Families that will lose 4 and 5 sons in the Great War
by greatwarliveslost
Five sons of William and Julia Annie. Souls, of Great Barrington, Oxford
Five sons of the Reverend Prince William Thomas Beechey and Amy Beechey of 197 Wragby Rd, Lincoln Rector of Friesthorpe
Five sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Stewart, of Leeds
Five sons of the late Alexander and Elizabeth Cranston of St Martin’s Gate Haddington East Lothian
Five sons of the late Lewis and Ada Jarvis of Bedford
Five sons of James and Margaret Munn of Clydebank
Five sons of Christiana Charlotte and the late John Robert Stooke of Carlby, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Five sons of Sergeant William Prior (a sixth son was killed on service in 1912)
Five sons of ‘Sir’ Thomas Richardson
Four sons of W and C George of South Creake Fakenham Norfolk (a fifth will be killed in the Second World War
Four sons of Arthur French the 4th Baron de Freyne of Coolavin
Four sons of Andrew and Margaret Mochrie of Kilbirnie, Ayrshire (three of whom were killed on 25 September 1915) serving in different Regiments and all commemorated on the Loos Memorial
Four sons of ‘the Honorable’ Mrs. Maxwell-Stuart of Dorset
Four sons of Mr. and Mrs. James Catto, of 101, South St., Elgin
Four sons of Captain and Mrs. Frederick C Loder-Symonds of Hilton Manor Faringdon
Four sons of John and Elizabeth Haynes of Birmingham
Four sons of Mathida S C Bruback Forest Hill, London
Four sons of James and Elizabeth Ellis of Leominster
Four sons of the Reverend and Mrs. Charles Henry James Vicar of Haigh
Four sons of the Reverend and Mrs. Francis Henry and Amy Baring
Four sons of Truman and Agnes Brighton of Launceston, Cornwall
Four sons of James and Elizabeth Lynn of Mousetown, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone
Four sons of Samuel Joseph and Kate Garraway
Four sons of Charles Gleed
Four sons of Major William De Courcy Stretton of Park Hill House
Four sons of Thomas and Jemina Clayton of Hawick Roxburghshire
Four sons of William Dalby Pipe and Emma Starland
Four sons of Hugh Fraser of Holyrood Terrace Edinburgh
Four sons of John and Jane Wilkins Vine Cottage Clewer
Four sons of Agnes Collins Waterford
Four sons of Samuel and Fanny Browning East Ham, London
Four sons of Thomas and Mary Ann Burgess of Sunbury Middlesex
Four sons of Ernest and Mary Clarke of Railway Villas, Herts.
Four sons of Charles and Emma Cooke of London
Four sons of David and Janet McClelland of Danevale Crossing
Four sons of Mrs Susan Neil of 2 Kinnaird Street, Dundee
Four sons of Mrs. Eva Zimmerman, of 34, Kensington Gardens, Balsall Heath Rd., Birmingham
Four sons of Patrick and Mary Hartnett, of Deloraine, Tasmania.
Four sons of Mrs. A N Quinn of Lower Sydenham
Four sons of Reverend C. H. and Emily James, of Epperstone Rectory, Nottingham. Born Haigh, Wigan
Four sons of Alexander and Helen Allan Farquharson, of Cross Roads Cottage, Knockando, Morayshire
Four sons of Alexander and Ann Jane Farquhar, of 47, Warrington St., Blackburn
Four sons of Elizabeth Beatham of Glassonby, Cumberland
Four sons of William and Mary Ellen Waterfall, of 172, Over Lane, Belper, Derby
Four sons of Nora Kay Anderson, of “Strathairley” Largo, Fife, and the late W. J. Anderson CBE
Four sons of James and Mary McCheyne of New Galloway
Four sons of Thomas and Sarah McGee of Stuntney, Ely Cambridgeshire
Four sons of Alfred and Constance Rebecca Bradford of 70 Beach Road Eastbourne
Four sons of the late John and Mary Twynam of Droxford
Four sons of John Joseph and Beatrice Bell of Tyne House Brocklesby Road South Norwood London
Four sons of James Wyld and Primrose Marianne Roose Brown of Eastrop Grange Highworth Wilts
Four sons of William Henry and Thirza Gratton of Landkey Newland Barnstaple Devon
Four sons of Walter and Elizabeth Annie Ware of Havant Road Cosham Hants
Four sons of Francis and Mary Taylor, of Norton Cottage, Kincardine-O’Neil, Aberdeenshire
Four sons of the late Hely-Hutchinson and Mrs. E F Almond
Four sons of James and Agnes Doublas of Selkirk
Four sons of Peter and Elspet Tocher of Aberdeen
Four sons of Anthony and Juliet Mary Christophers
Four sons of Son of Henry and Mary A Simpson of Whitehill, Winchcomb
Four sons of Anne and Henry Brazier of Broughton Green, Hanbury
Four sons of Charles and Emma Barlow of Madingley Cambridgeshire
Four sons of James and Susannah Harman of Watcombe Road Watlington Oxon
Four sons of Donald MacLeod of Stornoway Ross-Shire
Four sons of John Henry and Harriet Williams of Lydd, Kent
Four sons of William and Mary Reid of Woodside Disblaire
Three sons of Canon William Shuckforth Grigson who will lose two more sons in the Second World War