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Sgt. George Noulton
British Army 23rd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Lambeth
(d.27th Sep 1918)
My great uncle George Noulton was a pre-war soldier enlisting in the Rifle Brigade where he became a corporal. I believe he was wounded and hospitalized. After treatment he was transferred to the Lancashire fusiliers with the rank of sergeant he served in the 23rd Battalion and was killed in action on the twenty seventh of September 1918.
Pte. Henry James Noulton
Royal Marine Light Infantry Chatham Division
from:Lambeth
Henry Noulton was born on 18th April 1898. He enlisted on 22nd June 1915, and on completion of his training was posted to a cruiser squadron. His ship was engaged on special patrol duties off the coast of Russia. In October 1918 the vessel on which he was serving whilst conveying wounded across the Irish Sea was torpedoed. After several hours in the water he fortunately was rescued.
He was demobilised in February 1920, and holds the General Service and Victory Medals.
Pte. Henry Noulton
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Lambeth
Henry Noulton volunteered in June 1915 and during the war worked as a Driver. Later that same year he was drafted overseas. During his service in France he took part in many engagements including those on the Somme, and at the Battle of Arras in April and May of 1917 and also at the Battle of Cambrai in November and December that year. He then fought during the retreat and advance of 1918.
He was demobilised in February 1920, and holds the General and Service and Victory Medals. After the war he lived at 5 Arden Street, Battersea Park.
Dvr. Henry Noulton
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Lambeth
Henry Noulton volunteered in June 1915 and later in the same year was drafted overseas. During his service in France he took part in many engagements including those on the Somme and at Arras and Cambrai and during the retreat and advance of 1918.
He was demobilised in February 1920 and holds the General and Service and Victory Medals.
Pte. Henry Noulton
Royal Marines Light Infantry
from:5 Arden Street, Battersea Park, London
Henry Noulton volunteered in June 1915, and on completion of his training was posted to a cruiser squadron. His ship was engaged on special patrol duties off the coast of Russia. In October 1918 the vessel on which he was serving, whilst conveying wounded across the Irish Sea, was torpedoed but after several hours in the water he fortunately was rescued. He was demobilised in Febuary 1920 and holds the General Service and Victory Medals.
SPO. Samuel Noulton
Royal Navy HMS Chatham
from:Lambeth
Samuel Noulton volunteered at the outbreak of the war, and initially served on HMS Arun on transport duties. Later he was transferred to HMS Chatham, convoying vessels between Norway and the North of Ireland. The ship was in action in the Battle of Jutland, and was mined off Felixstowe. He took part in all engagements in the North Sea, and was demobilised in November 1919.
PO. Samuel Noulton
Royal Navy HMS Chatham
from:Lambeth
Samuel Noulton volunteered at the outbreak of war, and served in HMS ARUN on transport duties. Later he was transferred to HMS Chatham convoying vessels between Norway and the North of Ireland. His ship was in action in the Battle of Jutland, and was mined off Felixstowe. He took part in all engagements in the North Sea and was demobilised in November 1919.
Private Prospero "Charlie" Novembrino
British Army Manchester Regiment
from:43 Taylor St. Hume, Manchester
My Grandfather was an Italian migrant from Genoa. he ran away to sea when he was 12 years old and sailed to New York as a Cabin Boy on a huge Steamer, Eventually he attended San Remo Cooking Academy. His profession in England was Chef and he worked at the Grand Hotel in Manchester. He Married Alice Maude Carroll of Hume, Manchester. His nickname was Charlie because he looked like Charlie Chaplin. He was 3 years younger than Alice Maude and was a lodger in her Mother's House. Te local parish priest placed him in that house because Alice was of an Age to marry. Alice died in 1951 at the age of 64. She was 28 and Grandad was 25 when they wed. He enlisted in the Manchester Regiment and served in France in 1915? He was shot in the groin and was operated on in a field hospital by a captured german surgeon. When he recovered from his wound he was seconded to cook for the Officers. He eventually came home in 1919. Charlie returned from the war and had a Daughter to his adored wife Alice who was my mother Sheila Novembino. He always walked with a limp and sported a walking cane. He always told us when rain was coming because his war wound used to cause him pain.
Signaller. S. Novinski
Army 20th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte Harry George Noyce
British Army 15th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Southampton
(d.30th Jun 1918)
Grandfather, Harry Noyce was never talked about by my mother. I only found out about him through my niece who is trying to build a family tree. I visited his grave site in Belgium where he is buried in a joint grave with another. I would appreciate it if anyone can give me any information.
