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Foreigners' Great War Memorial, Yokohama, Japan


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I dropped into the 'Foreigner's cemetery' in Motomachi, Yokohama, and photographed the WW1 memorial to allied (non-Japanese) soldiers who were in some way connected with Japan, and who died during the war.

Below are the name panels and a transcription of the British and American names.

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BRITISH

James BARNES 2nd Lieutenant 7th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment

Errol George Montague BEART 2nd Lieutenant RASC att. 28th Siege Battery

Percy Temple BENT 2nd Lieutenant King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Charles S. BERIONY 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps

Kenneth Sven BLAD 2nd Lieutenant Royal Engineers, att. Tank Corps

George Holyoake BOX, DFC 2nd Lieutenant Special List, unatt. Royal Air Force

Frank Ellis BUNTING Private Essex Yeomanry

George Barclay BURTON, MC 2nd Lieutenant Norfolk Regiment att. Royal Flying Corps

Horace Edwin CABLEDU Private 1/10th (Alberta) Canadian Contingent

George Crellin CARTWRIGHT Captain 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment

George Courtney Dell CLARKE Captain Royal Air Force

Henry Rodham COOK 2nd Lieutenant 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment

William DAVIDSON Lance-Corporal 1/14th London Regiment (Scottish)

William Williamson EUSTACE Trooper 10th Australian Light Horse

Carl Clare De FALLOT Captain 6th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Kenneth Rowley FORDE Lieutenant East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)

Ralph Louis Francis FORSTER 2nd Lieutenant East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)

Leslie Willoughby FRANKLIN Lieutenant 14th Brigade RFA

Geoffrey William GOTCH Lieutenant RGA att. RAF

Francis Albert GRAHAM Sergeant 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment

Alan Ryder HALL Lieutenant 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

Vernon S. B. HALL [Lance Corporal] [41st Battalion] Australian Forces

Kenneth Joyce Nelson HANSELL Lieutenant Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), att. 26th Battalion Machine Gun Corps

Kenric HARDMAN Captain 3rd Battalion Highland Light Infantry

William Reginald HARVEY Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery

Gilbert William HAWKINS Lieutenant King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Ralph Noel HEATHCOTE 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

C. [Cyril Augustus] HITCHCOCK [2nd Lieutenant] [1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry]

Reginald HODGSON 2nd Lieutenant Irish Brigade

Donald Herbert HUTCHISON Lieutenant 16th London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles)

Tom Herbert Gordon KENDERDINE Lieutenant 2nd/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

James KERR 2nd Lieutenant 4th Battalion HLI

Tom Wheatly KILBY Private 3rd Canadian Pioneers

Eric Noel LAMBERT, MC Captain 3rd att. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment

Geoffrey Charles Martin LEECH Lieutenant 5th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Gerald LEFROY 2nd Lieutenant 5th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers

Marmadude MARSHALL 2nd Lieutenant 159th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Archibald Rudge Wilson MENZIES Lieutenant 2nd Battalion Scots Guards

Andrew Richard Stuart MILLER 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Edward Hampton MOSS Captain 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Ronald Gordon MUNRO, MC Lieutenant 18th London Regiment (Irish)

Norman MCCONNOCHIE, MC Captain 11th Battalion Hampshire Regiment (Pioneers)

Gerald George SAMUEL Lieutenant 10th Royal West Kent Regiment

Alick John SCOTT Volunteered Drowned in ‘Lusitania’ 6/5/16 Off Ireland

Charles Nicholson SEYMOUR Gunner Canadian Field Artillery

Alexander James Mackintosh SHAW Captain 1st Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Reginald SINGLEHURST Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps

Wright Thomas SQUIRE 2nd Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery

Herbert Newell ST. JOHN Private Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

Arthur Hill STURROCK Lieutenant Royal Irish Fusiliers (att. Machine Gun Corps).

