Roll of Honour - Kent - Faversham, Great Explosion 1916

Ministry of Defence

Lest We Forget

The Royal British Legion

FAVERSHAM, GREAT EXPLOSION 2 April 1916 MEMORIAL

World War 1 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Martin Edwards 2004
additional information Kim Robinson & Lesley (www.hastingleigh.com)

Further reading The Great Explosion at Faversham, 2 April, 1916 By Arthur Percival, M. B. E. , B. A. , F. S. A. published by the Faversham Society

In times of war it is not just those who were called into action who suffer. This incident highlights the perils of those at home in their effort to aid those at the front.

On Sunday 2 April 1916 a fire broke out in some empty sacks at the Gun Powder Works (Gunpowder Mill - Explosives Loading Company) at Uplees Marshes, near Faversham. An attempt was made to put out the fire to no avail and the factory manager ordered an evacuation of the site. Too late, at 2.20pm an explosion occurred when 200 tons of TNT blew up while the evacuation was in progress. The explosion was so large that windows across the Thames estuary, in Southend, were shattered and the tremor was felt in Norwich. The crater made by the explosion was 40 yards across and 20 feet deep. The death toll was 109 men and boys were killed, including the whole of the Works Fire Brigade. As they tried to control the blaze so many firemen died in subsequent smaller explosions on the site.

The many bodies that were recovered were found in the surrounding marshes and dykes; seven were recorded as missing, most probably disintegrated by the explosion.

A mass grave was created for many of the dead in Faversham Borough Cemetery at Ladydene, on the Whitstable road. It was made in 1898, and belongs to the Corporation; and it contains 31 War Graves. Five men of the 4th Buffs were killed in the explosion. The memorial was dedicated by The Lord Bishop of Croydon on 27th September 1917.

Quote "By this explosion, the most disastrous in the history of my Department, no less than 106 persons were killed on the spot or died later from their injuries and 97 were injured. Of those killed 20 were employees of the Cotton Powder Company and 4 belonged to the military guard. "

This was not the first or last explosion at faversham but the biggest loss of life. Other explosive events occured in 1900, 1903, 1904, 1911, 1914, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1939.

The site as it is today can be viewed from photographs by David Hughes and Neil Clark

A further memorial lists those who died and were buried elsewhere.

Extract from The Worker's Union Record, page 8:

Extract from Runcorn Weekly News - Friday 15 February 1918, page 2:

Extract from The Times, Saturday, 17 March 1917, page 8, issue 41429.

Extract from The Edinburgh Gazette, Tuesday, 20 March 1917, page 607.

