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WWI 1914-1918
Charles BENNETT was
born about 1899. In the 1901 census he was aged 2 yrs living with
parents William & Eliza Bennett, at the Post Office, Culverstone,
Ash also with eight older brothers and sisters, one called William.
The CWGC have him as Private G/69938
serving with the 10th
Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) and recorded as
killed in action on 8th August 1918. He is listed on the Tyne Cot
Memorial to the missing, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen
William BENNETT
was born about 1888 in Stansted. He appears In the
Southfleet Census for 1901 aged 12 years
old and living with his uncle.
The CWGC have him as Private
L/8312 Killed in Action 4th April 1915. 1st
Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) age 26.
Cemetery: Tuileries British Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belguim.
His next of kin was recorded as his mother Mrs Sarah Ann Roots, of
Plumrush, Harvel, Meopham, Kent.
Alfred Horace CHATFIELD
The CWGC have only one Alfred Horace Chatfield
listed as follows: Alfred Horace Chatfield, Private 57155
(formerly G/8863) Killed in Action 2nd November 1916.
9th Battalion, Welsh Regiment (formerly East Kent Regiment) No next of
kin recorded. The GW-CD have the same, plus Born: Sevenoaks,
Enlisted: Gravesend Residence: Wrotham. Electoral Roll 1914 +
1915 – no Chatfield parents listed
Abraham COLE
The CWGC have Private G/9348 A. Cole Killed in Action 16th September
1916. 10th Bn Queen's Own (Royal West Kent
Regiment). Son of John and Sarah Ann Cole, of Weald, Sevenoaks, Kent.
1914 + 1915 Electoral Register has a John COLE at Pease Hill, Ash. A
notice of his death in the Kent Messenger Newspaper for 21st Oct 1916
names his parents as Mr & Mrs John Cole, Man’s Farm, West Yoke
Alfred DEDMAN
A search of the CWGC website lists only three Alfred Dedmans. Two have
next of kin in Canvey Island, Essex and Caversham, near Reading, the
third as follows. Private Alfred Dedman
G/10997, 2nd Battalion, West Sussex Regiment Rank: Killed in Action 9th
September 1916. No next of kin recorded.
The GW–CD lists - Private Alfred Dedman G/10997
2nd Battalion, West Sussex Regiment, killed in Action 9th September
1916. No next of kin recorded. Born: Northfleet Enlisted:
Woolwich Residence none recorded
Electoral Roll for Ash 1914 + 1915 – no Dedman family listed
Alec B HAMILTON
Lieutenant. possibly died August 1918. A
search of the CWGC website for A. B.
Hamilton lists three, none of which seem likely. However a search with
just A. Hamilton gives Alexander Hamilton Lieutenant. Royal Air Force
Unit 3rd Sqdn. Aged 23, date of Death: 8th August 1918. Next of Kin:
Parents, Thomas B. and Annie Brown Hamilton, of Eastwell Court,
Ashford, Kent. Commonwealth War Dead Memorial ARRAS
FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL. 1914 Electoral Roll of
Ash lists Thomas HAMILTON, Idley Farm, Idley
William Alfred JAMES
Spr 19446 Killed in Action 9th May 1915.
7th Division Signal Coy., R.E. Son of Mrs L. James, of 15,
Ewart Rd, Chatham. His wife was recorded as Emily Pratt (formerly
James) of The Street, Ash.
Ash Marriage Register 23 August 1913 William Alfred JAMES (21) &
Emily PARKER (22)
1914 Electoral Roll for Ash lists Albert JAMES West Yoke, Ash.
Born about 1892 (1901 Census)
Angus McPHEE A
search the CWGC website lists nine Angus
or A McPhee's. The GW-CD lists Private S/7191
Angus McPhee, Killed in Action May 1917.
1/8th Battalion, Princess Louise’s (Argyll & Sutherland
Highlanders).- Born: Archatton, Argylls
Enlisted: Bromley Residence: Creagan, Argylls
1915 Electoral Register for Ash lists Dugald McPhee at the Malt House,
Ash.
1914/1915 Newspaper Dartford Chronicle Roll of Honor lists Angus &
Dugald McPhee, possibly brothers
James JENKINS
Private 8080, died at Ash 28th
January 1918. Buried in Ash Churchyard. No connection with Ash
found todate. Born about 1887. No likely candidate found in 1901
Census.
The CWGC website lists him with No. 3 coy, 1st Battalion,
Coldstream Guards. Husband of Emily Harriet Jenkins, 28 Dorset
Gardens, Brighton
Ash Burial Register – James Jenkins, abode Post Office
Ash, buried 1st February 1918. CWGC Headstone in Ash Churchyard - age
31.
G.R.O. search - Marriage – James Jenkins to Emily Harriett Ling -
Ref 1913 Jun Depwade 4b 415
G.R.O. search – shows he had a son James W. Jenkins, (mothers maiden
name Ling) - Ref 1914 Jun Willesden 3a 659
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WWII 1939-1945
Richard Stoddart BENSON, D.S.O.,
aged 47, was Captain of the destroyer "H.M.S. Exmouth" that
was torpedoed on 21st January 1940 in the North Sea, off the
coast of Wick with the loss of all hands. He had lived at Ash
Place (Manor) before the war with his wife Cicely Katherine (nee
Beauchamp). He was the Son of Henry and Maud Benson and is also
commemorated on the PORTSMOUTH
NAVAL MEMORIAL A full account of the sinking is given by Bob
Baird at "Sinking
of the "H.M.S. Exmouth"
Charles Frederick. EVANS aged
20, was the son Sidney Cecil and Beatrice Evans of Butlers Place, Ash.
