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Albert PRING (b. ??-??) Army Private, Royal Army Service Corps - Service No; MS/3863 – Deployed; 6th Oct 1914 – Medals; 1914-1018 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1914 Star.

 

Albert PRING (b. ??-??) Army Private, Royal Regiment of Artillery – Service No; 1581125 –

Attested; 1939 – Medals; ??.

 

Albert Arthur PRING  Army Private, The Royal Regiment of Artillery – Service No; 1698425- Enlisted 1940 – Wife Marjorie PRING (nee; MURRELLS ), (b. 14 Aug 1917 West Thurrock, Essex) – Father; John Frederick PRING (b. 1868 Woolwich, London) Contractors Carman, Lewisham, London (1901) & (1911).

 

Albert E PRING (b. 1896 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire) Army Private, Machine Gun Corps,

Service No; 29412 – Enlisted; 17 Nov 1916, Discharged; 1 Jan 1918 – Medals; 1914-1018 British Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, Silver War Badge No; 321983 dated; 21 Feb 1918 – Father; Edwin Ford PRING (b. 1859 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Baker, Bristol, Gloucestershire (1881) to (1901).

 

Albert Edward PRING (b. ?? ??) Army Private, Middlesex Regiment, Duke of Cambridge’s Own,  – Service No’s; 2788 & 200640 – Deployed to France 25th Jul 1915 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star.

 

Albert George PRING (b. 9 May 1898 Taunton, Somerset) Army Private, West Yorkshire Regiment – Service No. 56514 – Medals; 1914-1918 British Defence Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Doris PRING (nee; JUBB) (b. 20 Jun 1897 Sheffield. Yorkshire) – Father; George Edward PRING (b. 1874 Taunton, Somerset) Printer Compositor, Taunton, Somerset (1901) & Ecclesall, Yorkshire (1911).

 

Albert George PRING (b 18?? believed to have been born; Newbridge, Monmouthshire) Army Private, 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment, Service No; 36020, Enlisted; Caerphilly – formerly, South Wales Borderers, Service No; 18487 – KIA (Killed in Action) 2nd Oct 1915, Flanders, France, buried, Loos Memorial Cemetery, France – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star.

 

Albert Henry PRING (b.1902 Lewisham, London) Army Private, 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment  - Service No;  ??- Deployed to India, Dalhousie, Queen’s & Royal Barracks, Fort William, Calcutta (1921 Census) – Father; Ernest PRING (b. 28 Jan 1886 Lewisham, London).

 

Albert J. PRING (b. ?? - ??) Army Private; Hertfordshire Regiment - Service No; 41782, transferred to the Royal West Kent Regiment – Service No; L/13410 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal.

 

Albert James PRING (b. 1899 Tunbridge Wells, Kent) Army Private, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, Service No; ?? – Deployed to India,  Barrackpur &, Jalapohar, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India (1921) -  Wife; Elsie Mildred PRING (nee; WRATTEN) (b. 6 Feb 1902 Maidstone. Kent ) - Father; James PRING (b. 1869 Frant, Sussex) – Farm Labourer, Southborough, Kent (1911).

 

Albert Robert PRING (b. 6 Oct 1876 Pitminster, Somerset) Army Private, 6th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry – Service No; 17653 - Deployed; 3 Sep 1915, then transferred to Labour Corps  - Service No; 477224 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Wife; Eliza Georgina PRING (nee; MATRAVERS) (b. 1874 Ilton, Somerset) – Father; Francis PRING (b. 6 Aug 1848 Sheldon, Devon) Shoe & Boot Maker, Taunton, Somerset (1881) to (1911).

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Albert William PRING (b. 6 Jul 1921 Tonbridge, Kent) Army Private, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment – Service No; 634648 – POW Captured 20th May 1940 France, POW Prisoner No; 20711 - Prison Camp; Stalag XXA, Torun, in German Occupied Poland – Father; Thomas William PRING (b.4 Oct 1872 Tunbridge Wells Kent) Army Private, Army Service Corps -  Service No. 13356, transferred to; 726th Company, Labour Corps, 1 Aug 1917 – Service No; 305526 – Gardener, Tunbridge Wells, Kent (1911).

 

Alec PRING (b. 1898 East Preston, Sussex ) Army Lieutenant, Commissioned 12th  Jan 1917,  Royal Field Artillery – Father; Francis George PRING (b. 2 Mar 1853 Whimple, Devon) Farmer, Calceto Farm Lyminster, Sussex (1901) (1911).

 

Alexander PRING (b.1883 Newport, Monmouthshire) Army Sergeant, South Wales Borderer’s – Service No; 13792 [ Attested; 1914, Age 31yrs. @ Newport, Monmouthshire  – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – 1915 Star – Wife; Nellie PRING (nee; SIMPSON) (b. 15 May 1891 Colchester, Essex) – Father; Robert PRING (b. 1855 Newport, Monmouthshire) Dock Labourer, Newport, Monmouthshire (1891).

 

Alexander PRING (b. 18 Jun 1890 Frant, Sussex) Army Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery – Service No; 179064 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal,. 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Sarah PRING (nee; SWAN) (b. 1 Aug 1885 Tunbridge Wells Kent) – Father; Henry PRING (b. 1855 Tunbridge Wells, Kent) Agriculture Labourer, (1871) to (1901).

 

Alfred PRING (b. ???) Army Private. Royal Munster Fusiliers – Service No’s; 3/1985 & 3/5985 – Enlisted; 7 Sep 1914 – (WIA) Wounded in Action - Discharged 17 Aug 1917 No longer Fit for War Service due to wounds – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, Silver War Badge; No; 229168 dated; 24 Aug 1917.

 

Alfred PRING (b.   ????) Army, Royal Engineers _ Service No; 5181781 – Discharged; 31st  Dec 1948 – Wife; Alice PRING of ‘The Hermitage’, 111 Rodbourne Rd. Swindon, Wiltshire.,

 

Alfred PRING (b. 1838 Hemyock, Devon) Army Corporal, 56th Regiment of Foot, West Essex Regiment -  Attested; 7th Sep 1857, Age 19yrs. Service No; 34 – Deployed; East Indies 7yrs. – Discharged;  5th Feb 1869 Waterford – Father; James PRING (b. 22 May 1796 Hemyock, Devon) Agriculture Labourer, Henmyock, Devon (1841) & (1851).

 

Alfred PRING (b. 1897 ??) Army Lance Corporal, 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment – Service No’s; 5149 & 242560 – Enlisted; 6th Nov 1916 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, Silver War Badge No; B252486, Dated; 1st  Aug 1919 – Discharged; 5th Apr 1919.

 

Alfred PRING (b. 25 Apr 1911) Army Gunner,  9th Survey Battalion, Royal Artillery, Service No; 1129108 – Casualty; Wounded in Acton (WIA)  25 Oct 1944 Expeditionary Force, Western Europe.  – Army Gunner, Hammersmith Grove, London (1939)  - Discharged; 27 Apr 1946 – Wife; Phyllis PRING (nee; JONES) (b. 24 Oct 1914).

 

Alfred George PRING (b. 1894 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Army Corporal, 4th Battalion, Queens Royal Regiment  - transferred (28th Aug 1916) to 22nd Battalion London Regiment, Re-listed; 14 May 1920 4th Battalion Queens Regiment, Territorial Force – Service No’s; 1507, 7105, 6076049 & 6888078 – Initial Attestation; 29 Apr 1912 Croydon, Surrey. Deployed France; 31 Aug 1916 to 17 Oct 1916, Wounded in Action (WIA) 11 Oct 1916, Gunshot wound, evacuated to England - Medals: 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Honourable discharge; 13 May 1925 – Wife; Susan Bertha May PRING (nee; GUNNER) (b. 6 Jun 1896 Croydon, Surrey) – Father; Frank George PRING (b. 1894 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Dyer, Croydon Surrey (1911) – Brother; Bertie Charles PRING (b. 1895 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Army Private, 2nd Battalion, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment – Service No; 6301 – Killed in Action (KIA); at Zonnebeke, Flanders.

