COLCHESTER

Sach, Frederick Sadler, Alfred S Sadler, A S Sadler, Albert Stanley Sadler, Arthur William Sadler, Douglas Sadler, Herbert Charles Sadler, Stanley Alfred Sage, R Fred Sage, Walter Charles Sage, W E Sage, Wm G Sage, William Sallis, H Sallows, Edward Willim Sallows, George Sallows, H Salmon, Harold A Salmon, Jack Salmon, P A Salmon, William John Sanger, Harry Sansom, C Sargeant, Alfred Sargeant, A V Sargeant, Walter Sargent, Arthur Saunders, Stanley G Saville, Frank Albert Sawkins, Claud Sawyer, Edward Sayle, A Scanlan, James Scanlan, John Scott, Charles Scott, George E Scott, John R Scovell, George Henry Seaborn, Ernest Walter Seaborne, C Seaborne, Ernest J Seaman, Chas H Secker, John Devereux Secrett, Fredk George Self, Edward J Sewell, J E Shead, John Wm Evans Shears, Herbert Charles Sheehan, J Sheldrake, Arthur L Sheldrake, George C Shipp, Alfred Shynn, Fred Walter Simms, Joseph William Simons, Charles Henry Wm Simons, Ernest Ambrose Simons, William John Simpson, Cyrus Simpson, Percy Wm Simpson, Thomas Henry Sizeland, Walter John Skelton, A Slythe, Stanley George Smee, Ernest Thomas Smith, Aubrey George Smith, Edward Thompson Smith, Edwin Smith, E Smith, Frank Smith, Fred Smith, Fredk Eugene Smith, George Fredk Smith, G N R Smith, John Raymond Smith, John Smith, J Smith, S J Smith, Stanley Edward Smith, S J C Smith, Thomas Smith, W G Smith, W G Smith, William Smy, Horace G Soames, H W Soughan, Frank Soughan, Leo Soughan, Percy Sowther, Ernest Sparkes, Alfred H Sparkes, Altree G Sparkes, W H

Sparling, A Edward Sparling, Walter Speller, W O Spencer, Edmund Springett, George Percy Springett, Richard C Spurgeon, Sidney St George, H W St George, G S W Stammers, J Stanford, Alan K Stanford, Donovan R Stanford, Sybil H Stannard, John Stanyon, Alan Starling, Claud Frank Steggles, Albert E Steggles, Alfred Steggles, Joseph Stevens, Harry Stevens, Percy Stewart, H Stickland, William A Stonebridge, A V Stork, W H Stowe, Ernest Charles Strutt, Arthur William Strutt, E Walter Styles, Frederick Sunderland, H A Swain, Frank Swale, M G Swan, Cyril John Sweetapple, A Swett, William Percy Syrett, Frank Syrett, R Tadmore, Joseph A Tapsell, Richard Tatman, S W Tatt, Harry Tatlow, J Tayler, Dudley Henry Taylor, Joseph Taylor, Percy G Taylor, Reginald H Theobald, F G Theobald, G D Thomas, Alfred Thomas, Arthur P Thomas, Cecil Frank Thomas, Ernest Edward Thomas, Fredk A Thomas, Stanley Wm George Thomas, T Thompson, Ernest J Thompson, Herbert Thompson, Stanley E Thorpe, Charles Edward Thurlow, Thomas Timms, Joseph William Timothy, - Tinkler, Herbert Geo Tipper, Wm Jas Totman, Samuel W Towns, George Robert Tralau, Alfred William Tralau, George Walter (M.M.) Triphook, Owen Leach Trumpess, Albert Trumpess, Edward N Trussell, Alan L Trussell, Wilfred G Tucker, Arthur G Tucker, Cyril James William Tucker, Thomas Turrall, Arthur Turner, Fredk Thomas Turtill, J J Tydeman, Laurance Walter Tyler, John Collett Tyson, F Upton, F J Usher, Samuel Venard, George Willis Verlander, William James Vine, James Edward Wade, Henry James Wade, W Wadley, Sidney Wagstaff, J H Wale, S

