Garton, William
Rank: Rifleman
Number: 43065
Battalion: 10th Royal Irish Rifles
Died: 7th June 1917
Age: 28
Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Additional Information:
Son of John and Agnes Garton of Lime Grove, Forest Town.
Ghilks, Frederick
Rank: Bombardier
Number: 51066
Battalion: 38th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Died: 30th November 1917
Age: 32
Commemorated: Cambrai Memorial
Additional Information:
Son of John Ghilks, of Pavers Row, Chasetown, Staffordshire: Husband of Maria Ghilks of 22 Cranbrook Street, Ashton under Lyne.
Address on enlistment 125 Coke Street, Mansfield Woodhouse
Gilman, John
Rank: Private
Number: 43082
Battalion: 8th South Staffordshire Regiment
Died: 12th October 1917
Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial
Additional Information:
Son of Mrs Gilman of 145 Blake Street, Mansfield Woodhouse: Husband of Cissie Gilman of 77 Sherwood Street Mansfield Woodhouse.
Rank: Private
Number: 7078
Battalion: 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Died: 27th October 1914
Age: 29
Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial
Additional Information:
Husband of Ann Waggot (Formerly Glasby) of 29 Garden Road, Mansfield.
When he enlisted he was living at 8 Crooks Yard, Mansfield Woodhouse
Rank: Private
Number: 305709
Battalion: 2/8th Sherwood Foresters
Died: 27th April 1917
Age: 24
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial
Additional Information:
Prior to enlisting he was a Sunday School teacher in the Wesleyan Church.
His Battalion were sent to Ireland in Easter 1916 to quell the Irish Rebellion, where it suffered numerous casualties. In the early part of 1917, his Battalion were sent to the Western Front.
Greaves, William Herbert
Believed to be:
Rank: Private
Number: 11082
Battalion: 1st Grenadier Guards
Died: 24th March 1916
Buried: Ypres Reservoir Cemetery
Green, Horace
Rank: Private
Number: 43137
Battalion: 8th South Staffordshire Regiment
Died: 23rd April 1917
Age: 26
Commemorated: Arras Memorial
Additional Information:
Son of the late James and Mary Green.
Grummitt, Arthur
Rank: Private
Number: 28103
Battalion: 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment
Died: 24th April 1917
Commemorated: Arras Memorial.
Hague, Joseph
Rank: Private
Number: 19524
Battalion: 17th Sherwood Foresters
Died: 16th February 1917
Buried: Bard Cottage Cemetery
Hardy, Leonard
Rank: Private
Number: 19402
Battalion: 1st Northamptonshire Regiment
Died: 25th September 1915
Age: 18
Commemorated: Loos Memorial
Additional Information:
Home address George Street, Mansfield Woodhouse. Enlisted September 1914 into the Sherwood Foresters but shortly after transferred into the Northamptonshire Regiment.
Hampshire, Samuel Harry
Rank: Private
Number: 202766
Battalion: 2/4th York and Lancaster Regiment
Died: 3rd May 1917
Age: 24
Buried: HAC Cemetery
Additional Information:
Son of John Henry and Ellen Maria Hampshire of West View, Mansfield Woodhouse.
Enlisted March 1916.
Harris, Samuel
Rank: Private
Number: 12079
Battalion: 1st Leicestershire Regiment
Died: 16th March 1916
Buried: White House Cemetery.
Hart, Albert Ernest
Rank: Private
Number: 49340
Battalion: 9th Sherwood Foresters
Died: 15th October 1917
Buried: Dozinghem Military Cemetery
Hawley, Thomas A.
Rank: Private
Number: 12154
Battalion: 2nd Sherwood Foresters
Died: 21st October 1918
Age: 23
Buried: Berlin South Western Cemetery
Additional Information:
Son of Reuben and Sarah Jane Hawley of 14 Vallance Street Mansfield Woodhouse, Born at New Basford, Nottingham.
Died whilst a prisoner of war.
Rank: Private
Number: 11991
Battalion: 2nd Sherwood Foresters
Died: 20th October 1914
Age: 21
Commemorated: Ploegsteert Memorial
Additional Information:
Son of Mr and Mrs Charles Hayward of 5 Crooks Avenue, Mansfield Woodhouse.
