WW1 Hayes, Middlesex- Roll of Honour (Updated Nov 2012)

Hayes - Roll of Honour WW1 (UPDATED 2012)

HAYES & HARLINGTON - WW1 ROLL OF HONOUR

HAYES & HARLINGTON
(MIDDLESEX)

ROLL OF HONOUR
WORLD WAR ONE

Listed below are the brave men of Hayes, West Middlesex who gave their lives during World War 1.

Additional information is based upon an initial cross reference with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

What we can say about these men, is that many were young, they had their lives ahead of them and they gave their lives for what they believed was a just War. Many gave their lives to defend what they believed was the "honour" of Belgium, others were caught up in the jingoism or peer pressure of the time. We can call it an "Imperialist War" a "Capitalist War", we can blame the folly of their leaders like Earl Haig and Winston Churchill (Galopilli).

But we must never forget they gave their lives for what they believed was an "honourable" and "just" cause, at least in 1914, many were young working class men and far from being caught up in the "jingoism" of the ruling class believed it right to fight for the liberation of Belgium.

This view was no doubt reinforced by the Belgium refugees who streamed into the munition factories of Hayes during the War.

HAYES WW1
ROLL OF HONOUR

E.J. Arnold (Not found)

S.P. Aird (Not Found)

H. Balls(Possible Match)
Herbert Frederick Balls, 20 Royal Fusiliers died 20/07/1916 ??????

F. Bamforth (possible match)
Francis Bamforth, 8th Bat Royal Fusilers died 07/07/1916 ??

R.Bates (CONFIRMED)
Prvate Richard Edward Oliver Bates of Son of Annie Bates"Ivydene," Hayes End, 11th battalion, Middlesex Regiment died 09/04/1917

S.C. Bennett (CONFIRMED)

Sidney Charlie Bennett Private 8987 Royal Fusilirrs 1^st Battalion aged 20 killed 23/09/1915 buried New Irish Farm Cemetery. Son of William & Gertrude Bennett 11 Blyth Road, Hayes

D.C. Blyth (Possible Match)

Second lieutenant 28/08/1915 Royal Engineers 93^rd Company, Dickenbusch cemetery, Ypres, Belgium

C. V. Bowgett (CONFIRMED)
Charles Victor Bowgett age33 Son of George and Fanny Eliza Bowgett; husband of Emily Bowgett, of 10, Rosedale Avenue, Hayes End, Hayes, Middx.
Rifleman 3rd Battalion Rifle Brigade died 20/10/1914

C.W Bray (CONFIRMED)

Charles Bray aged 36 Pioneer Field survey corps, buried Padumain Cemetery plot B:11 son of Charles and wife Mary Ann Bray 1 Letchworth Cottage, Hayes End, Middx

H. Calf (CONFIRMED)
William Henry Calf, Gunner 196th Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery Son of Frederick and Kate Eugenie Calf, "Acacia", High Rd, Hayes ., died 05/04/1917 CEMETERYANZIN-ST. AUBIN BRITISH

R. Calf (CONFIRMED)
Robert Noel Calf, age 20 Private 13th Battalion, Royal FusilersSon of Frederick and Kate Eugenie Calf, Acacia", High Rd., cemetery Humercamps

C.Castle (CONFIRMED) Sergeant C. Castle age 27 Son of William G. and Sarah Castle, of 4, Railway Cottages, Hayes, Middlesex. Native of Iver, Bucks. 9th Bat Royal Fusiliers died 28/06/1918 Gezaincourt Cemetery

E.L Chambers (Possible Match)

Eric L Chambers Rifleman 301386 London Regiment, Rifle Brigade, 1^st/5^th Brigade,  Thiepval (almost certainly)

A. Charlesworth (CONFIRMED)

Thomas Samuel Charlesworth, aged, 21 Driver Royal Field Artillery, 146^th Bde Ammunition Col. Killed 11/07/1915.Son of Thomas Joseph & Sarah Charlesworth, Hayes Middx

J Chinnery (CONFIRMED)
Private James Chinnery, 9th Bat Royal Fusiliers 21 years old Son of Mr. and Mrs. Chinnery, of 49, Rosedale Avenue, Hayes End, Middlesex. 04/04/1916

P.Chitty (Possible Match)

Percy Chitty, Lance Corporal Royal Medical Corps 12957, 12/10/1918 aged 24 Tooting. 

Or Harold Percy Chitty aged 29 Tank Corps A Battalion, Cambrai parents Claygate

J. Churchill (CONFIRMED) Private John Churchill aged 17 Son of Ena Elizabeth Churchill, of 39, Rosedale Avenue, Hayes, Middx 18/09/1916 Philosophe British, Mazingarbe.

R.E. Coleman (CONFIRMED)

Ralph Egerton Coleman aged 35 Private Essex Regiment 1^st Battalion , son of Serjeant James Coleman (Connaught Rangers) of Attlebough, Norfolk. Husband of Harriet Elizabeth Coleman 25 Rosedale Avenue, Hayes, Middx – Helles memorial

J.Cooke (CONFIRMED)
Private John Gatwood Cook age 39 husband of Ellen Cook of 13 Austin Road, Hayes, Brother Colour Sergeant Cook. 13th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, died 13th July 1917 at Baddow campa, Essex buried St Mary's Hayes.

