Captain, Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry. Killed in action 11 November 1915. Aged 28. Son of Sir Edward Hain, K.T., and Lady Hain, of Treloyhan, St. Ives, Cornwall. In the 891 census he was aged 3, born St. Ives, Cornwall, son of Edward and Catherine Hain, resident The Terrace, St Ives, Cornwall. Buried in HILL 10 CEMETERY, Turkey (including Gallipoli). Plot I. Row F. Grave 18.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, Volume 2. page 152:

HAIN, EDWARD, Capt., Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry (T.F.), only s. of Sir Edward Hain, Chairman Hain Steamship Company, Ltd., late M.P. for West Cornwall, by his wife, Catherine Seward, dau. of James Hughes, formerly of Whitehaven, co. Cumberland; b. St. Ives, co. Cornwall, 15 Aug. 1887; educ. Twyford School, near Winchester; Winchester, and New College, Oxford; subsequently worked for one year in Messrs. Readhead's Shipbuilding yards at South Shields, to obtain practical knowledge in the construction of steamships and of marine engineering, and, on leaving there, travelled, and was for some months in one of the largest shipping offices on the Continent; then went into the offices of his father's firm at St. Ives, Cardiff and London, becoming a partner in E. Hain & Son, and a director in the Hain Steamship Company, Ltd. He joined the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry as Lieut. 8 June, 1912, and was promoted Capt. 15 Aug. 1914; mobilized at Bodmin on the outbreak of war; volunteered for foreign service; went to Gallipoli in Oct. 1915, and was killed in action 11 Noy. following. Buried there. While at Oxford he was secretary of the O.U.D.S., and took the part of Puck in the performance of a "Midsummer Night's Dream," in 1908; was fond of hunting, and during the time he was at St. Ives, established and hunted the Porthia Beagles. He m. 14 Aug. 1913, Judith Helen, dau. of Col. Francis William Nicholas Wogan-Browne, of Naas, co. Kildare; s.p.

Sapper 2503600, 10th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops. Died from the effects of war 1 August 1919. Aged 35. Born 3 July 1884 in Cornwall. Son of Mary Edwards Hart, of Norway Street, St. Ives, England, and the late William Hart, a fisherman. Blacksmith by trade. Unmarried. Attested and passed fit 22 March 1918 at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, aged 33 years 8 months, height 5 feet 9¾ inches, girth 37½ inches, ruddy complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, religious denomination Church of England. Baptised in St. Ives Primitive Methodist Church 23 July 1884. Sister Martha, born 1887, and a brother, John, born 1899. Buried in ST. IVES (BARNOON) CEMETERY, Cornwall. New part. Section AA. Grave 3C. National Archives of Canada Accession Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4122 - 8

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Second Lieutenant, "C" Company, 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Died of wounds 21 August 1916. Aged 27. Son of Henry Baynham Paull and Catherine Ellen Shearme Paull, of "Nethleigh", St. Ives, Cornwall. Buried in HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE, Somme, France. Plot III. Row C. Grave 19.

Extract from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, Volume 2, page 246:

PAULL, HENRY BAYNHAM, 2nd Lieut., 6th (Service) Battn. The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, only s. of Henry Baynham Paull, of Methleigh, St. Ives, Cornwall, Land Agent, by his wife, Catherine Ellen Shearme, dau. of the late William Hart Brimacombe, of Stoke Climsland, co. Cornwall, Solicitor; and cousin to Major-General Sir Harry Triscott Brooking, K.C.B., now (1918) Commanding 15th Division, Indian Army, in Mesopotamia, and to the late Col. J. Chard, V.C. (Rorke's Drift); b. Camborne, co. Cornwall, 21 July, 1889; educ. ,Kelly College, Tavistock, where he was a member of the School Cadet Corps, and of the School team that shot at Bisley; subsequently went to Sheffield, where he went, through a course of Engineering in the works of Messrs. Vickers, Son & Maxim, and at the Sheffield University, afterwards obtaining an appointment as Engineer on a Rubber Plantation in the Malay States, where he spent two and a quarter years, being then invalided home with sunstroke and malaria. After spending some months at home he accepted an appointment in the Land Valuation Department of the Inland Revenue, intending ultimately to return to Malay; but, war breaking out in the meantime, he enlisted in the A.S.C., M.T. (T.F.), in Sept. 1914 and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 7 Nov. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 10 March, 1915, and died in No. 38 Casualty Clearing Station, Dernancourt, 21 Aug. 1916, from wounds received in action during the attack on Delville Wood on the 18th. Buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, four miles south-west of Dernancourt. His Colonel wrote : " He got down to hospital, and I believe had his arm amputated and died after. He was quite. cheery, and our doctor said he quite thought he would pull through. It was a great blow to me, as he was a most useful officer," and a Captain in his battalion : I saw much of Paull, and he was an officer wnose loss we can ill afford; we were good friends. The casualties were terrible, and it is a depressing fact to realize that I am the only Cornish officer left of five who were engaged on the 18th." A brother officer also wrote : I was with Hal almost to the last; He went across with two platoons; after a rough passage, got into the German trench. I lost sight of hint going across, but he got in soon after MC. it seemed as though all our men had fallen, as we had a very little band around us. He was hit after he had been in the enemy trench about half an hour, I should say. I was about six yards from hint, and on turning round to see what I could do for him, just walking forward, another shell came nearly in the same place and knocked me out. . . . He was always the best of fellows, such a good-hearted fellow, and brave to the last." Unm.

Private 45472, 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Died in United Kingdom 5 January 1919. Aged 19. Born and resident St. Ives, Cornwall, enlisted Bodmin, Cornwall. Son of Edwin Harvey Pearce and Lydia Pearce, of 33, Halestown, St. Ives. In the 1901 census he was aged 2, born St. Ives, Cornwall, resident with his parents, Edwin and Lydia, at Halsetown, St Ives, Cornwall. In the 1911 census he was aged 12, at school, resident with his parents, Edwin and Lydia, at Halsetown, near St Ives, Cornwall. Buried in ST. IVES (BARNOON) CEMETERY, Cornwall. Old area. Section I. Grave 3F. (Consecrated).

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Serjeant 25035075, 28 Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers attached to the Brigade Reconnaissance Force. Killed by an improvised explosive device while on a foot patrol in southern Nad ‘Ali, Helmand province, 26 February 2010. Aged 34. Born 16 December 1975 in Manchester. Husband of Charlotte, with a daughter Ruby, and sons Archie and Jack. Buried in Towednack Parish Cemetery, nr St Ives., Cornwall. TR26 3AZ. Ministry of Defence notification 27 February 2010