HAVING passed the centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme this month, we are continuing our series paying tribute to the local men who died in one of the bloodiest battles in human history.

Picking up from last week, among the dead were; William Eddowes Green Lieut, 3rd Dorsetshire Reg. Died 6th July; E. Frederick Groves Private, 5th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 26th September, aged 22. Lived 50, High Street; Harry E. Hillier Private, 5th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 3rd August, aged 22. Lived 6, Westville Cottages, Had six brothers serving in the war; Frederick Arthur Holland Sapper, Royal Engineers. Died 21st November, aged 32. Lived 26, Hope Street. Educated at Holy Trinity School, served in the ‘Boy’s Brigade’, and was a well-known footballer for Radipole; WILLIAM JOHN HOOPER Private, 5th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 26th September; WILLIAM CHARLES HOULTON Private, 2nd Wiltshire Reg. Died 8th August, aged 26; shot through the head by a sniper after capturing a German trench. Worked as a groom at Lord Bath’s stables at Longleat, and had previously lived at 5, Victoria Street; ALMA VICTOR MARTIN Private, 7th The Queen’s (Royal West Surreys). Died 18th November, aged 29. Lived 36, Cassiobury Road; CHARLES MENDENHALL Private, 1st Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. Died 4th September, aged 43; REGINALD HAROLD MITCHELL Serjeant, 2nd Wiltshire Reg. Died 8th July, aged 24. Lived 5, Frederick Place; A. H. T. NORTHOVER Private, 6th Dorsetshire Reg. Died 4th September.

n See next week's Looking Back for more names and details of Weymouth heroes.