The 13th (Service) battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. Raised in the Borough of Wandsworth in 1915, the battalion was known as the Wandsworth Regulars and served with distinction in France from 1916 to 1918.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Wandsworth Regulars
{By the badge of the East Surrey Regiment} In proud commemoration of the 13th...
William James Hopkins was born on 26 April 1905 in Stratford, Essex (now Greater London). He was a son of Edward Thomas Hopkins and Elizabeth Hopkins and his birth was registered in the 2nd quarter...
Died with Adam Meere in a fire in Bethnal Green, which started in the basement of a children's clothes shop, Sohan and Sons, and spread to the flat above. Operating out of Whitechapel Fire Station,...
Awarded the VC for his heroism on 25 April 1915, age 38, while serving in the Lancashire Fusiliers. "Captain Willis and three companies and the Headquarters of the Battalion were west of Cape Helle...
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