Newbottle with Charlton
Church of St James, Newbottle with Charlton
There is a Roll of Honour in the Church of St James, Newbottle with Charlton
The Memorial is inscribed: IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF NEWBOTTLE & CHARLTON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE TWO WORLD WARS 1914- 1918 A BEASLEY T BLAKE J CHARLETTE ALBERT GRANT ARTHUR GRANT G H GRANT E F HAYWARD A HOGGINS C HOGGINS E HOGGINS F J HOGGINS A MORBY G W MUMFORD A QUARTLY G SOLLIS S TAYLOR F J WYATT J W WYATT 1939 - 1945 W E ADAMS E FOSTER W G PAINTIN H A W SMITH T F G THORNTON GRANT THEM REST ETERNAL O LORD AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON THEM 
HAYWARD EDWIN F
HOGGINS ARTHUR HOGGINS CHARLES W HOGGINS ERNEST F HOGGINS FREDERICK J MORBY ARTHUR 
BEASLEY AUBREY
BLAKE THOMAS CHARLETTE JOHN GRANT ALBERT T GRANT ARTHUR H GRANT GEORGE H 
MUMFORD GEORGE W
QUARTLY ALFRED SOLLIS GEORGE W TAYLOR STANLEY WYATT FREDERICK J WYATT JOHN W 
1939 - 1945 ADAMS WALTER E FOSTER ERNEST H? PAINTIN WILLIAM G SMITH HAROLD A THORNTON THOMAS F G 
The War Memorial in the cemetry at Charlton
1914-1919 TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF BRETHERN PRAY FOR US GRANT THEM ETERNAL PEACE 
Thomas Blake
George Henry Grant
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The Fallen from WW1
Aubrey BEASLEY Able Seaman, 1st Royal Marine (Anson) Battalion. Royal Marine Light Infantry. Royal Naval Division. RN no. R/137 He was killed in action on 6 November 1917. He was 24 He was the husband of Edith M Beasley of Charlton He is buried in grave B 126 Poelcapelle British Cemetery Additional information He joined up on 28 August 1916 and joined Anson Battalion on 24 March 1917. On 9 May he was suffering from Pyrexia. He re-joined Anson Battalion on 30 September 1917 and was killed on 6 November 1917. In civilian life he was a Grocer's Manager born in Adderbury on 14 August 1893 His name is also on the War Memorial in Adderbury THOMAS BLAKE Shoeing Smith, A Battery, 111 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 25th Division. Army no. 98440 He died on 17 September 1916 in Leeds. He was 20 He was the son of James and Fanny Blake of Newbottle He is buried in grave G 9 Newbottle and Charlton Cemetery John CHARLETT Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 28 Brigade, 7th Indian Division. Army no. 6162 He died on 28 March 1917. He was 34 He was the son of George Charlett and the brother of Frederick J Charlett He is buried in grave Angora Mem 44 North Gate War Cemetery, Baghdad Additional information His name should be spelt without the final E Albert Thomas GRANT Private, 2nd/4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 184 Brigade, 61st Division. Army no. 32807. He was formerly with the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars. Army no. 2738 He was killed in action at the Battle of St Quentin, Somme on 21 March 1918. He was 21 He was the son of the late Thomas Grant and of Gertrude Pinfold (formerly Grant), Cowpasture Farm, Hook Norton, and the husband of Elsie M Upton (formerly Grant), Tullamore Cottages, Clifton Hampden, Abingdon He is remembered on panel 50 and 51 of the Pozières Memorial Arthur GRANT Gunner, 113th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Army no. 107257 He was killed in action on 23 September 1918. He was 21 He was the son of Gertrude Pinfold (formerly Grant) of Hook Norton and the late Thomas Grant. He is buried in grave V B 3 Ypres Reservoir Cemetery George Henry GRANT Lance Corporal, 700th MT Company (Southport), Army Service Corps. Army no. M2/177639 He died on 5 June 1918 probably from an illness. He was 36 He was the son of Samuel Grant of Charlton and the husband of Jessie Grant, Moor Road, Far Headingly, Leeds. He is buried in grave G 10 Newbottle and Charlton Cemetery Edwin Francis HAYWARD Private, 1st/1st Berkshire Yeomanry (Hungerford), 2nd Mounted Division. Army no. 2145 He died, probably from disease on 13 July 1915. He was 29 He was the son of Edward and Mary Ann Hayward He is buried in grave M 3 Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Cemetery, Egypt