War Memorial, Cann, Shaftesbury, Dorset
Photo two.
Name: Ernest John Alford
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 73193
Date of Death: 21/03/1918
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery, 122nd Siege Bty.
Panel Reference: 10
Memorial: Pozieres Memorial, France
Son of James and Hannah Alford (née Pyke) of 'The Tollhouse', Cann.
Name: William Alford
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 24045
Date of Death: 31/03/1916
Regiment/Service: Welsh Regiment, 16th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. O. 11
Cemetery: Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France
Son of James and Hannah Alford (née Pyke) of 'The Tollhouse', Cann; husband of Kathleen Alford (née Henry). Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Victor Robert Brickell
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 28387
Date of Death: 27/03/1917
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 'D' Coy. 10th Bn.
Grave Reference: VI. E. 46
Cemetery: Puchevillers British Cemetery, France
Son of James and Lucy Elizabeth Brickell (née Andrews) of Butts Knapp, Cann. Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Obery Archibald Brown
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 18285
Date of Death: 17/03/1917
Regiment/Service: The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: D. 9
Cemetery: Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Son of Samuel and Clara Brown (née Moore) of Cann Common. Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Bertram George Brown
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Service No: 11140
Date of Death: 04/04/1915
Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: I. G. 9
Cemetery: Hamburg Cemetery, Germany
Son of Samuel and Clara Brown (née Moore) of Cann Common. Native of Cann, Shaftesbury. Died as a Prisoner of War Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Name: John Chown
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 7612
Date of Death: 31/10/1914
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment, 'B' Coy. 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: 33 and 34
Memorial: Le Touret Memorial, France
Son of Samuel and Annie Chown (née Rogers) of Cann Common; husband of Lucy Chown of Enmore Green, Shaftesbury. Native of Shaftesbury. Mobilized August 1914.
Name: Ernest Edwin Fisher
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 14506
Date of Death: 13/04/1917
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment, 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. J. 6
Cemetery: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France
Native of Melbury Abbas, Dorset.
Name: Robert Fowles
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 42469
Date of Death: 29/11/1917
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: 70 to 72
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Son of Charles and Caroline Sarah Fowles (née Hunt) of Boyne Dairy, Cann, Shaftesbury. Native of Cann.
Names: Ernest Walter Holly
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Service No: T4/039638
Date of Death: 27/12/1918
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps, 798th H.T. Coy.
Grave Reference: 69
Cemetery: Dedeagatch British Cemetery, Greece
Son of Mark Holly and Harriet Holly (née Smith) of Cann Common. Native of Melbury Abbas, Dorset.
Name: Cossley John B. Hunt
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 29223
Date of Death: 04/10/1917
Regiment/Service: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Enclosure No.4 VIII. C. 7
Cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium
Son of John Thomas Hunt and Wilhelmina Augusta Hunt (née Knight). Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Charles King
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 23746
Date of Death: 01/04/1918
Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment, 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: St. Quentin German Cem. Mem. 10
Cemetery: St. Souplet British Cemetery, France
Son of Jesse and Harriet King (née Holley). Native of Lacock, Wiltshire.
Name: William Charles Mason
Nationality: United Kingdom
Date of Death: 28/11/1917
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve
Born 13/05/1884 at Surbiton, Surrey. Son of William Joshua Mason and Eliza Emily Mason (née Walters) of St. Denis, Cann, Shaftesbury. Carnegie Student in Entomology. Died of blackwater fever at the Government Farm in Namiwawa, Nyasaland.
Name: Trevor Sharp
No record at CWGC.
Name: Stanley Smith
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Service No: 200161
Date of Death: 28/09/1917
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment, 1st/4th Bn.
Grave Reference: IX. D. 4
Cemetery: Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq
Son of Harry and Harriett Smith. Born in Alcester, Shaftesbury on 29/07/1891.
Name: Henry Steel
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Service No: 6415
Date of Death: 15/09/1916
Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps, 18th Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, France
Son of Edwin George Steel and Elizabeth Mary Steel of 'Ash Cottage', Cann Common. Native of Bromley, Kent.
Name: John Francis (Frank) Thompson
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 1188
Date of Death: 24/09/1915
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Screen Wall. F.B. 18. 131
Cemetery: Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery, London
Son of Jane Mary Trowbridge of Hill View, Cann Common, Shaftesbury. Native of Hendon, Middlesex
Name: Ernest Edwin Trowbridge
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Battery Sergeant Major
Service No: 8358
Date of Death: 27/11/1918
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery, 'A' Bty. 156th Bde.
Awards: Distinguished Conduct Medal
Grave Reference: II. D. 28
Cemetery: Caudry British Cemetery, France
Son of William and Lucina Trowbridge; husband of Kathleen Mary Trowbridge (née McGaharan). Native of Melbury Abbas, Dorset.
Name: Frank White
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 26256
Date of Death: 04/10/1917
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: 80 - 82
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Son of Henry Charles White and Thirza White (née Mayo); husband of Edith Jane White (née Batt). Born 28/01/1885 at Shaftesbury.
War Memorial, Cann, Shaftesbury, Dorset
Photo two.
Name: Ernest John Alford
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 73193
Date of Death: 21/03/1918
Age: 34
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery, 122nd Siege Bty.
Panel Reference: 10
Memorial: Pozieres Memorial, France
Son of James and Hannah Alford (née Pyke) of 'The Tollhouse', Cann.
