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To
the glory of God
and in memory of the
men of this parish who
laid down their lives
in the War 1914 – 1918
| BAILEY | Frank Predam |
[Spelt
PREDON on SDGW] Corporal 16414, 11th Battalion, Suffolk
Regiment. killed in action 2nd May 1918, age 21. Born South Shilds,
Durham, enlisted Cambridge. Son of William N. Bailey, of 10, Maids
Causeway, Cambridge. Buried
in WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. See
also Cambridge Guildhall
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| COOPER | Maurice Stanley Charles |
2nd
Lieutenant, 9th attached 6th Battalion,
Bedfordshire Regiment. Died of wounds 9th August 1916, age 19.
Son of Jonathan and Emma Emily Cooper, of 8, Market St., Cambridge.
See also Cambridge Holy Trinity. Buried
in MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. See
also Cambridge Guildhall
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| CLARKE | John |
possibly
John CLARKE, Private S/11798, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders.
Killed in action Tuesday 18th July 1916 in France & Flanders.
Born Chatteris, enlisted Rochdale. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL,
Somme, France. Pier and Face 15 B and 15 C |
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| DARKINS | Harry [Henry] |
[Listed
as Henry on SDGW and CWGC] Lance Corporal 26689, 1st
Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Died of wounds 11th June 1917, age
32. Son of George and Caroline Darkins, of 25, Malcolm St., Cambridge.
Buried
in MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
See
also Cambridge Guildhall
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| GATES | George |
Either
Private 39562, 1/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Died
9th October 1917 in France & Flanders. Age 31. Born Cambridge,
enlisted Hertford. Son of William and Edith Katherine Gates. Formerly
2738, 1st Hertfordshire Regiment. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL,
Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 72 to 75. or
George Albert GATES, Private 22317, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Killed in action 9th April 1917 in France & Flanders. Age
24. Born Stetchworth, enlisted Cambridge. Son of George and Elizabeth
Gates, of Stetchworth, Newmarket. Buried in ROCLINCOURT VALLEY
CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Grave IV. A. 10. |
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| GOULD | George [James] |
Private
21368, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action
Saturday 28 July 1917 in France & Flanders. Born and resident
Cambridge, enlisted Norwich. Formerly 2866, Royal Field Artillery.
In the 1911 census he was the son of James and Ada Louise Gould,
aged 13, at school, born Cambridge and resident with his family
at 13 Castle Street, Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Panel 31 and 33. See also
Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge
St Giles |
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| GRAY | Anthony Frederick |
 Lieutenant,
1st/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 26
August 1918. Aged 26. Son of Arthur and Alice Honora Gray, of
Masters' Lodge, Jesus College, Cambridge. Birth registered in
the Cambridge Registration District July to September Quarter
1892. In the 1911 census he was aged 18, a boarder in School House,
born Cambridge and resident Chigwell School, Woodford Green, Essex.
In the 1901 census he was with his father Arthur Gray, aged 8,
born Cambridge and resident Jesus College Grove, Jesus Lane, Cambridge.
Buried in RIBEMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France.
Plot I. Row K. Grave 7.
See
also Cambridge Guildhall,
Cambridge
St Giles and Cambridge
University Magdalene College
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| HALLS | Leonard |
[Listed
as HALL on memorial, Herbert Leonard on CWGC & SDGW &
1911 census] Driver 198220, 58th (London) Division Ammunition
Column, Royal Field Artillery. Died 29th March 1918. Aged 30.
Born and enlisted Cambridge. Son of Edward and Nellie Halls, of
Cambridge; husband of M. F. Halls, of 28 Hooper St, Cambridge.
In the 1911 census he was the son of Augusta Amelia Halls (a widow),
aged 23, a Printer, born Cambridge and resident with his mother
at 9 Park Street, Cambridge. Buried in CHAUNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
BRITISH EXTENSION Aisne, France. Plot 3. Row J. Grave 8. See also
Cambridge St Mark's, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge
All Saints and Cambridge
St Matthew's
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| HARRIS | Bertie Archibald [Blinkhorn] |
Private
325563, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed
in action 4th September 1917, age 31. Born and enlisted Cambridge.
