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Pte. Hector Sowry
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 3rd Canterbury Regiment, 12th (Nelson) Coy. 4th NZ Rifle Brigade.
from:Makomako, New Zealand
Hector Lyle Sowry was the first cousin of my Great Uncle Leonard Sowry, they both attended Makomako school and participated in two hours a week (fifty two hours in total each) compulsory military training. On leaving school Hector and Leonard enrolled with the 17th Ruahine Regiment a local territorial group.
After the declaration of war they both continued to train with this regiment until 1916 when at the age of twenty they volunteered and were accepted into the New Zealand regular army. Mobilising together with the 19th Reinforcement at Trentham Camp 25th July 1916. Both the boys went on to train at Featherston Military Camp. On the 15th of November 1916 together Hector and Leonard embarked with the 19th Reinforcement on board the troopship Maunganui HMNZT 68 where they sailed via Albany Australia, Capetown South Africa the island of St Helena and then onto Devonport UK. The two troopships that embarked together the Maunganui and Tahiti then disembarked 29th January 1917 on a cold and snowy day at Plymouth and the later ship at Devonport.
On arrival Hector and Leonard were both posted to the Canterbury reserve battalion. Having marched to Sling Camp and then onto Codford Camp both again were posted together to the 12th (Nelson)Coy of the 3rd C.I.R 4th Infantry Brigade. Leonard applied unsuccessfully for the artillery and Hector successfully as a marksman. After sixteen weeks training at Codford they both then embarked for France on the 28th May 1917. Arriving at Boulogne Leonard and his regiment travelled to Messines via Hazebrouck, Le Havre and Bailleul. Upon arrival the regiment set about repairing the Wulverghem-Messines Road. After three two week stints in the front line trenches of the New Zealand sector Leonard was killed in action on the 11th August 1917, he was believed to be in the La Basse-Ville neighbourhood at Au Chasseur Cabaret. He is buried at the London Rifle Brigade Cemetery.
Hector rejoined the regiment on the 28th of December 1917 after completing marksman-ship training at Estaples. He went on to serve in the 12th Coy and survived the war, returning to New Zealand on board troopship Pakeha. Hector married his sweetheart Edith, he died 27th July 1984 aged 89. Hector is buried at the Featherston Return Servicemen's Cemetery, Featherston New Zealand.
Five of my great uncles served 1914~1919, Leonard was the only great uncle to not return to New Zealand.
Pte. Leonard Herbert Sowry
New Zealand Expeditionary Force 3rd Canterbury Regiment, 12th (Nelson) Coy 4th NZ Rifle Brigade.
from:Makomako via Pahiatua, New Zealand
(d.11th Aug 1917)
Leonard Herbert Sowry was born 5th June 1895 at Woodville New Zealand. He is my great uncle and was the second son of Herbert and Eliza Sowry. As a lad Len and the family moved to Rose Farm in the newly opened bush settlement area of Makomako. He and his first cousin Hector Lyle Sowry attended Makomako school and participated in two hours a week (fifty two hours in total each) compulsory military training.
On leaving school Leonard and Hector enrolled with the 17th Ruahine Regiment, a local territorial group. After the declaration of war they both continued to train with this regiment until 1916 when at the age of twenty they volunteered and were accepted into the New Zealand regular army. Mobilising together with the 19th Reinforcement at Trentham Camp 25th July 1916.
Both the boys went on to train at Featherston Military Camp. On the 15th of November 1916 together Leonard and Hector embarked with the 19th Reinforcement on board the troopship Maunganui HMNZT 68 where they sailed via Albany Australia, Capetown South Africa the island of St Helena and then onto Devonport UK. The two troopships that embarked together the Maunganui and Tahiti then disembarked 29th January 1917 on a cold and snowy day at Plymouth and the later ship at Devonport.
On arrival Leonard and Hector were both posted to the Canterbury reserve battalion. Having marched to Sling Camp and then onto Codford Camp both again were posted together to the 12th (Nelson)Coy of the 3rd C.I.R 4th Infantry Brigade. Leonard applied unsuccessfully for the artillery and Hector successfully as a marksman.
After sixteen weeks training at Codford they both then embarked for France on the 28th May 1917. Arriving at Boulogne Leonard and his regiment traveled to Messines via Hazebrouck, Le Havre and Bailleul. Upon arrival the regiment set about repairing the Wulverghem-Messines Road.