H.Court (Possible match)
HARRY ROBERT COURT 12th Middlesex Reg Husband of Phoebe Rebecca Court, of 19, Montague Avenue, Hanwell, Middx. ????? 10/01/1917 ?????

W.Curtis (Not Found)
G. Druce (CONFIRMED)
Private George Druce, aged 18, Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Druce, of 5, Church Walk, Hayes, Middx.9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers,20/10/1915 Noeux-les-Mines cemetery


R. Egerton (CONFIRMED)
RALPH EGERTON1st Essex Regiment age 35 06/08/1915 Son of the late Serjt. James Coleman (Connaught Rangers) and Mrs. Coleman, of Attleborough, Norfolk; husband of Harriett Elizabeth Coleman, of 25, Rosedale Avenue, Hayes End, Middx. Helles memorial

T.D. Elderidge (Possible Match/CONFIRMED)
Thomas Eldrige Private Royal Fusiliers killed 06/04/1918 Verness son of Edward and Rachael Eldridge. Sipson, Middx (almost certainly)

W.J. Emmett (CONFIRMED)
Private W. J. Emmett age 18 Son of Charles J. and Emma Emmett, of Hayes, Middx. 2nd Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) died 01/07/1918 CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY,

George Charles Ensby (CONFIRMED) George Charles Ensby Private No2 Coy 12^th battalion, Royal Fusiliers killed 31 July 1917 son of George Ensby (brick maker?) 10 Rigby’s Cottage Dawley Hayes Ypres Menin Gate Memorial

G.Gates (CONFIRMED) George Gates age 30 Son of Mary Ann Gates, of Walnut Tree Cottage, Yeading, Hayes End, Middlesex. 2nd Bat Middlesex Reg 31/07/1917 - Ypers Menim Gate memorial

B.St J. Glanfield (Not found)

H.Gohm (CONFIMED)
Private Henry Gohm 4th battalion Royal Fusiliers died 25/09/1915 Sanctuary Wood cemetery

T.W. Gregory (CONFIRMED)
Thomas williamage 26 Son of Thomas and Sarah Gregory, of 16, Angel Lane, Hayes End, Middx.C" Coy. 7th Bn.Royal Fusiliers died 06/02/1917 Thiepval cemetery

F.D. Gregory (CONFIRMED)
Corporal Frederick David Gregory age 30 Husband of Ida May Gregory, of 37, Rosedale Avenue, Hayes End, Hayes, Middx. 2nd Batallion Grenadier Guards 31/07/1917 Artillery wood

A. Gray

C Gye (CONFIRMED)
Charles Gye 1st Royal Fusiliers Son of Robert and Caroline Gye, of 33, Rosedale Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex 17/11/1915

F.Halford (Possible match)
Private F. Halford 4th middx reg 23/08/1914 St Symphorien Military ?????

S. Hambridge (Possible Match)
Sidney John Hambridge 2nd bat Grenadier Guards Grenadier Guards24/05/1918 ??????

G. Hammond (CONFIRMED)
Private George age 22 Son of Mr. G. Hammond, of 4, Melior Cottages, Yeading Lane, Hayes, Middx. 8th Bat Middx Reg died 19/05/1917 1st/ Aaras

J.W. Hart (not found)

A. Hawkins (Not found)

A. Haynes (not found)

F.A. Hewens (CONFIRMED)
Lieutenant F.A. Hewens 16/07/1918 RAF buried St Mary's Hayes

A. Higgs (CONFIRMED)
Arthur HiggsS on of Mrs. J. Higgs, of 4, White Row, Yeading, Hayes, Middx. 2nd bat Royal Fusiliers died 01/07/1916 Hawthorn ridge

A.W. Higgs (Possible match)
Albert William Higgs 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment 24/04/1918 ?? 90% sure

E. Higgins (CONFIRMED)
E. Higgins 32 Son of Mr. E. Higgins, of 7, Pillions Cottages, Hayes End Rd., Hayes, Middx. bat Royal Fusiliers died 19/06/1917 DICKEBUSCH NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

A. Howard (not found0

G.F. Hunnisett (CONFIRMED)
Private Frederick George Hunnisett "Sunnyside", Yeading, Hayes, Middx. 01/04/1918 Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars - Pozieres Memorial

W.E. Hunt (Possible match)
Son of Henry James and Elisabeth Sarah Hunt, of 12, Elthorne Park Rd., Hanwell. Born at Hanwell. Air Mechanic 2nd Class RAF 06/04/1918 Hanwell cemetery ??

