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11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
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Those known to have served with11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Allman Albert John. Pte. (d.11th Aug 1916)
- Andrews Joseph George Patrick. Pte (d.27th April 1917)
- Arnold Edward. Sgt. (d.17th Nov 1916)
- Brinsley George. Pte. (d.29th Apr 1917)
- Broadrick F.. Pte. (d.1st Aug 1917)
- Burns MM. William. L/Cpl. (d.16th July 1916)
- Cole Albert Edward. L/Cpl. (d.16th July 1916)
- Gibbs Thomas. Sgt. (d.16th Feb 1917)
- Grimmett George. Pte. (d.24th September 1917)
- Hancox Edward. Pte. (d.9th May 1917)
- Humphries Percy. Pte. (d.9th April 1917)
- Ison Henry. Pte. (d.15th November 1916)
- Jones Ernest Albert Emmanuel. Pte. (d.25th Apr 1917)
- Kemsey-Bourne Frank Leonard. 2nd Lt. (d.11th Jul 1916)
- Laugher Frank. Pte. (d.17th Sep 1917)
- Mitchell Benjamin Henry. Pte. (d.13th Aug 1916)
- Mitchell Benjamin Henry. (d.13th Aug 1916)
- Nightingale Harry. Pte. (d.2nd September 1918 )
- O'Neil Albert. Pte (d.13th August 1916)
- Shear Arthur. Reg Sgt Mjr. (d.14th Nov 1916)
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Benjamin Henry Mitchell 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.13th Aug 1916) Benjamin Henry Mitchell was born in 1880 died 1916. This is my children's great granddad and I am currently doing the family tree. I have tried to find a photo of Benjamin but to no avail. I've tried the Birmingham post newspaper as they usually show a photo of the soldiers who had died or were missing but I can't find one.
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Pte. Ernest Albert Emmanuel Jones 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.25th Apr 1917) Ernest Jones served with 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. I have found all of this out via private family searches through war records
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Sgt. Thomas Gibbs 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.16th Feb 1917) Thomas Gibbs was the son of Mr & Mrs E Gibbs of 71 Stowe Stret Lichfield Staffordshire. He lies in Barin Communal Cemetery Extension.
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Pte. Harry Nightingale 11th Battalions Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.2nd September 1918 ) Harry Nightingale served with the 9th and 11th Battalions, Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
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2nd Lt. Frank Leonard Kemsey-Bourne 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.11th Jul 1916) Frank Kemsey-Bourne served as 2nd Lieutenant in the 11th Royal Warwickshire Regiment at the Battle of the Somme.
He led his men between La Boisselle and Contalmaison Road and was killed somewhere in the fields near Contalmaison Wood.
His body was never recovered.
Frank's name is engraved on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Pte. Albert John Allman 11th Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.11th Aug 1916) Jack Allman enlisted under age, unsure at what age.
On a home visit he gave his niece his mouth organ, swagger stick and hand made trench lighter. He asked her to keep them as he didn't think he would return.
Jack was killed in action on 11th of August 1916 on the Somme, aged 19.
His photograph is on the Thiepval missing poster of 600.
His niece named her first male born John and I was named in his memory.
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L/Cpl. William Burns MM. 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.16th July 1916) My great uncle William Burns was a Corporal in the the Royal Warwickshires. He won the Military Medal and was killed on 16th of July 1916.
Unfortunately I have no idea what act of bravery he did to receive this medal, and I have no idea what he looked like.
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Pte Albert O'Neil C Coy. 11th Btn Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.13th August 1916) Albert O'Neil of Coventry was one of 3 brothers who fought in WW1. Only one brother survived. His younger brother James was killed in November 1915 and Albert only joined the Army when Conscription was introduced in March 1916. He was lost in action during shelling on the front line near Brazentin-le-petit, the Somme, France and recorded as dead on 13th August 1916.
Albert was the son of Eliza and James O'Neil and had worked as a polisher at a cycle factory before being conscripted. His older brother William survived the War but suffered from injuries to his leg, and breathing problems from a gas attack. William also served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in WW1 after serving 13 years with Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry.
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Pte. Henry Ison 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.15th November 1916)  I had never seen a photo of my great grandfather, Henry Ison until I joined Ancestry and found a cousin had posted a photo. My Grandmother, Annie Maria Ison, told me that his Sergeant came to the door and told her mother, Annie Ison that he popped his head over the parapet, was hit in head and was killed instantly. Whether this was true or part of the Defence Forces attempt to make the pain less severe is unknown. My Grandmother said Henry was due to have home leave the day after his death.
The 11th Battalion diary for 15th November 1916 records a fierce battle for Frankfort Trench, although only the names of officers & RSMs were recorded when killed.
