Details of the Fallen
Name	Regiment	Rank	Service No	Died	Age	Details
ALLGOOD, Reginald	2/6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment	Private	25595	21 March 1918	21	-
Son of Frederick John and Mary Ann Allgood of 53 Leicester Road, Whitwick.
Cemetery: Arras Memorial, Bay 6.
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BAILEY, Thomas	9th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)	Private	351954	20 September 1917	21	-
Son of Annie Wakeling (formerly Bailey) and Jacob Wakeling (step-father) of 36 Loughborough Road, Mountsorrel. Formerly 28325 Leicestershire Regiment.
Memorial: Tyne Cot, Panel 11 to 14 and 162.
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BAKEWELL, William Thomas	2/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment	Private	241459	9 April 1917	22	-
Son of William and Ada Elizabeth Bakewell of 64 Bakewell Street, Coalville.
Cemetery: Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension, III K 8
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BARKER, George Harold	Leicestershire Yeomanry	Private	2511	13 May 1915	26	-
Son of Arthur and Betsy Barker of 1 Barrow Lodge, Coalville. Private Barker was killed in action at the Battle of Frezenburg.
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 5.
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BEASLEY, W	1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	16531	11 September 1917	-	-
Private Beasley was killed whilst manning newly captured trenches in the Loos and St Elie Sector.
Cemetery: Bethune Town Cemetery, VI G 43.
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BEESON, A	1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	241386	6 May 1918	-	-
Cemetery: Tourgeville Military Cemetery, I G 2. Memorial: Whitwick Holy Cross RC Church.
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BENSON, Thomas	10th Battalion South Wales Borderers	Private	45855	3 February 1918	-	-
Formerly M/284108 Royal Army Service Corps.
Cemetery: St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, P VI I 4A. Memorial: Whitwick Holy Cross RC Church
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BERRINGTON, Robert William	8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Acting Corporal	14032	25 September 1916	23	Military Medal gazetted 19 Sep 1916
Son of John William Berrington of 90 Leicester Road, Whitwick. Robert Berrington was killed in the Attack on Gueuedecourt during the Battle of Morval.
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Face 2C and 3A.
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BISHOP, Oliver	1/4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment	Private	201412	19 April 1917	21	-
Son of Mr and Mrs Bishop of 57 North Street, Whitwick.
Cemetery: Gaza War Cemetery, XV G 11.
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BOOBYER, W	4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment	Corporal	25295	16 October 1916	23	-
Son of William and Mary Boobyer. Husband of Eliza Unwin (formerly Boobyer) of 72 Leicester Road, Whitwick.
Cemetery: AIF Burial Ground, Flers, II C 3.
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BRADLEY, Walter	1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)	Private	28803	25 April 1918	38	Enlisted August 1915
Husband of Julia Bradley of 39 Cademan Street, Whitwick. Private Walter Bradley had been previously wounded 3 times and was killed by a high explosive shell having only just returned to France in the January of 1918.
Cemetery: Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, II B 12.
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BRIERS, Herbert	155th Field Company Royal Engineers	Sapper	146050	7 June 1917	26	-
Son of E Briers of Whitwick. Husband of A M Briers of 112 Church Lane, Whitwick.
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 9.
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BROTHERHOOD, Ernest	1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment	Private	235105	26 October 1917	-	-
Formerly 203459 Leicestershire Regiment.
Private brotherhood does not appear in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database.
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BROTHERHOOD, Lewis Edward	237th Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)	Serjeant	7485	2 October 1917	-	-
The Coalville Times of Friday 7th May 1915 lists Lewis Brotherhood as serving with 1st Northumberland Fusiliers (8503).
Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 154 to 159 and 163A.
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BROWN, Walter James Cecil	8th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps	Rifleman	R/22812	25 August 1917	20	-
Son of Sidney Walter and Mary Lousie Brown of 110 London Road, Coalville.
Cemetery: Mendingham Military Cemetery, V B 32.
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BURTON, Herbert Harold	12th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers	Private	26136	3 July 1916	-	-
Son of Mr Elijah Burton a Banksman at Whitwick Colliery. Before the war Herbert resided with his parents on Green Lane working as a collier at Whitwick Colliery. He was formerly a Sunday School Scholar and Chorister at the Whitwick Parish Church.
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 10B 11B and 12B.
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BURTON, Harold Sidney	1/23rd Battalion London Regiment	Lance Corporal	2895	26 May 1915	42	-
Son of George and Sarah Burton of Whitwick. A schoolmaster educated at King's College, London.
Memorial: Le Touret Memorial, Panels 45 & 46. Memorial: Memorial Ground, Whitwick St john the Baptist.
