World War I
Roll of Honour

J Wood

World War IJ Wood J Wood Service No. Died Cemetery: Grave reference:

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William Henry Warner

William Warner was born in Norfolk in 1895, the son of George and Ellen Warner. The family later moved south to Hambledon where his father worked as a gamekeeper, settling…
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Frederick Sturgess

Frederick Thomas J Sturgess was born in Hambledon in 1892, the son of Thomas William and Emma Sturgess of Clapgate, North Lichfield. He grew up in the village in a…
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Frank Smith

Frank Smith was born in Hambledon in 1892, the son of Emma Agnes Smith and grandson of William and Keziah Smith. He grew up largely in his grandparents’ household at…
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John Searle

John Searle was born at Denmead in 1874 and later became closely connected with Hambledon through work and family life. He married Emily Jessie Searle of Church Lane, Hambledon and…
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Charles Frederick Noel Prince Sealy

Charles Frederick Noel Prince Sealy was born on 2nd April 1892 at Southsea, the only son of Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Henry Sealy and Helena Louisa Sealy. His family background…
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Fred Alban Samways

Fred Alban Samways was born in Hambledon in 1894, the son of Frederick and Elizabeth Samways. He grew up at The Vine public house in West Street, kept by his…
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William Robert Rippon

William Robert Rippon was born on 8th September 1890 at Heage near Belper in Derbyshire. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the Royal Marine Artillery on 16th March…
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Arthur Edmund Parvin

Arthur Edmund Parvin was born in Hambledon on 30th April 1880, the son of William and Catherine Parvin of Green Lane. He grew up in the village in a typical…
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Walter Ernest Moreton

William Moreton was born in 1893, the son of Edward and Elizabeth Moreton. The family followed agricultural work across Hampshire before settling in Hambledon, where by 1911 they were living…
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Budd Moreton

Budd Moreton was born in West Tisted in 1888 and later moved with his parents, Edward and Elizabeth Moreton, to Hambledon where the family became part of the agricultural workforce…
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Henry John Moon

Henry John Moon was born in Hambledon in 1889, the son of John and Harriet Louisa Moon of Green Lane. He grew up in the village within a long established…
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George Moon

George Moon was born in Hambledon about 1889, the son of George and Emily Moon of East Street. He spent his entire life in the village and grew up within…
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Richard Lacey

Robert Lacey was born at Fareham on 8th April 1883 and moved to Hambledon as a young man. By the beginning of the twentieth century he was living and working…
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Thomas Kimber

The Hambledon War Memorial records a man simply as “T. Kimber”, without rank, battalion, or date of death. No obvious civilian record has yet been found linking a man of that…
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Ephraim Hughes

Ephraim Hughes was born in Hambledon in 1884, the son of Charles Frederick Hughes and Harriet Louisa Clay. His childhood was unsettled from an early age. The family left Hampshire…
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Harry Robert George Hooker

Harry Robert George Hooker was born in Hambledon about 1884–1885, the son of a village family whose lives were closely tied to the parish. Unlike many men commemorated on the…
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Harry Furber Hooker

Harry Furber Hooker was born in Hambledon on 21 June 1895, the son of Mrs Emma Hooker of Lytheys Close. Like many rural Hampshire boys at the beginning of the…
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Charles Richard Hooker

Charles Richard Hooker was born in Hambledon in 1879, the son of Richard and Ellen Hooker of West Street. He grew up in the village in a working family and,…
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Edward Thomas Hill

Edward Thomas Hill was born in Hambledon and grew up in the rural surroundings of the village before choosing a very different life at sea. In February 1913, still a…
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Albert John Hamilton

Albert Hamilton was born in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, about 1895, but grew up in Hambledon where his widowed mother Jane Hamilton raised her family in West Street. By 1911 he…
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James Frederick Hall

James Frederick Hall was born in Hambledon around 1877, the son of George and Eliza Hall. He grew up in the village as part of a large rural working family…
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Reginald George Goffin

Reginald George Goffin was born on 15th May 1895 at Toddington, Bedfordshire, the son of Benjamin Goffin and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Durrant. Within a few years the family moved to Hambledon,…
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George Samuel French

George Samuel French was born in Hambledon in 1897, the son of Samuel Thomas French and Emma Esther French. His childhood was marked by early loss when his mother died…
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Harry George Earwaker

Harry George Earwaker was born on 19th January 1889 in Hambledon, the son of Benjamin and Esther Earwaker. He grew up in West Street within the close rural community that…
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Frederick James Clay

Frederick James Clay was born in Hambledon in 1882, the son of George and Keziah Clay, and grew up in the large rural family whose sons would later be remembered…
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Charlie Bull

Charles Bull was born in Hambledon in January 1893 and baptised in the parish church on 5th March of that year. He grew up in the same village household as…
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Arthur Bull

Arthur Bull was born in Hambledon in 1886 and baptised in the parish church on 2nd May of that year. He grew up in the village as part of a…
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John William Bucksey

John William Bucksey was born in July 1887 to Charles and Annie Bucksey of East Hoe Cottages, Green Lane and grew up in the neighbouring farming communities of Soberton and…
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William Bugler

William Bugler was born on 29th August 1890 in Hampshire, growing up in the rural communities around Soberton and Hambledon. Census records show him living with his family in Soberton…
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David Greig Bryce

David Greig Bryce was born on 18th January 1869 in Edinburgh, the son of Archibald Hamilton Bryce and Mary Ferguson. His life belonged to a generation of professional officers shaped…
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William Charles Apps

William Charles Apps was born on 9th December 1897 in Southwick, Hampshire, and baptised the following January. He grew up the son of William Charles Apps and Anne A. Apps…
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Frank Clay

Frank Clay was born in December 1884 at Glidden in Hambledon, the son of George and Keziah Clay. He grew up in a large rural family in the parish, alongside…
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