Sherborne

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Burials at Sherborne Cemetery
Research by Richard Smith into the lives and deaths of the CWGC War Casualties buried in Sherborne.

Burials from CWGC at Sherborne Cemetery

BABBAGE Bernard Boy 1st Class No. C/JX 371313 HMS St George Royal Navy

Born in Walthamstow, Essex on 24th February 1926, son of Edwin Job Babbage, a garage proprietor, and his wife Victoria Annie Blower, who lived at South
Woodham, Chelmsford, Essex. Bernard died at the R N Auxillary Military Hospital, Sherborne on Sarcomatosis (a rare cancer) on 21st January 1944
aged 17 and was buried in grave No. 6. 8. on the 26th.

BASHFORD Ernest Frederick Leading Stoker No. P/K 66530 HMS Calder - Royal Navy records say HMS Victory.

Born in East Preston, Sussex on 1st June 1907 son of Henry Deacon, a horse dealer and fish seller who died in 1943, and his wife Emily Bashford. He
enlisted in the Royal Navy on 9th July 1925 to 25th October 1927, then again on 24th February 1930. In 1939 Emily was living at 18 Richmond Road,
Worthing, Sussex. Ernest died on 23rd February 1944 at the R N Auxiliary Military Hospital, Sherborne of an intestinal obstruction, and was buried in
grave No. 6. 12.

BATSON Frederick Rifleman No. 37245 1st/5th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment(Prince of Wales's Volunteers), previously Duke of Cornwall's Light
Infantry No. 26225.

Born about July 1887 at Sherborne, son of Cornelius Batson a painter who died in 1889, and his wife Mary Ann Poole who died in 1906. He married
Elsie Frances Marshalsea at Sherborne on 10th January 1909, and they were living at Coldharbour, Sherborne - he was working as a carpenter. He died
from unspecified causes on 22nd March 1918 aged 29 at 3rd Western General Hospital, Newport, Monmouthshire, and was buried on the 27th in grave No.
15. 65.

BEAGLEY Alfred Edwin Private No. 6091729 5th Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.

Born in Hambledon, Surrey on 3rd February 1918 son of Bertram Wyndham Beagley, a motor lorry driver in 1921 who died in 1925, and his wife
Millicent Ada Earle. Alfred was working as a flour miller when he enlisted on 26th July 1939, but was wounded at the Battle for Dunkirk, France and
captured by the Germans on 29th May 1940. He was in POW Camp XX1A at Gratz, Poland from 12 February 1941 to 5 May 1941 where he worked as a farm
labourer, then moved to Camp XXB at Merienburg, Germany from 1 June 1941 through to 25 January 1945 where he worked in a brewery and an oil grinding
mill. Having been released, he married Pamela Margaret Davey at Sherborne in July 1945, but died there on 19th December 1947, actual cause not found
and buried in grave No. 6. 12 on the 23rd of December .

CARLSON Dale Gladstone Acting Sub Lieutenant R N V R and Fleet Air Arm.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1925 son of Harry Carlson, a carman who had been born in Sweden, and his wife Ida Peterson, who were
later living at Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Dale was commissioned as a temporary Sub Lieutenant on 6th November 1944, and was undertaking flying
training with 761 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm. On 9th November 1945 he was flying a Supermarine Seafire out of HMS Dipper, a Fleet Air Arm training
airfield at Henstridge, Dorset, but his plane spun out of control and crashed near West Orchard, Shaftesbury. He was buried in grave No. 6. 3.

COOK Samuel Private No. 41360 13th Battalion Devonshire Regiment - later Labour Corps No. 172013.

Born in Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire in 1888 son of Alfred Edwin Cook, a forester who died in 1906, and his wife Phoebe Elmer. In 1911 he was
working as a carpenter living with his widowed mother at 308 Castleton Road, Sherborne. He enlisted on 11th December 1915, and Army records
suggest he was on leave to get married when he caught flu which turned into pneumonia and he died at home in Sherborne on 1st November 1918 aged 30.
He was buried in grave No. 15. 63 on Nov. 5th. His mother was living then in The Retreat, Marston Road, Sherborne.

CROSSON William Private No. 3720 1st Battalion Irish Guards

Born in 1894 at Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, Ireland son of Patrick Crossing a stone mason and his wife Catherine (Kate) Fitzpatrick. Was serving in
Europe by 27th August 1914, but died of war wounds at Yeatman Auxiliary Hospital, Sherborne on 2nd November 1914, aged 22, and was buried in grave
No. 17. 18.

