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Thomas Elms
British Army 12th Battalion The Rifle Brigade "Prince Consort's Own"
(d.21st September 1917)
Thomas Elms of the Rifle Brigade-"Prince Consort's Own"-12th Battalion was killed in action at Langemark in the Ypres Salient on the 21st September 1917. I am looking for any information relating to the battle that took place over 21-23 September 1917, particularly around a fortified German bunker known as "Cement House."
Cpl. Edward Harry Elner
British Army 173 Brigade, D Â Bty. Royal Field Artillery
(d.4th August 1917)
Corporal Edward Elner is buried in Lijssenhoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave XVII.G.4A.
Lt.Col. A. P.A. Elphingstone
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Lt.Col. A. P.A. Elphingstone
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Cpl. Robert Elphinstone
British Army 203rd Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Fraserburgh
As a child I remember my grandfather, Robert Elphinstone telling me stories of his time in the trenches, I believe in northern France. I recall one funny story of the crossing of a river on a felled tree when the bagpiper slipped off and my grandfather saw his kilt floating on top of the water as he walked above him, looking down and laughing, he looked like a mushroom! Another story was of being terrified on guard duty in a wet and muddy trench late one evening. He heard slow footsteps in water at the trench bottom coming towards him. After what seemed like forever, a mangy, skinny, scared German Shepherd dog appeared.
I also recall that he was proud of the fact that, as a Royal Engineer, he built more things than he destroyed during the war. He was wounded near Shrapnel Corner on 20th of September 1918 and returned to duty. He was wounded much more seriously on 28th of September 1918 during Final Advance on Flanders. I just begun researching his service and was surprised to learn he was wounded twice. As a child I recalled him telling me about him getting wounded in thigh. I believe he told me he was assisting artillery when he started feeling dizzy and looked down to see shell casing or something in his leg. At that point he knew he'd been hit. On that day he was one of 7 who were wounded and 3 were killed or died of wounds.
He emigrated to the U.S. in 1923 and worked at GE. His best friend there was a German who, after years of knowing each other, found out they were in same general area opposing each other during the war!
I would love to learn more about his unit's involvement after 1916.
Pte. William Elsdon
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.7th May 1915)
Sgt. Herbert Harry Else
British Army 40th Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Birmingham
Herbert Else earned the Star and Bar, British War and Victory Medals.
L/Bomb. James Arthur Elshaw
British Army 45th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Sheffield
(d.12th Feb 1919)
Lt.Col. Otto William Alexander Elsner MID, DSO.
British Army 27th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
Otto Elsner was born in Ireland on 4th June 1871. He was educated at Galway Grammar School and studied at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1897 he was employed as the Medical Officer for the building of the Ibadan to Ilorin railway in Nigeria. In 1899 he joined the RAMC and served throughout the South African war. He was awarded the Queen's Medal with 5 clasps. Between 1902 and 1905 he served in India, then returned to South Africa in 1910 returning to Britain at the outbreak of war in 1914.
Otto went to France with the British Expeditionary Force in September 1914, and served with the 6th Cavalry Field Ambulance in Belgium during the First Battle of Ypres. In early 1915 he took over command of 27th Field Ambulance. In 1917, he was appointed Assistant Director Medical Services of 9th (Scottish) Division. He was mentioned five times in despatches, awarded the DSO in 1917 and appointed CBE in 1919. He retired from the Army in 1926 and died in 1953.
Pte. Arthur Elson
British Army 1st Btn. Border Regiment
from:Kendal
(d.27th Jan 1917)
Pte. Frank Elson
British Army 10th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Nantwich, Cheshire, England
Pte. Frank Elson
British Army 10th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Cuckoo Lane, Acton, Nantwich, Cheshire
(d.1st Jan 1917)
Frank Elson was killed in the 10th Chesshire Battalion HQ at Despierre Farm.
Bmdr. John Elson
British Army Royal Field Artillery
John Elson's service record or pension record do not survive, likely his records were among those destroyed during the Second World War. Per his Medal Rolls Index Card, he entered the French theatre on 22nd of August 1915. Curiously, according to his second (1920-dated) Service Medal and Award Roll, Bombardier Elson "reverted own request to Gunner". In any event, according to his Medal Rolls Index Card, Elson's rank is listed as Bombardier. For his service in the Great War, John was awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Pte. James Edward Elstob
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Lt Col. Wilfrith Elstob VC, DSO, MC
British Army 16th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Chelford, Cheshire
(d.21st March 1918)
Wilfrith Elstob died on 21st March 1918, ages 29 and is commemorated on on the Pozieres Memorial in the Pozieres British cemetery in France. He was the son of the Rev. Canon J. G. Elstob and Frances Alice Elstob, of Fanshawe, Chelford, Cheshire.
