Biographies of some Essex fighting men

Many of the people listed below have performed heroic deeds, have commanded battalions while a few have been very bad.

The most important listed below have been ordinary people just doing their duty, typical of thousands of others and so who been chosen to illustrate the sacrifice and breadth of service in the Essex Regiments.

Private 41237 Walter William Ager DCM	2nd Essex
Brigadier General Frederick Gore Anley	1st & 2nd Essex
Lance Cpl Arthur Albert Baker	5th Essex
Second Lieutenant Hugh Baldock MC	2nd & 15th Essex
Pte 5722 Joseph Henry Broad	4th, 1st & 2nd Essex
CSM Frank Cannon	11th Essex
Captain Stanes Brocket Chamberlayne	West Essex Militia
Temp Lt Charles Henry Chapman MC MSM	2nd Essex
Major Dennis John Ciclitira	2nd/4th Essex
Colonel Richard Beale Colvin	Essex Yeomanry
Lance Corporal 1370 Lionel George Cook DSC MM	Essex Yeomanry
Major Sir Edward George Stenson Cooke	8th Essex
Colonel Harry Cooper CMG, CBE	Essex Volunteer Battalions
Second Lieutenant Joseph Culver	10th Essex
Captain Phillip Francis Dale	11th Essex
Captain Geoffrey Boisselier Davies	11th Essex
Sergeant 7346 Henry Evans	10th Essex
RSM Christopher Farrell	Essex Yeomanry
Lt Colonel Robert Forbes	10th Essex
Lance Sergeant 250653 William James Gafney DCM	5th Essex
Sergeant 27246 George Charles Gilder DCM MM	1st Essex
Major Guy Gold	Essex Yeomanry
Sergeant 1514 Bartholomew Gordon	56th West Essex & 2nd Essex
Captain Robert Grier	2/44th East Essex
Private John Jackson DCM	7th Essex
Francis Roland Keeble MC & bar	13th Essex
Sergeant Major William Livsey	West Essex Yeomanry
Private John Leishman McDougall VC	44th East Essex
Sergeant Major David McInnes	West Essex Yeomanry
Sergeant William McWhinney VC	44th East Essex
Company Sergeant Major 300073 Thomas William Madgwick	7th Essex
Air Commodore Edward Maitland Maitland CMG, DSO, AFC	2nd & 3rd Essex
Corporal 88211 Conrad Mason	10th Essex
Corporal 13042 Cyrus Jack Mills	12th Essex
Lt Col Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen	4th Essex
Private 6009084 Joseph Edward Mott GC	1st Essex
Lance Corporal 51507 Harold Sandford Mugford VC	Essex Yeomanry
Private 1678 Charles Thomas Muskett	6th Essex
Lt Colonel Augustus Charles Newman VC	4th Essex
Private William Nunn	56th West Essex
Lieutenant Francis Newton Parsons VC	1st Essex
Lieutenant William Pearce	2/44th East Essex
Lt Colonel Jasper Radcliffe	10th Essex
Lieutenant Robert Montresor Rogers VC	44th East Essex
CSM Arthur Rowland	1st Essex
Lieutenant Henry John Walter Silver MC and Bar	1st & 2nd Essex
Trumpeter Richard Stevens	10th Essex Rifles
Colonel Sir George Murray Home Stirling	1st & 2nd Essex
Second Lieutenant Marshall Stuart Straight	1st, 5th &12th Essex
Captain Frederick Sidney Thirsk MC	6th & 9th Essex
Dr James Thomson	44th East Essex
Corporal 3/3105 John Tippins	2nd VB, 2nd, 5th & 8th
Major-General Francis Ventris	44th East Essex
Private Alfred John Wakefield	9th Essex
Second Lieutenant Stephen Alfred Warner MC	9th Essex
Second Lieutenant Gilbert Waterhouse	2nd & 3rd Essex
Second Lieutenant Frank Bernard Wearne VC	3rd & 10th Essex