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