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Military Records information for Saundby and places above it in the hierarchy

Saundby

These are the men from the parish who fell in World War One:

  1. driver William Arthur CHAMBERS, Army Service Corps
  2. corp. Herbert VALLANCE, 7th Bn Lincs. Regt.
  3. pte. John WAINWRIGHT, 5th Bn Lincs. Regt.
  4. lance sgt. Walter Herbert YATES, 6th Bn Lincs. Regt.

William Arthur CHAMBERS was born in 1886 in Saundby lived with his parents John and Elizabeth CHAMBERS and brothers and sisters at The Gables Farm, Saundby. He became a soldier rather late in his life, as he was thirty three years old when he died in the war. Perhaps he was conscripted under the Military Service Act of 1916, which made it lawful that men between the ages of 18 and 45 years could be conscripted into the Army or Navy (there was no separate Air Force before 1918). A Memorial Lectern, made of oak, was commissioned by his family, and used in Saundby Church where Arthur CHAMBERS was christened and was formerly a member of the congregation.

Herbert VALLANCE enlisted into the army at Gainsborough he served with the 7th battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment where he was promoted to Corporal. On 8th March 1918 when he died of wounds, they were in the front line trenches near Flesquieres, France, where he is buried.

Corpl Herbert VALLANCE Retford Times 22nd March 1918
Mrs VALLANCE, Garnett’s Yard, Bridgegate, Retford has received information that her son, Corpl Herbert VALLANCE, Lincs Regt, was killed in France on March 8th. He was 23 years of age and was formerly in farm service with Mr Selby, Saundby Park. He has seen 2 ½ years service and had taken part in some hard fighting. Another son, Pte Samuel VALLANCE was killed in France on September 15th 1916. Mrs VALLANCE has five other sons serving – Pte W Johnson VALLANCE, in France with the Sherwood Foresters who has been twice wounded: Pte John VALLANCE, Leicester Regiment, who has served in India and Mesopotamia and is now in Egypt and has been wounded: Pte Ernest VALLANCE, Sherwood Foresters, in Egypt, once wounded: Pte Albert VALLANCE in the RAMC in Italy and Pte Bert VALLANCE, RAMC in England. The Captain of the company in which Pte Herbert VALLANCE was serving, in a letter to Mrs VALLANCE writes:- “Nothing I can say will appease your sorrow for the loss of your brave boy but it will, I am sure, be some consolation to you to know that he met his death gallantly with his face towards the enemy. We all feel his death keenly as he was always a cheerful, trustworthy NCO and one of the most capable in his Company.”

John WAINWRIGHT and was a Private in the 5th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment pre-war Territorial Army unit which recruited across North Lincolnshire, and he had probably joined up at the Drill Hall in Spital Terrace, Gainsborough, before the war. When war broke out he enlisted at Brigg . The Lincolshire Regiment were heavily involved in the Battle of St Quentin during the 21st to 25th March 1918, when a sudden German assault by overwhelming numbers forced the British to move back in the area of Poziers and Somme. One of the Lincolnshire Battalions involved was reduced to six officers and eighty soldiers, from about five hundred all ranks. John WAINWRIGHT died on 23rd March 1918, aged 29, service number 45841 and his grave/memorial reference panel 29 and 30 at the Pozieres Memorial in the Somme area of Northern France

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