Noeux-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery
Roll of Honour
A - L
Captain
Robert Cunningham Anderson
"A" Company, 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
26th September 1915, aged 24.
Plot I. K. 7.
Eldest son of A. C. Anderson and Jessie Haig Anderson, of "The Homestead," Prestwick, Ayrshire.
Robert Cunningham Anderson
"A" Company, 1st Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
26th September 1915, aged 24.
Plot I. K. 7.
Eldest son of A. C. Anderson and Jessie Haig Anderson, of "The Homestead," Prestwick, Ayrshire.
14802 Private
Clifford Bentley "C" Company, 12th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) 30th September 1915, aged 21. Plot I. D. 35. Son of Fred and Esther Bentley, of II, Ing's Villa, Norristhorpe, Heckmondwike, Yorks. Native of Liversedge, Yorks. |
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203208 Private
Herbert Bird
1st/4th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
1st July 1917, aged 25.
Plot II. D. 3.
Son of Mrs. C. S. Bird, of 51, Grove Rd., Leicester.
He was remembered with great affection by his son. Remembered still by Janet Ellis and family
Herbert Bird
1st/4th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment
1st July 1917, aged 25.
Plot II. D. 3.
Son of Mrs. C. S. Bird, of 51, Grove Rd., Leicester.
He was remembered with great affection by his son. Remembered still by Janet Ellis and family
2418 Private
J. H. Bunce
"B" Company, 15th Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
24th July 1915, aged 21.
Plot I. A. 8.
Son of Samuel and A. A. Bunce, of 37, Leyspring Rd., Leytonstone, London. Native of Forest Gate, London.
J. H. Bunce
"B" Company, 15th Bn. London Regiment (Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles)
24th July 1915, aged 21.
Plot I. A. 8.
Son of Samuel and A. A. Bunce, of 37, Leyspring Rd., Leytonstone, London. Native of Forest Gate, London.
Second Lieutenant
N. J. Davies
8th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
27th April 1916, aged 25.
Plot I. L. 3.
Son of Mrs. A. Davies, of 46, Kenilworth Park, Rathgar, Dublin.
N. J. Davies
8th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
27th April 1916, aged 25.
Plot I. L. 3.
Son of Mrs. A. Davies, of 46, Kenilworth Park, Rathgar, Dublin.
Lieutenant
William Symes Drury
6th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
29th January 1916.
Plot I. K. 25.
Son of Thomas C. Drury, K.C., of Richmond House, 30, Rathgar Rd., Dublin.
William Symes Drury
6th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
29th January 1916.
Plot I. K. 25.
Son of Thomas C. Drury, K.C., of Richmond House, 30, Rathgar Rd., Dublin.
242393 Private
William France Dutton
1st/6th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment
6th June 1917, aged 27.
Plot I. T. 18.
Son of James and Mary Elizabeth Dutton, of Newcastle-under-Lyme; husband of Annie Maude Dutton, of 3, Foden St., Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.
Picture courtesy of granddaughter, June Shuker, on behalf of her mother, the daughter of William France Dutton and the Dutton family.
William France Dutton
1st/6th Bn. North Staffordshire Regiment
6th June 1917, aged 27.
Plot I. T. 18.
Son of James and Mary Elizabeth Dutton, of Newcastle-under-Lyme; husband of Annie Maude Dutton, of 3, Foden St., Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs.
Picture courtesy of granddaughter, June Shuker, on behalf of her mother, the daughter of William France Dutton and the Dutton family.
G/5349 Private
Charles Ernest Elworthy
2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
14th October 1915, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 20.
Son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Elworthy. Native of Claygate, Surrey.
Charles Ernest Elworthy was born (October 9th 1891) in Claygate, a small rural village in Surrey. He was the son of a farm labourer Joseph Elworthy and Elizabeth (nee´ Mutimer). One of six children, both his parents had died by the time he was 15 and he stayed in the village for a while working at the farm of one of his fathers relatives: "Slough Farm" his job was delivering the milk. Two fields north of where he was staying lived a family called Scott, the family were just some of his many, many cousins in the village. He started "walking out" with one of them, Beatrice Alice Scott and eventually she was expecting a baby, sadly her mother would not them them marry because they were second cousins (although the law stated then (1909) that they could legally have done so) her exceedingly strict mother forced her daughter to leave the village and have the baby elsewhere... she also warned all of her other children to have no contact with her! Beatrice went up to London and bore a son Alfred Cecil Scott on Oct 4th 1909. Charles Ernest stayed in the Kingston area working but some time after 1911 he decided to move to Canada and ended up working in agriculture in Ontario, he attended Trinity Anglican Church near Aylmer and from there he came back to England to join up for the war. He joined up in Hammersmith - The Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd Bn. and trained in Woking, Surrey.
