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We hope you have some happy time over Christmas and know that we will be killed in the same action in Gallipoli in August 1916. He was 21 years old at the
back in our Jubilee year providing all the things that were such a joy in people’s time of his death.
lives as soon as it is safe to do so,
William Rowland was born in Spetisbury and lived in West Street, Bere Regis. He
was killed in action during the first poison gas attack on Allied Forces on 26 April

Gifts of Hope 1915 while serving with the Royal Fusiliers near Ypres. He was 20 years old.
Henry Stickley was born in Bere Regis and lived at Woodbury Hill. He served with
The Pop In Place are delivering a gift of hope to those living alone in the Parish if
we have inadvertently missed someone please do email popinplace@gmail.com the Coldstream Guards and was killed in action on 9 October 1918, aged 26, a
and let me know. month before the end of the war.
His cousin, Harry Stickley, was born in Bere Regis and lived at Doddings where he
Thank you to Bere Regis School and the Scouts who have been busy making art
work and cards to include in these special parcels was a dairy boy at the age of 15. He was killed in action while serving with the
Welsh Guards. He was 31 years old.
We have had funding from Dorset Life Magazine the Bemisters Trust and the Staff
at the Dr’s Surgery also Maria Critchell and the CO-OP at Sandford we are very Herbert Trevett, believed to be his step-brother, Herbert Diffey, served with the
grateful to them all. Canadian Forces. He was killed on 6 June 1916, the same day as Frederick
Johnson, at Hooge near Ypres. He was 29 years old.

Arthur William White was born in Bere Regis and served with the 5 Battalion
th
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Dorsetshire Regiment. He was killed on 17 September 1916 during the Battle of the
I was asked by Dorset Life Magazine to write a feature on Bere Regis if you are Somme.
interested this will appear in the December Issue.
Harold Whiteside was one of two sons of the Headmaster of Rye Hill School. He
Please Check out Pop In Place Website popinplace.org where I will be posting all served in the Royal Air Force Reserve and was killed on the 5 March 1943.
the up to date info about the group.
His brother, Leslie Whiteside, also served in the Royal Air Force Reserve and was
Alison Bennett Telephone 01929 472023 killed flying over Germany on 22 April 1945, just before the end of the war.
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