Others

Many other people served with, came in contact with or played some role in the lives of these four men during their time of service. This incomplete list covers just some of them.

2/Lt. Alfred Edward Downing:

  1. Pte. Henry Kent (29453), 9th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
  2. Pte. George Cooper (32569), 9th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.
  3. Col. Alexander Milne-Thomson, RAMC. ADMS, 50th Division.
  4. Nurse Louisa Constance Colt-Williams, French Red Cross.
  5. Capt. R.J.P. Hewetson, 9th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

Pte. Arthur Slater:

  1. Sgt. Thomas William Chisholm (263049), 5th Northumberland Fusiliers.
  2. Pte. Syd Caine (2680), 1/9th Manchesters.
  3. Pte.  Percy Wheldon (307460), 1st Sherwood Foresters.
  4. Capt. William Weston DCM, MC and Bar, 1st Sherwood Foresters.

Pte. Leonard John Monks:

  1. Pte. Thomas Knight (68069), RAMC.
  2. Pte.  Albert Hooley (67017), RAMC.
  3. Pte. Ernie Leppard (46937), RAMC.

Officers of the 1/9th Manchester Regiment:

The following Officers served with the Battalion in Egypt prior and up to the landing at Gallipoli on May 9, 1915. Major RICHARD BOTTOMLEY NOWELL and Lt. JOHN BROADBENT landed the following day with the transport section, and 2/Lt. John Matley Robson remained in Egypt as Officer in Charge of the Base at Alexandria.

  1. Lt. Col. Doctor Herbert Wade.
  2. Major Michael Henry Connery.
  3. Major Richard Bottomley Nowell.
  4. Capt. John Alfred Dearden.
  5. Major Thomas Egbert Howorth.
  6. Capt. Harold Sugden.
  7. Capt. Frank Hamer.
  8. Capt. Thomas Albert Platt.
  9. Capt. Frank Woodhouse.
  10. Capt. George Harold O’Kell.
  11. Capt. Frederick William Kershaw.
  12. Capt. Eric Richardson.
  13. Lt. Frederick Arthur Makin.
  14. Lt. George William Handforth.
  15. Lt. Henry Chorlton Shaw.
  16. Lt. Robert Gartside Wood.
  17. Lt. William Thomas Forshaw.
  18. Lt. Thomas Grimshaw Hyde.
  19. Lt. James Alfred Parker.
  20. Lt. William Hampson Lillie.
  21. Lt. Oliver Jepson Sutton.
  22. 2/Lt. Hugh George Shatwell.
  23. 2/Lt. John Mayall Wade.
  24. 2/Lt. Phillip Sidney Marsden.
  25. 2/Lt. Harold Edward Butterworth.
  26. 2/Lt. Charles Earsham Cooke.
  27. 2/Lt. Albert Edward Stringer.
  28. 2/Lt. John Broadbent.
  29. 2/Lt. Fred Jones.
  30. 2/Lt. Allan Harrison Hudson.
  31. 2/Lt. John Matley Robson.
  32. 2/Lt. Arthur William Field Connery.
  33. 2/Lt. Walter James Ablitt.

The following Officers joined the 1/9th Manchesters while they were at Gallipoli:

  1. Capt. Richard Percy Lewis
  2. 2/Lt. Edward Balmford
  3. 2/Lt. Arthur Claude Vyvyan-Robinson
  4. Lt. Samuel Porter
  5. Lt. James P Knowles
  6. 2/Lt. Harry Yorston Dixon
  7. 2/Lt. S Parks
  8. Lt. Douglas Buchanan Stephenson
  9. 2/Lt. William Marsden Barratt
  10. 2/Lt. Sydney William Ruttenau
  11. 2/Lt. Harold Ingham
  12. 2/Lt. William Gilbert Greenwood
  13. 2/Lt. Percy Aspden Woodhouse
  14. 2/Lt. Harold Harrison Knight
  15. 2/Lt. Thomas Ainsworth
  16. H Lt. Joseph Michael Connery
  17. 2/Lt. George Robert Bernard
  18. 2/Lt. George Frederick Barker
  19. 2/Lt. Arthur James Southcott
  20. 2/Lt. Laird Kirwan
  21. 2/Lt. George Greene Kelly
  22. Lt. Percy Ainsworth
  23. 2/Lt. Beltram Ford Robinson
  24. 2/Lt. William Henry Demel
  25. 2/Lt. William Neville Broadbent Bury
  26. 2/Lt. Sydney Naylor
  27. 2/Lt. Irvine Dearnaley
  28. 2/Lt. Benard Harold Brister
  29. 2/Lt. Oscar Stockton Needham
  30. 2/Lt. Percy Parker Fielding
  31. 2/Lt. Francis Cyril Hampson
  32. 2/Lt. Frederick Beard
  33. 2/Lt. Robert Jacomb Norris Dale
  34. 2/Lt. John Reginald Tommis
  35. 2/Lt. Alfred Gray
  36. Lt. Bertie Freedman
  37. 2/Lt. Edmund Nall Smith
  38. Capt. Fred Hardman
  39. 2/Lt. Geoffrey George Hargreaves Bolton
  40. 2/Lt. Francis Stanley Helm
  41. Lt. Charles Henry Nash
  42. Major Thomas Frankish
  43. Lt. E L Wolffe