Charles Bertram THWAITES Private 1/5th Black Watch (The Royal Highlanders)

David Mitchell TOMLINSON Major 18th Bn., The Royal Scots

Edward Percy TURNER Captain 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery

Evan James Stanley VAUGHAN Captain 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment

Lionel Charles Henry VINCENT 2nd Lieutenant 12th Battalion Gloucester Regiment

Ralph WALKER 2nd Lieutenant 11th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

John Charles WALLER Lieutenant 4th Battalion 1st Canadian Division (Central Ontario Regiment)

Theodore Stewart Wolton WARREN 2nd Lieutenant 17th Battalion Durham Light Infantry

Norman Lancaster WELLS Lieutenant 6th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Humphrey Hamilton WILSON 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps

William St. John WILSON Gunner Royal Field Artillery

Arthur Conwan YOUNG 2nd Lieutenant 4th att. 7th/8th Royal Irish Fusiliers

AMERICAN

Gordon BARTLETT CdeG Corporal 117th Field Artillery DOW 16/9/18 St. Mihiel

Admont Halsey CLARK Lieutenant Medical Corps Died in Hospital 30/10/18 USA

Vinton Adams DEARING, DSC 2nd Lieutenant 28th Infantry KIA 18/7/18 Soissons

Theodore Robert HOVERR 2nd Lieutenant 23rd Infantry KIA 18/7/18 Chateau Thierry

Charles Pitcher HUBBARD Corporal Officers Training Corps Died in Hospital 30/9/18 Camp Humphreys, VA

John K. KURTZ Aviation Service Missing 1918 France

James Millard TAWNEY Captain Signal Corps Died in Hospital 12/11/18 Valparaiso, Ind.

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Bryn

thanks for sharing that one with us

Just to take one name

Name: HALL, VERNON SPENCER BRIDGES

Initials: V S B

Nationality: Australian

Rank: Lance Corporal

Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

Unit Text: 41st Bn.

Age: 31

Date of Death: 05/10/1917

Service No: 2077

Additional information: Son of John Carey Hall and Agnes Hall; husband of Ethel Hall, of "Wolaroi," Margaret St., Strathfield, New South Wales. Native of England.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: VIII. C. 15.

Cemetery: DOCHY FARM NEW BRITISH CEMETERY

According to his service record he was born in Tokyo & he was a windmill expert

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Thanks Bryn

I reckon Kenneth Rowley Forde is on the memorial because he was in the Hong Kong Volunteer Force from 1911 until he left Hong Kong in 1913. Here he is

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I'm not sure of Forster's connection but can find out if you're interested

Mick

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William Williamson EUSTACE Trooper 10th Australian Light Horse

William was a farmer in Hillstead, WA, before he joined the Australian Light Horse in January 1915. Assigned as a member of the 4th Reinforcements for the 10th Light Horse, he landed on Gallipoli at the end of May and died of wounds on Walkers Ridge on 7 August 1915. He was struck by shrapnel and suffered a fractured thigh.

He was one of four brothers to fight during the war, and for three different countries. He had two brothers in the N.Z.E.F. and another in the R.G.A.

The following from the CWGC.

Name: EUSTACE, WILLIAM WILLIAMSON

Initials: W W

Nationality: Australian

Rank: Trooper

Regiment/Service: Australian Light Horse

Unit Text: 10th

Age: 24

Date of Death: 07/08/1915

Service No: 1804

Additional information: Son of Fred Owen Eustace and Harriet Rebecca Eustace, of 19, Woodstock Rd., Croydon, England. Native of Bucks.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 10.

Memorial: LONE PINE MEMORIAL

William had a diploma in agriculture and attended the coronation in 1911, representing New Zealand, and received the Coronation Medal.

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Thank you for sharing the photographs Bryn

Andy

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Dear Bryn

Thanks for this photo and transcript. I have the BWM of one of the men listed on it - details below. One wonders what all the others were doing in Yokohama. I think I'm right in saying that his parents were missionaries.

Ian

Frank Ellis BUNTING

British War Medal (2491 Pte, Essex Yeo)

Born Japan c.November 1885

Son of Isaac and Sarah Ann Bunting of Colchester and Yokohama

Lived and enlisted Colchester

Enlisted 15 November 1907 as 999, A Squadron, Essex Imperial Yeomanry. Age 22, clerk. North Station Nurseries, Colchester

Re-enlisted 10 April 1908 as 111, EY age 22 5/12

Discharged absentee 1910

Re-enlisted October 1915; to France between Jan 1916 and March 1917. Renumbered as 81073

Killed in action 11 April 1917

Commemorated on British memorial in Gaijin Bochi (Foreigners’ cemetery), Yokohama; Colchester Town Hall Memorial; St Michael’s Church, Myland; and on Arras Memorial

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In this cemetary there is one VC.