DAINES Thomas Private No. SS/ 2558 Army Service Corps

Born in Toppesfield, Essex in October 1869, son of Charles Daines, a farm labourer, and his wife Sarah Anne Smee. He married Kate Rawlinson at
Poslingford, Suffolk on 17th June 1893 . He had previously worked as a farm labourer, and served in the 3rd Suffolk Militia before he enlisted in
September 1914, but died of pneumonia following influenza at the Red Cross Hospital, Sherborne on 22nd February 1915, and was buried in grave No. 15.
75. His widow Kate was living at 34 Arthur Street, Silvertown, London.

DAMMERS Denis Henry Acting Sub-Lieutenant HMS Daedalus Royal Navy

Born in Bridport in 1920 son of Eric Henry Falk Dammers, a chartered accountant, and his wife Maud Winifred Barclay. In 1939 they were living at
Purbrook, The Avenue, Sherborne. Denis was appointed a midshipman on 2nd June 1938 and on 2nd June 1942 was flying a Tiger Moth on a cross-country
flight from RNAS HMS Daedalus at Lee on Solent, Hampshire when he flew the plane into telegraph wires and dived into the River Thames near Clewer,
Berkshire. He was buried in grave No. 6. 2.

DODGE Augustus Kenneth Seymour Private No. TR/8 9436 35th Battalion training Reserve.

Born in Sherborne about July 1898, son of Augustus William Dodge, a boot maker later furniture dealer who died in 1916 and his wife Mildred Annie
Cooper. In 1911 the family were living in Cheap Street, Sherborne. He died in hospital at Warminster, Wiltshire, cause not found, on 31st March 1917
aged 18 and was buried on 4th April in grave No. 13. 9.

ELCOCKS Richard William Private No. 7772 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Born in Wellington, Shropshire on 5th June 1882 son of Thomas Alcock's, a gardener who died in 1916, and his wife Emma Nicholls who died in 1911. He
had already joined the Army by 1911 census when the family were living at 17 Haygate Road, Wellington. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Rhodes at
Wellington on 8th February 1914, but died of war wounds at the Yeatman Auxiliary Military Hospital, Sherborne on 26th June 1915 and was buried in
grave No. 15. 71.

GOODWIN Oliver Ross Acting Lieutenant HMS Dipper RNVR and Fleet Air Arm

Born on 5th July 1922 son of Oliver Howard Goodwin, an export merchant, and his wife Evaline Charlotte Boyce. On 23rd May 1945 Oliver was flying a
Supermarine Seafire Liii/Pr from RNAS Henstridge, Dorset with 718 Squadron on a low-level formation flight when he collided with Seafire No. Nf646
also from 718 Sqn. near to Henstridge. He was aged 22, and buried in grave No. 6. 51. His probate to his father Oliver on 18th April 1946 was for
£603 6s. 8d.

GRANT Alan Aircraftman 1st Class No. 1721656 RAFVR 80 Signals Wing

Born in Newcastle Upon Tyne in summer of 1923, son of Alfred Ernest Grant, a civil servant with the Air Ministry, and his wife Hilda Graham. In 1939
they were living at Market Place, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. Alan died on 3rd November 1944 aged 21 when riding his bicycle and he failed to stop at
a "Halt" sign and collided with a car suffering a fractured skull. He was buried in grave No. 6. 382.

HAYTER Margaret Frances Corporal No. 2069687 Women's Auxiliary Air Force 73 Signals Wing, Fighter Command.

She was born on 26 January 1923, the daughter of Harold William Hayter, master draper at the Sherborne Drapery Stores, and Mary Margaret Hayter
(née Ogden) of 4, Sunnyside Terrace, North Road, Sherborne. Margaret was educated at Lord Digby's School and worked as a draper's assistant at
Messrs. Phillips & Son. In December 1941, Margaret joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She died of pulmonary tuberculosis at Dorset
County Home, Bournemouth Road, Parkstone on 24 July 1943, aged 20. She was buried at Sherborne Cemetery on 27 July 1943 in grave No. 6. 402.

HOLME William Cook No. D/MX 778762 HMS Gannet Royal Navy.