 

Alfred John PRING (1866 Clifton, Gloucestershire ) Guardsman & Sergeant, Grenadier Guards  Service No; 377 (1886) – Attestation; 4th Aug 1886, London, Age 19yrs. Discharged; 3rd Aug 1898 - Police Constable, Bristol, Gloucestershire (1901) – Wife; Kate PRING (nee; SCOTT) (b. 29 Jan 1871 Boldre, Hampshire - Father; James PRING  (b. 2 Jun 1833 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Caretaker, Bristol Gloucestershire (1891)

 

Alfred John PRING (b. 1 Jan 1896 Barton Regis, Gloucestershire ) –Army Sergeant,  7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment – Service No’s; 1918 & 305620 – Attestation; 7 Aug 1914 - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, India General Service Medal Clasps; Afghanistan (1919) & North West Frontier – Wife. Eva Ellen PRING (nee; LAWRENCE) (b. 1904 Christchurch, Hampshire) – Father; Alfred John PRING (b. 1866 Bristol, Gloucestershire) – Guardsman, Grenadier Guards, Service No; 377 -  Police Constable, Bristol, Gloucestershire (1901).

 

Alfred Lewis PRING (b. 1919 Axminster, Devon) Army Private, Royal Engineers – Service No; 2000821 – Deployed; Germany 1945 British Army Of the Rhine, (BAOR)  formally Field Marshal Montgomery’s 21st Army Group. – Wife; Frances O PRING (nee; FOXWELL) (b.1924 Axminster, Devon) – Father; Dan PRING (b. 7 Nov 1885 Harpford, Devon Ganger Railways (1939).

 

Alfred Richard William PRING (b. 1881 Greenwich, Kent) Private, 7th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers - Service No; 887 – Attestation; 27 Oct 1899, Attested, 1900 Royal Marines,

 Royal Marines Barracks, Chatham, Kent (1901) - Father; Alfred PRING (b. 1856 Lambeth, London) Barge Builder, Greenwich, London (1871) (1881).  (Not Digitised).

 

Alfred Slee PRING (b. 11 May 1892 Bideford, Devon) – Army Private, Devonshire Regiment, Service No’s; 4176 & 202044 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal – Wife; Dorothea Louise PRING (nee; READ) (b. 28 Mar 1891 St. Thomas, Devon) – Father; John PRING (b. 27 May 1866 Ottery St. Mary, Devon) Railway Foreman, Heavitree, Devon (1911).

 

Alfred Thomas PRING (b. 1898 Newton Poppleford, Devon) Army Private,  8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment – Service No; 10438 – Deployed; 25 Jun 1915 - Killed In Action (KIA); 8 Oct 1915 Age 17yrs. Buried; Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal , 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star -  Father; William PRING (b. 1874 Awliscombe. Devon) Blacksmith, Newton Poppleford, Devon ( 1901).

 

Archibald PRING (??) Army Sergeant, Army Service Corps – Service No; A/308525 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal.

 

Archibald Albert (b. 1899 Tiverton, Devon) Army Private, 2nd Cyclist Battalion, Devonshire Regiment – Service No; 1478 – Attestation; 26 Oct 1914 Cullompton, Devon, Age 16yrs 6mths. Discharged to Territorial Force 21st Feb 1916 – Wife; Violet Anne Aileen PRING (nee; WINTER) (b. 8 Apr 1901 New Forest, Hampshire) – Father; John PRING (b. 1873 Cullompton, Devon) Army Private, 2nd/5th Devonshire Regiment – Service No; 3516 & 6201. 

 

Archibald Arthur PRING (b. 1872 Yeovil, Somerset) Private, Royal Fusiliers, City of London Regiment - Service No GS/103145, Joined Labour Corps, Service No; 576057 – Medals; 1914 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Emily Kate PRING (nee; PEACH) (b. 27 May 1875 Cattistock, Dorset)- Father; John PRING (b. 1813 Kingston, Somerset) Farmer, Upcott, Farm, Bishops Hull, Somersrt (1851).

 

Archie PRING (b. 1895 Pontypridd, Glamorganshire) Private, Welsh Regiment – Service No; 39801 – Enlisted; 11 Nov 1915 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, Silver War Badge No; 501964, dated; 20 Oct 1920 – Discharged; 11 Feb 1919 – Wife; Elsie PRING (nee; JEFFREY) (b. 17 Jan 1904, Wales) – Father; Albert PRING (b. 1864 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Coal Miner, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire & Newport Monmouthshire (1881) to (1921).

 

Arnold Lyddon PRING (b. 26 Apr 1878, Richmond, Surrey) Army Lieutenant, Royal Garrison Artillery -  Medals: 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Margarite Ethel PRING, (nee; STRANGE), (b.24 Mar 1884, Southsea, Hampshire) – Father; John Lyddons PRING (b. 10 May 1836 Bishops Lydeard, Somerset) Wool Merchant, Richmond. Surrey (1881) (1891).

 

Arthur PRING (b.  ??-??) Army Private, Blackheath & Woolwich Battalion, County of London  Regiment, Service No; 634417 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal.

 

Arthur PRING (b. 27 May 1900 Newton Poppleford, Devon) Army Private, 11th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment –  Service No’s; 18704  & 29639 – Attestation; 15th Jun 1915, Exeter - Deployed France; 7th Oct 1915 – Discharged; 24th May 1916,  (Kings Regulation, 392 V1a, Age) – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star –  Re-Enlisted; 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, Deployed to Kitchener Barracks,, Quetta, Baluchistan,  India (19th Jun 1921 Census)  - Wife; Margaret Harriet PRING   (nee; PHILLIPS) (b. 2 Oct 1904 New Forest, Hampshire) - NOK, Mother;  Emily PRING (nee; SELLECK) (b. 1876 Newton Poppleford, Devon, Blacksmith’s WIDOW (1911)

 

Arthur PRING (b.  23 Aug 1903 Sheffield, Yorkshire) Guardsman, Coldstream Guards, Service No; 2648832  - Attestation; 6 Nov 1920 - Discharged ; 11 Jul 1921 – NOK on Discharge; Mother; Lily WHITWORTH – Wife; Millicent PRING (nee; CREED) (b. 1904 Hunslet, Yorkshire (1923) – Father; Frank PRING (b. 1870 Belper, Derbyshire_ Steel Furnaceman (1891) &  (1901).

 

Arthur J PRING (b. ??-??) Army Private, 2nd/4thSomerset Light Infantry, Prince Albert’s  – Service No’s; 1563 & 200138 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1914-1919 Territorial Force War Medal. 

 

Arthur Lionel PRING (b. 2 Oct 1893 Farringdon, Devon) Army Private, 8th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment – Service No; 10961 - Service in France; 25th July 1915 to 30th Sept 1915 & 31st Dec 1915 to 17th Jul 1916 – Wounded in Action (15 Jul 1916 Shrapnel Wound to Back & Gunshot to Knee – Medals; 1914-1916 British War Medal, & 1914-1918 Victory Medal  & 1915 Star, Silver War Badge No; 485781 dated; 18th Aug 1920 -  Discharged from Army due to wounds 6th Sep 1917 – Wife; Emily PRING (nee; FONE) (b. 23 Oct 1898 Rockbeare, Devon) – Father; George PRING (b. 22 Feb 1870 Tiverton, Devon) Agriculture Labourer (1891) to (1911).

