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Pte. Matthias Ovington
British Army 2/9th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Newcastle Upon Tyne
(d.9th Oct 1917)
Pte. David Rees Owen
British Army 9th Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Maerdy, Wales
(d.4th Nov 1918)
David Owen was a miner, originally from Aberdare, born on November 3rd 1894. He was married to Catherine (Cassie) Davies on March 2nd 1915 and lived in the Rhondda town of Maerdy.
David enlisted at Porth in 1915 and joined the 9th (Service) Battalion, Welch Regiment and was subsequently posted to Northern France. On November 4th 1918 his battalion was in pursuit of the retreating enemy on the Maresches - St Hubert Road near Vendegies-au-Bois. He was killed in an attack on the enemy rearguard positions, near the River Du Sart and the village of Bry which is near to the France - Belgium border.
David is buried alongside many of his comrades in Cross Roads Cemetery in Fontaine-au-Bois, north-east of Le Cateau in Northern France. He was survived by his wife Catherine and thirteen-month-old daughter Muriel, whom he never had a chance to know. Unfortunately, there are no known photographs of David.
E. Owen
British Army 28th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
I have come across a pocket watch, inscribed to "E. Owen British Army 28th Fld. Ambulance, RAMC, ASC MT. 9th (Scottish) Infantry Division" with Ypres, Bethune, Arras, Cambrai, and Kemmel.
Pte. Edmond Owen
British Army 2nd Btn. Manchester Regiment
(d.20th Oct 1914)
Pte. Enoch Owen
British Army 23rd Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Llandudno
(d.27th Jul 1916)
Enoch Owen was born into a family of 9 children, only 4 boys survived to adulthood and all 4 entered the Army to serve in WW1. Enoch was my Great Uncle, he was also the eldest and being under 5 foot 3 inches tall he entered the 23rd Manchester Bantam Regiment. He served in France and on the 27th July 1916 he died from wounds received in the Battle of the Somme and is buried in Abbeville Communal Cemetery, France, he was 32 years old. I have a copy of his 'Informal Will' written just 3 months before his death while 'In actual military service'. His Mother, Sarah Owen had inscribed on his gravestone 'He had one life and that he gave all in exchange for a Soldier's grave'. His 3 brother's (including my Grandfather) all survived.
Pte. Frank Owen
British Army 10th Btn Black Watch
from:Feckenham, Worcestershire
(d.5th Nov 1916)
Able.Sea. George Albert Owen
Royal Navy HMS Sparrow Hawk
from:Frodsham
Albert George Owen enlisted 13th of August 1915 at Portsmouth. After training he joined HMS Sparrow Hawk, 4th Destroyer Flotilla at Scapa Flow. He saw action at Battle of Jutland. The Sparrow Hawk was badly damaged by the German battle fleet, she finally sank. The survivors were taken off by HMS Marksman. He returned to Portsmouth, then posted to HMS Medina at Greenwich and a succession of other destroyers with the Grand Fleet. Finally being discharged on 21st of April 1919.
Pte. Harry Owen
British Army 17th Btn Middlesex Regiment
from:Tottenham, Middlesex
Harry was my Grandfather, he signed up using a false name, Harry Owen, he was actually, Harry Marke born in 1897 and was just 14 years old. I believe he went to Ypres and he lost his left arm below the elbow. He was discharged in 1917. My Mum told me he wouldn't wear a sock or useless prosthetic (his words) and proudly showed it off. I met him once when I was around 3 years old, which I don't remember. Mum last saw him living in an hostel for the Homeless in London. We don't know where he is buried, but I am determined to find him. God bless Mum and Grandad, finally reunited.
