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James John Lampard was born in 1876 in East Knoyle and baptised there on 13th February, 1876. He was the son of James Lampard, a labourer, and Ellen Lampard (née Ford). His father died in 1898 at the age of 82 years - he was 27 years older than his wife. At the time of the 1911 Census James was single and working as a General Labourer and living at 41 Milton, East Knoyle.

He enlisted in Salisbury as a Private on 27th November 1915 and was assigned to the 4th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment (Service No. 5051) and placed on Reserve. He was eventually mobilized on 22nd February 1916 and re-assigned to the 1st/8th Battalion (New Service No. 306727). He embarked for France arriving in Rouen on 11th July 1916 and went into the Field on 29th July 1916. He was reported to have been wounded but missing on 27th August 1916 (his recorded death date) though he was not officially presumed killed until 8th October 1916. He was awarded the Victory, British War and 1915 Star medals. He death on 27th August 1916 is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 9A, 9B and 10B). He is remembered on the East Knoyle War Memorial. His effects were eventually forwarded to his mother once her address had been clarified as c/o The Master, The Workhouse, Amesbury, Wiltshire. She died in Amesbury within months of receiving his effects in 1920 aged 73 years.

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Ernest Tanswell was born in 1881 in Rockbourne, Nr. Fordingbridge, Hampshire and baptised there on 27th February, 1881. He was the son of John Tanswell, a Farm Labourer, and Emily Tanswell (nee Brockway). The family set up home in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, shortly after Ernest was born but by 1901 he had moved to Bedwelty, Monmouthshire, where he was boarding out and working as a colliery labourer. He returned to East Knoyle fairly soon after and married Sarah Jane Small on 27th July, 1902. By the 1911 Census they had two children - one boy and one girl - with a third girl arriving in 1913. At the time of the Census, he was working as a Labourer and living at Upton, East Knoyle, Wiltshire. He enlisted in Gillingham, Dorset, as a Private in the Somerset Light Infantry (Service No. 265044). He later transferred to the 1st/6th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. (New Service No. 30509). He served in France & Flanders and was awarded the Victory and British War medals. He died of wounds on 13th October 1917 and was buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Nord Pas de Calais, France (grave id. VIII.I.52). He is remembered on the East Knoyle War Memorial.