 

Arthur Malcolm PRING (b. 1918 Toxteth Park, Lancashire) Army Private, Army Catering Corps – Service No; 155240 – Died;  3 Aug 1944 Age 26yrs. – buried; Toxteth Park, Liverpool. -  Medals; 1939-1945 British War Medal, 1939-1945 Defence Medal – Wife; Eileen Harriett PRING (nee; BROOKS) (b. 1921 Wirksworth, Derbyshire) – Father; Edward PRING (b.24 Sep 1880 Bath, Somerset) Widow Cleaner, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, Lancashire (1901) & (1911).

 

AW PRING (b. ????) Army Private, 6th Battalion, Queens Own, Royal West Kent Regiment – Service No; 6346348 – POW; Captured 20th May 1940, France.

 

Arthur William PRING (b. 1894 Ilminster, Somerset) Army Private, 1st  & 2nd  Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, Prince Albert’s, Verne Citadel, Portland, Dorset (1911 Census) - Service No; 9114  - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, Long Service & Good Conduct Medal 1919, (LS&GC) issued in India – Discharged; 9th Jan 1920  – Wife; Lucy PRING (nee; GREADY) (bap. 29 Jul 1900 Stockland, Devon) - Father; William Gale PRING (b. 28 Oct 1855 Clyst Hydon, Devon) Insurance Agent (1881) to (1901).

 

Arthur William PRING (b. 1912 Pershore, Worcestershire d. 1941 Sudan)  Army Corporal,  1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment -  Service No; 5248109 – Killed in Action (KIA); 5 May 1941 (Age 29yrs.) Sudan, buried; Khartoum Memorial, Sudan.  – Father; William Henry PRING  (b. 1886 Sidbury, Devon) Cow Boy, Ottery St. Mary, Devon (1901).

 

Arthur William Ralph PRING (b. 1913 Rawalpindi, Bengal India) Army Major,  East Surrey Regiment, Service No; 6464518 transferred to; Manchester Regiment – Service No; 130191 – Wounded (WIA) 18 Jul 1944, Western Europe -  Father;  John Arthur PRING OBE (b. 1884 Edinburgh, Midlothian) Indian Army Captain, Royal Army Service Corps (1918).

 

Basil Crompton, PRING (b.1888 Epsom, Surrey) Army Lieutenant, 96th Company, Middlesex Regiment, Machine Gun Corps – Service No; 931- Killed in Action (KIA); 1st Jul 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.  Thiepval Memorial Cemetery, France – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal & 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Graduate Cambridge University, Trinity College (1906) - Father; Captain Frederick Arthur PRING MRCS, LRCP LSA (b. 1860 Taunton, Somerset) Surgeon, London., Surrey (1901) & (1911).

 

Benjamin PRING (b. 1780 Cardiff, Glamorganshire) Army Rifleman, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) – Attestation; 21 Apr 1804 - Medals;  Military General Service Medal  & Clasps (1793-1814), Waterloo Medal (1815) - Royal Chelsea Pensioners Hospital, Chelsea, London (1851).

 

Benjamin George Henry PRING (b. 1876 Cullompton, Devon) Sapper, Royal Engineers – Service No; 14345 – Attestation; 29 Oct 1904, Taunton, Somerset – Discharged on completion of Initial Service; 28 Oct 1910  - Re-enlisted for War Service 1914-1918, Service No’s; 190001 & 258368 - Wounded in Action (WIA), 15 May 1915 - Medals; British War Medal 1914-1918 - Victory Medal 1914-1918 -– Wife; Elizabeth Mary PRING (nee; GADD) (b. 11 Jul 1875 Bampton, Devon) – Father; Benjamin Baker PRING (b.1844 Cullompton, Devon) Railway Labourer, Cullompton, Devon (1881).

 

Bernard Vincent PRING (b. 1885 Chippenham, Wiltshire) Captain, 2nd Battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry – Medals; (i). Distinguished Service Order (DSO), awarded Levergies France 29/30 Sep 1918 (ii). Military Cross (MC) awarded, Herleville, Western Front, France 19th Aug 1918, (iii) 2nd Military Cross (MC) awarded 1st Feb. 1919. (Source; London Gazette) , 1914-1918 British War Medal & 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Father; William PRING (b. 1859 Tamerton Foliot, Devon) House Painter, Torquay, Devon (1901) & (1911).

 

Berti PRING (b.12 May 1893 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia) Australian Army Private, 14th  Battalion, Australian Imperial Force (AIF) - Service No; 3455 – KIA; died from wounds 29 Jun 1916, buried; Brewery Orchard Cemetery, Bois-Greiner France – Medals; 1914-1918 Britishh War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Father; James PRING (b. 1857 Ballarat, Victoria., Australia).

 

Berti PRING (b 8 May 1896 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery & Royal Regiment of Artillery – Attestation; 1912 Bristol, Gloucestershire, re-engaged to complete Service, Discharged; 18 Aug 1928 – Service No; 37319 & 1407717 - Medals;

1914-1916 British War Medal, & 1914-1918 Victory Medal  & 1915 Star – Father; Samuel PRING (b. 1854 Uffculme. Devon) Cabinet & Chair Maker, Bristol, Gloucestershire (1881) to (1911).

 

Bertie Charles PRING (b. 1895 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Army Private, 2nd Battalion, The Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment – Service No; 6301 – Attested: 12 Nov 1913 Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey. Killed in Action (KIA); at Zonnebeke, Flanders,  21st Oct 1914 – buried; Ypes (Menin Gate) Memorial (Note; The Regiment paid a high price in WW1 with over 8,000 KIA. - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, & 1914-1918 Victory Medal  & 1914 Star – Father; Frank George PRING (b. 1871 Bath, Somerset) Dyer, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (1891) & (1901) & Dyer, Croydon, Surrey (1911) Brother; Alfred George PRING (b. 1894 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire) Army Corporal, 4th Battalion, Queens Royal Regiment .

 

Bertram George PRING (b. 1891 Tuckton, Hampshire) Army Sergeant Transport, Army Service Corps, Service No; M29308, Barossa Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire, (1911) – Discharged; 30 Nov 1918 – Re-Enlisted 1939, Promoted to Lieutenant 19th Searchlight Royal Artillery (1939) – Wife; Mabel May PRING (nee; SHEPHERD) (b. 25 May 1891 Portsea, Hampshire) - Father; Frederick George PRING (b. 1853 Curry Rivel, Somerset) Army Guardsman, Scots Guards (1884) Service No; 6673 -  Coachman, Lymington, Hampshire (!901).

 

Bertram Henry PRING (b. 1896 Bridgwater, Somerset) Army Sapper, Royal Engineers – Service No; 1263 & 506315 – Deployed; France 1915 - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal. – Wife; Alicia Lily PRING (nee; PERRY) (b. 26 Aug 1897 Christchurch, Hampshire – d. 1950 Christchurch, Hampshire) 2nd Wife; Dorothy M PRING (nee; PERRY) (b. 26 Aug 1897 Christchurch, Hampshire) – Father; William PRING (b. 7 Aug 1842 Sheldon, Devon) Carpenter, Middlezoy, Somerset (1901), Wheelwright & Inn Keeper, Somerset Arms Inn, Middlezoy, Somerset (1911).

 

Bertram Sidney PRING (b. 1921) Army Gunner, Royal Regiment of Artillery – Attested; 1938 - Service No; 1465568 – Discharged 11 Sep 1941- Father; John Frederick PRING (b. 1861 Curry Rivel, Somerset) Tramway Motorman, Portsmouth, Hampshire (1911) & (1939).