Naval records say he was Born in Wallasey, Cheshire on 6th October 1927, but I cannot trace his parents in the 1939 census. He died on 24th June
1947 at the RN Auxiliary Hospital at Sherborne from a fractured spine and associated paraplegia from an unspecified accident, and was buried in grave
No. 6.9

JONES John Elfed Private No. 6457008 1st/5th Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.

Born in December 1904 in Caernarfonshire, Wales son of Robert Jones, a labourer at a stone quarry who died in June 1939, and his wife Grace
Williams who died in 1913. In 1921 aged 16 he was an assistant fireman at Holyhead Gas and Water Co. living with his widowed father at 9 Tat Cred
Villa, Penmaenmawr, North Wales. I could not find any details of his death on 18th January 1940 aged 35, before he was buried in grave No. 6. 427.

KELLY Thomas Gunner No. 87138 29th Division Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery.

Army records say he enlisted at Egremont, Cumberland and resided at Alsager, Cheshire but I failed to find his birth about 1893 or parents. He
died of war wounds, probably at Sherborne Military Hospital on 11th January 1918 and was buried in grave No. 15. 66.

KENNELL John Private No. 3/7665 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment

Born in about 1872 at Chilthorne Domer, near Yeovil, Somerset, son of Francis Kennell a shoemaker who died in 1907, and his wife Elizabeth
Hosegood. He first enlisted in Dorset Regiment on 3rd September 1888 No. 2860 and served in 2nd Boer War in South Africa 1899-1902, but was
discharged at end of his period of service on 28th May 1902. He married Bessie Jane Greenstock at Sherborne on 15th June 1902, and in 1911 they
were living at Bristol Road, Oberne, Dorset with John working as a farm labourer. He signed again on 14th March 1914 but was declared unfit for
military service and discharged on 12th July 1917. John died on 24th December 1919, cause not found, and was buried in grave No. 15. 59 on the
29th. His wife Bessie had died six weeks earlier on 8th November 1919.

LANGLEY-ELLIS Struan Anthony Sergeant No. 1314232 50 Squadron Royal Air Force

Born in Paddington, London in January 1923 son of Gerald Arthur Langley-Lewis. He was in Canada in W W One and served in the 11th Brigade
Canadian Mounted Horse and was badly wounded in one arm - his wife was Aileen Mary Berthon. In July 1941 Struan was in the USA on aircrew
training and his immigration card shows his next of kin as his mother living at Thornford, Dorset. On 9th January 1943 he was the Observer, part
of the crew of a Lancaster bomber, on cross country training from RAF Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire when it crashed at Kirby Moor, Cumbria and
Struan was amongst those killed. He was buried in grave No. A.2. 19.

LANGELAND Reidar Douglas Acting Sub Lieutenant RNVR HMS Dipper 761 Squadron

Born (in Norway ?) on 19th August 1920 son of Olaf Langeland who was born in Norway in 1883 and died in 1929, and his wife Christine Rennie. He
married Myra Gardner Cowan in Edinburgh, Scotland on 12th July 1944 and their address was 45 Summerside Street, Edinburgh. He was appointed
Temporary Sub Lieutenant on 2nd January 1945, but died on 22nd May 1945 when flying a Seafire out of RNAS Henstridge, Dorset which dived into the
ground. He was buried in grave No. 6. 58.

LEADBETTER Nicholas Sergeant No. 53475 107th Squadron Royal Air Force

Born on 7th November 1879 at Fleetwood, Lancashire son of Isaac Leadbetter, a fisherman later a fish and game shop owner who died in 1908, and his wife
Elizabeth Jane Leadbetter. He married Alice Jane Griggiths at Fylde, Lancashire in January 1900 and was working as a fish merchant in 1901. He
enlisted in the RAF on 8th January 1917 but died of pneumonia at Sherborne on 18th February 1919 and was buried in grave No. 10. 31. His widow Alice
was living at 50 Orchard Road, St Annes on Sea, Lancashire.

LEWIN Jonathan William Private No. SE/10420 Army Veterinary Corps (Depot).

Army records say he was born in Witham, Essex about 1893 but I can find nothing about his parents. He appears in no census until 1911, by which
time he had married Agnes Cudmore at Colchester, Essex in January 1902, and they were living at 7 Cistern Yard, North Hill, Colchester, where Jonathan
worked as a house painter. He saw service in France from 13th September 1915, but died at Yeatman Auxiliary Hospital, Sherborne, I think of cancer
of the liver, on 4th July 1916, aged 38, and was buried in grave No. 15. 70 on the 6th July. His widow Agnes remarried at Colchester in January 1917 to
Harry William Day.

