Bath: Church of St Mary the Virgin (Bathwick)
Church War Memorial
The names (some identifications from the Commonweath War Graves Commission database -- work in progress):
SIDNEY UPHILL -- Private Sidney Frank Uphill (Service No: 265522), "B" Coy., 7th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry; died 30 November 1917, aged 33; name recorded on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France (Panel 4 and 5.); husband of Kitty M. Uphill, of "Hillside," Lower Swainswick, Bath: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1757492/UPHILL,%20SID...
GERALD H. H. BLAKE --
EDWARD BOISSIER BOARD -- Private Edward Boissier Board (Service No: G/40109), 12th Bn., Middlesex Regiment, formerly 26th (Bankers) Bn. Royal Fusiliers; died 26 September 1916, aged 40; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.): son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Board, of Hanbury Rd., Clifton, Bristol; husband of Kathleen Board, of 13, Sydney Buildings, Bath: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/766375/BOARD,%20EDWAR...
FREDERICK CHARLTON -- Possibly: Lance Bombardier F. G. O. (Frederick George Oliver) Charlton (Service No: 17223), "C" Bty., 112th Bde., Royal Field Artillery; died 30 April 1918, aged 23; buried in Ebblinghem Military Cemetery, Nord, France (I. E. 1.); son of Frederick and Julia Charlton, of 12, Prince's Buildings, Widcombe, Bath: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/37659/CHARLTON,%20F%2...
CYRIL CLACK -- Corporal Cyril A. Clack (Service No: 20602), 10th Bn., Canadian Infantry; died 11 May 1916, aged 26; buried in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (VI. E. 41.); son of Samuel T. and Mary Clack, of Bath, England; husband of Margaret Clack, of McLennan, Alberta: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/489339/CLACK,%20CYRIL...
JOHN EDWARD L. CLARKE -- Lieutenant John Edward Langton Clarke, 50th Bty., Royal Field Artillery; awards: MC, Mentioned in Despatches; died 14 September 1914, aged 24; buried in Vendresse British Cemetery, (III. AA. 1.); son of Lt. Col. Sir Edward Henry St. Lawrence Clarke, 4th Bart., of The Hyde, Bridport, Dorset, and the late Lady Clarke; [Lieutenant Clarke's entry in the Bond of Sacrifice, Vol. 1 (1917), p. 80: "LIEUTENANT JOHN EDWARD LANGTON CLARKE. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward H. St. Lawrence Clarke, fourth Baronet, of Rossmore. Co. Cork ; he was born at Barkhill, Aigburth, Liverpool, on the 22nd November, 1889, and was educated at Clifton College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Lieutenant Clarke joined the 50th Battery, XXXIVth Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, as Second Lieutenant, in July, 1909, and was promoted Lieutenant in July, 1912. During the summer of 1914 he acted as Extra A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien commanding Southern Command. He accompanied his Battery to France in the Great War, and for his services up to the battle of the Aisne, was mentioned in Sir John French's first Despatch and awarded the distinction of the Military Cross, his name appearing in the list of 1st January, 1915, after his death on the field of battle, which occurred while he was in action at Moussy-sur-Aisne on the 14th September, 1914." Lieutenant Clarke was resident at 19, Bathwick Hill, Bath; his name also appears on a church memorial at Aigburth (although I'm not sure which one)]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/322998/CLARKE,%20JOHN...
WILLIAM H. CLARKE
ALFRED CLAVEY
RALPH WALTER E. ELLIS
JOHN FRANCIS FOX
JOHN M. HARDYMAN -- Lieutenant Colonel John Hay Maitland Hardyman, 8th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; awards: DSO, MC, Twice Mentioned in Despatches; died 24 August 1918, aged 23; buried in Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France (XIX. F. 11.); son of George Hardyman, M.B., F.R.C.S., and Eglantine Henrietta Keith Hardyman, of Perrymead Court, Bath; [Maitland Hardyman was evidently a man of character. Sometimes described as the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army, he was also a poet and a council member of the Union of Democratic Control, a broadly left-wing pressure group calling for a more open discussion of war aims (whose founders included Charles Trevelyan and Ramsay MacDonald). His poems were published posthumously as: A Challenge (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1919), with a foreword by Norman Hugh Romanes: “It must not be forgotten that during the whole of his military career he was in constant correspondence with those at home whom it was most dangerous for him, from a military point of view, even to agree with, which he did openly, with no sort of regard for consequences. He was on the Council of the Union of Democratic Control and a personal friend of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. His own epitaph he desired to end as follows: ‘He died as he lived, fighting for abstract principles in a cause which he did not believe in.’” (p. 5); the volume (p. 7) also contains a brief resumé of Maitland Hardyman’s life and military career: born 28 September 1894, Bath; studied at Fettes College, Edinburgh, 1908-11 and Edinburgh University, 1911-14; enlisted 4th Somerset Light Infantry, 20 August 1914; R.F.C. training, Brooklands, 1914-15; Commissioned 9th SLI, 5 February 1915; Acting Adjutant, 7th SLI, Wareham, 1915; Attached Brigade Staff, Swanage, 1915; Attached Divisional Staff, Salisbury, 1916; Lieutenant and Adjutant, 8th SLI, 1916; Captain, April 1917; Major, April 1917; Brigade Liaison Officer, 1917; MC, 18 July 1917; Attached Divisional Staff, Acting Brigade-Major, 37th Division, 1917-18; Elected to Council of Union of Democratic Control, 1917; Lieutenant-Colonel, May 1918; DSO, 11 August 1918; killed-in-action, 24 August 1918, Biefvillers; buried in British Military Cemetery in Biefvillers with full military honours, 24 August 1918. See: ]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/265863/HARDYMAN,%20JO...