Son of Thomas William Harris, of 34, Glisson Rd., Cambridge; husband
of Eleanor Annie Harris, of 15, Malcolm St., Cambridge. Formerly
2186, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Buried in VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES
No.1 and No. 2, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. See also Cambridge
St Mary the Great and Cambridge
Guildhall |
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| HARRISON | Gerard [Younghusband] |
Sub-Lieutenant,
H.M.S. "Vanguard.", Royal Navy. Died Monday 9th July
1917. Age 20. Son of Ethel Harrison, of Elysium, Framingham Pigot,
Norwich, and the late Rev. A. L. Harrison. Commemorated on CHATHAM
NAVAL MEMORIAL, Kent. Panel 20. |
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| McGREGOR | Charles |
possibly
Charles McGregor, 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's
Light Infantry. Killed in action 24th March 1918. Age 29. Son
of Charles and Henrietta McGregor, of Greenock. Commemorated on
POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 45. |
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| MERRILL | George [Alliston] |
Private
235139, 1st/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire
Regiment. Died of wounds 1st October 1917, age 30. Born Cambridge,
enlisted Bury St Edmunds. Son of Harry Merrill, of Cambridge;
husband of Lily Merrill, of 37, Park St., Cambridge. Buried
in DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. See
also Cambridge Guildhall
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| MILLER | George Frederick |
2nd
Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, attached 11th
Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Killed in action 23rd March 1918,
age 24. Son of the late George Christopher and Gertrude Miller.
Enlisted 1914. Formerly Cambridgeshire Regiment. Commemorated
on ARRAS MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France.
See also Cambridge
Guildhall |
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| MILLS | [Charles] Sidney |
 Rifleman
3008, 1st/8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles),
London Regiment. Killed in action 23 December 1915. Resident and
enlisted Cambridge. In the 1911 census Sidney Mills was aged 18,
son of Nellie Mills, a Postman, born Chesterton, resident 18 Perowne
St, Cambridge. IN the British Postal Service Appointment Books,
1737-1969 Sidney C Mills was appointement Assistant Postman in
Cambridge in 1909. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL Pas de Calais,
France. Panel
131.See
also Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge Post Office
and Cambridge St Barnabas |
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| MORGAN | Arthur Conway Osborne |
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| NEWMAN | [Edward] John |
Lance
Corporal 22575, 1st Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed in action
23 October 1916. Born and resident Chesterton, Cambridgeshire,
enlisted Bournemouth. Resident 13, Trafalgar Road, Chesterton.
In the 1891 census he was aged 1, born Chesterton, Cambridgeshire,
son of Sidney and Sarah Maria Newman, resident 23, Trafalgar Street,
Chesterton, Cambridgeshire. In the 1901 census he was aged 11,
born Chesteron, Cambridgeshire, son of Sidney and Sara Maria Newman,
resident 23, Trafalgar Street, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire. No
known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.
Pier and Face 7C and 7B. See
also Cambridge Guildhall
Extract from Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 26 October 1917, page 8:
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| PALMER | Geoffrey [French] |
Private
30267, 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars. Died as a German
P.o.W. 11th July 1918. Aged 19. Born at Codsall, Staffordshire.
Baptised 22 July 1900 in Codsall, St Nicholas, son of James Henry
and Jane Palmer, residentCodsall, Stafford. Son of Capt. James
Henry Palmer (R.A.) and Mrs. Jane Palmer of "Willowdale,"
16, Pretoria Rd., Cambridge. Buried in COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY,
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Plot I. Row D. Grave 7. |
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| PEATMAN | Thomas |
Private
55507, 24th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Died 31st October
1918 in Italy. Aged 25. Born Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, enlisted
Gillingham, Kent, resident Cambridge. Son of Joseph and Susannah
Peatman, of 45, Kimberley Rd., Cambridge. Formerly
541176, Royal Engineers. Buried in STAGLIENO CEMETERY, GENOA,
Italy.