LEWSLEY Edward Private No. 3/ 3533 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Born in Chelsea, London in 1894 son of James Dennis Lesley, a general labourer, and his wife Charlotte Amelia Butler. In 1911 the family were
living at 165 Langford Road, Fulham, London. Edward died at the Red Cross Hospital, Sherborne on 30th May 1915, cause not found. N.B. CWGC say he was
31 but was aged 21. He was buried in grave No. 17. 23.

LUGG William Alfred John Private No. 14873532 9th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment

Born in Sherborne in July 1926 son of Alfred Harold Lugg and his wife Eveline Daisy Biggin. Army records show he died as a result of an
unspecified "Accident" registered at Wayland, Norfolk on 14th December 1945, and he was buried in grave No. 6. 359 on the 19th.

MacKENZIE Roy Alexander Acting Sub Lieutenant RNVR HMS Dipper 889 Squadron Fleet Air Arm

Born in Old Aberdeen, Scotland on 6th January 1924 son of Hugh William MacKenzie and his wife Martha Grant. Appointed Temporary Sub Lieutenant
on 21st April 1944, he was killed on 20th June 1945 when flying at Seafire 1ii from RNAS Henstridge, Dorset on a homing exercise, and the plane flew
into the ground north east of Wincanton, Somerset. He was 21 and buried in grave No. 6. 74. His parents were living at 49 Portland Street, Marylebone, London.

McCREERY Robert Bruce Lieutenant 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

Born on 4th March 1899 at Billesdon, Leicestershire, son of Walter Adolph McCreery, a US Citizen who died in the USA in 1922, and his wife Emily
Jane McAdam. On 15th May 1921 at the time of the Black and Tan troubles in Ireland, Robert was visiting the house of Mr Bagott - Ballyinturin House
near Gort, Co. Galway with the local Inspector of Police, his wife and others for a game of tennis when they were caught in an ambush near the
house. Four were killed including Robert, who was then buried in grave No. 13. 14 on the 19th. Probate to his father on 30th June 1921 was for
£1,127 9s 11d and gave his addresses as Greenhill House, Sherborne and Bilton Park, Rugby. His parents' address was Stowell Hill, Templecombe, Somerset.

McLEOD Gordon Edward Acting Sub Lieutenant R N Z A F 761 Squadron Fleet Air Arm

Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1921 - his 3x great grandfather James McLeod sailed to N Z from Scotland about the 1850's and married there.
Gordon's parents were James Alexander McLeod and his wife Henrietta Mary Carter, who lived at Takapura, Auckland, New Zealand. Gordon was undergoing
fly training on 23rd June 1945 in a Seafire1ii from RNAS Henstridge, Dorset when he lost control of his plane, spun and crashed at Margaret's Marsh,
southwest of Shaftesbury. He was 24 and buried in grave No. 6. 81.

MANSON Alexander Reid Signalman No. 14359540 Royal Corps of Signals

Born in Partick, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 10th November 1902, son of William Laird Manson, shipping editor for Glasgow Herald who died in 1930,
and his wife Jessie Reid (K/as Janet). He married Annie Walker Fulton at Holborn, London in July 1931, but died in an unspecified "Accident" from
Army records on 21st May 1943, registered at Sturminster, and was buried in grave No. 6. 405. His widow Annie was living at Wembley Park, Middlesex.

MARSHALL Robert Warrant Officer (Stores) HMS Drake Royal Navy

Born in Birkdale, Lancashire on 19th September 1903 son of Robert Marshall, a dairyman, and his wife Lucy Tiplady. He enlisted in the Royal
Navy as a boy sailor on 25th January 1918 and had a long and successful career. In July 1924 whilst stationed at Plymouth he married Margaret
Harvey Johnson who, in 1939, was living at 9 Tenby Road, Plymouth, Devon. Robert died at R N Auxiliary Hospital, Sherborne on 8th May 1945 from
cirrhosis of the liver and complications and was buried in grave No. 6. 39.

MITCHELL George Thomas Sapper No. 140084 91st Field Company Royal Engineers

Born in Sherborne about March 1885 son of Thomas Mitchell, a mason, and his wife Emily Gamble. In 1911 the family were living at 7 Coombe Terrace,
Sherborne, before he married Gertrude Mary Hamblin at Sherborne on 10th August 1911. He died at Sherborne on 21st July 1921, cause not found, and
was buried in grave No. 15. 79. His widow Gertrude was living at 11 Fairmont Terrace, North Road, Sherborne.

