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Pte. James William Snell
British Army 23rd Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Stepney, London.
James Snell was my maternal grandfather, known to me as Pop. He survived the war He survived WW1 and I did know him when I was a child. He was a kind and gentle man and to find out now that he was involved in the war has blown me away. Until I started researching him, I had no idea that he had ever been in the Army. Nobody in our family had ever mentioned this fact, which I find amazing as we had a very large family. James had 13 children, one of them being my mum.
He joined the Army on 12th of December 1915 and was assigned to the 8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Territorials)and was a reserve until he was posted on 9th of Feb 1917. He was posted to France on 19th of September 1917 with the 8th Middlesex Regiment. But was later posted to the 23rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment (also known as the 2nd Football Battalion). James was finally demobbed from the 23rd Middlesex on 8th of March 1919. He was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. To my knowledge he never collected his medals. He died in 1966 in Stepney, East London.
