We remember them.

Information from the War memorial at East Brent. Also Memorial plaques at St Marys church and at the  Old Baptist Chapel Rooksbridge.


TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE HONOURED MEMORY

OF THE FOLLOWING PARISHIONERS AND RELATIVES OF

PARISHIONERS OF EAST BRENT

WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR


GEORGE INMAN COMER          FREDERICK C HAM

BERTRAM FRANK CREES   SYDNEY WILLIAM HAM

 JOHN LESLIE DERRICK            ALBERT HARRISON

JOHN DURSTON                      FREDERICK POPHAM

EDWARD EMERY                          RALPH POPHAM

ERNEST FISHER                           CHARLES POPLE

WILLIAM HENRY GAMLEN                   JOHN PUDDY

 ALFRED GRANT              WILLIAM HENRY STUDLEY 


Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

 Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life.


          1939  --  1945                        LOUIS WILLIAM TAYLOR

                   KOREA                         Ernest Henry COMER         


[A William Edward BABB and Arthur TURNER born in East Brent were both WW1 Casualties  But do not appear on the East Brent War Memorial.] See Below.

Some years ago, this brass plaque, similar to the one in our parish church, honouring those men of the village who died while serving their country, was found forgotten in an outhouse in Rooksbridge.

It was restored and put on display at the old Baptist Chapel in Rooksbridge by David Walden.

The War memorial to the dead of East Brent Parish

War Graves Commission.

In Memory of Gunner 
Alfred GRANT


620300, 2nd/1st (Somerset), Royal Horse Artillery

"B" Bty. 223rd Bde., Royal Field Artillery

who died age 25

on 03 December 1917

Husband of Martha Mabel Grant, of 205, Manchester Rd., Walkden, Manchester.

Remembered with honour

ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Gunner Alfred GRANT was born in Rooksbridge in 1892.


He enlisted at Taunton into the Somerset Div of the Royal Field Artillery. He fought at Flanders and died in France. At the time of his death his wife Martha was living in Manchester.


Photo. Norma and Melanie Body. Rooksbridge.

Name:  COMER, GEORGE INMAN

Initials:  G I

Nationality:   New Zealand

Rank:  Trooper

Regiment:  Canterbury Mounted Rifles, N.Z.E.F.

Date of Death:  28/08/1915

Service No:  7/830

Additional information:

Son of Mary A. Comer, of Morrin Rd., Ellerslie,            Auckland, and the late Benjamin Comer.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Cemetery:

HILL 60 (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL

Name:   HAM  Frederick C

Initials:   F C

Nationality:   United Kingdom

Rank:   Private

Regiment:  Monmouthshire Regiment

Unit   2nd Bn.

Date of Death:  01/07/1916

Service No:  1735

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

II. E. 7.

Cemetery:

AUCHONVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY


Name:   HAM, SYDNEY WILLIAM

Initials:  S W

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank:  Sapper

Regiment:  Royal Engineers

Unit Text:  2nd (Wessex) Field Coy.

Age:  18

Date of Death:  02/10/1915

Service No:  971

Additional information:

Son of Jeffery and Emily Ham, of East Brent,       Highbridge, Somerset.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

I. K. 8.

Cemetery:

HANGARD COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION


Name:   CREES, BERTRAM FREDERICK

Initials:  B F

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank:  Sapper

Regiment:  Royal Engineers

Unit Text:  17th Field Coy.

Age:  30

Date of Death:  30/04/1915

Service No:  13986

Additional information:

Son of Frederick and Emily Crees, of East Brent,       Highbridge, Somerset; husband of Winifred Crees, of       Cholwell, Temple Cloud, Bristol.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Panel 9.

Cemetery:

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL


Name: DERRICK, JOHN LESLIE

Initials: J L

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank:  Captain

Regiment: Yorkshire Regiment

Unit Text: 6th Bn.

Age: 27

Date of Death:  27/08/1917

Additional information:

Son of the Rev. J. G. and Edith Derrick, of 2, Royal       Crescent, Cheltenham. Enlisted in Public Schools       University Bn. Royal Fusiliers in 1914. Gazetted 2nd Lt.       Dec., 1914. Served in Egypt Jan.-July, 1916; France and       Flanders July, 1916-Aug. 1917. Promoted Capt. July,       1917.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Panel 52 to 54 and 162A.