Walker, Charles Ernest Wallace, Dudley W Waller, John Harry Waller, Vincent P N Walsh, B Walsh, James Walshe, Harry Ward, Albert George Ward, Ernest Waring, R Warner, Ernest F Warner, Lawson Warner, W J Warner, William Alfred Warner, William Robert (not on War memorial) Warren, Edward H Wash, William T Wass, James Stanley (not on war memorial) Wateson, Walter J Wateson, William Watson, D A Watson, Harry Wass, James Stanley Watson, - Watts, V Wayland, Bertie Webb, Albert Ernest Webb, F W Webber, C H Weller, G Wells, F J T Wells, George Wells, Thomas William M Welton, George Went, John Weston, D G Weston, R D Whall, Fredk Thos Whall, Richard James Whalley, J Whatling, Lee Sanson Wheatley, Henry Wheelan, George (M.C.) Wheeler, Cecil Henry Wheeler, Fredk C Wheeler, Albert Henry Wheeler, James Robert Wheeler, Walter George White, Alexander White, Alfred William White, Benjamin J White, L White, Maurice Joseph White, Reginald Robert Whiting, Arthur T J Wicks, Harry Sidney Wilby, Alfred Dolphin Wilkinson, Henry Eady B Williams, Oliver Williams, S Williams, Thos A Williams, Walter Willis, John Willis, J Willis, W Wills, Horace Fredk Wilson, Stanley John Windsor, Henry F Winter, C H Wisbey, Harry Wood, William George Woodrow, A George Woodrow, William John Woollard, Alan George Woollard, Basil Edgar Wordley, Bertie Daniel Worger, Sidney Richard Worth, Claude Wright, George J H Wright, Herbert Wright, John Fredk Wright, Leslie Wright, Samuel Wyatt, Harold T Wyatt, Philip Oliver Wyatt, Thomas James York, G H Youngs, Albert C Youngs, William Youngs, William Q L Yule, Leonard W

1248 in total

 

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The following information was provided in 2023 via a Colchester Royal Grammar School project that researched ex-pupils of the school.

In Memory of

John Devereux Secker

Colchester Cemetery, K. 16. 84

John Devereux Secker, known as Jack, was the son of Mr John Howard Secker and Mrs Jane Phillips Secker of 3, Frost's Yard, North Hill, Colchester. Born in 1894, he was the eldest of five children. His father was a Bank Cashier, originally from Burford, Oxfordshire, while his mother came from Tewkesbury. They later moved to 40 Nelson Road, Lexden.

Jack Secker is recorded in The Colcestrian as entering CRGS in the autumn term 1903, but there is no other mention of him in the magazine.

On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the London Rifle Brigade, though he later joined the 3rd/4th Battalion of the Essex Regiment, attached to the 1st Battalion of the Cambridgeshire Regiment. The Colcestrian records that, by March 1915, he was 'in the trenches in France.' However, in the June 1915 edition, it is stated that John Devereux Secker, London Rifle Brigade, was wounded at Ypres. He was also reported as suffering from the effects of being gassed.

Presumably he returned to England to recuperate, but never did so, as, on December 13th 1916, 2nd Lieutenant John Devereux Secker died at Hove, Sussex, presumably in one of the several military hospitals there, aged 22. This was reported in the Essex County Standard on 16th December. He is buried in Colchester Cemetery.

 

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Placed on Facebook by Jim Hinton on 29th October 2021

 

Buried or commemorated at

POZIERES MEMORIAL

Panel 51 and 52.

France

Son of George Arthur and F. Turrell, of 37, Balkerne Hill, Colchester.

 

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JAMES WALSH

Private

Service No: H/1965

Date of Death:07/11/1914

Regiment/Service: 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

Grave Reference: B. 19. Cemetery:BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY, NORD

My grandfather, James Walsh, Private 4th Queens Hussars, was the first soldier from Colchester killed in WW1, he died on 7th Nov 1914.

(James Boutell email 11/01/2016)

Historical Information

Bailleul was occupied on 14 October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre, with the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations quartered in it for considerable periods. It was a Corps headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and shelled, and after the Battle of Bailleul (13-15 April 1918), it fell into German hands and was not retaken until 30 August 1918.

 

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In memory of

WILLIAM ROBERT WARNER

Able Seaman

D/JX 152064

H.M.S. Sultan., Royal Navy

who died on

Monday 14 September 1942 . Age 21 .

Additional Information: Son of William Walter and Kathleen Ellen Warner, of Colchester, Essex.

Cemetery: THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERYMyanmar

Grave or Reference Panel Number: B5. B. 6.

Location: The village of Thanbyuzayat is 65 kilometres from Moulmein, and the war cemetery lies at the foot of the hills which separate the Union of Myanmar from Thailand. At present the only way in which the cemetery may be visited is by train. This is a long and uncomfortable journey and three days should be allocated. Only those in good health should attempt the journey. Prior permission is needed to travel to the cemetery, which is close to areas of unrest. Enquiries about the possibility of obtaining permission to visit the cemetery should be made to the nearest Union of Myanmar (Burmese) Embassy, or a Commonwealth Embassy in Yangon (Rangoon).

