30

Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Regiment: Royal Navy

Ship: HMS Glatton

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Kent, Woodlands Cemetery, Gllingham Kent

The memorial, where many of the men who lost their lives are buried, is in the Naval section at Gillingham (Woodlands) cemetery, Kent.

'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE HONOURED MEMORY OF FOUR OFFICERS AND NINETY-FOUR MEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES THROUGH THE DISASTER TO HMS GLATTON ON THE 16TH SEPTEMBER 1918 ONE OFFICER AND FIFTY-SIX MEN ARE BURIED IN THIS GRAVE'

Son of WB Drew of Donnington, Fareham. Husband of Norah Drew of Lorton House, Broadwey

HMS Glatton and her sister ship Gorgon were originally built as coastal defence ships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastal_defence_ship for the Royal Norwegian Navy, as Bjørgvin andNidaros respectively. She was purchased from Norway at the beginning of World War I, but was not completed until 1918 although she had been launched over three years earlier.

On 16 September 1918, before she had even gone into action, she suffered a large fire in one of her 6-inch magazines, and had to be torpedoed to prevent an explosion of her main magazines that would have devastated Dover.

Her wreck was partially salvaged in 1926, and moved into a position in the north-eastern end of the harbour where it would not obstruct traffic. It was subsequently buried by landfill underneath the current car ferry terminal.

548 Supplement TO-THE LONDON-GAZETTE, 12, JANUARY, 1916.The following officers and men are commended for service in action:

Lieutenant Reginald James Blakeney Drew, RN

Supplement TO-THE LONDON-GAZETTE, 26 April 1918.

Mentioned in dispatches - Lieutenant Commander Reginald James Blakeney Drew, RN

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Upwey

Durrant Frederick Charles

Approx 1883 - 1917

Died: 12/05/1917

Age : 24

Rank: Private Service Number: '29632'

Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment, 13th Bn.

Enlisted at Weymouth

Country died/cemetery or memorial: France, BRAY MILITARY CEMETERY, II. G. 14.

The cemetery was begun in April 1916 by fighting units and field ambulances. In September 1916, the front line having been pushed further east, it was used by the XIV Corps Main Dressing Station and in 1917, the 5th, 38th and 48th Casualty Clearing Stations came forward and used it. In March 1918, the village and the cemetery fell into German hands, but were retaken by the 40th Australian Battalion on 24 August, and during the next few days the cemetery was used again. Bray Military Cemetery now contains 874 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 127 of which are unidentified.

Son of Charlotte Ann Durrant, of Chapel Cottage, Elwell Street, Upwey, and the late Joseph Durrant.

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Broadwey

Ford James

No info at present

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Not on memorial but had a village connection

GILBERT GILBERT GARNET

1900 - 1918

Died: 18/03/1918

Age: 18

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Regiment: King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 9th Bn.

Formed at Lancaster in October 1914 as part of K3 and came under command of 65th Brigade, 22nd Division. Landed in France September 1915. October 1915 : moved to Salonika, Macedonia

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Greece, DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERY, V. E. 16.

The cemetery (originally known as Colonial Hill Cemetery No.2) was formed at the end of 1916 as a cemetery for the Doiran front. After the Armistice, graves were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields and from by some small burial grounds.

Born at Upwey Manor, Gilbert was the youngest son of John Brettell Gilbert and Sara Elizabeth Gilbert, of Wilton House, Ryde, Isle Of Wight.

Enlisted 30th Sept 1915; attached to no. 8 Officer Cadet Battalion (Lichfield) 4th Aug 1916; gazetted to 3rd Dorset Regt Nov 1916.

From: 12648 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 28 DECEMBER, 1916.The undermentioned cadets to be temp. 2nd Lts. (on prob.) (attd.): -Dorset. R'. - Cadet Gilbert Garnet Gilbert to be temp. 2nd Lt. (on prob.) (attd.). 22 Nov. 1916.

