FIRST WORLD WAR
NAME
BIRTH/
SERVICE
BARNETT
30.11.1888
SIDNEY GEORGE
DEATH/AGE
PLACE OF
DEATH
15.10.1918
30
Navy
Buried at sea
1914 - 1918
MILITARY
DETAILS
CEMETERY/MEMORIAL ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Ship’s Corporal
(Naval Police)
2nd Class M/31302
HMS ‘Achilles’
RN
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
30
Also remembered on War
Memorial Tablet at Horsham
Police Station as:
Ships-CPL Sidney Barnett RN
b. Wimbledon. h/o Lucy Jane Barnett from Police
Cottage, Old Fishbourne. Barnett joined the West
Sussex Constabulary 29.05.1911 and was P.C. for
Bosham before the war. Died of Pneumonia.
Son Edmund Harold baptised. 06.10.1918. Bosham
Parish Register. Son died 02.2005.
HMS Achilles was a large Armoured Cruiser. She
was on escort duties with the third Fleet in 1918 but
was reduced to a training ship for stokers before the
end of the war.
An entry in ‘Bosham Life’ the Parish Magazine 1918:
‘ P.C. Barnett. Death at sea from an attack of
influenza of ships corporal Barnett, policeman for
Bosham village’.
AATD Fishbourne
BOWDEN
02.10.1895
CHRISTOPHER
JOHN
Army
24.04.1915
19
Private 17188
7th Battalion
Canadian Infantry
(British Columbia
Regiment)
Ypres (now Ieper) Menin
Gate Memorial, Ieper,
Belgium Panel 18-28-30
Westbourne War Memorial
(See National Archives of Canada
Accession Ref. RG150, Accession
1992-93/166. Box 946-6.).
Also remembered on War Memorial in
United Reform Church, Bosham,
although now covered when the church
was converted to a private dwelling in
2011. Details of this and other
memorials in the URC are in Holy
Trinity Church, Bosham archives.
b. Westbourne s/o Henry H. & Mary R. Bowden of
44 Denmark Road, West Ealing London.
Enlisted 23.09.1914 Valcartier, Canada, but also listed
at Bosham. Railway Clerk. AATD Westbourne.
BRYANT
03.1885
GORDON
Army
BULBECK
1896
ERNEST
19.04.1917
32
Palestine
30.04.1917
21
Army
CHAPMAN
ARTHUR
FITZGERALD
COLLINS
FRED BENNETT
1892
Army
1892
Baptised
11.2.1894
13.11.1914
22
24.03.1918
26
Nationality
South African
Rifleman 331510
1st/8th battalion
Hampshire Regiment
(Royal Sx Rgt?)
Private G/28109
Royal Sussex Rgt.
Also 8692
7th Battalion East
Surrey Regiment
Sapper 19178
59th Company
Royal Engineers
Private 16610 1st Rgt.
South African Light
Infantry
06.1899
28.02.1916
MMR
17
TED
b. Westbourne. s/o James & Harriett Bryant.
Father Mariner. 1 brother, 1 sister.
Enlisted Portsmouth.
AATD Portsmouth
Feuchy British Cemetery
5 Miles east of Arras
II.A.14
b.Littlehampton. s/o John & Sarah Bulbeck (née
Case) of Brooks Cottage, Bosham. Father
Gamekeeper. Parents married 10.01.1879 in Bosham
Church. Mother d. 14.11.1922 & father d. 6.7.1932.
P R.
Ypres (now Ieper) Town
Cemetery Extension.
Grave A 19
Pozieres Memorial
Somme, France
Panels 95-98.
s/o William & Rhoda Chapman of Landsdowns,
Bosham. Dairy Manager.
Also remembered on 1st grave right
side of church path in Bosham
Churchyard. S.V1 (Photograph)
South
African
Army
COMBES
Jerusalem Memorial
Panels 28 & 29.
