Private 126913, 50th (Northumbrian) Signal Company, Royal Engineers. Died on service 13 September 1918. Aged 20. Born Portsmouth, enlisted Petersfield, Hampshire. Son of Ernest Frank and Rosa Barham, of 76, Balfour Rd., Portsmouth. Awarded the Military Medal (M.M.). Buried in NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY, KASSEL, Hessen, Germany. Plot IV. Row G. Grave 1.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1919:

BARHAM Ernest George of 115 Emsworth-road North End Portsmouth sapper 50th Signal Company R.E died 13 September 1918 in Hospital at Ohrdruf Administration Winchester 20 June to Ernest Frank Barham timekeeper.
Effects £157 7s. 10d.

Sapper 166167, 40th Division Signal Company, Royal Engineers. Committed suicide while on service 20 July 1917; found with gunshot wound through mouth, causing fracture of base of skull and death. Aged 41. Born Salisbury, Wiltshire. Son of Josiah and Eliza Clyde. In the 1911 census he was aged 35, born Salisbury, Wiltshire, a Post Office Clerk, son of Josiah and Eliza Emma Clyde, resident 35, Wyndham Road, Salisbury, New Sarum, Wiltshire, later 26, Harnham Road, Salisbury. Attested 15 December 1915 in Salisbury, aged 40 years, unmarried, a Sorting Clerk and telegraphist by trade, resident 35, Wyndham Road, Salisbury, height 5 feet 7¾ inches, weight 136 lbs, chest 36 inches. Went to France 6 May 1917. Buried in FINS NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, SOREL-LE-GRAND, Somme, France. Plot I. Row D. Grave 15.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1919:

CLYDE Andrew John of 35 Wyndham-road Salisbury sapper Royal Engineers died 20 July 1917 in France Administration Salisbury 3 November to Rose Mary Clyde spinster.
Effects £215 17s. 7d.

Private 64606, 215th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Died of wounds to the abdomen 24 September 1917. Aged 20. Born 9 June 1897 in Bermerton, Wiltshire, enlisted Salisbury. Baptised 1 August 1897 at Bemerton, Wiltshire, son of Frank and Fanny Eyres. Son of Frank and Fanny Eyres, of 133, Devizes Rd., Salisbury. Admitted to Salisbury, Bishop Wordsworth's Grammar School 17 January 1910, left 31 July 1911 to be a Boy Messenger at Post Office. In the 1901 census he was aged 3, born Bremerton, Wiltshire, son of Frank (a Postman) and Fanny Eyres, resident 4, Ema Terrace, Bemerton, Wilton, Wiltshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 13, born Bremerton, Wiltshire, at school, son of Frank (a Postman GPO) and Fanny Eyres, resident 133, Devizes Road, Salisbury, New Sarum, Wiltshire. Attested 10 December 1915 at Salisbury, aged 18 years 6 months, unmarried, a Sorting Clerk and telegraphist, height 5 feet 8¾ inches, weight 139 lbs, chest 27¼ inches. Joined 215 Company, M.G.C. 16 March 1917. Buried in DOZINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot VIII. Row C. Grave 22.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, volume 3, page 95:

EYRES, EDWARD FRANK, Private, No. 64606, 215th Machine Gun Coy., eldest s. of Frank lyres, of 133, Devizes Road, Salisbury, Inspector of Postmen, by his wife, Fanny, dau. of George Read; b. Bemerton, Salisbury, co. Wilts, 9 June, 1897; educ. Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury, and on leaving there was employed as a Sorting Clerk and Telegraphist at the Salisbury. Post Office; joined the Post Office Rifles 24 July, 1916; transferred to the 215th Machine Gun Coy. 13 Oct. 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 16 March, 1917, and died in No. 47 Casualty Clearing Station 24 Sept. following, from wounds received in action while acting as runner in the front-line trench at Ypres. Buried In the British Cemetery at Dozinghem. The officer in command of the company wrote : " I always had the greatest admiration for his pluck, and enjoyed his social qualities, so, when possible, picked him out to act as my runner and companion. He was bringing another officer down to relieve me when a shell burst; the officer was Immediately killed, but your son escaped for that time In a marvellous fashion. I sent him down to Headquarters for 24 hours' rest, when at the end of that time the Commanding Officer told him to go up the line with an important message. He was the most reliable runner we had, so in the usual hard manner was always sent on most important messages. . . . He was a brave boy, your son, and was loved and respected by all of us." Unm.

Private 34291, 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Killed in action 11 August 1918. Aged 26. Born and resident Alderbury, Wiltshire, enlisted Devizes, Wiltshire. Son of Charles George and Agnes Northeast. In the 1911 census he was aged 19, born Alderbury, Wiltshire, a gneral Labourer, son of George and Agnes Northeast, resident Alderbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Originally attested and joined as 9439, Wiltshire Regiment, 17 August 1914 but was discharged 5 October 1914 as 'Not being likely to become an efficient soldier' under Para 392 (iii) (c) King's Regulations, aged 22 years 6 months, a Casual Labourer, height 6 feet 2 inches, weigth 150½ lbs, chest 39 inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, black hair, religious denomination Church of England. Buried in BOUCHOIR NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France. Plot IV. Row D. Grave 100.

*** This man is the only fit that can be found although in none of the records is he attributed as working for the Postal Service. ***