An extract from the London Gazette, dated 6th June, 1919, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery, devotion to duty and self-sacrifice during operations at Manchester Redoubt, near St. Quentin, on the 21st March, 1918. During the preliminary bombardment he encouraged his men in the posts in the Redoubt by frequent visits, and when repeated attacks developed controlled the defence at the points threatened, giving personal support with revolver, rifle and bombs. Single-handed he repulsed one bombing assault driving back the enemy and inflicting severe casualties. Later, when ammunition was required, he made several journeys under severe fire in order to replenish the supply. Throughout the day Lieutenant-Colonel Elstob, although twice wounded, showed the most fearless disregard of his own safety, and by his encouragement and noble example inspired his command to the fullest degree. The Manchester Redoubt was surrounded in the first wave of the enemy attack, but by means of the buried cable Lieutenant-Colonel Elstob was able to assure his Brigade Commander that "The Manchester Regiment will defend Manchester Hill to the last." Sometime after this post was overcome by vastly superior forces, and this very gallant officer was killed in the final assault, having maintained to the end the duty which he had impressed on his men - namely, 'Here we fight, and here we die.' He set throughout the highest example of valour, determination, endurance and fine soldierly bearing."
Pte. Ernest Edgar Elsworth
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
Pte. William Claude Elsworth
Canadian Expeditionary Force 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles
from:Woking
William Elsworth was my grandfather. I have been researching his WW1 records and we visited the sites where he fought in Belgium last year. I have an army issue canvas wallet containing all of his letters to my grandmother whilst he was a PoW in Dulmen camp. He was wounded but thankfully survived the war and returned home.
2nd Lt. Laurence Elvidge
British Army 5th Btn. Connaught Rangers
from:Rathgar, Dublin
(d.9th Aug 1916)
2nd Lt. Laurence Elvidge gave his life for the empire at Ypres on the 9th of August 1916, aged 19 years.
Pte. Thomas Elvin
British Army Kings Royal Rifles Corps
from:Brandsby, York
Thomas Elvin who served with the Kings Royal Rifles Corps was my grandfather.
Pte. W. Elvin
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
Private Elvin was a prisoner at Gustrow POW Camp.
A/Cpl. Sidney A. Elwell
British Army 237th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Wordsley, Stourbridge
My maternal grandfather, Sidney Elwell, trained in Reading in November 1915 as a driver. I have a digitised copy of his diary, but part of it is missing. It begins in October 1916 and then jumps to May 1917. It mentions places: Poperinghe, Vermozeele, Booserenge, Hill 60, Pheasant Wood, St. Eloi and many more.
He survived the war and returned to work at Stuarts Crystal Glassworks in Wordsley. He was foreman of the glass cutting shop and took me around the factory many times.
Pte. William Moses Elwick
British Army 1st Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Middlesborough, Yorkshire
(d.4th Apr 1918)
I have just rediscovered my great uncle after many decades. He was only living within our extended family for a short time. He and my Great Aunt Grace Benson were married in the last quarter of 1917. His name was William Moses Elwick. He was born in 1879 in Lythe, a small Yorkshire village. Later he moved to Middlesbrough. On December 10th 1915, age 36, he joined the British Army, was mobilised and posted - probably to France - on March 22nd, 1916. He was in the 1st and 5th Battalions of the Durham Light Infantry, in the 150th Brigade of the 50th Northumbrian Division. On April 4th 1918, somewhere close to the French/Belgium border in that brutal trench warfare of WW1, William died. His body was never found. He is commemorated on Panels 8/9 of the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium.
I do not know how long Grace and William had known each other, but I do know that she never recovered from his death. She carried a torch for him for the rest of her life. The sepia photograph of a WW1 soldier on a shelf was all we children knew of him. I gave no thought to him until now. Rediscovering my Great Uncle has made me reflect on war - on this war in particular - and, upon the thousands and thousands whose lives were similarly ripped apart by death and loss. Each one deserves to be named, and remembered with gratitude. It is never too late. I now call out the name of William Moses Elwick. It will be Remembrance Day in 11 days.
Pte. Alfred Terah Elwood
Australian Imperial Force 2nd Btn.
(d.17th May 1915)
Alfred Elwood died on the 17th of May 1915 and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey.