E. Jermie (Jermy) (CONFIRMED)
Lance Corporal Ernest William Jermy age 21 son of William and Annie Maria Jermy of 3 Brown's Cottage, Hayes End, Middx 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers died 25/03/1918 Pozieres Memorial

M.R. Johnson (Possible Match)

Mark Robert Johnson aged 20 Private Royal Berkshire Regiment killed 05/04/1918

F. Joyce (not found)

A. Knight (CONFIRMED)
Private Albert Alfred Knight age 22 Son of mrs Alice Clark 61 Albert Road, Yiewsley, Middx 1st/8th Bat Middlesex Reg died 30/04/1915 Ypres cemetary

G. Langley (CONFIRMED)
Lance Cororal George Langley 21,Son of James and Ada Langley, of 19 Mellor Cottages, Yeading, Middx. 1/8th Bat Middlesex Regiment 16/08/1917 Tyne Cot cemetery


H. Langley (CONFIRMED)
Private Harry Langley age 27 Son of James and Ada Langley, of 19, Melior Cottages, Yeading, Hayes, Middx. 17th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment died 28/04/1917 Aaras cemetery

W. Leather (CONFIRMED)
Private 205341 James Leather aged 25 son of Mr G Leather 5 Rosedale Avenue, Hayes Private Devonshire Regiment 13 Works Battalion buried St Mary’s , Hayes

A. Lovett (CONFIRMED) Private Arthur Samuel Lovett aged 19 1st east Surrey regiment Son of Arthur George and Ada Lovett, of 35, Clayton Rd., Hayes, Middx. 24/09/1916 Thieva

F. Merchant (Possible Match)

F.T. Merchant Rifelman London Regiment (Post office Rifles) Warlencourt British Cemetary

B. Matthews (Possible Match)

Percy Matthews aged 32 killed 12/10/1916 Private Essex Regiment 1^st Battalion, Husband of Mary Matthews 4, Third Avenue, Hayes, Middx. Thiepval

G.F. Mattingley (CONFIRMED)
George Francis Mattingley, age 25 , Son of James and Annie Mattingley, of Yeading, Hayes, Middx Yeading. 20 Bat Kings Royal Rifles16/07/1916

G.W. Meads (Not found)

W.H. New (CONFIRMED)

William Henry New aged 18 Private 70693 Royal Fusiliers 5^th Battallion Son of Henry John Edward & Elizabeth New 6 Drenon Square (William Henry New was Born Kentish Town) buried St Marys. Hayes

E.C. Nice (Possible Match)
Edward Charles Albert Nice aged 20 Nice10th Bat Essex Regiment 26/09/1916 Thiepval ???

A. Norwood (CONFIRMED)
Corporal Alfred Norwood age 40 Son of Charlie and Helen Norwood, of 17, Cowley Mill Rd., Uxbridge; husband of Emily Norwood, of 18, New Windsor St., Uxbridge, Middx. 12th bat Royal Fusiliers 15/06/1917 Ypes

W. Palmer (Not found)
(Might be William Plamer - Candaian son of Henry Palmer

A. Penn (not found)

R.C. Pickering  (CONFIRMED) Private Robert Cecil Pickering aged 25 Machine Gun Corps 65^th Company killed 18/09/1918 son of John & Edith Pickering Doiran-Agny, Hayes buried Doiran

W,H. Pomeroy (Possible Match)

12 Bat Suffolk Regiment 05/05/1917 ?????

H. Powell (CONFIRMED)
Lance Corporal Harry Powell age 31 son of Stephen William and Ellen Powell of 5 Mill's Cottages, Wood End Green, Hayes End. Middx died 15/10/1918 Duhallow ADS cemetery

H.M. Prince (Not found)

E. Rayner (CONFIRMED)
Private Eric Norman Rayner age 24 Son of Mrs M Rayner of 35 Angel Lane, Hayes End, Middlesex 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers 5/10/1917 Tyne Cot Cemetery

W. Rayner (Not found)

W, Redden (Possible Match)

George Redden ?? Rifelman London Regiment  1^st/17thBatt 571231 15/09/1916

T. Renton (Not found)

W. Richardson (Not found)

F. Sadler (POSSIBLE MATCH)
Frederick Frederick John Sadler, 2nd Middlesex Reg ,Thiepval 01/07/1916 ????

T. Salter (CONFIRMED)
Private Thomas Henry Salter age 19 Son of Silas and Emma Salter, of 1, Park Lane, Hayes End, Middx. Royal Fusiliers 02/10/1915 Loos

W. Sargood (Possible Match)
Hugh Frank Sargood, 16^th Bat  Middx Regiment Second Lieutenant killed 10/05/1917 Arras

C. Sherwood (Not found)

C.Sherwood (CONFIRMED)
Private Charles William Sherwood 8th Battalion Royal FusiliersSon of Emma Sherwood, of 8, Town Field Rd., Hayes, and the late Thomas Sherwood; husband of Maud Elizabeth Sherwood, of 1, Grainges Yard, Uxbridge, Middx age 35 05/10/1916 Thiepval

J. Smith (Not found)

H. Stacey (Possible Match)

Herbert Walter Stacey, Sergeant RAF aged 35 03/02/1919 Longuenesse (St Omer) wife Ethel Grace 1 Rolls court Avenue, Herne Hill