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On 07/02/2009 at 15:11, River97 said:

William was a farmer in Hillstead, WA, before he joined the Australian Light Horse in January 1915. Assigned as a member of the 4th Reinforcements for the 10th Light Horse, he landed on Gallipoli at the end of May and died of wounds on Walkers Ridge on 7 August 1915. He was struck by shrapnel and suffered a fractured thigh.

He was one of four brothers to fight during the war, and for three different countries. He had two brothers in the N.Z.E.F. and another in the R.G.A.

The following from the CWGC.

Name: EUSTACE, WILLIAM WILLIAMSON

Initials: W W

Nationality: Australian

Rank: Trooper

Regiment/Service: Australian Light Horse

Unit Text: 10th

Age: 24

Date of Death: 07/08/1915

Service No: 1804

Additional information: Son of Fred Owen Eustace and Harriet Rebecca Eustace, of 19, Woodstock Rd., Croydon, England. Native of Bucks.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 10.

Memorial: LONE PINE MEMORIAL

William had a diploma in agriculture and attended the coronation in 1911, representing New Zealand, and received the Coronation Medal.

Does anyone know what William’s connection to Japan was? He travelled a heck of a lot for a young man in those days, but I am intrigued why his name is mentioned at the Yokohama Foreign Cemetery of all places…

 

On 03/02/2009 at 09:27, Bryn said:

I dropped into the 'Foreigner's cemetery' in Motomachi, Yokohama, and photographed the WW1 memorial to allied (non-Japanese) soldiers who were in some way connected with Japan, and who died during the war.

Below are the name panels and a transcription of the British and American names.

 

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BRITISH

James BARNES 2nd Lieutenant 7th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment

Errol George Montague BEART 2nd Lieutenant RASC att. 28th Siege Battery

Percy Temple BENT 2nd Lieutenant King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Charles S. BERIONY 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps

Kenneth Sven BLAD 2nd Lieutenant Royal Engineers, att. Tank Corps

George Holyoake BOX, DFC 2nd Lieutenant Special List, unatt. Royal Air Force

Frank Ellis BUNTING Private Essex Yeomanry

George Barclay BURTON, MC 2nd Lieutenant Norfolk Regiment att. Royal Flying Corps

Horace Edwin CABLEDU Private 1/10th (Alberta) Canadian Contingent

George Crellin CARTWRIGHT Captain 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment

George Courtney Dell CLARKE Captain Royal Air Force

Henry Rodham COOK 2nd Lieutenant 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment

William DAVIDSON Lance-Corporal 1/14th London Regiment (Scottish)

William Williamson EUSTACE Trooper 10th Australian Light Horse

Carl Clare De FALLOT Captain 6th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Kenneth Rowley FORDE Lieutenant East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)

Ralph Louis Francis FORSTER 2nd Lieutenant East Kent Regiment (The Buffs)

Leslie Willoughby FRANKLIN Lieutenant 14th Brigade RFA

Geoffrey William GOTCH Lieutenant RGA att. RAF

Francis Albert GRAHAM Sergeant 16th Battalion Middlesex Regiment

Alan Ryder HALL Lieutenant 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

Vernon S. B. HALL [Lance Corporal] [41st Battalion] Australian Forces

Kenneth Joyce Nelson HANSELL Lieutenant Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), att. 26th Battalion Machine Gun Corps

Kenric HARDMAN Captain 3rd Battalion Highland Light Infantry

William Reginald HARVEY Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery

Gilbert William HAWKINS Lieutenant King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Ralph Noel HEATHCOTE 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment

C. [Cyril Augustus] HITCHCOCK [2nd Lieutenant] [1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry]

Reginald HODGSON 2nd Lieutenant Irish Brigade

Donald Herbert HUTCHISON Lieutenant 16th London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster Rifles)

Tom Herbert Gordon KENDERDINE Lieutenant 2nd/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

James KERR 2nd Lieutenant 4th Battalion HLI

Tom Wheatly KILBY Private 3rd Canadian Pioneers

Eric Noel LAMBERT, MC Captain 3rd att. 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment

Geoffrey Charles Martin LEECH Lieutenant 5th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Gerald LEFROY 2nd Lieutenant 5th Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers

