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Friday, September 17, 1915

Ventnor Men in Action.

Additional names of missing Ventnor men in the Dardanelles are those of Rifleman C.R. King, son of Mrs. T. King, 7, Webster Cottages, P. Gilbert, son of Mrs. Gilbert, Albert Street, and Harvey, son of Lance-Corporal and Mrs. Harvey, of 7 Richmond Terrace. Harvey's mother has received official information that her son is reported from Alexandria as missing. Rifleman King was corporal up to the time of leaving Watford. It is rumoured that Rifleman Gilbert has been taken to hospital wounded, but no definite details are to hand. Mrs. T. King would be much obliged for any information concerning her son, who was in B Company 1/8th Hants.

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Friday, November 5, 1915 Page 5

Rifleman W. Hickens, 1/8 Hants Regiment, of Ventnor, has come home wounded from the Dardanelles and is in a Southern hospital. We regret to hear that no news can be obtained of Riflemen P. Gilbert and C.R. King, of Ventnor, who were reported missing after the landing and fighting at the Dardanelles.

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Friday, March 3, 1916 Page 1

Mrs. King, of 7, Market Street, has now received official intimation of the death in action of her son, Pte. C.R. King, 1/8th Battalion, Hants Regiment, which occurred on August 13th, 1915, in the course of the landing at Gallipoli. It will be remembered that he was reported missing at the time. Pte. King was a well known and much liked Ventnor lad. He was an old National School boy, and afterwards, on winning a scholarship, attended the Secondary School at Sandown for three years. He was a member of the St. Catherine's Choir for several years. The greatest sympathy is expressed with his mother, who has naturally been living under considerable strain since the news came some months ago that her son was missing. Three other of her sons are on active service, one being shut up with the Island Howitzers at Kut-el-Amara. Pte. King was only 18 years of age.

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Friday, March 10, 1916 Page 4

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
MRS. KING, 7, Market Street, wishes to thank many friends in all parts of the Island for letters of kindly sympathy in her sad bereavement.

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Friday, June 2, 1916 Page 2

Mrs. T. King, jun., 2, York Villas, Ventnor, has received information that her husband, Driver T. King, of the 1/5th Hants, Wessex Brigade, R.F.A., is a prisoner of the Turks.

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Friday, August 18, 1916 Page 5

IN MEMORIAM
KING. - In loving memory of Rifleman C.R. (Roy) King, who was killed in action at the Dardanelles, August 13th, 1915.

Thou art gone from my arms, oh, my darling,
And if I murmur thy name with a sigh,
Yet I feel that in heaven, oh, my darling,
I shall call thee my own by and by.

- A token of love, from his mother.

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Friday, February 23, 1917 Page 1

Mrs. T. King, of York Villas, advised her husband, Driver T. King, who is a prisoner of war in Turkey, of the despatch of two Christmas parcels containing food and comfort. The letter was returned to her this week, endorsed "Prisoner not known."

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Friday, April 20, 1917 Page 5

Intelligence has now been received - and confirms views which were feared though not expressed - of the death of Driver Tom King, husband of Mrs. King, York Villas, and son of Mrs. T. King, of Ventnor. The news came from the Swiss Red Cross Society that Driver King died of enteric in August last. This is the second son Mrs. King has lost in the war, her youngest son, Corporal Roy King, falling in the Dardanelles Campaign. Mrs. King's immediate family relatives have also received bereavements during the war.

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Friday, August 24, 1917 Page 2

IN MEMORIAM
In ever loving-memory of my dear boys, Driver Tom King, who was killed at Kut, August, 1916, and Rifleman Roy King, killed at the Dardanelles, August 1915. - From their sorrowing mother.

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Friday, August 23, 1918 Page 2

IN MEMORIAM
KING. - In ever-loving memory of my dear husband, Driver T. King, 1/5th Hants (Howitzer) Battery, who died of enteritis in the hands of the Turks after the fall of Kut, August 22nd, 1916. "Ever in my thoughts." - From his dear wife and girls.

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Friday, August 30, 1918 Page 2

IN MEMORIAM
KING. - In loving memory of my dear boys, Tom and Roy, who made the great sacrifice, Roy at Gallipoli, August, 1915, Tom after the fall of Kut. At Rest. From the sorrowing mother, Mrs. King, Ventnor.

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Friday, August 22, 1919 Page 2

IN MEMORIAM
KING. - In ever loving memory of my dear sons, Tom and Roy, who both lost their lives in the great war. - From their mother.