After three two week stints in the front line trenches of the New Zealand sector Leonard was killed in action on the 11th August 1917, he was believed to be in the La Basse-Ville neighbourhood at Au Chasseur Cabaret. He is buried at the London Rifle Brigade Cemetery.
Hector rejoined the regiment on the 28th of December 1917 after completing marksman-ship training at Estaples. He went on to serve in the 12th Coy and survived the war, returning to New Zealand on board troopship Pakeha. Hector married his sweetheart Edith, he died 27th July 1984 aged 89. Hector is buried at the Featherston Return Servicemen's Cemetery, Featherston New Zealand.
Five of my great uncles served 1914~1919 Leonard is the only great uncle to not return to New Zealand.
Capt. Harry Maurice Spackman
British Army Royal Field Artillery
from:Surrey
Harry Spackman was one of the first Captains to enter Villers Bretonneux in April 1918.
Spain
Army 7th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
AC1 Charles James Adam Spain
Royal Air Force
from:Hackney
Pte. George C Spain
British Army 1st Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
George Spain served with the 1st Royal West Kent Regiment, he was wounded on 23rd of August 1915 and was treated at Red Gables Hospital in Bletchingley, Surrey.
Pte. Henry Spalding
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
John Spalding
British Army 15th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
2nd Lt. Sydney Leonard Spalding
British Army 200th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:
Not too much known at this point,but definitely was in action in the Loos area between January and April 1917 possibly in support of 16th Infantry Brigade.
Obviously went on to Egypt, when I do not know but I do have a photo of the guns in action there though this may have been practice. He came back to work at his family's firm of Spalding & Hodge but could not settle down and left under a cloud. Lived in London & Cambridge and died in 1962.
Gnr. William James Spalding
British Army 69th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Kingston-on-Thames.
(d.11th Nov 1918)
William James Spalding died on 11th November 1918, aged 26. He is buried in in the St Sever Cemetery extension in France and was the son of Richard and Louisa Spalding, of 62, Richmond Park Rd., Kingston-on-Thames.
Charles Spall
Royal Navy HMS Clan Macnaughton
from:4 Havelock Place, Bethnal Green, London.
(d.3rd Feb 1915)
Charles Spall was born 16th Sept. 1891 and baptised 4th Oct. 1891 at St. James the Great, Bethnal Green. He was the son of Charles James Spall, a cabinet maker of 55 Fellow Street and Mary Ann Spall nee Edwards who had married in 1888 at St. Thomas, Bethnal Green. Charles James father, James Spall, had also been a cabinet maker. In 1912 Charles Spall married Lilian Pask at St. James the Less, Bethnal Green. Charles was 21 years old, a cabinet maker [3rd generation] of 5 Havelock Place and Lilian was the daughter of Joseph Pask a labourer. Lilian worked in a printing works and her address was 2 Havelock Place. Their marriage took place on 7th April 1912.
When war broke out in 1914 Charles joined the Navy and as a member of the carpenters crew and only two years after his marriage he died along with all the others when the vessel HMS Clan MacNaughton was lost off the coast of Scotland. Charles James Spall not only had to cope with the loss of his son but in 1918 his brother Benjamin Spall also died. Benjamin had signed up on the 15th August 1914. He is shown on the Commonwealth War Graves site as having died on 13th Nov. 1918 aged 45 years of age. He was a L/Corporal in the Northumberland Fusiliers and was buried in Nottingham General Cemetery. Benjamin had married quite late in life. He married Louisa Miller in 1910 in Nottingham and only eight years later Louisa like Lilian was a war widow.
I am not related to Charles Spall but a one name researcher working on the name Spall. This has helped me to realise how WW1 affected the ordinary man and woman, how lives were lost and others spoilt as a result of this terrible war.
Sgt. Frederick William Spall
British Army 5th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Wallsend
My Grandad, Fred Spall, was captured at Estaires during the Battle of the Lys part of the 1918 German offensive. He was initially imprisoned in the Dulmen camp before being transferred to Cottbus. He was finally repatriated in January 1919.
William George Spanswick
British Army 9th Lancers
from:14 Easton Royal, Wiltshire
After serving in the 9th Lancers during the Great War on demobilisation William Spanswick immediately joined the Royal Navy as a stoker. In operations in support of the Greeks in Smyrna the ship was involved in landing British troops at Karaburun in support of the Greek occupation of Smyrna in May 1919. His next ship was the battlecruiser HMS Renown from 5th of March 1920.
