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Roll Of Honour

MEN WHO FOUGHT AND DIED OR SURVIVED THE FIRST WORLD WAR

22nd BATTALION ROYAL FUSILIERS

PTE JOHN BROWN, GS/6436 Killed in Action 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood (see Battalion War Diary). Interred in the Orchard Dump Cemetery, France.
LT JAMES WALTER CARR, M.C. D.C.M. Mentioned in Despatches. Died of Wounds 16/11/1918, aged 25, whilst attached to 99th Trench Mortar Battery. M.C. D.C.M. MiD. Brookwood Mil Cem (UK).
PTE CHARLES VICTOR COLE, G/41291 Killed in Action 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood, aged 38 (see Battalion War Diary). Interred in the Orchard Dump Cemetery, France. Son of Herbert George and Mary Cole, of Sussex; husband of Minnie Mary Cole, of 3, Melchbourne Villas, West Hoathly, Sussex.
SGT EDWARD ARTHUR EVANS, L/11805, Born Islington 09/02/1889. Son of Alfred Frank and Annie Elizabeth. Enlisted Hounslow, Killed in Action 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood (see Battalion War Diary). Remembered on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, Bay 3.
2/LT STANLEY FERNS JEFFCOAT, MiD. Commissioned 24/01/1917. Joined 22nd Bn RF in France on 3/04/1917. Wounded in Action on 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood (see Battalion War Diary). Died of Wounds 30/04/1917. Interred in Roclincourt Military Cemetery, France. Extract from Royal Fusilier's History: "On the right B Company found the wire still unpenetrable & 2nd Lt. J. Steele had a whole platoon shot down. At this juncture Second Lieutenant S.F. Jeffcoat, a newly joined Officer, found a gap & with a handful of men jumped into the trench & throughout the morning was engaged bombing up it to the right. At every traverse the Germans resisted, but JEFFCOAT, assisted by a few men of the 73rd Division, cleared a considerable length of the trench by sheer personal courage & leadership. He was mortally wounded and was recommended for the V.C......the whole objective of the battalion was taken chiefly owing to Jeffcoat's fine work". Jeffcoat was awarded a posthumous Mentioned in Despatches, gazzetted London, 18/12/1917.Born Stretford, Lancashire, England 1884, son of John Joseph (salesman) and Alice. in 1901 the family were living in Urmston, Lancashire, and Stanley was noted as an Estate Agent's apprentice. In 1915 Stanley married Ada Burton, their marriage being registered in Pewsey, Wiltshire. Stanley was a member of the pre war Fell & Rock Climbing Club and is remembered with 19 more members who fell in the 1914-18 War on the Great Gable War Memorial, Lake District, which was unveilled in 1924. The Great Gable was purchased for the National Trust in memory of the group's fallen members.
2/LT FRANK MAYVOUR PERRATON, M.C. Killed in Action 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood, aged 19 (see Battalion War Diary). Remembered on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, Bay 3. Born Plymouth 1898, son of William and Rosina,
2/LT RALPH SAWORD, Killed in Action 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood, aged 26 (see Battalion War Diary). Remembered on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, Bay 3. Born Croydon 1890, son of Frederick C E and Alice M Saword.
2/LT FREDERICK STEVENSON, Killed in Action 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood (see Battalion War Diary). Remembered on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, Bay 3.
MAJ CHRISTOPHER REYNOLD STONE, adjutant. M.C. and D.S.O. Survived the war, and author of History of the 22nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Born Eton 1882, and educated at Eton School. Letters published in "From Vimy Ridge to the Rhine: The Great War Letters of Christopher Stone DSO MC"
2/LT MILES EDWARD WARDLEY, Killed in Action 29/04/1917, near Oppy Wood, aged 28 (see Battalion War Diary). Remembered on the Arras Memorial to the Missing, Bay 3. Birth registered St Saviour's, Southwark 1889,
PTE SYDNEY ARTHUR WOOLFORD, K/2121, Killed in Action 29/04/1917 near Oppy Wood, aged 29 (see Battalion War Diary). Interred in the Orchard Dump Cemetery, France. Birth registered Hungerford 1887, son of Sarah A Woolford (widow).

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