Little Bredy

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.

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