Pte 202844 Loammi Farey

• Age: 30
• From: London
• Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Btn
• K.I.A Thursday 18th April 1918
• Commemorated at: Bailleul Cc Ext
  Panel Ref: III.G.15

PRIVATE LOAMMI FAREY – 202844 –  19TH  BATTALION KING'S LIVERPOOL REGIMENT - KILLED IN ACTION – 18/4/1918 AGED 30.

Loammi was born on 08th May 1887 in Chelsea, London and was baptised on the 07th August 1887 at Holy Trinity, Chelsea. He was the son of Samuel and Sarah Lavinia Farey (Nee James). Samuel Farey and Sarah Lavinia James were married on 03rd August 1886 at the Parish Church, Guiting Power, Gloucestershire. He was agde 26 and a coachman of Chelsea and the son of Samuel Farey an Innkeeper. Sarah was aged 28 and a domestic servant of Guiting Power and the daughter of Loammi James a labourer.  Their witnesses were David James and Isabella Hamblett.  Bride and Groom and witnesses all signed the register.

1891 Census – 245 Pavilion Road, Chelsea North Samuel Farey – 31, Sarah L Farey – 32, with children Loammi – 3, and Algar – 2.

1901 Census – The Grange Stables, Beneden, Cranbrook, Kent ( The home of Lord & Lady Medway – The Hardy family who were residing at The Grange). Loammi Farey age 14 (Domestic Hall Boy) a Lodger -  residing with Henry G Robinson, (Domestic Coach Man)  his wife Martha and their daughter Muriel.

1911 Census – Seighford Hall, Stafford Loammi Fairey – age 23 – Servant (Footman) – single – (Born London,  Middlesex) - residing with William Warrington Dobson (Chairman of a Brewery Company) 1901 Census for Parents – 8 New Cottages, Birdinbury, Warwickshire Samuel and Sarah L with children Algar, Edith M, Arthur J, Frances E and Albert E. 1911 Census for Parents – 27 Ennismore Gardens Mews, S.W. London Samuel and Sarah L with children Algar, Edith May and Albert Edward His siblings were Algar, Edith May, Arthur James, Frances Eleanor and Albert Edward.

Loammi Farey married Ethel Jane Morley 05th April 1915 at St Pauls, Kirkdale, Liverpool they were both living in St Johns Road, Kirkdale and the witnesses were Algar Farey and Doris Morley.   They had a daughter Edith M Farey born in 1916 September quarter. 

Loammi was serving with the 19th Battalion of The King's Liverpool Regiment as Private 202844 when he was killed in action on 18th April 1918. 

The Battalion diary entry for the day reveals that 10 Other Ranks were killed during heavy shelling of the area.  

18^th April 1918

No aggressive action on either side. The activity being confined to artillery. The French had come up in great force and  assisted our artillery with the famous “75s”. The Battn came under heavy shell fire at one period. 10 O.R. being killed and 3 wounded.

The weather, which up to this time had been quite good, turned and snow, rain and hail fell.

Loammi was one of the 10 Other Ranks referred to in the diary.

He now rests at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extnesion in France.

Bailleul was occupied on 14 October 1914 by the 19th Brigade and the 4th Division. It became an important railhead, air depot and hospital centre, with the 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 11th, 53rd, 1st Canadian and 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Stations quartered in it for considerable periods. It was a Corps headquarters until July 1917, when it was severely bombed and shelled, and after the Battle of Bailleul (13-15 April 1918), it fell into German hands and was not retaken until 30 August 1918.

The earliest Commonwealth burials at Bailleul were made at the east end of the communal cemetery and in April 1915, when the space available had been filled, the extension was opened on the east side of the cemetery. The extension was used until April 1918, and again in September, and after the Armistice graves were brought in from the neighbouring battlefields.

BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION contains 4,403 Commonwealth burials of the First World War; 11 of the graves made in April 1918 were destroyed by shell fire and are represented by special memorials. There are also 17 British burials of the Second World War (all 1940) and 154 German burials from both wars (10 of which are Second World War).

During the Second World War the cemetery suffered major bomb damage that necessitated the replacement of nearly 200 headstones after the war.

Both the Commonwealth plot in the communal cemetery and the extension were designed by Sir Herbert Baker.

He was reported killed in the Weekly Casualty List 11th June 1918 - Farey 202844 L. (Bootle);

Soldiers Effects and Pension to widow Ethel Jane and child Edith May

His widow Ethel J Farey was the NOK on the UK Army Register of Effects.

She re-married in 1939 to William R Maunder at St John the Evangelist, Knotty Ash, Liverpool.

1939 records show – 34 Hillcrest Road, Crosby William R Maunder born 12th May 1893, Ethel Jane Maunder born 13th February 1891 and Edith M Farey born 09th June 1916. Edith married Thomas H. Pearce in 1948 in South Sefton Registration district and it appears that they had three children David in 1948 in Crosby, Susan E in 1950 in Liverpool North and John in 1958 in Liverpool South

His brother ARTHUR JAMES FAREY also died in WW1.  He was Gunner 42738 Royal Garrison Artillery and was born in 1894, he died of wounds on 05th May 1917 and his residence was Towcester, Northants.  He is buried at St Sever Cemetery. His father Samuel was his NOK on the UK Army Register of Effects.

ALGER FAREY was married on  04th June 1916 to Rose Ada Loveys at Emmanuel West, Dulwich, Lambeth. He was aged 28 and a Police Constable and his father shown as Samuel Farey – Licensee.  Rose was aged 28 and her father was James Isaac Loveys a Builder.  They both resided at 26 Chancellor Road in West Dulwich.  A tree on Ancestry gives them having 2 sons and a daughter.  One of whom was Arthur Leonard Farey baptised 01st July 1917 in London, shortly after Alger's death. 

Information and photograph kindly provided by Laommi’s granddaughter Susan.

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