Warrant Officers, Staff Sergeants, and Sergeants, 2/4th battalion The Buffs, all from Dover
Top Row: Sgt W H Dyer, Sgt F Carter, Sgt J Colthup, Sgt D B Borrett, Sgt J J McKeen, Sgt J J S Gillespie,
Sgt F Oates, Sgt W A H Marsh
Middle Row: CQMS A Wisdom, CSM J W Buckley, RSM T Holloway, CSM W J Byrne, Sgt W Kemp
Bottom Row: Sgt B Nolan, Sgt G Hogben, Sgt F Buzan, Sgt N V Sutton, Sgt A Bourner

Sgt John Henry Colthup lived at River and became a repatriated POW. Married, he lived at Tonbridge. He was captured 21 March 1918, and demobbed 16 March 1919, when he lived at 99 Quarry Hill, Tonbridge

Sgt Daniel Bernard Borett was a clerk, from Charlton, Dover, born in 1892 and aged 22 when he enlisted. He served in the East Lancs Regiment and in The Buffs, under numbers 208892 and 2972, Corporal 2/4, He lived at 8 Granville Street when he was demobbed on 4 March 1919, and his next-of-kin, his father, Bernard George Borrett, at 39(?) Balfour Road, Dover

Photo of Warrant Officers published in Dover Express and East Kent News on Friday 22 October 1915, from collection of David Borrett

Harry Beck sent this postcard to his sweetheart, Elsie Victoria Brown, who lived at 7 George Street, Buckland, Dover.

It reads, "Dear Elsie, I have arrived in France and I will write you a letter as soon as I get settled down. Yours sincerely, Harry".

Harry arrived home safely from the Front, and the couple married on Christmas Day 1923 at St Andrew's Church, Buckland, Dover. The son of Arthur and Ruth Beck from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, Harry was then a Corporal in the Worcestershire Regiment. Walter, his brother, serving in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was his best man. Miss Brown wore a crepe de chine ivory dress and was attended by three bridesmaids. The couple took their honeymoon in Worcestershire after a reception at River Hall.

Although he had survived the Great War, Harry Beck died aged 38 on 8 September 1926 at the Millbank Military Hospital, London, "after much suffering". He was by then a Sergeant after 20 years and 10 months service; he had begun his military career with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment as number 8086, then became 75189 with the Worcestershire Regiment, and finally 5242637. He was buried at St Andrew's on 13 September. Mrs Beck probably died in 1980, having been born on 13 March 1897.

Note: Harry's mother died in 1894 at the age of 28. His father remarried the same year to Harriet Hilliard.

Henry Boucher Coombe, the son of Ernest Boucher Coombe, on the town memorial, was born in July 1900. In civilian life a baker, he was deemed to have enlisted in Canterbury on 19 July 1918, and was called for service on 27 July 1918. He would have preferred the Army Service Corps or the Royal Field Artillery, but was sent to the 51st battalion of the Rifle Brigade, as 62162. He was posted on 31 August 1918, and discharged on 3 April 1920.

His next of kin was his brother, Harold Fred, and then his foster mother, Mrs Verrier, of 24 Stone Hall, Lydden, and later 8 Heathfield Avenue, Dover. . .

Charles William Cloke. He died after a short illness on Sunday 19 June 1921 at 2 Seaview Terrace, Bunker's Hill. He was 37, and the husband of Mabel Cloke, who later became Mrs Jarvis. He was buried in 3J 26 at Charlton on 25th June. 

He had served throughout the Great War in the Machine Gun Corps, and had also served in The Buffs.

"Goodnight dear, until the day break. At rest" - inscription on his headstone.