Medals won by soldiers from the 11th Essex in the Great War
Listed below are some of the men who were awarded the Millitary Medal or Military Cross and who sadly then did not survive the Great War.
KIA means killed in action, DAH means died at home, DOI means died from illness, DOW means died of woulds, POW means died as prisoner of war
VC
2nd Lieutenant Frank Bernard Wearne - KIA 28 June 1917
DCM
Lance Corporal Alfred William Green - KIA 20 November 1917
Millitary Cross
2nd Lieutenant Harry Cleal - KIA 10 December 1917
Captain Howard Kilbourne Harris - KIA 22 February 1918
Captain Joseph Nicholas Douglas Keys - KIA 21 September 1917
Military Medal
Sergeant Alfred John Cardey - DOW 19 September 1917
Lance Corporal Frederick Cardy - KIA 21 March 1918
Lance Corporal Idris Evans - KIA 9 October 1916
Lance Corporal Frederick Morris Fairweather - KIA 2 June 1918
Sergeant Charles Robert Field - KIA 22 April 1917
Private George Galley - KIA 22 March 1918
Private George Stanley Heaton - DOW 29 October 1918
Private George Hewett - DOW 2 June 1918
Corporal Lawrence - KIA 15 October 1916
Lance Sergeant Walter Ernest Horne - KIA 22 March 1918
Sergeant William Marsh - KIA 22 March 1918
Lance Corporal William Marsh - KIA 12 October 1918
Corporal George Martin - DOW 19 September 1918
Sergeant Sydney Arthur Martin - DOW 15 September 1917
CSM Walter James Mortimer - POW 6 April 1918
Lance Corporal William Thomas Pye - DOW 23 September 1918
Private William Rainbow - KIA 24 September 1918
Lance Corporal Edward Charles Richer - KIA 26 September 1916
Lance Corporal Maurice Arthur Squier - KIA 28 June 1917
Sergeant Percy Alfred Strait - KIA 17 October 1918
Sergeant Felix Sidney Swallow - KIA 17 September 1918
Corporal Alfred Dennis Sycamore - KIA 23 September 1916
Sergeant Thomas William White - KIA 8 August 1918