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Forster, William (Willie)

9 March 2020 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: William (Willie) Forster

Rank: Private

Service No: 39017

Date of Death: 03/09/1917

Regiment/Service: 7th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment

Grave reference: VI. C. 52., Duisans Military Cemetery

Additional information: Only son of J H and M Forster of Ivy Dene, Scalby, Scarborough.

CWGC reference

There is a beautiful memorial plaque in St Laurence’s Church, Scalby. See image below. You can read more about Willie on the Scalby War Memorial website.

Filed Under: F Tagged With: Arras 1917, Scalby War Memorial, Yorkshire Regt

Sillery, Charles Cecil Archibald

9 March 2020 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Charles Cecil Archibald Sillery

Rank: Lt Colonel (Indian Army retired)

Regiment/Service: Commanding 20th (Tyneside Scottish) Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers

Date of death: 1/07/1916

Age: 54

Grave Reference: I. G. 2., Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Somme

Additional Information: Husband of Edith Sillery, of The Grange, Scalby, Scarborough.

CWGC reference

Charles Sillery is not commemorated on Scarborough War Memorial. He is, however, commemorated on Scalby War Memorial.

There is a wonderful window in St Laurence’s Church, Scalby, dedicated to Charles and his brother, John, who was killed at Gallipoli. Photos are below. You can read more about Charles Sillery and John Sillery at Scalby War Memorial website.

Click on an image to view a slide show at full size.

Filed Under: S Tagged With: Northumberland Fusiliers, Scalby War Memorial, Somme 1916

Wordsworth, John Lionel

27 January 2018 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: John Lionel Wordsworth

Rank: Lieutenant

Died: 04/11/1914

Aged: 32

Regiment/service: 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

Commemorated: Panel 5, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Brother of Mr W H Wordsworth of The Glen, Scalby, Scarborough.

CWGC reference

Image of John Wordworth: © IWM (HU 127919)

There is an impressive panel memorial to John Wordsworth in St Laurence’s Church, Scalby. See images below. You can also read more about John Wordsworth at Scalby War Memorial website.

Filed Under: W Tagged With: Menin Gate, Royal Irish Lancers, Scalby War Memorial

Lancaster, Charles

27 January 2018 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Charles Lancaster

Rank: Private

Service Number: 79759

Died: 03/05/1917

Aged: 52

Regiment/service: 31st Bn Canadian Infantry

Grave reference: Vimy Memorial

Son of Alfred and Mary Ann Lancaster, of 8, St Martin’s Square, Scarborough.

Not commemorated on the Scarborough Memorial

Image: © IWM (HU 123803)

Filed Under: L Tagged With: Canadian Infantry, St Martin's Square

Payton, Charles Mervyn

27 January 2018 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Charles Mervyn Payton

Rank: Lieutenant

Died: 18/04/1915

Aged: 23

Regiment/service: 3rd Bn. attd. “A” Coy. 1st Bn. Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 45 and 47, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Mentioned in Despatches

Son of Sir Charles A Payton MVO (retired Consul-General, Calais) of [Stepney Court] 12 Falsgrave Rd, Scarborough, and the late Lady Payton (née Eliza Mary Olive). A Reserve Officer of the Royal West Kent Regt, he left a Government post at Singapore to rejoin at the outbreak of war.

Not listed on the Scarborough War Memorial.

Image: © IWM (HU 116743)

 

Filed Under: P Tagged With: Falsgrave Road, Royal West Kent Regiment

Parr, Hugh Wharton Myddleton

27 January 2018 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Hugh Wharton Myddleton Parr

Rank: Lieutenant

Died: 05/05/1915

Aged: 35

Regiment/service: 5th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment

Grave reference: I. F. 19. ST. QUENTIN CABARET MILITARY CEMETERY

Son of the Rev R Henning Parr, 1st Vicar of St Martin’s, Scarborough.

Not listed on the Scarborough Memorial.

Images © IWM (HU 116641)

From Clifton Rugby Club History:

The death is announced in the recent action round Ypres of Lieutenant H W M Parr….. A master of Clifton College. He was…. of the College OTC and in….. volunteered for active service and was….. to the 5th South Staffs.

Ltnt Parr was a keen tennis player…. Took a great interest in golf, being a… the Bristol and Clifton Club at…… Memorial service was held in the…… The ‘Death March’ in “Saul”.

Hugh Parr was a Clifton College pupil from 1891-1901 and a Master from 1909-1914

His pupil entry in the 1947 Clifton College Register says

4406 Parr, Hugh Wharton Myddleton Parr; b.14.10.81. br. 2961; NT; C-VI; CAP; Capt., Cadet Crops; L1901; Oriel, Oxf.; Asst. Master Clifton Coll. (M206); 1914 War, Lt., 5th S. Staffs Regt.; k(action), 1915.