Those buried in the Gunpowder Mill Burial Plot

ADAMS	William	Private T/20242, 4th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Aged 48. Born Bootle, Lancashire, enlisted Folkestone, Kent, resident Chriton, Kent. Son of George and Harriet Adams; husband of Kate Jane Adams. Born at Skelmersdale, Lancs. His real name was ADAMS but he enlisted under the pseudonym of CATLOW. (See below)
ANDERSON	Henry	Born 1891 Oare, Kent. In 1911 he is called Harry, and is living with his parents Frank Anderson and Susanna Elizabeth Quarrinton [m. 1888] and sister Mary at the vicarage at Oare with Rev. Alfred Dyson, his mother being the Vicar's housekeeper. His father and Harry are both cotton porters. Administration of his estate was granted to his father Frank Anderson of the vicarage Oare in 1916. His father was an explosives worker at that time.
APPLETON	William [James Charles]	Born 1873 Thanet RD, Kent. In 1911 William is a compositor living in Wimbledon with his wife Maria Ann Bushell [m. 1895] and surviving daughter Lilian Mary Appleton. They had lost two children previously. His last address was 47 Avenue Road, East Cliff Ramsgate and administration of his estate was granted to Mary Annie Appleton.
ASHBY	A	No further information currently
BAKER	Edward	Born 1898.
BARTLETT	John E	Born 1869. [Compensation claim lists him as E J BARTLETT] Relatives received £300 compensation.
BEACH	Henry G	Born 1898. Aged 18.
BEALE	John W	Born 1897.
BEANEY	Walter John	Born 1886 Sheldwich, Kent. In 1911 he was a brickfield labourer living in Sittingbourne with his edler half brother Alfred Harris and their mother Ann Beaney. His deceased father was William Beaney married 1883 Faversham RD to Ann Harris.
BEER	Frederick John	Born 1890. Son of John Beer (1829-1910) and his wife Maria (1836-1921), who are both buried in Faversham Cemetery. John and Maria had two sons. Fred (n. b. not Frederick) was born at Chislet in Kent in 1857, and his brother Frank (from whom I descend) in 1867. Fred Beer became a fireman on the railway and for a time lived in Battersea (then Surrey, now the London Borough of Wandsworth). He was living there in the 1881 census and at the time of his marriage to Jane Hazlewood (who was herself a native of the Faversham area) five years later. They were married at Battersea parish church (St George’s) on Sunday 18 July 1886. Fred and Jane Beer’s three children were born at Battersea over the next four years: Lily Marion (b. 1887), Emily Jane (b. 1888) and Frederick John (b. 1890). In the 1891 census Fred, now an engine driver, was living at 49 Corunna Road Battersea with his wife Jane and their three children. The census records that Fred and Jane gave their place of birth as Hernhill in Kent. By the time of the 1901 census the family was in Faversham. Fred was now a licensed victualler living at 3 (or possibly 4 – the enumerator’s record-keeping is suspect) Preston Street. This was presumably the Prince Albert public house, also sometimes known as The Rose (site visited on 2 January 2021). The pubwiki website says that Fred Beer was there in 1903 according to Kelly’s Directory, but that one H C Fulcher had taken over by 1908. By the time of the 1911 census Fred Beer had become the licensee of the Rose and Crown, Perry Wood, Sheldwich, just outside Faversham. He was still there in 1913 according to the Post Office Directory (site visited on 2 January 2021)). In 1911 Emily Jane and Frederick John Beer were living with Fred and Jane Beer at the Rose and Crown, and the absence of contrary information in the 1911 census implies that they helped their parents with the pub work. (Their elder sister Lily had married a man named David Godden in 1908 and lived nearby in Sheldwich. ) The Explosives Loading Company built a factory at Uplees in 1913 and presumably Frederick John Beer started working there not long after (unproven). It may be that the pay offered in the factory was better than he would have received as a twentysomething working in his father’s pub! Sadly, Frederick John Beer’s decision to take factory work was to cost him his life in 1916. His father Fred died in 1918. His name lived on, though, in a way. His sister Lily and her husband David Godden had a son in late 1910. They named him John Frederick David.
