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Western Signal Companies, Royal Engineers, TF - World War One

Soldiers killed, missing presumed dead, and died of wounds or sickness during World War One. The following names are taken from a Memorial Plaque at Headquarters 33rd (Lancashire and Cheshire) Signal Regiment (Volunteers) at Huyton, with additional research from ‘Soldiers Died in the Great War’.

Number

Rank

Forenames

Surname

Date Died

Remarks
78435 Sapper John Arkwright 19 May 1917 Killed in action, France & Flanders whilst serving with 17th Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
221402 Sapper George William Baxter 23 March 1918 Killed in action, France & Flanders whilst serving with 18th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
  Company Sergeant Major M Burke   Shown on Memorial Plaque but no other trace - possibly misspelled on the Memorial Plaque, or a nom-de-guerre.
78208 Sapper William Henry Christian 27 October 1918 Died, France & Flanders whilst serving with the 1st Army HQ Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
78518 Sapper Fred Clark 30 January 1917 Died, East Africa whilst serving with 41st Airline Section, Royal Engineers
78167 Driver Joseph Henry Davies 12 September 1918 Died, France aged 22.
78519 Sapper Stanley Evans 9 May 1915 Died of wounds Egypt whilst serving with the Western Signal Service Training Centre, Royal Engineers.
78236 Sapper Edward Hackett Fawcett 16 October 1918 Died, Salonika whilst serving with the 27th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers.

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 Lieutenant Roy MacKenzie Fernie 16 August 1915 Killed in action, whilst serving with 6th Divisional Company, Royal Engineers.
78464 Sapper Horace Charles Godfrey 1 August 1918 Killed in action, France & Flanders whilst serving with OO Cable Section, Royal Engineers.
78565 Sapper Bernard George Grattidge 22 January 1917 Died in the United Kingdom whilst on strength of Class W Army Reserve.
78476 Acting Sergeant Richard Herbert Johnson 25 October 1918 Died of wounds France & Flanders whilst serving with the 25th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
78478 Sapper Edward Lawrenson 8 November 1918 Died, France & Flanders whilst serving with No.1 Wireless Observation Group, Royal Engineers.
78678 Sapper Reginald Lee 23 August 1915 Killed in action, France & Flanders whilst serving with 28th Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
78859 Corporal Austin William Loughlin 23 July 1915 Died in India whilst serving with 1st/3rd Indian Army Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
78854 Sapper Herbert Alexander Loughman 30 October 1918 Killed in action, France & Flanders whilst serving with 21st Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery Signal Sub-Section, Royal Engineers.
78217 Sapper Thomas Francis McAsey 19 June 1916 Died Egypt whilst serving with 2nd ANZAC Corps Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
78361 Sapper Andrew McMurray 6 August 1917 Died of wounds France & Flanders whilst serving with the 2nd Army Wireless Company, Royal Engineers.
  Sapper FJ McNally   Possibly 27641 Sergeant FJ McNally - died 15 January 1919 whilst serving with HQ Royal Engineers IV Corps.
78377 Sapper William Pearson 16 July 1915 Died Gallipoli whilst serving with WE Cable Section, Royal Engineers.
  Sapper AJ Robinson   Possibly 486553 Sapper Albert James Robinson - died 12 September 1918 whilst serving with 406 Field Company Royal Engineers
78780 Corporal John Henry Rodgers 9 November 1918 Died in the United Kingdom whilst on strength Bedford ‘A’ Signal Depot, Royal Engineers.
78577 Corporal Harold N Rogers 4 April 1918 Died of wounds France & Flanders whilst serving with the Western Air-Line Company, Royal Engineers.
78018 Acting Sergeant JD Rolston 15 March 1917 Died in the United Kingdom whilst on strength Signal Depot, Royal Engineers, Haynes Park, Bedfordshire.
78741 Corporal James Shaw 27 November 1919 This was a nom de guerre, used whilst serving with W.19 Motor Air Line Section, Royal Engineers. His real name was James Dougherty. Died aged 35. Buried in Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool.
78498 Sapper Clarence Sydney William Sivil 27 May 1917 Killed in action, France & Flanders whilst serving with 4th Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers.
78757 Pioneer James Smith 2 January 1916 Died in the United Kingdom whilst on strength Fenny Stratford Signal Depot, Royal Engineers.
78077 Sapper William Kennett Tilley 30 August 1915 Died Gallipoli whilst serving with 8th Corps Headquarters Signal Company, Royal Engineers.
78016 Corporal George Tunstall 9 November 1918 Died at sea whilst serving with Signal Reinforcements, Royal Engineers.
78011 Company Sergeant Major John Henry Edward Walker 22 November 1915 Died Gallipoli whilst serving with the Wireless Signal Service, Royal Engineers.
78175 Lance Corporal Joseph Lowndes Wheaver 25 July 1915 Died of wounds Gallipoli whilst serving with the WA Cable Section, Royal Engineers.
78968 Corporal William Whittaker 8 October 1918 Died of wounds France & Flanders whilst serving with the 11th Divisional Company, Royal Engineers.
 

Still Recruiting...

42 Signal Squadron is still recruiting spare-time soldiers to train on Tuesday evenings,  weekends, plus a 2-week exercise each year, often abroad. 
Applicants should be medically and physically fit, and aged 17 - 32 (can be older with previous military experience).
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