Marmadude MARSHALL 2nd Lieutenant 159th Brigade Royal Field Artillery

Archibald Rudge Wilson MENZIES Lieutenant 2nd Battalion Scots Guards

Andrew Richard Stuart MILLER 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Edward Hampton MOSS Captain 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Ronald Gordon MUNRO, MC Lieutenant 18th London Regiment (Irish)

Norman MCCONNOCHIE, MC Captain 11th Battalion Hampshire Regiment (Pioneers)

Gerald George SAMUEL Lieutenant 10th Royal West Kent Regiment

Alick John SCOTT Volunteered Drowned in ‘Lusitania’ 6/5/16 Off Ireland

Charles Nicholson SEYMOUR Gunner Canadian Field Artillery

Alexander James Mackintosh SHAW Captain 1st Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Reginald SINGLEHURST Captain King's Royal Rifle Corps

Wright Thomas SQUIRE 2nd Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery

Herbert Newell ST. JOHN Private Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

Arthur Hill STURROCK Lieutenant Royal Irish Fusiliers (att. Machine Gun Corps).

Charles Bertram THWAITES Private 1/5th Black Watch (The Royal Highlanders)

David Mitchell TOMLINSON Major 18th Bn., The Royal Scots

Edward Percy TURNER Captain 2nd Brigade Royal Artillery

Evan James Stanley VAUGHAN Captain 18th Battalion Middlesex Regiment

Lionel Charles Henry VINCENT 2nd Lieutenant 12th Battalion Gloucester Regiment

Ralph WALKER 2nd Lieutenant 11th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

John Charles WALLER Lieutenant 4th Battalion 1st Canadian Division (Central Ontario Regiment)

Theodore Stewart Wolton WARREN 2nd Lieutenant 17th Battalion Durham Light Infantry

Norman Lancaster WELLS Lieutenant 6th Battalion Loyal North Lancashire Regiment

Humphrey Hamilton WILSON 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps

William St. John WILSON Gunner Royal Field Artillery

Arthur Conwan YOUNG 2nd Lieutenant 4th att. 7th/8th Royal Irish Fusiliers

AMERICAN

Gordon BARTLETT CdeG Corporal 117th Field Artillery DOW 16/9/18 St. Mihiel

Admont Halsey CLARK Lieutenant Medical Corps Died in Hospital 30/10/18 USA

Vinton Adams DEARING, DSC 2nd Lieutenant 28th Infantry KIA 18/7/18 Soissons

Theodore Robert HOVERR 2nd Lieutenant 23rd Infantry KIA 18/7/18 Chateau Thierry

Charles Pitcher HUBBARD Corporal Officers Training Corps Died in Hospital 30/9/18 Camp Humphreys, VA

John K. KURTZ Aviation Service Missing 1918 France

James Millard TAWNEY Captain Signal Corps Died in Hospital 12/11/18 Valparaiso, Ind.

To be listed on here each deceased person must have a connection with Japan I assume. Do you know where we can establish that connection with some of these names?

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47 minutes ago, Pelham said:

Do you know where we can establish that connection with some of these names?

Probably be on a case by case basis unless anyone has done specific research.

On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

George Barclay BURTON, MC 2nd Lieutenant Norfolk Regiment att. Royal Flying Corps

Been going round in circles trying to work out why I've not come across him before till I had a penny drop moment. This is Gerald Barclay BuXton, 1st Squadron Royal Flying and 5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment. Killed 28th July 1917, remembered on the Arras Flying Service Memorial. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/743340/GEORGE BARCLAY BUXTON/

The Herts at War website has a biography that commences :- "George Barclay Buxton was born in Japan in October 1892, son of the Rev Barclay Fowler Buxton (B 1861 in Leytonstone, Essex) and Margaret M. A. Buxton (nee Railton) (B 1862 in London)  his father was serving as a missionary in Japan at the time. He returned to England via New York on the SS Majestic in August 1898, landing in Liverpool with his parents, brothers Murray and Alfred. " http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/biographies/857426/george-barclay-buxton

Nothing subsequently to indicate he ever returned.