BEESLEY	Arthur W	Born 1881. Relatives received £300 compensation.
BLEACKLEY	Thomas H	Born 1877. Aged 39.
BUSHELL	Henry	Born 1893 Thanet RD,Kent
BUTLER	Matthew	Born 1860 Newchurch Kent. In 1911 he was a jobbing gardener, lodging in Ashford with Mrs Boughton at 12 Harding Road. He was the son of Thomas William Butler and Charlotte Mortley. His last address was 95 St Mary's Road, Faversham, and administration of his estate was granted to Charlotte Butler his spinster sister.
CATLOW	William	Private T/20242, 4th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Aged 48. Born Bootle, Lancashire, enlisted Folkestone, Kent, resident Chriton, Kent. Son of George and Harriet Adams; husband of Kate Jane Adams. Born at Skelmersdale, Lancs. CATLOW is a pseudonym that he enlisted under his real name was ADAMS. (See above)
CHADWICK	William E	Born 1881. Relatives received £300 compensation.
CHAMBERS	Thomas	Born 1864.
CHANDLER	Alfred Henry	Born 1893 Thanet RD,Kent. Last address was 7 King's Road, Faversham, administration of his estate was granted to Ethel Geering (wife of Alfred Thomas Geering. )
CHANTLER	William	Aged 48. Resident of Ticehurst, left two days earlier to take up employment at the powder mill. Married with sons. Son of Mrs. H. Leaney.
CHIDWICK	A G	No further information currently. Probably A D CHADWICK, Relatives received £300 compensation.
CLARKE	Thomas A	Born 1892.
CLEMENTS	Sidney Smith	Born 1875 Keston, Kent. In 1911 he was a watchmaker/shopkeeper, living with his wife Florence Emma Aiston [m. 1899 Maidstone] , and three children Irene, George and Viola in Maidstone, Kent. His last address was 1 Melville Road, Maidstone and administration of his estate was granted to Florence Emma Clements his widow and George William Clements engineer.
CLUBB	Sidney Herbert	[Compensation claim list this person as H. S. Chubb] Relatives received £300 compensation. Husband of Frances Louisa Clubb, they had three daughters, Mabel (7), Nora (5) and Kathleen (7 months). Resident Dover, Kent.
COE	Frank	Born 1895.
COLE	Albert E	Born 1887.
COLLINS	J	No further information currently
CORNWELL	George	Born 1870 Milton RD, Kent. In 1911 he was living in Sittingbourne Kent, as a grocer and provisoner, living with his wife Phoebe Hannah Robinson [m. 1897 Horncastle] and four children, his brother William Cornwell [whom his widow Phoebe married in 1922] and a niece. His last address was Swanscombe Villas, Bapchild, Kent and administration of his estate was granted to his widow Phoebe Hannah Cornwell.
COURT	Ernest	Private T/20213, 2nd/4th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Born 1867 Minster, Thanet, Kent, enlisted Faversham, Kent, resident Ospringe, Faversham, Kent. Husband of Catherine Court, of Ospringe, Faversham. His death certificate is registered with the name as Edward Court. See also Luton
COX	Sidney H	Born 1883.
CRAWFORD	James	Born 1867.
DAVY	Ernest George	Born 1884. Faversham RD. [Listed as E G DAVEY on compensation claim] Relatives received £300 compensation.
DAWKINS	Edwin James	Born 1883. Blean RD, Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 29, married to Minnie Emma (nee Hadlow) Dawkins, with one sone, General Provision Stores, born Whitstable, Kent, resident 92 Snargate Street, Dover, Kent.
DOWSETT	Albert	[Spelt DROWSETT on CWGC] Private T/20216, 4th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Age 48. Born Halstead, Essex, enlisted Dartford, Kent, resident Greenhithe, Kent. Husband of Anna Drowsett, of 40, Castle St. , Greenhithe. In 1911 he was a labourer in a cement works in Greenhithe, Kent, living with his wife Anna Davis [m. 1897], and 3 children Wilfred, Dorothy and Margaret, and father in law William Davis. Married Minnie Emma Hadlow in Dover 11 March 1906, aged 23.
DRAY	Henry Thomas aka Harry	Born 1860 East Grinsted RD, Sussex. In 1911 he was living in Brewery Cottages, Hastings with wife Margaret [m. 1881 Hastings to Martha Bedford] and daugher Edith. His last address was 15 Union Street Faversham and administration of his estate was granted to his daughter Edith Elizabeth Dray.
DRISCOLL	Augustus D	Born 1867 Bishopsgate, London. In 1911, he was a personal weighing machine attendent in Margate. He was unmarried.
FAIRCLOTH	W	No further information currently
