TRIBUTES ON 32 BEACHES
1. Sunny Sands, Folkestone, Kent Lt Wilfred Owen The poet, right, departed for the front from Folkestone. He died on November 4, 1918, days before the Armistice. 2. Weymouth, Dorset Sgt Stanley Robert McDougall An Australian who won the Victoria Cross for repelling a German attack in 1918 at Dernancourt on the Somme. He survived the war. 3. Lyme Regis, Dorset Rifleman Kulbir Thapa The first Gurkha to win a VC. Rifleman Thapa survived the war. 4. East Looe, Cornwall Capt Kenneth Walton Grigson He expected to become a priest but was killed in July 1918, months before the Armistice. 5. Porthcurno, Cornwall Lt Richard Charles Graves-Sawle He left for the front six days after marrying and was killed near Ypres in 1914 by a sniper. 6. Porthmeor, Cornwall Capt Edward Hain Hain was killed at Gallipoli in 1915 when a shell hit his dug-out. 7. Perranporth, Cornwall Archie Jewell Archie survived the Titanic, only to perish when his hospital ship was torpedoed in 1917. 8. Saunton Sands, Devon Capt Ralph George Griffiths Cumine-Robson Born in India, educated at Eton, Ralph died in 1914 in France. 9. Weston-super-Mare, Somerset Lt Col John Hay Maitland Hardyman In 1918, aged 23, he became the youngest Lieutenant Colonel in the Army. But he was killed at Bienvillers, France. 10. Swansea Dorothy Mary Watson One of six workers killed at the Pembrey munitions factory explosion in 1917. Dorothy, below right, was just 18. 11. Freshwater West, Pembrokeshire Major Charles Morris A Cambridge rower, Morris died in 1917. 12. Ynyslas, Ceredigion Richard Davies Davies was a Navy reservist who near Ynyslas. He died when his ship hit a German mine in 1917. 13. Colwyn Bay, Conwy Pte Ellis Humphrey Evans Wales’s most famous war poet, known as ‘Hedd Wyn’, was killed at Passchendaele in 1917. 14. Formby, Merseyside Capt John Basil Armitage He trained recruits but was sent to the front and hit by a shell at the Somme in 1917. 15. Blackpool, Lancashire Lt Cpl John Arkwright A former PC, Arkwright died early in the war, in August 1914. 16. Murlough, County Down John McCance Rifleman McCance was one of many from County Down to perish at Passchendaele in 1917. 17. Dunree Beach, Donegal Seaman John Buckley One of 354 people lost when the SS Laurentic sank in 1917 carrying £300 million-worth of gold ingots. 18. Downhill, Derry/ Londonderry Staff Nurse Rachel Ferguson Rachel was a volunteer nurse who served in Italy and died of broncho-pneumonia in 1918. 19. Portstewart Strand, Derry/Londonderry No portrait but the public will be invited to draw silhouettes of people in the sand. 20. Ayr, Ayrshire Lt Walter Tull A former footballer with Spurs, Tull was the Army’s first black officer troops. 21. Culla to He Bay, command died Benbecula at Arras white in 1918. Duncan One of six MacKinnon brothers who went to war, armed Duncan trawler died sank when in 1916. his 22. Shetland St Ninian’s Beach, Silhouettes. 23. Scapa Beach, Orkney Lt Robert William Taylor Born nearby, he earned the Military Cross but died at Passchendaele in 1917. 24. Roseisle Beach, Moray Capt Charles Hamilton Sorley A Scottish war poet who was killed at Loos in 1915. 25. West Sands, Fife Dr Elsie Maud Inglis Suffragist and surgeon who set up female-staffed relief hospitals. Died in 1917 from cancer. 26. Seahouses, Northumberland Pte William Jonas Another footballer – Jonas played for Clapton (later Leyton) Orient. He died at the Somme. 27. Roker, Sunderland Lt Hugh Carr A County Durham lad who was fatally wounded at Ypres in 1916. 28. Redcar, North Yorkshire Pte Theophilus Jones The first military casualty on British soil from enemy fire, he died in the bombing of Hartlepool in 1914. 29. Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire Lt Basil Perrin Hicks He was killed on the first day of Battle of Loos in 1915. 30. Brancaster, Norfolk Driver Stephen Hewitt Born in Norfolk, he served in Salonika – and died in 1916 after being attacked by wolves. 31. Gorleston, Norfolk Silhouettes. 32. Clacton-on-Sea, Essex Silhouettes..