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Sgt. William Edwin Venning MM & Bar
British Army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Tavistock
My Grandfather William Venning joined the Somerset L I and served as a regular until 1913/14 he then joined the Plymouth Police force. On outbreak of the 1st World War he was recalled and arrived in France on 22nd Aug 1914 as part of the BEF. He survived the war and re-joined the Police as he had gained Distinguished Service in the Field. Here in his own words are his actions:
4th Dec 1914 Mentioned in Dispatches by Field Marshal Sir J D P French. Whilst serving as a L/Cpl in the 1st Somerset Light Infantry, I volunteered with two men to reconnoiter at night, and prepare a sketch of the German Trench 150 yards away, which had to be done by crawling practically the whole of the distance. After obtaining the information required and turning back one of my patrol was shot. With great difficulty I got him on my back safely to our trenches, where it was found that he had been shot right through the head.
Also on 19th December 1914, my Company were ordered to make an attack at 1.30 p.m. on the German trenches all the Officers (seven in all) and senior N.C.OĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s were killed. I took charge until relieved at 5 a.m. the following morning by a Q.M. Sgt when we were then ordered to retire to our old position 80 men were left out of the Company.
Military Medal dated London Gazette 11th November 1916 Whilst at Beaumont Hamel for reconnoitering on several occasions the enemyĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s machine gun positions for Artillery information and Devotion to Duty. Bar to Military Medal awarded on 11th June 1917
Whilst serving as a Sgt. in the Mounted Military Police on the night of 29th May 1917 the Germans were heavily shelling the village of Vlamertinghe several men of the Royal Artillery were severely wounded I assisted in getting them to a place of safety. Also on the night of 30th May 1917 whilst on mounted Patrol between Vlamertinghe and Ypres. The Germans were heavily shelling the roads wounding about 20 men I rendered first aid and helped getting them to a place of safety. I then galloped back along the road between burning lorries and screens to turn back all traffic at the rear and divert along various branch roads.
Pte. A Ventress
British Army 13th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Alms Houses, Norton on Tees
(d.10th August 1917)
Pte. Walter Venus
British Army 9th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.7th Jul 1916)
Walter Venus, Private 23340, enlisted North Shields, served in the 9th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers and died age 19 on the 7th July 1916. He is remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Face 10B, 11B and 12B. His medal card shows the award of the War and Victory Medals.
Walter was born in Jarrow 1896, son of Isabella Hanna (formerly Venus nee Irving). In the 1911 census the family is living at 88 Queens Road, Jarrow with David Hanna(35)a Cartman, and his wife of 5 years Isabella(40). They have 2 children David (2) and Sarah (1). Also staying at this address are Isabella's two children from her former marriage, Walter Venus(14) and Isabella Venus who is 6 years old.
Ch.Sto. R. G. Verey DSM
Royal Navy HMS Amethyst
from:Portsmouth
(d.23rd December 1917)
Chief Stoker R G Verey was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Verey; husband of Olive B. Verey, of 119 Newcome Rd., Portsmouth. Born at Portsmouth.
He was 38 when he died and is buried in the Gamboa British Cemetery in Brazil, Grave 762.
Pte. Douglas Vernall
New Zealand Expeditionary Force Machine Gun Section
from:Orari, New Zealand
Douglas Vernall was part of the 21st Reinforcements and served with the NZ Machine Gun Section.
Capt. Charles Edward Granville Vernon
British Army 5th Btn. B Coy. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Dublin, Ireland
(d.15th Aug 1915)
Charles Edward Granville Vernon was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on the 15th of August 1915,aged 31 years The dearly loved elder and only surviving son of Colonel Granville Vernon, Bedfordshire Regiment, and of Rosalie his wife.
Gnr. Edwin Atherton Vernon
British Army 77th Seige Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Manchester
I have been given the diaries that my great grandfather, Vernon Atherton, compiled during 1916-1917. They can be difficult to read given they were written in pencil. I also have his whistle. There are only two locations of note that I have found to date and they are from his Army Pay Received in France records, they are Bouvac and Sailly au Bois. After the war he became a police officer in Manchester reaching the rank of chief inspector and he died in service.