FARTHING	E J	[Listed as J FARTHING on compensation claim] Relatives received £300 compensation.
FEDARB	Albert Leslie	Born 1898 Margate. In 1911 he is a scholar living with his cousin in Dover. Son of James Thomas Fedarb and Eliza Henrietta Knapman [m. 1892] he was one of their 10 children.
FREESTONE	Anthony Lindley	Born 1864 Metfield Suffolk. In 1911 he was living in Ipswich with his wife Margaret Louise Read [m. 1906 Plomesgate] and children Anthony aged 3 and Margery aged 2. Employed as a foreman of works for the West African Crown Colonies Railway Construction Company.
GARLAND	Charles Timothy	Born 1893 Canterbury, Kent. In 1911 he was a nurseryman's labourer in Canterbury, living with his father Richard and stepmother Alice Elizabeth. His deceased mother was Eliza Annie Stupple.
GILBERT	Frederick William	Born Selling in Kent 18 January 1871 and christened in the parish of Selling on 7 May 1871. he worked as a bricklayer; married Mary Andrews on the 15 August 1899. They had 6 children, Amy Mary (1900), Clara (1902), Dorothy Annie (1903), an unnamed son still born 1906, Daisy Ethel (1908) who died aged 1 month old and Fredrick George (1910). He emigrated alone to Australia on MV Moravan and arrived in Fremantle New South Wales in October 1911. He was employed in the gold mining industry until his return to the UK circa 1913. On his return a further child was born James on the 25 September 1916 a full five months after the death of his father in the powder mill explosion. His wife Mary was unable to cope with the loss of her husband, and the pressures of providing for a young and growing family, and was hospitalised for long periods of time. James who was less than a year old and was cared for by his three sisters aged 15, 14 and 13.
GOATHAM	Archibald (Ben) William	Born 1885 Milton Regis, Kent. In 1911 he was a paper mill labourer living with his wife Jessie nee Young [m. 1909] and daughter Eveline Doris Goatham in Sittingbourne, Kent. He was the son of Emma and Edward Goatham.
GODDEN	Walter James	Born 1877. Milton RD, Kent. In the 1911 census he was married to Louisa, with two children, aged 33, a General Labourer, born Rainham, Kent, resident 39 St Georges Road Broadstairs, St Peter Intra, Kent. Relatives received £300 compensation.
GOODWIN	Arthur	Resident of Thrift Cottage, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, administration of his estate was granted in 1916 to Frederick Charles Goodwin farm bailiff. In 1923 administration re-granted to Dorothy Veitch (wife of James Veitch) after cessate.
GOORD	Leonard Frederick	Born 16 October 1879 in Milton, Sittingbourne, Kent, son of Henry and Helen (nee Clinch), his father was a Miller. Birth registered in the October to December Quarter 1879 in the MIlton Registration District, Kent. Christened in Bobbing, Kent on 16 November 1879. He married Mabel Bryant in the March to April Quarter 1904 in the Milton Registration District, Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 31, born Bobbing, Kent, a Farmer, married to Mabel, with two children Donald Alfred Sasby, and Jack Frank Hedley Richard, all resident at 2 Aspley Villas, London Road, Milton Regis. His wife Mabel (nee Bryant) emigrated to New Zealand with their four children following his death. Extract from Probate Calendars of England & Wales 1858-1959: GOORD Leonard Frederick of 2 Aspley-villas London-road Milton Regis Kent died 2 April 1916 at Uplees Faversham Without Kent Administration London 29 April to Mabel Goord widow, Effects £25 10s.
HALL	George	Born 1877.
HARDING	John	Private T/20210, 4th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Enlisted Sittingbourne, Kent, resident Milton Regis, Kent.
HOARE	John aka Jack	Born 2nd Quarter 1890 in Dunkirk (Kent), census 1891 at Courteney Road, Dunkirk (Kent), census 1901 at Whitehill Cottages, Chilham (Kent). Ammunition Worker. Cotton Powder Company next door to Explosive Loading Company Limited, near Oare, Faversham, Kent. Died 2 April 1916. Buried in the Gunpower Mill Burial Plot, Faversham, Kent. See also Chilham War Memorial, Kent
HOLBOURN	Sydney William	Born Dover 30 August 1877. In 1911 he was a bricklayer, unmarried and living at 24, Granville Street, Dover, with his parents Edward Holbourn and Harriet Jane nee Fowle [m. 1866 Dover] . He had 8 siblings.