Westbourne War Memorial
Asst. Steward
Mercantile Marine
Reserve
HM Yacht
‘Conqueror II’
‘Conqueror II’ was
torpedoed by German
submarine in Fair Island
Channel 26.09.16
CWGC grave in Bosham
Burial Ground. North P1
(Photograph)
Inscription: ‘He heard His
country Call’
Also remembered on War Memorial in
United Reform Church, Bosham, now
covered when church was converted to
private dwelling. Details of this and
other memorials in the URC are in
Holy Trinity Church archives.
s/o Harry Coles Collins & Mary Anne Collins. Father,
Postmaster, Bosham. Born in Bosham and baptised in
Bosham Church 11.02.1894. 1 brother and 6 sisters.
Father d. 11.11.46. PR. Mother d.1901.
Bennett had emigrated to South Africa and was
fighting with the SA Forces, 300 of whom died on the
Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918.
Brother of Frances Mary Bennett Scott of 88 High
Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire.
b. Westbourne. s/o Edward J. & Lousia B. Combes,
8 Mariners Terrace, Bosham. Father Yachtsman.
Related to John Combes who was killed in the 2nd
WW. According to the Congregational Church
Records Combes died as a result of a fall at
Newhaven. ‘Conqueror’ was an armed yacht which
had been requisitioned during the war.
Combes had 1 brother, Trevor and two sisters, Elsie,
married to Percy Gardner who also died in the war,
and Matilda. Combes’ niece, great niece & great,
great niece still live in Bosham.
ATD Mariners Terrace, Bosham.
EMMETT
WILFRED
GEORGE
1898
Army
27.12.1915
Private/Driver 18336
15th Battalion
Hampshire Regiment
(2nd Portsmouth)
Aldershot Military
Cemetery
AF 1949
04.05.1917
1893
Sergeant PO/15628.
Div 24 1st RM
Battalion
Royal Marines Light
Infantry RN
Aubingny Communal
Cemetery Extension
II.F.69
s/o Edward & Annie Emma Gardner of 6 Postal
Terrace, Bosham. h/o Elsie Gardner, (née Combes,
sister of Ted Combes see above) One Daughter
Dorothy. Lived South View (now Mariners), The
Trippet, Bosham.
16.10.1917
26
Gunner 1961
Royal Field Artillery
RAMC(TF) 3rd
Wessex Field
Ambulance
Ordnance Corp.
Buried Bosham Burial
Ground. North Plot M 9
Inscription:
‘One who served King and
Country’ (Photograph)
b. Bosham. s/o Samuel Combes Gatehouse & Marion
Gatehouse (father miller) of Burfield Cottage,
Bosham. Attended Churchers College, Petersfield.
Merchant/Flour miller.
17
Enlisted Portsmouth April 1915.
AATD: Fishbourne
Died at
Aldershot
GARDNER
PERCY
RM
GATEHOUSE
CUTHBERT
WILLIAM
ALBERT GEORGE
17.03.1891
Baptised
22.12.1891
Army
In 2012 this grave was recognised
as a War Grave by the CWGC and
will fund its maintenance in
perpetuity.
GATEHOUSE
27.09.1883
JOHN WALTER
Army
20.09.1916
32
Pioneer 154159 1st
Battalion, Canadian
Pioneers
b. Brighton. s/o Frederick & Mary Anne Emmett.
Father Farm Carter. Father Frederick buried
05.06.1934 aged 64. Mother Mary Anne buried
05.09.1958 aged 88. Bosham Burial Register.
Also remembered on Funtington
War memorial
Vimy Ridge Memorial
France
Sandwick Cairnat Courtenay
British Columbia, Canada.
Also remembered on Funtington
War Memorial
Enlisted 11.09.1914. Medically examined 04.01.1916.
Pulmonary tuberculosis and pleurisy diagnosed. Total
incapacity result of hardship & exposure on active
service. Invalided out in 1916. Cause of discharge:
Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Died 16.10.1917. Cause of
death: T.B. Brothers John & Thomas also died,
Thomas also died of T.B.
