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Military Service before 1914
Name
Rank & Number
Regiment
Served

Benjamin Alfred Gevaux, 1885-1961

Bugler
 
Royal Marines Light Infantry 1901-05
Salonika, Greece

Joseph Alfred John Gevaux, b.1873

Private - Marine Sharpshooter

Royal Marines Light Infantry 1892-98

Bermuda, West Indies

Henry John Gevaux, 1875-1925

Rifleman
 
1st Battalion Rifle Brigade 1901-02

2nd Boar War (saw action in Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Tugela Heights, Releif of Ladysmith & Lang's Nek)

     

Military Service during the First World War, 1914-1918

Name
Rank & Number
Regiment
Served
Alfred Gevaux, b.1884
Private (26462)
Grenadier Guards Reserve Battalion
Alfred Gevaux, 1886-1961
Private (18678)
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Benjamin Alfred Gevaux, 1885-1961
Private (10271)
Royal Berkshire Regiment

Western Front - France

later Private (393711)
Labour Corps

Western Front - France

Edwin Frederick Gevaux, 1886-1975
Acting Corporal (8247)
2nd Battalion - Essex Regiment
awarded Clasp & Roses
Ernest Walter Gevaux, 1895-1874
Acting Corporal (S/19253)
Rifle Brigade
Acting Corporal (76204)
Devonshire Regiment
Frederick Henry Gevaux, 1889-1951
Sapper (86843)
Royal Engineers
Egypt (1915)
Frederick Thomas Gevaux, 1882-1933
Private (18294)
Essex Regiment
later Private (TR/10/36111)
24th Training Reserve Battalion - Middlesex Regt.
George Gevaux, 1891-1965
Gunner (153294)
Royal Garrison Artillery
John William Gevaux, 1899-1969
Private (52720)
East Yorkshire Regiment
Joseph Alfred J. Gevaux, 1898-1981
Driver (263952)
Royal Horse Artillery

Joseph William Gevaux, 1887-1917

Private (5405), later (611937)
 
19th Battalion - London Regt.

Western Front - France (killed in action 12.7.1917, 3rd Battle of Ypres) buried in Woods Cemetery, Zillebeke, Belgium

Robert Charles Gevaux, 1891-1962
Driver (93879)
Royal Field Artillery
William Francis Gevaux, 1895-1966
Private
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Military Service during the Second World War, 1938-1945
Name
Rank & Number
Regiment
Served
Albert Debert Gevaux, 1904-1990
Sergeant
Royal Scots Fusiliers
Alfred Roger Gevaux, 1913-1986

Private

TP Coy, 5th Australian Division
New Guinea 1942-45
Kenneth John Gevaux, 1923-1989

Rifleman

9th (Tower Hamlets Rifles) Battalion, Rifle Brigade
Egypt & Italy, later PoW in Stalag VIIa at Moosburg an der Isar, Bavaria, Germany.
Military Service since 1945
Name
Rank & Number
Regiment
Served
Henry John Gevaux
Craftsman
L.A.D. REME
Palestine 1947-48
Kenneth John Gevaux, 1923-1989
Gunner
Royal Artillery
England
William G. Gevaux, b.1938
Flight Lieutenant
213 Squadron, Royal Air Force 1956-1960
West Germany

 

 

 

Source: TNA, WO 372/7 - Medal Card Collection & testimony from descendants.

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