His service number was G/5349 and he was sent out to France on the 29th Sept 1915 and sent up to the front with a group of 392 men to join the battalion on October 4th. They were sent to Noeux-les-Mines. Two days later the battalion left Noeux-les-Mines and moved to Mazingarbe (near Loos) where they moved forward into the old German front line trenches. on October 7th. Between then and the 12th they dug towards the enemy, forming new trench systems as near as they could to the German front. They were under sniper fire from the Germans which caused casualties and deaths each day. On the 13th October, 1915 they came under the orders of the G.O.C. 1st Bde. At 1pm the gas and smoke discharge took place and the attack over the top was scheduled for one hour later. The Battalion was ordered to send one company forward as a strong patrol to help the 1st Bde. capture the German front line trenches (Along the line of the road H13-A42 leading into Hulluch) and then a second company would be sent one half hour later to establish themselves in the German trenches immediately west of Hulluch. The remainder of the battalion, minus one company was to closely support this enterprise. A company was sent as strong patrol and C company sent as support, while B company was to support C. The 1st Brigade commenced their assault at 2pm and at 2.19 A company of the Royal Sussex advanced over the open ground. By 2.30 Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Villiers D.S.O heard that the Camerons' attack had failed so C company was sent forward to try and take the German trenches. The telegraph lines had been cut by shell fire and so orderlies were sent running with messages for B company to advance and support C company. In the end the 1st Bde. did not make any inroads on the German trenches and the remains of the B and C companies were brought back to the support line to await their next orders. At 5.30 the following morning they were sent out again to support the Northamptonshire regiment in another attack, but by the time they had started it was already become light and the action was called off. In the right hand column of the war Diary there is the notation for October 13th: Killed 9, OR Wounded 71, OR Missing 36, The Captains and Lieutenants are all named, as either missing or casualties but somewhere among the 116 "Other Ranks" lost that day was Charles Ernest Elworthy. He had turned 23 four days before he died. Back in Walthamstow (north west London) Beatrice Alice Scott heard from a friend in Claygate that he was missing in action and for a month she searched for him in the military convalescent centres around London until the tragic news of his death came through. Although Beatty had nothing but one faded picture of him as a young man she still had a round faced little boy who one day would start a family of his own....and one day one of the grandchildren would ask "What did Great Granddaddy do in the War? At last now I know.......
Jane Reece - the Proud Great Grand daughter of Charles Ernest Elworthy. [email protected] for further genealogical information.
Charles Ernest Elworthy
2nd Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
14th October 1915, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 20.
Son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Elworthy. Native of Claygate, Surrey.
Charles Ernest Elworthy was born (October 9th 1891) in Claygate, a small rural village in Surrey. He was the son of a farm labourer Joseph Elworthy and Elizabeth (nee´ Mutimer). One of six children, both his parents had died by the time he was 15 and he stayed in the village for a while working at the farm of one of his fathers relatives: "Slough Farm" his job was delivering the milk. Two fields north of where he was staying lived a family called Scott, the family were just some of his many, many cousins in the village. He started "walking out" with one of them, Beatrice Alice Scott and eventually she was expecting a baby, sadly her mother would not them them marry because they were second cousins (although the law stated then (1909) that they could legally have done so) her exceedingly strict mother forced her daughter to leave the village and have the baby elsewhere... she also warned all of her other children to have no contact with her! Beatrice went up to London and bore a son Alfred Cecil Scott on Oct 4th 1909. Charles Ernest stayed in the Kingston area working but some time after 1911 he decided to move to Canada and ended up working in agriculture in Ontario, he attended Trinity Anglican Church near Aylmer and from there he came back to England to join up for the war. He joined up in Hammersmith - The Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd Bn. and trained in Woking, Surrey.