 

Cecil PRING (b.1888 Cullompton, Devon) Army Private, 6th Battalion East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) – Service No; G/14703 – transferred from; Royal Engineers,  Service No; 205923, transferred from; Durham Light Infantry, Service No; 85550 – Killed in Action (KIA) 27 Aug 1918 – buried; Meaulte Military Cemetery, France - Wife; Mabel Ellen PRING (nee; SKOINES) (b. 1892 Exeter, Devon) – Father; James PRING (b. 1855 Kentisbeare, Devon) Carpenter, Roath, Glamorganshire (1901) & (1911).

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Cecily Mary PRING (b. 1883 Croydon, Surrey) Voluntary Aid Forewoman, Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps – Service No; 17247 - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918

Victory Medal – Father; George PRING (b. 1854 Nether Compton, Dorset) Tea Merchant, Rochford, Essex (1891) – Sister; Ursula Georgina PRING (b. 1887 Wallington, Surrey) Voluntary Aid Worker, Queen Mary’s Auxiliary Corps – Service No; 1449.

 

Charles PRING (b. ?? - ??) Army Private, 8th & 9th Battalions, Devonshire Regiment – Service No; 29015 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Discharged; 5th May 1919.

 

Charles PRING (b. 1888 Newport, Monmouthshire) Army Sapper, Royal Engineers, Inland Water Transport Company - Enlisted; 1915 Age 28yrs. – Service No; AR/205504 & WR/503705 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-19 Victory Medal – Wife; Beatrice Sarah PRING (nee; STONE) (b. 26 Sep 1886, Newport, Monmouthshire) - Father; Robert Charles PRING (b. 1856 Newport, Monmouthshire) Boiler Maker/Riveter, Newport, Monmouthshire (1891) to (1911).

 

Charles PRING (b. 1894 Chard, Somerset) Army Private, Somerset Light Infantry, Prince Albert’s - Attested; 18th Oct 1912 Taunton, Somerset, Age 18yrs. – Service No; 9488 & 5664209 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1914 Star – Wife; Gladys Jane PRING (nee; PRING) (b. 16 Dec 1893 Flemington, Glamorganshire) - Father; James PRING (b. 1873 Ilminster, Somerset), Gardener, Ilminster, Somerset (1911) – Brother-in-law; Evan John PRING (30 Oct 1892 Glamorganshire) Gunner, , 123rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Service No; 74554.

 

Charles Edward PRING (b. 23 Dec 1869 Taunton, Somerset) Rifleman, 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade, Service No; 9852 - Attestation; 11 Dec 1888 , Taunton, Somerset - Discharged; –2 Jul 1901 -  Railway Goods Porter, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire (1939) –Wife; Alice May PRING (nee; HILL) (b. 1879 Upcot, Somerset) - Father; Robert PRING (b. 1842 Taunton, Somerset) Stone Mason, Taunton, Somerset (1871) to (1901).

 

Charles Edward PRING  (b. 27 Oct 1907 Dartford, Kent)  Army Captain Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME) -  Service No; 242706 , previously enlisted  Royal Tank Corps Attested; 5 Jul 1922 – Service No; 7875313- Died; 1st Sep 1944  (Age 36) - buried; Bayeux, War Cemetery (XVIII.F.7.), France – Father;  Charles Henry PRING (b. 1880abt Bromley, Kent) Army Sapper & Company Sergeant Major 15th Company, Royal Garrison Artillery –

Service No; 8149 & 1400807.

 

Charles Frederick PRING (1873 Lewisham. London, Kent) Army Sergeant, ‘C’ Battery, 119th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Service No; 86504 & Service No; L/34131 Attestation; 22 Sep 1891 – Deployed; South Africa; 4 Dec 1899 to 24 Aug 1902 1st Division, Royal Artillery, Lord Methuen’s Force, Anglo – Boer War  - Discharged; 20 Sep 1903.  – Re-enlisted for WW1 1914-1918 Hostilities –Killed in Action (KIA); 24th Mar 1918, buried; Potijze Chateau Cemetery, Belgium. – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Queens South Africa Medal            1899-1902 – Wife; Louisa PRING (nee HOBBS) (b. 1883 Kidbrooke, Kent) – Father; Benjamin PRING (b. 26 Jul 1844 Lewisham, London) Park Keeper, Lewisham, Kent (1911) - Son; Charles Thomas PRING (b.1911 Lewisham, London) Army Private, Royal Regiment of Artillery – Service No; 1701129.

 

Charles Henry PRING (b. 1880abt Bromley, Kent) Army Sapper & Company Sergeant Major 15th Company, Royal Garrison Artillery – Attestation; 19 Jun 1901 Age 21yrs. - Service No; 8149 & 1400807 – 1914-1918 British War Medal –  Master Gunner at Seaforth Castle, Portsmouth, Hampshire (1921) - Discharged on completion of  21yrs. Service 18th Jun 1922, @ Dover, Kent - – Wife; Leana PRING (nee; FREND) (b. 23 Nov 1882 Whitstable. Kent) – Son; Charles Edward PRING  (b. 27 Oct 1907 Dartford, Kent)  Army Captain Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME) -  Service No; 242706.

 

(Charles) James Lionel Charles PRING (b. 1886 Bournemouth, Hampshire) Amy Private, Oxfordshire Light Infantry - Service No;  642A9  - Attestation; 12 Apr 1904 Reading, Berkshire – Father; James Pearce PRING (b. 1963 Bridgwater. Somerset) Coach Wheelwright & Body Maker, Reading, Berkshire (1901) & (1911).

 

Charles John PRING (b. 16 Sep 1917 Honiton) Army Sergeant, Royal Regiment of Artillery, 11th Indian Division, Malaya – Attestation; 1935, Service No; 845502 – Prisoner of War (POW) Captured; 15 Feb 1942, Singapore, POW Camp No.1. Taiwan - Medals; British War Medal (1939-1945),  Defence Medal (1939-1945) – Father; James W PRING (b. 1892 St. Thomas, Devon) Dealer in Pigs, Newton Poppleford, Devon (1911).

 

Charles Keith PRING (b.1899 Bridgwater, Somerset) Army Private, Army Service Corps

- Service No; T/384426 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal -

Father; William PRING (b. 7 Aug 1842 Sheldon, Devon) Carpenter,  Wheelwright  & Inn Keeper, Middlezoy, Somerset (1861) to (1911).

 

Charles Thomas PRING (b.1911 Lewisham, London) Army Private, Royal Regiment of Artillery – Service No; 1701129 – Attestation; 1940 – Wife; Ina Madeline PRING (nee; PAINTER) (b. 25 Dec 1917 Isle of Wight Hampshire) – Father; Charles Frederick PRING (1873 Lewisham. London, Kent) Army Sergeant, ‘C’ Battery, 119th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, Service No; 86504 & Service No; L/34141.

 

Charles William PRING (b. ?? -??) Army Private. Royal Regiment of Artillery – Service No;

1622895 – Attested; 1940 -  Discharged; 12 Feb 1946.

 

Charles William (or William Charles) PRING (b. 1868 Taunton Somerset) Army Bugler, Somerset Light Infantry - Service No; 1878 – Attestation; 22 Jan 1887, Taunton, Age 18yrs.

The Barracks, Mount St. Taunton, Somerset (1891) Discharged 20 Jan 1899 – Wife; Louisa PRING  (nee; LEWIS) (b. 24 Mar 1870 Langport, Somerset) – Father; William PRING (b. 14 Dec 1845 Taunton, Somerset) Wine Merchants Porter & Brewer, Taunton, Somerset (1871) & (1895).