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Broadwey

Godden Arthur (Allen Jesse)

Died: 08/05/1917

Age :

Rank: Private Service Number: 31705

Regiment: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Batt

Country died/cemetery or memorial: France, Arras Memorial Pas de Calais - Killed in action.

Enlisted at Dorchester

Born Came Dorset, resident of Broadwey

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Broadwey

Gordon-Steward Charleton (William)

Died: 12/04/1917

Age :

Rank: Major

Regiment: Northumberland Fusiliers, 198th Infantry

Country died/cemetery or memorial: France, Gorre British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, Plot 1, G,12

Killed in action.

Son of Brig Gen CS/Mrs Gordon Steward;

Husband of EB Gordon-Steward of the Round House, Nottington

Newspaper report 1:

Major Gordon-Steward Killed - A Distinguished Career

Widespread regret will be felt at the news of the death in action of Major Charleton William Gordon-Steward, the only son of Colonel CS and Mrs Gordon-Steward of Nottington. The blow is a terrible one to the bereaved widow and to the father and mother, and they are assured of universal sympathy in their heavy bereavement. Major Gordon-Steward was killed in action on April 12th.

Educated at Dulwich and Sandhurst, he joined the West Yorkshire Regiment in 1896 and proceeded with that regiment to China, a country he travelled from east to west, accompanying the British Consul from Hong Kong to Szumao, and thence alone to Mandalay and Rangoon. Transferring to the Chinese Regiment, he took part with that corps in the operations of 1901 (medal). Promoted captain in 1902 in the Northumberland Fusiliers, he was specially employed in the South African Military Survey 1903-5 and later in 1908 in secret service in German West Africa, necessitating a strenuous crossing og the Kalahari Desert. Retiring in 1910, he was recalled for service on the outbreak of the Great War and for the past 2½ years, until the time of his death was brigade-major of his brigade, and was mentioned in dispatches of 24 February 1917. Letters from the front record how 'As brigade-major he earned the affection of all ranks; nothing was too much trouble for him, everyone looking on him as an ideal soldier.'

Major Gordon-Steward was a fine draughtsman and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He married Nell, daughter of the late Dr MF Simon and Mrs Simon of Windermere, Spa Road, Radipole and leaves a widow and one son.

The death of this gallant officer will be deplored, not only in social circles, but in public life here. For some time before the war he had acted as secretary to the Princess Christian Hospital, emulating the splendid example of his father in giving valued and efficient service to this institution. To none will the news of his death come with such a sense of personal loss as to the Committee of Management.

2nd report

Major CW Gordon-Steward

It is with feelings of poignant sorrow and deep sympathy that the many friends of Colonel CS Gordon-Steward of Nottington House hear that his only son, Brigade-Major CE Gordon-Steward has fallen. Before the war he held the position of secretary of the Princess Christian Hospital where he found a sphere of work which was peculiarly congenial to him. He did extremely valuable work, devoting himself to the interests of this great institution with intense zeal. He was a gentleman of singularly charming personality, a fearless soldier beloved by al ranks, in civil life he won the affection of all among whom he moved.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 14 NOVEMBER, 1914.

llth Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers, Captain C. W. Gordon-Steward, Reserve of Officers, to be temporary Major. Dated 17th October, 1914.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE 3 MARCH 1915

Brigade Majors: Temporary Major CW Gordon-Steward, 8th (Service) Battalion The Northumberland Fusiliers and to be removed to the General List, New Army dated 20.12.1914

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 21 NOVEMBER, 1919

INFANTRY.

North'd Fus.- Capt. C. W. Gordon-Steward (since killed in action) to be Maj. 8th Jan.1916, but not to carry pay or allowance® of that rank, unless holding temp, or actg. higher rank with pay and allowances.

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Broadwey

Hanham Horace (Edwin)

Approx 1894 - 1917

Died: 22/07/1917

Age : 23

Rank: Private Service Number: 17658

Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment, 2nd Batt

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Iraq, Baghdad War Cemetery, VI/E/4

Also on Dorchester Cenotaph and St George's Church memorial

Enlisted at Dorchester

Born in Dorchester, the son of Thomas and Mary Hanham.