The 1912 Clifton College Registry adds that he was the son on Rev. R. H. Parr of Scarborough.

He joined Clifton RFC in 1903-04

Unfortunateley his face was obscured in the 1909 photo of Clifton College Masters.

When he died, on the 15th May 1915, he was under the command of a school colleague who related his death

“About one o’clock this morning he was out in front of his trench with a party of men fixing some barbed wire entanglements. A chance bullet, fired at random by a German sentry, who may have detected the noise of men at work, hit him in the neck, and he died almost immediately. I need not tell you what a valuable officer he was. He was one of the very best. Everyone loved him, and his men would do anything for him. Some of them fairly broke down when they knew he had gone. His Captain is inconsolable. It is a grievous bitter loss, and hard to bear, but the war is taking toll of our best, and before it is over will drain the best blood in England very deep. We must steel our hearts and set our teeth to face much more than we have so far endured before the end will be in sight. We are fighting nothing less than Satan and all his angels, and must comport ourselves accordingly.”

Filed Under: P Tagged With: South Staffordshire Regiment, St Martin's Church

Stabler, Percival

31 March 2017 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Percival Stabler

Rank: Company Serjeant Major

Service No: 23524

Date of Death: 28/03/1918

Age: 35

Regiment/Service: Leicestershire Regiment 11th Bn

Awards: D C M

Grave Reference: I. J. 28. Cemetery: Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension

Additional Information: son of Joseph and Louisa Stabler, of Scarborough; husband of Florence Stabler, of Storer House, Highfields, Coalville, Leicester.

CWGC reference

 

Paul Allen writes:

Back in the comparative safety of Fremicourt the surviving Midland Pioneers paraded for the customary post battle roll call to ascertain the number of the battalion’s casualties. This revealed the unit had lost 3 officers killed, and a further 7 were wounded, whilst the ‘other ranks’ had suffered 30 men killed in action and a further 80 were missing. In addition, 160 ‘other ranks’ were wounded during 21 March 1918. Many of these men were evacuated to various hospitals behind the front in places such as Abbeville, where another Scarborough-born Midland Pioneer succumbed to his injuries by 28 March 1918: 23524 Company Serjeant Major Percival Stabler.

The holder of the Distinguished Conduct Medal (‘gazetted’ in the London Gazette of 22 October 1917), ‘Percy’ was born in Scarborough during 1883, and was the son of Louisa Jane (formerly Shaw) and Joseph Stabler, a joiner and carpenter by trade who lived for many years in Scarborough at 39 Castle Road. For a number of years prior to the war Percy worked in the grocery trade in Scarborough. However, Percy was married in Lincolnshire in the Church of St Peter’s and St Paul’s in the village of Gosburton, on 26 December 1907 to Florence Harriet Wheat and, by the time of the 1911 Census, he was living in the north-west Leicestershire market town of Coalville, at ‘Storer House’, Highfields (the couple’s only son, Ernest Arthur Edward Stabler, was born on 14 June 1911 at Ashby de la Zouche).

Employed as a ‘grocer’s manager’ before the war, Percy became a member of the ‘Midland Pioneers’ from the battalion’s formation during October 1915, and he enlisted into the unit as a Private for the duration of the war at Leicester on 29 December 1915. However, having already served for a number of years in the pre-war 2nd Battalion, the East Yorkshire Regiment, Percy was soon promoted to the rank of Acting Corporal on 1 January 1916 and then to full Corporal on 15 February. An Acting Serjeant by mid March 1916, Percy arrived in France with this rank on the 18th of the month. Further promotion followed and on 27 March 1916 he was promoted to full Serjeant.

The Midland Pioneers were attached to 6th Division as the formation’s Pioneer unit and joined the Division ‘on the Somme’ in time to take part in the Battle of Flers/Courcelette that took place between the 15 – 22 September 1916. Here Percy displayed courage under fire that eventually earned him the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Promoted to Company Serjeant Major by this time, towards the end of 1916 Percy Stabler was admitted into the 20th General Hospital at Camiers suffering from ‘Myalgia’ on 22 December 1916; he was then evacuated to ‘Blighty’ for treatment and was at home by Christmas that year. (The majority of the information regarding Percy Stabler’s military career has been gleaned from his very tattered Service Record that is available online courtesy of Ancestry.com).

Out of action until May 1917, Percy returned to France on 25 May and rejoined the ranks of the Midland Pioneers, which at this stage of the war were stationed in the Arras Sector of Northern France.

The news of Percy Stabler’s death, at the age of 35, was included in a casualty list that had appeared in ‘The Scarborough Mercury’ of Friday, 12 April 1918.

