Roll of Honour
This site is dedicated to the memory of the brave and faithful men of Upton Scudamore who, in the Great War of 1914-1918, laid down their lives
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Job Daniells Born: Upton Scudamore 1877 Son of John and Eliza Daniells Served with 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Service No: G/550 Rank: Private Wounded 7th July 1916 Battle of Albert (Battle of the Somme) Died: 29th July 1916 Canadian Hospital, Bramshott, Hampshire Age: 39 Buried: St Mary’s Churchyard, Bramshott, Hampshire |
Job Daniells grave
Bramshott cemetery Picture: Don Knibbs |
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William James Beak Born: Upton Scudamore 1887 Son of William James and Anna Maria Beak Served with 261 Seige Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Service No: 93406 Rank: Bombardier Died of Wounds 10th April 1917 Battle of Arras Age: 30 Buried: Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, Pas de Calais, Grave VII A 7 |
Warlincourt Cemetery
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William Harold Hinton Born: Upton Scudamore 1897 Son of Charles and Lily Hinton Served with 1st Battalion Prince Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry Service No: 17540 Rank: Private Died of Wounds: 14th April 1917 First Battle of the Scarpe (Battle of Arras) Age: 20 Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France Plot XXII. H. 4. |
Etaples Military Cemetery
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Fred Barnes Born: Upton Scudamore 1898 Son of William and Fanny Barnes Served with 1st Battalion, Prince Albert’s Somerset Light Infantry Service No: 26735 Rank: Private Died 4th October 1917 Battle of Broodseinde (Battle of Ypres) Age: 19 Buried: No grave but remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Flanders, Belgium Panel 41 to 42 and 163A. |
F Barnes on the Tyne Cot memorial
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Albert Victor Greenland Born Upton Scudamore 1899 Son of William Alfred and Kezia Greenland of 17 Upton Scudamore 1st Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s Wiltshire Regiment Service No: 18849 Rank Serjeant* Died of Wounds 23rd October 1918 Battle of the Selle Age: 19 Buried: Awoingt British Cemetery Grave I B21 Decorations: Military Medal |
A V Greenland's grave at
Awoingt British Cemetery Photo: Len Scott |
*Note that the rank of “Sergeant” is written as “Serjeant” in some regiments, a tradition which continues to this day. Both spellings are used in this document, the spelling selected being the one appropriate to the regiment.
More of the Fallen
While researching the names of The Fallen for the village memorial plaque, some additional names have been identified who have links to the village of Upton Scudamore although in some cases these links are somewhat tenuous.
The criteria for the plaque is for the individual to have been born here in Upton Scudamore or to have been resident here at the time of death. Regrettably the following do not meet this criteria but, for information purposes and as a tribute to their sacrifice, they too are listed here.
The Author would like to thank Alwyn Hardy and Eric Peddle of the Dewey Museum in Warminster for their assistance in this research, and to the Revd. Colin Taylor for his extensive work in creating the Book of Remembrance.
The criteria for the plaque is for the individual to have been born here in Upton Scudamore or to have been resident here at the time of death. Regrettably the following do not meet this criteria but, for information purposes and as a tribute to their sacrifice, they too are listed here.
The Author would like to thank Alwyn Hardy and Eric Peddle of the Dewey Museum in Warminster for their assistance in this research, and to the Revd. Colin Taylor for his extensive work in creating the Book of Remembrance.
If you have any further information on any of the names mentioned here or know of any additional names who should be considered for the list, please contact the Author at:
email kenwelch777@btinternet.com Telephone 01985 212413
email kenwelch777@btinternet.com Telephone 01985 212413
Jesse Francis Fletcher
Served with 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
Service No: 3056
Rank: Company Serjeant Major
Died of wounds 9 August 1916
Age 25
Jesse was born in 1891 in Bradford upon Avon, the son of James and Charlotte Fletcher. His father was a shepherd and in the 1901 census they were still living in Bradford but by the census of 1911 his mother had died. In 1919 his father was living in Upton Scudamore but later moved to Henford Marsh in Warminster.
After enlisting in the Battalion on 15th September 1908, Jesse rose to become CSM and went to France with them on the 23rd August 1914. He died, possibly as a result of a gas attack at the Battle of Albert, and was buried at Essex Farm Cemetery near Ypres.
Jesse Francis Fletcher
Served with 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
Service No: 3056
Rank: Company Serjeant Major
Died of wounds 9 August 1916
Age 25
Jesse was born in 1891 in Bradford upon Avon, the son of James and Charlotte Fletcher. His father was a shepherd and in the 1901 census they were still living in Bradford but by the census of 1911 his mother had died. In 1919 his father was living in Upton Scudamore but later moved to Henford Marsh in Warminster.
After enlisting in the Battalion on 15th September 1908, Jesse rose to become CSM and went to France with them on the 23rd August 1914. He died, possibly as a result of a gas attack at the Battle of Albert, and was buried at Essex Farm Cemetery near Ypres.
Alfred Grace
Served with: 1st Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regt
Service No: 7231
Rank: Private
Died (KIA) 31 October 1914
Age 26
Alfred was born in 1888 in Knook, Wiltshire, the son of James and Elizabeth Grace. The family were living in Upton Scudamore in 1891 but the 1901 census shows the family living in Mells, Frome, Somerset.
After enlisting, Alfred was with the Battalion in South Africa in 1911 but after returning to Tidworth where they were based, the Battalion went to France, landing at Rouen on the 14th August 1914. Alfred was killed in action two months later when the Battalion was entrenched on the Messines Ridge. He is remembered on the Le Touret Memorial, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
Percy Herbert Keel
Served with: 7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Service No: No 33752*
Rank: Private
Died (KIA) 28 September 1917
Age 32
Percy was born 1885 in Berwick St James, Wiltshire, the son of Robert and Kate Keel, and in the 1911 census the family were living in Upton Scudamore. Percy moved to Walworth, London where he worked as a Superintendent for the Prudential Insurance Company and on the 18th April 1914 he married Ellen Fiddian at the nearby St John’s Church in Newington. They had a daughter the following year named Doris Ellen.