Plot
I. Row D. Grave 20. See
also Cambridge Guildhall
and Chesterton |
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| PENTON | Arthur [Hubert] |
2nd
Lieutenant, 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, attached
1st/5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment.
Killed in action 16th April 1918, age 24. Son of Ellenor Penton,
of 48, New Square, Cambridge, and the late Henry Penton. Buried
in COUIN NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. See also
Cambridge County
High School, Cambridge St
Giles, Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge St Andrew the Great.
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| PLEASANCE | Cecil [McGowen] |
Private
201285, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in
action 12th April 1918, age 26. Born and enlisted Cambridge. Son
of Alfred and Kate Pleasance, of 13, Portugal Place, Cambridge.
Buried
in MOREUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION, Somme, France.
See
also Cambridge Guildhall
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| POTTER | Frederick aka Fred |
Private
9218, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action Thursday,
12th October 1916. Born Weston Colville. Enlisted Cambridge. Commemorated
on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. See also Cambridge
St Giles and Cambridge
Guildhall |
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| POTTER | William |
Lance
Sergeant 5447, 2nd Battalion,, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action
Saturday, 12th May 1917. Born Cambridge. Enlisted Bury St Edmunds.
Buried in FEUCHY CHAPEL BRITISH CEMETERY, WANCOURT, Pas de Calais,
France. See also Cambridge St
Giles. |
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| PULL | Herbert [W J] |
Company
Serjeant Major 325916, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire
Regiment. Killed in action 31st July 1917. Born Cambridge, enlisted
Pakenham, Suffolk. Formerly 2748, cambridgeshire Regiment. Commemorated
on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
See
also Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge St Paul's
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| RYDER | Frederick [Ralph] |
Lance
Corporal 2074, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed
in action 4 June 1915. Born Cambridge, enlisted Cambridge. Birth
registered in the April to June Quarter 1896 in Cambridge Registration
District. Baptised 2 August 1896 at Cambridge All Saints, son
of Bertha Elizbaeth and Zenas (a tailor) Ryder, if Malcolm Street,
Cambridge. In the 1911 census he was the son of Bertha Ryder,
aged 14, at school, born Cambridge, resident 9 Tenison Avenue,
Cambridge. Enetered France 14 February 1915. Buried in HOUPLINES
COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Nord, France. Plot III. Row A. Grave
19.
See also Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge
County High School |
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| SHAW | George [Edward] | Flight
Cadet 137459, Harrowby Dispersal Centre, Royal Air Force. Died
of a septic throat 21 April 1919. Aged 19. Son of Hubert Norman
and Edith Kate Shaw, of "Granta", Harvey Goodwin Avenue,
Cambridge. Joined up from the Cambridge University O.T.C. Attained
the rank of Serjt. Birth registered im yhe July to September Quarter
1899 in the Chesterton Registration District, Cambridgeshire.
Born 30 June 1899, baptised 23 July 1899 at Cambridge St Luke's,
son of Edith Kate and Herbert Norman Shaw (he was a clerk at St
Augustines), of Glen Villa, 78 Richmond Road, Cambridge. In the
1901 census he was aged 1, son of Hubert N and Edith K Shaw, born
Chesterton, resident 78, Richmond Road, Chesterton, Cambridge.
In the 1911 census he is aged 11, son of Hubert Norman and Edit
Kate Shaw, born Chesterton, resident 35 Kimberley Road, Chesterton,
Cambridge. He attested 22 April 1918, aged 18, trade at the time
was Electrical Engineer, born 30 June 1899 in Cambridge, service
number 137459, graded Flight Cadet 29 July 1918, joined 23 Wing
21 March 1919. Buried in CAMBRIDGE (HISTON ROAD) CEMETERY, Cambridgeshire.
Plot 17. Row A. Grave 15. See also Cambridge
County High School and Cambridge
Guildhall
Extract from Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 25 April 1919, page 8:
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| SHAW | William |
Lieutenant,
second in command, "A" Company, 1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire
Regiment. Wounded 16th September 1916 during raid near St Pierre
Divion. Prisoner of War, at Cambrai, died of his wounds on Wednesday,
27th September 1916. Aged 23. Son of William and Alice Shaw, of
2, Tanner's Lane, Soham, Cambs. Scholar at Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge. Buried in PORTE-DE-PARIS CEMETERY, CAMBRAI, Nord, France.