‘D.C.M. dies of wounds

‘Company Sergeant Major Percy Stabler, D.C.M., Midland Pioneers has died in a French hospital from gunshot wounds in the chest. Sergeant Major Stabler volunteered for service early in the war, and joined the Midland Pioneers. He won the D.C.M. by organising a dozen men to unload an ammunition wagon which had become derailed, and was being heavily shelled by the enemy. Though under fire all the time they succeeded in saving many thousands of rounds of ammunition. Before the war Sergeant Major was manager of a business in Coalville where his wife and child reside. He was born in Scarborough, being the son of the late Mr Joseph Stabler, joiner and cabinetmaker, who resided in Castle Road, and a nephew of Mrs. Matthew Procter. He went to Leicester from Scarborough several years ago … ’

Following his death at Abbeville’s No 5 Stationary Hospital, the remains of Percy Stabler were taken to the town’s Communal Cemetery Extension which still is located on the side of the road leading to Drucat, where he was interred in the Cemetery’s Section I, Row J, Grave 28.

Despite being a native of Scarborough, for some unknown reason Percy Stabler’s name is not included on the town’s Oliver’s Mount War Memorial. The Memorial does, however, contain the name of; 240975 Private George Frederick Stabler.

Paul Allen

Filed Under: S Tagged With: Kaiserschlacht 1918, Leicestershire Regt

Davison, Stephen

31 March 2017 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Stephen Davison

Regiment/service: Yorkshire Regiment

Paul Allen writes:

Stephen was the youngest of five children of Martha (‘Pattie’) and Stephen Davison, who was variously employed as a ‘coal porter, labourer’, and by the turn of the century as a ‘greengrocer’, the family living in Scarborough at 54 North Street. [1]

The four brothers, Fred, Valentine, Albert and Stephen Davison, each served in the army: the Royal Engineers, Machine Gun Corps, the Leicestershire Regiment and the Yorkshire Regiment respectively. Albert Davison was killed in action but the other three brothers survived to return to Scarborough following their demobilisation in 1919.

[1] At the time of the 1901 Census the Davison family were residing in the house in North Street and consisted of Stephen (the eldest son of Rouse and Hannah Davison), aged 42 years, Martha, 39 years, Frederick, 16 years, employed as a ‘joiners apprentice’, Valentine, 15 years, employed as a ‘painters lad’, Amy aged 13, Albert aged 10, and Stephen aged 9. All were born in Scarborough except for Martha Davison, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Glentworth.

Paul Allen

Filed Under: D Tagged With: Yorkshire Regt

Davison, Valentine

31 March 2017 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Valentine Davison

Regiment/service: Machine Gun Corps

 

Paul Allen writes:

Frederick was the second of five children of Martha (‘Pattie’) and Stephen Davison, who was variously employed as a ‘coal porter, labourer’, and by the turn of the century as a ‘greengrocer’, the family living in Scarborough at 54 North Street. [1]

The four brothers, Fred, Valentine, Albert and Stephen Davison, each served in the army: the Royal Engineers, Machine Gun Corps, the Leicestershire Regiment and the Yorkshire Regiment respectively. Albert Davison was killed in action but the other three brothers survived to return to Scarborough following their demobilisation in 1919.

[1] At the time of the 1901 Census the Davison family were residing in the house in North Street and consisted of Stephen (the eldest son of Rouse and Hannah Davison), aged 42 years, Martha, 39 years, Frederick, 16 years, employed as a ‘joiners apprentice’, Valentine, 15 years, employed as a ‘painters lad’, Amy aged 13, Albert aged 10, and Stephen aged 9. All were born in Scarborough except for Martha Davison, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Glentworth.

Paul Allen

Filed Under: D Tagged With: Machine Gun Corps

Davison, Frederick

31 March 2017 by Boro1418 Leave a Comment

Name: Frederick Davison

Regiment/service: Royal Engineers

 

Paul Allen writes:

Frederick (‘Fred’) was the eldest of five children of Martha (‘Pattie’) and Stephen Davison, who was variously employed as a ‘coal porter, labourer’, and by the turn of the century as a ‘greengrocer’, the family living in Scarborough at 54 North Street. [1]

The four brothers, Fred, Valentine, Albert and Stephen Davison, each served in the army: the Royal Engineers, Machine Gun Corps, the Leicestershire Regiment and the Yorkshire Regiment respectively. Albert Davison was killed in action but the other three brothers survived to return to Scarborough following their demobilisation in 1919.

[1] At the time of the 1901 Census the Davison family were residing in the house in North Street and consisted of Stephen (the eldest son of Rouse and Hannah Davison), aged 42 years, Martha, 39 years, Frederick, 16 years, employed as a ‘joiners apprentice’, Valentine, 15 years, employed as a ‘painters lad’, Amy aged 13, Albert aged 10, and Stephen aged 9. All were born in Scarborough except for Martha Davison, who was born in the Lincolnshire village of Glentworth.

Paul Allen

Filed Under: D Tagged With: Royal Engineers

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