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k) Survivors
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Flight Officer W.H. Evans R.N. who had been the organist and choirmaster at St John the Baptist, Hampton Wick’s Parish Church, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 11 July 1917, obtained his Royal Aero Club’s pilot certificate in the summer of 1917. He had only just come out of hospital having suffered an accident whilst flying
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Company Sergeant Major Fairey of the 10th Royal Fusiliers (formerly of the East Surrey Regiment) was awarded a Military Medal in 1918 for gallantry and devotion to duty during severe fighting in France, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 5 October 1918.
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John Hope Fawcett of Walnut Tree House, Lower Teddington Road, Hampton Wick served as a Major during World War One in the Indian Army [and according to the December 1918 issue of the Kingstonian Magazine was awarded a Frontier Medal for his service].
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Arthur Thomas Fullick was the younger brother of Alfred Percy Fullick who is commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial. Arthur was born in 1896 and also joined the army.
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Alfred Fullick, one of the brothers of Pioneer Alfred Percy Fullick who is commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial, was, according to The Surrey Comet’s obituary of him dated 6 July 1916, serving in France attached to the Black Watch at the time of his brother’s death on 30 June 1916. He had been in France since the outbreak of the conflict so may have been a regular soldier,
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Private Eddie Goddard of the Gordon Highlanders (Scout Section) who lived at 16 Warwick Road was wounded in the face by shrapnel on 7 May 1917 and was treated in the No 3 Canadian General Hospital, Boulogne.
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A number of members of the Hampton Wick/Teddington Goodright family served in the Great War. They may be related to Henry Albert Goodright who is commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial.
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Sergeant James Gully of the Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps (The Tanks) of 37 Wick Road, at this period located within the postal district of Hampton Wick, was, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 2 June 1917, awarded a bar in 1917 to his Military Medal (“MM”)which he had won at Ypres.
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Leading Seaman Philip L Gunn
According to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 24 June 1916, Leading Seaman Philip L Gunn, son of ex-Chief Petty Officer P J Gunn RN of 209 Kingston Road, then in the postal district of Hampton Wick, was presented at a special parade at the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham by the Commander-in-Chief of The Nore with the Distinguished Service Medal, for gallantry in the campaign in Mesopotamia.
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The old Hampton Wick Public Library where Leonard Hale lived
Sergeant Leonard Charles Hale served during the Great War with the Royal Fusiliers was wounded twice but survived the conflict being honourably discharged from the army in 1917.
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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