A. J. Stonestreet (Possible Match)
Private Alfred John Stonestreet age 22 Son of Benjamin John and Sarah Emily Stonestreet, of Myrtle Cottage, High Rd., Southall, Middx.13th Kensington Bn, London Reg. died 01/07/1916 Couin British cemetary

W. Sullivan (CONFIRMED)

William Sullivan aged 20 Middlesex Regiment 2 Battalion 01/07/1916 son of Mr & Mrs A.J. Higgs, 1 Meilor Cottages, Yeading, Middx Thiepval memorial 12d and 13 b

W. Syred Lance (CONFIRMED)
Corporal William Arthur Syred Son of the late William Arthur Syred and of Betsy Witherly (formerly Syred), of 33, Blyth Rd., Hayes, Middx. 25/09/1915 Ypres 5th Bat Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

W.C. Tapping (Possible Match)

William George Tapping, Rifleman, London Regiment, Queen Victoria Rifles KIA 01/07/1916 aged 26 son of William Thomas & Sarah Tapping School Green Shinfield, Bucks - Thierpal

W.H. Taylor (Not found)

A. Tripp (Possible Match)
Albert Tripp, Rifleman Rifle Brigade 16/12/1914 Ploegsteert ?????

W.T. Turner (Not Found)

H.A. Turner (CONFIRMED)

Henry Albert Turner, aged 35 Husband of Florence Fearnley Turner, of "Claverley," Cromwell Rd., Hayes End, Middx. Born at Hayes End. 6th Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) died 09/04/1918BOUZINCOURT RIDGE

H. Tyrell (Possible match)

P. Tyrell (Possible match)

Percy John Tyrell, Rifle Brigade  9^th Battalion, KIA 29/08/1916 Thiepiral


W. Vaughan.(Possible Match)

William Vaughan , Royal Fusiliers  28/06/1915 Helles

J. Watts (not found)

G. West (not found)

W.T. Williams (Not found)ALSO

The Palmer Brothers from Hayes (sons of Hayes Labour Party founder and Councillor Henry Palmer) They died fighting in the Canadian Army.

William Alfred Palmer, Eastern Ontario Reg (Killed 26 th April 1916 buried Woods Cemetery, Belgium).

Lieutenant Henry Arthur Palmer, Central Ontario Reg (killed 30th September 1918 buried Cantimpre Canadian Cemetery, Nord France)





LEONARD SPENCER - UXBRIDGE ILP SECRETARY

L "Leonard" W. Spencer was born in Guildford 29th July 1889, educated at Collegete School at Reading, He was the son of Mr. T. B. Spencer, of 66, Kidmore Road, Caversham, Reading.

Aged just 17, he left home to open a business in Uxbridge, living later at Belmont Road, Uxbridge. Leonard Spencer went on to helped establish and became the first secretary of the Uxbridge Chamber of Commerce, while also participating in the establishment of a local parliament (debating society).

As an early motor cyclist enthusiast he was reported to be the first person to have ever successfully motorcycle up Snowdon, he also toured Norway and Iceland as a young man.

Spencer had been a keen supporter of Mr Edmund Dene Morel (later Labour MP for Dundee and married to Mary Richardson) agitation over the brutal rule of King Leopold in the Belgium Congo (Now the Democratic republic of Congo).

Spencer became a Christian Socialist believing "that there was no incompatibility but rather the fullest harmony between Christianity and socialism".

He went on to become the founding Secretary of the Uxbridge Independent Labour Party (ILP) and in 1910 he had been elected to Uxbridge Council as a Labour candidate along with Edwin Westcott. While on the council he was involved in the plan to build some of the first Uxbridge Council houses and it was stated that these "were definitely a monument to the energies and the eloquence of Mr Spencer".

When World War 1 broke he considered it his Christain duty to serve and he was one of the first to enlist as a Cyclist Orderly in the (London Cycling Regiment) later 13th Kensington Battalion in order to defend the sovereignty of "little countries overseas".

He wrote home stating "he would not come home for the world until victory was won" and encouraging others to follow him and enlist.

At Ypres, during the Battle of Neuve Chapel during March and April 1915, A battle which represented the first large scale organised attack undertaken by the British army during the war. Spencer's Battalion took major losses, he underwent a terrible ordeal, suffering from hunger, thirst and sleepless nights. He only took off his clothes to wash and slept every night with his motorcycle by his side (probably providing a vital courier service). He served without respite for seven months.

The Regimental History of the Kensington's Regiment describes their experiences during Neuve Chapelle. C Company was involved on the first day, and advanced at 9 a.m. to the village cemetery, where they had to take cover amidst churned-up graves. On the 12th of March, their C.O. (Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis) noted that by 12.25 p.m. the German bombardment of their positions (in the old front line) was "Perfect Hell".

It seems that this "perfect hell" had finally undermined Leonard Spencer's fundamental Christian beliefs, it was stated later that he had rediscovered his beliefs before his untimely death, shot through the head by a German snipper on the 1st September 1915.

Private (and Comrade) L.W. Spencer is buried at Longuenesse St Omer, France.