Henry Owen
British Army 254th RE Tunneling Co Royal Engineers
from:Llanddyfnan, Anglesey
(d.11th February 1917)
Henry Owen 175870, 254th RE Tunneling Co Killed 11/02/1917 Date: 13 November 2009 10:29 Hi,  I would like to inform you that while researching my great granfather Sapper Henry Owen 175870 in WW1, it came to my attention that he was in the 254th Tunneling Co, he was killed onm the 11th Feb 1917 aged 34. He was from Llanddyfnan, Anglesey  Regards Will Davies
Pte. Henry Owen
British Army 9th Btn Devonshire Regimengt
from:Talwrn, Anglesey
(d.17th Feb 1917)
Harry Owen was with the 9th Battalion Devonshire Regt., which was raised at the Depot in Exeter from 15 Sept 1914 as part of Lord Kitchener's Second New Army ("K2"). It was part of the 20th (Light) Division at various locations in Aldershot, also Bisley, Haselmere and Bordon till April 1915. Then went overseas via Le Havre 28 July, joining the 20th Brigade, 7th Divn.at Calonne-sur-la-Lys on 8 August 1915.
The 7th Divn. were engaged at the Battle of Loos 25 Sept-8 Oct 1915. Possibly as a result of involvement in the latter end of this battle he left France with a gunshot wound to the neck on 12th October for a Scottish hospital. On recovery he was posted to the 11th Devons, a Reserve battalion which never left the UK, and was part of 10th (Res.) Brigade at Wareham. Returned to France & the 9th Battn. on the 17 Dec 1915, there were no major battles at that time. Harry seems to have fallen ill and been returned to the UK on the 2nd of May 1916 (and so missed the opening of the Battle of the Somme).
He was posted again to the 11th Btn on recovery, but shortly after applied for posting to the Tunnellers RE, effected on 10 August. After due training at Clipstone Camp, Notts. as a "Tunneller's Mate" he was sent back to France 3 October 1916 joining 254th Tunn. Coy. on 16 November 1916 and remained with them till mortally wounded by an explosion from a shell or countermine? before dying of wounds on 11th February 1917.
Pte. James Owen MM.
British Army 12th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
On the first of July 1916 Private James Owen of the 12th machine gun company, 4th division was awarded a military medal for his actions that day it was awarded for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty on 1st July 1916 between Beaumont Hamel and Serre.
Pte. John Owen
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Pentraeth, Anglesey
(d.21st Feb 1916)
John Owen served with the 16th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
Pte. Levi Stanley Owen
British Army 5th Battalion South Wales Borderers
(d.11th Apr 1918)
Levi Owen served with the 5th South Wales Borderers. He was the son of Edward and Matilda Owen of 3 Ashfield Street, Abertillery, Newport, Monmouthshire. He died in Flanders.
Pte. Levi Stanley Owen
British Army 5th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Abertillery, Monmouthshire, Wales
(d.11th Apr 1918)
Pte. Owen Arthur Owen
British Army 1st Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
from:Highbury, Islington
(d.29th May 1918)
As a printer-compositor, Arthur Owen had been in a reserved occupation, but with losses mounting on the Western Front, he was called up, went to France and never returned, leaving a widow, Lou and two young children, Gladys (my mother) and Harold. Arthur is buried in Le Vertannoy British Cemetery, Hinges, near Béthune in Northern France. The small walled cemetery, with its cross, a single tree, and 141 identical gravestones, lies in one corner of a potato field (‘some corner of a foreign field, That is for ever England’ – Rupert Brooke). Having survived the appalling slaughter of the ferocious enemy offensive of April 1918 during the Battles of the Lys, Arthur was killed in action during a surprise enemy attack on his company’s position on the night of 28-29 May 1918. Three of Arthur’s King’s Own Royal Lancaster comrades were killed that same day, and are buried alongside him: 30489 (Frederick) Harold Mitchell, 22925 M Holman and 34751 F. Longworth, together with a fourth, 202305 H. Frost, who died two days later.
Arthur’s mother had been born Janet Greenhill in 1856 in a family of rope-makers in Perth, Scotland; his father, Albert Owen, had come from a long, prolific, colourful and unruly line of canal boatmen in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and finally Buckinghamshire, where he married Janet in 1885. I am still at a loss to explain how they met; in 1881 Janet was a Cook in a household in Forfarshire. By 1891 Albert and Janet had moved to Eastbourne, where he was a Beach Photographer (with a prime licensed pitch right by the pier). In 1911 Arthur and his young wife Lou (both born in 1886) were lodging with a family in Highbury; my one-year-old mother was being looked after by her mother’s parents in Tunbridge Wells. Janet died in 1911, and so was spared the loss of her eldest son; Albert died in Eastbourne in 1931. After Arthur’s death, Lou, Gladys and Harold went back to live with Lou’s parents in Tunbridge Wells. In 1923 Lou gave birth to a daughter, Jean; early in the Second World War Jean, who had joined the Land Army, was driving her tractor home at the end of a day’s work when it overturned, leaving her permanently paralysed on one side; despite this, she later married and had a daughter, who in her turn married and is now a proud grandmother.
