11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
Private Byron Snook | War Casualty Details 402756 | CWGC
Gravemarker of Byron Snook, St. Mary’s Felpham
Baptism
15th August 1886 at St. Martins, Brighton, of Laurel Cottage, Preston Road, Brighton. Son of Henry and Emma. (7th entry left hand page)
1891 census
Living at No. 2 Lyon Street, South Bersted, Bognor, Henry T. Snook, 32, Gardnr (sic), Emma, 30, Byron, 4, born Brighton, Scholar, Arthur H., 1.
1901 census
By 1901 the family is living at Victoria Cott(age) Cannon (probably Canning) Road Felpham. Henry is 42, Emma, 40, Byron an errand boy, 14, Arthur, 12, Stephanie, 10, Horace, 8 and Bruce 4
Henry Thomas, Market Gardener, 52, Emma, 52, Byron, Butcher, 24, Horace, Groom, 17, Bruce, Errand boy, 14. Address given as Sea Road, Felpham, Bognor, Sussex
In 1911 Arthur Henry, 21, was a patient at the West Sussex, East Hampshire and Chichester General Infirmary and Dispensary. Stephanie, 19, was a servant at Juniper Hill Lodge, Mickleham, Surrey. The census show that Henry & Emma had been married for 26 years and had had 7 children of whom 2 had died. (Source:- The Long, Long Trail)
New Army Battalion
11th (Service) Battalion (1st South Down) Formed at Bexhill on 7 September 1914 by Lieut-Col. Lowther, MP and Committee. Moved to Maidstone in July 1915 and then adopted by the War Office. Moved to Aldershot in September 1915. October 1915 : moved to Witley and came under command of 116th Brigade in 39th Division. Byron Snook died 29th December 1915
(Battalion) landed at Le Havre in March 1916. 23 May 1918: reduced to cadre strength. 30 June 1918 transferred to 75th Brigade in 25th Division. Moved back to England, going to Aldershot. July 1918: absorbed the 13th Bn, the Royal West Kents. 9 September 1918: Brigade renamed 236th Brigade and left Division. Sailed from Dundee for North Russia 17 October 1918.
The 30th June is known as “The Day Sussex Died”
On 30th June 1916, the day before the first day of the battle of the Somme, the 11th, 12th and 13t Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment attacked the Boars Head salent as a diversion from the follwing days attacks.
Community: The Day Sussex Died – The Dead, Missing, and Wounded | Lives of the First World War (iwm.org.uk)
Burial at the Parish of St. Mary, Felpham
Byron Snook, Military Hospital Bramshott and Felpham, January 4th 1916 (3rd entry)
Graves Registration Report Form
R.Sussex.11th Bn. SD/847 Snook Pte. B.H.
Nil (Instructions waited on) Grave 92 Ancient Churchyard 29-12-15 (3rd entry)
Felpham Churchyard, Bognor
1062/1B SD/847 PRIVATE BYRON SNOOK ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT 29TH DECEMBER 1915 AGE 28 CROSS GRAVE 92 3
Imperial War Graves Commission
1062/1B 3 THY WILL BE DONE
(H.SNOOK Esq., The Old Mill, Felpham, Sussex) (3rd entry)
Soldiers Effects
(Document is barely readable)
258172. ?. Snook Byron 11th Bn. R. Sussex Regt., 29.12.15. ?.?
£2.15s.11d Fa. Henry T. WAR GRATUITY £5.0s.0d Fa. Henry Thomas (2nd entry)
Index to St. Mary’s churchyard, Felpham
SNOOK, Pte. Byron, SD/847. 11th Bn.Royal Sussex Regt.
29th Dec., 1915. Age 28. Son of Henry Thomas and Emma Snook, of the Mill, Felpham. 92. In South-West part
Royal British Legion