Randall family members who served in World War 1

Randall family members who served in the Great War

One member of the family lost his life while serving in the armed forces and a further eight saw active service in World War 1.

The dates shown are often birth or baptism dates from our database, not necessarily those shown on service records, and parishes shown are parish of birth, where known, not the parish in which individuals were living when they joined up.

Notes on our list, abbreviations used etc

• Mervyn Gregory Randall MC (1897-1918) son of Charles Walter and Ellen Randall, of St Saviour, Second Lieutenant, North Staffordshire Regiment, killed in action at Bligny Wood Awarded Military Cross "for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in rallying and taking forward 800 yards a mixed crowd of men of all battalions to a position from which he kept back the enemy until ordered to withdraw, Again he displayed great gallantry in holding the forward edge of a village even after the enemy had got through on his flank and was in the village behind him".
• Alan Coulson Randall (1893- ) (St H) son of Joseph Henry and Sophie Elizabeth, Private, RASC
• Doreen Randall (1891- ) (St H) daughter of Charles Walter and Ellen Gregory, British Red Cross
• Henry Aubin Randall (1884- ) (St H) son of William Albert and Emma Jane Aubin, Major, RGA, OV, ex-Militia,
• Henry Osmont Randall (1888- ) (St H) son of Joseph Henry and Sophie Elizabeth, Private RAMC
• Lawrence Binet Randall (1897-1964) (St H) son of Joseph Henry and Sophie Elizabeth, ex-Militia, Rifleman, Royal Irish Rifles, then 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Marie Louise Mansell Randall, British Red Cross
• Maurice Hawkings Randall (1891- ) (St H) son of Joseph Henry and Sophie Elizabeth, Lieutenant Canadian Army Pay Corps
• Owen Charles Randall (1897- ) (St H) son of Charles Walter and Ellen Gregory, Private, Dorset Regiment