Memorial:

TYNE COT MEMORIAL


Name:  HARRISON, ALBERT

Initials:  A

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank:  Private

Regiment:  Gloucestershire Regiment

Unit Text:  2nd Bn.

Age:  35

Date of Death:  09/05/1915

Service No:  5655

Additional information:

Son of James Harrison, of 35, Gloucester Rd.,       Trowbridge, Wilts.; husband of Hannah Harrison, of East       Brent, Highbridge, Somerset.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Panel 22 and 34.

Cemetery:

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL


Name:  DURSTON J

Initials:  J

Nationality: Canadian

Rank: Private

Regiment:  Canadian Infantry (British Columbia       Regiment)

Unit Text:  7th Bn

Age:  35

Date of Death: 22/06/1917

Service No: 442054

Additional information:

Son of Charles and Lydia Durston, of Hawker Cottages,       Bristol Rd., Bridgwater, Somerset, England. Born at       Rooksbridge, Somerset.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

I. A. 13.

Cemetery:

ARRAS ROAD CEMETERY, ROCLINCOURT


Name:  EMERY, EDWARD JOHN

Initials:  E J

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank: Sergeant

Regiment: Dorsetshire Regiment

Unit Text:  2nd Bn.

Age:  36

Date of Death: 17/09/1916

Service No: 9408

Additional information:

Son of George Emery; husband of Florence Mabel Emery formerly Hastings,

of 6, South Petty Staff Lines,       Poona, India.

Born at Rooksbridge, Axbridge, Somerset.

Casualty Type: POW

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

XXI. S. 13.

Cemetery:

BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY


Name:  GAMLEN, WILLIAM H.

Initials:  W H

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank:  Private

Regiment:  Gloucestershire Regiment

Unit Text:  1st/6th Bn.

Age:  39

Date of Death: 23/07/1916

Service No:  266522

Additional information:

Son of William and S. A. Gamlen, of Chapel Farm, East       Brent, Highbridge, Somerset.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Pier and Face 5 A and 5 B.

Cemetery:

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL


Name:  POPHAM, FREDERICK

Initials: F

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank:  Private

Regiment:  Somerset Light Infantry

Unit Text:  7th Bn

Age:  23

Date of Death:  01/10/1916

Service No:  20593

Additional information:

Son of Frank and Sarah Popham, of Badgworth, Axbridge,       Somerset.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Pier and Face 2 A.

Cemetery:

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL


Name:  PUDDY, JOHN

Initials: J

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Rank:  Private

Regiment:  Somerset Light Infantry

Unit Text:  1st Bn.

Age:  20

Date of Death:  08/08/1916

Service No:  17373

Additional information:

Son of Samuel and Emily Jane Puddy, of Yardwall, Mark,       Highbridge, Somerset.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

III. B. 17.

Cemetery:

ESSEX FARM CEMETERY


Name:  STUDLEY, GERALD HENRY WILLIAM

Initials:  G H W

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment:  Somerset Light Infantry

Unit Text: 12th (West Somserset Yeomanry) Bn

Age: 20

Date of Death: 02/09/1918

Service No:  295591

Additional information:

Son of Mrs. Beatrice Jane Studley, of 9, South Terrace,       Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.

Casualty Type:

Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference:

Panel 4.

Cemetery:

VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL


J Rigarlsford

J Rigarlsford

Memorial

Photos

here

East Brent War Dead notes by
John Flavin

Lympsham

here

Name:  POPLE Charles

Initials: C

Nationality:  United Kingdom

Enlisted: Weston super mare.

Rank:  Private

Regiment:  

Age:  

Date of Death:  23/04/1917

Flanders


Source: Ancestry.co.uk

Casualties not commemorated on memorial

William Edward Babb

Born East Brent

Died Flanders 02/09/1918

Family moved to WSM c 1911.


Arthur TURNER

Born East Brent

Died 09/09/1915 from war wounds at home at Chelwood.


Arthur Turner’s father was a church rector at Chelwood near Pensford

Arthur having been born at East Brent is buried at Chelwood and thus may appear on a war memorial in that area.


Ian McClaren (Biddisham)