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BURRELL, Norman	7th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	15718	14 July 1916	-	-
Norman Burrell was killed in action in the Battle of Bazentin Ridge.
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 2C and 3A.
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CAIRNS, James	5th Battalion Connaught Rangers	Private	3026	21 August 1915	27	-
Son of Michael Cairns of 13 Thornhill Street, Denaby Main, Yorkshire. Husband of Bridget Cutler (formerly Cairns) of 29 Talbot Street, Whitwick. Private Cairns was killed in action at Gallipoli.
Memorial: Helles Memorial, Panel 181 to 183. Memorial: Whitwick Holy Cross RC Church.
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CARTER, Joseph Albert	6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	21913	14 July 1916	-	Enlisted June 1915
Son of Mr Carter of 4 Silver Street. Joseph Carter was killed in action in the Battle of Bazentin Ridge.
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 2C and 3A.
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CAVENDISH, Charles	1/4th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	241465	2 July 1918	31	-
Born in Notting Hill on the 14th October 1885 his father, Alfred, trained as a boilermaker and applied for a job with the Midland Railway. His father returned to London but Charles stayed with the Barton family in Hugglescote. Employed at South Leicestershire Colliery he married Jane James who lived on Silver Street and they set up home on Pares Hill. Charles and Jane had 5 children, Victor Charles Ernest of 84 Ashby Road, Hugglescote, Bill, Gordon, Joseph and Edward. A member of the "Famous Fifty" he was wounded at Ypres and was reposted to the 1/4th Battalion. He was further wounded by shrapnel at the Battle of the Somme in July 1916 and again on the 21st October 1917 when fragments from an aircraft bomb struck him in the chest whilst serving in the St Elie Left Sector. Along with many in his battalion he was the victim of a gas attack on 18th June 1918 in the village of Gorre. It was on the return to his unit that Charles was killed on the 2nd July 1918 by a high explosive German shell.
Memorial: Loos Memorial, Panel 42 to 44.
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CONCANNON, Arthur	1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Regiment	Lance Corporal	10968	31 July 1917	-	Awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Military Medal gazetted 14 Sep 1916
Lance Corporal Concannon was killed during an attack at Westhoek in friont of Ypres when he was shot by a sniper. A friend of Arthur's, G H Phipps, who returned his private effects also wrote that: "Arthur earned a V.C. as big as a battleship. This is what everyone says who saw him. We both went to Confession and Holy Communion two days before the battle. You are quite aware of what we were to each other, I have been hard hit by his death, for I could look the world over and not find a better chum. I have been fairly knocked up over it, and it makes me wild that after being out here two years and nine months, he should get knocked over at the eleventh hour. I feel it pretty hard, but then, what is my loss compared to yours? Please accept my heartfelt sympathy".
Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 39 and 41. Memorial: Whitwick Holy Cross RC Church.
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COOKE, William H	8th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	40163	25 September 1916	-	-
Private Cooke was killed in the Attack on Gueuedecourt during the Battle of Morval.
Memorial: Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 2C and 3A.
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COPSON, George Henry	Royal Navy HMS Sparrowhawk	Signalman	225838	1 June 1916	-	-
HMS Sparrowhawk was an Acasta Class Destroyer sunk at the Battle of Jutland after colliding with HMS Broke. Broke had been devastated by the German battle squadron and with her steering hard over and engines running at full speed she careered into the Sparrowhawk. The force of the collision catapulted 23 men from the Sparrowhawk onto the Broke's deck. To compound the problem the destroyer Contest, next astern of Sparrowhawk, could not avoid her and took 30 feet off her stern. Sparrowhawk was left drifting helplessly and was sunk the following day.
Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, 16.
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DUCKER, John Edward Dixon	9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Lance Corporal	15719	1 October 1917	27	-
Son of Frederick Arthur and Elizabeth Ducker of 4 Leicester Road, Whitwick. John Ducker was killed in the Attack on Polygon Wood during the Third Battle of Ypres.
Cemetery: Kortrijk (St Jan) Communal Cemetery, C 38.
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FREEMAN, Herbert	1/5th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	240806	11 October 1918	22	-
Son of Eliza Freeman of Hermitage Road, Whitwick. Brother of Richard Freeman commemorated below. Pre war Herbert Freeman worked at Whitwick Colliery.
Cemetery: Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension, IV A 32.
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FREEMAN, Richard	9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment	Private	40092	3 May 1917	25	-
Son of Eliza Freeman of Hermitage Road, Whitwick. Husband of Lily Freer (formerly Freeman) of 3 Church Side, Shepshed. Richard Freeman was killed during the Battle of Bullecourt.
Memorial: Arras Memorial, Bay 5.