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4th Battalion, Essex Regiment
Essex Regiment, 4th Btn. The 4th Battalion, Essex Regiment were a unit of the Territorial Force with their HQ in Brentwood. A Coy was based in Romford, B Coy in Manor Park, C Coy in Ilford, D Coy in Barking, E Coy in Loughton, Abridge and Woodford, F Coy drew from Brentwood, Southminster, Wickford, Billericay, Althorne, Bradwell-on-Sea, Burnham-on-Crouch, Mountnessing and Tillingham. G Coy were from Ongar, Epping and Harlow. H Coy were from Hornchurch, Dagenham, Rainham and Harold Wood. Their associated Cadet Corps were; Cranbrook College Cadets in Ilford, Manor Park Cadet Company, Ongar Grammar School Cadets, Warley Garrison Cadets and East Ham Secondary School Cadets.
1/4th Battalion, the Essex Regiment.
- August 1914 : in Brentwood. Part of Essex Brigade in East Anglian Division.
- Moved to Norwich in late 1914 and on to Colchester in April 1915.
- May 1915 : formation became 161st Brigade in 54th (East Anglian) Division. Moved late in the month to St Albans.
- 21 July 1915 : sailed from Devonport for Gallipoli, going via Lemnos.
- Landed at Suvla bay 12 August 1915.
- 4 December 1915 : evacuated from Gallipoli and moved to Mudros, going on to Alexandria 17 December 1915.
- Remained in Egypt/Palestine theatre thereafter.
May 1915 Reorganisation
30th May 1915 On the Move
3rd Sep 1915 Instructions
14th Jan 1916 Despatch on Sulva Bay
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Those known to have served with4th Battalion, Essex Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Barlow MID. Walter Robertson. A/Capt
- Barnes Frank Bertram. Sgt.
- Bishop George. Pte. (d.27th Sep 1917)
- Boud William Cuthbert. Pte. (d.22nd Aug 1915)
- Brown Thomas Henry. Pte. (d.11th Oct 1918)
- Chamberlin Thomas. L/Cpl. (d.26th Mar 1917)
- Claydon George Frederick. Pte.
- Emery Frank Alfred. Pte. (d.19th Sep 1918)
- Franklin Ernest Arthur. Sgt. (d.3rd Nov 1917)
- Gill Bernard. Pte.
- Golding George Thomas. Pte. (d.2nd November 1917)
- Grange MM. William James. Pte.
- Hall Thomas. 2Lt. (d.19th June 1918)
- Hawkridge Harold Conniston. Pte.
- Hitchen Ernest John. A/L/Cpl. (d.20th August 1915)
- Holloway William. Pte.
- McNeil Frederick Christensen. Pte.
- Park Robert Walter. Pte. (d.26th Mar 1917)
- Vesse Herbert George. Pte. (d.26th Mar 1917)
- Voyce Frederick Charles. Pte.
- Zimmer James William. Pte.
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Pte. James William Zimmer 1/7th Btn. London Regiment My great grandfather James William Zimmer was with the 7th London Regiment, he ended up in the Labour Corps in 1919, disabled with bronchitis which I have read can be brought on by mustard gas. He was also attached to the 4th battalion Essex Regiment. I am trying to find more information on him.
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Pte. Frank Alfred Emery 1/4th Btn. Essex Regiment (d.19th Sep 1918) My great-uncle Frank Emery was killed in action during an action which was part of the Battle of Megiddo (19th-25th Sept 1918) in Palestine. He left a widow, Kathleen.
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2Lt. Thomas Hall 18th Trench Mortar Battery (d.19th June 1918) Thomas Hall served with the 4th Essex Regiment and 11th Essex Regiment, he was serving with 18th Trench Mortar Battery when he lost his life, aged 19.
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Pte. Herbert George Vesse 4th Btn. Essex Regiment (d.26th Mar 1917) Herbert Vesse enlisted at Woolwich Barracks Kent.
He was living with his wife at Sutton At Hone Kent but was born in Elmstead Essex.
He died in The Egyptian Theatre of war on 26th of March 1917, death place, Palestine.
He would have been 35 years old and left behind a wife, Lilian Mary Vess.
His name is inscribed at Sutton At Hone memorial. I am not a family member but researched my friends genealogy.
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A/L/Cpl. Ernest John Hitchen 1/4th Btn. Essex Regiment (d.20th August 1915) Ernie Hitchen served in Gallipoli.
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Pte. George Frederick Claydon 1/4th Btn. Essex Regiment My grandfather George Claydon volunteered for the 1/4th Battalion, Essex Regiment, Territorial Force on 9th of February 1914 and served throughout WW1 in the Essex Regiment.
Towards the end of the war he was in Palestine and Egypt and transferred on 15th of May 1918 to the Royal Air Force with the Egypt Expeditionary Force near Cairo at Abbassia.
He spent most of the next 20 years in the RAF and went back on active service at the start of WW2 with the rank of Warrant Officer. He appears to have been evacuated from France on 2nd of June 1940.
He was Gazetted MBE on 11th of July 1940 for Distinguished services rendered in recent operations, but always told my mother it was for organising sports and social events at RAF camps!
He has, I imagine, the pretty rare distinction of having been at Gallipoli and Dunkirk.
