William, a former pupil at Christ’s School and a member of that school’s Officer Training Corps, enlisted into the ranks of the Artists Rifles on 9 August 1915. He was soon commissioned into the 2/5th Battalion of the South Staffordshire…

Frederick, a married gardener with three children who lived in Worthing in Sussex, enlisted under the Derby Scheme in late 1915. He was mobilised to begin training on 1 January 1917 and became Trooper 2454 of the Household Battalion. After…

A youg man whose death on 11 April 1918 caused us to lose someone of great potential: he may have gone on to great things. Arthur was the son of Stephen Walsh, a former miner who had became the first…

Clement, whose family came from Brighton and who was working in London in 1911, emigrated to New Zealand before the Great War. He enlisted into the Auckland Battalion on 14 December 1914 and after going to Egypt with the Third…

Harry Barker, who came from the Bolton area of Lancashire, enlisted under the Group Scheme on 12 December 1915 and was mobilised on 21 March 1916. In between times, he married. After training with the 16th King’s Liverpools and the…

Mark Platford enlisted into the Norfolk Regiment on 23 January 1915 and subsequently trained with the 10th (Reserve) Battalion. He was sent with a draft for 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia but arrived to find that it was besieged at Kut-al-Amara.…

Walter Branson, a married man from Saltley in Birmingham, enlisted into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in early September 1914. Along with others who had been sent to the regimental depot at Warwick, he found himself being transferred to the 8th…

Conrad Parr was among a group of men with sea experience who were enlisted into the Royal Engineers’ Inland Waterways Department in the Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft areas in February 1915. He had already served for four years as a…

Hartley enlisted under the short-lived Group Scheme, being called up to train with the 2/4th Northamptonshire Regiment in September 1916. Along with a batch of other men he was transferred to the 7th Reserve Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment in…

Richard Hopkins, who lived in Fernhill Heath near Worcester but was originally from near Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds, enlisted under the Derby Scheme in late 1915 but in order to do so falsified his age: he was only 17. He…