7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
Private William John Eade | War Casualty Details 111355 | CWGC
From The London Gazette
Military Medal (MM)
Awarded to personnel of the British Army, and formerly also to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land.
First established by King George V, 25 March 1916. ‘It is ordained that the names of those upon whom We may be pleased to confer the Military Medal shall be published in the London Gazette, and that a Register thereof shall be kept in the Office of Our Principal Secretary of State for War.’ (Gazette supplement 3647)
(Wikipedia)
Between 1916 & 1920 115,589 Military medals were awarded
plus 5,796 1st bar, 180 2nd bars and 1 third bar.
Mailly Wood Cemetery France
1881 census
John Eade, 32, a Jobbing Gardener, Mary Anne, 28, Ellen, 4 a Scholar, Harriett, 3, also a Scholar, and William John,1, born Bognor, lived in Bersted Street, South Bersted.
1891 census
By 1891 John, now 42, is a Painter, Mary A as Laundress, William, 11, a Scholar, and Henry, 9, also a Scholar. Their address is given as South Bersted Street.
1901 census
William John Eade, born Bognor Sussex, lives at 49 Bramber Street, Fulham, London , and is employed as a Waiter
1911 census
William John Eade, 31, is a Domestic Servant / Footman and is living with his wife, Jane Selina, at 124 Marlbrough Buildings, Chelsea. Wiiliam and Jane have been married for 5 years but have had no children
de Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour
EADE, WILLIAM JOHN, M.M., Private, No. 1180, 7th (Service) Battn.The Royal Sussex Regt., s. of the late John Eade of Stella Cottage, Bognor, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of William Veasy, b. Bognor, co. Sussex, 24 Sept. 1879; educ Roman Catholic School there; was a Builder; enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regt. 9 Dec. 1914 ; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from March, 1916; was wounded at Poperinghe 18 July, 1917, and invalided home; returned to France 9th Nov., and was killed in action near Mailly-Maillet, north-west of Albert 20 May, 1918. Buried in the cemetery there. His Coy. Sergt. -Major wrote: “He will be greatly missed. He was a thorough soldier and a man, and was liked by all he came in contact with. He will be a very great loss to me; he was my batman, and was a brave man as an orderly”. He was awarded the M.M. (London Gazette, 8 March, 1918), for bravery in the field. He m. at st. Mary’s Bognor, 27 Sept., 1905 Jane Selina (St. John’s, Link Avenue, Felpham), dau. of Stephen Sparkes, and had a dau., Mary Magdalene, b. 11 Aug. 1914.
Graves Registration Report Form
Mailly Wood Cemetery
7th Sussex 1180 EADE Pte. W.J. 21-5-18 Cross erected Plot 2 Row M Grave 1 (10th entry)
Report of Headstone Inscriptions
1062/1E SD/1180 PRIVATE W.J. EADE MM ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
20TH MAY 1918 AGE 38 CROSS Plot 2 Row M Grave 1 Headstone 614 (14th entry)
Imperial War Graves Commission
1052/1? HEADSTONE 614
“ON WHOSE SOUL SWEET JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH HAVE MERCY R.I.P.
(Mrs J.S.Eade, St. John’s, Links Avenue, Felpham, Nr. Bognor, Sussex) (Penultimate entry)
Index to Mailly Wood Cemetery France
EADE, Pte. William John, SD/1180, M.M., 7th Bn. Royal Sussex regt. Killed in action 20th May, 1918 Age 38. Son of John and Mary Eade; husband of Jane Selina Eade, of St. John’s Links Avenue, Felpham, Bognor, II. M.I (6th entry left hand column)
The National Archives Reference WO 372/6/139644
Eade William J. R.Suss R. Sgt. SD/1180
Entitled to Victory & British War medals. (Bottom left hand item). Note reference to rank of Sergeant.
Medal Record Card
Details as per The National Archives. Note also reference to rank of Sergeant.
Wills and Administrations 1918
EADE, William John, of St. John’s Golf Links Avenue Felpham Sussex, private. Royal Sussex regiment died 20 May 1918 in France or Belgium Probate Chichester 9 November Henry Eade carpenter Effects £380 7s 9d. (left hand column last but one entry)