AATD Burfield Cottage.
Grandfather lived in Funtington.
s/o .Samuel Combes Gatehouse & Marion Gatehouse
(father miller) of Burfield Cottage, Bosham. Enlisted
in Victoria British Columbia, Canada 21.09.1915.
Posted to France 09.03.1916. Brothers Cuthbert &
Thomas also died. National Archives of Canada
Accession Ref. RG150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box
3437-32.
Grandfather lived in Funtington.
GATEHOUSE
02.08.1886
04.05.1919
32
Gunner 150218
Royal Artillery
Thiepval Memorial
The Somme, France.
b.,Bosham. s/o Samuel Combes Gatehouse & Marion
Gatehouse (father miller) of Burfield Cottage.
Baptised 18.9.1886 Bosham. h/o Gladys Mary
Gatehouse, née Sherrin. Married 18.12.06 Parish
Church of St Paul’s, Southsea, 5/6 children. (Her
father was The Revd. Joseph Beckett Sherrin, Vicar of
Chidham.) Gatehouse signed up 02.10.1915 and was
discharged in 28.04.1917 as physically unfit with
Phthisis and TB. Died 2 years later. Corn buyer.
AATD Southsea.
Brothers John & Cuthbert also died.
Grandfather lived in Funtington.
THOMAS
LESLIE
Army
GREENFIELD
1886
16.04.1918
Army
32
Private 31285, 13th
1st Barnsley Battalion
York & Lancaster
Rgt. Formerly 25348
Northamptonshire
Rgt.
Died of wounds.
Sailly-Sur-La-Lys
Churchyard
Pas de Calais, France
Row B Grave 11
w/o Mabel Greenfield. Married 1909.
s/o Richard (dec?) and Mary J. Greenfield of
Chichester, Sussex.
b. and enlisted Chichester. Grocer before war.
Boy 1st Class J/48205
RN HMS ‘Genista’.
Plymouth Naval Memorial
13
HMS Genista was an Arabis-class minesweeping
sloop built & launched on 26.02.1916 by Napier &
Miller. She was on minesweeping duties off the W
coast of Ireland when she was torpedoed and sunk
very rapidly by German submarine U-57 on
23.10.1916 with a loss of all her officers and 73
ratings – 12 ratings survived.
PERCY WILLIAM
HOLDEN
1900
23.10.1916
CECIL JOHN
Navy
AATD 2 Milestone Cottages , Old Fishbourne.
Connection to Bosham? - more information required
KEWELL
1886
HARRY
Army
07.07.1916
30
The Somme
Private G4350
7th Battalion
Royal Sussex
Regiment
Thiepval Memorial.
The Somme, France
Pier 5 Face 7C
b. Bosham. Grandson of Mrs Hannah Kewell
19 Gifford Road Bosham.
Enlisted Chichester
MAJOR Jnr
1895MMR
GREGORY
HAYMAN
MARSHALL
26.04.1896
JOHN
31.10.1915
20
20.06.1917
21
Army
Messines
Assistant Steward
HM Yacht ‘Aires’.
Mercantile Marine
Reserve
Private SD/823
9th Battalion
Royal Sussex Rgt.
24th Division
CWGC Grave in Bosham
Burial North Plot Y1.
(Photograph)
Also Westbourne War Mem.
Also remembered on War Memorial in
United Reform Church, Bosham, now
covered when the church was
converted to private dwelling in 2011.
Details of this and other memorials in
the URC are in Holy Trinity Church
archives. (Photograph of memorial)
Ypres (Menin Gate)
Memorial, Belgium
Panel 20
Also Aldingbourne War
Memorial
Also remembered on War Memorial in
United Reform Church, Bosham, since
covered when church was converted to
private dwelling. Details of this and
other memorials in the URC are in
Holy Trinity Church archives.
