by James | Sep 14, 2016 | Remembrance
This week we remembered the 100th Anniversary of the death of Haconby man Lance Corporal Robert Wand, of the 6th Lincolnshire Regiment, killed on the Somme on 14th September 1916.
Robert was the son of Richard Wand, a farm labourer and his wife Sarah Ellis. One of 12 children, he was born in 1883.
Robert was a member of the choir and also a bell ringer at Haconby and worked as a waggoner on a farm in Dunsby.
He was one of 9 men from the parishes of Haconby and Morton who joined up in October 1914. He first saw overseas service with the 6th Battalion Lincolnshire regiment in 1915.
On September 12th 1916, the Battalion left Bouzincourt and marched to trenches north of Orvilliers. In the following 2 days the Battalion lost 7 men with a further 30 wounded before being moved to the Battalion HQ on the 15th.
Robert is buried at Ovillers Military Cemetery and commemorated on the Haconby Memorial.
Robert’s cousins Tom Hutchins and Edward Ellis along with his nephew Thomas Wand all gave their lives in the service of their country during the Great War.
by James | Sep 3, 2016 | Remembrance
Today we remember William Scotney (b William Scotney Handford) of Haconby, Sergeant in the 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, who gave up his life for King and Country this day in 1916.
Remembered at the Thiepval Memorial to the missing of the Somme and also in Haconby Church.
by James | Aug 5, 2016 | Remembrance
Today we will be remembering one our local soldiers that paid the ultimate price in the name of King, Country and Freedom.
100 years ago today, the 5th August 1916, John Robert Porter was killed in action during the battle of the somme whilst serving with the 10th battalion Lincolnshire regiment.
In Memory of Private John Robert Porter, 1406, 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment who died on 5 August 1916 Age 20.
Son of Mr R Porter of Dunsby, Bourne, Lincs
Remembered with Honour Thiepval Memorial and Dunsby Memorial
We will remember them.
by James | Jul 14, 2016 | Remembrance
Tomorrow we remember Private William Wyer of the 9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. A Haconby man killed in action on the 14th July 1916. He lies in a corner of a foreign field on the Somme and is commemorated on the Haconby memorial.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
In Memory of Private W Wyer, 14004, 9th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment who died on 14 July 1916.
Remembered with Honour Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’abbe
Grave Ref: II.B.34
by James | Jul 3, 2016 | Remembrance
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Haconby man Robert Wilson Wyer who made the ultimate sacrifice on the 3rd July 1916.
Robert grew up in Haconby, the son of a farm labourer and moved to Oldham by 1911 living with his uncle and working as a labourer there.
He, like so many of Haconby’s young men enlisted and joined the 7th battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment.
Robert was killed in action on the 3rd July 1916 giving his ultimate sacrifice in the first days of the battle of the Somme.
Robert is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing of the Somme and on the Haconby war memorial.
Lest we forget
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