DAMANT

Henry Kirkpatrick

Air Mechanic 2nd Class, 66th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. Died of septic pneumonia in Tidworth Military Hospital 26 February 1917. Born 28 February 1888, in Cowes, Isle of Wight. Educated Sunningdale School, Berkshire. In the 1891 census he was aged 3, born Isle of Wight, Hampshire, son of Harry C and Mary Damant, resident Lammas, Baring Road, Northwood, Isle of Wight. In the 1901 census he was aged 13, born Isle of Wight, a school boarder, resident Sunnigdale School, Spring Grove, Sunningdale, Windsor, Berkshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 23, born Cowes, Isle of Wight, a Law Student, visting the Garrick Hotel, 385 Charing X Road, St Martin in the Fields, London & Middlesex. Married Urcelia Alice Wapshott in St Martin-In-The-Fields, Middlesexs in the January to March Quarter 1912. Enlisted 11 May 1916 for the duration of the war, aged 28. Buried in TIDWORTH MILITARY CEMETERY, Wiltshire. Plot/Row/Section/Area C. Grave 204. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey.

Extract from Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 10 March 1917, page 4:

DAMANT.—On the 26th ult., at Tidworth Military Hospital, Henry Kirkpatrick Damant, AM., R.F.C., son of Mrs. and the late H. O. Damant, Cowes, aged 28.

Stephen Gilbert

Lieutenant, 8th (Isle of Wight Rifles) (Princess Beatrice's Own) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed in action 19 April 1917. Aged 24. Baptised 1893 in Cowes, Isle of Wight. Son of Thomas White Ratsey and Lucy Margaret Ratsey, of "Granville," Cowes, Isle of Wight. His brothers Donald White Ratsey and Clayton Ratsey also fell. In the 1901 census he was aged 8, born Hampshire, son of Thomas W and Lucy M Ratsey, resident Granville, Weston Road, Cowes, Isle of Wight, Isle of Wight & Hampshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 18, born Isle of Wight, a Farm Pupil, boarding at Temple Balsall Knowle, Balsall, Warwickshire. Buried in GAZA WAR CEMETERY, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza). Plot XXI. Row E. Grave 11. See also Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey.