Awarded the VC for his heroism on 16 August 1917, age 21, while serving in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. "Enemy machine gun fire from a blockhouse was holding up the battalion’s advance. With four men he rushed forward firing into an opening in the blockhouse. Firing ceased. Seven machine guns and 45 prisoners were captured. (Ypres, Belgium)". Freemason at: №80, St John’s Lodge.
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Edward Cooper, VC
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Freemason VCs - N4 - Collings-Wells, Cooper, Cruickshank
John Stanhope Collings-Wells, 22-27 March 1918, Aged 37, The Bedfordshire Reg...
Other Subjects
Rifleman Charles James Howard Hall
Charles James Howard Hall was born on 23 January 1893, the son of Charles James Hall (b. circa 1870) and Sarah Hall (b. circa 1870). His birth was registered in the 1st quarter of 1893 in the Maryl...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
1 memorial
J. P. Kelly
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
War served, WW1
1 memorial
Chaplain 4th Class, The Reverend Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck, M.C., B.A.
Cyril Bernard Wilson Buck was born on 1 June 1880 in West Ham, Essex (now Greater London), the youngest of the ten children of William Richard Buck (1837-1927) and Alice Emmeline Buck née Wilson (1...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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