(Photograph of memorial)
MATTHEWS
CHARLES
Baptised
01.10.1893
31.05.1916
23
Stoker 1st Class
K/19385 RN
RN
Battle of
Jutland
HMS ‘Black Prince’
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
19
b. Westbourne. Baptised 15.09.1895. S/o Gregory
James & Eliza Major. Father Mariner. From Gordon
Terrace. ‘Aires’ was an ocean-going steam yacht built
in 1880. She was offered to the Admiralty in 1914 by
her then owner, the Duke of Leeds. Whilst in service
she was mined in the English Channel off the coast of
Leathercoat Point, Kent.
Major’s body was recovered and he was buried in
Bosham Burial Ground in a CWGC grave with full
military honours 27.11.1915. (Parish Magazine)
s/o Richard Marshall & Martha Annie Puttick. Father
baptised Bosham 4.3.1955. John b. Petworth Cottage,
Bosham. 3 sisters and 3 brothers.
Enlisted Bognor.
AATD The Bungalow, Woodgate, Aldingbourne,
having recently moved from Bosham. His great niece
lives in Aldingbourne.
s/o Samuel Brister Matthews & Ellen Matthews,
Manor Farm, Fishbourne.
During the Batttle of Jutland the cruiser Black Prince,
for some reason which will never be known, was left
far astern of and out of touch with the British fleet; but
when a line of battleships was dimly seen ahead, it
was no doubt thought that they were the British
squadrons. Course was altered to close them. At a bare
half-mile range, the German recognition signal flashed
out. The horrified Captain Bonham, swung his ship
away in a desperate effort to escape, but it was too
late. In the battleship Thuringen the same deadly
efficient night action procedure that had already been
displayed went into play. Brilliantly lit by half-a-dozen
searchlights, the Black Prince was raked from stern to
stem by a tornado of shells and lay a helpless wreck
before she could even fire a shot in reply. As she
drifted down the German line, ship after ship opened
up on her, Thuringen, Ostfriesland, Nassau and,
finally, as the fleet flagship Friedrich der Grosse,
added her quota, the Black Prince met the same end as
the Defence, blowing up with a tremendous explosion,
sinking with all hands. ATTD Fishbourne
MATTHEWS
04.06.1915
Navy
JOHN
MAYNE
1876
HENRY DENCH
‘JACKER’
20.07.1915
39
RN
(Other sources put
the date as 25th
July)
Stoker 1st Class
SS/105300
Royal Fleet Reserve/
Devonport Division/
(RFR/DEV/B/4424)
Howe Bn. R.N. Div.
Helles Memorial Panel 1 & 2
Stoker 1st Class
293347 RN
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
8
Submarine HMS/E9
Later HM S/M E11
Awarded
Distinguished
Service Medal
(DSM)
Died at Gallipoli.
Royal Fleet Reserve was a reserve of ratings who
might be called up for war possibly to serve either in
the navy or the New Army. Matthews was drafted into
the Royal Navy’ Division’ of Devonport.
More information required
(Photograph of crew of
Submarine E11. Also photograph
of young Henry Mayne during
training at HMS Duke of
Wellington in about 1895)
This was the hulk of a large old
wooden wall ship moored alongside at
Fountain Lake Jetty Portsmouth
dockyard. This was the forerunner of
the naval barracks in Portsmouth. The
stoker trainees were billeted there
while undergoing their training in
another hulk, the iron ship HMS
Nelson.
I am indebted to George Malcolmson
at The Submarine Museum at Gosport
for the source of much of the
information on Stoker Mayne and also
the two photographs.
s/o Henry & Elizabeth Mayne, husband of Elizabeth
Jane Mayne (née Hammond) of Ingleside Cottage, Old
Fishbourne.
