Joe and Charles MILLARD – Charfield

This research and story is thanks to Graham Adams from Woodlands Road, found in archived material. The MILLARD family of Mill Lane also lost two sons. The elder JOE, a 32-year-old gunner with heavy artillery got cramp when swimming in a…
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Francis G NEAL – Charfield

178447 Leading Seaman Francis George NEAL Royal Navy – HMS Monmouth Drowned at sea in action on 1 November 1914, aged 37. One of all 738 sailors of the ships company died that day. Probably known in the family as George, Francis George…
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Percy COLBORN, Father and Son, – Charfield

511144 or 1311144, Gunner Percy William George Colborn, 85th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery Died as a Prisoner of War on the building of the Burma Railway, aged 24, 11th September 1942 Buried/Commemorated at Chungkai War Cemetery,…
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Albert and Harry HUGHES – Charfield

17778 Private Albert Alexander HUGHES 17777 Private Harry HUGHES 2ndBattalion (A Company), Gloucestershire Regiment Aged 18 and 19.  Killed in action on 9 May 1915 No known grave–commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial…
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