 

Charles William Arthur PRING (b.1920 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Army Private, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Service No; 1799693 – Wife; Audrey M PRING (nee; CURNOCK) (b. 1925 Bristol, Gloucestershire – Father; Richard Albert PRING (b. 1 Jul 1888 Bristol, Gloucestershire) – Dock Labourer, Bristol, Gloucestershire (1921).

 

Charles William Robert PRING (b. 1900 Lewisham, London) Army Private, Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment – Enlisted; 7th May 1918 – Medals; Silver War Badge No; B267659, Issued; 16 Aug 1919 – Discharged; 1 Aug 1919 – Father; George Sampson PRING (b. 1867

Lewisham, London, Carman, Lewisham. London (1901) & (1911).

 

Christopher James PRING (b. 23 Feb 1920 Hele, Devon) Army POW – Prison Camp,  Stalag XB Sandbostel, Germany – POW No; 92131 – Father; James PRING (b. 25 Oct 1874 Chevithorne, Devon, Agriculture Labourer, Devon (1891) (1901) & Gardener, Hele, Bradninch, Devon 1911).

 

Christopher John PRING (bap. 16 Jul 1899 Wilton, Somerset) Army Private, West Somerset Yeomanry (Territorial Force) Service No; 969, Attestation; Somerset Light Infantry, Prince Albert’s - Service No; 295153 – Rank; Sergeant – Deployed to France 1914-1918 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Wife;  Rhona Myrtle PRING (nee; LEES) (b. 28 Jan 1916 Ilfracombe, Devon) - Father; Rev. Daniel James PRING (b.1860 Axbridge, Somerset) C of E Clergyman, North Curry, Somerset (1911) – Brother; Francis James Hurley PRING MC (b. 1886 Cheddar, Somerset) Army Brigadier General, Cheshire Regiment (22nd  Regiment of Foot).

 

Clifford John PRING (b. 1895 Wellington, Somerset) Army Private, (1). Service No; 7816039 Royal Tank Corps - Attestation; 9 Jul 1914 - (2). Service No; 11377 14th Reserve Regiment of Machine Gun Cavalry (Transferred; 21 Aug 1914 -  (3). ) - Service No; 47081 Machine Gun Corps – Attestation; 13 May 1916) – Service in France; 4th July 1916 to 4th Sept 1919 – Service In India;  2 Mar 1920 to 6 Jan 1921 – Medals; 1914-1916 British War Medal, & 1914-1918 Victory Medal -   Discharged from Army; 8th Jul 1926 – Wife; Lilian PRING (nee; FORD) (b. 1900abt) – Father; Samuel PRING (b. 1851 Sheldon, Devon) Gardener, Wellington, Somerset (1911).

 

Clifford Raymond PRING (b.20 Sep 1899 Taunton, Somerset) Army Private, West Somerset Yeomanry – Attestation; 20 Apr 1915 Taunton, Somerset, Age 20yrs – Service No; 1559 (Territorial Force) – Discharge; 6 Dec 1915 - Father; Henry PRING (b. 1871 Taunton, Somerset,) Bricklayers Labourer,  Taunton, Somerset (1911).

 

Clifford PRING (b. ??-??) Army Private, Royal Army Medical Corps – Service No; 117179 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal. – NOTE; Its likely that Clifford PRING (b. ??-??) is one & the same, as Clifford Raymond PRING ((b.20 Sep 1899 Taunton, Somerset) Army Private, West Somerset Yeomanry – Service No; 1559. Having been discharged as unfit pre; WW1, he was allowed to enlist in the RAMC  for hostilities.

 

Cornelius PRING (b. 25 Aug 1890 Newport, Monmouthshire) Army Lance Corporal – 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment – Service No; 36132 – Deployed; France, 6th May 1915 - Medals;  1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Wife (1st) Ellen PRING (nee; JORDAN) (b. 1896 Newport, Monmouthshire- d. 1928 Newport) – Wife (2nd) Catherine PRING (nee; LEWIS) (b. 2 Aug 1902) - Father; Edward PRING (b. 1861 Newport, Monmouthshire) Coal Trimmer, Newport, Monmouthshire (1891).

 

Daniel James PRING (b. 1860 Weston Super Mare, Somerset) Reverend, Chaplain to the Forces, (1917). - Father; James Hurly PRING (b. 6 Sep 1817 Taunton, Somerset) Medical Doctor (1861) to (1881).

 

David Andrew Michael PRING MC (b. 1922 Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh, India) Army Private, Royal Engineers – Service No; 1948236 – Enlisted; 3 Feb 1941 – Commissioned from the Ranks; 21st Mar 1941,  Army Captain Service No; 228866, Royal Engineers (1943) Medals; Military Cross, awarded for Exemplary Gallantry during active operations against the enemy on the night of 6th /7th April 1943, North Africa  –

Action Citation;

From the night 6th/7th Apr 1943 until  17th Apr 1943 this Officer was continually in action with his section in support of the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers and 5th Northampton’s in the;  QUAD  ……. area.  Slit trenches were …….. the units under heavy mortar and machinegun fire. In addition in order to clear traces  …. he personally rode into action on the back of the leading tank. This personal courage and devotion to duty, set a fine example to all men under his command and although obtaining little or no sleep during this period his drive and energy never flagged. London Gazette, Issue No. 36053, 15 June 1943.

- Wife; Susan M PRING (nee; BRAKSPEAR) (b. 1933 Henley, Oxfordshire) - Father;  John Arthur PRING OBE (b. 1884 Edinburgh, Midlothian) Indian Army Captain, Royal Army Service Corps (1918).

 

Dorothea Mary PRING (b.1887 Cheddar, Somerset) Nurse, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service – Enlisted; 12 Aug 1915 -  Deployed; France (23 Oct 1916 to 27 Mar 1918) - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1914-1915 Star, 2 x Scarlet Efficiency Stripes (dated; 14 Feb 1918 & 5 Dec 1918– Discharged; 27 Mar 1919 – Husband; Cyril Wolridge  ALFORD (bap. 9th May 1873 Southsea, Hampshire) Doctor of Medicine, Chelmsford, Essex (1911) – Father; Rev. Daniel James PRING (b. 1860 Axbridge, Somerset) Clergy, The Vicarage, North Curry,. Somerset (1901).

 

Edgar PRING (b. 1901 Plymouth, Devon) Private, 115 Motor Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps - Service No; ?? –  Deployed; Mesopotamia, Baghdad, Iraq (1921 Census) -  Wife; Beatrice F PRING (nee; REEBY) (b.1 May 1906 Plympton, Devon) – Father; Thomas Henry PRING (b. 1872 East Stonehouse, Devon Messman Royal Navy  - Service No; 144530.

 

Edgar James PRING (b. 18 Aug 1887 Walsall, Staffordshire) Army Private, 1st/6th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers,  Service No; 36506 - KIA; 25 Mar 1918, Somme battlefield, buried; Pozieres Memorial Cemetery, France – Wife; Jessica Alice PRING (nee; HARRIS) (b. 1886 Henley, Warwickshire) – Father; James PRING (b. 1840 Broadway, Somerset) Gardener, Walsall, Staffordshire (1911).

 

Edgar James PRING (b. 12 Jan 1898 Chard, Somerset) Army Private, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Service No; 41865 – Prisoner of War (POW) Captured 16 Aug 1917 Ypres, France, Prison Camp; Dulmen, located at; Haltern am See,, Dulmen, District of Coesfold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Jessie M PRING (nee; FRANCIS) (b. 19 Sep 1903) – Father; James PRING (b. 1 Apr 1868 Yarcombe. Devon) Farmer, Harvard Farm, Halstock, Devon (1911).