His name is on the wall of the missing at Thiepval on the Somme and his details are on the Visitors Centre database.
I now have the Henry's death penny, which was returned to my family in Perth, Western Australia after it was dug up in a garden in South Perth after being lost for many years, after Annie Ison had moved to Australia and remarried.
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Pte. George Grimmett 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.24th September 1917) Private George Grimmett was born in 1887 in Handsworth and his parents were Amos and Charlotte Grimmett. His father was a gardener and they lived at 11 Church Terrace. He had 8 siblings and went to Rookery Road School. The 1901 census says he was a grocers errand boy aged 14 years old. He married Eleanor Alice Shotton in 1910 in Birmingham and the following year, their son George Stanley Grimmett was born in Handsworth. They were living at 166 Somerset Road and George was a green grocer. He joined as a Private with the 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1914 and went to France on 30th July 1915 near Tilques. Another son Benjamin John was born in 1916. He was killed in action on 24th September 1917. He was awarded the British Medal and the Victory Medal. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial at Passchendaele, a War Memorial in the Red Hall of Rookery School and Somerset Road Methodist Church (now Rookery Road Methodist Church). Rookery School did a project recently to commemorate WW1 and choose George Grimmett as a soldier from their memorial to research and find out what his life was like before and during the war and how it affected his family.
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Sgt. Edward Arnold 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire (d.17th Nov 1916) Edward Arnold is my great grandfather, I believe he suffered wounds on 13th November 1916 at the Battle of Ancre on the Somme and died four days later. I really would love to find out more. He was formerly with the Lancers. and I really do not know much more than that.
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Pte. Percy Humphries 11th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.9th April 1917) Percy Humphries and two of his brothers (one being my father's twin) left his widowed Mother and three other brothers and two sisters in Long Lawford, a small village near Rugby Warwickshire, to volunteer to fight in WW1, although he was under age, as was his twin, my father. They were determine to follow there older brother to war.
Sadly, Percy was blown up in the Battle of Arras, and was killed on the 9th April 1917. He is remembered on the Memorial at Arras, Bay 3. Sadly there is known grave for us to visit, but he will always be remembered for his bravery, and love of Memorial Cross in Long Lawford church grounds, and flowers are continually put there in his memory from his family.
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Pte. Frank Laugher 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.17th Sep 1917)  Frank Laugher, son of Samuel Laugher and Mary Jane (Fisher) born 30th November 1895, in Bromsgrove.
Brother to Thomas Henry, Leonard Alfred, Albert Victor, Alice, Lillie, Christopher,Daisy Elizabeth, Walter Norman and Daisy Evelyn.
As a boy Frank was a member of the All Saint's Church Choir.
Frank had worked at the Home and Colonial Stores and at Neale's Stores, Bromsgrove.
He was working at Austin's before enlistment.
Frank Laugher enlisted as a Private in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 3rd December 1915 at Bromsgrove when he was placed on the army reserve. On his attestation paper he gave his address as All Saints Road, Bromsgrove and his age as 20 years 0 months. He was 5 feet 7 and three quarter inches tall. Frank was mobilised on 6th May 1916 and posted overseas on 30th August 1916. Over the next the next two months he had several periods of illness concluding with influenza for which he was admitted to hospital on 4th November 1916. He was discharged from hospital on 2nd December 1916. On 17th April 1917 he joined the 11th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in readiness for the Battle of Arras. He was reported missing on 29th April 1917 whilst taking part in the fighting. On 30th April 1917 Frank was reported as a prisoner of war in Limburg,Germany having been captured uninjured at Arras on 28th April 1917. He died of sickness as a prisoner of war at Kriegs Gef Lazarett at Douain on 17th September 1917.
Frank's possessions and his British War Medal and Victory Medal were sent to Samuel Laugher, All Saints Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.
  
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Pte. Benjamin Henry Mitchell 11th Btn. Warwickshire Regiment (d.13th Aug 1916) My children's great grandfather was Benjamin Henry Mitchell of the 11th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was registered killed on the 13th of August 1916 after being sent over the trenches just hours earlier on the well known date of the 12th of August.
I've tried everywhere to find a photo but came up nil. If you could find a photo that would be awesome and I would make a donation to the dedication of the people who keep these sites going with all the info they get. Without your dedication these sites would not exist. Thanks
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Pte. F. Broadrick 11th Btn. Warwickshire Regiment (d.1st Aug 1917) F. Broadrick served with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment 11th Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 1st August 1917, and is buried in Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium.
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Pte Joseph George Patrick Andrews 11th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.27th April 1917) Joseph Andrews was born in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin and enlisted in Birmingham. He was killed in action and is remembered at the Arras Memorial.
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