George Thomas Dowding

Army, Other Regiments, Registered War Grave

George Thomas Dowding
Rifleman 370879
8th London Regiment – Post Office Rifles

Division 2

George Thomas Dowding was the husband of Elizabeth Nellie Dowding, of 54, Katesgrove Lane, Reading.  Elizabeth Dowding was the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs John Brown.

 He died on 21st February 1919 and was aged 30.

 Dowding’s grave is marked with kerbstones.  The grave has been buried for some time and as a result of this the name of George Thomas Dowding is also inscribed on a special memorial in the War Plot.  The grave was discovered again during the course of this research.

alternative mem 2

William George Dent

Army, Other Regiments, Registered War Grave

William George Dent
Gunner 125884
“Y” Battery, 2nd Siege Brigade,
Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Division 58

William Dent is buried in the cemetery and his is a registered War Grave although the headstone is a private memorial.  Grave number 11151.  He died on 4th June 1917 aged 35 years.

 The inscription on the headstone marks the sad end of a small family.  William Dent’s wife and young daughter are buried with him.  His child, Ivy,  died in 1908 aged 18 months and his wife Ethel, possibly because, by then, she had little to live for, died in 1922, there is no indication of her age.

Robert Methven Deadman

Alfred Sutton School War Memorial, Commemorated name/s, Navy

Robert Methven Deadman
Wireless Operator Merchant Navy

 Division 3

Deadman RM photo  CIMG2080

Robert Methven* Deadman was the son of Ernest Bezant and Helen Deadman, 28 Manchester Road. Reading.

 He was attached to the S. S. “Romeo” (Hull). On 3rd March 1918 the vessel was torpedoed by a German submarine and broke in two, Robert drowned,  it was his first trip and he was 17 years old.  His name can be found on a family headstone in Division 3 of the Reading Cemetery but the small scroll stone bears no other indication of how he died or that he was killed during the war. 

Robert Methven Deadman is commemorated officially on the Towerhill Memorial, London along with other Mercantile Marine casualties.  He had been a Senior pupil of the Wokingham Road Senior School, now Alfred Sutton Primary School, and his name appears on the War memorial in the Junior Hall.

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*This name has also been spelt Mithven