Flamstead War Memorial - Local Families Listed

[Daisypetal]

Hi,
I wonder if you have seen this site?

http://flamsteadpc.btck.co.uk/Documents/FlamsteadWarMemorial

It shows that Leslie John HORWOOD was in the Royal Artillery and died April 1944 which would fit with the death already found. It also has a little write up about Joshua Dyer a Lance Corporal in the 2nd Battalion the Royal Sussex Regiment.


Ancestry also has some info about Joshua,

Name: Joshua Dyer
POB:  Flampstead, Hertfordshire
DOD:  22 Sep 1916
Death Location:  Home
Enlistment Location:  Luton
Rank:  L/Corporal
Regiment:  Royal Sussex Regiment
Battalion:  2nd Battalion
Number:  G/14527
Type of Casualty: Died of wounds
Theatre of War: Home


You can request service records of deceased Service personnel here, for a fee,

https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records

It might be easier now you know who they served with.


Regards,
Daisy

[Gooders]

Hi TallaNicholex,

Thanks for contacting me about your Great Great Uncle, Joshua Dyer. I do, indeed, have more information on this casualty and would be very happy to share it with you.

I will shortly send you a Personal Message, on here, so that we can establish direct contact.

Regards,

Simon

[Gooders]

Hi Imber and Daisypetal,

Many thanks for sharing with me these thoughts and information you have found on the web.

In the last couple of years some of my research has paid off and I met an elderly lady who remembered seeing Leslie John Horwood in the uniform of the Royal Artillery at a Flamstead village event during WW2. So, it now appears as though he had joined up but must, pretty soon thereafter, have been invalided out with the TB that eventually killed him. At least that is what all the clues point to having happened. I even found a local newspaper article (Hemel Hempstead Gazette 22 April 1944) from the time confirming much of this.

On Daisypetals comment about information on the website she found I have to admit that I think that is an outstanding website and obviously a work of great skill and knowledge - but then again (says I - strongly tongue in cheek) I would say that wouldn't I as I am the individual that created it. 

So, yes, that website is one of the ways in which I have been circulating some of the basic information i have collected in the hope it might be found by others researching the Flamstead names.

Thanks, once again, to the both of you.

Simon

[Upstreeter]

Hello,

I'm rather new to this but stumbled upon your useful 1901 census listing of Kitcheners at Flamstead. I believe you asked if anyone knew anything of them...I know a little.

George Kitchener was head of the household at that time and had been Coachman to the Duchess of Teck, the family being domiciled at White Lodge Richmond - he was my great grandfather. His daughter, my grandmother Grace Kitchener, with her sisters helped their mother who became widowed (I think not long afterwards). The boys George and Fred were both killed in the First World War and I found George's grave at Bienvillers Northern France, last Autumn.

All the sisters lived to good ages...all past 90 I think, certainly my grandmother who by then had moved to the Titsey estate in Surrey was pushing 100 when she passed away.

Interestingly we believe that George Kitchener (the elder) was an Irish Catholic who changed his name, and buried his faith in order to gain employment in England.

That's about all I know.

Regards

Jon Dudley

[Gooders]

Hi Jon,

It's great to hear from you and it is, yet again, a wonderful example of the power of the internet to connect people following similar lines of research.

I do have more information on your Great Grandfather that i would be very happy to share with you but, rather than post it on this site, will send you a Personal Message in the hope we can then contact each other directly.

I will need to check my notes, which are at home, but i think your Great Grandfather may well be buried in the Flamstead Cemetery.

Simon