Bertram Edgar Spark Bertram Edgar Spark served as a rifleman with the 1st Battalion of the Queen’s Westminster regiment. He was the only son of Edgar and Ella Mary Spark, of 13 Warner Road, Bromley in Kent. Prior to war he had taken up an appointment at Lloyd’s Royal Exchange, London E.C. which would have remained open for him, had he survived the war. His obituary noted that he was very fond of sports, especially football, cycling, and swimming. He attested as a volunteer at 18 years of age and…
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Sergeant Thomas Beattie
Thomas Beattie Sergeant Thomas Beattie served with the RAF voluntary reserve as an observer during world War 2. He was killed on the 10th December 1942 and is buried at Beckenham crematorium and cemetery. Source:CWGC entryService Number: 1386746 Photo credit:Taken by Simone Harris, March 2023
Private Ernest John Accleton
Ernest John Accleton Private E.J. Accelton, 1957, of the 1/4th Royal West Kent Regiment, has been killed in the Persian Gulf on February 7th [1916]. At the outbreak of war, Private Accleton was in the employ of Mr. James Russel, of Halstead Place, as a footman, and joined the Sevenoaks Territorials on the 12th of August 1914. He at once volunteered for foreign service, and was sent with the Indian Expeditionary Force to the Persian Gulf. Private Accleton was 25 years of age, and was very popular among his comrades. …
Molly Sherwell
Molly Sherwell Private Molly Sherwell served with the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II. She died on the 28th June 1944 and is buried at Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery in Southeast London. If you have any details that we can add about this soldier, then please get in touch. Source: Bromley & District Times, 3rd June 1921 (page 9) CMGC entry – Service Number: W/99812 Photo credit: Simone Harris, 17th March 2023
G.H. Obee
G. H. Obee Private G.H. Obee served with the 4th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders during World War 1. He died on the 11th May 1917 and is commemorated in Beckenham Crematorium. His name also appears on the Memorial to the boys of Beckenham County School. If you have any details that we can add about this soldier, then please get in touch. Source: Bromley & District Times, 3rd June 1921 (page 9) CMGC entry – Service Number 201721 Photo credit: Simone Harris, 9th August 2014
B.G. Clarke
B.G. Clarke Gunner Benjamin George Clarke served with the Royal Artillery in the 36 Searchlight Regiment during World War II. He was the son of Benjamin John and Kate Elizabeth Clarke of Beckenham and married to Amy Ann Clarke. He died on the 30th June 1916, aged 35 years. Special thanks to our Facebook community for helping to source extra information about this solider. Source:CWGC entry Photo credit: Simone Harris, 9th August 2014
Francis Perl Mears
Francis Perl Mears Captain Francis Perl Mears served with the Royal Army Service Coprs during World War 1 in France and Salonica. He was the son of T. Lambert Mears, M.A., LL.D., (Barrister at Law), and Alice Catherine Mears (nee Peel), and husband of the late Mabel Fitz Roy Mears, (nee Ellis). He died on the 22nd February 1919, aged 42 years. He is commemorated at Beckenham Cemetery. Source: CWGC entry Photo credit: Simone Harris, 9th August 2014
George Reginald Pierce
George Reginald Pierce George Reginald Pierce was Second Engineer on the merchant vessel SS Oriole, a steamer ship. On Friday 29th January 1915, the vessel set sail from its home port of London, en route to Le Havre in France, but it never arrived. It was last seen off the coast of Dungeness on 30th January, and a few days later two of its lifebuoys washed up on the Sussex coast. It’s not definitively known what happened, but it is thought that the Oriole was sunk by a German submarine…
Charles Edward Kennard
Charles Edward Kennard Lance Corporal Charles Edward Kennard, was the only son of Richard and Eleanor Kennard of 34 Whitehorse Hill, Chislehurst. He had joined the Army on his eighteenth birthday in April, 1918. He served with the 51st Battalion in the Bedfordshire Regiment during World War I. He had served with the Army of Occupation in Germany and had been home on leave. Returning to Ripon Camp on 12th September, he was taken ill a week or more later. He passed away before his family could arrive. He died on…
Jack Townley Dunmore
Jack Townley Dunmore Flight Sergeant Jack Townley Dunmore served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was the son of Frederick Townley Dunmore and Edith Dunmore, and husband of Gladys Muriel Dunmore, of Englefield Green, Egham, Surrey. Died 17 May 1941, aged 24 years old. He is commemorated at the Annunciation churchyard in Chislehurst, Kent. Source: CWGC entry – Service Number: 741448 Photo credit: Simone Harris, 28th November 2022