CHARLES H. E. HEAD
JOHN WILLIAM HERD
ERNEST HILLIER
LOUIS B. HILLIER
HENRY H. F. TURNER
HERBERT A. KENNEDY
EGBERT LEWIS
EDWIN JOHN LONG
CHARLES MILES
JOHN HENRY ODEY -- Private John H. Odey (Service No: 54286), 13th Bn., Durham Light Infantry; died 8 June 1917, aged 34; name recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 36 and 38.); son of Mrs. James Odey, of 7, Southville Terrace, Lyncombe Vale, Bath; husband of Rosie Mary Odey, of 3, Stanley St., Swindon, Wilts.: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/919326/ODEY,%20JOHN%20H
REGINALD C. B. PERKINS
WILLIAM RIDEWOOD
RONALD H. J. ROSE
CYRIL SHANNON
MARTIN G. SUTTON
FRANCIS W. VEAL
REGINALD WORSLEY -- Second Lieutenant William Reginald Worsley, 4th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 1 August 1917; name recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 21.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/912046/WORSLEY,%20WIL...
F. YOUNG -- Corporal F. Young (Service No: 32748), 1st Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment; died 11 April 1917; buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, Somme, France (Special Memorial 14.); [Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Corporal Young was born and enlisted at Bath, he was formerly 20824, Somerset Light Infantry]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/33206/YOUNG,%20F
Bath: Church of St Mary the Virgin (Bathwick)
Church War Memorial
The names (some identifications from the Commonweath War Graves Commission database -- work in progress):
SIDNEY UPHILL -- Private Sidney Frank Uphill (Service No: 265522), "B" Coy., 7th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry; died 30 November 1917, aged 33; name recorded on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France (Panel 4 and 5.); husband of Kitty M. Uphill, of "Hillside," Lower Swainswick, Bath: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1757492/UPHILL,%20SID...
GERALD H. H. BLAKE --
EDWARD BOISSIER BOARD -- Private Edward Boissier Board (Service No: G/40109), 12th Bn., Middlesex Regiment, formerly 26th (Bankers) Bn. Royal Fusiliers; died 26 September 1916, aged 40; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.): son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Board, of Hanbury Rd., Clifton, Bristol; husband of Kathleen Board, of 13, Sydney Buildings, Bath: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/766375/BOARD,%20EDWAR...
FREDERICK CHARLTON -- Possibly: Lance Bombardier F. G. O. (Frederick George Oliver) Charlton (Service No: 17223), "C" Bty., 112th Bde., Royal Field Artillery; died 30 April 1918, aged 23; buried in Ebblinghem Military Cemetery, Nord, France (I. E. 1.); son of Frederick and Julia Charlton, of 12, Prince's Buildings, Widcombe, Bath: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/37659/CHARLTON,%20F%2...
CYRIL CLACK -- Corporal Cyril A. Clack (Service No: 20602), 10th Bn., Canadian Infantry; died 11 May 1916, aged 26; buried in Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (VI. E. 41.); son of Samuel T. and Mary Clack, of Bath, England; husband of Margaret Clack, of McLennan, Alberta: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/489339/CLACK,%20CYRIL...
