13th Essex - Soldiers who won medals of Valour during 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 DOW means died of woulds
Military Cross
Captain Charles Roydon Brown KIA 14 April 1917
Captain William Walter Busby KIA 13 November 1916
Captain Charles Graham Carson DOW 19 November 1916
2nd Lieutenant William Brown KIA 28 April 1917
Captain James Murray KIA 13 November 1916
2nd Lieutenant Charles Edward Songhurst KIA 22 August 1918
Military Medal
Sergeant Percy Cotten KIA 13 November 1916
Private Harold Roscoe KIA 9 August 1916
Private Joseph Henry Sait KIA 30 July 1916
Lance Corporal Albert Spicer KIA 18 February 1917
Company Sergeant Major James Wicks Valentine KIA 30 July 1916
Sergeant Charles Waterman KIA 30 July 1916
