ANDREWS J

Possibly Private James Oswald Andrews
1st/1st Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars (Worcester Yeomanry)
Service No 3025
Born and resident Pershore, enlisted Worcester
Died of wounds aged 23 on 29th April 1916
Son of James and Eliza Andrews, of Head St., Pershore, Worcestershire
Buried in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, Grave C. 8.

Appears on the memorial as O.J. Andrews with the additional information: Private

J.O. Andrews, 1st/1st Worcester Yeomanry, 1st Draft, embarked at Devonport 23rd October 1915 for service with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, disembarked at Mudros 6th November 1915, disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt on 30th November 1915.  Wounded 23rd April 1916.  Died of wounds 29th April 1916.
Source for additional information: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Worcestershire 1914 – 1922.

Worcester Yeomanry, Easter Sunday 1915, brother of George, Frank, and Charles Andrews.
Additional information from Pershore Parish Records, Holy Cross, Film No 216/7, available at Worcestershire Archives.

Appears on:
Worcester Cathedral Worcestershire Hussars
Pershore C of E School now in Pershore Working Men’s Club
Pershore Abbey – Listed under Worcestershire Regiment with the additional information: Q.O.W.H.
Possibly on Wyre Piddle War Memorial

A photograph of Trooper J.O. Andrews can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 19th February 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.

Or

Possibly Private Joseph Andrews
1st/4th Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Service No 36264
Died of wounds on 13th March 1918
Buried in Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel, Grave N. 53.

Joseph Andrews was born in Pinvin in 1894, his birth is registered in the March Quarter of 1894 under the Pershore Registration District. On the 1901 census he lived with his parents John, a bricklayer, and Elizabeth in Wyre Hill. On the 1911 census Joseph, aged 17, is a gardeners assistant living in Wyre Hill, Pinvin with his parents John, aged 46, bricklayer, Elizabeth, aged 43 and his siblings: Edith May aged 21, Maud aged 14, Michael aged 11, John Charles aged 9, Lilian Sarah aged 6 and Florence Hilda aged 1.

Additional information researched and transcribed by Jill Mustard.

Appears on:
Pinvin St Nicholas Church
Pinvin C of E School formerly in Pinvin British Legion Club
Possibly on Wyre Piddle War Memorial