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James Martin

James Martin was born on 30 September 1895. He was one of nine children born to Louis and Martha Martin.

In 1911, the family were living at 10 Maypole Road, Barkingside, and James was working as a farm hand.

James enlisted in the army at Stratford in 1914 and joined the 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own). One brother was already in the army.

On 25 September 1915, James was wounded in the lower leg and was sent home three days later to recover. He returned to France on 19 January 1916, re-joining his unit the following day.

Wilfred Vailes Hickman

Born in September 1898, Wilfred Vailes Hickman was the son of Louisa Hickman and Joseph Hickman, a shipping clerk. In 1911, the family was living at 22 Oakfield Road, Ilford, Essex. Wilfred attended the Coopers Company School in Bow in 1908 to 1913. He enlisted at Warley recruitment office in Essex, where he was recorded as a dental technician.

Wilfred was part of the Honourable Artillery Company and was on the Italian front between November 1917 and November 1918, fighting the Austrians.

Sidney Allen James Gibson

Born in October, 1894, Sidney Allen James Gibson was the son of Janet Gibson and John Gibson, a bookkeeper. In 1911 the family was living at 38 Mayfair Avenue, Ilford. He attended Coopers Company School in Bow in 1908.

Sidney served in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps as a Rifleman and died of wounds he sustained on 15th September 1916, at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.  

Sidney was one of 131 men of his battalion (18th Battalion, D Company) to die that day; 92 being killed in action and the remaining 39 dying of their wounds. 

Harry Walter Jassby Grave

A Jewish gravestone in a Church of England graveyard is one of Redbridge’s most unusual war memorials. Although individual family gravestones are not featured on the Redbridge and the First World War website, an exception has been made for Harold Jassby.

Harry Jassby’s grave is on the left inside the front gate at St Peter’s. According to his family, Jassby lied about his age as his grave indicates that he was 22, when in fact he was just 20 years old.

Harry Walter Jassby Grave. Photo by Pat O'Mara.

Leon Ludovic (Louis) Lailavoix

Leon Louis Lailavoix was one of two former teachers at the school who died in the Great War. He was born on 1st July 1882 in Saint Rambert-en-Bugey, France to Louis, a surveyor, and Eugenie Lailavoix. He had a twin sister, Louise. He was educated in France at the Lycie Concorcet, Paris and Paris University which he left in 1904 with two certificates, the Baccalaureat-es-lettres and Licence-es-lettres. Before joining Ilford County High School in October 1907, he taught at King’s School, Peterborough and Highbury House School, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.

James Boyd Wilson

Younger son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson, of Dannistoun, Glasgow, and nephew of the late Mr. David Boyd, one of the founders of this Association. Born in 1890 at Glasgow, leaving there in 1912 to take up a position with a London firm, and in 1914 became its representative in Newcastle-on-Tyne. Early in 1915 joined the Officers' Training Corps, and in the same year was gazetted to the 2nd Battalion (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers, proceeding at once to the Salonica front.

Thomas St. Clair Gifford Taylor

Eldest son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Taylor, of Ilford. Born at Busta, Shetland, in 1889. Educated at St Anne's School, Redhill, Surrey, afterwards entering the service of the Railway Passengers' Assurance Co., attaining position of surveyor. When war broke out was a private in the 14th Battalion County of London Regiment (London Scottish), which he had joined nine years before. Proceeding to France in September, 1914, with the first draft of Territorials, he remained there until January, 1915, when he came home on sick leave.

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