SPENCER L W
United Kingdom Private 2024London Regiment01/09/1915 Age: 26 II. A. 23.

REMEMBER NURSING SISTER - ADDIE TUPPER
Canadian Nursing Sister buried at Uxbridge (Hillingdon)

Nursing Sister: Adrienna or Adruenna “Addie” Allen Tupper

Canadian Army Medical Corps

Born Yarmouth Nova Scotia 13^th October 1870

Daughter of Mrs Mary E Trefry of Bridgend, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Addie Tupper from Bridgewater Nova Scotia

Enlisted Quebec

UPPER, Addie Allen (Adruenna), Royal Red Cross (RRC

Graduated General Hospital Concord, New Haven

  No. 2 General Hospital, Le Treport, France
Died of illness 9th December1916 aged 46

Remer also






Remember

Yiewsley's 19 year old sailor lost at the Battle of Jutland 1916 WW1

Able Seaman: Henry James Fox
Aged 19, Son of Henry and Jane Fox 20 Horton Road, Yiewsley, Middx

Died 31/05/1916 (Battle of Jutland) HMS Queen Mary, 

Plymouth Naval Memorial

Yiewsley 18 year old Sailor killed Cromarty Firth 1915 WW1

Ordinary Seaman: Charles Henry Axten

Aged 18 Son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Axten, of 1, Ivy Cottage, Falling Lane, Yiewsley, Middx.


Died 30/12/1915 Sunk HMS Natal, Cromarty Firth

Chatham Naval Memorial

The Labour Representation League & Labour's First MP's

The Labour Representation League

(Left Alexander MacDonald (Stafford) - Right Thomas Burt (Morpeth)

It can be argued that The Labour Representation League is Britain’s first working class party. 

The LRL was essentially a product or off shoot of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and its main proponent was John Stuart Mill.

The Labour Representation League was established in 1869 and at the 1874 secured the election of Britain's first two Labour Members of Parliament (both miners union representatives) Alexander MacDonald (Stafford) and Thomas Burt (Morpeth)

 They were later joined by Henry Broadhurst MP for Stoke in 1880, at its peak the LRL could claim fifteen MP’s.

The LRL lacked direction and a coherent programme beyond that of securing the election of working class and trade union MP’s and was crippled by the trade union leader’s historic reluctance to break with the Liberal Party.

In 1893 the Labour Representation League ceased to exist as a separate organisation, many of its MP’s by this time having being integrated into the Liberal Party.

In August 1871 The Labour Representation League officers were

President: R. Marsden Latham

Treasurer: William Allen

Secretary: Lloyd Jones

The Labour Representation League headquarters were based at 21 Cockspur Street, London

100 years ago, in an inspiring and relevant even to day, call to arms, the Labour Representation League issued the following statement in August 1872

“We call on you to again engage in your old fight with men in power.

Gather yourselves together in every constituency. Disregard meaningless party cries and as a first necessary step for vindication of your claims, punish by exclusion from Parliament the men who by their political treachery, cowardice and vulgar worship of wealth have decreed that you shall not cause to have branded on you the degrading stigma of political inferiority”

NOTES 

On Britain's first Labour MP's elected in 1874

Alexander MacDonald  - Stafford (27 June 1821 – 31 October 1881) son of an agricultural worker from New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Thomas Burt - Morpeth  (12th November 1837 - 12th  April 1922)  son of a miner from Murton Row in Northumberland

Free School Meals - Edward Hartley (Bradford) 1908

How to Feed the Children

By Alderman E. R. Hartley. (Bradford)

1908 

" Whether there be one God, 

or three; no God or ten thousand,

little Children should be fed,

and their bodies kept clean." 
JOHN RUSKIN.  

The Citizen Series. 

This Pamphlet will be followed by others, dealing with various phases of SOCIALISM 
from the Practical Side. 


HOW TO FEED THE CHILDREN. 


NO measure of recent years does more credit to the work of the 
Socialists of Britain than the one giving power to feed the 
children. Not that the Act goes far enough or is at all 
adequate, but because it is the outcome of a demand made without 
ceasing for over a quarter of a century. 

The Act should be compulsory and not adoptive. It should 
give local autonomy by allowing the Local Authority to decide the 
amount of the rate according to the varying needs of the district 
concerned. The ratepayers themselves to decide the amount. 

Our present business is to see that the new powers are used to 
the utmost ; we have got the wedge in, it must be driven home. 

When Socialists first argued for the feeding of the children who 
were compelled to attend the Nation's schools on the ground that if 
they were obliged to go to school, we should at least be sure that 
they were physically fit to receive and benefit by what they were 
taught. We were told that the children were already fed. 

The Clarion Cinderella Clubs proved that large numbers of the children 
were not fed, or at least only partially or badly fed. The work 
grew, and children's holiday funds, &c, were quite popular. 

NOT BIG ENOUGH. 