Francis Edward Vernon
Royal Navy
from:Portsmouth
My father's father Francis Vernon was a Naval officer based at Portsmouth. His wife, Cora Aufrere Vernon was treated at Englefield House as part of the maternity unit for Naval Officer's wives. My father was born in this maternity unit in October 1918. As far as the information I have discovered, part of the estate was a maternity unit for Naval officer's wives at the time.
Capt. Frederick Lewis Vernon DCM.
British Army 26th (3rd Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:122 Rodsley Avenue, Gateshead
(d.1st July 1916)
Frederick Vernon was born in Monmouth, Wales in 1885, the son of David Hunter Vernon and Martha (nee, Morgan). He joined the 26th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, the 3rd Tyneside Irish in January 1915 and was transferred to France in 1916. He died on 1st July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He left five children, Edna, Dorothy, Marjorie, Frederick and Patricia. Frederick never saw his sixth child, Sydney Morton Vernon who was born 24th December 1916. Sydney went on to be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal during World War Two.
Pte. Frederick George Vernon
British Army 3rd Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Ranton, Staffordshire
Pte. Fredrick Gildart Vernon
British Army 1st Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
(d.16th Oct 1918)
Pte Joseph Vernon
British Army 7th Btn South Lancashire Regiment
from:Wigan
(d.5th Jul 1916)
Joseph Vernon served with the 7th South Lancashire Regiment. He had won a Humane award at the age of 14 for saving a child from drowning in a canal.
Pte. Walter Whittingham Vernon
British Army 9th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Manchester
(d.10th August 1918)
Walter Whittingham Vernon died of wounds in hospital at St. Omer, France. He is buried at Aire Communal Cemetery, Aire-sur-la-Lys, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. Walter was the fourth son of James Henry Vernon and Harriet Vernon of Hulme, Manchester. He was 21 years old, unmarried, with no children.
Pte J Verow
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.30th Mar 1918)
Verow, J. Private, 19/68, Killed in action on 30th March 1918.
Buried in Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Somme, in grave VIII. E. 5.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Sgt. Francis Charles Verrier
British Army 10th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Taunton Deane
(d.13th Dec 1915)
Francis Verrier joined the Somerset Light Infantry on 3rd of October 1887 and served until 1902. At the commencement of WW1 he joined the Sherwood Foresters, with whom he served until his death in 1915.
2nd Lt. Francis Stuart Verschoyle
British Army Royal Anglesea Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Dublin
(d.25th April 1915)
2nd Lt. Francis Verschoyle in refusing to retire and defending his trench to the last, gave his life at the battle of Ypres 25 April 1915. He was born on the 9th of April 1896.
Capt. William Arthur Verschoyle
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.11th Apr 1917)
William Arthur Verschoyle, Captain, 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, "who, though wounded, continued to lead his company in an assault and fell at the Battle of Arras on the 11th of April, 1917." Born 24 Sept. 1890
William David "Jock" Verth
British Army Connaught Rangers
William Verth was a British Home Child, sent to Canada by the Quarrier scheme. He at some point escaped Canada enlisted with the Connaught Rangers. He nearly lost his leg at Messines and was sent to Hanworth to convalescence. We do know that there was a young lady, Daisy Jewell who worked at the hospital and they fell in love and married.
2nd Lt. Charles Alexander Vesey
British Army 7th Btn British West Indies Regiment
from:Alberta, Canada
Charlie Vesey (my husband's grandfather) was born in London, England as Karl Sandor Szivessy on the 29th of February 1888. His father was a furrier from the Austrian Hungary Empire. When he came to Canada in 1912, he anglicized his name and shortened his last name. As a result, he went with Charles Alexander Vesey. Charlie and his brother John were working in Jamaica when the war broke out. John ended up serving in the US Army, while Charlie joined the British West Indies Regiment.