Husband of Mary Jane Hanham of 3 Kildare Terrace, Icen Rd, Broadwey

Pg 175 of Dorchester Remembers by Brian Bates 2012

Horace Hanham was the second Dorchester soldier to die of heat stroke in Mesopotamia within a week. The regimental history of the 2nd Battalion makes several mentions of the hostile conditions the men had to work in and the high rates of sickness, pointing out, for instance, that in the month of Joseph Lock's and Horace's death, operations at Ramadi had to be cancelled because of the extreme temperatures and that 'the battalion was lucky to escape having to march in such dreadful heat.'

Horace was the son of Thomas, a sergeant of the Dragoon Guards, and Mary who lived at 2 Alington Road. A one-time member of All Saint's Church choir, Horace worked as a grocer's assistant and a year before his death married Mary Jane Wilkins from Broadwey.

He died at No 16 Casualty Clearing Station in Baghdad on 22 July and was buried in Baghdad (North Gate)

Cemetery.

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Broadwey

Hounsell Harry (Walter)

1884 - 1916

Died: 28/04/1916

Age : 31

Rank: Private Service Number: 404371

Regiment: Canadian Infantry, 4th Batt

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Belgium, Woods Cemetery,Ieper, West laanderen, IV, A10

Baptised at St Nicholas 8-6-1884. Son of Walter John Bowditch Hounsell and Clara Louisa Hounsell of Springfield, Broadwey. Father a Stonemason

Husband of Emily (nee Osmond) of 31 Newberry Terrace, Weymouth. Married 22.1.1913 at St Nicholas Church.

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Broadwey

Hunt George

Approx 1880 - 1915

Died: 25/01/1915

Age : 35

Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 5125

Regiment: Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Reg), 2nd Batt

Country died/cemetery or memorial: France, I,H47 RUE-DAVID MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX

The cemetery was begun by the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers in December 1914 and closed to Commonwealth burials in December 1917.

2nd Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment were in Gibraltar when war broke out in August 1914, they returned to England, landing Southampton on the 3rd of September 1914. They joined 21st Brigade, 7th Division at Lyndhurst.in the New Forest in Hampshire. The Division landed at Zeebrugge on the 7th of October 1914, to assist in the defence of Antwerp, they arrived too late prevent the fall of the city and took up defensive positions at important bridges and junctions to aid in the retreat of the Belgian army. The 7th Division then became the first British Troops to entrench in front of Ypres, suffering extremely heavy losses in the The First Battle of Ypres. - See more at: http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/wiltshireregiment2-gw.php#sthash.CNMYr5Ph.dpuf

Killed in action.

Husband of Edith Florence Ford (formerly Hunt) of Littlemead Cottages

George from Monk Breton, Yorkshire married Edith Florence (nee Otter) at Broadwey on 8.7.1911

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Upwey

Hurst Henry

Approx 1880 - 1917

Died: 26/10/1917

Age : 37

Rank: Private; Service Number: '290729'

Regiment: Devonshire Regiment, 9th Bn.

October 1917 - 3rd Ypres, Battle of Passchendaele. Attack astride the Ypres-Menin road in attempt to capture Gheluvelt. Atrocious conditions: untold odds, very heavy shelling, appaling mud. A battle against pill-boxes and machine-guns, with very heavy casualties.

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Belgium, TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Panel 38 to 40.

Tyne Cot is the largest CWGC Cemetery on the Western Front with 11,953 burials. This includes those believed to be buried in the Cemetery, or whose graves had been destroyed. This would have occurred because the Cemetery was started in October 1917, after the taking of the nearby village of Paschendaele, but fighting continued in the region and the Germans retook the ground and held it between 13 April to 28 September 1918.

