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k) Survivors
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The Turner family's shop at 7 High Street, Hampton Wick
Private W F Turner (aged 20) of the Middlesex Regiment, eldest son of E W Turner of 3 Lower Teddington Road was, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 2 June 1917, in hospital in Egypt suffering from bullet wounds. One bullet had entered his shoulder and passed half way down his neck and the other had pierced his left thigh.
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2nd Lieutenant R Wade of the Royal West Kent Regiment was, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 25 July 1917, invalided home from Flanders in 1916 suffering from severe heart trouble.
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Lieutenant Arthur Wade was serving in the Somerset Light Infantry at the date of the wedding of his brother, Lt Ralph Wade (who is also included in the “survivors” section of this on-line memorial)in February 1918, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 23 February 1918.
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Captain the Honourable WJM Watson-Armstrong of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Northumberland Fusiliers married Miss Zaida Cecile Drummond-Wolff on 7 October 1917 at St John the Baptist’s Church, Hampton Wick in what the report in The Surrey Comet dated 31 October 1917 described as a “fashionable wedding”.
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The White family's greengrocer's at 2 High Street, Hampton Wick
Private Lewis White of the machine gun section of the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), the middle brother of Lance Corporal Alfred White DCM, who is commemorated on the Hampton Wick War Memorial had a close brush with death in October 1917, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 27 October 1917.
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G Webb at 10 High Street, Hampton Wick - the fishmongers and poulterers at which R Williams was manager (the photograph dates from 1913 but it is not known whether R Williams is shown)
Private R Williams, a married manager at Mr George Webb’s fishmongers and poulterers at 10 High Street, Hampton Wick, joined the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) on 29 December 1916 and, according to a report in The Surrey Comet dated 23 May 1917, was wounded in France on 12 May 1917 and was being treated in a Leeds hospital.
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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