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 a name, trademark or other means of identification of the manufacturer or BERE REGIS SCOUT GROUP
supplier
 Product code
THE PARISH WAR
 a CE mark
MEMORIAL AND AN
 four digit Notified Body number
UNRESOLVED MYSTERY
 bear the appropriate class (FFP1, FFP2 or FFP3) - please note only FFP3 can
provide protection against Covid- 19. (PART TWO)
 reference to standard EN 149:2001+A1:2009 ‘In last month’s magazine, I told the story of the War Memorial in Bere Regis and
hinted that there were two mysteries. The story continues...’
 state whether is single use (NR) or re-useable (R)
There are two anomalies on the memorial: First, although the names are arranged
 accompanied by instructions in English
in alphabetical order around the plinth, that of Alfred Applin is out of alphabetical
If anyone believes PPE or other goods are not safe or not as described report it to sequence and has evidently been added subsequently. The reason for this is that
Dorset Council Trading Standards by calling the Citizens Advice Consumer Alfred was badly wounded in Gallipoli in September 1915. He was evacuated to
Service at https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer or by calling their new the UK and spent several months in hospital before being medically discharged
freephone number 0808 223 1133. from the Army in January 1916 as being “Permanently Unfit” with near total
paralysis. He then spent four years as a permanent resident at the Star and
Garter Home for Ex-Servicemen at Richmond in Surrey. He died there on 8 May
1920 at the age of 34 and his name was added to the memorial after it was
dedicated in December 1919. His name is therefore out of alphabetical order.
VILLAGE WEBSITE The second mystery concerns the name of Herbert Trevett on the memorial. He is
shown as serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. However, there is no
Rodney Osmond is doing a fabulous job in keeping the village website up to record in the comprehensive Canadian Veterans Affairs website of a Trevett
date with all the latest information about village services and support during the serving in the Great War in the Canadian Forces. During the course of the
coronavirus situation. Go to bereregis.org and click on the button research carried out by the Bere Regis Scout Group in 2007, we think we resolved
the mystery. We believe that Herbert Trevett has been wrongly named on the
memorial and it should be that of his step-brother, Herbert Diffey who did serve in
the CEF.
Herbert Diffey’s father, James Bushard Diffey, married twice. His first marriage was
to Emma Churchill from Wynford Eagle. The youngest of their eight children was
Herbert Diffey born in 1887. Herbert emigrated to Canada and enlisted in the
Canadian Forces in February 1914. He was killed on 6 June 1916 in the Ypres
Salient at the age of 29 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate memorial.
James Diffey was widowed and married a second time in February 1892 to
another Emma from Poxwell. Emma Trevett was an unmarried mother with a son,
also called Herbert, who was born ‘out of wedlock’ in 1888. James’ stepson,
Herbert Trevett enlisted as a volunteer in the Dorsetshire Regiment in September
1914. He later transferred to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and served in
Gallipoli. He was wounded in August 1915 and was medically discharged in June
1918. He died in 1979 at Weymouth.

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