His service number was G/5349 and he was sent out to France on the 29th Sept 1915 and sent up to the front with a group of 392 men to join the battalion on October 4th. They were sent to Noeux-les-Mines. Two days later the battalion left Noeux-les-Mines and moved to Mazingarbe (near Loos) where they moved forward into the old German front line trenches. on October 7th. Between then and the 12th they dug towards the enemy, forming new trench systems as near as they could to the German front. They were under sniper fire from the Germans which caused casualties and deaths each day. On the 13th October, 1915 they came under the orders of the G.O.C. 1st Bde. At 1pm the gas and smoke discharge took place and the attack over the top was scheduled for one hour later. The Battalion was ordered to send one company forward as a strong patrol to help the 1st Bde. capture the German front line trenches (Along the line of the road H13-A42 leading into Hulluch) and then a second company would be sent one half hour later to establish themselves in the German trenches immediately west of Hulluch. The remainder of the battalion, minus one company was to closely support this enterprise. A company was sent as strong patrol and C company sent as support, while B company was to support C. The 1st Brigade commenced their assault at 2pm and at 2.19 A company of the Royal Sussex advanced over the open ground. By 2.30 Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Villiers D.S.O heard that the Camerons' attack had failed so C company was sent forward to try and take the German trenches. The telegraph lines had been cut by shell fire and so orderlies were sent running with messages for B company to advance and support C company. In the end the 1st Bde. did not make any inroads on the German trenches and the remains of the B and C companies were brought back to the support line to await their next orders. At 5.30 the following morning they were sent out again to support the Northamptonshire regiment in another attack, but by the time they had started it was already become light and the action was called off. In the right hand column of the war Diary there is the notation for October 13th: Killed 9, OR Wounded 71, OR Missing 36, The Captains and Lieutenants are all named, as either missing or casualties but somewhere among the 116 "Other Ranks" lost that day was Charles Ernest Elworthy. He had turned 23 four days before he died. Back in Walthamstow (north west London) Beatrice Alice Scott heard from a friend in Claygate that he was missing in action and for a month she searched for him in the military convalescent centres around London until the tragic news of his death came through. Although Beatty had nothing but one faded picture of him as a young man she still had a round faced little boy who one day would start a family of his own....and one day one of the grandchildren would ask "What did Great Granddaddy do in the War? At last now I know.......
Jane Reece - the Proud Great Grand daughter of Charles Ernest Elworthy. [email protected] for further genealogical information.
Lieutenant
Arthur Alexander Ferguson
7th Bn. London Regiment
25th September 1915, aged 26.
Plot I. K. 3.
Son of James and Joan Hill Ferguson.
Arthur Alexander Ferguson
7th Bn. London Regiment
25th September 1915, aged 26.
Plot I. K. 3.
Son of James and Joan Hill Ferguson.
418840 Private
John Fuller
42nd Bn. Canadian Infantry
Born 7th May 1883, died 24th June 1917, aged 34.
Plot II. C. 2.
Son of Sarah Pasfield (formerly Fuller), of 26, Longfellow Rd., Walthamstow, London, and the late John Fuller. The image shows Jack with his girlfriend, Daisy.
His headstone bears the inscription "We Shall Meet Again, Mother"
Picture courtesy of April Sutton (Great niece)
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John Fuller
42nd Bn. Canadian Infantry
Born 7th May 1883, died 24th June 1917, aged 34.
Plot II. C. 2.
Son of Sarah Pasfield (formerly Fuller), of 26, Longfellow Rd., Walthamstow, London, and the late John Fuller. The image shows Jack with his girlfriend, Daisy.
His headstone bears the inscription "We Shall Meet Again, Mother"
Picture courtesy of April Sutton (Great niece)
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Lieutenant
James Kennedy
1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders
26th September 1915, aged 35.
Plot I. K. 8.
Son of John and Ann Kennedy; husband of Mary Campbell Kennedy, of 23, Torphichen St., Edinburgh. Native of Gollanfield, Inverness-shire.
James Kennedy
1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders
26th September 1915, aged 35.
Plot I. K. 8.
Son of John and Ann Kennedy; husband of Mary Campbell Kennedy, of 23, Torphichen St., Edinburgh. Native of Gollanfield, Inverness-shire.