 

Edward PRING (b. 1890 Bermondsey, London) Driver; 45th, 75th & 87th  Battery, Royal Field Artillery, 42nd Brigade  & Royal Horse Artillery -  Service No; 59426, Deployed; Minden Barracks, Deep Cut, Farnborough, Hampshire (1911 Census)  & Hostilities, France; 19 Aug 1914 – Medals; Victory Medal (1914-1918), British War Medal (1914-1918), 1914 Star. – Wife; Selina A PRING (b. 3 Jul 1904) - Father; Edward PRING (b. 14 Nov 1852 Deptford, Kent) Carpenter, Bermondsey, London (1891) (1901).

 

Edward Elliott PRING (b.21 Sep 1887 Whimple, Devon) Army Sergeant, London, Scottish Battalion, County of London Regiment – Service No’s; 510282/510284 & 2534 – Deployed; Italy - Discharged after WW1 Hostilities; 28 Aug 1919 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Wife; Dora PRING (nee; STEELE) (b. 9 Dec 1888)– Father; Francis George PRING (b. 2 Mar 1853 Whimple, Devon) Farmer, Calceto Farm, Lyminster, Sussex (1891) to (1911).

 

Edward Humphrey PRING (b. 1893 Newport, Monmouthshire) Army Driver, Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force, - Service No; TF1695 -  transferred to; Royal Horse Artillery Regular Force – Service No; 740934 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Florence Lilian PRING (nee; FRENCH) (b. 16 Aug 1895, Newport, Monmouthshire) – Father; Edward PRING (b. 11 May 1928 Newport, Monmouthshire) Dock Labourer (1901).

 

Edward John PRING (b. 10 Feb 1895 Heavitree, Devon) Army Private, B Company, 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment - Enlisted; 7 Dec 1915 – Service No; 30419 – Wounded in Action (WIA) – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal; - Silver War Badge; No; B114748 Issued; 11 Feb 1919 – Wife; Gwendoline Patience PRING (nee; CONIBEER) (b. 1897 Exeter, Devon) – Father; Henry PRING (b. 13 May 1860 Harpford, Devon) Haulier, Heavitree, Devon (1911).

 

Edward Thomas PRING (b. 1891 Newport, Monmouthshire) Army Sergeant, 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards 2nd Company, Service No; 1284 – Killed in Action (KIA); 12 Oct 1917 Flanders, Tyne Cot Memorial Cemetery, Belgium – Medals; 1914-1918 Victory Medal – British War Medal 1914-1920, & 1914/1915 Star. - Wife; Grace Gladys PRING (nee; ATTEWELL) (b. 1891 Newport, Monmouthshire) – Father; Robert PRING (b.1855 Newport, Monmouthshire) Dock Labourer, Newport, Monmouthshire (1891).

 

Egbert PRING (b. 25 Aug 1885 Froyle Hampshire) Army Private, Middlesex Regiment – Service No; 27103, transferred to; Royal Fusiliers - Service No; 62848 transferred to; Machine Gun Corps- Service No; 147555 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal.  – Wife; Beatrice PRING (nee; STONE) (b. 26 Sep 1885) – Father; (Edward) John PRING (b. 1848 Milverton, Somerset) Army, Corporal, Driver, Royal Artillery, Service No; 26915.

 

Egbert PRING (b. 1915 Edmonton, Middlesex) Army Private, Royal Artillery – Service No; 982535 – Attestation; 12 Jun 1940 -  Wife; Amy E PRING (nee; CLEAL) (b. 11 Jan 1909 Edmonton, Middlesex).

 

Elijah PRING (b. 1835 Bradford, Somerset) Army, Sergeant, Service No;  1741 - Royal Horse Artillery, Enlisted; 1855, Age 21yrs - Woolwich Military Camp, Woolwich, London (1871) – Father; Malachi PRING (b. 22 Jan 1805 Bradford on Tone, Somerset) Butcher, Bradford, Somerset (1851).

 

Elvey James PRING ( b. 1901 Bromley, Kent)   Army Rifleman, 12th Battalion, Rifle Brigade, Prince Consorts Own,  - Service No; 46100 - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Wife; Margaret PRING (nee; GOODHEW) (b. 6 Mar 1901 Bromley, Kent) - Father; Thomas Charles PRING (b. 1869, Bromley, Kent) General Labourer, St. Mary Cray, Kent (1901) & (1911).

 

Emmie May PRING (b. 1925 Newport, Monmouthshire) Private, Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) – Service No; W86518 – died; 17 Mar 1942, buried St. Woolos Cemetery, Newport, Monmouthshire – Father; Alfred PRING (b.1887 Newport, Monmouthshire)

Rivet Maker & Riveter, Wednesbury, Staffordshire & Newport, Monmouthshire (1911) & (1939).

 

Ernest PRING (b. ??-??) Army Private, 7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment – Service No; 28454 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal.

 

Ernest PRING (b. 5 Oct 1876 Ticehurst, Sussex) Gunner, Royal Artillery, Attestation; 18 Nov 1892 & 29 Mar 1894 – Service No’s; 94268 & 3305 – Discharged 1895 Medical Issues – Re-enlisted for 1914-1918 WW1, Sergeant, Royal Sussex Regiment – Service No; 8073 -  Wife; Marion Josephine PRING (nee; McCauley) (b. 24 May 1897) – Father; James PRING (b. 2 Nov 1834 Pembury, Kent) Pork Butcher, Tunbridge Wells, Kent (1881) & (1891).

 

Ernest PRING (2nd May 1892 Lewisham, London) Army Private, 2nd Battalion London Regiment, Service No; 232326- Service No; 5347, Attestation; 10 Dec 1915 duration of Hostilities - WIA- Wounded in Action 16 May 1917 France -Medals: 1914-1918 British War Medal - 1914-1918 Victory Medal,  Silver War Badge No; B319811 Issued; 31 Oct 1919 & Silver War Badge No; 277268 dated; 3 Dec 1917 – Discharge; 23 Nov 1917 - Father; John PRING (b. 4 Apr 1852 Lewisham, London) Farm Labourer, Lewisham, London (1881).

 

Ernest Charles PRING (b. 9 Jan 1916 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Army Private, 4th HQ Company, Army Catering Corps, Deployed; Burma 1939-1945 – Medals; 1939—1945 Burma Star, 1939-1945 Defence Medal,  1939-1945 War Medal – Member Burma Star Association (1962) - Wife; Eileen PRING (nee; BRADY) (b. 1920 Bristol, Gloucestershire) – Father; Samuel PRING (b. 1871 Clifton, Gloucestershire) Army Driver. Royal Engineers (1914-1918).

 

Ernest George Edwin PRING (b. 1895 Islington, London) Army Signalman, Royal Signals _ Service No; 39710 & 2306825 – Re-Enlisted as a Gunner, 28th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery – Service No; 67390 – Wounded in Action (WIA) Gas Attack, Hospitalised; 24 Jan 1918 at Catterick Military Hospital, Catterick Camp, Catterick, Yorkshire, - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Violet PRING (nee; MASON) (b. 4 Apr 1887) - Father; Ernest Reginald PRING (b. 1869 West London) Cook, Islington , London (1891).

 

Ernest J PRING (b. ??-??) Army Private, Liverpool Regiment, Service No; 78588, then transferred to Labour Corps – Service No; 53763 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal.

 

Ernest Leonard R PRING (b. 8 Aug 1899 Exeter, Devon) Army Private, 2nd, 6th Battalions, Royal Warwickshire Regiment – Service No; 50286 – Transferred to Labour Corps, Service No; 567704, and finally to; 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment - Service No; 02079 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal , 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Deployed; Waterford, Ireland (1921, Census) – Wife; Elizabeth M PRING (nee; CARDER) (b. 25 Dec 1900 Plymstock, Devon) - Father; Ernest Lake PRING (b. 21 Feb 1873 Exeter, Devon) Labourer, (1891) & (1901).