Cheers,

Peter

 

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Percy Temple Bent was born in Yokohama to British parents. He appears as a boarder at Marlborough College on the 1911 Census. In 1914, he had returned to Yokohama and was working as a clerk. Later that year he was a local enlistment in the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers. (He travelled from Yokohama to Tientsin.) This was beneficial, as when they participated in the Siege of Tsingtao, Bent's fluency in Japanese would have helped when working with the numerically superior Japanese forces.

His service record survives, and can be consulted in person at Kew.

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Named on the Castle Douglas War Memorial in Dumfries and Galloway is:

2.LT. A. R. S. MILLER KOSB

Andrew Richard Stuart Miller – age 28 – Second Lieutenant: 3rd Battalion attached to 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Andrew was educated in Castle Douglas and at Dumfries Academy and served his apprenticeship at the Union Bank in Castle Douglas. In 1909 he joined the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank's London office serving there for three years before being posted to the North China Treaty Port of Tiensin. In 1915 he was posted to Yokohama, Japan and by July 1916 he was in Hong Kong. He left in there later in the year and enlisted as Private (GD/31765) in the East Surrey Regiment after he landed at Tilbury in January 1917. He was commissioned in the KOSB in June 1917.

Born c.1890 in India. Son of Patrick S. Miller of the Madras Police and of Evelyn F. Miller. Brother of Evelyn Frances Stuart Miller of Alma Square, St. John's Wood, London. 

Died of Wounds on 21 April 1918 and buried in Aire Communal Cemetery, France.

Also named on the St. Andrew's Church memorial, now in the Castle Douglas Parish Church, on the Dumfries Academy Memorial and on the WW1 memorial in the Gaijin Bochi (Foreigners' Cemetery) in Motomachi, Yokohama, Japan.

 

Ken

 

 

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

James BARNES 2nd Lieutenant 7th Battalion Notts & Derby Regiment

James Valentine Barnes was 25 years old when he died of wounds on the 28th December 1916. He is interred at Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, France. The additional information on his Commonwealth War Graves Commission webpage is that he was the son of Son of Arthur Barnes, of Rangoon, Burma. Educated at Cheltenham College. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/90746/JAMES VALETINE BARNES/

The Cambridge Univesity Library has pictures of the bungalow of Mr Arthur Barnes of Rangoon from the 1880's.

The baptism of a James Valentine Barnes, born 14th February 1891, took place in Rangoon on the 13th March 1891. Parents were Arthur and Sarah Barnes. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FG4S-P2Q

May be a co-incidence but in 1908 a Mr J V Barnes sailed from London aboard the SS Oroya bound for Colombo, Ceylon. Doesn't look like there are any other family members aboard.

No obvious entry in the UK Probate Calendar. I couldn't track down anything obvious on the Cheltenham College website. No obvious obituary \ death notice in The Times.

But this piece appeared in the edition of the Gloucestershire Echo dated 06 January 1917 and references him giving up a good position in Japan to return and volunteer.

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(Image courtesy FindMyPast)

Cheers,

Peter

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

Errol George Montague BEART 2nd Lieutenant RASC att. 28th Siege Battery

2nd Lieutenant Errol George Montague Beart was killed in action on the 31st July 1917 and is buried in Voormezelle Encloses No.1 and No.2. There is no aged shown or additional family information on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission webpage. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/104436/E G M BEART/

An online family tree records him as born 1889 and the son of Montague E. Beart and Rachel Beart. He was the brother of Jocelyn Frances Murray and Olive Eliza Miller.  https://www.geni.com/people/Errol-Beart/6000000024865434490

He also turns up at the Herts at War website as he is remembered on the Sawbridgeworth Town Memorial and in Great St Mary’s Church Memorial, Sawbridgeworth . Their potted biography read "Errol was born in Hesire, Hong Kong, China in 1890, but was a British subject. The 1901 census records Errol as 11, a pupil/boarder at Dean Close Memorial School, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. By the 1911 census Errol was recorded as single and a boarder at 60 Harcourt Road, Sheffield, West Riding, Yorkshire and his occupation is given as a steel converter." http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/biographies/722459/errol-george-montague-beart

A draft article on his father Montague appears on the French Wikipedia site. Using Google translate it reads:-

Montague E. Beart , died on November 20 , 1919 in Shanghai , is a British entrepreneur. He arrived in Japan in 1899 with his wife to work for the Butterfield & Swire insurance company located on location 7 in Yokohama . He resides during his stay at location 109-B. He became director of the company in 1904.

