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3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment
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Pte. Sidney Herbert Matthews 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers (d.9th May 1915) Bert Matthews was my great grandfather. Although I never met him I feel I knew him very well. I have researched into my family tree and I have found plenty of information on him. He was born in Foxham Lock, Bremhill, Carne, Wiltshire in 3rd April 1885.
His father was Jacob Matthews and mother Elizabeth Thorne.
He married Jane St. Sinclair Anderson at the Tredegar Registrar Office on 27th October 1906. He was a coal miner at the time.
They had Elizabeth St. Clair, Ernest Cornelius, Kenneth Victor McDonald, Sidney Herbert Stanley, Wilhelmina J, and Barbara.
He first enlisted into the 3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment.
He is buried in Bethune Town Cemetery, France.
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Major Stewart B.B. Dyer DSO 3rd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment (d.26th January 1917) Major Dyer was formerly with the 2nd Life Guards.
Hon. Attache British Embassy, Madrid, Dec., 1915, to Dec.,1916.
He is buried in the Madrid British Cemetery, II. C. 2. in Spain.
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Cpl. Cecil Henry John Waite 3rd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Jack Waite enlisted aged 18 on 6th of November 1911. He served seven years with the Colours and five years in the Army Reserve. Jack trained as a sharpshooter. His service was as follows:
- Gibraltar 1st January 1914 - 3rd September 1914
- Embarked 5th October 1914
- Wounded by a shell at Ypres on 24th October 1914
- Returned to the front on 28th April 1915
- Promoted to Lance Corporal on 5th June 1915
- Demoted for using threatening language to an NCO on 18th October 1915
- Promoted to Lance Corporal on 28th April 1917
- Wounded in the right hand by a bullet on 5th August 1917
- Volunteered for Army of Occupation
- Discharged 24th December 1919
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Pte. A. C. Gray 3rd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment (d.10th Nov 1918) After many years of searching, I have still been unable to find out what my uncle, A C Gray, died on the last day before WW1 ended.
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Pte. Arthur Westwood 3rd Btn. Wiltshire Regment Arthur Parker was my grandfather and was born in 1892 at Meriden Workhouse.
His height was 5ft 21/2 inches when he joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 27th of August 1914. His Regimental Number was 3/1864.
He then transferred to the 3rd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment, where his Regimental Number was 19878.
On the 15th of August1915 he was hit by shrapnel in back, but did not report sick.
On the 25th of September he was buried by explosion of shell, he went on for 10 days, but was obliged to report sick, suffering general tremors and loss of power in legs, becomes dizzy and falls down after walking short distance. Complains of severe pain in head and back and occasionally becomes faint and unconscious. Result of active service and shell shock.
On the 15th December 1916 he was no longer fit for active service.
He went to various medical centres between 1917 and 1922 in Coventry and Birmingham for check ups and assessments. This, I believe, was to do with his pension. On leaving, he gave his home address as 16 Duke Street, Nuneaton. He joined up using the name Arthur Westwood, unfortunately he is the only one who knows why.
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Pte. Henry John Wheatley 3rd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment My grandfather, Harry Wheatley, served in the Boer War as Private with the 4th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment Militia. Then with the 3rd Battalion Wiltshire Rgt. Reserve, in WW1.
Born 1880, he died 1953 when he was murdered at the age of 73 yrs in Birmingham. I do not know anything about the 3rd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. I know he was gassed somewhere and was downgraded in fitness and was transferred into the ASC Mechanical Transport in 1917. He landed in France in May 1915.
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