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SEE NOTES AT THE END OF THE PAGE						PAGE UPDATED	15 DECEMBER 2016, 25 MARCH 2017, 10 JANUARY 2018, 25 MAY 2017 15 SEPTEMBER 2019 20 MAY 2021
DURHAM and WIGLEY FAMILY HISTORY
GAY and BUNKER FAMILY HISTORY
CASUALTIES IN THE TWO WORLD WARS
DURHAM and ASSOCIATED FAMILIES
NAME		BORN		DIED				NOTES
ARTHUR JOHN AKERS	©	8 AUG 1886, Walworth, Surrey^CERT, but registered at Camberwell, Surrey R/D^BMD		14 APR 1915, age 28, buried Bethune Town Cemetery, France (WW1 casualty)^FAM
MATTHEW BRICE AKERS	26 JAN 1893, Walworth, Surrey^FAM			26 MAY 1915, Givenchy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, age 22, buried Le Touret Memorial, France (WW1 casualty)^FAM, COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES				he also appears in various records as BRYCE MATTHEW AKERS WW1 MEDAL RECORD
FRANK WALTER BARDOE	Q1 1894, Gravesend, Kent			22 JAN 1944, Gravesend, Kent, age 49 (WW2 civilian casualty)
LEONARD GEORGE BARDOE	Q2 1897, Swanscombe, Kent			14 JUL 1916, France?, age 19, buried Thiepval Memorial Cemetery, France (WW1 casualty)
RALPH VICTOR BARDOE	1 MAR 1894^CERT, CENSUS, Swanscombe, Kent ^CENSUS			20 JUL 1941, at sea^WILL, age 47 [went down with HM Submarine Umpire] (WW2 casualty) WILL
STANLEY JOSEPH BARDOE	Q1 1894, Northfleet, Kent			7 JUN 1917?, Belgium?, age 23?, buried Voormezeele Cemetery, Belgium? (WW1 casualty?)
HUGH RANDOLPH RYAN BELL	Q3 1887, Birmingham/King's Heath?, Warks			29 AUG 1917, at 4th Casualty Clearing Station, near St. Julien, France^WILL, age about 30 (WW1 casualty) WILL
RAYMOND CHARLES MESSINGHAM BINGHAM	Q4 1915, Woolwich, Kent R/D			6 MAR 1943, Epsom, Surrey^WILL, age 27, buried Brockley Cemetery, Surrey (WW2 casualty) WILL
CECIL STANLEY BISHOP	31 DEC 1901, Portsmouth, Hants R/D			8/10 JUN 1940, lost at sea, HMS Glorious, Norway (WW2 casualty)
FRANK BLYTH	Q4 1919, Grimsby, Lincs R/D^BMD			14 SEP 1943, Salerno, Italy, age 23, buried Salerno War Cemetery, Italy^COMMONWEALTH^WAR GRAVES (WW2 casualty)
PATRICK ANTHONY DURHAM	Q1 1917, Kensington, Middx R/D^BMD			23 OCT 1940, Tidworth Military Hospital, Salisbury Plain, Wilts^WILL, age 23, buried All Saints, Harrow, Middx (WW2 casualty) WILL
CHARLES WILLIAM JOHN FINCH	11 JUL 1880^FAM, Swanscombe, Kent^CENSUS			31 JUL 1917, age 37, buried New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium ^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES (WW1 casualty)				● husband of CECILIA FLORENCE BARDOE
RONALD ARTHUR FLAWITH	Q3 1899^BMD, St Pancras, Middx^CENSUS baptized 23 AUG 1899, Christ Church, Somers Town, Middx^CERT			12 OCT 1918, age 19, buried St Venant Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
JOHN WALTER GADSDON	19 SEP 1899, Finsbury, Middx^FAM			23 AUG 1918, Bouzincourt, Somme, France, age 18, buried Meaulte Military Cemetery, France (WW1 casualty)^FAM
KENNETH WILLIAM GADSDON	Q2 1924, Hackney, Middx R/D^BMD			28 JUN 1943, age 19, buried Nantes (Pont du Cens) Communal Cemetery, France (WW2 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
ROBERT JOCELYN LEWIN	Q1 1887, Brockley, Kent^BMD ^CENSUS			20 SEP 1917, Belgium, age 30, remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium^COMMONWEALTH^WAR GRAVES(WW1 casualty)
RAMSEY McKENZIE	Q2 1924, West Derby, Lancs R/D^BMD			19 FEB 1944, Anzio, Roma, Italy, buried Anzio War Cemetery, Roma, Italy^COMMONWEALTH^WAR GRAVES(WW2 casualty)
JOHN CEDRIC PAGE	Q3 1887^BMD, Northfleet, Kent^CENSUS			16 AUG 1917, age about 30, remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium^COMMONWEALTH^WAR GRAVES (WW1 casualty)
FREDERICK WILLIAM PYWELL	about 1885, Rugby, Warks^CENSUS			10 APR 1917, age 32, remembered Thiepval Memorial Cemetery, France, (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES				● husband of ELLEN LAVINIA FLAWITH
FREDERICK NEALE REID	about 1877, East Leake, Notts^CENSUS			21 MAY 1915, age 38, remembered Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hants (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES				● husband of CLARA ELIZABETH ANNIE GUILLAIN
