Family History, Dicker Chart 0200 Charles (Charlie) Dicker and Florence Mary Newton

1891 Oakhurst Lane, Wisborough Green, Petworth, Sussex. Living as step son with his mother Charlotte and her husband William HILL 1901 Spy Lane, Loxwood, Wisborough Green, Petworth, Sussex. Boarding with George REEVES (51) Farmer born Wisborough Green, Sussex, his wife Flora (48) born Alfold, Surrey and children Kate (28) and George (21) Farmer's son both born Wisborough Green, Sussex 1911 Great Lea Shinfield Reading, Shinfield, Berkshire as Charlie. Boarding with them was Joseph LOVESEY (20) Farm Labourer born Fernham, Berkshire From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site TYNE COT MEMORIAL Tyne Cot Memorial stands around the eastern boundary of Tyne Cot Cemetery The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient It was designed by Sir Herbert BAKER with sculpture by Joseph ARMITAGE and Ferdinand Victor BLUNDSTONE The memorial was unveiled by Australian soldier and veterans' rights activist Sir Gilbert DYETT, on 20 June 1927 The names are carved on the memorial on panels of Portland stone, set in high flint walls which have been built in a half circle Number of casualties: 34991 History Tyne Cot or Tyne Cottage was a barn named by the Northumberland Fusiliers which stood near the level crossing on the road from Passchendaele to Broodseinde. Around it were a number of blockhouses or ‘pillboxes'. The barn, which had become the centre of five or six German blockhouses, or pillboxes, was captured by the 3rd Australian Division on 4 October 1917 in the advance on Passchendaele. The Tyne Cot Memorial is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September. The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations, except New Zealand, who died in the Salient, in the case of United Kingdom casualties before 16 August 1917 (with some exceptions). Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Other New Zealand casualties are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery. The Tyne Cot Memorial now bears the names of almost 35,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. Incorporated within the Tyne Cot Memorial is the New Zealand Memorial commemorating the names of nearly 1,200 men who gave their lives in the Battle of Broodseinde and the Third Battle of Ypres in October 1917. The memorial was unveiled by Sir Gilbert DYETT, the Australian soldier and veterans' rights activist, on 20 June 1927. 1891 Manor Road, Wantage, Berkshire.Father Thomas aged 33 a Farm Servant/Fogger (meanin of Fogger - an agricultural worker responsible for feeding the cattle) born Lescombe Bassett, Berkshire. Mother Priscilla aged 32 born Wantage, Berkshire, the Florence M. 1911 Great Lea Shinfield Reading, Shinfield, Berkshire. Boarding with them was Joseph LOVESEY (20) Farm Labourer born Fernham, Berkshire. On the 1911 census Florence is shown as having been married 6 years and having had 3 children, 2 were still living and 1 had died 1911 Noahs Ark, Manor Road, Wantage, Wantage, Berkshire as Charlie Tom. Living grandparents Thomas NEWTON (53) Farm Labourer born Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, Berkshire, Priscilla NEWTON (52) Laundress born Wantage, Berkshire and her widowed father Charles CASE (76) Farm Labourer born Letcombe Bassett, Wantage, Berkshire 1914 Appears on British Army WWI Pension Records 1939 Not found 1911 Great Lea Shinfield Reading, Shinfield, Berkshire Boarding with them was Joseph LOVESEY (20) Farm Labourer born Fernham, Berkshire 1914 Appears on British Army WWI Pension Records 1939 13 Reading Road , Bradfield R.D., Berkshire 1914 Appears on British Army WWI Pension Records 1939 Wickwood Farm Shellingford , Faringdon R.D., Berkshire as Winifred M. The form shows: 4 Record Officially Closed entries after Winifred, then William J followed by another Record Officially Closed entry. The transcript shows: 4 Record Officially Closed entries after Winifred, then William J followed by another Record Officially Closed entry followed by another identical William J entry and then Frederick C STROUD (born 8 February 1931) At School. On the census form Winifred and son William are crossed through in red ink and see page 13 added. On Page 13: Cottages; Schedule No.113; Sub No2; STROUD (crossed through and ASH written above born 18 Apr 1910 U D D 17 entries below of which 16 are closed is: Wickwood Farm Schedule No.113; Sub No7; STROUD William born 15 Aug 1939 Under School Age. And then after 3 more closed entries Shellingford Schedule No.113; Sub No4; Frederick C born 8 Feb 1913 At School

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