Private W. BRICK/BRICE? Blakeney? WW1

I would be grateful if some one else would take a look for this soldier and any connection to Blakeney. I think his surname might be incorrect and could be BRICE, if so, then he perhaps he is Jonathan Walter BRICE

The details printed in the Gloucester Journal 11 Sept. 1915 are as follows

Killed at the Dardanelles

News has been received at Blakeney of the death of Private W. BRICK, killed in recent fighting in the Dardanelles. The gallant soldier, who was 27 years of age, emigrated to Australia some 7 years ago, and came over to Egypt with the first Australian contingent. He had been only 4 days in the trenches when he received the fatal wound. His parents as might be imagined are greatly distressed at the loss of their only son. There are 6 daughters living.

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Ancestry:

International, Find a Grace

Name: Jonathan Walter BRICE

Death date: 8 August 1915

Burial Place: Gallipoli, Canakkale, Turkey

and also on Ancestry: Australia Electoral Rolls (haven't got access)

1913

Jonathan Walter BRICE, 1913, Brisbane, Queensland

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War Graves Commission website

Jonathan Walter BRICE

Service No: 1920

dod - 8 August 1915

Reg. Austrlian Infantry A.I.C. 15th Bn

Panel Reference: 45

Memorial Lone Pine

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Freebdm have a birth for a Jonathan Walter BRICE - Essex 1889 - and on the 1911 census, there is a Jonathan BRICE in Essex with his father Jonathan Walter BRICE - born Essex - but this couple only have had 3 children.

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Hi Dink,
I suspect you already know this, but despite a fair number of W.BRICKS (mostly William's) being born in Gloucester city during the late 1800s, searching FreeBMD & GlosBMD gives NO births registered for the Westbury area at all. The nearest likely "possible" is a William Brick born Merthyr Tydfil June 1887 who could conceivably be known within the Blakeney area by 1915 or so. However there are NO further Records for the area long after 1915. Similarly there are NO W.Brick PRs whatsoever within the FoD PRs database at any date.

To again repeat what you probably already know a Pte JW Brice is listed within the Roll Of Honour of the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper. This online edition is dated 22 May 1916, but I think I'm right in thinking this was an ongoing Roll that this paper updated thro the War, Pte Brice's entry isn't dated perhaps suggesting it wasn't recent news ?.
At first I took the title "170th" as a reference to an Army Unit, now I see it's clearly the 170th update to the List !, and "only" halfway thro the War, very sad indeed.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/6472903

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I would be grateful if some one else would take a look for this soldier and any connection to Blakeney. I think his surname might be incorrect and could be BRICE, if so, then he perhaps he is Jonathan Walter BRICE

The details printed in the Gloucester Journal 11 Sept. 1915 are as follows

Killed at the Dardanelles

News has been received at Blakeney of the death of Private W. BRICK, killed in recent fighting in the Dardanelles. The gallant soldier, who was 27 years of age, emigrated to Australia some 7 years ago, and came over to Egypt with the first Australian contingent. He had been only 4 days in the trenches when he received the fatal wound. His parents as might be imagined are greatly distressed at the loss of their only son. There are 6 daughters living.

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At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them

BRICK, WILLIAM EWART
Rank:Private
Service No:22073
Date of Death:06/08/1915
Regiment/Service:Worcestershire Regiment 4th Bn.
Panel Reference
Panel 104 to 113.
MemorialHELLES MEMORIAL
Additional Information:

1911
William Brick abt 1889 Alace Upton On Severn Lodger Birmingham,

1911 New Street, Upton On Severn
William Brick 70
Sarah Ann Brick 66

1901 ( grandparents rather than parents ??)
William Brick [1835] Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, England Head Upton on Severn, Worcestershire
Sarah Ann Brick abt 1845 Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, England Wife Upton on Severn, Worcestershire
Beatrice Brick abt 1885 Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, England Daughter Upton on Severn, Worcestershire
William E Brick abt 1890 Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, England Son Upton on Severn, Worcestershire
Elizabeth A Pitt abt 1886 Upton on Severn, Worcestershire, England Daughter Upton on Severn, Worcestershire

1891

Name:William Ewart Brick
Date of Registration:Jul-Aug-Sep 1889
Registration District:Upton on Severn
Inferred County:Worcestershire
Volume:6c
Page:304

1871 Upton on Severn
William Brick 31
Sarah A Brick 27
Eliza Brick 4
William Brick 7 Months

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Thanks Slowhands for reminding me to also consider the Severn link when searching possible relatives to the residents of Blakeney and the like, I wonder if the other W.Bricks I saw at Gloucester were also linked thus ?. How sad William left six daughters, perhaps one of these was at Blakeney. Certainly, of the thirteen BRICK PRs within this site's database eight were at Westbury On Severn in the mid 1800s...

Pte W.E. Brick is named on the Upton-On-Severn War Memorial, see photos here.

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Worcestershire/UptonUponSevern.html

Dink, in case you wern't aware, for possible future reference the key details of both these men, and too many more, may be obtained free-of-charge from the excellent Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/715919/BRICE,%20JONATHAN%20WALTER

May both these brave men, and their comrades, Rest In Peace.

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