Category Archives: Registered War Grave

Luka Babaritch

Registered War Grave

Luka Barbaritch
Sergeant Major Serbian Army.

War Plot
Division 72

Luka Babaritch  is buried in the War Plot in grave 16422.  The site is next to the hedge nearest the main part of the extension in the row in front of the narrow branch.

He died on the 3rd April 1918.

How Luka Barbaritch came to be in Reading is a mystery.   Details of his first name have been obtained from the cemetery burial records.  No other information has been found about him and because he was not a Commonwealth soldier his details are not to be found in the CWGC register, even though Serbia was one of our allies.

Frederick Charles Ayres

32nd or 35th Div. Signal Co. RE, Army, Registered War Grave

Frederick Charles Ayres
Serjeant 69105 35th Signal Company
Royal Engineers

Division 79
Extension

 Frederick Charles Ayres was born in Reading.  He was the youngest son of Ernest and Annie Ayres and the husband of Edith Jean Ayres, of  Osborne Cottage, Warfield, Berkshire.  He died of sickness at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on the 7th August 1919, aged 26.  His is a registered war grave with a CWGC war pattern headstone.  Grave number 16642.

 The 35th Signal Company was raised by the Mayor of Reading, Leonard Goodhart Sutton.  Frederick Ayres served in France according to the caption on the photograph above.

 

William Annetts

Army, Registered War Grave, Royal Berkshire Regiment

William Annetts
Private 3229
2nd/ 4th Batt. Royal Berkshire Regt.

 Division 9

ANNETTS WTE

William Annetts was the  son of William Annetts, of 11, Amity Street,  Reading.  He died on 16th February 1916,  aged 20.  William is buried in a registered war grave number 10512 and this is marked with a CWGC war pattern  headstone.   

February 19th 1916 Standard 1916  William Annetts died in training at Newcastle on Tyne aged 20 he had been in the Army 18 months first at Chelmsford and the Burnham-on-Crouch before going to Newcastle.

 Further information, source not recorded, stated that Willam Annetts had gone to France to prepare for the Big Push, i.e. The Somme Battles.

Details of his war service still have to be obtained