Visiting Arthur’s grave for the first time in July 2012, I signed the Visitors’ Book, in which the mayor of Hinges, every 11 November, signs his name in remembrance of the fallen. I was filled with the peace of a gloriously sunny late afternoon, with bitter sadness at Arthur’s loss and all it had meant to the lives of his dependants – but also with a sense of triumph at having, at last, found Arthur. ‘At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them’ - Robert Laurence Binyon.
Pte. Robert Owen
British Army 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:Collyhurst, Manchester
Pte. Robert Owen
British Army 24th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
(d.20th June 1918)
Robert Owen is buried at the Cinq Rues British Cemetery at Hazebrouck in Northern France.
Rfm. Thomas Owen
British Army 5th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Bolton, Lancashire
Thomas Owen was my grandfather on my mother's side. Unfortunately I never knew him or anything about him and as my mother was orphaned as a very young girl, she never knew him either. The information I have here was gleaned from his War Service Record.
Thomas Owen enlisted in the army on 8 October 1914, just 2 months after the birth of his first child and the following day he found himself at Tidworth Park Camp. He was transferred to the 5th Battalion The Rifle Brigade in June 1915 and was posted to France on 28 July 1915. On 27 September 1915 he was wounded in France and returned to England. Thomas went back to France in January 1916 but on 26 March 1916 he was shot in the leg and returned to England. As a result of his wounds he was invalided out of the army and his discharge papers show that he was then in the 9th Battalion Rifle Brigade.
I would be very interested to learn anything about the battles fought by the Rifle Brigade that might help me piece together his WW1 service.
Wilfred Owen
Army 5th Btn. Manchester Regiment
(d.4th Nov 1918)
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC.
British Army Manchester Regiment
(d.4th Nov 1918)
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born 18 March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. After school he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor. He began writing poetry as a teenager.
In 1915 he returned to England to enlist in the army and was commissioned into the Manchester Regiment. After spending the remainder of the year training in England, he left for the western front early in January 1917. After experiencing heavy fighting, he was diagnosed with shellshock. He was evacuated to England and arrived at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in June. There he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who already had a reputation as a poet and shared Owen's views. Sassoon agreed to look over Owen's poems, gave him encouragement and introduced him to literary figures such as Robert Graves.
Reading Sassoon's poems and discussing his work with Sassoon revolutionised Owen's style and his conception of poetry. He returned to France in August 1918 and in October was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. On 4 November 1918 he was killed while attempting to lead his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. The news of his death reached his parents on 11 November, Armistice Day.
Edited by Sassoon and published in 1920, Owen's single volume of poems contain some of the most poignant English poetry of World War One, including 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'.
Pte. William Alfred Owen
British Army 8th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Bolton
I never met my grandfather William Owen, who served with the 8th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. I do know from family history that he was invalided out of the army, having been gassed. It would be interesting to find out where and when this happened.
The effect of being gassed on both him and on his family was immense. Gramps was rarely in work, drank and swore too much. But given what he had suffered, it was understandable. The effect on my Father was immense and completely the opposite of what you might expect. He was one of the gentlest men you could ever wish to meet. It is noticeable that when WW2 broke out he volunteered for the Royal Navy and not the Army. I did ask him why, he never told me.
Pte. William Alfred Owen
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Coventry
(d.25th Jan 1917)
William Owen died on 25th of January 1917, aged 23 and is buried in the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq. The 9th Royal Warwickshire Battalion's war diary noted on the 25th of January that they were in position in Kala Haji Fahan Nullah and were in immediate support of the Worcestershire and North Staffordshire Regiments. After an intensive artillery bombardment the Turkish enemy front was secured and the 9th Battalion moved up and occupied the position known as the Queen's and King's trenches to meet a Turkish counter attack. Around noon the attack began, the 9th Battalion were ordered to advance and support the Worcesters and North Staffordshirers who were being gradually overwhelmed. Under leadership the Battalion recaptured the trench driving the enemy back to the second line. The enemy created a further counter attack and with their superiority in numbers the 9th Battalion were forced to withdraw. In the evening the 9th Battalion were drawn into reserve and a roll call showed casualties.