JOHN EDWARD L. CLARKE -- Lieutenant John Edward Langton Clarke, 50th Bty., Royal Field Artillery; awards: MC, Mentioned in Despatches; died 14 September 1914, aged 24; buried in Vendresse British Cemetery, (III. AA. 1.); son of Lt. Col. Sir Edward Henry St. Lawrence Clarke, 4th Bart., of The Hyde, Bridport, Dorset, and the late Lady Clarke; [Lieutenant Clarke's entry in the Bond of Sacrifice, Vol. 1 (1917), p. 80: "LIEUTENANT JOHN EDWARD LANGTON CLARKE. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, was the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edward H. St. Lawrence Clarke, fourth Baronet, of Rossmore. Co. Cork ; he was born at Barkhill, Aigburth, Liverpool, on the 22nd November, 1889, and was educated at Clifton College, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Lieutenant Clarke joined the 50th Battery, XXXIVth Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, as Second Lieutenant, in July, 1909, and was promoted Lieutenant in July, 1912. During the summer of 1914 he acted as Extra A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien commanding Southern Command. He accompanied his Battery to France in the Great War, and for his services up to the battle of the Aisne, was mentioned in Sir John French's first Despatch and awarded the distinction of the Military Cross, his name appearing in the list of 1st January, 1915, after his death on the field of battle, which occurred while he was in action at Moussy-sur-Aisne on the 14th September, 1914." Lieutenant Clarke was resident at 19, Bathwick Hill, Bath; his name also appears on a church memorial at Aigburth (although I'm not sure which one)]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/322998/CLARKE,%20JOHN...
WILLIAM H. CLARKE
ALFRED CLAVEY
RALPH WALTER E. ELLIS
JOHN FRANCIS FOX
JOHN M. HARDYMAN -- Lieutenant Colonel John Hay Maitland Hardyman, 8th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; awards: DSO, MC, Twice Mentioned in Despatches; died 24 August 1918, aged 23; buried in Bienvillers Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France (XIX. F. 11.); son of George Hardyman, M.B., F.R.C.S., and Eglantine Henrietta Keith Hardyman, of Perrymead Court, Bath; [Maitland Hardyman was evidently a man of character. Sometimes described as the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army, he was also a poet and a council member of the Union of Democratic Control, a broadly left-wing pressure group calling for a more open discussion of war aims (whose founders included Charles Trevelyan and Ramsay MacDonald). His poems were published posthumously as: A Challenge (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1919), with a foreword by Norman Hugh Romanes: “It must not be forgotten that during the whole of his military career he was in constant correspondence with those at home whom it was most dangerous for him, from a military point of view, even to agree with, which he did openly, with no sort of regard for consequences. He was on the Council of the Union of Democratic Control and a personal friend of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. His own epitaph he desired to end as follows: ‘He died as he lived, fighting for abstract principles in a cause which he did not believe in.’” (p. 5); the volume (p. 7) also contains a brief resumé of Maitland Hardyman’s life and military career: born 28 September 1894, Bath; studied at Fettes College, Edinburgh, 1908-11 and Edinburgh University, 1911-14; enlisted 4th Somerset Light Infantry, 20 August 1914; R.F.C. training, Brooklands, 1914-15; Commissioned 9th SLI, 5 February 1915; Acting Adjutant, 7th SLI, Wareham, 1915; Attached Brigade Staff, Swanage, 1915; Attached Divisional Staff, Salisbury, 1916; Lieutenant and Adjutant, 8th SLI, 1916; Captain, April 1917; Major, April 1917; Brigade Liaison Officer, 1917; MC, 18 July 1917; Attached Divisional Staff, Acting Brigade-Major, 37th Division, 1917-18; Elected to Council of Union of Democratic Control, 1917; Lieutenant-Colonel, May 1918; DSO, 11 August 1918; killed-in-action, 24 August 1918, Biefvillers; buried in British Military Cemetery in Biefvillers with full military honours, 24 August 1918. See: ]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/265863/HARDYMAN,%20JO...
CHARLES H. E. HEAD
JOHN WILLIAM HERD
ERNEST HILLIER
LOUIS B. HILLIER
HENRY H. F. TURNER
HERBERT A. KENNEDY
EGBERT LEWIS
EDWIN JOHN LONG
CHARLES MILES
JOHN HENRY ODEY -- Private John H. Odey (Service No: 54286), 13th Bn., Durham Light Infantry; died 8 June 1917, aged 34; name recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 36 and 38.); son of Mrs. James Odey, of 7, Southville Terrace, Lyncombe Vale, Bath; husband of Rosie Mary Odey, of 3, Stanley St., Swindon, Wilts.: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/919326/ODEY,%20JOHN%20H
REGINALD C. B. PERKINS
WILLIAM RIDEWOOD
RONALD H. J. ROSE
CYRIL SHANNON
MARTIN G. SUTTON
FRANCIS W. VEAL
REGINALD WORSLEY -- Second Lieutenant William Reginald Worsley, 4th Bn., Somerset Light Infantry; died 1 August 1917; name recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 21.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/912046/WORSLEY,%20WIL...
F. YOUNG -- Corporal F. Young (Service No: 32748), 1st Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment; died 11 April 1917; buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, Somme, France (Special Memorial 14.); [Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Corporal Young was born and enlisted at Bath, he was formerly 20824, Somerset Light Infantry]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/33206/YOUNG,%20F