Mayne was onboard Submarine E11 which was
operating in the Dardenelles and the Bosphorus. She
made three tours of the area in all and during the first
tour in May/June, before Mayne died, 11 ships were
sunk. The whole crew were awarded the DSM. At
about 6.30 am on 20th July, 1915, Mayne was washed
off the submarine’s casing in choppy seas about 130
miles from Malta. Ist Lieutenant Guy D’Oyly-Hughes
jumped in after him but failed to reach him before he
sank. For the attempt D’Oyly-Hughes was voted the
Silver Medal of the Royal Humane Society. This
incident is recorded in the book, ‘Carrier Glorious’ by
John Winton 1996. In WW2 D’Oyly Hughes was
Captain of HMS Glorious when she was sunk on her
return to Scapa Flow from Norway in 1940.
Considerable controversy surrounds the sinking.
See also entry for Leonard COOK WW2.
NORTON
1894
WILLIAM
BERTRAM
Army
15.12.1915
21
Private 12217
3rd Battalion
Coldstream Guards
St Mary’s Church, Felpham,
West Sussex.
84 in South West Portion.
s/o Albert Edward Norton of ‘Sunnyside’ Canning
Road, Felpham, W. Sussex, late of North Road,
Bosham. His father was a carpenter born I.O.W.
Norton was born in Havant. Enlisted in Bognor Regis.
He died of wounds at home in Felpham.
AATD ‘Sunnyside’, Canning Rd, Felpham.
I am greatly indebted to Graham Morley,
[email protected] for all the
information on William Bertram Norton.
RAWE
28.12.1884
EDWARD JOHN
30.09.1918
35
Army
REDMAN
ALLEN/ALLAN*
Baptised
10.04.1892
Army
10.08.1915
23
Private McGill/234
Second University
Co
Princess Patricia’s
Canadian Light
Infantry. (Eastern
Ontario Rgt.)
Duisans British
Cemetery,Etrun, Pas-deCalais, France. VII A 90
Eastend. SK
Private 10182
10th Battalion
Hampshire Regiment
Helles Memorial, Turkey
Panel 125-134 or 223-226
228-229&328
Rawe appears on the Quay Meadow
Memorial but not on the memorial in
Bosham Church.
s/o Mr & Mrs G. Rawe of Acton, Greater London. h/o
Florence Emily of 130,6th Av. West, Calgary, Alberta.
1 child. Enlisted 14 June 1915 at Saskatoon,
Saskatuanne. Rawe was wounded by an aircraft bomb
at Bernaville, France and died six days later.
ATTD: NW 36-33-W3 southwest of Pike Lake,
Valley Park, SK Canada
b. Old Fishbourne. s/o Albert Edward & Charlotte
Redman of Fishbourne. Baptised Bosham Church
10.04.1892. Father Blacksmith. Allen joined his father
in the family business. Enlisted Fishbourne.
*Redman’s entry in the Bosham Baptism Register, the
two War Memorials and Civic records up to age of 19
show him as Allen. Military records show him as
Allan. However, it has been decided to use the
original spelling of his name for this record and it was
also kept when the Quay Meadow memorial was recarved in 2013.
The invasion at Gallipoli began at Suvla on Cape
Helles during the period 6th -15th August. As
Redman’s death is recorded as the 10th August it is
reasonable to assume that it was in this action that he
was killed. He was never found - all the officers of his
battalion were killed or wounded. Other ranks: 55
killed, 276 wounded, 976 missing.
AATD Basingstoke.
RICHARDSON 1897
CHARLES
24.04.1918
21
Private L/10638
11th Battalion
Royal Sussex
Regiment
Longuenesse (St Omer)
Souvenir Cemetery, France
V.A.73
s/o Charles & Alice Mary Richardson. Father Basket
Maker. Charles baptised Bosham Church
07.03.1897. Sister Rose Lilian b.1900. Mother d.
1900, father remarried in 1907 to Ada Cripps.
Information from Barbara Coombes whose father,
Leonard Richardson was Charles’ half brother.
Barbara Coombes’s Uncle, Charles Abram died in
the 2WW.