Pte. William Albert Ward Sparham
British Army 11th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Tynemouth, Northumberland
(d.6th Oct 1916)
William Albert Ward Sparham served with the 11th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers during WW1 and died, age 27, reportedly on the 25th August 1915. He is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium. However the date of death on the Commonwealth War Graves site is the 6th October 1916. He was the husband of Emeline Louise Gray (formerly Sparham), of 3 Britannia Bank, North Shields.
Pte. George Spark
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Harold Spark
British Army 2nd Btn. East Yorkshire Regiment
(d.16th Apr 1915)
Sgt. Arthur James Sparkes
British Army 3rd Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Rattlesden, Suffolk
My great grandfather Arthur Sparkes joined the British Army, the 3rd Suffolk Regiment in about 1899, where he was stationed at Alderney in the Channel Islands. In 1914 he Joined up again in Bury St Edmunds in the 3rd Suffolk Regiment and moved with his wife Caroline who he first met on Alderney, and his children to Felixstowe to the Battalion headquarters. Arthur and the other Sargents were there to train the soldiers who went over to the Western Front.
Pte William John Sparks
Australian Imperial Forces 28th Battalion
from:Margaret River Western Australia
William Sparks served with 28th Btn 11th Reinforcements
L/Cpl. Harry Christopher Sparling
British Army 10th/11th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
from:Grimsby
(d.3rd Nov 1917)
Harry Sparling was the youngest of three brothers to go to war. He and the eldest brother were both killed in action. The only surviving brother was a prisoner of war and made it home to become my great granddad.
Pte John Sparling MID
British Army 168th Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:Leighlenbridge, Carlow, Rep. of Ireland
John Sparling served with 168th Coy. Machine Gun Corps and was Mentioned in Despatches on the 17th of November 1917.
Pte Charles Sparrow
British Army 9th Bn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Raveningham, Norfolk
(d.18th October 1916)
Pte. Frederick Sparrow
British Army 5th Btn. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
from:Stoke Goldington, Buckinghamshire
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Frederick Sparrow died on the first day of the Battle of Loos, a young man cut down in his prime, like so many others of his generation on both sides in the Great War.
Driver Thomas George Sparrow
British Army 2/6th Royal Field Artillery
from: 27 Reedham Street, Peckham, London, England
He would never talk about the war when he returned home. His brother (John Edward Sparrow) also fought in WW1 but sadly lost his life in April 1918.
Pte. William Sparshott
British Army 10th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Hurstpirpoint
(d.8th August 1918)
William Sparshott was my uncle and my motherā€™s younger brother. Documentation records that he was killed in action on 8th of August 1918. The 10th Battalion is recorded as going into action at 0420hrs at Gressaire Wood, being met by a massive German artillery barrage. This was on the first day of the Battle of Amiens which heralded the last 100 days of WW1. He was just 19 years of age and deeply mourned by my mother. He is buried in the CWGC Beacon Cemetery, Sailly Laurette, 19 kilometres East of Amiens.
So many young lives sacrificed, We will remember them.
Sjt. James Henry Spaxman
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.7th May 1915)
Pte. Charles Speak
British Army 2/5th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Whitworth, Lancashire
Charles Speak was my great uncle. He served in the Lancashire Fusiliers. He was wounded in the leg in Lille in 1917.
Pte. Thomas Speak
Australian Army AIF 11th Coy Australian Machine Gun Corps
from:Australia
(d.1st Apr 1918)
Thomas Speak died on the 1st of April 1918, aged 26 is and buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. He was the son of John and Mary Jane Eastwood Speak, of 19 Whalley Rd., Read, Blackburn in Lancashire.
CSM. John Higgin Speake
British Army 6th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
(d.16th Apr 1916)
CSM John Higgin Speake of the 6th Batt. South Lancs Regt. died of wounds in Mesopotamia, his name is on the Baghdad Memorial and a poster received by wife and family. Further information would be appreciated.
Pte. William Henry Speake
British Army 1/5th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:25 Atherton Street, Prescot, Lancashire
Bill Speake was my paternal grandfather. He was born 28th September 1896 and died 23rd July 1982. He was injured twice whilst serving on the Western Front during the war, but he survived and come home to marry and have four children. He and his wife eventually moved to America.
Gnr Herbert Speakman
British Army 149 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Warrington
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