Worcestershire | Pershore Almanac 1915 | Roll of Honour </table
I’d like to express gratitude to the Pershore Heritage and History Society
for letting me borrow part of the display from the Heritage Centre so I could
make a photocopy..
This is the 1915 almanac published by Fearnside and Martin [a Pershore printers – there was still a Fearnsides newsagent and stationers in Bridge Street until the 1970s]. I would think it was published around January 1915, having been compiled sometime in December 1914, though this is just a guess.
Note: this is the raw listing as published.
I’ve combined the information listed here with that on my other Pershore
listings, plus a number of sources, eith the intent of producing a detailed
page about Pershore Men in the Great War.
| Pershore 1915 Almanac – Roll of Honour | Contents |
| THE ROLL OF HONOUR of Men whose homes are at Pershore, or who have left the Town, to serve their King and Country. This list only contains the names of Men from the In-town Wards of Pershore. COMPILED BY MR. W. WRIGHT, NEWLANDS. The Publishers have endeavoured to make this list as complete as possible, but cannot be responsible for any errors, misdescriptions, or inaccuracies. |
| KILLED. OXFORD AND BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY – Private A. Brookes. |
| WOUNDED 3RD WORCESTERS – Privates William Hall, P.C. Thompson. GRENADIER GUARDS – Privates Edward Palfrey, Percy Smith. KING’S ROYALRIFLES – Private J. Coombe. |
| PRISONERS OF WAR 2ND WORCESTERS – Pte. Thomas Bell. 5TH WORCESTERS – Pte. Wm. Lewis ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS – Private Alfred Porter. ARMY 1ST WORCESTERS – Privates John Jones, Frank Soley, F. George 2ND WORCESTERS – Privates Thomas H. Cosnett, Harry Garrett, James Grinnall, J.E.V. Davis 3RD WORCESTERS – Lance-Corporal Hubert Hook, E. Hall 5TH WORCESTERS – Sergeant Arthur Biddulph, Privates George Grinnall, Joseph Mann 6TH WORCESTERS – Captain B. Cartland, Privates Herbert Collins, John Grinnall, Martin Howes, Edward Hughes, Lieutenant C. Lushington, Privates Albert Richards, Arthur Rose, Albert Smith, Percy Surman. 8TH WORCESTERS – Corporal James Annis, Privates Reginald Andrews, George Andrews, Charles Andrews, Sergt. Alfred Amphlett, Privates John Baker, Victor Barber, Ernest Batty, William Ballinger, Henry Ballinger, Alfred Beard, William Bick, Albert Champken, Thomas Coldrick, Levi Cosnett, Henry Champken, William Coombe, William Checketts, Joseph Cosnett, Edward Conn, Charles Cosnett, Sydney Cosnett, Charles Coombe, Leonard Cowley, Frederick Clarke, Col.-Sergt.-Inst. Davis, Walter Edwards, Alfred Ferris, W. Ford, William Grinnall, George Grinnall, Albert Grinnall, Sergt. Charles Leach Grinnall, Arthur Giles, William Hawker, Corporal G. Haynes, James Hemming, Frank Heeks, James Hewlett, Douglas Hook, Walter Hall, Captain W.J. Hunt, Privates Alexander Lees, Andrew Lees, Jack Long, William Lathan, George Ludlow, Arthur Manton, Joseph Manton, Philip Marshall Edward Middleton, Walter Mumford. Sergeant Thomas Need, Privates John Pratt, John Pritchard, Frederick Pritchard, George Redding, Leonard Rose, Ernest Rose, Lance-Corporal Frank Roberts, Privates William Smith, Arthur Smith, George Smith, Alfred Teague, John Taylor, Albert Trapp, W.Turvey Archibald Young, Fred Young. ARMY SERVICE CORPS – Privates Joseph E. Cosnett, William Clifton, Henry Thomas. ARMY VETERINARY CORPS – W. Reid. GLOUCESTER TERRITORIALS – Private Frederick J. Giles. 3RD BATT. P.S.U., BRIGADE – Lieut-Col. C.H. Bennett, D.S.O. PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Privates Wilfred Gray, Jervis Goddard, Albert Hutton, Lionel Machin (Sandhurst). OXFORDSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY – Lieutenant Audley Grey. 2nd CITY OF BIRMINGHAM BATTALION – Percy Wilks. INNS OF COURT – Private Ronald Coombe. ROYAL ENGINEERS – Privates Frederick Dolphin, William Overd. ROYAL WARWICKS – Privates Sidney G. Fell, Henry Jones, Henry Newell. Lieutenant C.E. Slater SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT – Lieutenant Arthur Dowty. ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY – Gunner Norman Jones, Private William Wood. ROYAL ARTILLERY – Sergt.-Major Walter Adams, Bombardier George Batty. Privates John Dennick, Ernest Edwards. SOUTH WALES BORDERERS – Privates John H. Cosnett, Alfred J. Cosnett KING’s ROYAL RIFLES – Privates Harry Baylis, John Coombe, George Clifton. Thomas Clifton, Thomas Dennick. SUFFOLKS – Lieut. K.R. Mason. GRENADIER GUARDS – Privates Arthur Kings, Edward Palfrey. COLDSTREAM GUARDS – Private William Dufty MOUNTED INFANTRY – Private Charles Collins OXFORD AND BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY – Private Thomas Evans. 5th LANCERS – Private Arthur Workman 8th HUSSARS – Private Ernest Brant, William Champken, Fred Wells. 10th HUSSARS – Private Christopher Moore. 15th HUSSARS – Privates Harry Bick, Charles Izard, Fred Soley 17th LANCERS, 8th RESERVE CAVALRY REGT. – Staff-Sergeant Major James J. Cooke. NATIONAL RESERVE (RAILWAY GUARD) – Privates L. Annis, Edward Barnard, Henry Beard, Corporal Thomas Collins, Private William Cosnett, Sergt. Samuel Crooke, Private Henry Dolphin, Corporal Alfred Dennick, Privates Edward Hodgkins, Charles Marshall. TOWN GUARD – William Horton, Ensor Jones WORC. YEOMANRY – Troopers Ernest Collins, Charles W. Cosnett, Albert Coldicott, Harry Cornelius, Lance-Corporal R.C. Edwards, Corporal Sidney Faulkner, Troopers John Grundy, Fred George Hemming, Sergeant Lewis Hook, Troopers John Knight, Lance-Corporal Charles Milward, Troopers W.L. Newport, Christopher C. Wilks, Squadron Sergeant-Major Frank Wood KITCHENER’S ARMY – Privates James Archer, Frank Andrews, Walter Aldington, John Brant, Edward Brant, Oliver Birt, Herbert Cosnett, Benjamin Coombe, Walter Cosnett, William Cowley, Albert Dancocks, Evan Dolphin Charles Edgington, Joseph Grinnall, Ernest Haynes, Albert Heeks, Albert Hirous, Percy Izard, William Keyte, H. Mumford, Joseph Manton, Charles Mumford, J. Mann, John Need, Ernest Price, W. Reeves, H. Russell, William Shepherd, Hubert Smith, William Taylor, Charles Twigg, W. Townend, Ernest Witts, John Witts, Henry Workman, William Winwood, junr., Corporal Edward Winwood, Joseph Workman, John Young. 12th HAMPSHIRE – Private L.T. Moseley 6th DRAGOONS – Private H.A. Townend ROYAL NAVY Thomas Hewlett, Joseph Hitchcocks, Herbert Royal, Wm. Hewlett. DISCHARGED. Medically unfit or over age. W. Cosnett, G. Curtis, S. Hewlett, Sergt. R. Hook, H. Nicholas. |
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