JARMAN	J R	Relatives received £300 compensation. Resident Broadstairs. Father of Ernest Jarman who worked with his father at Faversham and survived the blast.
JARRETT	Frederick Thomas	Born 1898 Milton RD, Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 13, at school, resident with his parents Frederick and Annie, at 1 Tanner Street, Faversham Within, Faversham, Kent.
JARVIS	Harry G	Born 1886 East Ashford RD, Kent. Ammunition Worker. Explosive Loading Company Limited, near Oare, Faversham, Kent. Died 2 April 1916. Buried in the Gunpower Mill Burial Plot, Faversham, Kent. See also Chilham War Memorial, Kent
JARVIS	William Edward	Private T/20169, 4th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Born and enlisted Dartford, resident Crayford, Kent. Born 1875 Crayford, Kent. In 1911, he was a house painter living in Crayford with his wife Maud Annie nee Kitchener [m. 1903 Dartford RD] and two children Ivy and Edward.
KERRISON	Cecil Walter	Born 1883 East Studdle, Kent. In 1911 he was gardener living in Challock with his wife Agnes Mary Scott [m. 1907 Wye, Kent] two step daughters and their two sons Cecil Walter Jnr. and Francis George. She had previously been married to Walter Bloomfield in 1900 in Wye and widowed. Three more children followed: Ernest, Molly and Bertha Kerrison, and his widow had a daughter Emma born in early 1917.
KITTLE	George	Born 1892 Wayland RD, Norfolk.
LANE	Thomas	Killed in the Great Explosion at Faversham. Employed by the explosives loading company. Buried in the Mass Grave, Faversham. Married to Henrietta Ellen Helena Lane, father of one Daughter Phyllis Gwendoline Lane, living at Southend on Sea.
LEGG	Ernest	Killed in the Faversham Munition Explosion 2 April 1916. Aged 31 years. Husband of Nellie Legg who died 31 July 1950, aged 74. Relatives received £300 compensation. Deacon of Eythorne Baptist Church. Buried in St. John the Baptist churchyard, Eythorne, Kent. Photograph Copyright © Joyce Banks 2007
LINGER	George	Born 1854 in Islington, London. In the 1911 census he was a plasterer living at 66 Rhodes Street, Barnsbury, Lower Holloway, London N, with his second wife Alice Linger (nee Clements); the had 5 children and there were a further 5 children from his first marriage to Jane Linger (nee Ley).
LLOYD	Leonard Milbourne	Born 16 April 1898 in Peckham, Camberwell, London, son of Francis and Phillis Lloyd. Admitted to Richmond Road Council Boys' School, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey in 1908. In the 1901 census he was aged 3, born Peckham, Surrey, resident with his parents at 24, Fairfield East, Kingston on Thames. In the 1911 census they were resident at 7 Hudson Road, Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey. Brother of Sidney Frank Lloyd (below).
LLOYD	Sidney [Frank]	Born 29th April 1897 (Christ Church Camberwell baptism records). Relatives received £300 compensation. Brother of Leonard Milbourne Lloyd (above).
LYONS	Bernard Augustus	Ammunition Worker. Explosive Loading Company Limited, near Oare, Faversham, Kent. Died 2 April 1916. Born 1888 Boughton, Kent. In 1911 he and his brother Reginald were in service as domestic gardeners in The Square, Chilham, living with the Myers family. Their parents were Frederick William Lyons of Dunkirk, and Jane Olivia Foreman [m. 1880 Dunkirk] . Buried in the Gunpower Mill Burial Plot, Faversham, Kent. Listed on the Chilham War Memorial. Relatives received £300 compensation. See also Chilham War Memorial, Kent
MALEY	William Stephen	Born 1881 Blean RD, Kent. He was aged 34 when he married Hilda Collar (aged 29) at All Saints, Whitstable, 12 June 1915; his father was listed as William Maley. In the 1881 census he was newborn, born Whitstable, Kent, resident with his parents, William T and Eliza, at 53, Sydenham Street, Whitstable, Blean, Kent.
MANSER	[Harry] F	No further information currently
MILLS	William	Born 1957.
MORRIS	J W	No further information currently
MORRIS	W T	Relatives received £300 compensation. Listed on Honours Board at St Lukes Church, Ramsgate.
PALOWKAR	Rickman Monney Moore	Born 1885 Tottenham as Palowkas. In 1911 he was an engineering draughtsman in Islington. Son of Laura Fanny Palowkar who was widowed by 1911. He married Beatrice R Baker in 1913 Islington. Their daughter Dorothy K Palowkar was born in 1915 in Faversham, and a son Rickman was born postumously in 1916 in Hampshire.
