Category Archives: Services

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

Alfred Edward Ambrose

Army, Canadian, Registered War Grave

Alfred Edward Ambrose
Private 3642 1st Canadian Division
Motor Transport Company
Army Service Corps.

Division 9

AMBROSE A CEM  CIMG2148

Alfred Edward Ambrose was the  son of John Ambrose and husband of Alice M. Ambrose (nee Gardener), of 31, Western Road,  Reading.  He died of wounds on 14th March 1921, aged 40.  Alfred is buried in a registered war grave number 16790 and this is marked with a private headstone.   

The death of Alfred Ambrose was announced in the Standard March 19th 1921.  He died at the Orthopaedic Hospital, Headlington, of wounds received in 1918.   He is commemorated in the Canadian 1st World War Book of Remembrance.