Capt Talbot Ronald Arthur Herbert Noyes
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Crichel, Dorset
(d.11th Jul 1916)
Noyes, Talbot Ronald, Arthur, Herbert. Captain, Killed in action on 11th July 1916. Aged 30 years.
Buried in Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, in grave I. B. 27.
Son of the Rev. Frederick Robert Halsey Herbert Noyes, then Rector of Crichel, Dorset, and of Emily Mary Noyes. Born at Crichel.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. Ernest Noyland
British Army 8th Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
(d.26th September 1917)
L.Tel. Charles O. Roland Nugent
Royal Navy HMS Duke
from:Aldershot, Hants.
(d.15th December 1918)
Leading Telegraphist Nugent was the Son of Mr. and Mrs. Nugent, of 13, Western Rd., Aldershot, Hants.
He was 20 when he died and is buried in the Famagusta Military Cemetery in Cyprus, Grave 14.
Pte. Edward Nugent
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Leigh, Lancashire
(d.29th Sept 1918)
Cpl. Francis Joseph Nugent
British Army 7th (City of London) Battalion London Regiment
from:Aotearoa, New Zealand
(d.2nd Dec 1917)
Our great uncle Frank Nugent was the eldest of the six children of Francis Nugent and Mary Nugent (nee Herst) of Maraekakao, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. The couple were recent immigrants from County Tyrone and Clare respectively. The Nugent family were involved in a huge sheep station owned by Donald McLean. They ran a store with boarding and carting facilities, while also administering the post office. Frank must have been a handy chap to have around - with lots of Kiwi number 8 wire ingenuity having grown up in colonial New Zealand, he was a trained carpenter/joiner. Strangely Frank did not join a Kiwi unit but paid for his own passage and sailed from Wellington for England on the "Rotorua" when he was 27. He disembarked on the 20th of May 1915 and immediately enlisted at Aldgate with the Shiny Sevenths.
From his point we have know knowledge of his doings as my Nugent family have no letters, photographs, or even medals. My grandmother and her sisters were so distressed with Frank's death - such loss and pain for the family. The family plot names Francis Joseph Nugent 'Killed in Action in France' and that is all of the information that they ever possessed. I've scoured Planke's history of the Shiny Sevenths desperate for any scraps of information, as he's there with the Sevenths from the late May 1915 until the mess at Cambrai when he dies 2nd of December 1917.
Pte. George Nugent
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. George Nugent
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Sgt. Frederick Walter Nunn
British Army 2nd Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Tottenham
(d.13th Aug 1915)
I was brought up in the same house that had been occupied by my grand parents and their family of 4 sons and a daughter. One of them was my father Percy Nunn who was a Sgt in the Royal Fusiliers in the 1914-18 war. His three brothers, Ernest a private in the AIF, Albert a Corporal in the Grenadier Guards, and Frederick Nunn, a Sgt. in the South Wales Borderers were all killed in the Gallipoli Campaign. Frederick is listed in a book "Fastest to Canada" the story of how the ship HMT Royal Edward became the first troop ship to be torpedoed in the Aegean Sea. It had on board 53 men of the South Wales Borderers and it is told in our family history that Fred saved four men before drowning himself. The ship had 1600 on board and 600 were lost at sea. It was ironic that my father was also at Avonmouth Docks on the same morning as brother Fred, but they did not meet and boarded separate ships. That was on 29th July and The Royal Edward was struck on the 13th August 1915.
Dvr. John Price Nunn
British Army 2nd East Lancs Royal Field Artillery
from:Manchester
Wednesday 14th March 1917 – journey from England to the battlefront. This story begins with us about to start our journey in France. As a driver I was looking after the horses. These were put 8 in each horsebox. Jimmy Maguire and myself were in charge of one of these horse boxes. The horses themselves were remounts which implied that their training had been hurried and that many of them were still inclined to be fractious. From the minute they were entrained until the train began to move these horses were quarrelsome with each other, attempting to bite each other, stamping their fore and hind feet, and generally in a very unsettled state. Within 10 minutes of starting (and this one started with a jerk which seemed to be commonplace during the rest of the journey and therefore did not help towards peaceful occupancy of the horse boxes). Two horses became loose (it is my belief now that these two had not been adequately tethered – neither Maguire or myself had tethered them in the first instance since the hooks were almost out of reach for statures such as ours). However since the train was moving and we could call on no one to help use, we tried to get them tethered again. With two of the centre position horses being loose there was increased pandemonium on one side of the box. I though I might help if I got in between these horses to steady them whilst Maguire stood on the bale of hay and endeavored to re-tether them – but these horses began to lean on me so heavily I had visions of being squashed, and the more I pushed them apart the more they retaliated; so we did not manage to re-tether them and conditions became worse every minute – particularly so because now the two horses discovered they could attack the hay and the bag of oats and we could not reposition these in any place where they could not be reached. With these two horses freely moving about it became dangerous for us to stay in the box at all and for a period of about 15 minutes we pushed open the sliding doors sufficiently to enable us to get through and we travelled on the floorboard.
