Memorial Statue in Ypres

Frederick John Staines Hilda's uncle

Died of wounds in Belgium 14th October 1917
Lance Corporal, 36th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
Bard Cottage Cemetery
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Royal Fusiliers
Unit Text: 36th Bn.
Secondary Regiment: Labour Corps

Service No: 40040
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. A. 2.
Cemetery: BARD COTTAGE CEMETERY, Belgium

Bard Cottage Cemetery

56 Staines who fell in WW1 and date of death

STAINES  A  10/04/1915
STAINES  ARTHUR  22/02/1915
STAINES  ARTHUR  05/03/1915
STAINES  ARCHIE  15/08/1917
STAINES  ALBERT E.  16/08/1917
STAINES  AUSTIN EWART  15/07/1916
STAINES  ALFRED GEORGE  21/09/1917
STAINES  ARTHUR HENRY  13/10/1915
STAINES  BERT  26/10/1914
STAINES  B M  24/04/1915
STAINES  CHARLES  26/09/1917
STAINES  CORNELIUS H.  12/08/1918
STAINES  CHARLES WILLIAM  08/04/1917
STAINES  EDWIN  01/05/1917
STAINES  ERNEST  23/10/1916
STAINES E.J.A GEORGE   15/09/1917
STAINES  FRANK  27/03/1917
STAINES  FREDERICK  31/10/1914
STAINES  F  14/06/1917
STAINES  FRANK HENRY  23/06/1917
STAINES  FREDERICK JOHN  14/10/1917
STAINES  F W  26/03/1917
STAINES  GEORGE EDWARD  10/09/1916
STAINES  GEORGE HENRY  14/04/1918
STAINES  HARRY  19/10/1915
STAINES  HERBERT  10/09/1918
STAINES  HERBERT GEORGE BISHOP  17/10/1918
STAINES  H J  17/07/1916
STAINES  HUBERT SANSOM  20/07/1916
STAINES  JOHN  07/08/1915
STAINES  JOHN HENRY   28/09/1918
STAINES  JAMES HENRY  25/09/1915
STAINES  JOSEPH MIDDLETON  21/08/1916
STAINES  JAMES MAURICE  20/06/1917
STAINES  J P  22/10/1916
STAINES  JOHN WILLIAM  21/10/1914
STAINES  J W  22/02/1918
STAINES  JAMES  11/08/1915
STAINES  J.WASHTON  30/06/1918
STAINES  PERCY  28/09/1915
STAINES  PERCY EPHRAIM  20/07/1918
STAINES  S  22/07/1917
STAINES  SYDNEY CHARLES  16/04/1916
STAINES  THOMAS  13/11/1916
STAINES  THORNAS WILLIAM  02/03/1916
STAINES  WILLIAM   20/09/1917
STAINES  W  24/12/1917
STAINES  WALTER  29/09/1915
STAINES  W,C THOMAS  20/09/1918
STAINES  WILLIAM ERNEST  22/08/1917
STAINES  WILLIAM HUGH  15/08/1918
STAINES  W H  15/04/1918
STAINES  WILLIAM J.  30/10/1917
STAINES  WILLIAM JOHN  05/06/1917
STAINES  WILFRID JAMES  23/06/1917
STAINES  WILLIAM THOMAS  09/04/1917

 

 

 

Tyne Cot Memorial Cemetery

GEORGE ALBERT WILLSHER Hilda's cousin 2 removed

Died in Flanders the battle of Langemarck 16-18 Aug 1917
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment/Service: Middlesex Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Date of Death: 16/08/1917
Service No: G/41254
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead buried at ofTyne Cot Memorial Cemetery

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 113 to 115.

George Albert Willsher name inscribed on the wall at the cemetary.Buried in mass garve

Some notes we found about the battle


Ground conditions during the whole Ypres-Passchendaele action were bad because the ground was already fought-over and partially flooded. Continuous shelling destroyed drainage canals in the area, and unseasonable heavy rain turned the whole area into a sea of mud and water-filled shell-craters. The troops walked up to the front over paths made of duckboards laid across the mud, often carrying up to one hundred pounds (45 kg) of equipment. It was possible for them to slip off the path into the craters and drown before they could be rescued. The trees were reduced to blunted trunks, the branches and leaves torn away, and the bodies of men buried after previous actions were often uncovered by the rain or later shelling.