He married Rachel Samuel at St. John's Cathedral in Hong Kong on1 st November 1888, they will have five children. Their son Errol George Montague Beart died in the war in France on July 31 , 1917 as second lieutenant of the British Royal Army Service Corps .https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montague_Beart

Errols' appearance at Cheltenham College on the 1901 Census of England & Wales has his birthplace shown as China (British Subject). On the 1911 Census of England & Wales it's down as Hong Kong, (British Subject by Parentage).

The 1918 UK Probate Calendar records that Errol George Montague Beart of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, second lieutenant A.S.C. ,died 31st July 1917 in France on active service. Administration (with Will), was granted on the 2nd January 1918 to Montague Beart, gentleman. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Beart&yearOfDeath=1918&page=1#calendar

His medals would be claimed by his sister, Mrs Millar, of 10 Duke Street, Edinburgh.

Cheers,

Peter

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

Charles S. BERIONY 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps

Not finding any likely match for that surname on CWGC, in the MiC record or in the Cross of Sacrifice source. Nor could I find a likely candidate on the CWGC by restriciting the search to April 1917 and looking at first name Charles or initials C S. Unfortunately I can't make out the name in the photograph.

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Peter

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He's probably this guy, his dad was in Kobe

Dave

SECOND LIEUTENANT CHARLES ETIENNE DE BERIGNY

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Flying Corps

45th Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 29 April 1917

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BRUAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

F. 34.

France

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11 hours ago, PRC said:

Not finding any likely match for that surname on CWGC

Peter, can you find this memorial on IWM?, might need to update their records. 

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15 minutes ago, davidbohl said:

Peter, can you find this memorial on IWM?, might need to update their records. 

As far as I can tell these are the only images and transcriptions available on the net - they have simply been copied to the Scottish Military Research Group with acknowledgment to Bryn http://warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-post-36610.html

 - but looks like no-one else has had a go at transcription. (Of course there is always one more internet search that can be done, so having tempted fate, I hope someone now comes up with a meticulously authenticated list of names from a trusted source  :)

Cheers,

Peter

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1 hour ago, PRC said:

looks like no-one else has had a go at transcription

I'll get the memorial logged with IWM, the names can be added at their discretion.

Dave  

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

Kenneth Sven BLAD 2nd Lieutenant Royal Engineers, att. Tank Corps

Died on the 26th November 1918, aged 20. Unit shown as Royal Engineers attached 4th Tank Bde. Signals Tank Corps. Buried at Fillievres British Cemetery, France. Family details are Son of Valdemar and Annie Gertrude Blad, of Dunlery, Guernsey. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2913411/KENNETH SVEN BLAD/

Medal Index Card shows he landed in France 26th January 1918. A V. Blad of Dunlery, Guernsey, applied in July 1921 for the medals of their late son. A second Guernsey address of The Elms, Cambridge Park, is shown.

The birth of a Kenneth Sven Blad was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Brighton District in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1898.

A Kenneth Blad, aged 1, said from London bound for Yokohama aboard the Hakata Maru in 1899. Also onboards appears to be a 35 year old Ann Blad and a 5 year old Hilga Blad.

No obvious match for Kenneth on the 1901 Census of England & Wales, but by the 1911 Census he was to be found, aged 12 and born Brighton, Sussex, at a Boys Preparatory School at Heath Mount, Hampstead Heath, N.W. London. It looks like he was there with possibly his younger brothers Oscar Grigor, (10) and Vernon Eric, (8). All three are shown as Danish nationals. Oscar and Vernon were born in Japan.

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Peter

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

George Holyoake BOX, DFC 2nd Lieutenant Special List, unatt. Royal Air Force

Lieutenant G.H. Box, DFC, 100 Squadron R.A.F. died on the 26th August 1918 and is buried in Charmes Military Cemetery, Essegney. CWGC has no age or additional family details for him.

The 1919 UK Probate Calendar records the George Ronald Holyoake Box, of 262, Bluff, Yokohama, Japan, D.F.C. lieutenant R.A.F. died "25"th August 1918 in France on active service. Administration with Will (limited), was granted at the London Court on the 10th April 1919 to Reginald Holyoake Box, salesman, attorney of Agnes Mary Box. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Box&yearOfDeath=1919&page=1#calendar

On the 1911 Census of England & Wales there is a 16 year old George R.H. Box, a schoolboy born Yokohama, Japan, (but an English National), who was recorded living with his uncle, aunt and cousin at 12 Newton Road, Sparkhill, Birmingham. They were Cornelius Fawdry, (61), Lydia Fawdry, (56) and their daughter Marion Fawdry, (26).

