The names on this page are those of the men from Kington and Huntington who died, either during the war itself or of wounds afterwards, and are commemorated on the Kington War Memorial. Some are buried in Commonwealth War graves abroad – but 21 have no known grave and are commemorated on various memorials across the various battle fronts.
As this site is developed, the full stories of these men will be available and these can be accessed by clicking on the names.
| Name | Rank/Rate | Service Number | Regiment/Ship | Date of Death | Burial or Commemoration Location |
| Thomas Abell
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Able Seaman | VR-5689 | Canadian Navy | 10/11/1918 | |
| John Thomas George Archer | Private | 35372 | 6th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 21/03/1918 | Pozieres Memorial
The Somme |
| John Baker | Sergeant | 201655 | 3rd/4th Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment | 13/07/1917 | Duisans British Cemetery
Etrun, Pas de Calais |
| Warren Ivor Boucher | Private | 2026 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 09/08/1915 | Helles Memorial
Gallipoli |
| William Henry Bufton | Private | 2376 | 1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment | 16/02/1917 | Kington Cemetery |
| Arthur Cecil Caunt | Private | 8007 | 133rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps | 12/05/1917 | Poperinghe New Military Cemetery
Belgium
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| Thomas George Cooke | Private | 1259 | 1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment | 10/08/1915 | 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery
Turkey |
| Wilfred Cooke | Private | 2081 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 29/11/1915 | Helles Memorial
Gallipoli |
| Arthur Cowdell | Private | 27720 | 11th Battalion Border Regiment | 18/11/1916 | Wagon Road Cemetery
Beaument Hamel |
| Archibald Thomas Davies | Sapper | 184903 | Royal Engineers | 11/11/1918 | Shrewsbury General Cemetery |
| John Davies | Private | 32037 | 14th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment | 23/03/1918 | Toronto Cemetery
Demuin The Somme |
| Albert Dawson | Gunner | 112867 | 241st Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery | 23/04/1917 | Faubourg D’Amiens Cemetery
Arras |
| Edgar Falconer | Private | 235317 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 13/11/1917 | Kantara War Cemetery
Egypt |
| Alfred Evan George | Private | 8847 | 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment | 02/10/1915 | Loos Memorial |
| Albert Edward Griffiths | Corporal | 26801 | South Wales Borderers | 21/11/1917 | Cambrai Memorial |
| Frank Griffiths | Private | 32043 | 14th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment | 04/02/1918 | Cement House Cemetery
Belgium |
| Llewellyn John Griffiths | Private | 20935 | 6th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 02/10/1917 | Kington Cemetery |
| William George Griffiths | Private | 48524 | 6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers | 22/05/1918 | Kington Cemetery |
| Albert Henry Hamer | Private | 7201 | 2nd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 17/05/1915 | Menin Gate
Ypres |
| Thomas Henry Hamlet | Private | 237762 | 4th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 17/04/1918 | Mendinghem Military Cemetery
Belgium |
| William Harris | |||||
| Percy Harris | Sergeant | 2718 | 1st/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment | 10/12/1916 | Martinpuich British Cemetery
Pas de Calais |
| Thomas Richard Hawkins | Lieutenant | Royal Field Artillery | 28/06/1925 | Kington Cemetery | |
| Horace Hitch | Private | 52877 | 1st/7th Lancashire Fusiliers | 19/10/1918 | St. Aubert British Cemetery
Nord, France |
| Harry Raymond Homer | Lance Corporal | 3593 | Australian Army Medical Corps | 12/11/1915 | Lone Pine Memorial
Gallipoli |
| Herbert William Homer | Second Lieutenant | Australian Army Medical Corps | 01/06/1917 | Brookwood Cemetery
Surrey |
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| George Beddoes Howells | Private | 235356 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 24/09/1918 | Croix-Rouge Military Cemetery
Quaedypre |
| Arthur Ingram | Rifleman | 2779 | 1st/15th London Regiment (Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles) | 27/06/1916 | Etaples Military Cemetery
Pas de Calais |
| Christopher Jones | Private | 11725 | 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers | 23/01/1915 | Brown’s Road Cemetery
Festubert |
| Robert Jones | Private | 18172 | 1st Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry | 22/04/1916 | Essex Farm Cemetery
Belgium |
| Edward Jones | ??/12/1918 | ||||
| William Jones | Air Mechanic 1st Class | 39334 | Royal Air Force | 23/02/1919 | Brookwood (United Kingdom 1914-1918) Memorial
Surrey |
| Leonard Langford | Corporal | 1809 | 1st Battalion Welsh Guards | 30/11/1917 | Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery
Manancourt |
| Alfred Lewis Lancaster-Davies | Private | DM2/130260 | Royal Army Service Corps | 23/03/1919 | Kington Cemetery |
| Alfred George Lawrence | Private | 3092 | 1st/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment | 23/11/1915 | Hebuterne Military Cemetery
Pas de Calais |
| Harry Lewis | Private | 1154 | 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers | 27/10/1914 | Le Touret Memorial
Pas de Calais |
| Elijah Lowe | Private | 11088 | 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 25/10/1914 | Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery
La Gougue, Nord
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| Thomas James Lowe | Private | 11565 | 5th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry | 22/08/1917 | Tyne Cot Memorial
Belgium |
| Thomas James Lowe | Private | 25659 | 17th Battalion Welsh Regiment | 03/09/1916 | Philosophe Military Cemetery
Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais |
| Reginald Thomas Mainwaring | Private | 1382 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 05/11/1916 | Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery
Iraq |
| Ernest Mitchel Meredith | Trooper | 661 | The Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars | 21/08/1915 | Helles Memorial
Gallipoli |
| Arthur Reginald Meredith | Private | 37386 | 13th Battalion Royal Scots | 12/09/1918 | Loos Memorial |
| Charles Edward Buchanan Meredith | Rifleman | Singapore Rifles | 10/10/1915 | Kington Cemetery | |
| Cecil James Mills | Gunner | 116323 | Royal Field Artillery | 25/08/1917 | Bard Cottage Cemetery
Belgium |
| Fred Morris | Private | 22531 | 11th Battalion South Wales Borderers | 18/02/1917 | Mendinghem Military Cemetery
Belgium |
| Frederick James Morgan | Private | 3822 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 04/08/1916 | Kantara War Memorial Cemetery
Egypt |
| Frank Harley Owens | Private | 52858 | 13th Battalion Cheshire Regiment | 21/10/1916 | Stump Road Cemetery
Grandcourt The Somme |
| William Thomas Owens | Private | 236618 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 29/07/1918 | Raperie British Cemetery
Villemontoire, France |
| Frank Harvey Parker | Private | 244134 | 1st/5th Battalion Cheshire Regiment | 28/03/1918 | Roclincourt Military Cemetery
Pas de Calais |
| Samuel Henry Parker | Private | 15083 | King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 11/11/1922 | Kington Cemetery |
| Albert Francis Pinches | Lance Corporal | 20122 | South Wales Borderers | 18/08/1917 | Dozinghem Military Cemetery
Belgium |
| Edward Pinches | Private | 8671 | 6th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 27/09/1917 | Dozinghem Military Cemetery
Belgium |
| James Pinches | Private | 16587 | 8th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 27/11/1916 | Karasouli Military Cemetery
Greece |
| Walter Pinches | Private | 236361 | Herefordshire Regiment | 25/09/1917 | Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery
Iraq |
| Howell Wyndham Powell | Private | 51949 | 22nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) | 25/03/1917 | Etaples Military Cemetery
Pas de Calais |
| Frank Archibald Price | Private | 381535 | 13th Battalion The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) | 11/04/1918 | Loos Memorial |
| Walter Price | Private | 265248 | Notts and Derby Regiment | ||
| Nelson Arthur Pullen | Private | 26388 | 16th Battalion Manchester Regiment | 01/07/1916 | Dantzig Alley Cemetery
Mametz, The Somme
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| Thomas Rogers | Lieutenant | Royal Naval Air Service | 19/06/1917 | Chatham Naval Memorial | |
| George Albert Nash Skillicorn | Rifleman | 54533 | 1st/7th West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) | 28/08/1918 | Glageon Communal Cemetery Extension
Nord, France |
| William Smith | Sergeant | 235424 | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 27/03/1917 | Jerusalem Memorial |
| James Tedstone | Gunner | 79909 | 20th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery | 19/02/1919 | Mikra British Cemetery
Kalmaria, Greece |
| Alfred Tedstone | Sapper | WR/201901 | KSLI then Royal Engineers | ||
| Anthony Temple | Captain | 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion | 05/04/1916 | Poperinghe New Military Cemetery | |
| Stanley Arthur Tipton | Private | 1263 | Herefordshire Regiment | 05/04/1927 | Kington Cemetery |
| Charles Train | Private | 287699 | Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry | 09/04/1927 | Huntington Cemetery |
| Geoffrey Ernest Tudor | Private | 3513586 | 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment | 24/07/1920 | Basra Memorial
Iraq |
| Jack Shadrack Thomas | Gunner | 347548 | Royal Garrison Artillery,
219 Siege Battery |
22/07/1928 | Kington Cemetery |
| John Alfred Tunley | Private | 54887 | Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 11/04/1917 | Feuchy Chapel British Cemetery, Wancourt
Pas de Calais |
| George James Turner | Private | 25053 | 1st Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 22/03/1918 | Arras Memorial |
| William Andrew Turner | Private | 1311 | 1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment trans to 569th Home Service Employment Coy. Labour Corps | 24/11/1918 | Kington Cemetery |
| Alexander Vaughan | Private | M2/191161 | 76th Auxilliary MT Company
Royal Army Service Corps |
27/11/1918 | Kington Cemetery |
| Charles Vaughan | Second Lieutenant | 1st/1st Herefordshire Regiment | 06/11/1917 | Beersheba War Cemetery
Israel |
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| Benjamin Williams | Private | 15809 | 7th Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 14/07/1916 | Thiepval Memorial
The Somme |
| John Edwin Williams | Private | 8188 | 2nd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry | 23/10/1914 | Ploegsteert Memorial
Belgium |
| William Taylor Welson | Private | 55533 | 17th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 05/08/1917 | Menin Gate, Ypres |
| James Henry Wyles | Able Seaman | J/2708 | HMS Indefatigable Royal Navy | 31/05/1916 | Plymouth Naval Memorial |