CONCLUDING our series of paying tribute to those from Weymouth who died in the Battle of the Somme, thanks must go to local historian Greg Schofield for providing us with these names.

Today we pay tribute to William Digby Oswald Lieut. Colonel, 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte’s of Wales). Died 16th July, aged 36. Lived ‘St Winning’, Wellington House, Weymouth, and was a keen yachtsman. Joined the army 1899; served in the Boer War where he was awarded the D.S.O, mentioned in despatches and wounded. Wounded twice in the retreat from Mons in 1914; died 1916 after being wounded in the chest; Fred Palmer. Private, 6th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 8th August, aged 22; killed in action by a shell. Lived 27, High West Street. A shoemaker by trade. He sang in Holy Trinity Church, played the organ at Holy Trinity Mission, and was in the Holy Trinity Church lad’s Brigade, for whom he played football. An enthusiastic athlete, he ran for St Paul’s Harriers; W. A. L. W. Pearce. Private, 1st/4th Berkshire Reg. Died 27th August; George Rixton. Sapper, Royal Engineers. Died 16th September, aged 32; Frank E. H. Rudman. Private, 1st/5th Gloucestershire Reg. Died 21st July, aged 22; John (Jack) Walter Scriven. Private, 6th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 6th November, aged 19. Lived ‘Ashton House’, Great George Street. A baker and confectioner; John G. Trolove Sharpley. Private, 12th Middlesex Reg. Died 26th September, aged 21. Employed at Lloyd’s Bank, Weymouth; Harold S. Shettler. Private, 6th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 23rd August, aged 19; Benjamin Robert Symes. Private, 7th South Lancashire Reg. Died 5th July; Thomas Arthur Trask. Private, 6th Somerset Light Infantry. Died 16th September; Alec Francis Warren. Private, 2nd/7th Middlesex Reg. Died 15th September, aged 28 and Ernest White. Private, 6th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 6th August, aged 26. Lived 5, Prince of Wales Road. A brother also died in the war.