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Christopher I'Anson
British Army 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)
from:Ripon, North Yorkshire
(d.19th June 1915)
Christopher I'Anson was my 1st cousin 3x removed, the son of Christopher I'Anson and Martha Heslop and was from Ripon. He served in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, (Queens Bays), Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line. He joined in Harrogate and his service number was 6464. He was a Shoeing Smith.
Christopher died of wounds on 19th June 1915 and it appears that he died in this country as the record states 'Home', his place of residence at the time of death was Snelston so maybe he was in hosptial there. He is remembered in Nunhead All Saints Cemetery, South London, panel 3. Maybe his body was taken back to Ripon for burial but as yet I haven't looked for him there.
I don't have a photograph of him and unfortunately haven't been able to find one.
2nd Lt. H. I'Anson
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Arthur Samuel Ibbotson
Australian Imperial Force 42nd Btn.
from:Hemmant, Brisbane, Queensland.
(d.10th Jun 1917)
Gnr. William Henry Ibbotson
British Army 297th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Middlesbrough
William Ibbotson enlisted in Dec 1915 but was not mobilised until March 1917 where he initially served with 399th Siege Battery RGA then was posted to 297th Siege Battery in Aug 1917. It is believed he was posted to Ypres where he provided artillery support for the 3rd Battle of Ypres and Passchendaele. He was a gas casualty in Aug 1918 losing 30% lung capacity and was eventually discharged on the 20th of Nov 18. He died in 1960.
Grn. William Henry Ibbotson
British Army 297 Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Stockton
- 11 Dec 15 Attestation
- Dec 15 Transferred to Army Reserve
- 15 Feb 17 Mobilisation to join colours
- 24 Mar 17 Posted to 399 Siege Bty RA
- 5 Aug 17 Posted to 297 Siege Bty RA (Ypres)
- Jul - Nov 17 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele)
- 9 - 29 Apr 18 4th Battle of Ypres (Lys)
- 30 Aug 18 Gassed admitted to Hardelot Fd Hospital (Flanders)
- 2 Sep 18 Invalided to UK admitted to Cambridge Gen Hospital
- 6 Sep 18 NOK informed (a bit late!)
- 20 Nov 18 Discharge Date, Disability 30% due to Gas poisoning
L/Cpl. Ernest William Icke
British Army 22nd Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Manchester
(d.1st July 1916)
2nd Lt. H. Iddon
British Army 173rd Brigade, D Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.23rd August 1918)
Second Lieutenant Iddon is buried in Penwortham (St Mary) Church, Lancashire, Grave 353.
A/Cpl Harry "Bluffer" Ide
British Army 11th (1st South Down) Battalion Sussex Regiment
from:Bognor Regis
(d.24th September 1917)
Harry "Bluffer" Ide was my father's grandfather, so my great grandfather. He died at the battle of Menin Ridge Road having been made acting corporal.
It is believed that he knew the poet Edmund Blunden, and that the "bluffer" referred to in the poem Pill Box is Harry Ide, although I cannot confirm this as fact.
I have an image of Harry that I will send via email.
Tpr. Ion Llewellyn Idriess
Australian Imperial Force 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment.
from:Australia
Ion Llewellyn Idriess was born to parents Walter and Juliette on 20th September 1889 at WaverleyNew South Wales. He became a miner by trade, before enlisting at Townsville on 26th October 1914 at the age of 27. He left Sydney aboard HMAT Persic, on 21st December 1914 with the 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment.
While serving at Gallipoli, Idriess specialised in sniping. He sustained a bomb wound to his arm at Gallipoli in September 1915 and was evacuated back to Egypt. Idriess re-joined the 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment and served with his unit in Egypt and Palestine witnessing the charge at Beersheba. He was once again wounded in December 1917 in the fighting after the last battle of Gaza. Ion Idriess was consequently invalided home and returned to Australia on 15th February 1918.