PENNING	E R	No further information currently
PERRYMAN	Albert J	Born 1889. Relatives received £300 compensation. Listed on Honours Board at St Lukes Church, Ramsgate.
PHILLIPS	A	No further information currently
PHILPOTT	A J	No further information currently
PILCHER	Harry	Born 1888 in Badlesmere, Kent. Died aged 28, married man with a daughter of 2. In 1911 he was a farm labourer living at Forge Lane, Badlesmere. He marrie Rose Deayton in 1914, Daughter Lily Rose Pilcher wasbornthe same year. Relatives received £300 compensation.
POWELL	George [John]	Born about 1884 Harty, Kent. His last address was 15 Abbey Street Faversham, administration granted to William Powell licensed victualler. In 1911 he was a cordite labourer in a gun cotton works in Faversham. William and Margaret Powell (?nee Margaret Elizabeth Clasper )were the licensees of the Kings Head Pub, at 14 Abbey Street, Faversham.
RANDALL	Thomas William	Born 1877 Yalding, Kent. His last address was Burnley Belmont Road, Westgate-on-sea, died at Lees Court Hospital, administration granted to Nellie Elizabeth Randall widow nee Winnan [m. 1909 Lewisham] . Thomas was a barman in a pub in the 1911 census.
READER	Robert Daniel P	Born 1884 in Broadstairs, Kent, the son of Robert and Caroline Jane ( neé Austen) Reader. Buried in Faversham, Kent on the 4th of June 1916 (burial ref. G-050). When he died he was described as an Explosives Employee.
RICHARDS	Norman George	Born 1874 Thanet RD. His last address was 43 Kings Street, Margate,administration granted to Rose Ada Susan Richards his widow. Nee Rose Ada Susan Emptage [m. 1910 Thanet RD] Relatives received £300 compensation.
ROBUS	George Frederick	Of Euthorne, married with three children. Aged 35. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robus of 24, Westbury Road, Dover.
SADDINGTON	[C] J	Relatives received £300 compensation.
SCROGIE	William [Augustus]	Born 1862 Walworth, Surrey. In 1911, he was a furniture salesmanliving at 5 Church Road, Ramgate. Married to Alice Jane Heath for 22 years and no children. Relatives received £300 compensation.
SELMES	William Charles	Born 1896 St Helens, East Sussex as Charles Wm. Selmes. In 1911 he was a greengrocer's errand boy, living with his parents James Thomas Selmes and Louisa Carrie Jenkins [m. 1895 Hastings RD]
SKINNER	Harry	Relatives received £300 compensation.
SOUTHAM	[A] George	Born 1881. Relatives received £300 compensation. Buried Ramsgate Cemetery.
SPILLETT	John	His last address was Gebles Cottages Boughton near Faversham, administration granted to Margaret Spillett widow.
STACEY	T	No further information currently
STICKELS	Charles James [S}	Born 1898 Faversham. In 1911 he and his 6 siblings were living with their widowed mother Ellen, her husband had been Harry Stickels of Faversham, and Charles was a part time scholar and part time Baker's Apprentice. His entire family were born in Faversham.
STICKENS	William John	In the 1911 census he was aged 22, born Milton Regis, Kent, a Reelerman's Assistant, son of Fanny Stickens (a widow), resident 21, Epps Road, Milton Regis, Milton Next Sittingbourne, Kent.
STOCK	R [W]	Relatives received £300 compensation. Listed on Honours Board at St Lukes Church, Ramsgate.
SUTTON	John	Aged 63, Resident of 82, High Brooms-road, High Brooms. Married. Father of Rev. Mr. Sutton, of Edmonton and some daughters. Buried in Tunbridge Wells. Employed for 36 years by the High Brooms Brick Company. Entered employment with the Powder Mill a fortnight before his death. Funeral reported in Kent & Sussex Courier 14 April 1916.
TAYLOR	Cornelius William	Born 1891 Teynham, Kent. In 1911 he was a brickmaker, living with his parents at 15 Conyer, Teynham. William Taylor and Adelaide Amelia Sills [m. 1870 Chatham] Cornelius was one of 16 siblings.
TAYLOR	Frederick G	Born 1898
TAYLOR	H B	No further information currently
TERRY	Harry	Relatives received £300 compensation.
TURNER	W	No further information currently
