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Noel Sutton
Captain Berkshire Yeomanry
Division 65
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Leonard Noel Sutton was the grandson of Martin Hope Sutton and the eldest and only surviving son of Leonard Goodhart Sutton and his wife Mary Charlotte (nee Seaton). Born in 1894 he died in 1965 and is buried with his father and mother in the family grave.
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William Victor Ross Sutton
2nd Lieutenant
1st/1st Berkshire Yeomanry
Division 65
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William Victor Ross Sutton was killed in action on 13 November 1917 aged 20.
He is buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel, grave Q. 27.
William Victor Ross Sutton was the was the grandson of Martin Hope Sutton and third son of Leonard Goodhart Sutton and Mary Charlotte Sutton. His mother had died in 1900 and by the 1911 census William was a border at St. Andrews, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells and later attended Repton School.
The Reading Standard 24 November 1917 published a obituary. On leaving school at the age of 17 years William spent a year in Canada working with his uncle farming in Saskatchewan, he was very keen on agriculture. He was also a keen sportsman. When he was nearly military age he returned to England to join the army. William was appointed to the Yeomanry commission in January 1916. William joined his battalion in Egypt in October 1916.
William was very enthusiastic about his military work and his commanding officer, writing soon after he joined, said “He was very keen and hard-working.”
William was promoted to a Lieutenant one month before he was killed. He was the second of the brothers to lose his life.
Joseph William Odell
Trooper 1st Berkshire Yeomanry
Division 65
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Joseph Odell was the son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Odell of 87, Cardigan Road. After leaving school he went to work for Pulsometer Engineering. Joseph was a well-liked young man who had joined the Yeomanry two years before the war. He was passed as fit by the Doctors and went to serve in Egypt. He had been there for only a few weeks when he was taken ill and on 12th August 1915 just days before his unit was due to land at Suvla Bay. He was evacuated back to England where he was first sent to hospital in Birmingham and then to Norton, Gloucester and then Pinewood at Hastings. It was found that he was suffering so badly from tuberculosis that he was sent home to his parents where he eventually died on 3rd February 1916. He was 22 years of age.
His funeral was military in character with buglers of the Yeomanry sounding the last post. Representatives of his squadron were Trooper Frederick Potts V.C. and Trooper Cook. There were many mourners including his parents and two brothers as well as other family members and friends including those from Pulsometer Engineering Works and St. Lukes Club.
Joseph Odell was buried in the Reading Cemetery in Division 65. There was no grave marker but the Thames Valley Branch of the Western Front Association and the Berkshire Yeomanry raised funds to erect a headstone similar in character to that of the CWGC headstone. It was dedicated on 26 June 2004 in a ceremony attended by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, the Honorary Colonel of the Yeomanry, representatives of the Yeomanry Museum and members of the WFA. The headstone was unveiled by veteran William Stone aged 103.
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His brother Lance Corporal 2442 Edward Victor Odell, 1st / 4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment was killed in action on 14th August 1916, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing Pier and Face 11D.
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There were no family details given in the CWGC register entry. The Standard September 9th 1916, gave details of the death of Edward Victor Odell. He had been a bugler in the Territorials for five years before the war but had left a few months before war was declared. Edward re-enlisted in the first week of the war joining the 1st/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment. He had been at the front 17 months when he was killed in the Somme battles. In civil life, Edward had been a printer for eight years with Messer’s Bradley and Sons, the Forbury. Edward was married and his son, whom he never saw, was born nine days before the notification of Edward’s death.
The Standard reports the existence of a third brother A.G. Odell who enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery at the beginning of the war. Lance Bombardier, 42215, Albert George Odell served with the 122nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He was killed in action on 18th June 1918, aged 23. He is buried in Wailly Orchard Cemetery, Pas De Calais. Location II.D.4. He was the husband of E.L.Ward, formerly Odell of 47, Albert Road, Reading. It was originally difficult to locate this brother because the CWGC detail spelt the surname as O’Dell rather than Odell which is common to other memorials to the brothers.
All the Odell brothers are commemorated on the Reading Blue Coat School War Memorial.