Lt.Col. Oliver Goldsmith Ievers
British Army Irish Censor Department
from:Alcombe, Minehead, Devon
(d.12th Feb 1916)
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Ievers was formerly with the Indian Army. He was the son of Capt. Henry Rogers Ievers (Royal Artillery) and Eliza Anderson Rehe Ievers; husband of Jane West Babington Shaw Stewart Ievers, of Combe Lodge, Alcombe, Minehead. He was 53 when he died of an illness and is buried in the Drogheda (St. Mary) Church of Ireland Churchyard, Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland.
Pte. J. Igo
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Gateshead
J Igo was wounded in December 1916
Pte. Boamu Ohegbe Ijeh
The Royal West African Frontier Force African Pioneer Corps (West Africa),
(d.1st April 1942)
Ijeh Boamu Ohegbe was buried in the Limbe Botanical Gardens Burial Grounds in the Cameroons.
Pte. William John Ikin
British Army 18th (1st Public Works) Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Mowcop
I believe William Ikin was gassed at the Battle of the Somme and spent 6 months in the Middlesex hospital before being transferred to the Labour Corps in October or November 1917, he was demobbed on the 11th of June 1919
Sgt. William Ikin
British Army 1/7th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Winsford, Cheshire
(d.19th October 1917)
William Ikin was born in Winsford, Cheshire and lived in John Street. He joined the Cheshire Regiment at Stockport in August 1914 as a reservist, and was sent to the barracks at Chester Castle. In 1915 he was sent from there to the Drill Hall in Winsford to recruit volunteers and in May of that year he went to Herefordshire for training before heading off to war.
He met a young lady called Edith Florence Davies from Woolmer Green, Stevenage and they were married in June. He left for Egypt in July and, after a short while there, he arrived on 10th August 1915 at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. He survived Gallipoli and was at Kahn Yunis, Gaza and Palestine where he succumbed to dysentery.
On 19th of October 1917 he died at the casualty clearing station at Dier El Belah. This is now a war cemetery and this is where he is buried. He never returned home and on the day he died his mother in John Street, Winsford also passed away.
Stkr PO Samuel Charles Iles
Royal Navy HMS Arabis
from:Mangotsfield, Gloucestershire
(d.10th February 1916)
Stoker Petty Officer Samuel Charles Iles was born on 26th July 1882 in Mangotsfield to Tom and Eliza Iles and was christened on 1st October 1882 at St James Church. By 1901 he was a coal hewer in a local pit. He joined the Royal Navy on 12th August 1903; the 1911 Census shows him as a Stoker on HMS Vivid in the China Seas and the East Indies. He married Lilian May Nicholls on 29th July 1908. They had one child in their marriage, daughter Lilian Mary, born on 13th January 1910 ; they all lived in St James Place.
The final vessel that he served on was HMS Arabis, an Arabis class minesweeping sloop which he joined on 11th December 1915. She was built by D. and W. Henderson and Company of Glasgow at yard No. 497 and was launched on 6th November 1915.
Admiral Reinhard Scheer took command of the German High Seas Fleet in 1916 due to the illness of Admiral Hugo von Pohl and immediately began to take a more offensive strategy in the North Sea. This resulted in more frequent raids and incursions into British dominated areas. One of these occurred on 10th February 1916 when the Germans sent the 2nd, 6th, and 9th Torpedo-Boat Flotillas to the Dogger Bank in an attempt to intercept Allied shipping. At least 25 torpedo boats were deployed. The only British vessels operating in the area were the British 10th Minesweeping Flotilla, consisting of HMS Arabis, Poppy, Buttercup, and Alyssum.
