Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Pte Vincent Edward HAMMOND, 1891 - 1916. RIP

Pte Vincent Edward HAMMOND, 1891 - 1916. RIP (reply)

Jefff — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:26:06 +0000

Hi Margi,
thanks very much for your kind words, but please be assured it was my pleasure researching your brave cousin, the least I could do to help honour his memory.

You mention Vincent Hammond. Searching the CWGC website, as I'm sure you already know, gave this entry which I presume is him:

"HAMMOND, VINCENT EDWARD
Rank: Private
Service No: 27767
Date of Death: 18/11/1916
Age: 26
Regiment/Service: 11th Bn Border Regiment.
Grave Reference: A. 29.
Cemetery: FRANKFURT TRENCH BRITISH CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL
Additional Information: Son of Edward and Bertha Hammond, of Rose Hill, Knighton, Radnor."

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/301936/HAMMOND,%20VINCENT%20EDWARD

Vincent was a Knighton lad,
from FreeBMD:

Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
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Births Dec 1891 (>99%)
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Hammond Vincent Edward Knighton 11b 117

Searching his name online gave his entry in this extensive Roll of Honour within the Border Regiment website, it adds that Vincent was "Formerly S/No: 4421 Hereford Regt."
http://www.border-regiment-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=103&start=20

He is one of the 32 WW1 soldiers named on the Knighton War Memorial.
http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Radnorshire/Knighton.html

Also found this site, if you click his name it will open a photo of Vincent's grave.
http://www.freewebs.com/granatloch/RH6.htm

Update: I have searched the Welsh Newspapers site but I'm afraid I cannot find any mention of him at all. I also see you have already found the above post on the Border Regiment forum, so sorry but I have nothing new for you it seems.

SGT. Wintour Maurice ADAMS RIP, newspaper tributes (reply)

kellyred15 — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:32:55 +0000

Thank you sooooo much its amassing what you have found thank you, i am going to see if i could get a copy of the paper, I am doing a sort of tribute to both my cousins lost in ww1 wintour m adams and vincent e hammond, they died 10 days apart,and now i can add wintours to it, once again thank you
margi x

SGT. Wintour Maurice ADAMS RIP, newspaper tributes (reply)

Jefff — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 23:07:44 +0000

The Welsh Newspapers website has this tribute,

From the "Brecon & Radnor Express" 25th January 1917

"The Late Sergeant Adams.
TRIBUTES TO LLOINEY HERO.
Further news regarding the death of Sergt. Wintour Adams, well-known at Lloiney, shows that he was shot through the heart by a sniper. Many kind letters have been received from his fellow officers.
Major A. W. Davies wrote:— "Your son was without exception one of the best N.C.O.'s in this company. We were for months in a rather bad part of the line. Whenever a dangerous piece of work came up he was always in evidence. At the very earliest opportunity I proposed recommending him for a D.C.M. I fully appreciate that nothing can be said to compensate you for your great loss. However, on behalf of the officers and men of this company, I tender to you our sincerest sympathy. Your son was buried in a registered graveyard. As things were quiet, we secured a Church of England chaplain to read the service, at which several officers, including myself, were present."
His particular chum, Corpl. A. Griffiths, says he was going on his rounds when the fatal shot was fired. He concludes, "It is useless for me to try to express myself, so believe me when I add that our love was closer than brothers."

http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4094475/ART113/wintour%20adams

In case you haven't seen it, I recently posted a different tribute to Sergeant Adams from the same newspaper, please see http://www.forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=43231

Sergeant Adams is remembered within the CWGC website:

"ADAMS, WINTOUR MAURICE
Rank: Corporal
Service No: 79360
Date of Death: 28/11/1916
Age: 27
Regiment/Service: Canadian Engineers, 3rd Tunnelling Coy.
Grave Reference: I. J. 2.
Cemetery: BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION
Additional Information: Son of Hubert and Maria Adams, of School House, St. John's, Cinderford, Glos."

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/94483/ADAMS,%20WINTOUR%20MAURICE
http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/9102/BERKS%20CEMETERY%20EXTENSION

As ever the Long Long Trail website has a most informative section detailing the activities of the Royal Engineers Tunnelling Companies, see http://www.1914-1918.net/tunnelcoyre.htm
Their main role was to place mines under enemy lines to help their soldiers achieve breakthrough, judging by the location of the Berks Cemetery Sergeant Adams and his mates were very much in the thick of it, this area (Ypres / Messines etc) being the site of intensive fighting and mining. I've visited the huge crater left by one of these mines, truly incredible and very sad too. The Berks Cemetery was started during the War, as this excellent website shows in detail. http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/flanders/plugstreet.html
This was a dangerous business indeed for these very brave men, as the casualty figures on this website clearly shows, http://www.canadaatwar.ca/memorial/world-war-i/regiment/4/Canadian%20Engineers/

SGT. Wintour Maurice ADAMS Ruspidge 1889 -1916 RIP (reply)

kellyred15 — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 22:37:04 +0000

Hi my name is Margi Kelly,
I have been finding my ancestry out for a long time now and wintour was my 1st cousin 3 x removed, i was wondering if there is any thing being done for the 100 yr anniversary of ww1, i went over to Wintours grave last yr and put a poppy wreath down, i have also contacted the Canadian site awaiting reply, to see if anything is being done there, i have a photocopied photo of him when he was a fireman in Canada, but do you have any family photos i could copy? in Knighton Powys they are doing a 100yr tribute to ww1 and i am seeing if they are including wintour, they are his cousin on his mothers side vincent, but as his mum and grandparents was from there, it might make for an interesting story.
His mum maria's father was Henry Griffiths and quite big there, nice to find more information on our great hero's of WW1
thank you
Margi

SGT. Wintour Maurice ADAMS Ruspidge 1889 -1916 RIP

slowhands — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:32:42 +0000

WINTOUR MAURICE ADAMS

Year: 1890
Month: Jan
Day: 8
Parents_Surname: ADAMS
Child_Forenames: Winter Maurice
Fathers_Forenames: Hubert
Mothers_Forenames: Maria
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: Cinderford
Occupation: Collier
Officiating_Minister: W[illia]m Lynes Vicar
Event: Baptism
Memoranda: Born Dec 14 1889
Notes:
Register_Reference: P85/1 IN 1/2
Page_Number: 225
Parish_Chapel: Cinderford St Johns

D.O.B. December 14, 1889, Cinderford, England
Died November 28, 1916, 08:30hrs Belgium

Grave/Memorial Reference: I. J. 2.
Cemetery: BERKS CEMETERY EXTENSION

Signe up for Canadian expedition November 18th 1914
Service Number: 79360
Age: 27
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Engineers
Division: 3rd Tunnelling Company.

< full obit to follow>

1901 Ruspidge
Herbert Adams abt 1863 Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England Head East Dean, Gloucestershire
Maria Adams abt 1860 Knucklas, Radnorshire, Wales Wife East Dean, Gloucestershire
Ambrose Adams abt 1888 Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Beatrice Adams abt 1892 Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England Daughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Reginald Adams abt 1886 Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Wintour Adams abt 1890 Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire

1891 Ruspidge
Thomas Adams abt 1825 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Head East Dean, Gloucestershire
Ellen Adams abt 1833 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Wife East Dean, Gloucestershire
Rosa Adams abt 1874 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Daughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Herbert Adams abt 1863 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Maran Adams abt 1861 Brighton, Radnorshire, Wales Granddaughter East Dean, Gloucestershire
Ambrose Adams abt 1888 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Redinal Adams abt 1886 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire
Winter M Adams abt 1890 East Dean, Gloucestershire, England Son East Dean, Gloucestershire