Tag: Battle of the Somme

Alfred Graystone was born in Strood around 1894, and was the youngest son of the Graystone-Dale family.  Whilst his mother’s family were from the Medway … Read more

William Richard Vince Davis was born in Borden, Kent in 1892, and was baptised on 19th July 1892 in Upchurch, Kent. William first appears on … Read more

Arthur Samuel Joys was born in about May 1884 in the parish of St Nicholas, Rochester, Kent. On 7 November 1904, Arthur joined the Royal … Read more

Frank Rupert Joyce was born in about January 1897 in St Ives, Huntingdon.  Frank was the middle child of five children born to Frank Joyce … Read more

Albert Peter Chantler was born in the first quarter of 1892 in Snodland to Alfred and Sarah Amelia. He was baptised 25th January at All … Read more

Ernest Dyer was born in Rochester in the third quarter of 1894. He was recorded in the 1901 census as living at 4 Garden Place, … Read more

Reginald Bowes was born in Chatham early in 1895.  He lived at Fort Pitt Military Hospital in Chatham where his father, Peter Bowes, was a … Read more

William Thomas Baxter was born in Strood in the summer of 1888.  In 1891 he was living in Strood with his father (also William Thomas) … Read more