His father Charles served aged 56 as Private 11th Sherwood Foresters, he was invalided home wounded.
One of the very first from Mansfield Woodhouse to fall
Heald, William
Rank: Serjeant
Number: 305607
Battalion: 2/8th Sherwood Foresters
Died: 27th April 1917
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial
Hett, William
Rank: Rifleman
Number: C/6384
Battalion: King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Died: 7th October 1916
Age: 45
Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery
Additional Information:
Son of George and Mary Hett of Mansfield Woodhouse.
Rank: Lieutenant
Battalion: 1/8th Sherwood Foresters
Died: 12th November 1915
Age: 28
Buried: Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery
Additional Information:
Son of John Plowright Houfton MP and Frances Houfton of Park Hall, Mansfield Woodhouse.
He was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge and the London University where he trained as a civil engineer.
Was commissioned into the 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters on 7th September 1914 and went to the front with them in August 1915.
He was sent home on 3 weeks leave to recover from the effects of being gassed a few weeks before he was killed.
On his return to his Battalion, they took over part of the line that had been occupied by Indian soldiers. The trenches had been left in an appalling state and the Foresters spent most of their time carrying out the necessary work to make these trenches secure.
On the morning of 11th November 1915, Lieutenant Houfton was walking from one end of the Foresters line to the other when he was shot in the head by a sniper who had been following his movements.
When his men got to him he was still alive but unconscious, they dressed his wounds and he was admitted to the hospital. In the early hours of the 12th November, Lieutenant Houfton succumbed to his wounds having not regained consciousness. In his pocket was a letter which was only to be opened in the event of his death, it read
’If I die on the battlefield for my Country-glorious England-I shall be satisfied. God is with me always’’
He was buried in a small cemetery on 12th November by the Reverend J P Hales.
Housley, William Ernest
Rank: Sapper
Number: 141500
Battalion: Royal Engineers
Died: 7th January 1918
Age: 39
Buried: Mansfield Woodhouse (St Edmund) Churchyard Extension.
Additional Information:
Son of Mrs Elizabeth Deacon of 10 Warner Street, Hasland Road, Chesterfield.
Was one of the official shorthand writers appointed to the Court of Bankruptcy and the shorthand writer appointed by the court to the Official Receiver’s Department in Companies Liquidations, London..
At the outbreak of the war he joined the Special Constabulary in London but enlisted into the Royal Engineers in November 1915 as a clerk and shorthand writer.Under the heavy manual labour to which he was put, his health broke down and he was discharged in May 1916 but he died of Diabetes.
He was once the Mansfield Woodhouse correspondent for the Mansfield Chronicle
Hunt, Robert William
Rank: Private
Number: 18833
Battalion: 1/5th Sherwood Foresters
Died: 24th July 1918
Age: 30
Commemorated: Loos Memorial.
Rank: Private
Number: PS/7163
Battalion: 2nd Royal Fusiliers
Died: 1st July 1916
Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial
Additional Information:
Son of Mr J Huskisson of the Mines Rescue Station, Mansfield Woodhouse
Hutchinson, George
Rank: Private
Number: 14090
Battalion: 1st Lincolnshire Regiment
Died: 16th June 1915
Age: 19
Buried: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Additional Information:
Son of John Jabez Holworthy Hutchinson and A. Elizabeth Hutchinson of 8 William Street, Eckington, Sheffield. Home address 121 Blake Street, Mansfield Woodhouse
Hyde, Frederick Thomas Mott
Rank: Able Seaman
Number: CH/J/21153
Ship: HMS Lord Nelson, Royal Navy
Died: 25th April 1915
Age: 19
Buried: V Beach Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey
Additional Information:
Son of Mary Wilkinson of 177 Blake Street, Mansfield Woodhouse. Native of Hartshorne Burton on Trent.
Born 22nd September 1895, Burton on Trent. Joined the Royal Navy 22nd September 1913 for 12 years service
Mentioned in Despatches.