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Pte. Herbert Stuart Melville
British Army 8th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Stockport
(d.26th Feb 1917)
Herbert S. Melville was my great-great-uncle. He died of his wounds in Mesopotamia on 26th February 1917.
L/Cpl. James Melville
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow, Co Durham
(d.8th May 1915)
Cpl. James Melville
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
James Melville enlisted in Stratford, Essex and served with the 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.He died age 30 on the 8th May 1915 and is remembered at Jarrow Library also on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. His medal card shows the award of the 1915 Star, War and Victory Medals.
James was born in East Jarrow 1884(?). Am unable to find family with brothers in Jarrow. Nearest fit is family in Wallsend with mother Mary(35) born in Kenton Dumbartonshire, (husband not on form must be away that day), James(14) born in Kenton, Dumbartonshire, an office boy, Albert(10) born in Byker, David (5) born in Wallsend and Janet (1) born in Wallsend. His younger brother Albert was also one of the fallen.
Pte. Henry Charles John Melvin
British Army 2/19th (2nd St.Pancras) Battalion London Regiment
from:67 Queens Cresent, London
During the First World War Henry Melvin was attached to the 2/19th (St. Pancras) Battalion, London Regiment. On 30th of April 1918, during an attack on the Turkish position at Es Salt in the Jordan Valley he saved the life of his commanding officer Capt. Philip Egerton who had been shot in the knee. His Captain presented him with this engraved pocket watch.
Spr. Robert Melvin
British Army 102nd Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.31st Oct 1918)
Robert Melvin served in 102nd Field Company, Royal Engineers and died on the 31st October 1918. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Giavera British Cemetery Arcade. His medal card records the award of the 1915 Star,War and Victory Medals. He was also awarded the Military Medal for Gallantry.
Robert was born in Jarrow 1892, son of Robert and Annie Melville nee Dunleavy of 11 Dunn Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family is living at that address with Robert(63) a dock labourer - shipbuilding and his wife of 23 years Annie(43). They had 10 children, 9 survived and all are single and living at home. James(22)a fruit merchants clerk, Robert(18) ships painter and Thomas(16) a rivetter heater. The remaining children are at or below school age, Mary Ann(11), Annie(8), Catherine(5), Julia(3) and Marie is 10 months old. His younger brother Thomas was also one of the fallen.
Sgt. Sidney Melvin MiD.
British Army 1st Btn Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Shoreditch
Sidney Melvin was Mentioned in Dispatches according to the London Gazette of the 17th of February 1915, page 1661.
Spr. Thomas Melvin
British Army Durham Fortress Company Royal Engineers
(d.4th Nov 1918)
Thomas Melvin served in Durham Fortress Company, Royal Engineers and died on the 4th November 1918. He is remembered at St. Paul's Church and is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals. It also records that he retired from the Territorial Force under Kings Regulations 1923 ref 8426/Adjutant. So he may have retired on medical grounds and died at home.
Thomas was born in Jarrow 1895, son of Robert and Annie Melville nee Dunleavy of 11 Dunn Street, Jarrow. In the 1911 census the family is living at that address with Robert(63) a dock labourer - shipbuilding and his wife of 23 years Annie(43). They had 10 children, 9 survived and all are single and living at home. James(22)a fruit merchants clerk, Robert(18) ships painter and Thomas(16) a rivetter heater. The remaining children are at or below school age, Mary Ann(11), Annie(8), Catherine(5), Julia(3) and Marie is 10 months old. His older brother Robert was also one of the fallen.
Walter Melvin
British Army 21st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. David Menarry
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Sgt. Maurice "Tony" Mendes
British Army 1/9th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:London
My father Maurice Mendes enlisted with the 1/9th Btn Middlesex Regt in August 1914 at Willesden, London. He sailed with the Btn for India in October 1914 on board the SS Dilwara arriving in October 1914. He was promoted to the rank of Sgt before taking a commission in the 1st Bn 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry where he served on the North West Frontier, returning to civilian life in late 1919 or early 1920.
He took a large number of photographs during his time with both the 1/9th Btn and later with the 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry. This photo album recently turned up, after many years when it was believed to have been irretrievably lost. I had the 65 pages (containing approx 250 images )professionally digitally photographed and am currently cooperating with a website owner in having selected photos put up on his website. www.king-emperor.com where some of these photos have already been put up on this website. It is a project in process and will be developed in due time.
I would be interested in having these images seen by all who may have an interest in the British Military during that period and perhaps collect material related to photos taken by my father, almost 100 years ago.