The Arabis-class sloops were armed only with two 4.7 in (120 mm) guns as well as two 3-pounder anti-aircraft guns and were little match to the large numbers of German torpedo boats. Arabis - along with the other three sloops of her division - had been engaged in sweeping a clear channel east of Dogger Bank when they were sighted by a large number of German torpedo boats. The Germans at first hesitated in attacking them as they were not familiar with the new Arabis-class vessels and thought they were much more powerful cruisers. However, with their numerical advantage the Germans decided to launch their attack anyway. The British attempted to flee back to the safety of the coast with Poppy, Buttercup and Alyssum succeeding. Arabis was not so fortunate. She was caught and engaged by three of the German torpdeo boats. After fighting off this attack, Arabis was attacked by six of the German boats and finally went down after being struck by a torpedo. Thirty of Arabis' crew were pulled from the sea by the Germans, but four of them died shortly afterwards due to exposure to the elements. The British caused some minor damage to a few of the German destroyers and the only losses from the action was HMS Arabis along with 56 of her crew killed (amongst them being Samuel Charles Iles) and another 24 captured by the Germans
Gunner Sidney Ilett
British Army Royal Artillery C Corps
Pte. John Iley
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Dunston
(d.1st July 1916)
John Iley took part in the trench raid on the night of the 25th-26th of June 1916. He is named on the Thiepval Memorial
Pte. J. Iliffe
British Army 19th (2nd Tyneside Pioneers) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Hinckley
(d.14th Oct 1918)
J Iliffe, Private, 267138 was killed in action on 14th October 1918. Aged 35 years, he is buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery, Belgium, next to Sjt 19/4287 Donohoe. He was the son of Mr. G. Iliffe of New Plough Hotel, Leicester Rd, Hinckley, Leicestershire. The Commonwealth War Graves commission has his service no recorded as 267136, 19th NF Battalion history shows it as 267138.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
ACpl. Albert Illingworth
British Army 4th Btn. West Riding Regiment
Albert Illinggworth was discharged on the 25th of May 1916, time expired
William Illingworth MM.
British Army 9th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Stalybridge, Cheshire
Khalasi Ali Imam
Royal Indian Marine
(d.2 Jul 1916)
Ali Imam served in Remembered at . WW1
2nd Lt. William Arthur Imber
British Army 2/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Astbury, 43 Spencer Avenue, Coventry
(d.27th Aug 1917)
William Imber Served with the 2/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Close-up of William Arthur Imber's memorial Penny
Pte. Harold Edward Impett
British Army 11th Btn. Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:Manston, Kent
Harold Impett was reported missing on the 23rd March 1918. He had been posted to Italy but I think he was back in France at this time. I have a card from Limburg POW camp that he filled in on 4th of May 1918. His local home newspaper, the Thanet Advertiser, wrote a piece on the 3rd of August 1918 saying that his wife had heard that he had been taken prisoner.
Pte. William Impson
British Army 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Pte William Impson went missing in action on the 25th September 1915 at Chalk Pit Wood during the Battle of Loos. I have his football medal.
Pte. Robert Imrie
British Army 8th Btn. Black Watch
from:Markinch
(d.3rd Oct 1915)
Robert Imrie was my great grandad, born 1866. He lived in Markinch which is where I lived as a boy, as did many of his relatives and children. He was injured during Battle of Loos, I believe on 25th of September 1915, and died of his wounds on 3 Oct 1915. He is buried in Choques Military Cemetery.
Pte. Albert Ince
British Army 1st Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Stepney, London
(d.22nd February 1916)
Capt. Douglas Edward Ince
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Albert Ingham
British Army 18th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:England
(d.1st Dec 1916)
Pte. Albert Ingham served with the Manchester Regiment 18th Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 1st December 1916 and buried in the Bailleulmont Communal Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France. (According to Ward & Gibson (p 81), the Commission engraved on the headstone, at the insistence of the deceased’s father, the words: "Shot At Dawn. One of the First to Enlist". He had apparently been caught in civilian clothes on board a Swedish ship about to sail from Dieppe. Official records have: ‘Died of wounds’, while his Death Certificate states: ‘Shot by sentence of FGCM for Desertion'.
Pte. Arthur Ingham
British Army 94th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
A friend has acquired a small book called "Wilson on Sacrament" a small bible type book, inscribed on the first page in pencil Pte. A. Ingham, no. 60890, A Section, 94th Field Ambulance, B.E.F. Found on the Field of Battle, 9th May 1916, on the Albert front.
Spr. Charles Henry Ingham
British Army 432nd (East Lancashire) Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Marple Bridge
(d.22nd March 1918)
Charles Ingham was killed in action in a battle near St Quentin on The Somme
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