The South African War, however, brought matters to a head ; 
when it was found that more than one-half of the young men offering 
themselves for service, in the time of the Nation's need, were not 
good enough to be shot at, or to wear the Nation's uniform, people 
began to think. The youths bred in our slums and reared in our 
factories and workshops, were so narrow across the chest and their 
general development too small, to be fair targets for the Dutchmen's 
guns, they might miss them ; and it was this serious problem that 
caused the first real consideration of the matter. A little enquiry 
soon showed the main reason to be under and improper feeding. 


2 HOW TO FEED THE CHILDREN. 

PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY. 

When the question of Public Feeding came to the front, we 
were at once met with the statement that " to feed w 7 ould take oft 
Parental Responsibility." Results had proved this to be nonsense 
for, if it was the parents fault, they had evidently thrown off the responsibility long ago. Any way the children were not fed. 

CONTINUED.........

11 HOW TO FEED THE CHILDREN. 11 

A GREAT SUCCESS. 

So far the work has been a great success, and while we 
Socialists can claim to be the initiators, we have not been alone in 
our efforts to make the matter a success. Men and women of all 
parties are soon in deadly earnest when it is something to help the 
children. Help them in the best of all ways, by helping them to be 
better able to help themselves at a later day. 

MAKE THE BEST OF THEM. 

Mr. Sleary's pregnant advice to Mr. Gradgrind always seems to 
me specially adapted to our children — 

" Make the best of us, and not the worst." 

To leave children unfed and unfit to receive the fullest 
benefit from our Educational system, seems very like making the 
worst of them. All History and experience are with us. '' Healthy 
body, healthy mind," is proverbial, and the ladies and gentlemen of 
high birth and culture, who like the others are only descendants of 
the cave dwellers, owe more of their present fine habits and 
manners than thev are aware of, to the fact that for many 
generations they have be^iL temoved from the first primal struggle 
to get food. What haj served in their case will hold good for the 
race. When men and women generally have not to spend their 
main energies in getting the bread that perisheth, they will have 
both time and inclination for higher things. In a wolfish struggle 
for food, there is no time or chance for the greater things which 
make for life. 

CHILDREN  V DREADNOUGHTS. 

The present serious decrease in the birth-rate, makes it all the 
more necessary that we should make the best of tho^e children we 
have. If we are merely struggling for Trade, I have far less fear 
of the German Navy than the growth of the German Schools. No 
possible Navy we can provide will enable us to keep our place 
amongst the nations of the world, if the masses of our people are 
physically and mentally inferior. 

With a Nation of men and women "full summed in all their 
powers," having intellectual pow r er to understand and physical 
power to perform, no outside force can do us harm. But, with a 
Nation strongly recruited from the British Barbarian, and with, as 
our doctor told us, 13 per cent, of the children underfed, and 
with little (if any) chance of a right development, there is always the 
greatest danger in the future. 

Children to-day i Nation to-morrow ! ! Let us never forget 
that in a few short years the world's work will have to be carried 
on by those who to-day are in our schools and playgrounds. 



12 HOW TO FEED THE CHILDREN. 

What we make those children to-day, that the Nation will be 
to-morrow. 

Amongst the most intelligent people of to-day, the greatest 
scorn is felt for the father who neglects to give his children the 
fullest opportunity of education ; whilst scorn would change to 
anger and contempt, if it were known he also refused to give them 
proper quantities of food. 

The Nation can no more afford to neglect the children as a 
whole, than the parents. 

The tremendous economy to be made in feeding large numbers 
like these is already proved, and will lead — no one knows where. 
The Staff, at the Cookery Centre at Green Lane, prepare food for 
nearly 2000 persons. The same Staff do all the washing-up. 

Relief for Hard-Worked Mothers. 

Now ye tired mothers ! (a great part of whose lives are now 
spent in preparing meals and clearing them away) ! When Robert 
Blatchford showed in Merrie England the great saving of time and 
money, to say nothing of the saving of the lives and opportunities of 
our women by collective cooking, there were many scoffers. 

Yet, here we have a staff of six, three men and three women, 
preparing and cooking for nearly 2000, and in addition doing all 
the washing up for the same number. What a chance of relief for 
our tired mothers ! 

There are great possibilities in the future for you, where more 
leisure shall be your lot, under a wiser dispensation. 

The children will be as well, and in many cases better fed. 

The general economy will be great, and many an overburdened 
mother will have cause to bless the clay when an answer was given 
to what had often seemed a fruitless prayer for children — 

" Give us this day, our daily bread !" 


H. BEAUMONT, Printer, 18a, Laisterdyke (T.U. 48 Hours) 

Full text at

 http://home.us.archive.org/stream/howtofeedchildre588hart/howtofeedchildre588hart_djvu.txt

 Edward Robertshaw Hartley (1855–1918) 

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REUNION OF BRADFORD ILP LABOUR STALWARTS 1939

Greetings from the Lord Mayor (Alderman T. J. Robinson), a most happy reunion of former Labour members of the Bradford City Council took place to Branford last night.

Pioneer members of the party were present. and the earnest hope was expressed that faction would be obviated and that the Labour workers would once more present a united front.

