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a) War memorial (A-F)
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Henry Peter Allanson
2nd Lieutenant Henry Peter Allanson of the 1st Battalion (attached to the 2nd Battalion) of the Suffolk Regiment died on 20 July 1916. He has no known grave but he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Private Harry Bates
Private Harry Bates was born at 7 Park Cottages, Walpole Road, Teddington on 8 July 1893 the youngest son of John and Mary Amelia Bates. Just days before his 23rd birthday, he was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916. He has no known grave so his death is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Roll of Honour in St John's Church, Hampton Wick on which Henry George Besant is commemorated
Private Henry George Besant (19898) of the 3rd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards died aged 32 on 21 September 1917. Given the date of his death and the location of his memorial, he was, presumably, a casualty of the Third Battle of Ypres (more commonly known as the Battle of Passchendaele).
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Lieutenant Edward Almachilde Bianchi was born in Fulham on 19 October 1892. His father, the impressively named Cecilio Scolastico Carravagi Bianchi, was born in 1858 in Como, Italy and died in Surrey on 4 March 1907. His mother, Angelino Arrigoni, shared an Italian name (and presumably an Italian heritage) but had been born in London in 1865 at Hatton Garden, the centre of the London Italian community. By the time of the 1911 Census his mother, a widow, lived at Glenmore, Upper Teddington Road, Hampton Wick (now part of Woffington Close) and described herself as Mrs Cecil (the anglicised version of Cecilio) or as (the even more anglicised version) “Jessie Mary” Bianchi.
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Private Thomas Blunden's obituary in The Surrey Comet dated 6 July 1918
Private Thomas Blunden (G/6268) of the 17th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was killed in action on 11 May 1918 in France/Flanders. His place of residence was Hampton Wick and he enlisted in Teddington (Source: UK Soldiers Died In Great War). He is buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery at Souchez in the department of Pas du Calais.
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Major Jonathan Maxwell Bruce
Major Jonathan Maxwell Bruce was a member of the Rosslyn Park Rugby Club which was based in the Old Deer Park in Richmond. Stephen Cooper for his excellent book (entitled The Final Whistle: The Great War in Fifteen Players), has researched the lives of the 108 Rosslyn Park Rugby Club Members who were casualties in the Great War. Thanks to his research we have some details of Major Bruce’s educational and service career, largely culled from De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour for Officers killed in the Great War and Major Bruce’s obituary. The obituary and Roll of Honour both include a photograph of Major Bruce resplendent in dress uniform and with a splendid twirled moustache.
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Second Lieutenant Cecil Bernard Cooper was born on 8 November 1889 according to the records of his old school, Tiffin Boys School. He was the son of Thomas Charles Cooper and Florence Louisa Cooper (nee Knowles). He was the younger brother of Captain Gerald Charles Mead Cooper. The family moved from Peckham (their home at the time of the 1891 Census) to Kingston by 1901.
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The grave of Captain Gerald Charles Mead Cooper in East Sheen & Richmond Cemeteries
Captain Gerald Charles Mead Cooper of the Royal Anglesey Royal Engineers died on 21 November 1918 at Crowborough of septic pneumonia following Spanish influenza.
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It has not been possible to identify William James Dawes through the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website and we have no other information about him at present.
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Private Walter Frank Dawn (1989) of the 1st/23rd Battalion of The London Regiment died on 25 May 1915 near Festubert. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial.
The first phase of this Project is to gather information about the men commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial who fought in the Great War, also known as World War I, WWI or the First World War.
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