WILLIAM FRANCIS SAUNDERS	8 FEB 1900^CERT, Bethnal Green, Middx^CENSUS			1939, Able Seaman in the Royal Navy, killed in action HMS Vanquisher, age about 39, buried Plymouth Weston Mill Cemetery, Devon^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
GAY and ASSOCIATED FAMILIES
RICHARD WILLIAM FOX	Q2 1888^BMD		Walthamstow, Essex^CENSUS	3 AUG 1917, Belgium?, age 29, remembered Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
ROBERT HENRY FOX	Q2 1889^BMD			23 JUN 1918, France?, age 29, buried Le Vertannoy British Cemetery, Hinges, France (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
BERNARD ALFORD GAY “Bunny”	6 MAY 1923, Murray, Western Australia			8 DEC 1942, HMAS Armidale, Timor Sea, age 19, commemorated Plymouth Naval Memorial Cemetery, Devon, England (WW2 casualty)
JOHN BERNARD GAY	6 NOV 1905^NAVY RECORD, Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales R/D^BMD			22 OCT 1943, age 37, HMS Hurworth, Aegean Sea off Turkey, commemorated at Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon (WW2 casualty) ^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
BUNKER and ASSOCIATED FAMILIES
STANLEY JOHN MULLISS	23 JUL 1899^MILITARY RECORD, Camberwell, Surrey^CENSUS			20 DEC 1941, age 42, remembered at the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon [went down with HMS Kandahar] (WW2 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
WIGLEY and ASSOCIATED FAMILIES
REGINALD BYFORD	Q1 1899^BMD, Upton Park, Essex^CENSUS			5 APR 1918, France?, age 19, remembered Pozières Memorial Cemetery, Somme, France (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
SAMUEL JOHN BYFORD II	Q1 1895^BMD, Leamington, Warks^CENSUS			3 JAN 1916, France?, age about 21, buried Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, Nord, France? (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES
FREDERICK WILLIAM HOWE	Q2 1898^BMD, Dunkirk, Kent^CENSUS			27 SEP 1916, France?, age 18, buried / commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, France, (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
GEORGE ALBERT MACKLIN	30 OCT 1901, Northfleet, Kent			18 APR 1944, on active service, age 42, buried Gravesend cemetery, Kent (WW2 casualty)
MICHAEL F. MORAN	NOV 1894^CENSUS			died 18 NOV 1918^FAM, BMD, France?, age about 24, buried Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, France^BMD[died of accident^BMD], (WW1 Casualty)
WALTER WILLIAM POORE	Q4 1886^BMD, Leytonstone, Essex^CENSUS			7 SEP 1918, France, buried Communal Cemetery, Péronne, Somme, France, age 32 (WW1 casualty)^COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES				● husband of EMILY MAUD WIGLEY
SYDNEY JAMES RUCK	Q1 1913, Gravesend, Kent R/D			17 JUN 1940, at sea, in the Lancastria disaster, age 30, remembered at Dunkirk Memorial, France (WW2 casualty)				● husband of DORIS ANNIE MACKLIN "Doll"
EDWARD WIGLEY VII	1885, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland				?			● nothing more is known about him ● an Edward Wigley died in 1917, age 30 (so born about 1887) (WW1 casualty) but there is no indication that this is him
HENRY RAYMOND WIGLEY	Q3 1909^BMD, Harrow on the Hill, Middx^CENSUS			17 JUN 1940, at sea, in the Lancastria disaster, age 30, remembered at Dunkirk Memorial, France (WW2 casualty)
● NOTES: Roman numerals after a person’s name, eg. William I, are purely to distinguish different people with the same name R/D = Registration District R/O = Register Office (for an explanation of these two terms, see homepage) © = certificate available ● SOURCE ABBREVIATIONS: ^BMD online birth/marriage/death indexes ^CENSUS various census records ^CERT birth/marriage/death certificate ^FAM family sources ^IGI International Genealogical Index (not always completely reliable) ^WILL will/letters of administration/probate details COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS WELCOMED IN PARTICULAR, PLEASE LET ME KNOW OF ANY LINKS THAT DON’T WORK FOR CONTACT ADDRESS SEE HOMEPAGE
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