Henry John Champion

Regiment              Somerset Light Infantry 1st Battalion                                                                                           

Date of Death        31st October 1914 aged 30 years old

Commemorated    Ploegsteert Memorial - Belgium

His parents lived in Jasmine Cottage Ebdon Road. He later moved to Cardiff and worked on the railway. He married Margaret and had one child. 

Frederick Edwin Cook

Regiment         Private - D Company 12th Battalion Regiment

Date of Death  10th December 1915 

Born 1896 in Worle - Parents Edwin and Phoebe of Ebdon Road Worle.

Frederick was killed in action in France

Buried at Suzzane Cementry France and commemorated at St Martins Worle

Frederick Charles Drew

Regiment         Royal Inniskilling Fusilers

Date of Death  16th August 1917

Memorial         Tyne Cot Memorial Belgium

Frederick was born in Devon. He married Elsie Rogers he had two young sons. 

Frederick was awarded the British War and Victory Medals. 

Albert Clifford Exton

Regiment        10th (Service) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

Date of Death  29th August 1916

Memorial         Thiepval, France

Also on War Memorial Grove Park WSM

Son of Thomas and Emma Exton of Milton. After the death of his father the family moved to Worle (West Row off of Coronation Road). 

Albert worked on Birnbeck Pier before joining up. 

Alfred Hinton

Regiment              Army Service Corps Private 30ty Labour Company

Date of Death       22nd April 1916

Memorial              MALO-LES-BAINS COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Born 1874 in Worle, his parents were Albert and Amelia Hinton (nee Chamion)

He was married to Clara Follett and lived at Brentry House

He died at Queen Alexandra Hospital. 

Ernest Henry Gillett

Regiment        1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment

Date of Death  2nd September 1918

Memorial         Vis en Artois France

Born in Worle, the family lived in Worle High Street. He was just 19 years old when he died. 

Harold George Smith

Regiment        Able Seaman, HMS India, Royal Navy

Date of Death  8th August 1915

Lost at Sea when HMS India sunk in a Norwegian Ford

Since the publication of Worle War Memorial Book we have found out a little bit more about Harold and his conection to Worle.

He was born 16th October 1880 and Married Isabella Donaldson White in 1909 living in Essex. In 1921 they were living with their daughter Hilda Donaldson Smith born 1910 in Moorland Road W-S-M (his brother also lived in Moorland Road). Some time after Harold`s death they moved back to Essex. His brother Wilfred Stanley Smith who was also in the Navy stayed local and later lived in Banwell.

Harold is Commemorated at the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent. 

Jack Crooker Raines 

Regiment          Home Guard 8th Somerset (Weston super Mare) Bn

Date of Death   18th September 1940 aged 33 years old  

Buried               St Martins Churchyard (Commonwealth War Grave) 

Jack was accidently shot on duty at Worle Observatory. 

        At the rising of the sun and the going down of the same - We will remember him

Civilians

David and Janet Jones and their daughter Valerie died in 1940 when their house in Worle High Street was bombed, their son and dog survived. They are buried at St Martins Church. The family added a headstone recently. 

Charles Drury died after their house in Ebdon Road was bombed on 28th June 1942.