Category: Elmdon

4th October 1917

Nine local men lost their lives on 4th October 1917 whilst on active service:

  • Lance Corporal Edwin John Adams, 14th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Private Eric Ashley Ellis, 13th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
  • Sergeant Charles Haynes, 1st/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Second Lieutenant Albert Bertini Heywood, 10th Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  • Private Lewis James Knight, 30th Battalion, Australian Infantry
  • Lance Corporal George Henry Pegg, 1st/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Private William Savage, 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
  • Private William Thomas Tropman, 1st/8th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Gunner Arthur Whinfrey, 256th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

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22nd August 1917

Four local men died on 22nd August 1917: Corporal Alfred John Collins, 2nd/4th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry; Private Charles Edmund Frost, 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry; Private Albert Maybury, 2/4th Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry; and Private Frederick George Skidmore, 1st/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The first three have no known grave and so they are commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

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24th February 1917

On 24th February 1917, Acting Corporal Walter George Riggs was killed whilst on duty in the trenches in Vimy Ridge with the 26th Battalion (New Brunswick Regiment), Canadian Infantry. His foot was blown off by the explosion of an enemy fishtail bomb. Comrades rendered first aid and he was taken to a dressing station and evacuated to No. 42 Casualty Clearing Station where he died. He is buried in Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France.

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28th June 1916

Lance Corporal Clive Charteris Latch died of wounds, aged 25, on 28th June 1916 whilst serving with the 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was admitted to hospital on 25th June 1916, suffering from a gunshot wound to the “upper extremities” and a compound fracture of the wound. He was transferred to the sick convoy the following day and died in hospital in Rouen two days later.

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26th September 1914

Corporal Claude Percival Wilks (listed as Wilkes in some records), 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was killed in action at the Battle of Aisne on 26th September 1914, aged 22. He has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Ferté-sous-Jouarre Memorial. He is also commemorated locally on war memorials at Catherine-de-Barnes, Elmdon, and Solihull.

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