Charles was a Flight Sergeant Air Gunner, 186609, died 28th October
1944 while serving with R.A.F. Squadron 356 equipped with Liberator
Bombers, that was based Salbani, India. Attacks on Japanese bases in
Burma, Sumatra and Malaya were carried out. C.F. Evans is buried in
the RANCHI
WAR CEMETERY
Ernest Arthur FARNELL
aged 28 years, was married to Alfreda
Joyce BEVAN at Ash Church on 12th December 1942, and lived at 4,
Billet Cottages, Ash. Alfreda died in the summer of 2007, never
having re-married.
Ernest was a Flight Sergeant, Service No. 1390007, and
served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit 630 Sqdn. Based
at East Kikby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, part of 5 Bomber Group. On the
night of 30th March 1943 he flew as navigator on Lancaster JB288,
piloted by Pilot Officer A.G.C. Johnson on an air-raid on Nuremberg,
Germany. There were very heavy losses that night and early in the
morning of the 31st March, their plane was shot down by a German
night-fighter about 20 miles north of Nuremburg. Ernest A. Farnell,
Johnson, and two other members of the aircrew, Flight Sergeant McGill
and Sergeant France were killed and are buried in DURNBACH
WAR CEMETERY. Flying Officer
Headlam, Sergeant Watts and another crew member survived the crash and
were taken prisoner.
David Barclay HENNELL
aged 32, son of Rev Harold Barclay
Hennell former vicar of Ash and Ethel Hennell, was a Captain, 198377,
in The King’s Royal Rifle Corps died 6th June 1943 in the U.K. and
is buried at Ridley.
Thomas Barclay HENNELL
aged 42, son of Rev Harold
Barclay Hennell former vicar of Ash and Ethel Hennell, was granted a
Temporary Commission as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve Unit on becoming a war artist in 1944. He visited Cherbourg
Harbour amongst other places following the Allied Invasion of France.
He then went to the Far East as a war artist covering the campaign
against the Japanese and was killed by terrorists in Indonesia on 5th
November 1945 soon after the end of WWII.
Frederick R. W. HOLLANDS
aged 24, son of Albert and Agnes
Hollands; husband of Stella Minnie Grace Hollands, of Ash. Served as a
stoker, service number C/KX 120816, on H.M.M.L. (possibly Her
Majesties Mine Layer
or Motor Launch) 262. He died
on 28th March 1942 and is commemorated on the CHATHAM
NAVAL MEMORIAL
In
an account of the raid on St Nazaire
on 28th
March 1942 a ML 262 is mentioned several times at http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_stnazaire2.html
| Denis
George Patrick LEAVEY |
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Denis George
Patrick LEAVEY aged 33, son of
George Edmund and Marion Louise Leavey of South Ash Manor and
husband of Mary Alicia Leavey, of Fareham, Hampshire, died 28th
July 1944.
He served as a Captain, service number 90278, with
"A" Sqn., 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, Royal Armoured
Corps. After Dunkirk he transferred to the 5th Inniskilling
Dragoon Guards (the regiment in which his brother Tony Leavey
was already serving). He was killed after taking a party of
men up to Jerusalem crossroads, not far from Bayeux, to look at
a burnt out German tank and was hit by German shelling of the
crossroads. His body was taken to the nearby
Abbaye Mondaye, and he was subsequently buried in the BAYEUX
WAR CEMETERY. Before the war he had
been an enthusiastic amateur jockey, and for many years the West
Kent Foxhounds point-to-point open race was named after him and
a "Pat Leavey Memorial Trophy" awarded to the winner
(Additional information and picture supplied by
Shaun Leavey, son of Pat Leavey 25-08-2016) |
Charles George
SMITH aged
35, Son of Sidney and Alice Smith of Rose Cottage, Ash and husband of
Lena K. Smith, of Gillingham. He was a Petty Officer Stoker, service
number C/K 66780, on H.M.S. Candyytuft and died 10th September 1941
as the result of an explosion that occurred within twenty-four hours
of leaving Reykjavik, Iceland where she had docked for a major refit.
Fourteen men were killed and eleven injured as a result of the
explosion.
Tommy WHITE
aged 25, son of Harry and Alice Rosa
White, of Butlers Place, Ash. He was a Private, service number 6290311
and served with The Buffs
(Royal East Kent Regiment). He died on 7th October 1943 and is buried
in BARI
WAR CEMETERY,
Southern Italy.
On
3 September 1943 the Allied invasion of the Italian mainland
began with a landing in the south near Reggio and, a few days later,
in the Gulf of Salerno
Margaret Jane SHARMAN
(Civilian) Aged 10, daughter
of Henry Harold and Lily Sharman, of 18 Butlers Place, Ash and died
4th October 1940 when a high explosive bomb fell at the back of
Butlers Place during the 'Battle of Britain'
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