Percy had joined the army on a short service commission on the 23rd April 1902, aged 16 but claiming to be 18, enlisting with the 7th Dragoon Guards and attended the Duke of York’s Royal Military School and the Royal Hibernian Military School. In 1908 he transferred to the Army Reserve but in 1916 he enlisted again, this time with the Army Cyclist Corps, Regt. No. 12159* before transferring to the 7th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, Regt. No. 33752* The Battalion went to France in 1917 where Percy was killed in action, possibly at Passchendaele, and was buried at the Bedford House Cemetery, Ypres.
Arthur John Hartland Lancaster
Served with: 4th Battalion Rifles Brigade
Service No: 3207
Rank: Serjeant
Died 10 May 1915
Age 25
Arthur was born in 1890 in Great Cheverell, Wiltshire, the son of John and Maria Lancaster. His father later moved to Upton Scudamore, recorded as 7 Hay Way Cottages but this is probably 7 Halfway Cottages.
Arthur enlisted with the 4th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own) at Winchester in 1908. In the following years he went with the Battalion to Malta, Egypt, Cyprus, Khartoum and India before returning to England in November 1914. The Battalion was then sent to France, arriving on 20th December 1914. Arthur was an Acting Serjeant when he was killed in action on the 10th May 1915, probably at the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge in the 2nd Battle of Ypres.
He is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial at West Vaanderen, Belgium.
Sidney Herbert Ludlow
Served with: 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment (“A” Company)
Service No: 7511
Rank: Serjeant
Died (KIA) 7 July 1916
Age 30
Sidney was born in Keevil, Wiltshire in 1886, the son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth Ludlow. In the 1911 census the family are living in High Street, Keevil and Sidney is shown as serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Wiltshire Regt but by the commencement of the war he had transferred to the 1st Battalion. By 1919, the family are shown as living in Upton Scudamore.
Sidney entered France with the Battalion on 14th August 1914 but he was killed in action on the 7th July 1916, possibly during the early morning attack on the Leipzig Redoubt in the Battle of the Somme.
He is buried in the AIF Burial Ground, Flers, France.
William Henry Mead
Served with: 2nd Battalion, Duke of Edinburghs (Wiltshire) Regiment
Service No: 6239
Rank: Private
Died 27 April 1919
Age 33
Born in 1886 in Frome, Somerset, William was the son of Henry and Eliza Mead. In the 1901 census the family were living in Upton Scudamore but by 1911 the family had moved to 33 King Street (Warminster?)
The Battalion entered France on 7th October 1914 and was to be involved in many of the major engagements throughout WW1, suffering very heavy casualties. William died at Tidworth Hospital in 1919 and was buried at Christ Church churchyard, Warminster.
Walter Mouland
Served with: 2nd Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regiment
Service No: 5420
Rank: Private
Died (KIA) 24 October 1914
Age 35
Walter was born in 1879 in Downton, Wiltshire. He was the son of Henry and Fanny Mouland and was one of six children, but his father died in 1904. On the 29th February 1908 Walter married Sarah Fry in Downton but in the 1911 census they were living in Upton Scudamore with two children. Over the next three years they had three more children and moved to the Fisherton Delamere and Salisbury area.
After enlisting in Devizes with the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire) Regt, Walter entered France with the battalion on 7th October 1914 and was killed in action only a few weeks later, possibly in a German infantry attack at Zonnebeke during the Battle of Ypres.
There is no known grave but Walter is remembered on Panel 53 of the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium, and possibly on the Fisherton Delamere war memorial under the name Walter Mowland.
Wilfred Charles Shergold
Served with: 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regt
Service No: 21173
Rank: Lance Corporal
Died (KIA) 5th April 1916
Age 20
Born in Steeple Langford, Wiltshire in 1896, he was the son of Stephen and Sarah Shergold. His father was a shepherd and the family were living in Corton in 1911 but at the end of the war the parents were living at 16 Upton Scudamore
The Battalion was heavily involved at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles Campaign but moved to Mesopotamia on the 4th December 1915. Wilfred was killed in action at the First Battle of Kut when the Battalion was trying to relieve the besieged garrison of Kut Al Imara
Note: References have also been found to Serjeant Henry William Shergold, Service No. 4761 of the 2nd Battalion, Wiltshire Regt. who was also born in Steeple Langford circa 1896 and who resided in Westbury.
Nelson Alexander Topp
Served with: Royal Navy
Service No: 239475
Rank: Able Seaman
Died (KIA) 31 May 1916
Age 25
Nelson was born in Heytesbury, Wiltshire on the 12th July 1890, the son of Edward and Priscilla Topp. He was one of six children and his father was a police constable. In the 1901 census the family had moved to Upton Scudamore but in 1907, Edward died and by the end of the war Priscilla had moved to 9 Trinity Parade, Frome, Somerset.
The 1911 census shows that Nelson had joined the Royal Navy and was serving on the armoured cruiser HMS Leviathan based at Chatham Dockyard but following the outbreak of war he served on the modern battlecruiser HMS Indefatigable. At the Battle of Jutland she was part of Admiral Beatty’s Battlecruiser Squadron and was engaged by the German battlecruiser Von der Tann. During the exchange of fire, shells from the Von der Tann penetrated the Indefatigable’s magazines and she blew up and sank. Only 3 of her crew of 1019 survived.
Nelson is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial in Hoe Park and on the Frome War Memorial.