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Battle for Mount Sorrell. He
was 26 years old. He was a
cousin of Frank Miller.
Frank George was born in
Bere Regis and was a son
of the landlord of the Royal
Oak. He was a cousin of
Thomas Hardy. He was a
Second Lieutenant in the
th
5 Battalion, Dorsetshire
Regiment and was killed in
Gallipoli, at the age of 34,
on the 22 August 1915, in
the same action as 3 other men from Bere Regis.
Frederick Johnson was born in Bere Regis and lived in West Street. He emigrated
to Canada and enlisted in the Canadian Forces. He was killed on 6 June 1916 at
the age of 27 together with 200 other soldiers when a mine was exploded
beneath their trench at Hooge, near Ypres. He is commemorated on the Menin
Gate Memorial to 55,000 men who were killed in the Ypres Salient and who have
no known grave.
Percy Lockyer was born in Bere Regis and lived at Lane End, Middle Heath as a
thatcher’s assistant, He was killed on 14 April 1917 at the age of 34 while serving
st
with the 1 Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. He is commemorated on the Thiepval
Memorial.
His brother, William Lockyer, was killed a year later on 15 May 1918 at the age of
37, near Arras in France while also serving with the Dorsets.
Federick Lovell’s parents lived in Bere Regis. Frederick served in the Royal Artillery
and was killed on the 11 July 1944 in Normandy during the breakout from the D
Day beaches. He is buried in the same cemetery as George Bowditch. He was 19
years old when he was killed.

Frank Miller was born in Bere Regis and lived at Townsend Farm. He was a cousin
of Fred Davis who lived nearby in North Street. He served in the 5 Battalion,
th
Dorsetshire Regiment. He died of wounds on 19 August 1917 at the age of 35
during the Battle of Passchendaele and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot
Memorial to the 35,000men killed in the Ypres Salient who have no known grave.

Herbert Morris was born in Cerne Abbas and in 1901 was living in Briantspuddle as
a ploughboy. He emigrated to Canada and was killed on 13 October 1915 while
serving with the Canadian forces south of Ypres. He was 30 years old.
Walter Rawles was born in Bere Regis and lived at the Warren. He served in the
5th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment and was one of the four men from Bere Regis

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