Son of Robert and Mary Hurst, of Upwey, Dorset;

Husband of Louisa Mary Hurst (nee Sawyer), of Oxford House, 130 Abbotsbury Rd., Weymouth, Dorset. They married at St Paul's Church, Westham, Weymouth in December 1914

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Broadwey

James Reginald

Approx 1896 - 1917

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Broadwey

Jesty Edgar

Approx 1885 - 1915

Died: 21/08/1915

Age : 30

Rank: Private; Service Number: 571

Regiment: Dorset Yeomanry, Queens Own

The Yeomanry was the mounted arm of the Territorial Force; a part-time version of the cavalry which was established in 1908 but drawing upon militia and volunteer units dating back many decades.

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Turkey, Commemorated on HellesMemorial Turkey,panel 17/18

Enlisted at Weymouth. Killed at Gallipoli.

The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Commonwealth and French forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea.

The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac. On 6 August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launched on all three fronts. However, the difficult terrain and stiff Turkish resistance soon led to the stalemate of trench warfare. From the end of August, no further serious action was fought and the lines remained unchanged. The peninsula was successfully evacuated in December and early January 1916.

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Not on memorial but had a village connection

JOLLIFFE JOSEPH

1890 - 1918

Died: 18/09/1918

Age: 28

Rank: Private - number '27826'

Regiment: Wiltshire Regiment 6th Bn.

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Germany, Berlin South-Western Cemetery XI. C. 7.

In 1922-23 it was decided that the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died all over Germany should be brought together into four permanent cemeteries. Berlin South-Western was one of those chosen and in 1924-25, graves were brought into the cemetery from 146 burial grounds in eastern Germany.

There are now 1,176 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the Commonwealth plot at Berlin South-Western Cemetery. The total includes special memorials to a number of casualties buried in other cemeteries in Germany whose graves could not be found.

Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Jolliffe, of Haush Hill, Upwey.

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Broadwey

Leach Thomas

No info at present

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Broadwey

Legg Cyril (Arthur)

Born approx. 1900 - 1918

Died: 21/10/1918

Age : 18

Rank: Private; Service Number: 29117

Regiment: Hampshire Reg, 1st Batt

Country died/cemetery or memorial: France/Flanders, St Vaast Cemetery, D,10

Enlisted at Dorchester, a resident of Broadwey.

Also on Dorchester Cenotaph - Pg 229 of Dorchester Remembers by Brian Bates 2012

At a time when the average size of a family was much larger than today overcrowding in Dorchester was not uncommon. Such was the case of Arthur Legg's family, which lived at 5 Hillside Terrace, off Fordington Hill. The cottage had three bedrooms, which in 1911 were being shared by Arthur, his wife Fanny, their 5 daughters and 3 sons.

The nature of the warfare in which their eldest son Cyril was involved, in October 1918, was very different to the previous years of attrition in the trenches. The 1st Hampshires were now fighting a more open form of battle where the more rapid advances that were being made left no time for trench digging. On 20 October the battalion went into action marking the second stage of fighting along the River Selle, Picardie, behind which the Germans were trying to make a stand. There were no complicated trench systems to be captured and no swathes of barbed wire to be cut, and the local villages were intact instead of consisting of smoking piles of rubble. Cyril and his comrades spent two nasty days on 20/21 October dug in east of the village of Haspres, in heavy rain and under constant shelling by the enemy, which consisted largely of gas shells. Cyril was killed in action on 21 October and was buried in St Vaast Communal Cemetery, Nord.

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Broadwey

Long Basil (Andrew)

Born approx. 1875 - 1917

Died: 10/02/1917

Age : 42

Rank: Captain

Regiment: Kings Own Royal Lancaster, 11th Batt

The 11th Battalion was the last to be raised in June 1915. This was a 'Bantam Battalion' so-called because it accepted men below the official height requirement. It took many miners from the central Lancashire coal field. They served in France and Flanders from June 1916 to 1918.

Country died/cemetery or memorial: France/Somme, Heilly Station Cemetery, VI,A11

The 36th Casualty Clearing Station was at Heilly from April 1916. It was joined in May by the 38th, and in July by the 2/2nd London, but these hospitals had all moved on by early June 1917.