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Pte. William Holloway 4th Btn. Essex Regiment William Holloway had enlisted on the 9th December 1915 but was placed straight onto the Army Reserve.
On 22nd of January 1917 he was mobilized for active service.
He was wounded on 31st of July 1917 by a gun shot wound to the thigh.
He was discharged on 22nd of September 1919.
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Pte. Frederick Christensen McNeil Scottish Horse Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps Frederick McNeil was the half brother of my great grandfather John Duncan McNeil. Fred was the son of John McNeil (master joiner) and Amelia Lewis, and was born on 6th May 1893 at 44 Wellpark Rd., Saltcoats, Ayrshire.
He enlisted in the Scottish Horse Field Ambulance, RAMC in 1915 and landed with them at Suvla Bay on 1st Sep 1915. He later served with the 1/4th Essex Regiment, as part of the Imperial Camel Corps.
Fred (an accountant in peace time) married Dorothy Saunderson in Cairo on 6th Feb 1925, and they emigrated to New Zealand. Fred later served in the NZ Territorial Force with 2nd Battalion Wellington Regiment, and later as OC of 4 Guards Company, Featherstone Prisoner of War Camp (outside Wellington). Fred was discharged on 11th Oct 1945. He was awarded the Victory Medal, British War Medal, 1914-1915 Star, 1939-1945 War Medal, and the NZ 1939-1945 War Service Medal. Fred died on 3rd Jan 1972 in Auckland.
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Pte. William James Grange MM. 4th Battalion Essex Regiment William Grange served with the 4th Essex Regiment and was awarded the Military Medal.
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Pte. George Thomas Golding 1/4th Battalion Essex Regiment (d.2nd November 1917) George Golding was in the 3rd Battle of Gaza. He is remembered in the Deir El Belah War Cemetery
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Pte. Bernard Gill 4th Battalion Essex Regiment Bernard Gill guarded the Suez Canal. He was wounded in 2nd Battle of Gaza and strapped on camel to be taken back for medical treatment, but swas hot in backside by Turkish sniper while being so carried. He said, however, that the most dangerous thing was using the latrines.
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Pte. Frederick Charles Voyce 5th Btn. Essex Regiment Frederick Voyce served with the 4th and 5th Battalions, Essex Regiment.
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Pte. Robert Walter Park 4th Battalion Essex Regiment (d.26th Mar 1917) Robert Walter was my husbands grandmothers brother the first of two brothers killed during WW1 he died in Palestine. His name appears on the Jerusalem memorial.
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Sgt. Frank Bertram Barnes 1/4th Btn. Essex Regiment Frank Barnes (my maternal grandfather) served in Egypt and Palestine taking part in the first Battle of Gaza as part of 54th Division.
Frank survived the war and later served as an ARP warden from 1939
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L/Cpl. Thomas Chamberlin 4th Battalion Essex Regiment (d.26th Mar 1917) Thomas Chamberlain was killed in action 1917 in Palestine, laid to rest in the Gaza War Cemetery.
Editor's Note:- On the day of his death, his regiment, part of the 54th Division, were engaged in the First Battle of Gaza (26-27 March 1917).
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Pte. Thomas Henry Brown 1/4th Btn Essex Regiment (d.11th Oct 1918) Born in 1896, Thomas Brown immediately enlisted into the Middlesex Regiment (Regulars) upon the outbreak of war. He received a medical discharge as unfit for military service.
He then joined the 1/4th Battalion, Essex Regiment (Territorial Force) and sailed for the Mediterranean in July 1815. The Btn arrives at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on the 12th August where they are immediately involved in the engagements at Suvla Bay and the trench warfare to follow.
On the 4th December the Btn is evacuated to Mudros, Egypt arriving on the 17th. The Bn remain in Egypt/Palestine until the end of the war. At some time Thomas is posted to join the 2nd Btn in France, his Regimental number is changed to: 202456.
It is understood that he served during the battles of; Messines, Langemarck, Cambrai, Bourlon Wood, Quentin, Somme, Rosieres, Messines, Kenmel Ridge, Ypres, Courtrai, and Osteghen. In late 1918 he was evacuated to England with influenza from which he died, in service on the 11th October 1918 at Rusthall VAD centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Thomas is buried at the CWGC site at Sutton Road Cemetery, Southend-on-Sea. His name is recorded on an oak panel at Southchurch Church and on the Roll of Honour at the Great Hall, Prittlewell Priory together with his brother; Frederick Norman who also fell.
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Pte. William Cuthbert Boud 4th Battalion Essex Regiment (d.22nd Aug 1915) My Grandfather, William Cuthbert Boud, was killed in Gallipoli on the 22nd of August 1915. He was a Bandsman with the Essex Regiment and was shot by a sniper whilst leaving his dug out to go for a wounded comrade. The following was in the Ilford Newspaper.
"Poor Billy Boud was buried the same night - it was very touching. We buried him on the hillside right over the sea. It was a lovely moonlight night, and one of our cooks said a few words at the graveside, so we did the best for poor Billy. I must say this is a very wild country. It is all high hills, rocks, high boulders and bushes - so you can tell what a job we have to bring the wounded in, and we have to do that at night. Every place we to we have to dig ourselves in the ground to protect ourselves from shellfire."
William Cuthbert Boud had also served in the South African Campaign with the 1st Bn. Royal Fusiliers.
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