Arthur HOGGINS Private, 2nd Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 22 Brigade, 7th Division. Army no. L/9069 He was killed in action in the first Battle of Ypres on 7 November 1914. He was 25 He was the son of Charles W and Ellen Hoggins of Newbottle He is remembered on panel 11-13 and 14 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres Charles William HOGGINS Private, 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, 2 Brigade, 1st Division. Army no. 58865 He was killed in action during the Battle of the Selle, Picardy on 17 October 1918. He was 22 He was the son of Charles W and Ellen Hoggins of Charlton He is buried in grave B18 Serain Communal Cemetery Extension Ernest Thomas HOGGINS Lance Corporal, 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 28 Brigade, 7th Indian Division. Army no. 8120 He was killed in action in Iraq on 8 October 1916. He was 29 He was the son of Charles W and Ellen Hoggins of Charlton He is buried in grave XXI Q 16 North Gate War Cemetery, Baghdad Frederick John HOGGINS Private, 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, 2 Brigade, 1st Division. Army no. 20472 He was killed in action on 9 September 1916 during the Battle of the Marne. He was 22. He was the son of Edward and Ada Hoggins of Newbottle He is remembered on pier and face 11A and 11D of the Thiepval Memorial Arthur MORBY Private (Quebec Regiment) 13th Battalion Canadian Infantry. 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Canadian Division. Army no. 415376 He died on 22 December 1916. He was 32 He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Morby of Charlton He is buried in grave B 25 Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension near Bethune Additional information His Canadian Attestation record shows that he was born 29 November 1885: he had previously served for 6 months with The Lancashire Fusiliers and that he was a Methodist How and where he died is not recorded but the Canadians held this sector of the line from early 1917 and it is probable that he was killed in action George William MUMFORD Private, W Company, 1st Battalion, The Essex Regiment, 88 Brigade, 29th Division. Army no. 9727 He was killed in action during the fighting at Krithia Vineyard on 6 August 1915. He was 23 He was the son of George W and Caroline M Mumford of Charlton He is buried in grave II A 9 Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey Alfred QUARTLY Private, 159th Company, The Labour Corps. Army no. 95165. He was formerly with The Royal Berkshire Regiment. Army no. 21288 He was killed in action on 5 October 1918. He was 21 He was the son of Frank and Ellen E Quartly of Hinton He is buried in grave VII H 24 Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy George Frederick SOLLIS Private, A Squadron, Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars), 4 Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division. Army no. 285220 He died action on 1 December 1918. He was 26 He was the son of the late William and Mary A Sollis of Charlton He is buried in grave I E 10 Solesmes British Cemetery. Additional information There was a Hospital based in Solesmes at this time so the circumstances of his death are unclear. He may well have died in the Spanish Flu pandemic. Stanley TAYLOR Lance Corporal, 1st/4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 145 Brigade, 48th Division. Army no. 200726 He was killed in action on 17 March 1917 during the German retreat to the Hindenburg line. He was 22 He was the son of Richard and Annie Taylor, Rose Cottage, Charlton He is buried in grave II L 20 Hem Farm Military Cemetery, Hem-Monacu Frederick John WYATT Private 14th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 13 Brigade, 5th Division. Army no. 14/1693 He was killed in action during the attacks on High Wood in the Battle of the Somme on 23 July 1916. He was 39 He was husband of Asenath Wyatt and the brother of Henry Joseph Wyatt, Walton Grounds, King's Sutton He is remembered on pier and face 9A 9B and 10B of the Thiepval Memorial John William WYATT Private, 1st Battalion, The Essex