Stourton Connections

Stourton Connections

This community began with the ten names on the memorial tablet on the wall of the Memorial Hall in Stourton near Mere in Wiltshire. The stables adjoining the Spread Eagle Hotel were converted into the present Memorial Hall and opened with a concert on April 21st 1919. An inscription over the doorway records that the hall was erected in memory of those who gave their lives in the First World War. The ten are: Frederick Broomfield; William Thomas Chaldecott; William John Green; William Henry Creene; Henry Colt Arthur Hoare; Hubert Thomas John Keevil; Thomas Joseph Keevil; Robert George Maidment; John Charles (Jack) Pyne; Edgar Eustace Watson. To these have been added a further eight men and one woman identified by the website ‘Wiltshire Soldiers’ (run by Richard Broadhead) as having an association with Stourton. In most cases, they were born nearby and stayed for varying lengths of time. In addition, three men of particular interest who served and survived are also included: Frederick Fowler DCM, Harry Hoare’s soldier-servant; CPO Edward S Keevil, brother of two of the men lost, who also served in the Second World War; Ebenezer Stone, who overcame severe injury to raise a family. The Stourhead Estate extends for a large area around Stourton village; at the time of the First World War it was owned by the Hoare family. The loss of their son ‘Harry’ Hoare in the War was the principal reason for transferring the house and much of the Estate to the National Trust.

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  • Born 1895

    Died 1914

    British Army 8962 Private Wiltshire Regiment 1st Battalion

    British Army 8962 Private Wiltshire Regiment 1st Battalion

  • British Army 778 Private Dorset Yeomanry

    British Army 230169 Private Corps of Hussars

  • Born 1899

    Died 1918

    British Army 40405 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 10th Battalion

  • Born 1892

    Died 1917

    British Army 14536 Private Bedfordshire Regiment 7th

    British Army 14536 Private Bedfordshire Regiment 5th Battalion

  • Profile picture for Annie Elizabeth Moores

    Born 1891

    Died 1918

    British Army 15695 Worker Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps

  • Profile picture for Henry Colt Arthur Hoare

    Born 1888

    Died 1917

    British Army Second Lieutenant Dorset Yeomanry

    British Army Acting Captain Dorset Yeomanry

    British Army Captain Dorset Yeomanry

  • Born 1875

    Died 1917

    British Army 36707 Private Gloucestershire Regiment 1st/6th Battalion

  • Born 1900

    Died 1918

    British Army 59394 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 5th (Reserve) Battalion

  • Born 1881

    Died 1918

    British Army 357 Corporal Welsh Guards 1st Battalion

    British Army 357 Private Welsh Guards 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Frederick William J Fowler

    Born 1893

    Died 1985

    British Army 778 Private Dorset Yeomanry

    British Army 230169 Private Corps of Hussars

    British Army 230169 Private Dorset Yeomanry

  • Born 1891

    Died 1918

    British Army 23223 Private Yorkshire Light Infantry

    British Army 72314 Private Royal Defence Corps

  • Born 1885

    Died 1916

    British Army 7879 Private Dorsetshire Regiment 2nd Battalion

  • Born 1895

    Died 1916

    British Army 23137 Private Yorkshire Light Infantry

    British Army 27016 Private South Wales Borderers 4th Battalion

  • Born 1893

    Died 1915

    British Army 9441 Private Wiltshire Regiment 5th Battalion

  • Born 1884

    Died 1917

    British Army PS/2026 Private Middlesex Regiment

    British Army PS/2026 Serjeant Middlesex Regiment 16th Battalion

  • Born 1894

    Died 1916

    British Army 48479 Sapper Royal Engineers

  • Born 1891

    Died 1918

    British Army 18671 Private Royal Warwickshire Regiment 10th Battalion

  • Born 1897

    Died 1970

    Royal Navy J23828 Boy 1st Class

    Royal Navy J23828 Boy Telegraphist

    Royal Navy J23828 Ordinary Telegraphist

  • Born 1880

    Died 1915

    British Army 4966 Somerset Light Infantry

    British Army 3/8572 Private Dorsetshire Regiment 1st Battalion

  • Profile picture for Frederick John Robert Broomfield

    Born 1884

    Died 1915

    British Army 3/7868 Corporal Dorsetshire Regiment 1/4th Battalion

    British Army 3/7868 Corporal Dorsetshire Regiment 1st Battalion