Remembrance Day - November 11

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Lest We Forget

Between now and November 11 th, this thread is a chance to recall
lost members of a "family tree".
It could be a John (Jack) PHILLIPS from Canada (1918)
or an Edward (Ted) GODBOLD from Yorkshire, or
a TILSTON from Wales and many others.

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In Memory of
Private Arthur St John INGRAM (aka Arthur Leonard)

4729, 9th Bn., East Surrey Regiment
who died on 11 January 1916

Remembered with honour
MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY

My grandfathers brother who was killed in action that day but according to war records there was no battle ??
Cal

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In Memory of
Private JOHN FREDERICK JONES

290081, 7th Bn., Royal Welsh Fusiliers
who died age 23 on 26 March 1917
Private  JONES, Son of John Thomas Jones and Jane Jones, of 39, Smithfield St., Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire.

Remembered with honour
JERUSALEM MEMORIAL

Also, my beloved Nan, Phyllis Beatrice Irene Challinor (aka Rene) died on 11th November 1997, aged 93.     

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In Memory of
Private JOHN FREDERICK JONES
290081, 7th Bn., Royal Welsh Fusiliers
who died age 23 on 26 March 1917
Private  JONES, Son of John Thomas Jones and Jane Jones, of 39, Smithfield St., Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire.
Remembered with honour
JERUSALEM MEMORIAL

John's brothers-in-arms of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers that fell in March
include:  Peter PHILLIPS, John Charles JONES Richard Stanley JARVIS
from the Royal Sussex there is George PHIPPS & William WADE from Essex.

[Zelley]

In Memory of
Private Arthur St John INGRAM (aka Arthur Leonard)
4729, 9th Bn., East Surrey Regiment
who died on 11 January 1916
Remembered with honour
MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY
My grandfathers brother who was killed in action that day but according to war records there was no battle ??
Cal

That may be the day that the death was recorded.
A few of the other East Surrey boys include:
James George BASSETT & Charles BUTLER

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I n memory of my uncle Rifleman John Richard Donegan 12th Bn Rifle Brigade who died 22 March 1918 age 19. My grandmother never got over his death.   Jabawak

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I n memory of my uncle Rifleman John Richard Donegan 12th Bn Rifle Brigade who died 22 March 1918 age 19. My grandmother never got over his death.   Jabawak

Lest We Forget - J R and his fellow lost Rifle Brigade Members such as
John Dallimore, Charles J. Davis, J L Downing, Joseph Doyle &
Henry Dickinson.  Also, other units such as the Royal Engineers
and Edwin Emery.

To their mothers:  Teardrop by lonely teardrop could never wash away the pain and sorrow of the lost hopes, wishes and dreams.

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  Edward GODBOLD as a schoolboy in Yorkshire - lost during
the battle of El Alamein - 1942 - Gordon Highlanders -
Also lost were T A GARDNER & M G GIFFORD

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Raymond Tilston can trace the Tilston name back Centuries in North Wales & Cheshire.  He is a grandson of Joseph TILSTON and Annie DYKES, and son
of Eli and Gertrude.

Raymond was a member of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.  He died in 1945
and is buried at the Gwersyllt Churchard.  Another Fusilier there is William H. WILLIAMS (1940).  Also, Grenadier Guard RSM Augustus THOMAS (1915)