Cecil Kirton (1899 - 1952)
enlisted 10th Dec 1917, 7th Batt, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regt, Pte 98824.  Transferred 2/1st Battalion of the Lincs Yeomanry May 1918.  Then transferred 6th Batt Lincolnshire Regt Nov 1918, in France Pte 25079. Duties included supervision of PoW working parties, attached to the 216th PoW Company.
Jan 1920 - posted to 895th Area Employment Company, Labour Corps.

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Edward Kirton (1894 - 1971) enlisted 12th Feb 1916.  Edward was posted to the Training Reserve in January 1917 and trained with the Army Service Corps at Grove Park in Lewisham before being posted to the Machine Gun Corps.

Edward was injured at Nieuport on 5th November 1917.  His right leg was so badly damaged by a gunshot wound that he was in hospital for about a year.  The leg had to be amputated at the knee.

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William Johnson (1888 - ?)

William was posted as Sapper 5401 to 2nd Field Company, Canadian Engineers.  Wounded in May 1915 and May 1917, William was awarded a Military Medal and bar.

William obtained a commission in August 1918 and at the end of that month he was appointed Temporary Lieutenant. In October 1918 he was posted to 2nd Tramway Company of the Canadian Engineers.

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Ernest Johnson (1895 - 1934) enlisted by November 1914 and was posted to Winchester to join the 11th Battalion of the Rifle Brigade as Private S/5957. This battalion had been formed just two months earlier as part of Kitchener’s Second New Army.

On 8th January 1915 Ernest was admitted to Connaught Hospital in Aldershot with rheumatism; he was discharged from the army on 26th March 1915 due to ill-health.

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Long Bennington and the Great War – Richard Hunt

Richard was mobilised for the RAF on 24th June 1918 and on 7th July he was posted to No. 1 Balloon Training Wing. At the end of the war Richard was transferred to G Class Reserve on 7th February 1919. G Class Reserve was disbanded on 30th April 1920 and all the airmen in the class were deemed to have been discharged.

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William Hunt (1881 - 1961) attested 7th December 1915. A Grantham Journal report suggests that William was exempt from military service as he was one of the council's two main roadmen, he was not mobilised until 9th September 1918 when he joined ‘A’ Corps of the Road and Quarry Troops, RE, Sapper WR43927. But the war was nearly over and William was transferred to British Army Reserve on 18th February 1919.

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William Henry Hubbard (1895 - 1980) Bristol Division of the Royal Naval Reserve; posted on 15th June 1917 to HMS Patia which was sunk on 13th June 1918 in the Bristol Channel; seven of her crew were lost but William survived.

Promoted to Able Seaman and posted on 25th July 1918 to HMS Renown.  HMS Renown was present at the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow on 21 November 1918.

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Ernest Hubbard (1889 - 1973), North Staffordshire Regiment, Private 52466.  

Before the end of the war Ernest had been promoted to Acting Corporal which suggests that he may have seen some active service; however, as Ernest was not awarded any medals, he is likely to have been in a theatre of war for less than the 28 days required to have been eligible.

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