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A blog regarding the thousands of entries in the book The County of Warwickshire Roll of Honour 1914-2005 - Volume 1 South Warwickshire by Kenneth Fowler.
First published by Able Publishing.

Here we will list errors that we believe we have found and the details of the Men of WW1 which the researchers at the time could not find. Since publication nearly 20 years ago numerous new records have become available online.

We also found that the book had a tendency to fit the "wrong man into the right hole" using CWGC records when often the man had not been given a CWGC grave but we found his death using local death records.

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Hatton Memorial Cross and Roll of Honour

Jack Spencer - Hatton War Memorial - Wrong Man Selected

Page 74 of Warwickshire Roll of Honour selected Pte 155729 Jack Spencer of 30th Battalion Machine Gun Corps who was born, raised and enlisted in Nuneaton and Stockingford. However we could find no link, whatsoever, to the Hatton area and in his family continued to live in the Stockingford area after he died and sp we suspected that he was chosen because he lived closest. We believe that the Jack Spencer named on the memorial is Able Seaman J/16315 Wilfred Jack Henry SPENCER - HMS Diligence
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Hatton Memorial Cross and Roll of Honour

Pte 12899 Albert Clark [e] - Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry - Hatton War Memorial, Warks

Albert was KIA on 15 Sep 1916 during Battle of Flers-Courcelette. On Page 73 the book states the following details we believe are incorrect: Aged 20 - Baptism Records show he was 22 - born 27 Dec 1893 Son of George an engineer at Hatton Asylum and Eliza Clark - the baptism and census records show father's name was Frederick, a farmer (up to 1911). Confirmed by his pension card showing next of kin as his mother Eliza. Born in Wolverton, Buckinghamshire - he was born in
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Hatton Memorial Cross and Roll of Honour

Rifleman R/2785 William John Hextall - 17th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps - Hatton War Memorial

Page 73 of the Roll of Honour contains what we believe a minor error. It states that William was born in Leicester, we have firm evidence that he was born in the Oct Qtr of 1888 in Cowes, Isle of Wight to Samuel and Sarah Hextall who had married in Warwick in 1887 and moved to the Isle of Wight where William and his younger sister Florence Kate were born It states that his father Samuel John was a farmer, this may be the case but Samuel died in early 1891 on the Isle of Wight when
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