9th Essex- Awards to soliders in the Great War

Listed below are some of the men who were awarded the Millitary Medal or Military Cross and who sadly then did not survive the Great War.

KIA means killed in action, DAH means died at home, DOI means died from illness, DOW means died of woulds

DCM

Private David Alfred Ayley - DOI 10 June 1918

Sergeant Bertie Charles Bragg - DOW 17 July 1917

Corporal George Leopold Brown - KIA 17 July 1917

Private Anselum Duckett - DAH 29 October 1918

Millitary Cross

Captain Ernest Raphael Capper - DOW 24 December 1917

Captain Turner Comber - KIA 19 September 1918

Major Edwin Baskerville Hickox - DOW 15 August 1917

Captain Reginald Davies - KIA 30 April 1917

2nd Lieutenant Frank Wesley Peters - KIA 18 July 1917

Captain Magnus Rainer - DOW 22 August 1918

Lieutenant Robert Naylor - DOW 9 September 1917

Military Medal

CSM Henry Leonard Baker - DOW 20 March 1918

Sergeant George Barnard - KIA 11 August 1916

Lance Sergeant Charles Boar - KIA 30 November 1917

Private Bertie Cundy - DOW 5 July 1916

Private Alfred Davis - KIA 29 January 1918

CSM John Davis - KIA 30 November 1917

Sergeant Charles William Denny - KIA 22 August 1918

Sergeant William Devenish - KIA 5 April 1918

Corporal Harry Osman Digby - KIA 3 July 1916

Private Alfred Gibbs - KIA 4 April 1918

Corporal Fred Gould - DOW 11 May 1917

Corporal James Hacquoil - DOW 11 August 1918

2nd Lieutenant William Guest Hartley - DOW 8 August 1918

Private Edmund Leonard Hill - KIA 7 April 1918

Lance Corporal Hubert James Ives - KIA 18 September 1918

Lance Sergeant Hugh George - KIA 20 November 1917

Corporal Harold D Mann - KIA 8 July 1916

CSM Fred Moore - KIA 30 November 1917

Private Harry Pettican - KIA 18 September 1918

Lance Sergeant Walter Pollard - DOW 7 May 1917

Lance Corporal William Robinson - DOW 1 July 1918

Lance Corporal Frank Arthur Shroder - KIA 10 July 1917

Lance Corporal Alfred George Smee - KIA 30 November 1917

Private Fred Smith - KIA 5 April 1918

2nd Lieutenant Charles Edward Songhurst - KIA 22 August 1918

 

More details are available in the Commonwealth War Graves site or from the Men of Essex series of books.

A guide to World War One medals can be viewed by clicking here.