L/Cpl. Harry Christmas Mendham
British Army 2nd Btn. Essex Regiment
from:East Wretham, Norfolk
(d.3rd May 1917)
Pte. James William Mendham
British Army 10th Battalion, 1 Coy. Manchester Regiment
Efforts to access either a service record or pension record for James Mendham were unsuccessful, these were likely destroyed during the Second World War. According to his Medal Rolls Index Card, Service Medal and Award Roll Private Mendham served with the 1st Coy., 10th (Oldham) Battalion of the Territorial Force. Since he did not qualify for the 1914-15 Star, it is likely that He first served overseas with the 1/10th in Egypt in either 1916 or early 1917, on 6th of March1917, the 1/10th entered the French theatre at Marseille and was assigned to the 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division and was engaged in the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), executed a fighting withdrawal during Germany's March 1918 Michael Offensive and then returned to the offensive in August 1918. The 1/10th took Hautmont, France on 6th of November 1918 after fierce hand-to-hand fighting and some improved bridge building, where it remained until the Armistice took effect.
One curiosity noted on his Service Medal and Award Roll is that he was listed as attached R.E. my assumption is that although he was an infantryman, based upon skills, he was locally transferred to an assigned R.E. unit. For his service in the Great War, Private James Mendham was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Pioneer Frederick Louis Mengham
British Army 312th Road Construction Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Bedhampton, Hants.
(d.28 October 1917)
Frederick was born in 1886 in Bedhampton and married Sarah Jane Williams in 1910. At the beginning of the 1914-18 War he was working in the local brickyard a labourer.
He was called up in early 1917 to serve in the 312th Road Construction Coy., Royal Engineers and embarked for France on 18 February 1917. He was killed near Ypres on 28 October 1917 aged 31. Frederick was buried in the Ypres Reservoir Cemetery. He left a widow Sarah and a daughter Winifred under two years of age.
Pte. Roy Walter Mennell
British Army 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:York
(d.2nd Nov 1916)
The 10th West Yorks captured the Zenith Trench at Le Transloy Village on 1st November. My great uncle, Roy Mennell was killed the following day probably as a result of rifle, machine gun or artillery fire during daily routine as there were no recorded planned attacks on that day.
I am taking my daughter to the Thiepval Memorial this year to remember Roy Mennell on the 100th anniversary of his death.
Ella Menniss
British Red Cross
from:Whitchurch, Hants
My great grandmother, Ella or Ellen Menniss, was, according to records, a part-time cook on night duty working at Berehill House, an auxillary hospital in Whitchurch Hants in WW1 from Nov 1914 to Nov 1917.
Pte. Andrew Menzies
British Army 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
(d.27th Jan 1916)
Andrew Menzies served with the 10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and died on the 27th January 1916. He is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Pte. Charles James Menzies
British Army 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Perth
(d.9th Apr 1918)
My grandmother's brother, Charles Menzies was killed in France on 9th of April 1918 in the La Bassee region during the German Spring Offensive of March and April 1918. He served with the 6th Seaforth Highlanders. His best friend also died around the same time and place, they had been choir boys in church in Perth, Scotland. Two candlesticks bearing each of their names are still on the altar in the church where they were in the choir, in Perth.
Pte. Sydney James Menzies
British Army 3rd Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Derby
(d.1921)
Sydney Menzies joined the 3rd Dorset Regiment in Sept 1914 and was attached to the 7th Royal Munster Fusiliers. He entered the theatre of war on 15th of October 1915 in the Balkans. He is believed to have fought at Kosturino and also saw service in France on the Somme and Belgium at Ypres. He was gassed twice in the war and died of the effects of the 2nd gassing in 1921.
Rfmn. Henry Mepham
British Army 15th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Herstmonceaux, Hailsham, Sussex
(d.22nd Nov 1917)
Born in Heathfield, East Sussex, Rifleman Henry Mepham was the son of Frederick and Caroline Mepham, of Bemzells Cottage, Herstmonceux, Hailsham, Sussex. He enlisted in Brighton and served with the Royal Sussex Regiment (Service No: 4909). Henry Mepham was aged 19 when he was killed in action during the Battle of Cambrai. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, and on the Bodle Street Green War Memorial in the grounds of St John The Evangelist Church, Sussex.
Cpl. Mercer
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Pte. Alfred Sidney "Sonny" Mercer
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Farnham, Surrey
(d.29th Apr 1918)
Alfred Mercer was not yet 16 when he enlisted in Aldershot or Guildford in September 1916. He was the eldest of seven children born to a working family in Farnham which had its roots in Dorset, Kent and the Surrey-Hampshire borders.
