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First World War Memorial

The Billericay First World War Memorial was unveiled on Sunday 16th October 1921 by Major General Sir William Thwaites and Rev. S L Brown, the Rector of Fryerning Parish Church conducted the dedication service.

This memorial was erected after there was a desire to mark the fallen in some way. This desire was being expressed in towns and villages all over the country and by 1920 this had reached a peak and Billericay made plans to have a Memorial. In October of that year it was decided the best way of honouring the fallen was to have a cross erected on the land to the north of St Mary Magdelen church in the High Street. By February it was decided that a Public War Memorial Committee would be charged with the cost and erection of the Memorial.

Work to install the memorial was quick and the unveiling and dedication were done in time for the third anniversary of the armistice.

The method by which names appeared on the Memorial is lost but it probably was up to relatives to put forward names of loved ones. Thus some names appear on more than one Memorial in the area and some of the men remembered were not residents of Billericay before the war.

The men remembered are:

  • Corporal Alfred William Ackers

    Corporal Alfred William Ackers

    Essex Regiment
  • Private Arthur Charles Argent

    Private Arthur Charles Argent

    Service Number ‘40001’. Leicestershire Regiment, 6th Bn. Wounded on 22nd March 1918 at Epehy. Died ...
  • Sergeant Frederick Ashbee

    Sergeant Frederick Ashbee

    Service Number ‘26040’ – Royal Garrison Artillery, 126th Siege Bty. Died of wounds on 7th August ...
  • Private William Barker

    Private William Barker

    Service Number ‘65735’ – Royal Fusiliers, 13th Bn. Died of wounds on 4th August 1917 aged ...
  • Gunner John Ward Bayford

    Gunner John Ward Bayford

    Service Number ‘51882’ – Royal Garrison Artillery, 2nd Siege Bty. Died of wounds on 30th October ...
  • Private Frederick Bayliss

    Private Frederick Bayliss

    Service Number ‘204909’ – Northamptonshire Regiment, 2nd Bn. Killed in action on 29th August 1918 aged ...
  • Private Lewis Bayliss

    Private Lewis Bayliss

    Service Number ‘326107’ – Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1st/7th Bn. Killed in action on 20th September ...
  • Boy 1st Class Frank Harry Bright

    Boy 1st Class Frank Harry Bright

    Service Number ‘J/54572’ – Royal Navy, H.M.S. Grafton Died on 27th September 1917 aged 17 when ...
  • Private Henry Bush

    Private Henry Bush

    Service Number ‘27323’ – Essex Regiment, 2nd Bn. Died of wounds on 21st October 1916 aged ...
  • Private John Chapman

    Private John Chapman

    Service Number ‘45798’ – South Wales Borderers, 2nd Bn. Killed in action on 16th August 1917 ...
  • Sapper Silas George Chapman

    Sapper Silas George Chapman

    Service Number ‘102909’ – Royal Engineers, 179th Tunnelling Coy. Killed in action on 28th March 1917 ...
  • Driver Albert Victor Cooke

    Driver Albert Victor Cooke

    Service Number ‘147366’ – Royal Field Artillery, A Bty. 14th Bde. Killed in action on 11th ...
  • Private William James Copeland

    Private William James Copeland

    Service Number ‘43355’ – Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Bn. Killed in action on 18th August 1916 aged ...
  • Private Jesse Alfred Coppin

    Private Jesse Alfred Coppin

    Service Number ‘G/46389’ – Royal Fusiliers, 13th Bn. Died of shrapnel wounds on 19th December 1916 ...
  • Private Cecil James Cottis

    Private Cecil James Cottis

    Service Number ‘350668’ – Essex Regiment, 11th Bn. Killed in action on 17th September 1918 aged ...
  • Private Edwin William Cottis

    Private Edwin William Cottis

    Service Number ‘69318’ – Royal Fusiliers, Killed in action on 28th March 1918 aged 39 Remembered on ...
  • Private William George Elkins

    Private William George Elkins

    Service Number ‘65630’ – Royal Army Medical Corps, 104th  Field Amb Killed in action on 4th ...
  • Rifleman Herbert  James Fane

    Rifleman Herbert James Fane

    Service Number ‘S/331’ – Rifle Brigade, 9th Bn. Died of wounds on 1st September 1915 aged ...
  • Private Thomas Frank Hills

    Private Thomas Frank Hills

    Service Number ‘40038’ – Leicestershire Regiment, 7th Bn. Killed in action on 6th October 1917 aged ...
  • Sergeant Percy Edward Hislop

    Sergeant Percy Edward Hislop

    Service Number ‘6696’ – Border Regiment, 2nd Bn. Killed in action on 1st July 1916 aged ...
  • Private Joseph Peter Howland

    Private Joseph Peter Howland

    Service Number ‘27854’ – Essex Regiment, 2nd Bn. Died of wounds on 18th October 1917 aged ...
  • Private David Humphreys

    Private David Humphreys

    Service Number ‘33945’ – Essex Regiment, 11th Bn. Died of wounds on 24th April 1917 aged ...
  • Private William Jarvis

    Private William Jarvis

    Service Number ‘40048’ – Leicestershire Regiment, 7th Bn. Killed in action on 1st October 1916 aged ...
  • Private Percy James Jefferies

    Private Percy James Jefferies

    Service Number ‘235079’ – Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 5th Bn. Died of wounds on 22nd ...
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