Those Who Served
Pte. S. Fairbrother . British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (d.1st Jul 1916) |
Pte. John Fairburn . Army Durham Light Infantry (d.15th Sep 1916) |
Spr. William Fairs . Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy. |
Pte. Frank Farley . British Army 1st Btn. East Surrey Regiment from Little Haven Lane, Horsham, West Susserx (d.4th Oct 1917) Frank Farley was my paternal Grandfather. He enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment in Chichester. Precise details of his service were destroyed when military records were destroyed in London by enemy action in WW2.
He was killed at Ypres on 4th October 1917 near a village called Broodseide.He has no marked grave as his remains were never found, but his name appears, with others from his regiment on the frieze at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Flanders. |
Capt. Jack Farmer . Army Durham. Royal Garrison Artillery Capt Farmer was the gun Captain at the Lighthouse Battery, at Heugh Battery on the 16th of December 1914 during the Bombardment of teh Hartlepools.The third shell from his gun scored a direct hit on the "Bulcher's" forebridge at a distance of some 4,000 yards. |
Pte. J. T. Farnell . Australian Imperial Force. 3rd Salvage Coy. |
Cooks Mate Arthur Charles Farnham . Royal Navy H.M.S. Invincible from West Coker (d.31st May 1916)
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Pte. Alaexander George "Jock" Farquhar MM and bar, MID.. British Army 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry from Glasgow My father Alaexander Farquhar joined the HLI as a Boy soldier and was proud of it`s history and passed that pride on to me. He was a Field signaller and scout and except for short periods when he was in hospital and once home on leave, he saw all the action from 14th August 1914. I still have his medals,although the War and Victory ones are replacements.
He married my mother during his Home leave and they eventually had two sons and a daughter.
During WW2 he served with distinction in the Home Guard.
I remember his disgust when in the LDV in 1939 being taught to present arms
with a broomstick! after 15 years service with a rifle regiment.
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Pte. J. Farrar . Army Durham Light Infantry |
Pte. L. Farrar . Army Durham Light Infantry |
Lance Corporal Farrell . Army Manchester Regiment
The man on the right is L/Cpl Farrell of the Manchester Regiment, but I am not sure of his first name. |
Farrell . Army Royal Artillery This is a photo of one of the Farrell family in the Royal Artillery, taken in Liverpool. |
Sjt. Thomas Farrell . British Army Loyal North Lancashire Regt. from Bootle, Liverpool This is a picture of my grandad, Sgt Thomas Farrell (on the right). He was born in Bootle, Liverpool in 1886, a week after his dad was killed in an accident at the docks. The man in the middle was his wife's uncle, Francis James Wailey, Manchester Reg, who was KIA on 10/11/1917 and is buried at Coxyde Mil Cem.
Thomas was a long-standing military man who joined the Loyal North Lancs Regiment around 1904 and went on to the Machine Gun Corps in Feb 1917 and the Tank Corps in 1918. He was a 2nd Lieut from 19th December 1917. He was wounded 3 times (September 1914, June 1915 and October 1918) and was still removing shrapnel from his back in the 1930s.
He spent some time in 'A' Ward at Red House Auxiliary Hospital, this photo was taken in September 1916, Tom is 1st left at the back. I don't know where this hospital was.
In this photo Grandad Thomas Farrell is on the right. Obviously taken when in hospital around 1916. I have no idea where the hospital was or who the other 3 people are.
This picture was found in the papers of Thomas Farrell but he doesn't appear to be one of the soldiers.
Update: It is possible that Red House Auxiliary Hospital was in Leatherhead. |
Pte. George Richard Featherstone . British Army 10th Battalion South Wales Borderers from Stockport,Cheshire (d.18th Aug 1917) |
Edward Fegen . Royal Navy HMS Amphion |
L/Cpl. Frank Fell . British Army 11th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment from 52 Plantation Street, Accrington |
Pte. James Edwin Fellows . British Army 7th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment from 37, The Willows, Woods Bank, Darlaston, Wednesbury. (d.10th Jun 1917) |
Lt Cmdr. Athelstan Alfred Lennox Fenner . Royal Navy HMS K4 (d.31st Jan 1918) |
L/Cpl. Frederick Samuel Fentem . British Army 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derbyshire) Regiment from Matlock (d.19th Jun 1919) I came across Fredrick Fentem, a Great Uncle, when tracing my family tree. I always knew he had died in the First Wold War, as my grandmother (Nanny) named my dad after him so I heard his name quite often.
I hadn't realised he was a professional soldier having enlisted in 1907 at the age of 18 years, and at his death was a Lance Coporal.
Frederick died in Flanders, France in 1915.
I think Nanny grieved the loss of a favourite younger brother. |
Gnr. Herbert Rennie Ferndale . Australian Imperial Force. att. 11th Trench Mortar Brigade 41st Btn. from Nerang, Queensland (d.10th Feb 1918) |
Pte. Joseph Fernee . British Army 70th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps from 175 Moselle Avenue, Wood Green, London. (d.7th Jun 1917) |
Pte. Thomas Fernley . British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.17th Feb 1915) |
Gnr. Joseph Daniel Fewster . British Army 1st Hull Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery |
2nd Lt. O. Field . Army Durham Light Infantry |
Pte. Reginald Field . Army 1/4th Btn. Ox and Bucks Light Infantry from High St, Thame Reginald Field landed in France on the 30th of March 1915. He later served as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers. |
Pte. Alfred John Fielder . British Army 3rd Battalion Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) from Mill Hill, Middlesex (d.15th Feb 1915) |
Pte. Jonathan Fielding . Army 6th Btn. Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Rgt.) (d.13th Sep 1915) |
Lt. Col. Rowland Fielding DSO.. British Army 6th Btn. Connaught Rangers |
Pte. Frank Mark Finan . British Army 10th Btn Sherwood Foresters from Dromore West, Sligo, Ireland (d.24th Aug 1918) Frank was born on the 4th May 1894 in a village called Dromore West in County Sligo. as far as i know he was an only child. He lived in a one or two room house with his grandparents and two aunts and his mother. The house is still standing to this day. He is buried in Mont Huon Cemetery in France, he was 24 years old. |
Cpl. Charles William Finch . British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers (d.10th May 1915) Charles William Finch died whilst a POW, he is buried Roeselare Communal Cemetery. |
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