Surname
and Initials
(or Forename)
Nationality
Date and Place of Birth
Rank
Service
Regiment
Service No.
Date Enlisted
Fought at
Served in
Date and Place of Discharge
Certificate of Discharge No.
Killed(?)
Age at Death
Buried at
Medals awarded
Further Comments
POWDITCH,
Arthur Henry
UK
(British)
1888 (Regd between Oct-Dec in Cardiff)
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
No
not
applicable
not
applicable
not
known
During the First World War, Arthur Henry was
invalided out of the actions, after having
been "gassed" - and was for a while, in a
Middlesex Hospital, whilst recuperating.
POWDITCH,
Bertram Charles
UK
(British)
12 Sep
1894 at
Belper
(Derbys)
Corporal
(Later he
rose to
the Rank
of
Company
Sergeant
Major)
Army
2/8th
Battalion,
Notts/Derby
Regiment
4 Sep
1914
?
12 Nov 1918
at Lichfield
(due to his being appointed to a temporary commission)
307402
not
applicable
not
applicable
not
applicable
"Meritorious
Service
Medal,
Chevrons, -
three blue",
with "two
wound
stripes"
Charles was "wounded in the shoulder on
1 July (?1915) in the 'big push'.  He has just
been discharged from Exeter Hospital, and
has been home on a few days leave"
(Source: The Ripley Advertiser)

Please click here for details of his entry in    
the 1919 "Army List"

Please click here for further details re           
his involvement in WW1
2nd Lieutenant
Lincolnshire Regiment (Regimental District No.10) 5th Battalion
20 Nov 1918
POWDITCH,
C
UK
(British)
Private
Army
Queen's Own
(Royal West
Kent
Regiment)
3136
n/a
Saturday,
6 Apr 1918
DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION No.1
His headstone is in the Cemetery at           
DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION No.1, Somme, France.  
Grave Reference / Panel Number: VI. D. 66.
(Source: George Powditch).
POWDITCH,
George
UK
(British)
29 Mar
1889 at
Belper
(Derbys)
Sergeant
&
Regimental
Sergeant
Major
(R.S.M.)
Army
The
Sherwood
Foresters
pre-1914
"near
Ginchy"
and
"Ypres"
9 July
1921
not
applicable
not
applicable
not
applicable
1914 Star;
the British
War Medal;
the Victory
Medal; the
D.E.M.; and
the Military
Medal
George "has just been awarded the Military 
Medal, having distinguished himself during
operations near Ginchy.  He similarly
distinguished himself near Ypres during the
early part of this year"
(Source: The Ripley Advertiser)
POWDITCH,
John
UK
(British)
4 Mar
1883 at
Derby
(Derbys)
Driver
(Private)
Army
Army Service
Corps
55th Field
Ambulance
18th Division
November
1914
France
not
applicable
not
applicable
not
applicable
John "has been in France for 15 months"
(Source: The Ripley Advertiser)
POWDITCH,
Robert Charles
(known as
'Charles')
UK
(British)
Reg'd
AMJ 1898
in Poplar,
London
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
Army
'Volunteer'
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
Killed
(France)
'in action'
t.b.a.
t.b.a.
POWDITCH,
Sidney
UK
(British)
1885 at
Derby
(Derbys)
Driver
Army
Army Service
Corps
"Field Ambulances"
T3/024352
November
1914
France
n/a
2 Oct 1917
31yrs old
Gwalia Cemetery,
(Plot II, Row D,
Grave 10),
Poperinghe,
Belgium
Sidney "has been in France for 15 months"
(Source: The Ripley Advertiser, 1915)

Sydney was Uncle to George from Sleaford,
Lincs, who, a couple of years ago, went over
to Belgium and saw the grave, and also saw
Sydney's name in the "Roll Book" at the
Cemetery.
POWDITCH,
Sidney Bardwell
UK
(British)
Reg'd
AMJ 1889
in Blything
2nd Lieutenant
&
Lieutenant
Army
(Infantry, Territorial Force)
Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion
not
known
Please click here for details of his entry in   
the 1916 "Monthly Army List"

Please click here for details of his entry in   
the 1919 "Army List"
POWDITCH,
Tom
UK
(British)
25 Nov
1891 at
Belper
(Derbys)
Lance-
Corporal
&
Lieutenant
&
Corporal
Army
1st North
Midland
Territorial
Division
&
5th Battalion,
Sherwood
Foresters
August
1914
not
applicable
not
applicable
not
applicable
Tom "went out to France in February 1915.    
He has also been wounded in the shoulder,
but is now well again.  He is at present
stationed at Louth, Lincs"
(Source: The Ripley Advertiser)

Please click here for details of his entry in   
the 1919 "Army List"
POWDITCH,
T(homas) H(erbert)
UK
(British)
1891 (Reg'd
between Oct- Dec
at Cardiff)
Private
Army
Middlesex
Regiment
G/4832
n/a
18 Aug 1916
24
(approx)
t.b.a.
Although a Welshman by birth, as his
application was received at Paddington, he
was drafted into the "Duke of Cambridge's
Own" (Middlesex Regiment) = Infantry.


POWDITCH,
Wells Urban Kendle

UK
(British)
19 March
1892,
in
Guernsey

Bombardier
(Field Artillery)

Army
Royal Guernsey Militia
not
known
not
known

not known

not known

not
known

not
known


No


n/a


n/a
Please click here for details re Wells Urban  Kendle Powditch's involvement in WW1
Royal Guernsey Light
Infantry (R.G.L.I.)
not
known
not
known
Surname
and Initials
(or Forename)
Nationality
Date and Place of Birth
Rank
Service
Regiment
Service No.
Date Enlisted
Fought at
Served in
Date discharged
Certificate of Discharge No.
Killed(?)
Age at Death
Buried at
Medals awarded
Further Comments
Much of the above information was kindly extracted from
www.wgc.com  (the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Web-site)
by Robert Nilson, who said of it;
"I typed in the name Powditch and found three names listed.   You can click
on to each of these names and the full details of each will be displayed."

Other information has kindly been provided by living descendants of those who fought in WW1.