KINGSNORTH - Kent Fallen

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PLUMRIDGE E Lance Corporal 330435 Edward PLUMRIDGE. 8 th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Died Thursday 19 th April 1917. Born Kingsnorth. Resided Maidenhead, Berkshire. Buried in the Gaza War Cemetery, Palestine, (Israel). Grave reference XXI.G.6. The 8 th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment were attached to the 54 th Division. Gaza was bombarded by French warships in April 1915. At the end of March 1917, it was attacked and surrounded by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the First Battle of Gaza, but the attack was broken off when Turkish reinforcements appeared. The Second Battle of Gaza, 17-19 April, left the Turks in possession and the Third Battle of Gaza, begun on 27 October, ended with the capture of the ruined and deserted city on 7 November. Casualty clearing stations arrived later that month and general and stationary hospitals in 1918. Some of the earliest burials were made by the troops that captured the city. About two-thirds of the total were brought into the cemetery from the battlefields after the Armistice. The remainder were made by medical units during the occupation. During the Second World War, Gaza was an Australian hospital base, and the AIF Headquarters were posted there. Among the military hospitals in Gaza were 2/1st Australian General Hospital, 2/6th Australian General Hospital, 8th Australian Special Hospital, and from July 1943 until May 1945, 91 British General Hospital. There was a Royal Air Force aerodrome at Gaza, which was considerably developed from 1941 onwards. Gaza War Cemetery contains 3,217 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 781 of them unidentified. Second World War burials number 210. There are also 30 post war burials and 234 war graves of other nationalities. POST I.F Bombardier 28320 Ivor Francis POST. 5 th Mountain Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA). Died Wednesday 10 th March 1915 aged 25 years. Born Mersham. Resided Swamp Cottage, Kingsnorth. Son of Herbert and Frances Mary Post of 14 Hamilton Road, Willesborough, Ashford, Kent. Formerly (1901) Swamp Cottage, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent. Ivor has no known grave. His name appears on the Le Touret Memorial, Le Touret, France. Panel reference 1. The Kingsnorth Parish Roll of Honour in the parish church lists: Bombardier G POST – Killed. The Ashford 1918 Absentee Voters List gives – Swamp Cottage, Kingsnorth Private Algernon Reginald POST. Grenadier Guards. Private Leonard POST. Mechanical Transport, Army Service Corps. The 1901 Census gives – Swamp Cottage, Kingsnorth Herbert POST 41 Railway Labourer Bonnington Frances M 39 Woodchurch Mabel May 14 Ruckinge Leonard 12 Cattle Boy Ruckinge Ivor 11 Mersham Ernest 10 Mersham Algernon 6 Kingsnorth Violet 1 Kingsnorth Margaret 2 months Kingsnorth 12
SHORTER A Private G/21588 Aaron SHORTER. 7 th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Died 1 st May 1918. Enlisted Canterbury. Resided Vine Cottage, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent. Buried in the Niederzwehren Cemetery, Germany. Grave reference IV.L.2. The Ashford 1918 Absentee Voters List gives – Vine Cottage, Kingsnorth Private G/21588 Aaron SHORTER. 7 th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. Aaron must have been captured by the Germans and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany where he subsequently died. The 7 th Royal Sussex was attached to the 18 th (Eastern) Division throughout the war. The cemetery was begun by the Germans in 1915 for the burial of prisoners of war who died at the local camp. During the war almost 3,000 Allied soldiers and civilians, including French, Russian and Commonwealth, were buried there In 1922-23 it was decided that the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died all over Germany should be brought together into four permanent cemeteries. Niederzwehren was one of those chosen and in the following four years, more than 1,500 graves were brought into the cemetery from 190 burial grounds in Baden, Bavaria, Hanover, Hesse and Saxony. There are now 1,796 First World War servicemen buried or commemorated in the Commonwealth plot at Niederzwehren. This total includes special memorials to 13 casualties buried in other cemeteries in Germany whose graves could not be found. The following cemeteries are among those from which graves were brought to Niederzwehren: BAYREUTH TOWN CEMETERY, Bavaria. 24 burials of 1918. DARMSTADT FOREST CEMETERY, Hesse. In use from 1915. 102 burials. DIETKIRCHEN PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY, Hesse-Nassau. 45 burials (28 of Irish regiments) of 1914-18. FREIBURG IN BREISGAU MAIN CEMETERY, Baden, 43 burials of 1918. GERMERSHEIM CEMETERY, Palatinate. 26 burials of 1915-1918. GIESSEN MILITARY CEMETERY, Hesse. 99 burials of 1914-1919. GOTTINGEN MILITARY CEMETERY, Hanover. 88 burials of 1914-1919. HAMELN PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY, Hanover. 70 burials of 1915-1918. INGOLSTADT CEMETERY, Bavaria. 23 burials of 1917-1918. LANGENSALZA PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERIES No. 1 and No. 2, Prussian Saxony. 225 burials of 1915-1918. MAINZ MILITARY CEMETERY, Rhein-Hessen. 23 burials of 1915-1919. MANNHEIM MAIN CEMETERY, Baden. 21 burials of 1916-1918. MESCHEDE PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY, Westphalia. 49 burials of 1917-1918. OHRDRUF PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY, Thuringia. 107 burials of 1915-1918. PADERBORN CEMETERY, Westphalia. 29 soldiers burials of 1914-18. QUEDLINBURG CENTRAL CEMETERY, Prussian Saxony. 102 burials of 1914-1918. SENNELAGER PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY, Westphalia. 32 burials of 1914-1918. 13
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Page 3 and 4: BOULDING F.T Rifleman 14/40175 Fran
Page 5 and 6: CLARK A.J Private L/8489 Albert Jam
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Page 9 and 10: GAUNT G Gunner 115659 George GAUNT.
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