Regiment, 88 Brigade, 29th Division. Army no. 201599 He was killed in action on 20 November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. He is remembered on panel 7 and 8 of the Cambrai Memorial, Louveral. Additional information His army number tells us that he was initially with the 4th Battalion and then transferred to the 1st Battalion. No records exist to be certain which of the men with this name, who lived in Charlton is the man in question although it is probable that this was the son of James and Elizabeth Wyatt of Newbottle who was born in 1896 in Charlton 1939 - 1945 Walter Ernest ADAMS Able Seaman, HMS Curacoa, Royal Navy, RN no. C/JX 173051 He died on 2 October 1942. He was 24 He was the son of Charles Frederick and Nellie Adams of Banbury. He is remembered on panel 52 3 Chatham Naval Memorial Additional information HMS Curacoa was a light cruiser engaged in convoy escort duties with ss Queen Mary. While both ships were zigzagging, HMS Curacoa (Capt. John W Boutwood, RN, survivor) crossed the Queen Mary's bow with insufficient clearance. The Queen Mary knifed into her at a speed of 28 knots, cutting HMS Curacoa in two. She sank instantly with 338 casualties. The Queen Mary did not falter or slow down for fear of German submarines despite the fact of a 40 foot gash in her bow. The convoy behind picked up 26 survivors. Ernest Henry FOSTER Private, 2/21 Battalion, Australian Infantry. Army no. VX25454 He died on 25 June 1944. He was 30 He was the son of William James and Florence Vera Foster of Charlton He is buried in grave 20 B 2 Ambon War Cemetery. Additional information The Australian records show: Born: 26 Nov 1913 Place of Birth: Hampstead, England Date Enlisted: 11 Jun 1940 Locality on Enlistment: Miners Rest, Vic Place of Enlistment: Caulfield, Vic. Next of Kin: William FOSTER Date of Death: 25 Jun 1944 Prisoner of War: Yes Roll of Honour: Ballarat Vic Ambon Island, Indonesia The town of Ambon, situated on Laitimor Peninsula on the southern shore of Ambon Bay, was severely damaged during the war, first by the Japanese who bombed it heavily in January 1942 and then by the allies who attacked it in 1943 and 1944. The War Cemetery is constructed on the site of a former camp for Australian, British and Dutch Prisoners of War, some of whom had been transferred from Java in 1943, and many of those buried died in captivity. There are more than 2,000 graves, over half are Australians, of whom about 350 belonged to the 2/21st Australian Infantry Battalion. Gull Force In December 1941, an Australian force known as Gull Force sailed to defend Ambon Island. The force of 1,090 was made up of the 2/21st Battalion and C troop 18th Anti-Tank Battery, 3 sections of the 2/11th Field Coy, a section of Australian Army Service Corps, 2/12th Field Ambulance Detachment, 23rd Special Dental Unit and 104 Light Aid Detachment. Over 200 Australians were massacred at Laha, Ambon on 6 February and between 15 and 20 February 1942. They were bound and bayoneted or beheaded. Others were held in captivity on Ambon. In October 1942 the prisoners were divided into two groups. One group was transported to Hainan Island aboard the Taiko Maru and imprisoned in Haicho Camp. The other group remained on Ambon. Of the 263 PoWs sent to Hainan Island, 182 were still alive at the end of the war. William George PAINTIN Canteen Manager, HMS Hartland, Royal Navy. RN no. C/NX 207 He died on 8 November 1942. He was 31 He was the son of Albert and Elizabeth Paintin and the husband of Florence M Paintin of Souldern He is remembered on panel 66, 3 of the Chatham Naval Memorial Additional information His name also appears on the Souldern War Memorial The operation was the prevention of destructive sabotage by the French preceding the allied troop landings in Algeria. A contemporary newspaper report described the action as follows: “A 53 year-old captain in the Royal Navy, who led a “suicide charge” by two small cutters at Oran in November 1942 has been awarded a posthumous VC. He was Acting-Captain Frederick Thornton Peters, DSO, DSC, and the award, says the official citation, is