The cemetery was begun in May 1916 and was used by the three medical units until April 1917. From March to May 1918, it was used by Australian units, and in the early autumn for further hospital burials when the 20th Casualty Clearing Station was there briefly in August and September 1918. The last burial was made in May 1919.

The burials in this cemetery were carried out under extreme pressure and many of the graves are either too close together to be marked individually, or they contain multiple burials. Some headstones carry as many as three sets of casualty details, and in these cases, regimental badges have had to be omitted. Instead, these badges, 117 in all, have been carved on a cloister wall on the north side of the cemetery.

Born in Croydon to Rev David & Clara Long

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Not on memorial but had a village connection

LOVELL FREDERICK CHARLES

1895 - 1917

Age: 22

Died: 16/08/1917

Rank: Lance Corporal '11016'

Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment 5th Bn.

Sailed from Liverpool on 3 July 1915, going via Mudros to land at Suvla Bay on 6 August 1915.

16 December 1915 : evacuated from Gallipoli and went to Egypt via Mudros. Moved to France, arriving Marseilles 9 July 1916.

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Belgium,Tyne Cot Memorial Panel 92.Tyne Cot is the largest CWGC Cemetery on the Western Front with 11,953 burials. This includes those believed to be buried in the Cemetery, or whose graves had been destroyed. This would have occurred because the Cemetery was started in October 1917, after the taking of the nearby village of Paschendaele, but fighting continued in the region and the Germans retook the ground and held it between 13 April to 28 September 1918.

Son of SusanLovell, of Lower Rd (?Watery Lane), Broadway, Weymouth.

Susan Lovell was buried at Broadwey Dec 1938

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Not on memorial but had a village connection

LOVERIDGE ALFRED GEORGE

1893 - 1915

Age: 22

Died: 21/08/1915

Rank: Private, service number '10363'

Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment 5th Bn.

Sailed from Liverpool on 3 July 1915, going via Mudros to land at Suvla Bay on 6 August 1915.

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Turkey (including Gallipoli); HELLES MEMORIAL,Panel 136 to 139.

The Helles Memorial serves the dual function of Commonwealth battle memorial for the whole Gallipoli campaign and place of commemoration for many of those Commonwealth servicemen who died there and have no known grave.

Son of Walter Charles and Fanny Ann Loveridge, of Friar Waddon, Upwey, Dorchester.

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Broadwey

Lugg James

c.1866 - 1915

Died: 25/01/1915

Age : 49

Rank: Private; Service Number: 5026

Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment, 4th Supply - Dorset National Reserve

Country died/cemetery or memorial: Dorset, Dorchester, Fordington Cemetery

At the time of his death he was living with his wife Mary at Littlemoor.

His son William was also killed - see below

Also on the Fordington WW1 War Memorial in Dorchester.

page 56 of Dorchester Remembers the Great War by Brian Bates 2012

On Christmas Day 1914 James Lugg, one of the National Reserve guarding the prisoners at Poundbury Camp, complained of feeling ill and was admitted to the Red Cross Hospital in Durngate Street. He was attended by doctors Walker and Gowering, but despite rallying for a time he had a relapse and died of heart trouble on 25 January 1915. There followed an impressive military funeral, which the Chronicle described to its readers in detail. His body was taken to the mortuary at the County Hospital and on the day of his funeral (26 January), no less than 160 members of the Dorset and Cornwall National Reserve were lined up waiting to accompany his body on its journey to Fordington Church. The procession took the longer route down High West Street and London Road, to avoid the possibility of the horses slipping on the steep gradient of Fordington High Street.

The son of Catherine Lugg, James came from Bere Regis where he worked as a butcher's lad. At the age of 21 he enlisted in the Army, serving with the Transport Corps for 12 years. After his discharge James and his wife Mary came back to Dorset and lived at Wool, having a family of 5. At the time of his death he was living with his wife Mary at Littlemoor.

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