VINCENT	Sidney Churchill	Aged 28. His last address was 101 St Mary's Road, Faversham, administration granted to Samuel Joseph James Vincent farmer. Born 2nd Quarter 1887 in Stoke D'Abernon (Surrey), baptized 1 May 1887 at St Mary, Stoke D'Abernon (Surrey), census 1891 at Jessop's Well, Oxshott Road, Stoke D'Abernon (Surrey), census 1901 at Scots Hall, Newington-next-Hythe (Kent), census 1911 at Monks Horton Park, Stanford (Kent), occupation 1901 Gamekeeper, occupation 1911 Gamekeeper, occupation 1916 Munitions Worker - Explosives Loading Company, Oare (Kent). Also commemorated on the memorial at Newington-next-Hythe
WADE	Philip George	Born 1895 Faversham. In 1911 he lived at 90 Abbey Street, Faversham, the son of Philip James Wade and Johanna Sidders (Annie) [m. 1887 Faversham], with 8 siblings
WALKER	Henry C	Born 1869.
WALLER	Walter T	Born 1866 Stepney RD as Walter I Waller on birth certificate registration list.
WARREN	E J	No further information currently
WARREN	George John	Killed at Faversham 2 April 1916. Aged 28. Baptised 1 April 1888 in St Peter in Thanet, St Peter, Kent. Son of Edwin James and Annie Eliza Warren. In the 1901 census he was aged 13, born St Peter's, Kent, son of Annie E Warren (a widow), resident 67, Thanet Road, St Lawrence, St Lawrence Intra, Thanet, Kent. In the 1911 census he was aged 23, born St Peter, Kent, a Picture Framer, son of Annie Ellen (sic) Warren (a widow), resident 67 Thanet Road Ramsgate, St Lawrence Intra, Kent. Commemorated on gravestone in St Peters Churchyard, Broadstairs, Kent. Photograph Copyright © Jane Cousins 2016
WEBB	Charles A	Born 1869.
WELLARD	Monti Alfred	Born 1873 Boughton Blean, Kent. In 1911 he was a bricklayer of 18 Plantation Road, Faversham, married to Amelia Stevens [m. 1900 Faversham] and a father of four: Irene, Alfred, Edward and Martha.
WELLFARE	Walter James	Born 1874 Eastbourne, Sussex. In 1911 he was a commissioning agent, of 57 Avondale Road, Eastbourne, married to Sarah Carter [m. 1899 Eastbourne] with no children of the marriage.
WEST	Edward	Born 1860.
WILES	Frank	Boern about 1871.
WILLIAMS	J	No further information currently
WOOD	Herbert	Born 1890.
WOOD	W H A	No further information currently
WRIGHT	Leopold Sydney	Born 1887 Great Bentley, Essex. In 1911 he was an Iron Foundary Clerk, living with his uncle in Ipswich. He was the son of George Wright and Harriet Ophelia Garrod [m. 1884 Ipswich]
WYLES	Frederick [George]	Born 1890 Faversham, Kent. The eldest son of George Wyles and Elizabeth Mortley Sole [m. 1887 Faversham] of 26 Plantation Road, Faversham. He had six siblings and his eldest sister Elsie was a cartridge maker at the gunpowder factory in the 1911 census, while Frederick was a labourer at that time. Relatives received £300 compensation.
ALSO TO THE FOLLOWING WHO LOST THEIR LIVES ON THE SAME OCCASION AND ARE BURIED ELSEWHERE AT THE REQUEST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS
ACROGIE	W	No further information currently
ANDERSON	Henry	See names above
BARTLETT	John E	See names above
BLEACKLEY	Thomas H	See names above
BUSHELL	Henry	See names above
CHADWICK	William E	See names above
CLARKE	Thomas A	See names above
COE	Frank	See names above
COLE	A G	No further information currently
CORNWELL	George	See names above
DAWKINS	Edwin James	See names above
DEANEY	W	No further information currently
DRISCOLL	Augustus D	See names above
FEDARB	Albert Leslie	See names above
GODDEN	Walter James	See names above
JARVIS	Harry G	See names above
KERRISON	Cecil Walter	See names above
KITTLE	George	See names above
LEGG	Ernest	See names above
MALEY	William Stephen	See names above
MILLS	William	See names above
PERRYMAN	Albert J	See names above
PILCHER	Harry	See names above
POWELL	George [John]	See names above
RANDALL	Thomas William	See names above
RICHARDS	Norman George	See names above
SOUTHAM	[A] George	See names above
SUTTON	John	Aged 63, Resident of 82, High Brooms-road, High Brooms. Married. Father of Rev. Mr. Sutton, of Edmonton and some daughters. Buried in Tunbridge Wells. Employed for 36 years by the High Brooms Brick Company. Entered employment with the Powder Mill a fortnight before his death. See names above
TAYLOR	Cornelius William	See names above
TAYLOR	[Frederick] G	See names above
TAYLOR	H B	See names above
VINCENT	Sidney Churchill	See names above
WEBB	Charles A	See names above
WRIGHT	Leopold Sydney	See names above
WYLES	Frederick [George]	See names above

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