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k) Survivors
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Lieutenant AHR Phillips of the Army Service Corps was the eldest son of Major and Mrs Phillips of Longfield, 35 Broom Road, then within the postal district of Hampton Wick. He announced his engagement in The Surrey Comet on 3 July 1918 and survived the war.
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According to the 1918 edition of The Kingstonian, 2nd Lieutenant Frank Percy Restall served in the Royal Garrison Artillery and survived the war. He was the younger brother of Lieutenant Kenneth Restall who is commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial.
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Saddler QM Sergeant FJ Sapeworth of the Royal Field Artillery featured in an article in The Surrey Comet on 13 January 1917 to demonstrate the desperate need for men to serve in the army.
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Sergeant George Glenmore Sheppard (1369) of the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment survived the Great War.
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Hope Cottage, Hampton Court, the Smith family home in 1913
Frederick William Smith was the older brother of Ernest George Smith who is commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial. More details of the Smith family are given under his entry.
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2nd Lieutenant PA Symmons of the Tanks Corps was awarded the Military Cross in the summer of 1918, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 3 August 1918 which prints the official citation for its award. He was the son of Mr J Symmons of Lincoln Lodge, Sandy Lane, Hampton Wick. His father was a prominent member of the Hampton Wick Urban District Council.
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According to the obituary in The Surrey Comet dated 25 July 1917 of Private Thomas Henry Tansley, one of the men commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial,he had another (unnamed) brother who had served in the army for eight months before June 1917 who had been medically discharged.
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Private William Taylor of the Warwickshire Regiment was one of four sons of Mr William Taylor of Caxton House,47 High St, Hampton Wick who, according to the obituary of Gunner Harry Taylor in The Surrey Comet dated 25 July 1917, were serving in the army at the date of Harry’s death. Gunner Harry Taylor is commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial
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Gunner Charles Taylor was, according to the obituary in The Surrey Comet dated 25 July 1917 of his brother, Gunner Harry Taylor (one of the casualties commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial), one of the four sons of Mr William Taylor of Caxton House, 47 High St, Hampton Wick, who were serving in the army in 1917.
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Corporal James Taylor, originally of the Worcestershire Regiment but subsequently transferred to the Royal Engineers (Tunnelling Corps), was one of the four sons of Mr William Taylor of Caxton House, 47 High St, Hampton Wick who, according to the obituary of Gunner Harry Taylor (one of the men commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial) in The Surrey Comet dated 25 July 1917, were serving in France 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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