All of a sudden the train stopped and immediately I went up the side of the train to inform Corporal Farrer who was with others in an ordinary compartment. He was playing cards with his mates and ignored our appeal. Before I had any further chance to think, let alone call on someone else for help, the train started again and I managed to scramble back, and along with Maguire stayed by the open door for safety. Some time elapsed before the train stopped again and because of conditions inside the box we were getting most anxious. One of my horses had been cut on the forehead by the point of the hook on the ceiling and had a cut about 4 or 5 inches long which was bleeding.
As soon as the train stopped I dropped off and ran as fast as I could to the front end of the train where the officers were. Hurriedly I informed Capt. Lodge of the position and he turned to Leut. MacDonald to go and investigate. MacDonald came down the lines on the opposite side of the train to me – in fact there was no lines on his side and he was walking on the other side of some signal communication wires which were about 18 foot above the ground. In order to be there when he arrived I ran back fast but had not reached the box when the train started again, and I had to scramble on and travel in another box leaving Maguire to hold the fort until another stop. MacDonald who was in riding breeches and pullover only and had no hat, and probably no money, didn't manage to get on the train and it was 4 days before I saw him again! Maguire who also had been off the train when it had started moving again had scrambled on the next box with me.
Thus until the train stopped again which was sometime later, our horses had the box to themselves and as soon as the train stopped Maguire and I went to look at our horses to see what was the position. For a moment we were stunned by the sight we saw. The horses were all jumbled up, some facing forward, some backward, there was a frightful row going on between them. They were rearing up and kicking each other, and the floor of the space we were supposed to occupy was in a terrible mess – most of the hay was loose and strewn about, the contents of the bag of oats lay all over the floor, mixed with horse manure. Our enamel drinking cups and billy cans were flattened and other personal equipment fouled with manure.
Some quick action was essential so I again ran up the lines to inform Capt. Lodge once again. Naturally his first comment was an enquiry as to where Lt MacDonald was and he nearly exploded when I said I did not know! He followed this information by getting out of his compartment on the other side of the train just as MacDonald did and I ran back faster than ever to be there when he arrived and with some apprehension as to whether he would encounter the same fate as MacDonald. However the train stopped long enough this time for him to reach the unfortunate horses and by the time he got there Maguire had braved the infernal confusion and had opened the sliding door on his side of the box. Capt Lodge was not a big man, in fact he was about our own size so that in standing on the track and looking in the box only his face showed on the other side. He gave one look at the bedlam and uttered a curse which sounded like “bloody hell!” and then put us both under arrest, after which he sought out Corp Farrier to go and attempt to sort out the confused state in the box. For the rest of the journey, which lasted 20 hours, we travelled under guard in a compartment of the train. We had no food or drink during the whole journey. We arrived at Thiennes 5pm on Thursday 15th of March 1917.
Pte. Joseph Nunn
British Army 1/7th Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:Whittlesford, Cambs
Private Joseph Nunn. 39908 1/7th Hants Reg. was one of those men. We are doing a project to commemorate WW1 in our village, Whittlesford in Cambridgeshire. We aim to find out about the men who went from the village, thought to be about 118 in a village of approx. 720 people. We are working on finding out more about him.
39908 Private Joseph Nunn served with the 1st/7th Battalion Hampshire Regiment during WW1. There follows a record of the Battalions movements as part of 128th (Hampshire) Brigade in the 43rd (Wessex) Division. The Division was sent to India under peacetime conditions but remained ready for active service. His battalion moved to Aden in January 1918. His medal card merely records the award of the British War and Victory Medals with no details of any unusual events.
Pte. Louis Nunn
British Army 10th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Doncaster
I have a postcard to my grandmother from her brother informing her of contact details: Private L Nunn, D company, 10th battalion, 14 platoon, Yorkshire Light Infantry, British Expeditionary Force, France. He immigrated to Canada after the war to farm very successfully.
Pte. Walter Francis Nunn
British Army 6th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
from:Reading, Berkshire
Walter Nunn served with 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. He was awarded the Victory and British War medals.