Private Charles Ernest Elworthy
British Army 2nd Btn Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Aylmer, Ontario, Canada
(d.14th Oct 1915)
Charles Ernest Elworthy was born October 9th 1891 in a small rural village in Surrey Claygate, he was the son of a farm labourer Joseph Elworthy and Elizabeth nee´ Mutimer. He was one of six children, both his parents had died by the time he was 15 and he stayed in the village for a while working at the farm of one of his fathers relatives, Slough Farm, his job was delivering the milk. Two fields north of where he was staying there lived a family called Scott: they were some of his many, many cousins in the village. He started "walking out" with one of them, Beatrice Alice Scott and eventually she was expecting a baby, sadly her mother would not them them marry because they were second cousins although the law stated then (1909) that they could legally have done so the exceedingly strict mother forced her daughter to leave the village and have the baby elsewhere. She also warned non of her other children to have any contact with her! Beatrice went up to London and bore a son Alfred Cecil Scott on Oct 4th 1909.
Charles Ernest stayed in the Kingston area working but some time after 1911 he decided to move to Canada and landed up working in agriculture in Ontario: he attended Trinity Anglican Church near Aylmer and from there he came back to England to join up for the war. He joined up in Hammersmith - The Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd Btn and the training was in Woking Surrey.
He was sent out to France on the 29th Sept 1915 and sent up to the front with a group of 392 men to join the battalion on October 4th. They were sent to Noux Les Mines. Two days later the Btn left Noux les Mines and moved to Mazingarbe (Near Loos) where they moved forward into the old german front system of trenches. The next morning (Oct 7) Between then and the 12th they dug (by night) forwards: forming new trench systems as near as they could to the german front. They were under sniper fire from the germans with one or two caualties and deaths each day.
On the 13th Oct 1915 they came under the orders of the G.O.C. 1st Bde. At 1pm the gas and smoke discharge took place and the attack over the top was scheduled for one hour later. The Battalion was ordered to send one company forward as a Strong Patrol to help the 1st Bde. capture the German Front Line Trenches (Along the line of the road H13 a42 leading into Hulluch) and then a second Company would be sent one half hour later to establish themselves in the german trenches immediately west of Hulluch. The remainder of the Btn (minus one company) was to closely support this enterprise. A Co. was sent as Strong Patrol and C Co. sent as support and B co. to support C.
The 1st Bde delivered their assault at 2pm and at 2.19 A Co. Royal Sussex advanced over the open. At 2,30 Lieut Col E F Villiers D.S.O heard that the Camerons attack had failed so the C co. was sent forward to gain the german trenches. The telegraph lines had been cut by shell fire and so orderlies were sent running with messages for the B co. to go forwards to support C co. In the end the 1 Bde did not make any inroads on the german trenches and the remains of the B and C co´s were brought back to the support line to await eventualities. At 5.30 the following morning they were sent out again to support the Northamptonshire rgt.in another run over the top, but by the time they had started it was already become light and the action was called off.
In the right hand column of the war Diary there is the notation for October 13th: Killed 9 OR Wounded 71 OR Missing 36 OR... The Captains and Lieutenants are all named, as either missing or casualties but somehere among the 116 "Other Ranks" lost that day was Charles Ernest Elworthy. He had turned 23 four days before he died.
Back in Walthamstow (North west London) Beatrice Alice Scott heard from a friend in Claygate that he was missing in Action and for a month she hunted for him in the military convalescent centers around London until the real tragic news came through. Although Beatty had nothing but one faded picture of him as a young man she still had a round faced little boy who one day would start a family of his own and one day one of the grandchildren would ask "What did Great Grand´Daddy do in the War? At last now I know.
Pte. Charles Ernest Elworthy
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Claygate, Surrey
(d.14th October 1915)
Charles Elworthy died 14th October 1915, aged 23 and is buried in the Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery in France. He was the son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Elworthy. Native of Claygate, Surrey
Charles Ernest Elworthy was born (October 9th 1891) in Claygate, a small rural village in Surrey. He was the son of a farm labourer Joseph Elworthy and Elizabeth (nee Mutimer). One of six children, both his parents had died by the time he was 15 and he stayed in the village for a while working at the farm of one of his father's relatives: "Slough Farm" his job was delivering the milk. Two fields north of where he was staying lived a family called Scott, the family were just some of his many, many cousins in the village. He started "walking out" with one of them, Beatrice Alice Scott and eventually she was expecting a baby, sadly her mother would not let them marry because they were second cousins (although the law stated then (1909) that they could legally have done so).