MITCHENER Francis Walter Charles Aircraftman 1st Class No. 915983 RAFVR

He was born in January 1922 at Whitchurch, Hampshire. I think his parents were Edwin George Mitchener and his wife Elsie M. Trowbridge who
married at Alton, Hampshire in the last quarter of 1931. In 1939 they were living at Humphrey Cottage, Long Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset. The death of
Francis on 15th September 1941 was registered at Sturminster, but I found nothing about the circumstances. He was buried on the 18th in grave No. 6.
383. His burial record gave an address of 55 Coldharbour, Sherborne.

NAPPER William John Company Quartermaster Sergeant No. 4031021 5th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry.

Army records say he was born in Glamorgan, Wales in 1908, but I failed to identify his parents. He may have married Iris Selina Vickery at Sherborne
in April 1942 (was he wounded or ill just before he died ?). Army records say he "Died" without giving further details on 30th July 1942, and his
death was registered at Dorchester. He was buried in grave No. 6. 378.

OXFORD Charles John Private No. 7521460 Royal Army Medical Corps.

Born in Sherborne 18th September 1915 son of Henry George Oxford, a railway ganger in 1939, and his wife Alice Charlotte Gillingham. In 1939 he was a
printer's machinist and British Red Cross worker living at 7 Ludbourne (?) Road, Sherborne, before he married Joyce Elaine Evans at Sherborne in April
1941. He died at the Yeatman Auxiliary Military Hospital, Sherborne, cause not found, on 4th April 1945 aged 29 and was buried on the 7th in grave No.
6. 379. Probate to his widow Joyce on 1st August 1945 was for £237. 8s and gave their address as 4 Cricket View, Westbury, Sherborne.

PAINE Cecil John Private No. TR7/ 2460 92nd Training Reserve, and 17th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Born in Sherborne on 10th May 1899 son of John Warren Paine, a general dealer who died in 1916, and his wife Emily Mitchell who died in 1925. In
1911 the family were living at Trendle Street, Sherborne. Cecil died aged 18 at Chisledon Military Hospital, Swindon, Wiltshire on 6th June 1917,
cause of death not found, and was buried in grave No. 15. 67.

PALMER Arthur Private No. 191131 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

Born in Bicester, Oxfordshire about late 1888 son of George Palmer, a domestic Groom, and his wife Annie Carey. In 1911 the family were living at
29 Newland, Sherborne with Arthur working as a domestic footman aged 22. Army records show he died at Cannock Chase, Staffordshire Military
Hospital, but I failed to find a cause of death. He was buried in grave No. 15. 62 of the 20th. His parents were living at 4 Horncastle, Sherborne.

PITMAN Nelson Victor Private No. 269540 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Previously served in Dorset Yeomanry No. 853.

Born about April 1890 son of George Pitman, a butcher, and his wife Amy Roles Treasure who in 1911 were living at 221 Westbury Street, Sherborne.
Nelson had already joined the Dorsetshires when he married Alice Moores at Sherborne on 2nd January 1915. He was discharged from the Army on 22nd
March 1919 but died, cause not found, on 21st November 1920 aged 31. He was buried in grave No. 15. 77.

PRAGNELL Sydney Ralph 2nd Lieutenant 4th Squadron Royal Air Force No 43313.

Born in Kilkenny, Ireland on 16th October 1898 son of Edward Joseph Martin Pragnell, a hotel owner, and his wife Helen Lydia Marshall, who in 1911 ran
the Half Moon Hotel at Sherborne. Sydney joined the R N V R on 13th January 1916, No. Z 1500, giving his d.o.b. as 16 ^th October 1897, and
transferred to the RAF on 1st April 1918. Sydney was flying at No. 4 Fighting School, Freiston, Boston, Lincolnshire when he died in an
unspecified aero accident on 10th August 1918, and was buried in grave No. 13. 237 on the 14th.

