COMBER-TAYLOR

Eric Horace

Captain, No 10 (Reconnaissance) Squadron (A. W. FK8’s), Royal Air Force. Killed in action 16th June 1918. Aged 29, Son of Mr W. O. Comber-Taylor and Mrs I E Comber-Taylor of "Furzelands" Albourne. Born in Brighton. Included on Twineham Parish Church Memorial. (See Twineham for more detail). Buried in Esquelbecq Military Cemetery

DAVIES

Harry Llanover

Lieutenant, "F" Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, Died of wounds near Ypres 25th October 1914. Aged 29. Grave lost. Son of Theophilus Harris & Mary Ellen Davies. Husband of Mrs Barbara Childeroy Davies of Woodmancte Place, near Henfield. Commemorated on Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium.

HOLDER

William

Private TF/200098, 1/4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, 53rd Division. Enlisted in 1908. Killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza 5th November 1917. Aged 24. Son of John & Sarah Anne Holder of "Bilsborough" Woodmancote, Born in Brackstone & enlisted in Henfield. Buried in Beersheba War Cemetery

MARSHALL

Oscar Elliott

Rifleman S/33030, 21st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Drowned when the Transport SS "Arcadian" was torpedoed in the Mediterannean 15th April 1917. Aged 35, Son of William Marshall, (Plumber) and Mary Anne Marshall of Woodmancote Born in Midhurst and enlisted in Dorking. Formerly with the Suffolks. Resident of Dorking, Surrey. Plumber by trade. Commemorated on Mikra Memorial Salonika, Greece.

PIERCE

Albert

Driver 42686, 77th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died of wounds 19th December 1915. Aged 19, Son of George & Alice Pierce of Blackstone. Born in Blackstone and enlisted in Guildford, Surrey. . Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

PIPER

Spencer Joseph

Private 148094, 44th Battalion (New Brunswick Regiment), Canadian Infantry. 4th Canadian Division Killed in action at Amiens 11th August 1918. Aged 28, Son of Joseph Piper. Farm Baliff of Woodmancote and Mrs Caroline Piper. Born in Keymer and enlisted in Canada. Buried in Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-Sur-Somme

SILVERSON

John

Sapper 185869, 477th Field Company (Special Brigade) Royal Engineers. Died of wounds 18th August 1917. Aged 40. Husband of Mrs Ellen Silverson of 23, Chapel Road, Fishersgate. Son of Harry & Eliza Silverson of Woodmancote. Born in Henfield and enlisted in Hove. Included on Fishersgate and Portslade War Memorial. Carpenter. . Buried in Duhallow ADS. Cemetery

WALDER

Philip Henry

Private 27658, 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers 12th Division, Killed in action on the Somme 7yj October 1916. Aged 25, Son of Thomas & Mary Walder of Albourne. Born in Hurstpierpoint and enlisted in Hove. Albourne resident, Included on Albourne Parish Church War Memorial. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial

ANSCOMBE

Percival Clarence

Leading Aircraftman Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. One of nine ground crew killed in a bombing raid on Tangmere Airfield 16th August 1940. All buried in Tangmere Churchyard. Buried in Tangmere (St. Andrew) Churchyard

DAVIES

John Llanover

Major, 8th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Killed in action in the Libyan desert 21st June 1941. Aged 30, Son of Mr & Mrs H. Llanover Davies. Husband of Mrs Rosemary Davies. Commemorated on Alamein memorial, Egypt

GILLETT

William Richard

Corporal Corps of Military Police. Died on active service on operations 1st May 1943. Aged 33, Husband of Molly Rebecca Gillett of Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire. Formerly with the Grenadier Guards. Commemorated on Brookwood Memorial

HILLMAN

Richard James

Ordinary Seaman, HMS"Drake" Plymouth Naval Barracks, Royal Navy. Died at home 18th March 1944. Aged 18. Son of Philip & Florence Hillman of Woodmancote. Buried in St. Peters Churchyard, Woodmancote.

MILLER

Arthur Thomas

Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Killed in action in Tunisia near Medjez El Bab 17th March 1943. Aged 22., Son of Arthur Gerard & Winifred Louie Miller of Blackstone, near Woodmancote. Commemorated on Medjez El Bab Memorial, Tunisia.

RAYMENT

Walter Benedict

Sergeant (Air Gunner), 61 Bomber Squadron (Hampdens), Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Killed in an accident when Hampden X2920 crashed on the Yorkshire Moors near Leeming 5. 10. 1940. Aged 26, Son of Albert George & Ellen Mary Rayment of Henfield, . Buried in Henfield Cemetery.

SMALE

Robert Francis

Sergeant (Flight Engineer), 630 Bomber Squadron (Lancasters) operating from East Kirkby, Royal Air Force, Lost on operations over Berlin 2nd Janaury 1944. Aged 21, Son of Thomas Alfred and Ethel Beatrice Smale of Henfield. Husband of Mrs Joyce Phyllis Smale. . Buried in Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany

TIDY

Moses Edward

Private, 14th Army Field Workshop, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Lost between 21st and 22nd May 1940 south of Calais during the retreat to Dunkirk.. Buried in Zutkerque Churchyard, Northern France.

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