Historical Information: The notorious Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar). Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre. The Japanese aimed at completing the railway in 14 months and work began in October 1942. The line, 424 kilometres long, was completed by December 1943. The graves of those who died during the construction and maintenance of the Burma-Siam railway (except for the Americans, whose remains were repatriated) were transferred from camp burial grounds and isolated sites along the railway into three cemeteries at Chungkai and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar. Thanbyuzayat became a prisoner of war administration headquarters and base camp in September 1942 and in January 1943 a base hospital was organised for the sick. The camp was close to a railway marshalling yard and workshops, and heavy casualties were sustained among the prisoners during Allied bombing raids in March and June 1943. The camp was then evacuated and the prisoners, including the sick, were marched to camps further along the line where camp hospitals were set up. For some time, however, Thanbyuzayat continued to be used as a reception centre for the groups of prisoners arriving at frequent intervals to reinforce the parties working on the line up to the Burma-Siam border. Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it all graves along the northern section of the railway, between Moulmein and Nieke. There are now 3,149 Commonwealth and 621 Dutch burials of the Second World war in the cemetery.

(This record was discovered by Ann Norton who was able to add that he was originally on the HMS Repulse when it was sunk on 10 December 1941. William is not recorded on a Colchester memorial which should perhaps be corrected.)

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238049 ABLE SEAMAN

JAMES STANLEY WASS

DIED ON BOARD HMS VANGUARD 9TH JULY 1917 AGED 27 (THINK IT WAS IN SCAPA FLOW)

COMMEMORATED ON CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

SON OF MARY ANN WASS OF 3, GILBERT ROAD, COLCHESTER

HMS VANGUARD SUFFERED AN EXPLOSION ON THE EVENING OF 9TH JULY 1917. SHE SANK ALMOST IMMEDATELY TAKING AN ESTIMATED 840 MEN WITH HER. THERE WERE ONLY TWO SURVIVORS. THIS REMAINS THE MOST CATASTROPHIC ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION IN THE HISTORY OF THE UK AND ONE OF THE WORST ACCIDENTAL LOSSES OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

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In Memory of

THOMAS WILLIAM MAURICE WELLS

Second Lieutenant

2nd Bn., South Wales Borderers

who died on

Saturday, 1st July 1916.

Commemorative Information

Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France

Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Pier and Face 4 A

Location: The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929).

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WHALL, FREDERICK THOMAS

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Date of Death: 06/08/1915

Service No: 9405

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 144 to 150 or 229 to 233.

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

also, his brother, killed on the same day and area,

WHALL, RICHARD JAMES

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment/Service: Essex Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Date of Death: 06/08/1915

Service No: 10874

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 144 to 150 or 229 to 233.

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

The following details came from Mrs Joan Soole of Colchester in January 2009.

Some time ago I had a phone call from a Mrs Buy who lives in Wivenhoe. She had two uncles, both brothers, who died in WW1. They were 10874 Pte Richard James Whall and 9405 Pte Frederick Thomas Whall. Now, what makes these unique is that they were both serving in the Ist Btn of the Essex Regiment, and both died on the same day 6th August 1915 at Gallipoli. Both have no known grave and both are commemorated on the Helles Memorial. Both of them are on the Colchester War Memorial.

In the 1901 Census Richard, aged 5, and Frederick, aged 9, were living with their parents at 1 Victoria Place, Eld Lane. This is now the offices of Colchester Co-op Soc. On the 1891 census the parents were listed as living at 61 Vineyard Street. Mrs Buy told me that, at the time of their death, they were living at New Town. They are not on the memorial to those that fell in WW1 from the parish of St Leonard's, but they could be commemorated somewhere else. She has lots of information on her two uncles including some poems they wrote.

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In Memory of

GEORGE WHELAN MC

Second Lieutenant

2nd Bn., West Yorkshire Regt. (Prince of Wales's Own)

who died on

Thursday, 16th August 1917. Age 26.

Additional Information: Son of George and Sarah Whelan; husband of Edith Gladys Whelan, of 6, Lisle Rd., Colchester.

Commemorative Information

Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Grave Reference/ Panel Number: Panel 42 to 47 and 162

Location: The Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre, on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332).

Historical Information: A description of the Memorial and an account of the military operations in the Ypres Salient is contained in a separate Introductory part to the Registers.

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