Name: William Alford
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 24045
Date of Death: 31/03/1916
Regiment/Service: Welsh Regiment, 16th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. O. 11
Cemetery: Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France
Son of James and Hannah Alford (née Pyke) of 'The Tollhouse', Cann; husband of Kathleen Alford (née Henry). Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Victor Robert Brickell
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 28387
Date of Death: 27/03/1917
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 'D' Coy. 10th Bn.
Grave Reference: VI. E. 46
Cemetery: Puchevillers British Cemetery, France
Son of James and Lucy Elizabeth Brickell (née Andrews) of Butts Knapp, Cann. Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Obery Archibald Brown
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 18285
Date of Death: 17/03/1917
Regiment/Service: The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 8th Bn.
Grave Reference: D. 9
Cemetery: Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension, France
Son of Samuel and Clara Brown (née Moore) of Cann Common. Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Bertram George Brown
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Service No: 11140
Date of Death: 04/04/1915
Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: I. G. 9
Cemetery: Hamburg Cemetery, Germany
Son of Samuel and Clara Brown (née Moore) of Cann Common. Native of Cann, Shaftesbury. Died as a Prisoner of War Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Name: John Chown
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 7612
Date of Death: 31/10/1914
Age: 25
Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment, 'B' Coy. 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: 33 and 34
Memorial: Le Touret Memorial, France
Son of Samuel and Annie Chown (née Rogers) of Cann Common; husband of Lucy Chown of Enmore Green, Shaftesbury. Native of Shaftesbury. Mobilized August 1914.
Name: Ernest Edwin Fisher
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 14506
Date of Death: 13/04/1917
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment, 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: III. J. 6
Cemetery: Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, France
Native of Melbury Abbas, Dorset.
Name: Robert Fowles
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 42469
Date of Death: 29/11/1917
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference: 70 to 72
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Son of Charles and Caroline Sarah Fowles (née Hunt) of Boyne Dairy, Cann, Shaftesbury. Native of Cann.
Names: Ernest Walter Holly
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Driver
Service No: T4/039638
Date of Death: 27/12/1918
Age: 23
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Service Corps, 798th H.T. Coy.
Grave Reference: 69
Cemetery: Dedeagatch British Cemetery, Greece
Son of Mark Holly and Harriet Holly (née Smith) of Cann Common. Native of Melbury Abbas, Dorset.
Name: Cossley John B. Hunt
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 29223
Date of Death: 04/10/1917
Regiment/Service: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Enclosure No.4 VIII. C. 7
Cemetery: Bedford House Cemetery, Belgium
Son of John Thomas Hunt and Wilhelmina Augusta Hunt (née Knight). Native of Cann, Shaftesbury.
Name: Charles King
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 23746
Date of Death: 01/04/1918
Regiment/Service: Wiltshire Regiment, 2nd Bn.
Grave Reference: St. Quentin German Cem. Mem. 10
Cemetery: St. Souplet British Cemetery, France
Son of Jesse and Harriet King (née Holley). Native of Lacock, Wiltshire.
Name: William Charles Mason
Nationality: United Kingdom
Date of Death: 28/11/1917
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve
Born 13/05/1884 at Surbiton, Surrey. Son of William Joshua Mason and Eliza Emily Mason (née Walters) of St. Denis, Cann, Shaftesbury. Carnegie Student in Entomology. Died of blackwater fever at the Government Farm in Namiwawa, Nyasaland.
Name: Trevor Sharp
No record at CWGC.
Name: Stanley Smith
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Sergeant
Service No: 200161
Date of Death: 28/09/1917
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Dorsetshire Regiment, 1st/4th Bn.
Grave Reference: IX. D. 4
Cemetery: Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq
Son of Harry and Harriett Smith. Born in Alcester, Shaftesbury on 29/07/1891.
Name: Henry Steel
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Rifleman
Service No: 6415
Date of Death: 15/09/1916
Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps, 18th Bn.
Panel Reference: Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, France
Son of Edwin George Steel and Elizabeth Mary Steel of 'Ash Cottage', Cann Common. Native of Bromley, Kent.
Name: John Francis (Frank) Thompson
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 1188
Date of Death: 24/09/1915
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Northumberland Fusiliers, 1st Bn.
Grave Reference: Screen Wall. F.B. 18. 131
Cemetery: Wandsworth (Earlsfield) Cemetery, London
Son of Jane Mary Trowbridge of Hill View, Cann Common, Shaftesbury. Native of Hendon, Middlesex
Name: Ernest Edwin Trowbridge
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Battery Sergeant Major
Service No: 8358
Date of Death: 27/11/1918
Regiment/Service: Royal Field Artillery, 'A' Bty. 156th Bde.
Awards: Distinguished Conduct Medal
Grave Reference: II. D. 28
Cemetery: Caudry British Cemetery, France
Son of William and Lucina Trowbridge; husband of Kathleen Mary Trowbridge (née McGaharan). Native of Melbury Abbas, Dorset.
Name: Frank White
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Service No: 26256
Date of Death: 04/10/1917
Age: 32
Regiment/Service: Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 1st Bn.
Panel Reference: 80 - 82
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium
Son of Henry Charles White and Thirza White (née Mayo); husband of Edith Jane White (née Batt). Born 28/01/1885 at Shaftesbury.