PROCTOR Gordon Tuxworth Captain No. 207316 Royal Artillery

Born in Exeter, Devon about April 1919 son of Arthur Tuxworth Proctor, a drapery buyer who died in 1921, and his wife Jessie M. Sparrow. In 1941
Gordon was an accountant's articled clerk before at Sherborne Abbey on 10th December 1942 he married Joan Lucienne Waller. On 8th January 1943 he was
flying an Auster from Dumfries, Scotland on an exercise where he flew into high tension cables and crashed south of Lockerbie, Scotland and was
killed. He was aged 23 and buried on the 13th in grave No. 6. 426. His probate to his widow Joan on 26th May 1944 was for £773 8s. and gave their
address as The White House, The Avenue, Sherborne. Joan remarried at Bishopsteignton, Devon on 16th December 1944 to Edgar Aubrey Phillips.

RAWLINGS Tom Hallett Walter Saddler No. TS/ 7230 No. 1 Company Army Service Corps

Born about June 1896 at Mile End Old Town, London son of Walter Rawlings, a Groom, and his wife Jane who lived at Alpine, Greenhill, Sherborne. Tom
enlisted on 26th April 1915 but was declared no longer fit for service on 12th June 1916, and died of tuberculosis on 20th July 1916 aged 20. He was
buried in grave No. 15. 69 on the 24th.

ROBERTS Arthur Alexander Sub Lieutenant (E) R N V R HMS Mersey

Born in Liverpool, Lancashire on 23rd June 1917 son of William Henshaw Roberts, a shipyard worker who died in 1923, and his wife Priscilla Amy
Forster. In 1939 he and widowed mother were living at 20 Clifton Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool, before he enlisted and was commissioned as a temporary
act Sub Lieutenant on 6th June 1941. He died at the R N Auxiliary Hospital, Sherborne on 30th June 1944, cause not found, and was buried in grave No.
6. 34. Probate to his mother on 11th July 1946 was for £471. 19. 3d.

ROGERS Percival John Corporal No. 1202594 R A F V R 80th Signals Wing Bomber Command at Radlett Hertfordshire.

Born in Sherborne on 18th September 1910 son of Albert John Rogers, a law clerk, and his wife Susan Brake Ring, who in 1921 were living at Kings
Road, Sherborne. He married Elsie Irene Chard at Sherborne in January 1933. He died on 31st March 1943 in the RAF Station Sick Bay at Radlett,
but I failed to find a cause of death, and was buried in grave No. 6. 424 on 3rd April. His probate to his widow Elsie on 16th July 1943 was for
£680 0s. 11d giving their address as The Croft, Romsey Road, Broughton, Hampshire.

RUEGG Maurice Chilton Private No. 29887 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's Own) previously Dorsetshire Regt. No. 29544.

Born in Sherborne on 28th March 1899 son of Louis Hamilton Ruegg, an accountant, and his wife Alice Maude Richardson. Educated at Foster's
Grammar School, Sherborne, then worked as a bank clerk, he enlisted on 28th March 1917. Served in France and Flanders, but died at Bradford War
Hospital, Yorkshire on 30th November 1918 of war wounds and gas poisoning. He was buried in grave No. 6. 343 on the 6th December. His parents were
living at Newlands, Sherborne.

RUSSELL Harold Stanley Lance Corporal No. 15845 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment.

Born in Sherborne about September 1895 son of Henry Charles Russell, a carpenter, and his wife May Ann Wright, who in 1911 lived at 17 Wingfield
Road, Sherborne, when Harold was working as a hairdresser. Army records show he died of war wounds on 11th August 1916 aged 21 and was buried in
grave no. 15. 68 on the 15th.

SANSON S.

CWGC has his death as 31st March 1921 Father Thomas. I think this was Stanley SANSOM who died on 25th March 1921 and was buried on 31st. He was
Born in Sherborne about August 1892, son of Thomas Sansom who worked at a glove factory, and his wife Jane Gillard who died in 1915. In 1911 the
family were living at 62 Wingfield Road, Sherborne. Stanley served in 1st/4th Dorsetshire Regiment Nos 1558 then 200223. He was buried in grave
No. 15. 78. No cause of death was found.

SHUTE Stanley Henry Supply Assistant No. P/PDX 172 HMS Douglas Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve.

Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on 15th June 1917, son of Charles Shute, an electrical fitter who died in October 1943, and his wife Winifred Bessie
Keates. Stanley died at the R N Auxiliary Military Hospital, Sherborne on 21st July 1942 of bacterial endocarditis, and was buried in grave No. 6. 5.
Probate to his mother Winifred on 6th November 1942 was for £683 16s. 11d.

STACEY Dorothy Louise Staff Nurse No. 2/R/S/ 519 Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Service.

