Historic Records Men of 1914

  Arrived Overseas: 22 December 1914. Connection: Memorial scroll, photo, grave photo. John Jarvis Brunt enlisted with the Coldstream Guards on the 2nd September 1914 and by the 22nd December that year he was disembarking in France. He served with the regiment until commissioned on the 31st July 1917 when he joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He served with the 12th Battalion but was attached to the 10th Battalion when he was reported missing in action on the 24th March 1918. Later confirmed as killed in action on that date, he was buried in Villers Bretonneux Military Cemetery (XVI B 1). John Brunt was the son of Mr and Mrs James Brunt of 47 Rockley Road, Hillsborough, Sheffield and was 29 years old at the time of his death. His memorial scroll, portrait photo taken in Sheffield, and grave photo have been framed together and hung in the Historic Records office.

Arrived overseas: 26 November 1914 Connection: British War Medal I picked up Charles Older's BMW from the London Medal Company in November 2023. Charles was born in Bersted, near Bognor, Sussex on the 10th September 1893 and by the time the 1901 census was taken he and his older brother William were living at the home of Thomas and Susan Stent in Arundel, their relationship to the head of house recorded as "Boarder". The 1911 census records Charles at the same address, now aged 17 and working as a grocer's assistant. Seven days after Britain went to war with German on the 4th August 1914, Charles attested with the Coldstream Guards at Worthing, and by the 26th November 1914 he was in France as part of a draft for the 1st Battalion which had been overseas since August. Charles received a gunshot wound to his right arm and hand and was returned to the UK as a wounded soldier. He subsequently transferred to the Labour Corps, served overseas again between January and Sept...