The 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment were quickly in the thick of things on the Western Front. Their involvement in the Battles of the Somme in 1916 included: fighting on the Ancre (Hamel); Battle of the Thiepval Ridge; Battle of the Ancre Heights; capture of the Schwaben Redoubt; capture of Stuff Trench; Battle of the Ancre, and in 1917: Battles of Ypres (3rd Ypres); Battle of the Pilckem Ridge; Battle of Langemarck; Battle of the Menin Road Ridge; Second Battle of Passchendaele.
In 1918 the 11th were at the Battle of St Quentin; part of action on the Somme crossings; at the Battle of Bapaume and the Battle of Rozieres; the Battles of the Lys including fighting on the Wytschaete Ridge; the First Battle of Kemmel Ridge; the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge. On 29th April Sonny fought in the Battle of the Scherpenberg, where he was killed, aged just 19, along with many hundred other men in the battalion.
His name is on the memorial at Tyne Cot Cemetery, and on a more modest, but certainly heartfelt, memorial in Gostrey Meadows in the centre of Farnham, only 500 yards or so from where he was born and raised. We have no portrait of him; therefore our only photographic memories are of these two memorials.
It is almost beyond our modern comprehension to understand what this young man, like so many others, would have endured in his short but fiercely-lived life. His family remembers him with love and respect.
Mercy for Sonny Mercer
Barbed wire buried
deep in the fields I am grown in,
enmeshed roots, sods, earth,
bound tight,
scented loam
holding light and rain and warmth,
rusting the wire,
burnishing...
Sap rising
Sap quenched
BarbBitingFlesh
Devouring
Me.
by Julia Birch, 1916
Pte. George Mercer MID
British Army 5th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Sydenham, Kent
George Mercer was a great uncle of mine on my father's mother's side. I know he was attached to the Royal West Kent Regiment but not exactly sure when yet. He went across to France on or about the 18th August 1914 with the 5th Field Ambulance and remained with them until until 1917 (date to be confirmed). He had enlisted in 1907, went onto the reserve list when he joined the Merchant Navy in 1910. He was recalled in August 1914 and survived the carnage and went back to the Merchant Navy immediately after the war. He stayed with the Merchant Navy until the 2nd World War began when he left within weeks of it starting I am still trying establish where he served in WW2. I have a few naval leads which I am currently following up at the moment. I am intending to take a look at the 5th Field Ambulance Unit diaries hoping there might be some mention of his actions which earns him the MID in 1914/15.
Pte. George Mercer
British Army 1st Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Kirkhamgate, Wakefield
(d.14th December 1916)
BSM. John Mercer DCM.
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:St Helens
John Mercer was born in 1874 in St Helens, Merseyside. He joined the Army in 1892 and served most of his army life in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
He joined the Battery on 5/3/1915 as a Sergeant Major and landed in Le Havre with the Battery on 11/7/15. He later went on to 64th Heavy Artillery Group and was awarded the DCM for action at Trones Wood.
L/Cpl. Samuel Mercer
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. Thomas Mercer
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:England
(d.11th Apr 1916)
Thomas Mercer died 11th April 1916 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Driver Thomas Mercer
British Army 101st Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Kensington, London
Thomas Mercer is my 2x great grandfather, a marine salesman from Kensington. He was the eldest son of Thomas A Mercer and Alice Heath, enlisting when he was 36, leaving behind a 4 month pregnant wife Louise and 3 children Thomas (15), Lillian (12), Rose (4).
Signal Boy. Edward Arthur Merchant
Royal Naval Reserve HM Trawler Evangel
from:Leicester
(d.25th March 1917)
Edward Arthur Merchant was killed in action on the 25th of March 1917, aged 17. He was a signal boy on the HMS Evangel, sunk off Milford Haven by U Boat UC48. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Portsmouth and also on the Milford Haven Memorial. Edward was the son of George and Lilly Merchant of Rudkin St, Leicester .
Cpl. J. S. Mercurius
British West Indies Regiment
(d.27th June 1918)
Corporal Mercurius is buried in the St. George's (River Road) Cemetery in Grenada, Centre Cem. Grave 257
Pte. Charles James Meredith
British Army 8th (Service) Batallion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Tewkesbury, Glos. UK
(d.27th July 1916)
CharlesMeredith was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire in 1880. He was the son of Thomas and Emmeline(nee James) Meredith. He was married to Agnes Maria (nee Clapham) Meredith. His children were John, William T, Jack Thomas, Lillian May, and Leslie C J.
Private Meredith died from wounds he received from the Battle of the Somme in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, July 27, 1915. He is buried in the Cheltenham Cemetery.
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