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Maurice Bartlett was born in Ditcheat, Somerset, on 24 Aug 1890 and baptised there on 10 Sep 1890 the son of George Phillips Bartlett and Augusta Eliza Bartlett (nee Morrish).   The family lived in various places in Somerset until by 1911 they had moved to Church Farm, Margaret Marsh, Shaftesbury, Dorset.   Maurice had served with the Dorset (Queen's Own) Yeomanry as a Private (Service No. 1560).  He later became part of the Corps of Hussars (Service No. 230801).  It is not known in which theatre of war he served but on his discharged on 22 Mar 1919 was awarded the Victory and British War Medals.  He had married Ellen Bird in the Mere, Wiltshire, Registry District in 1918.  The 1921 Census and the 1939 Register shows him living with his brothers, Alec and Edgar, at Homestalls Farm, Norton Ferris, Kilmington, Wiltshire, all involved in running the farm. Maurice had remained in Norton Ferris at the time of the 1939 Register working as a Dairy Farmer.   He died at Clink Farm, Clink, Somerset, on 29 Mar 1947.    His brothers, Edgar Bartlett and Alec Bartlett, also both served in the conflict.

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Frederick Robert Jenkins was born in Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 18 May 1899 the son of Henry J. Jenkins and Ellen Jenkins (nee Coombs).  He lived his early life at Smith's Hole, Fontmell Magna.  According to the Fontmell Magna Roll of Honour he served with the Dorsetshire Regiment though a later record shows him transferred to the Machine Gun Corps as a Private (Service No. 137878). On his discharge on 8 Mar 1919 he was awarded the Victory and British War Medals. The 1921 Census shows him back living with his parents in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, working as a Farm Carter.   His marriage to Evelyn Mary Whitmarsh was recorded at the Blandford, Dorset, Registry in 1922.  By the time of the 1939 Register he had moved to 26 Langton Road, Blandford, Dorset, working as a Driver of a Commercial Goods Vehicle.  He died in Blandford, Dorset, on 25 Feb 1984. His name also appears on the Fontmell Magna Roll of Honour.

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Mary Alice Beatrice Mullins was born in Bristol on 8 Jan 1881 and her birth was registered in Shaftesbury, Dorset.  She was baptised at St. Rumbold's Church, Cann, Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 27 Jan 1881 the daughter of Stephen Richard Mullins and his second wife, Mary Emma Mullins (nee Pooley).  She lived all her early life in Briscombe Lane, Cann, Shaftesbury.  At some point in WW1 she was working as a waitress at a Royal Flying Corps base and was registered as an absent voter in 1918.  By 1919 she was living once more at Brinscombe Lane, Cann.  There are no records beyond this time except for a possible death in Pancras, London, in 1958 which indicates she remained single.  Her father had died in 1916 and her mother spent her last days in the Women's Almshouses, St. James, Shaftesbury, where she died in 1931.

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Frank Leslie Whittle was born in Yetminster, Dorset, on 15 Nov 1892 the son of John Robert Whittle and Hester Ada Whittle (nee Bord).  He lived his early life in Yetminster and later at Manor Farm, Norton sub Hamdon, Somerset.  He had enlisted and joined the Dorset (Queen's Own) Yeomanry as a Private (Service No. 857).  He later transferred to the Corps of Hussars (Service No. 230232) and rose to the rank of Corporal.  Whilst serving in the Egyptian region from 22 Apr 1915 he had been awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty with courage and initiative in a war zone.  He was eventually discharged on 25 Mar 1919 and further awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1915 Star.  The Absent Voters List shows his address as North Wootton, Dorset, but by the Electoral Roll of 1920 (and the 1921 Census) he was living at The Dairy, Iwerne Minster, Dorset, working as a Dairy Manager and for this reason his name was added to a Roll of Honour at Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, Dorset.  According to family records he had married Cecily Chatfield Taylor who came from Yorkshire. A marriage record in Sherborne, Dorset, gives the year of marriage as 1922. By the 1939 Register he was living at Manor Farm, Wokingham, Berkshire, described as a Farmer and ARP Warden.   His death was recorded at Eversley, Hampshire, on 4 Aug 1959.