26.10.1918
31
Private 380565
15th Battalion
Hampshire Regiment
Vichte Military Cemetery
Belgium
III.C.4
b. Cogenhoe, Northants. s/o William Alfred Scales &
Elizabeth H. Scales of Wydville, Bosham Lane. h/o
Florence S. Scales and had two children, Muriel
(Molly) Evelyn Hansford, born 07.04.1914 died
23.08.90 & Frederick Victor who was born after he
was killed. Victor Scales owned an Ironmongers in
Portsmouth. He was killed by a German Machine
Gunner two weeks before the end of the war.
Enlisted Portsmouth. Both his father William &
brother Clifford were Headmasters of Bosham
Primary School. Scales’ nephew and great nephew
live locally.
AATD: 15 North End Grove, North End,
Portsmouth.
Army
SCALES
06.1887
FREDERICK
VICTOR
Army
Also remembered on family
grave stone in Bosham Burial
Ground North Plot M10
(Photograph)
STAKER
1897
Baptised
14.02.1897
Army
03.09.1916
19
STAMMERS
1900
THOMAS
WILLIAM
04.06.1918
18
Army
FREDERICK
Private 13019 14th
Battalion Hampshire
Regiment
Killed in action.
Thiepval Memorial,
The Somme, France.
Pier and Face 7 C and 7 B.
b. and resident Bosham s/o Frank George Staker &
Frances Jane Staker. Father Corn Miller from Cut
Mill.
Rifleman 46191
B Company
12th Battalion Rifle
Brigade.
Formally 13/55587
Arras Memorial
Bay 9
s/o Thomas & Sarah Stammers, Burnt House,
Bosham (now Rectory Farm) Father coachman.
Lance Corporal G/802
7th Battalion Royal
Sussex Rgt.
Transferred to Royal
Loos Memorial, France
Panel 69 to 73
Enlisted Portsmouth.
AATD: As above
18th Tank Regiment.
STEAR
1893
08.04.1916
Army
23
GILBERT
s/o George & Julia Stear, 3 Myrtle Cottages, Old
Fishbourne. Father Farm Baliff. Stear transferred to
The Royal Tank Corps in 1915. His tank was blown
up in Belgium the following year.
His great nephew lives in Bosham.
TINGLEY
JOHN CHARLES
(JACK)
WHYBROW
HARRY
THOMPSON
(TOM)
BEVAN
Llewellyn
Akehurst
Bertram
1899
05.06.1916
RN
17
1879
Army
21.03.1916
37
Tank Corps.
Ordinary Seaman
J/32018
HMS Impregnable later
HMS ‘Hampshire’ RN.
Captain Machine Gun
Corp. (Motors)
Portsmouth Naval Memorial
14
s/o Charley & Alice Edith Tingley, 6 Gifford Road,
Bosham. Father Carpenter. The ‘Hampshire’
survived the Battle of Jutland only to be mined in
severe weather off the Orkney Isles a few days later,
losing all but twelve of her crew. ‘Hampshire’ was
also carrying Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of
State for War, to Russia; he and all his staff were
lost.
Moshi Cemetery, Tanzania in
the southern foothills of Mt.
Kilimanjaro. III.C.11.
b. Norwood. s/o Francis Whybrow and Annie
Norman Whybrow (née Marshall)Annie died
3.3.1939
Moshi was unsuccessfully attacked by British troops
at the beginning of September 1914, but on 13 March
1916, South African cavalry seized New Moshi and
occupied Old Moshi on the 15th.
Whybrow does not appear on the
Memorial in Bosham Church but is
on the Quay Meadow Memorial
and the War Memorial in Chidham
Church.
Parents address: West Paddock Cut-Mill, Chidham.
Later Sunnyside, Sunnyway.
FROM THE WAR MEMORIAL OF
THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH IN BOSHAM
Private Bevan was remembered on the War Memorial in the United Reformed Church in Bosham
The Church, however, this has now been closed.*
b. Crediton, Devon s/o Revd. William Akehurst
Baghdad (North Gate) War
1888
18.09.1918
Private 40592
Bevan and Elizabeth Ann Bevan. h/o of Effa
Army
30
Hampshire Regiment Cemetery, Iraq Part 1.
