LITTLE
STAUGHTON - Roll of Honour
World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed
information
Compiled and copyright © 2001 Brenda Asplin
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Memorial from two angles
Photographs Copyright © Brenda Asplin 2001
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ALL
SAINTS CHURCH
Inside the church on
a brass plaque. Memorial gives names and Regiment.
1914
– 1918
IN
MEMORIAM
THESE
GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR
GOD AND COUNTRY
IN
THE GREAT WAR
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MARSHALL
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Walter
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Sergeant 3/8751. 7th Battalion
Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Thursday 28 September 1916.
Born Little Staughton. Lived Little Staughton. Enlisted Aldershot.
Brother of Alfred Marshall of Crown Farm Cottages, Great Staughton,
St. Neots, Hunts. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
Ref. I.A.12.
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HAWKINS
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Ernest
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Pte G/28098. 12th Battalion
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex) Regiment. Killed in action Tuesday
26 September 1916. Age 19. Born Keyson (sic). Lived Little Stoughton
(sic). Enlisted Bedford. Son of Thomas & Julia Hawkins of Little
Staughton, St. Neots, Hunts. Commemorated on Cayeux Military Cemetery,
Some, France. Ref. III.A.15.
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MARSHALL
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John
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Pte. 201126. 4th Battalion
Essex Regiment (Formerly 10772 Bedfordshire Regiment). Memorial
records him as 2nd Bedfordshire. Regt. Killed in action Tuesday
27 March 1917. Born & lived Little Staughton. Enlisted Bedford.
Commemorated on Jerusalem Memorial, Israel. Ref. Panels 33 – 39.
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REED
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W.H.
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2nd K.R.R. No further information
available at present.
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ROBINS
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Alfred Charles
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Pte. 204360. 12th Battalion
East Surrey Regiment. Formerly 9095 Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed
in action Wednesday 1 August 1917. Age 19. Born Kinsbolton (sic).
Lived St. Neots. Enlisted Bedford. Son of Charles & Elizabeth
Robins of The Crown, Little Staughton, St. Neots, Hunts. Commemorated on
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref.
Panel 34.
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ROBINS
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John
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Pte. 10775. 2nd Battalion
Bedfordshire Regiment. Died of wounds Wednesday 23 June 1915. Age
18. Born and lived Little Staughton. Enlisted Bedford. Son of Harry
& Ada Robins of Little Staughton, St. Neots, Hunts. Commemorated on
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Ref. VIII.B.46.
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THEIR
NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
1939
– 1945
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SAUNDERS
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Sydney
John
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Sergeant 1610621.
Pilot. 38 Sqdn., Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died Monday
3 July 1944. Age 22. Son of John Thomas Saunders and Lilian
Saunders of Little Staughton, Bedfordshire. Commemorated on
Leros War Cemetery, Leros, Greece. Ref. Coll. Grave 2 C. 4-6.
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Below the brass plaque, a
stone plaque records:
IN
MEMORY OF THOSE MEMBERS
OF
THE
109 AND 582 PATHFINDER SQUADRONS
ROYAL AIR FORCE
FROM GREAT BRITAIN & THE COMMONWEALTH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING
THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 – 1945
ON OPERATIONS FROM R.A.F. LITTLE STAUGHTON
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Photographs
Copyright © Brenda Asplin 2002
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A stone memorial on the edge
of the airfield reads:
ROYAL
AIR FORCE
LITTLE
STAUGHTON.
109 AND 582 SQUARDONS
8 GROUP
PATH FINDER FORCE
BOMBER COMMAND
1944 - 1945
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Photographs
Copyright © Brenda Asplin 2002
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Little
Staughton Baptist
Transcribed
by John Page.
On
the gravestone to Henry and Elizabeth Smith in Little Staughton Baptist
Chapel Yard.
Horace,
their only son
and beloved husband of
ELIZABETH SMITH.
Killed at Oppy Wood, France
April 29 1917, aged 29.
Interred in France.
SMITH |
Horace
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Corporal
39264, 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal berkshire
Regiment). Killed in action 29th April 1917. Born Eaton Socon,
enlisted Huntingdon, resident Godmanchester. Formerly 1218, Huntingdonshire
Cyclist Battalion. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de CAlais,
France. Bay 7.
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30 January 2005
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