I couldn't spot him on the outward bound passenger list so possibly he never returned to Japan.

In August 1918 the Squadron was converting from two-seaters to the heavy bomber, the Handley Page 0/400. A check of the grave register for the Charmes Military Cemetery shows that George was buried alongside two other Lieutenants of the 100 Squadron who are all shown as died on the 25th August 1918 - Henry Boyd and Robert Kirk Inches, DFC.

From page 14, The Annals of the 100 Squadron by Major C. Gordon Burge - "A regrettable accident happened here, when three of our officers were killed while taking off on a raid. This was on the 25th August, when a machine, piloted by Lt. Box, with Lt. Inches as observer, and Lt. Boyd as gunner, left the Aerodrome and crashed, causing the death of these three officers. Their loss was deeply felt by all, and they will ever be remembered by those who knew them." https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9Be-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=Robert+Kirk+Inches+100+Squadron+1918&source=bl&ots=JRnFRs4NFu&sig=ACfU3U2jlQOHnhLCSwCAV895lDae5ILe0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjWx9io8-DxAhXu_7sIHT6lCnQQ6AEwBHoECA4QAw#v=onepage&q=Robert Kirk Inches 100 Squadron 1918&f=false

Cheers,
Peter

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On 02/02/2009 at 23:27, Bryn said:

Horace Edwin CABLEDU Private 1/10th (Alberta) Canadian Contingent

Private 20301 Horace Edwin Herbert Cabeldu was serving with the 10th Battalion Canadian Infantry when he died between 22 April 1915 and 23 April 1915. He was then aged 32. He had no known grave and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate). Memorial. Additional family details on the CWGC site is that he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Cabeldu. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/922605/HORACE EDWIN HERBERT CABELDU/

His Canadian Army Service records as Horace Edwin Herbert Cabeldu show him to have been born 12th July 1883 at St Heliers, Jersey, Channel Islands. He was an unmarried accountant when he enlisted at Calgary or Valcartier, (both places are listed along with various dates ), on the 22nd September 1914. His next of kin was Philip S. Cabeldu, of 16, Harima Machi, Kobe, Japan. When his sons medals were sent out in 1921 Philips address is shown as 35 Kitano Cho, 4 Chome, Kobe. Horace was initially reported wounded and missing 22nd April 1915 to the 26th April 1915, and according to these records in January 1917 he was officially declared dead, having been presumed to have died on or since the 26th. Obviously something has subsequently caused the CWGC to change that.

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=80760

On the 1901 Census of England & Wales their a 17 year old Horace Cabeldu, a Drapers Cashier, born St Heliers, Jersey, who was recorded living at 'Thornbury', Cedars Road, Hampton Wick, Middlesex. This was the household of his married brother, Walter Cabeldu, a Tailors Cutter and a British subject born Kobe, Japan.

There are some interesting websites online that mention the Cabeldu family and their tailoring business based in Kobe. Father Philip Samuel had gone to Japan in 1870, soon after it was opened up to outsiders. It states that Horace is known to have been in Kobe for at least a few months in 1902, if not longer, working for his father. https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/The_Cabeldu_family_in_Japan

This one has a letter from him about trench life experience which appeared in a local Jersey newspaper in June 1915 - by which time sadly he was already dead. It refers to him as an Old Victorian - presumably a school or college. Surname in the acticle is spelt Cabeldu. HoweveriIt also has another picture of the of the Foreigners Great War Memorial plus a close up of his name on the memorial which confirms it appears there as CABLEDU. It states he was Killed in action near Ypres in the desperate night action by the Canadian infantry to capture Kitcheners Wood following the first German gas attack, aged 32 years. http://www.greatwarci.net/honour/guernsey/database/cabeldu-heh-meningate.htm

He also appears on the list of fallen of Elizabeth College, Guernsey as Cabeldu. https://elizabethcollege-heritage.daisy.websds.net/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_books&columnName=filename&recordId=8

Cheers,
Peter

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