The hope was also expressed that this would prove the forerunner of many such gatherings. A decision to hold a further reunion next year, to which members of the Bradford City Council Labour group are to be Invited, was unanimously adopted and Mr. A.T. Sutton was appointed convener. Mr. Sutton, who organised last night's gathering, revealed the fact that the idea of the reunion came from Mrs T. W. Stamford, wife of the chairman of the Bradford Labour Party

Mr Sutton sent out forty two invitations, those present

Walter Bateson, Michael Conway, Willie Crossley, Frank Duce, George Green, William Hirst, Joe Hainsworth, J.M. Halliday, Alfred Heaton, Eli Jenkins, George Muff MP, Mrs Amy Meggison, Arthur Shaw, A.T. Sutton, Mrs M.J. Sutton, Tom Stamford, Arthur Stott, R.J. Smith, Percy Thornton, Robert Varley, Theodore Warner

Guests
Mrs Palin, Mrs Alfred Pickles, (ex lady Mayoress) Mrs Stamford, Mrs Hirst, Mrs Stott, Mrs Duce, Mrs Jenkins, Mrs Shaw, Mrs Hansworth, Mrs William Leach

Mrs Conway was unable to attend to illness and apologies were given from
E. Bush, Robert Hill, Harry Mitchell, C.H. Tarbuck, E.O'Neil, Vincent Tewson, Mrs Jane Clayton,J. Bailey, J. Cox, F.W Jowlett, F. Import, Mrs Amy Sykes, Mr Foster of Sunderland

Conway stated "It was 27 years last November since he entered the City council and he soon came to the conclusion that Mr Joe Hayhurst was the real leader of the Council. He recalled Harry Palin the best fighter he had ever seen when everything was lost... and Willie Leach and Alfred Pickles , the later was "geniality and persuasiveness". Billy Land a very able man and the redoubtable E. J. Smith who bludgeoned his opponent mercilessly


MOVEMENT MEANS SERVICE

Memories were stirred by the roll-call of departed colleagues, which was read by Mr. Sutton:

Sam Shaftoe, C. Leonard Robinson, Arthur Priestman, Edward Hartley, Tom Delbridge, Joseph Hayhurst, Tom Grundy, A. Tuke Priestman, Charlie Glyde, R. Roberts, Wailter Barber, George Minty, Willie Mackinder, A. Pain,. Hall Seed, Frank Egan, Harry Wood, Tom Blythe, Ernest Fox, Robert Hiles, Arthur Goodison, Edward Siddle. Willie Rushworth, Harry Palin, Alfred Pickles, A. R. Ellis, Tom Ashworth. and Willie Brooke.

A pathetic feature about the last named is that he was alive when invited to last night's gathering, and wrote that a chill would prevent his attending.


Alderman Titterington wrote: We cannot let you be gathering together without saying how glad we are to hear of your reunion.

"When records and epitomes are turned up from time to time, the group recalls many made by all of you in the several spheres of local government activities, on behalf of the Socialist movement .. . . But that is only a small proportion of your labour, and the lifetime contribution which this gathering represents. - "

" To be in the Labour movement is synonymous with unremitting service for the common weal . . . The sum total of your service can never be recorded, other than In the minds and lives, the memories and the emotions of your associates and those workers whose interests you have served so long, so loyally, and so well."

the reunion concluded with singing of
When wilt thou save the people,
Hark the Battle Cry
England Arise

Bradford Observer 31 January 1939

Bluebirds & Hillingdon House Canadian Convalescent Hospital

HILLINGDON HOUSE - WORLD WAR 1

CANADIAN CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL 1915-1917

 

Hillingdon House, Uxbridge, Middlesex was a large rambling mansion set in its own park, close to what is now Uxbridge town centre.

 

The mansion was built in 1845 and belonged  to Colonel Cox of the famous Banking Institution, His family put the mansion and its 50 acres of grounds up for sale in 1914 and it was acquired by the British government.

 

The British Government initially considered the property and its grounds ideal for a Prisoner of War Camp. However after opposition from locals the site was acquired on behalf of the Canadian army as the Hillingdon House Canadian Convalescent  Hospital,  which officially opened on the 21^st September 1915.

 

The original hospital catered for 115 Canadian military patients housed in the main buildings and another 400 in the sixteen “Salonika” huts which had been erected in the extensive grounds.

 

In total 500 Canadian patients could be catered for at any one time.

 

In October 1915 the Hospital admitted 87 patents, in November 308 and December 307.

Conditions at the hospital were sparse with “only five antiquated baths” no lights in the huts, lighting was initially by  candle light and had few toilets".

 

The hospital personnel were drawn from the Canadian No5 General hospital and No2 Field ambulance unit.

(below French Canadian nurses WW1)

Bluebirds

The nurses at the Canadian hospitals wore blue dresses and white veils on their nursing caps, and were known by the Canadians as "Bluebirds". 

The Nurses lived in the Nurses Home at  “Dragonfield “ High Street, Uxbridge.

A serious measles outbreak March 1916 led to 32 staff being quarantined.