Charlie talked about being a Captain in the British West Indies Regiment but I have only been able to find him on the lists as either Temporary Second Lieutenant or Second Lieutenant. He enlisted on 26th of March 1917 and embarked for Europe on 31st of May 1917. He was in the 6th Contingent.
After the war, he returned to Canada where he married and had two children. He died in February 1972 in London, Ontario, Canada.
Private Patrick Vesey
British Army 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Belturbet, Armagh
(d.5th Sep 1916)
I have recently discovered that my great-granddad, Patrick Vesey, Royal Irish Fusiliers - 7th Battalion. no. 22754 died in the Somme on 5th September 1916 near Combles in France. I have visited Thievpal in France and found his engraving on the missing memorial.
I understand from family members that he joined up with the Royal Irish Fusiliers 7th Battalion. 16th division, 49th brig. He enlisted in Armagh, when he was living in the town of Belturbet.
I would love to be able to find records of his enlistment, maybe a photo or any documentation on him or his Battalions movements.
Pte. Herbert George Vesse
British Army 4th Btn. Essex Regiment
from:Elmstead, Essex
(d.26th Mar 1917)
Herbert Vesse enlisted at Woolwich Barracks Kent. He was living with his wife at Sutton At Hone Kent but was born in Elmstead Essex. He died in The Egyptian Theatre of war on 26th of March 1917, death place, Palestine. He would have been 35 years old and left behind a wife, Lilian Mary Vess. His name is inscribed at Sutton At Hone memorial. I am not a family member but researched my friends genealogy.
Pte. Arthur John Vesty
British Army 1st/8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Quorndon Cropston, Leicester
(d.23rd July 1918)
Arthur Vesty is my great grand uncle he served with the 1st/8th Battalion, Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment.
Pte. Albert Edward Viall
British Army 7th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Manningtree, Essex
(d.30th July 1917)
Gnr. Thomas Vicarage
British Army 121st Brigade, A Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Swansea, Wales
(d.27th July 1917)
My research uncovered the records for Thomas Vicarage serving with A Battery, 121st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. I am a genealogical researcher in Australia, a member of the Guild of One Name Studies researching the surname Vickridge and the variants of that spelling including Vickeridge, Vickrage, Vickredge, and Vicrage and deviants of the mass of mispellings of the family name. I am also a retired member of the Australian Defence Force.
2nd Lt. Wiliam Dallin Vicary
British Army 6th Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Bank House, Braunton, Devon
(d.8th March 1916)
Wiliam Vicary was born in 1887 at Blockley Kent, son of Henry Walter and Jane (nee Dallin). He worked as manager for Lloyds Bank in Braunton Devon. William died in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and is buried in AL Basrah, Basra, Iraq
Pte Cecil Percy Vick
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Whitehall, Gloucs
(d.25 Jan 1917)
Cecil Vick is on our church Roll of Honour and I am looking into his wartime history as of June 2019. Am still researching
Gnr. H. Vick
British Army 173rd Brigade, D Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.5th April 1918)
Gunner Vick is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Belgium, Grave P.IX.Q.6B.
L/Cpl. Edward Lewis Vickary
British Army 4th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
(d.8th Sept 1915)
Pte. Alexander George Vickers
British Army 5th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:29 Violet Street, Derby
(d.23rd May 1918)
Alexander Vickers of the 5th North Staffordshire Regiment died 23 May 1918 aged 18. Son of Albert Edward and Eliza Mary Vickers, nee Crooks and brother of Albert Harold who also died in the Great War. In 1911 he was living with his parents and siblings at 29 Violet Street, Derby. At rest in Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby
He joined up aged 17 years and 361 days on the 27th of February 1917 and was posted to the Army Reserve. He was born on the 31st December 1899 and lived with his parents and siblings at 29 Violet Street, Derby, occupation, clerk. He was mobilized 9th of February 1918 and posted to the depot of the North Staffordshire Regiment. On the 23rd of May 1918 he died of tuberculosis meningitis at the City Hospital, Leys Road, Lincoln.
Pte. Arthur D.L. Vickers
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
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