Company Sergeant Major 8873, Richard Jones, Northumberland Fusiliers. What remains of his Army record only shows his time from 1914. He joined up on the 10th September 1914 and was posted as Sergeant 8873 14th Northumberland Fusiliers Reserves and on the 26th September 1915 promoted to Company...
Private 51827 Osborne Bottom of the 3rd South Staffordshire Regiment. He joined up on the 10th December 1915 was posted to the Army Reserve awaiting call up. He gave his home address as 147, Hendesford Road, Cannock, aged 25 years and 7 months and worked as stallman in W Cannack Colliery Co Ltd...
Buried in Cannock Town Cemetery, Pye Green Road, Staffordshire
Guardsman Benjamin MARSH 3rd Grenadier Guards
son of Samuel and the late Leah MARSH
Died in Queen Alexandrias Military Hospital,
Millbank, London, May 28th 1927, 20
Buried in Cannock Town Cemetery, Pye Green Road, Staffordshire
Serviceman Private John Henry BENNETT, South Staffordshire Regiment Died May 12th 1919, 44, husband of Charlotte
Some information from his Burnt Record
He enlisted on the 29th December 1894 aged 19yrs and 1 month and gave...
Commemorated on a family memorial in Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
Joseph Harold YATES, son of Joseph and Alice, killed in action, April 22nd 1917, 22
CWGC, Private 202773, 2/5th South Staffordshire Regiment
killed in action. Buried in Tincourt New British
Cemetery, Somme, France
Commemorated on a family memorial in Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
Joseph, son of William and Julia, killed in the Dardanelles 1915, 22
He gave his life for his country
CWGC, Lance Corporal 15404 7th South Staffordshire Regiment.
Commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey
Commemorated on a family memorial in Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
Private Frederick Hyde SUTTON, 7th London Regiment, son of Nathan William and Mary Jane nee SHORE believed to have been killed in France 9 September 1918, 20
"Nobly he answered duties call he gave his life...
He is commemorated on two family memorials in Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
(Grandparents memorial)
L/Cpl 240599,Percy Hartland POWIS, 6th South Stafffordshire Regiment. Idolized grandson of John & Mary Martha MORRIS
of Whites Hill, Cannock, who was killed in action in
France, 25...
He is commemorated on two family memorials in Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
Percy Hartland POWIS, son of George and Agnes Elizabeth, killed in action, 25th May 1917, 33
CWGC, Lance Corporal 240599 1/6th South Staffordshire Regiment
At the time of his death his parents were residing...
Commemorated on a family memorial at Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
Albert Joseph (Bert), son Joseph and Mary Ann, Private 24365, 1st South Staffordshire Regiment, killed near Combles, August 31st 1916, 26 (At the time of his death, his parents were residing at 55, West Hill...
Commemorated on a family memorial at Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
Howard Frank LOCKLEY, who fell in the battle of Jutland
May 31st 1916, 38. Son of Frank and Emma and brother of Frederick who also fell in 1916
CWGC Corporal PO/14211, Royal Marine Light Infantry
on board HMS Black...
Commemorated on a family memorial at Cannock Town Cemetery, Staffordshire
Frederick George Lockley, who fell in the battle of the Somme
July 9th 1916, 22 Son of Frank and Emma of 17. New Hall, Cannock and brother of Howard who also fell in 1916
(CWGC, Lance Corporal 15516, 8th South...
Guardsman Benjamin MARSH
3rd Grenadier Guards, son of Samuel and Leah
Died in Queen Alexandrias Military Hospital,
Millbank, London, May 28th 1927, 20
Buried in Cannock Cemetery, Staffordshire
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