Born in Charlton Horethorne, Somerset on 23rd July 1893 daughter of Alfred John Stacey, a farmer, and his wife Mary Matilda Corry. In 1911 the
family were living at Buttons Farm, Wadhurst, Sussex. Dorothy's death on 5th October 1918 was registered at Wareham, Dorset, and she was buried in
grave No. 17. 257. No cause or place of death was found.

STAGG Sidney Herbert Boy 2nd Class No. J/ 94424 HMS Powerful Royal Navy.

Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on 30th September 1901, son of Sidney Herbert Stagg, a boot maker and dealer, and his wife Frances Gertrude Harris. In
1911 the family were living in Cheap Street, Sherborne. He enlisted in the Royal Navy on 22nd January 1919, but died a month later of pneumonia on
27th February 1919 at R N Hospital, Plymouth. He was buried in grave No. 13. 236.

SWEET Harold Edward (sometimes Edward Harold) Volunteer 4th Dorset (Sherborne) Battalion Home Guard.

Born in Christchurch, Hampshire in 1895 son of George Sweet, a railway inspector who died 4. 1. 1912, and his wife Elizabeth Harrison (Bessie)
who died the day before her husband on 3 January 1912. In 1911 he was aged 16 training to be a dental mechanic and was working as such in
Sherborne in 1921 and 1939. CWGC says he died 12th September 1941, but in fact he died at the Yeatman Auxiliary Military Hospital, Sherborne on the
9th and was buried on the 12th in grave No. 6. 401. No cause of death is given. His address was Wingfield Road, Sherborne.

TOWNSEND Louis Henry Corporal No. 12183 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment.

His birth was registered Apr-June 1881 at West Ham, Essex and a record says his father was a Thomas Clark, but I have been unable to identify his
parents. He married Florence Annie Ridley at Stratford, London on 16th December 1906. Having served in France and Flanders he died of war wounds
on 20th March 1915 aged 34 at the Red Cross Hospital at Sherborne, and was buried in grave No. 15. 72. His widow Annie was living at 59 Pitchford
Street, West Ham Lane, Stratford, London.

TUHURU John T.H.T. Able Seaman No. 8990 H. M. L.C.T. 350 Royal New Zealand Navy.

Born in 1926 at Hokitika, Westland, New Zealand son of Irai T. Turuhu and his wife Emma P. H. Tainui of Arahura, Westland N.Z. His wife was Miriam
Norah Tuhuru also of Arahuru. John arrived on board S.S. Akaroa at Liverpool from Auckland N. Z. on 3rd July 1944 but died at Sherborne
Military Hospital on 12th September 1945 of chronic military tuberculosis and was buried in grave No. 6. 99. He was 5x great grandson of Chief Tuhuru
of Westland N.Z.

WARNE William Henry Lance Corporal No. 230034 "B" Squadron Dorset Yeomany (Queen's Own).

Born in Walworth, London on 5th March 1892, son of Ellen Gould with no father listed on his birth certificate. In 1911 Ellen, living on private
means, and William, a law clerk, were living at East Street, West Coker, Somerset when William was born. William died of war wounds at the British
Red Cross Hospital, Netley, Hampshire on 9th October 1918 and was buried in grave No. 15. 64 on the 12th. His mother later married Henry Brown at West
Coker in 1917 but she died in 1925.

WHEELER Thomas Sidney Air Mechanic No. FX / 104974 HMS Heron R N Air Station Yeovilton, Somerset.

Born in Stoke Newington, London on 8th April 1906 son of Thomas Henry Wheeler, a decorator, and his wife Edith. In 1930 Thomas Jnr. was working
as a taxi driver when he married Henrietta Mackway at Walworth, London on 6th September 1930. In 1938 they were living at 25 Mann Street, Southwark,
London. He died on 14th June 1944 at Yeatman Auxiliary Military Hospital, Sherborne, cause not found, and was buried in grave No. 6. 19.

YOUNG Raymond Henry Philip Private No. 6086190 1st/5th Battalion Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.

Born in West Holmwood, Surrey on 20th January 1914, son of William Alfred Young, a coach and car painter / instructor, and his wife Emily Annie
Young. In 1921 the family were living at 5 Beats Brook Cottages, West Holmwood, Surrey. He died on 18th January 1940 of an unspecified accident,
his death being registered at Sturminster Newton, and he was buried in grave No. 6. 423.

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