William was born on the 20th of May 1894 in Chauntry Place, Coventry. He was the son of my great Nana and Grandad, Mr & Mrs John Owen. As a lasting tribute to those 'Coventry Men' who had fallen in the Great War 1914 - 1918 there is a roll of honour placed within the Memorial erected in Coventry Memorial Park. Families of the fallen were also given the opportunity to pay for a commemorative sapling oak tree with name plaque to be sited within the Park. William's sapling oak tree is now a beautiful grand oak tree and his plaque P8 is still clearly eligible for all to see.
Pte. William Owen
British Army 5th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:Pontyprid, South Wales
My grand father, William Owen, was in the Glamorgan Territorial Forces in WW1. He was also a poet. He wrote a very moving poem named Glamorgan Terriers which all his grand children have a copy of. It is too long for me to type on this page. It is a very descriptive poem of the regiment's struggle of digging trenches and training before going of to war.
Pte. William Owen
British Army 7th (Lothian) Btn. Royal Scots
from:Leicester
(d.21st September 1918)
Pte. Alexander Owens
British Army 25th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Hebburn
(d.9th Nov 1916)
Alexander Owens enlisted in the 25th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and died on the 9th November 1916 aged 20. He is remembered at Palmer Cenotaph and is buried in Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres.
He was born at Jarrow in 1896 and was the eldest son of Alexander and Ann Owens (nee Thompson) of 72 Lyon Street Hebburn Quay. The 1911 census shows him as the eldest of six children who is working as an Apprentice Boiler maker in the shipyard. His father also named Alexander is aged 39 and a General labourer in the steelworks. They are living at 57 Edmund Street, Hebburn in 1911.
Additional Information: Family are living at 72 Lyons Street when he dies. He is on the cenotaph but as Alexandra, he enlisted in 1914.
Lt. Charles Arnold Owens
British Army West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hazeldene, Limerick
(d.10th Jan 1917)
Lt. Charles Arnold Owens
British Army West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hazeldene, Limerick
(d.10th Jan 1917)
Charles Arnold Owens served as a Lieutenant with the West Yorkshire Regiment. He was the second son of Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Owens, born 1st of May 1897. Charles was killed in action on the 10th of January 1917 and interred at Ginchy, France.
2E Denis Patrick Owens
Mercantile Marine S.S. Brodholme
from:Southend-on-Sea, Essex
(d.10th June 1918)
Second Engineer Owens was the Son of John and Sarah Owens. of Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny; husband of Maud Owens, of 32, Hamstel Rd., Southchurch. Southend-on-Sea.
He was 30 when he drowned when his ship was hit by a German U-Boat. He is buried in the Syracuse Communal Cemetery, Sicily, Italy,
Pte. George Owens
British Army 7th Battalion, C Company Wiltshire Regiment
from:Bradwell, Stantonbury Bucks
George Owens was my granddad on my mother's side. He served with the Wiltshire Regiment in C Company, 7th Service Battalion. George was discharged from the Army on the 23rd of April 1918, due to a gunshot wound to his left arm he received in France on the 23rd of August 1916. He was sent back to England by ambulance train. Admission no. 8850 ward designation SS. George received the British War Medal, the Victory Medal, and a Silver war badge no. 360906.
Pte. James Owens
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Lissan, Moneymore, Co. Derry
(d.16th May 1915)
I've just discovered that my grandfather's eldest brother, James Owen, joined up at the beginning of WW1 and was killed at Mons, France in 1915. He was only 24 years old. He came from Lissan, a small hamlet in County Derry in Northern Ireland. James served with the 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. His death is commemorated at Le Tournet, a Commonwealth Graves Commission cemetery in France. Strangely enough, this same cemetery is the last resting place of my husband's great uncle, Frederick Larter. Now I know why my father was named James - it was in honour of grandfather's eldest brother, who died so young.
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