The brothers who went to war

This is a story about the Vockins brothers - Albert Edward, Edgar William, Frederick Charles and Sidney - and they were my great uncles. They were from Hungerford, in Berkshire, and there were seven brothers in the family. Out of the seven, six served in the war and one did not go; of the six, two survived and four died during the war. Albert Edward was in the Royal Berskhire Regiment and was killed in January 1915. Edgar joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry and was killed in action in May 1915. Frederick was in the Royal Canadian Dragoons; he came back from Canada to join up and served from May 1915 to August 1915. He died during an operation for appendicitis on 3rd August 1915. Sidney enlisted in London, serving in the Post Office Rifles and was awarded the Military Medal in December 1917. He was killed in March 1918.