Transcribed and donated to the Dorset OPC Project by Kim Parker
Roll of Honour
Transcribed and donated to the Dorset OPC
Project by Kim Parker
Commemorated in the churchyard:
Ernest Stanley DOWNTON
Dorset Regiment
Youngest son of Edward & Anne DOWNTON
Born 10 JUN 1898 at Little Bredy
Killed 31 AUG 1917 at Nieuport
Buried at Coxyde [Belgium]
Reginald Frank DURRANT (52393)
Rifleman New Zealand Rifle Brigade
Son of Henry and Frances Durrant of Little Bredy
KIA 30 May 1918 France
Buried Hebuterne Military Cemetery, France
Reuben HANSFORD
Dorset Yeomanry
Son of Reuben & Agnes E. HANSFORD
Born 16 JUL 1896 at Foxhole
Died 25 AUG 1915 of wounds received at Galipoli
Buried at Sea
H. J. MADDOCKS
Lieutenant Colonel 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Born 14 NOV 1866
Killed 25 SEP 1915 at Loos
Buried at Festubert [France]
Willie REDWOOD
Dorset Regiment
Son of W. & E. R. REDWOOD
Born 18 SEP 1896 at Little Bredy
Died 18 DEC 1916 at Basra
Buried at Hakimayeh Cemetery, Mesopotamia
Harold John ROLLS
Corporal ASC
Only son of John & Elizabeth ROLLS
Born 12 NOV 1894 at Little Bredy
Killed 29 AUG 1918 at Arras
Buried at Arras [France]
J. N. WILLIAMS
Auckland New Zealand Force
Son of Robert & Rosa WILLIAMS of Bridehead
Born 24 JAN 1878
Killed 25 APR 1915 at Galipoli
[Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey]
Commemorated in the church:
Nat WILLIAMS born 24 JAN 1878 - a man greatly loved – gave his life amongst the first of the New Zealanders in Gallipoli on St Mark's day 1915 – his friends in Little Bredy set this record to his memory.
Extra details from the Commonwealth Graves Commission website (www.cwgc.org):
John Nathaniel WILLIAMS
Private 12/484, 6th (Hauraki) Coy, Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F.
Son of Colonel Sir Robert Williams, 1st Bart., and Lady Williams, of Bridehead, Dorchester, England. Educated at Eton and Oxford. Employed by Waihi Gold Mining Company, Ltd.
Other Little Bredy Men killed in the Galipoli Campaign and commemorated elsewhere:
BAGG, Private Wilfred Charles No.10562 "A Company, 5th Bn.
Born at Little Bredy, Dorset, and enlisted at Dorchester, Dorset, the son of Walter James and Mary Jane Bagg of Lastridge Cottage, Warmwell, Dorchester. Killed in action during the assault on Turkish trenches between Aire Kayak and Susak Kuyu, Suvla, on Aug. 21, 1915, aged 18 years. Name commemorated on the Helles Memorial and on the Warmwell War Memorial, Dorset.
WINTLE, Private Ernest William No.10365 5th Bn.
Born Little Bredy, Dorset, and enlisted at Beaminster, Dorset, the son of John and Lucy Ann Wintle of Higher Wraxall, Rampisham, Dorchester. At the time of his enlistment he was living at Higher Wraxall. Killed in action. during the assault on Turkish trenches between Aire Kayak and Susak Kuyu, Suvla, on Aug. 21, 1915, aged 21 years. Name commemorated on the Helles Memorial and on the Wraxall War Memorial, Dorset.