Pte. Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC DCM MM
Canadian Expeditionary Force 38th (Ottawa) Canadian Infantry Btn.
from:Canada
(d.18 September 1918)
Pte. Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney VC, DCM, MM.
Canadian Expeditionary Forces 38th Btn. Eastern Ontario Regiment
(d.18th Sep 1918)
Claude Nunney died of wounds on the 18th of September 1918 and is buried in the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
An extract from the London Gazette Supplement (No. 31067, of 13th Dec., 1918) records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery during the operations against the Drocourt-Queant line on Sept. 1st and 2nd, 1918. On Sept. 1st, when his battalion was in the vicinity of Vis-en-Artois, preparatory to the advance, the enemy laid down a heavy barrage and counter-attacked. Pte. Nunney, who was at this time at company headquarters, immediately on his own initiative proceeded through the barrage to the company outpost lines, going from post to post and encouraging the men by his own fearless example. The enemy were repulsed and a critical situation was saved. During the attack on Sept. 2nd, his dash continually placed him in advance of his companions, and his fearless example undoubtedly helped greatly to carry the company forward to its objectives."
There has been some debate as to Nunney's origins. Whilst Nunney himself stated he was born in Dublin, Ireland, it is claimed he was actually born in Hastings, England as Stephen Sargent Claude Nunney. Also it is claimed that Nunney did not become a Canadian citizen by naturalization process, but by becoming part of a child emigration scheme known as British Home Children.
Dave Lorente, (Homechildren Canada,) wrote the following article on Claude: "It is interesting to speculate how Claude Nunney would answer, were he alive today and asked to give his first names, DOB and birthplace, because for some unknown reason or reasons he knowingly or unwittingly gave false information when he joined up in World War I. Perhaps it was because, like so many other Home Children, he had lost his baptismal record and/or birth certificate. His birth certificate shows he was actually born in Hastings, England - not in Dublin as his military Attestation papers show. Nor was he Irish and his name was not Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney as he stated but Stephen Sargent Claude Nunney' - 'Sargent' being his mother's maiden name. His birth date was also wrong and he came to Canada as Stephen - not Claude. All that said, none of it detracts in any way from the brave things he did during World War I when he became one of 'Canada's Magnificent Seven' and won the former Empire and Commonwealth's highest award for bravery in the ranks."
2nd Lt. Norman Nunns
British Army 1/21st Btn. London Regiment
from:Brockley
Norman Nunns was my grandfather; he was apparently a marksman and used to train men in sharpshooting. He was initially turned down for active service, on account of TB; He was commissioned in March 1917.
I'm not sure whether he served in the Battle of Messines, though it seems likely that he must have done. He was wounded at Passchendaele on 16th August 1917 and was apparently rescued from open ground by his batman. He successfully applied for a War Wound Gratuity and also received the Silver War Badge. He was promoted to Lt on the 28th of September 1918 but did not recover sufficiently to return to active service. He was medically discharged on the 21st of October 1919.
Pte. Fred A. Nurse
British Army 13th (1st North Wales) Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Denbigh
(d.30th May 1916)
Fred Nurse served with the 13th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers in WW1. He died 30th of May 1916 aged 20 years and is buried Rue-du-Bacquerot No 1 Military Cemetery at Laventie in France.
Pte. John James Nurse
British Army 21st Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:16 Glen St. Hebburn
(d.10th Sep 1917)
John James Nurse, Private 27/540 enlisted at Newcastle and served in the 21st (2nd Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers. He died, age 43, on the 10th September 1917 and is buried in at Hargicourt British Cemetery.
He was married to Ellen Nurse nee McGuiness of 16 Glen Street, Hebburn New Town. The 1911 census shows the family living at 26 William Street, Hebburn consisting of: James Nurse, age 62, copper worker, born in Weybourne, Norfolk. Sarah Nurse, age 56, born in Jarrow. John James, age 34, general labourer, born in Jarrow. Hugh age 22, Platers helper in shipyard, born in Jarrow Robert, age 20, carpenters labourer in shipyard, born in Jarrow. Joseph, age 26, born in Hebburn and Peter, age 7, school, born in Hebburn.
Pte. Thomas William Nurse
British Army No.3 Reserve HT Depot Army Service Corps
from:Norfolk
Thomas enlisted as William Nurse on 11th of December 1915 and transferred to Army Reserve the following day. He was mobilised 1st of November 1918. His trade whilst in Army was a blacksmith.
Walter Nussey
British Army 3rd Btn Coldstream Guards
from:Barnsley
Pte. George Nutbrown
Army 5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.16th Sep 1916)
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