Excavations at Larkhill revealed graffiti left by soldiers training to fight in World War One. Soldiers from Britain, New Zealand and Australia wrote on the chalk walls of the practice trenches. Their signatures have enabled us to identify some of the men, to research their stories and, on some occasions, to contact their descendants.
On the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the war to end all wars, we would like to take this opportunity to remember them.
Baird, John Herbert
Barclay, R
Beatty, Samuel
Billinge, Thomas Edwin
Bray, R
Browning, Frank
Burke, Benjamin
Canavan, Thomas
Chesgzoy, Albert
Chisholm, J
Cook, David Grant
Cornock, Maurice
Craven, Stanley Thomas
Deveril, George Herbert
Devlin, William
Draper, Denis John
Duggan, Thomas
Dunn, T
Earle, Eugene Schuyler
Edwards, H
Edwards, John
Edwards, Torrington Richard
Fisher, J
Fleming, Albert James Gordon
Flemming, George Thomas
Godbee, Keith Randolph
Gough, Herbert
Gunton, Archibald George
Harris, B
Haug, Alfred Louis
Hemming, George Thomas
Heskith, S
Hillam, Willie Thomas
Humphries, R
Jackson, David John
Jacob, Walter Swanston
Knott, Sidney
Lawson, Andrew
Loat, Harold G
Lovejoy, Frederick W C
MacRath, Joseph
Magowan, Samuel
Menson, Harold
Mitchell, Norman L
Newby, Thomas
Nunn, Harold Henry
O'Loughlin, John Michael
Peacock, Ernest
Pepper, H
Pope, Archibald Edward
Preutice, A J
Rhodes, Oswald Thomas Gardiner
Richards, George Henry
Richards, John Alfred
Ricketts, A J
Roberts, Stanley George
Rogers, P
Rose, Cornelius William
Sammons, Sydney James
Seat, H A
Swanson, Jack
Thorpe, Raymond William
Threlfall, E
Towks, D
Walsh, D'Arcy Stuart
Walter, Swanston Jacob
Watson, T
Weathers, Lawrence Carthage (VC)
Weatherspoon, John
Williams, Charles H
Whitbread, George Henry
Whitehall Robert
White, Ernest Thomas
With thanks to Briony Lalor and Sheila Evans for their work researching these soldiers. This is an ongoing project to identify and recognise the sacrifice of soldiers from across the world. If you have any information that could help us with our research, please get in touch.
Poppy image by Evgeny Freyer (Shutterstock.com)