23 Willsher who fell in WW1 and date of death

WILLSHER ALBERT REGINALD 
13/11/1916
WILLSHER ALBERT VICTOR 
16/02/1916
WILLSHER BERTIE GREENAWAY 
30/04/1916
WILLSHER CHARLES 
23/04/1918
WILLSHER CHARLES DAVID 
06/05/1915
WILLSHER EDGAR 
18/10/1917
WILLSHER E 
31/10/1918
WILLSHER F J 
08/10/1918
WILLSHER GEORGE 
14/11/1918
WILLSHER GEORGE ALBERT 
16/08/1917
WILLSHER,H 
26/03/1917
WILLSHER HERBERT 
30/10/1917
WILLSHER HARRY ERNEST 
01/10/1916
WILLSHER HAROLD HENRY 
19/10/1918
WILLSHER HENRY JOHN 
27/03/1917
WILLSHER JOHN CHARLESS 
30/04/1918
WILLSHER L 
30/03/1918
WILLSHER LEWIS ALFRED 
25/04/1915
WILLSHER S J 
26/11/1918
WILLSHER V 
23/04/1916
WILLSHER WILLIAM 
01/07/1916
WILLSHER WILLIAM ARTHUR 
23/08/1916

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our own tribute to the familys who fell in the War

 

Menin Gate, Ypres

There were quite a few of the 3 families who fell in WW1 we have of course not been able to place them all but with this tribute we might help you to find some to match your family

We found this poem on the internet it has no baring on our relation but we thought it fitting as most of our ancesters fought in Flanders or the Some

Here's a poem by John McCrae called "In Flanders Field." He was a doctor who wrote the poem in 1915 for a friend who died in the Battle for Flanders Field.


In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

71 Murrell(s) who fell in WW1 and date of death

MURRELLS , ARTHUR EDWARD  11/08/1918
MURRELLS , FRANCIS ERNEST  22/09/1917
MURRELLS , J  28/10/1915
MURRELL , AMBROSE  16/08/1917
MURRELL , A  08/10/1917
MURRELL , ALFRED  21/03/1917
MURRELL , A  14/10/1916
MURRELL , ALFRED  13/10/1918
MURRELL , ARTHUR CECIL  07/07/1918
MURRELL , ALFRED JAMES  01/11/1915
MURRELL , BERT  02/11/1916
MURRELL , B G  31/07/1918
MURRELL , CHARLES  27/04/1917
MURRELL , C  12/04/1917
MURRELL , CHARLES JOSEPH  20/07/1916
MURRELL , CHARLES WILLIAM  04/05/1917
MURRELL , E  27/12/1917
MURRELL , ERNEST ALFRED  26/09/1917
MURRELL , E C   27/10/1918
MURRELL , ERNEST GEORGE  10/10/1915
MURRELL , EDWARD GEORGE  14/11/1914
MURRELL , EVELYN IRENE  27/11/1918
MURRELL , ERNEST M.  20/09/1917
MURRELL , FRED  26/03/1918
MURRELL , F  16/08/1915
MURRELL , FREDERICK ARTHUR  15/10/1916
MURRELL , FRANK EDWARD STEADMAN  24/04/1918
MURRELL , FRANK GILBERT  07/10/1916
MURRELL , F J  03/05/1917
MURRELL , FREDERICK PERCY  21/09/1917
MURRELL , F T  24/10/1918
MURRELL , FREDERICK WILLIAM  30/06/1916
MURRELL , GEORGE  31/10/1918
MURRELL , GEORGE   31/10/1917
MURRELL , GEORGE  21/03/1918
MURRELL , GEORGE  30/12/1917
MURRELL , GEORGE EDWARD  21/11/1917
MURRELL , G F  04/09/1915
MURRELL , GEORGE HENRY  07/01/1917
MURRELL , GEORGE HENRY  05/10/1918
MURRELL , GEORGE JAMES  27/01/1917
MURRELL , G W  02/11/1915
MURRELL , GILBERT WILLIAM  04/09/1916
MURRELL , HORACE ALEXANDER  30/03/1918
MURRELL , HENRY ARTHUR GEORGE  23/04/1917
MURRELL , HENRY GEORGE  27/07/1916
MURRELL , J  12/12/1917
MURRELL , J H  10/07/1916
MURRELL , J W   06/04/1917
MURRELL , L S  24/04/1918
MURRELL , O  15/07/1916
MURRELL , PERCIVAL CHRISTOPHER  04/10/1917
MURRELL , PERCY HENRY  07/01/1916
MURRELL , PERCY JOHN  29/02/1916
MURRELL , ROBERT DENNIS  25/09/1916
MURRELL , S C  20/11/1917
MURRELL , S D  02/02/1916
MURRELL , SIDNEY WILLIAM  31/05/1916
MURRELL , THOMAS ALBERT  22/03/1918
MURRELL , T E E  02/07/1917
MURRELL , T G  19/04/1918
MURRELL , THOMAS J.  10/03/1918
MURRELL , THOMAS WILLIAM  06/06/1915
MURRELL , THOMAS WILLIAM  20/09/1917
MURRELL , WALLACE  21/08/1915
MURRELL , WALTER  09/11/1915
MURRELL , WILLIAM GEORGE  28/09/1915
MURRELL , W G H  07/11/1917
MURRELL , W H  30/04/1917
MURRELL , WILLIAM JAMES  15/10/1916
MURRELL , W J  11/08/1916
MURRELL , W J  24/07/1915
MURRELL , WALTER LEWIS  14/10/1916
MURRELL , WILLIAM ROBERT JAMES  01/07/1916