Military, Diplomatic, Court and Civil Services

of the Stepney & Vaughan Families

Oliver Cromwell – Lord Protector 1653-58

Military Men

Napoleon Bonaparte & the Heir to the Stepney Estate

Background to the Boer War

The Battle of Carter’s Ridge – 1899

Memorial to Corporal Richard Howell

War Memorials, South African War, 1899-1900

Obituary – William Bythway

Sacrifice of the Roderick Family

Roll of Honour – Capt. Hume Buckley Roderick

The Rodericks Lost in Battle

Parish Church, 1914-18

Lance Corporal William Rees, Welch Regt.

Thine Alone . . . 1914

Sergeant William Harrison, Machine Gunner WWI

Welsh Soldier serving in the Burma Campaign

Army Training Camp, 1946

The War Graves Commission

War Memorials

Town Hall, 1914-18 & 1939-45

Sergeant William Harrison

Machine Gunner in the Welch Regiment, First World War

William Harrison was born about 1892 and is typical of those who served in the Great War. He was mentioned in Despatches on three occasions and survived the hostilities.

He married Emily Louisa Erwood (b.1889) on 24 December 1911 and together they raised four children. He joined the National Gallery in London in 1923 when aged 31 and at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 was transferred to North Wales where he looked after the Nation’s treasures which were stored in the mines there.

After the War he returned to the Gallery in London where he remained for the rest of his working life.