Her exceedingly strict mother forced her daughter to leave the village and have the baby elsewhere... she also warned all of her other children to have no contact with her! Beatrice went up to London and bore a son Alfred Cecil Scott on Oct 4th 1909. Charles Ernest stayed in the Kingston area working but some time after 1911 he decided to move to Canada and ended up working in agriculture in Ontario, he attended Trinity Anglican Church near Aylmer and from there he came back to England to join up for the war. He joined up in Hammersmith - The Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd Bn. and trained in Woking, Surrey.
His service number was G/5349 and he was sent out to France on the 29th Sept 1915 and sent up to the front with a group of 392 men to join the battalion on October 4th. They were sent to Noeux-les-Mines. Two days later the battalion left Noeux-les-Mines and moved to Mazingarbe (near Loos) where they moved forward into the old German front line trenches. on October 7th. Between then and the 12th they dug towards the enemy, forming new trench systems as near as they could to the German front. They were under sniper fire from the Germans which caused casualties and deaths each day.
On the 13th October, 1915 they came under the orders of the G.O.C. 1st Bde. At 1pm the gas and smoke discharge took place and the attack over the top was scheduled for one hour later. The Battalion was ordered to send one company forward as a strong patrol to help the 1st Bde. capture the German front line trenches (Along the line of the road H13-A42 leading into Hulluch) and then a second company would be sent one half hour later to establish themselves in the German trenches immediately west of Hulluch. The remainder of the battalion, minus one company was to closely support this enterprise. A company was sent as strong patrol and C company sent as support, while B company was to support C. The 1st Brigade commenced their assault at 2pm and at 2.19 A company of the Royal Sussex advanced over the open ground. By 2.30 Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Villiers D.S.O heard that the Camerons' attack had failed so C company was sent forward to try and take the German trenches. The telegraph lines had been cut by shell fire and so orderlies were sent running with messages for B company to advance and support C company.
In the end the 1st Bde. did not make any inroads on the German trenches and the remains of the B and C companies were brought back to the support line to await their next orders. At 5.30 the following morning they were sent out again to support the Northamptonshire regiment in another attack, but by the time they had started it was already become light and the action was called off. In the right hand column of the war Diary there is the notation for October 13th: Killed 9, OR Wounded 71, OR Missing 36, The Captains and Lieutenants are all named, as either missing or casualties but somewhere among the 116 "Other Ranks" lost that day was Charles Ernest Elworthy. He had turned 23 four days before he died.
Back in Walthamstow, Beatrice Alice Scott heard from a friend in Claygate that he was missing in action and for a month she searched for him in the military convalescent centres around London until the tragic news of his death came through. Although Beatty had nothing but one faded picture of him as a young man she still had a round faced little boy who one day would start a family of his own.... and one day one of the grandchildren would ask "What did Great Granddaddy do in the War?
Sgt. Adam el_Hashim
British Army 1/3 Btn. Kings African Rifles
from:Africa
On 21st of October 1917, while defending Lukeledi Mission against a German assault, Sergeant Adam el Hashim of 1/3rd Kings African Rifles was sent at the head of a small detachment of soldiers into Lukeledi village to outflank the enemy. El Hashim's men stumbled on a whole company of Germans, and were driven back. Finding himself surrounded and cut off on his own, el Hashim drew his revolver, shot three officers who were trying to capture him, and managed to rejoin his men.
Rfn Alfred William Embery
British Army 1st/21st Btn London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles)
from:Nunhead
(d.24th Aug 1918)
Pte. Frederick William Emblen
British Army 6th (Wiltshire Yeomanry) Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Arborfield, Berkshire
(d.23rd Mar 1918)
Pte. Edward Embleton
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Spennymoor
Edward Embleton was wounded in July and December 1916
Pte. Hans Major Embleton
British Army 8th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:37 Victoria Street, Sacriston
My grandad, Hans Major Embleton, served in the First World War with the Durham Light Infantry. He was a miner when he signed up on the 25th June 1913, he became a member of the 8th Battalion territorial force and used to do training at weekends and worked down the mine in the week.
He survived the War but was taken prisoner near the end. This left him very thin and weak but he returned to Sacriston and back in the mine. He got married in 1920 and my mother was born in 1921 in Sacriston. My grandad came to stay with us through the 1960s and he told me stories of the war mainly in the prison camp living on water and potato peelings if you were lucky. He was awarded the Territorial Force War Medal and I am very proud of him.
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