given “for valour in taking HMS Walney in an enterprise of desperate hazard into the harbour of Oran on 8 November 1942. “Walney” and “Hartland”, ex US Coastguard cutters, were lost in a gallant attempt to prevent the scuttling of block ships in the harbour of Oran during the landings on the North African coast. They had the task of ramming the boom. Both ships broke through - a feat which was described as one of the great episodes of naval history - and although on fire penetrated to the inner harbour. Troops were landed from them at the west end of the Bassin Gueybin before the ships were sunk. After his ship had rammed the boom, sunk a destroyer, attacked a cruiser and herself been sunk, Captain Peters was taken prisoner. He was thrown into prison in Oran by the French authorities but when the city capitulated he was released by the populace and carried through the streets shoulder-high and showered with flowers. For his bravery in the action in Oran Captain Peters, who has since died in an air crash while on a special mission, was also awarded the American DSC” Harold Anthony Warrington SMITH Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards. Army no. 186927 He died on 4 August 1944 attacking the Paula Line which was the German defensive line around Florence. He was 23 He was the son of Sir Harold KC MP and of Lady Beatrice J Smith of Charlton He is buried in grave II C 11 Florence War Cemetery Thomas Frederick George THORNTON Captain, 74 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery attached to the Raiding Support Regiment. Army no. 155452 He died in a parachute training jump at Ramat David Airfield on 12 January 1944. He was 32 He was the son of Frederick G and Alice Thornton of Charlton He is buried in grave D D 14 Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel Additional information The Raiding Support Regiment was one of the many special service units formed during WW2. This particular unit was formed in North Africa in 1942 to provide partisan elements with supporting and comparatively heavily armed units. In its early days the regiment was used as raiding forces at the time of desert warfare. Its real history as an independent unit actually started after the Allied Armies had landed in Italy. The personnel of the unit were entirely volunteers. Its CO was a South African and the second in command a Rhodesian. It comprised four squadrons and regimental head-quarters. The squadrons were armed with different supporting weapons. "A" squadron armament consisted of .50 Vickers heavy machine guns mounted on jeeps. "B" squadron was armed with three inch mortars and "C" squadron with anti-tank guns. "D" squadron was armed with 75mm gun Howitzers and it consisted of three, four gun batteries. The 75mm gun Howitzer was chosen because of its adaptability in mountain warfare and the fact that it could be broken down into several pieces which could be dropped from aircraft. The regiment took part in the capture of Corfu, and in landings in Albania. Elements of the regiment operated throughout the war with guerrilla units in Greece and other elements of the unit operated with guerrilla elements in Yugoslavia and Albania. There are two Fallen of Charlton and Newbottle who do not feature on the War Memorial or in the Roll of Honour Percy Welstead Hannon NOBLE Private, 1st King Edward's Horse (The King’s Overseas Dominions Regiment), IV Corps. Army no. 642 He died of his wounds on 27 August 1917. He was 28 and born in Newbottle He is buried in grave I B 37 Duhallow A D S Cemetery, Belgium Additional information Duhallow was the site for an ADS (Advanced Dressing Station) so it is probable he was taken there having been wounded nearby Arthur Edward WYATT Private, C Company, 4th Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment, 88 Brigade, 29th Division. Army no. 11854 He was killed in action on 6 August 1915. He was 36 and born in Newbottle He was the son of George and Elizabeth Wyatt, who predeceased their son, and he was the nephew of Henry Morby, 77 Union Road, Warwick. He is remembered on panel 104 to 113 of the Helles Memorial |