 

The Hillingdon Canadian hospital had its own Cricket team who played against against Canadian hospital teams at Hounslow and Southall. The hospital also boasted a Baseball team which played by 1916 in a league which including baseball teams from Taplow, Pay & Record Office and London American, 

One important luxury was the Bovril and Milk Coca drinks proscribed by Nursing Sister Miss MacCallum

On 27^th December 1917 Hospital Diary reports that all nurses are to report to D.M.S. as quarters taken over by RFC

The hospitals equipment was shipped to Bexhill Candaian Hsospital and the Pay Office to Bushy Park.

 

On the 13th January 1918 the unit and detachment left Uxbridge at 7am arrived at its destination Bexhill at 3pm

 

Uxbridge and Ramsgate hospitals consolidated at Bexhill.

 

Personnel of Uxbridge Unit absorbed into the Princess Patricia, Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Cooden camp, Bexhill.

 

Hillingdon Canadian Hospital
Sisters in Charge 1915-1917

Jean Stronach

Brenda Florence Mattice

Florence Elizabeth May Mc Callum

Mary Elizabeth Fletcher

Harriet Tremaine Meicklejohn

Nursing Sister Florence McCallum was born 24th May 1890 , the daughter of Sarah Hutton, Barrifield, Ontario. She enlisted at le Touquet, France

 

Nursing Sister: Brenda Mattice of Quebec, enlisted in Quebec

Nursing Sister: Harriet Tremaine Meiklejohn, Mother, 155 Maple Avenue, Quebec, enlisted London

Nursing Sister: Jean Stronach daughter of Catherine G. Stronach, 173 Stewart Street, Ottawa, Ontario; Enlisted Quebec

Nursing Sister: Mary Elizabeth Fletcher: Mother A Fletcher, Paisley, Bruce county, Ontario

WW1 OVERSEAS NURSES - ROLL OF HONOUR

REMEMBER NURSING SISTER - ADDIE TUPPER

Canadian Nursing Sister buried at Uxbridge (Hillingdon)

Nursing Sister: Adrienna or Adruenna “Addie” Allen Tupper

Canadian Army Medical Corps

Born Yarmouth Nova Scotia 13^th October 1870

Daughter of Mrs Mary E Trefry of Bridgend, Nova Scotia, Canada.

 

Addie Tupper from Bridgewater Nova Scotia

Enlisted Quebec

UPPER, Addie Allen (Adruenna), Royal Red Cross (RRC

Graduated General Hospital Concord, New Haven

  No. 2 General Hospital, Le Treport, France

Died of illness 9th December1916 aged 46

Buried at  Uxbridge (Hillingdon) Cemetery, Middlesex, England plot UC: 8

Harriet Harman 1982 Election Leaflet

WW1 German POW War Memorial - North London

German Prisoner of War (POW's) World War One (WW1) War Memorial, New Southgare Cemetary, North London, England

 Deutsch Prisoner of War (Kriegsgefangene) World War One (WW1) Kriegerdenkmal, New Southgate Cemetery, North London, England

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WW1 German POW's  1914-1919

Freidrich Aminski  22/10/1915

Karl Bitter 5/1/1915

Christain Johann Blank 23/12/1916

Franz Wilhelm Blaeser 8/3/1919

Kurt H.E. Bocker 25/4/1917

Franz Borger 20/10/1916

Peter Buck 21/10/1917

Karl Burkhard 26/5/1917

Wilhelm Derenthal 9/3/1919

August Deilitzki 1/8/1917

Relnnold Dickie 20/2/1919 ?

Franz Erfurt 1/11/1915

Karle Findeisen 11/11/1917

Hermann Floersheim 30/5/1918

Arnold A.M.G. Garlach 1/2/1917

Heinrich Gobel 15/2/1919

John Cross 17/3/19

Becker Diedrich Edvard 4/12/1918 ?

Karl Hellwing 5/3/1919

Joseff Max Herberle 17/11/1917

Joseph Hirschmuller 9/3/1919

Martin Jung 15/8/1917

XXXX Karle 27/2/1919

Max Bruno Keischt 4/7/1918

Heinrich Knein 8/8/1917

Addo Von Kobbe 4/3/1919

August F.P. Lippert 11/6/1916

Karl Lippert 27/11/1917

F Liber (Oder Veith) 14/2/1919

Karl Lutz 6/3/1919

Ernest Muller 24/12/1917

Karl Muller 6/3/1919

Gerhard Muller 13/10/1917

Heinrich Polenz 15/2/1919

August Salchow 12/7/1926

Fredrich Scharioth 18/8/1917

Karl Schibal 7/7/1917

Hans H Sculdt 9/4/1917

Eric M.A. Schumann 31/12/1918

George Seredszun 10/9/1917

Richard Spitzer 9/3/1918

Ernest Stein 31/4/1917

Andreas Tauber 17/4/1918

John Ulbrich 28/3/1919

George Vogelsang 27/10/1917

Johann Waida 26/9/1917

William Walker 6/3/1919

Emil Witteck  6/11/1917

F.K. Wolmersiger 30/6/1917

Herman W Wolter 14/12/1916

Adolph Zimmermann 5/5/1917

Albert Wanner  20/7/1918 ??

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