Gwendolyne Hickman, d/o Charles Alfred Hickman
1X.A.15
Died of wounds
Also remembered on the War
Memorial in the United
Reformed Church, Bosham.
Details of this and other
memorials in the URC are in
Holy Trinity Church archives.
(Photograph of War Memorial)
and Edith Jane Apps of Bosham. Bevan’s father was
a Congregational Minister and so he was remembered,
amongst others, on the War Memorial of the United
Reformed Church in Bosham. *The memorials were
covered on the instructions of CDC Listed Buildings
Planning Dept. when the church was de-consecrated
and converted into a private dwelling in 2011-2012.
Bevan does not appear on either the 1st WW memorial
in the Church or the memorial on Quay Meadow. The
other five men from the URC memorial are, however
included on both.
THE FOUR MEN SHOWN BELOW WERE KILLED IN THE 1ST WW AND ALTHOUGH THEIR NAMES DO NOT APPEAR ON
EITHER THE CHURCH OR THE QUAY MEADOW WAR MEMORIALS THEY ARE REMEMBERED ON COMMONWEALTH
WAR GRAVE COMMISSION GRAVES OR ON FAMILY GRAVE STONES IN BOSHAM BURIAL GROUND (BBG)
CHASE
JOHN DAVID
1888
Nationality
Canadian
04.10.1916
28
Army
Private 622389
27th Btn.
Canadian
Infantry
(Manitoba Rgt.)
Contay British Cemetery,
Contay, France. III.A/14
Died in Belgium and also
remembered on family grave
stone in BBG. North I 4.
s/o John and Elizabeth Chase of ‘Glenco’
Bosham. Chase had emigrated to Canada and
enlisted in Manitoba. He died of wounds in
Belgium but was buried in the Contay Cemetery,
possibly through the 9th Casualty Clearing
Station.
(Photograph)
HEAD
SOLOMON
PETERS
EDMUND FRANK
YOXALL
ERNEST
10.04.1876
Mercantile
Marine Service
1874
Army
1884
Nationality
New Zealand
01.03.1917
40
22.04.1917
44
27.12.1914
30
Able Seaman
HMS ‘Ceto’
Star, Victory
Medal, British
War Medal
CWGC Grave in BBG
North L4 (Photograph)
Private 21260
3rd Bn. Norfolk
Regt.
Previously 8th
Royal Sx Rgt.
CWGC Grave in BBG
North Q2 (Photograph)
Sapper 4/2312
New Zealand
Engineers
Alexandria (Chatby) Military
& War Memorial Cemetery.
G 123.
Also remembered on family
grave stone in BBG North
Plot G1 (Photograph)
‘UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS’
EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS
s/o William and Eliza Jane Head. h/o Sophie
Head of Town Hall Cottages, ( later Jersery
Cottage) Bosham. Daughter Maidie born
17.07.1915. Died 1954. ‘Ceto’ was a
requisitioned yacht which had belonged to Lord
Iveagh of the Guinness family and had been
demagnetised against mines. Head died as a
result of an accident.
Born in Lavant s/o George and Eliza Peters.
h/o Lilian Peters née Prior of 4 Stanley Road,
Emsworth They had 2 daughters and 2 sons. He
enlisted twice but was discharged twice as not
likely to become an efficient soldier on medical
grounds. He died of cystitis. His wife was
awarded a Pension. AATD 15 Portland Terrace.
Grateful thanks to Pete Everard.
s/o Myra Alexander Yoxall & Rebecca
Lovegrove Yoxall of Hope Cottage, Bosham.
Yoxall had emigrated to New Zealand and
enlisted there. He died at Alexandria Hospital,
Egypt.
Photographs of the graves in the Bosham Burial Ground and one in Bosham Churchyard
as well as directions to the Burial Ground from Bosham Village are at the end of the document