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k) Survivors
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According to a casualty list contained in The Surrey Comet dated 2 November 1918, an O Haycock (15807) serving with the East Surrey Regiment who came from Hampton Wick had ben wounded. Nothing further is known of this soldier or his connection to Hampton Wick.
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According to the obituary of Bandsman Harry Horace Hayes, in The Surrey Comet dated 15 January 1916, his father Ernest Nethercoat Hayes, formerly a Sergeant Instructor with the Royal Fusiliers, had rejoined his old regiment by that date.
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Bombardier Herbert Holman of 19 Warwick Rd, Hampton Wick, was included in the casualty lists of the wounded contained in The Surrey Comet on [ ] 1916 for the Battle of the Somme.
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Major Gordon Cecil Kennard of the Royal Engineers was a former resident of Hampton Wick who had lived in the village for 24 years. He had been born at the Thatched Cottage on Sandy Lane and was, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 16 January 1918, awarded a Military Cross. His mother and sister were living in Houston but his eldest sister had died just before Christmas 1917. They had all been members of the Skiff Club
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Lance Corporal Maurice Comley Lamb of the Honourable Artillery Company (“HAC”), was wounded by a bomb in May 1917 and, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 19 May 1917, afterwards recovered in a hospital in Aldershot.
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Sergeant Landsell of the Army Service Corps wrote a letter home to Hampton Wick which was reported in The Surrey Comet on 26 September 1917 about his service in the Middle Eastern campaigns.
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Lance Sergeant Manning of the Royal Fusiliers was, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 8 July 1916, wounded in the Battle of the Somme. He was shot in the leg and by the date of the report was already back in England in the Highland Military Hospital in Liverpool. He was the only son of Mrs Manning of the Council Offices, Hampton Wick. He is not listed in the Commonwealth War Graves Register so, presumably, survived the War.
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Lance Corporal John Robert Port Mew of the Middlesex Regiment left Kingston Grammar School on 1 June 1918 and shortly afterwards joined the Middlesex Regiment.
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Private Edgar Minnett of 44 High Street, Hampton Wick, served with the Army Service Corps (MT Depot).
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Private Edgar Minnett of 44 High Street, Hampton Wick, served with the Army Service Corps (MT Depot).
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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