 

Ernest R PRING (b. ??-??) Army Private. Army Service Corps – Service No; RX4/232423 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal.

 

Ernest Reginald PRING (b. 2 Jun 1886 Taunton, Somerset) Army Private, 3rd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, Service No; 5051 – Attestation; 19 Mar 1906, Taunton – Wife; Lilian Kate R PRING (Nee; SIM) (b. 15 Jan 1885 Chepstow, Monmouthshire) – Father; Charles PRING (b. 27 Aug 1854 Highgate, Middlesex) Commercial Traveller Brewery, Taunton, Somerset (1911).

 

Ernest Richard PRING (b. 1884 East Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon) Army, Acting Bombardier,  163rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery – Service No; 64889 – Killed in Action (KIA) 14 Jun 1917 Ypres Salient, Western Front. buried, Dickebusch, New Military Cemetery, Belgium – Medals: (1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Wife; Emma Elizabeth PRING (nee; PERKINS) (b. 1888 East Stonehouse, Devon)  - Father;

Thomas PRING (b. 9 Jul 1846 Milverton, Somerset) Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI) – Service No; 197 – Plymouth Division. Prior to WW1 Hostilities, Ernest Richard PRING was Royal Navy, see; Royal Navy for fuller details.

 

Ernest Thomas PRING (b. 12 Apr 1911 Cardiff, Glamorganshire) Private, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Service No; 4189103 – Attestation 22 Oct 1929, Re-Enlisted; 28 Jan 1947 – Wife; Maria Rafaela PRING (nee; GILL) (b.1910abt) - Father; Bert PRING (b. 1883 Taunton, Somerset) Coal Miner, Rhondda, Glamorganshire (1939).

 

Eugene Gerald PRING (b. 1903 Bridport, Dorset) Army Lance Corporal, Royal Corp of Signals – Deployed; Walmgate Infantry Barracks, York, Yorkshire (1921 Census), deployed to Rawalpindi, Punjab. India – Died 8th Feb 1926, Rawalpindi, Punjab India. – Father; George PRING (b. 1868 Colyton, Devon) Army Sapper, Company Sergeant Major, Royal Engineers, Brompton, Barracks, Chatham, Kent (1891).

 

Evan John PRING (30 Oct 1892 Glamorganshire) Gunner, 123rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery & Royal Horse Artillery – Service No; 74554 – Enlisted; 5th Jan 1915 - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star, Silver War Badge No; 344766, dated; 6th Apr 1918 – Discharged; 11th Apr 1918 - Father; John PRING (b. 1871 Kingston St. Mary, Somerset) Colliery Worker, Rhondda, Glamorganshire (1911).

 

Francis Pring HUXTABLE (b. 1891 Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland) Australian Army Private, 11th & 51st Battalions, Australia Imperial Force (AIF) – Service No; 4819 – KIA; 14th /16th Aug 1916, buried; Courcelette British Cemetery, a village 10k’s from the town of Albert, Somme Department, France – Father; James HUXTABLE (b. 1864 Braunton, Devon) Bank Accountant, Folkestone, Kent (1911). – Mother; Maria Whyte PRING (b. 1865 Holywell, Flintshire).

 

Francis Henry PRING (b. 2 Mar 1895 Devon) Trooper, Royal Horse Guards, ‘The Blues’, Household Cavalry – Service No; 3132 Attestation; 14 Feb 1916 – Discharge; 21 Feb 1919 – Wife; Ivy Faith PRING (nee; MOORE) (b. 5 Jan 1901 St. Thomas, Devon) – Father; Henry PRING (b. 1860 Newton Poppleford, Devon) Farmer, Colestocks Farm, Newton Poppleford, Devon, (1901) & (1911).

 

Francis James PRING (b. 9 Feb 1873 Hemyock, Devon) Army Private, 3rd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry – Attestation; 12 Feb 1895 Taunton, Age 22yrs. - Service No; 3081 – Discharged; 10 Sep 1897  – Wife Emily Kate PRING (nee; PHIPPS) (b. 1875 Clifton, Gloucestershire) - Father; Francis PRING (b. 6 Aug 1848 Sheldon, Devon) Shoemaker/Bootmaker, Taunton, Somerset (1871) to (1911).

 

Francis James Hurley PRING MC (b. 1886 Cheddar, Somerset) Army Brigadier General, Cheshire Regiment (22nd  Regiment of Foot) Attachments to; India Army,  Nigeria Regiment & West Africa Field Force.  1914-1918 Hostilities.

Citation: -  The London Gazette, 26 Jun 1916,  For Conspicuous Gallantry, Captain PRING displayed great initiative and coolness under heavy fire, and it was entirely owing to his prompt action in turning the enemy’s flank that the position was successfully captured. Military Cross gazetted 26th June 1916 –

- Medals; Military Cross (MC & Bar, dated; 19 Jul 1917)  1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star. – Wife: Kathleen Seymour PRING (nee; STEWART) (b. 16 Sep 1880 Anarkullee, Bengal, India) - Father; Daniel James PRING (b. 1860 Western Super Mare, Somerset) Clergyman C of E (1891) & (1901).

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Francis Joseph PRING (b. 1923 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Army Private, 2nd/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters – Service No; 14203436  - POW – Captured;  10 Sep 1943 North Africa, POW Camp Stalag VIIIB & 344 near Lamsdorf, Silesia, Poland/Germany – Father; James

PRING (b. 23 Apr 1886, Bristol, Gloucestershire) Dock Labourer, Bristol, Gloucestershire (1911) & (1939).

 

Francis Raleigh PRING (b. 1888 Whimple, Devon) Army Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment – Killed in Action (KIA), leading his men in a gallant charge into the enemy trenches at Loos, Western Front, France, 25th Sep 1915. Buried; Loos Memorial Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France -  Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medals, 1914 Star - Father; Frances George PRING (b. 2 Mar 1853 Whimple, Devon) Farmer, Calcetto Farm, Lyminster, East Preston, Sussex (1891) to (1911) - Brother; Reginald John  PRING (b. 1890 Whimple Devon) Army Lieutenant, Royal Sussex Regiment).

 

Frank PRING (??-??) Army Private, Dorsetshire Regiment – Service No; 42894 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory, Medal.

 

Frank PRING (b. 1892 Sheffield, Yorkshire) Army Lance Corporal, 13th Battalion Kings Royal Rifle Corps – Service No; R3437 – Prisoner of War POW; Captured; 10 Jul 1917 Nieuwpoort, Belgium - Prison Camp; Dulmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - Medals; Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Father; Frank PRING (b. 1870 Belper, Derbyshire) Steel Furnaceman, Yorkshire, (1901) & (1911).

 

Frank Henry PRING (b. 31 Jan 1905 Croydon, Surrey) Army Private, Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME) – Service No; T/14597199 – Wife; Jessie Louise PRING (nee; PLUMRIDGE (b. 3 Mar 1905, Croydon, Surrey) – Father; Foster Percy Hamilton PRING (b. 1877 Bath, Somerset) Slater & Tiler, Croydon, Surrey (1911).

 

Frank Herbert PRING (b.1877 Bedminster, Somerset) Army Private, Army Service Corps – Service No; MS/117129 – Deployed to Egypt, 29 Dec 1915 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1014-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star – Wife; Daisy Eliza PRING (nee; MOCKRIDGE) (b. 1879, Paddington, London) - Father; Thomas Tailor PRING (b. 22 Nov 1829 Kentisbeare, Devon) Railway Manager, Bedminster, Somerset (1871) & GW Railway Carter, Bedminster, Somerset (1901).

 

Frank Thomas PRING (b. 1885 Wellington. Somerset) Guardsman, Coldstream Guards, 1st & 6th Battalions, Service No;  4921 - Attestation 5th Dec 1902  - WIA- Wounded in Action 29 Sep 1914/15 France – Frank Thomas PRING later re-enlisted in the; West Somerset Yeomanry & Somerset Light Infantry, Service No’s; 204430 & 295296, was promoted Sergeant. Captured at St. Quentin, 21st Mar 1918 (2nd Battle of the Somme) was POW in Prison Camp; Langensalza, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Thuringla, Central Germany - Medals: 1914-1918 British War Medal - 1914-1918 Victory Medal – 1914 Star - Gardener Wellington,. Somerset (1911) – Father; Henry PRING (b. 11 Jun 1832 Bradford on Tone. Somerset) Farmer, Sidbrook Farm, Somerset (1871) Brother; Herbert Hugh  PRING (b. 1884 Taunton Bishops Hull) Private, 3rd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry- Service No 4534. & Guardsman, Coldstream Guards Service No; 18573.

 

Fred PRING (b.  ??-??) Army Private, 2nd & 7th Devonshire Regiment – Service No; 33217 - Enlisted; 16 Sep 1813 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, Silver War Badge No; 243655 dated; 10 Sep 1917 -  Discharged; 30 Jul 1917.

 

Fred (Frederick) PRING (b. 1869 Axminster, Devon) Army- 37th Company, Royal Engineers, Sapper - Service No; 24901 – Attestation; 19th Jun 1890 Dorchester, Dorset – Medals;  Queens South Africa Medal, Clasp Transvaal – Carpenter, Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent (1891) (1911) Deployed; Malta (1891-1893), Hong Kong (1895-1899), South Africa (1901-1903), Sierra Leone, West Africa (1904-1905), Egypt (1906-1910) - Discharged; 18 Jun 1911, Chatham, Age 41yrs. 11mths. – Father; William PRING (b. 22 Mar 1842 Huxham, Devon) Farm Bailiff, Bradstock, Dorset (1881) & Awliscombe, Devon (1911) – Brother; George PRING (b. 1868 Colyton, Devon) Army Sapper, Royal Engineers, Brompton, Barracks, Chatham, Kent (1891).

 

Frederick PRING (b. 10 Jun 1892 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Army, Lance Corporal, Service No; 10023, 1st Battalion, The Welch Regiment, Main Barracks, Abbassia, Cairo, Egypt. (1911) – transferred to Labour Corps – Service No; 415226 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal - 1914-1918 Victory Medal – 1915 Star – Father; Thomas PRING (b. 1861 Bristol, Gloucestershire) Gas Stoker, Bristol, Gloucestershire (1911).

 

Frederick PRING (b. 5 Aug 1892 Thorneliebank, Renfrew, Scotland) Army Sergeant, Canadian Army Medical Corps, 91st Battalion, Canadian Army Expeditionary Force. Service No; 123419, Enlisted; 8th Sep 1915 , St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada – Father; George Charles PRING (b. 1851 Kentisbeare, Devon) Butler, Renfrew, Scotland (1891) & Marylebone, London (1901).

 

Frederick Charles PRING (b. 1891 Taunton, Somerset) Army Private, ‘B’ Company, 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers – Service No; 10651 – Enlisted; 17th Jul 1911 – Deployed; Gallipoli Campaign, landings at Cape Helles, ‘S’ Beach, 25th Apr 1915 from HMS Cornwallis, a Duncan Class, Pre-Dreadnought Battleship.-  (WIA) Wounded in Action, transferred to the 19th General Hospital at Alexandria, Egypt - Wounds resulted in being Discharged from Service due to severity of wounds – Discharged; 3rd Mar 1916 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal, 1915 Star, Silver War Badge No; 64564 dated; 11 Nov 1916 – Wife; Lily PRING (nee; DUMPER) (b. 3 Aug 1892) – Father; Francis PRING (b. 6 Aug 1848 Sheldon, Devon) Shoemaker/Bootmaker, Taunton, Somerset (1871) to ( 1911).

 

Frederick Denys PRING (b.1899 Stoneham, Hampshire) Army Private., ‘C’ Company, London Regiment (Artists Rifles) – Service No; 767371- Killed In Action (KIA) 1st Jun 1918, Aveluy Wood, Aveluy Village, Somme Region, France, buried; Varennes Military Cemetery, France – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – Father;  Frederick PRING (b. 26 Nov 1871 Newport, Isle of Wight, Hampshire) Engineer Captain, Royal Navy.

 

Frederick Edington PRING (b. 20 Fulham, London) Army Private, 4th Battalion, Green Howards, Princes of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment – Service No. 4754009 -POW, POW No. 248054, captured 1942 – Prison Camp Stalag 4G, situated in Oschatz (a small Town situated between Leipzig & Dresden, Saxony) – amongst the last Camps to be liberated at the end of WW2. Over 5,200 British & American POW’s were held captive in Working Detachments in and around Oschatz – Father; Sidney Herbert PRING (b. 1877 Richmond. Surrey) Army Trooper, East Kent Company, 11th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry - Service No; 1246 & 34284.

 

Frederick George PRING (b. 1853 Curry Rivel, Somerset) Army Guardsman, Scots Guards Attestation; 18 Nov 1884 - Service No; 6673 -  Coachman, Lymington, Hampshire (!901) – Father; Samuel PRING (b. 1830 North Curry, Somerset) Groom, Winterborne, Dorset & Ringwood, Hampshire (1881) & (1891) – Son; Bertram George PRING (b. 1891 Tuckton, Hampshire) Army Driver, Service No; M29308, Barossa Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire, (1911) Lieutenant 19th Searchlight Royal Artillery.

 

Frederick John PRING (b. 1879 Taunton, Somerset) Army Private, D Company, 6th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, Service No. 3/8249, Transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment – Service No; 76752 – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal. – Father; Samuel PRING (b. 10- Nov 1833 Wilton, Somerset) Shoemaker, Taunton, Somerset (1901).

 

Frederick John PRING (b. 14 Feb 1886 Stonehouse, Devonport) Army Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) & Royal Regiment of Artillery – Attested; 3 Sep. 1901, Plymouth, Service No’s; 8857 & 285066 – Re-enlisted for WW1 War Service; 22 Nov 1915  -  Discharged on completion of WW1 Service; 21 Jan 1919 - The Citadel, Lambhay Hill, Plymouth, Devon (1911 Census) – Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal ,  1914-1918 Victory Medal, Silver War Badge No; 890857, Issued; 22 Feb 1919 - Father; Thomas PRING (b. 9 Jul 1846 Milverton, Somerset) Private, Royal Marine Light Infantry (RMLI).

 

Frederick Joseph PRING (b. 3 Dec 1902 Windsor, Berkshire) Army Driver, 4th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery – Deployed (1921) Royal Horse Artillery, Brigade, Newbridge Barracks, Newbridge,  County Kildare, Ireland – Wife; Elizabeth PRING (nee; HARWOOD) (30 Mar 1904) - Father; Joseph PRING (b. 1864 Gosport, Hampshire) Groom, Clewer Within, Berkshire (1911).

 

Frederick William PRING (b. 1894 Taunton, Somerset) Army Private, 6th Somerset Light Infantry, Prince Albert’s – Service No; 9820 – Deployed; France 21 May 1915- Discharged; 27 Feb 1919 - Medals; 1914-1918 British War Medal, 1914-1918 Victory Medal – 1915 Star – Wife; Florence M PRING (nee; AVERY) (b. 6 Jan 1890 Huntspill, Somerset) – Father; Samuel PRING (b. 9 Nov 1862 Taunton, Somerset) Bricklayer, Taunton, Somerset (1901) (1911).

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