Plot II. Row A. Grave 33. See also Cambridge
St Giles, Soham, Cambridge
St Mary the Less, Cambridge
County High School and Cambridge
Guildhall |
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| SMITH | William Hammond |
Captain
acting Major, "A" Battery, 52 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery,
killed in action 12th April 1917, age 31. Son of Charles Smith,
Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Annie his wife,
now of "Hartford," Newton Rd., Cambridge. Educated at St. Faith's
School, Cambridge, Blundell's School, Tiverton and Sidney Sussex
College, Cambridge. B.A. Artist, Student of Royal Academy, London
and Slade School of Art. Buried
in ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France.
See
also Cambridge All Saints,
Cambridge St Mary the Less
and
Cambridge Guildhall
and also Cambridge, St
Faith's School
SMITH, Major William Hammond, 52nd Brigade, R.F.A. Killed in action at Athies, near Roeux, in the battles of Arras, April 12th,1917, aged 31. At the school 1899-1900 ( School House ) Capt. W.H. Smith was the third son of the late master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Mrs Charles Smith, of Belvoir Terrace, Cambridge. He was only at Tonbridge for a year, from September 1899 to July 1900, when he left from the lower fifth and went to Blundells school, Tiverton. He went up to Sidney in 1904 with an Open Classical Exhibition, and also gained a College Exhibition and graduated in 1907,taking a 1st Div., Second class, in the Classical Tripos. Both at school and at college he was a keen athlete and gained his oar in the college boat in which he rowed 7, in June, 1905. He became an artist by profession and was regarded as an exceedingly promising painter. One of his works, a portrait, is in the Guildhall at Cambridge. On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission through the university O.T.C., and was gazetted to a temporary commission in the R.F.A., August 26th,1914. After eight months training he went to the front and was through much of the heaviest fighting, was promoted Temporary Lieutenant September 12th, 1915, and was twice mentioned in Despatches, in January, 1916, and in January, 1917. In 1915 he served at Festubert and elsewhere in the La Basse Sector, and then opposite the Hohenzollern Redoubt before and during the Battle of Loos, which began on September 25th. His battery was then transferred to the Ypres Sector, where they experienced severe fighting, especially opposite Hill "60". In 1916 they suffered heavily in the neighbourhood of Montauban in the battle of Albert, the first of the battles of the Somme, and after a rest took part in the battles of the Le Transloy Ridges and of the Ancre Heights in October and November. In December, they were in the Arras Sector. He had been for most of 1916 in command of the battery, and in December, 1916, though suffering from bronchitis, refused to go to the hospital till they were out of action. He had been detailed for a special course in gunnery, and having with difficulty obtained his discharge from hospital arrived home on Christmas Eve. On completing this course he returned to the front, and had been acting Major in command of the battery for some time. On April 12th, 1917, towards the end of the first battle of the Scarpe in the battle of Arras, 1917, he was watching an attack and directing his battery from an observation post at Athies, near Roeux, when a large German shell burst close by and a splinter entered his head rendering him immediately unconscious, and he died before reaching the Dressing Station. He was buried ear Athies. His Colonel wrote :- "I feel his loss very keenly, not only as the loss of a capable officer, but as the loss of a friend whose charming manners had endeared him to all of us, officers and men. No one could have thought less of personal danger than he did, and I cannot help wishing that he had been a little more careful of himself, even at the expense of the observation he was engaged in, for he had been exposing himself fearlessly in an attempt to locate the position reached by our infantry, and this undoubtedly drew the fire which was the cause of his death". The following appeared in the Cambridge local paper :- "His death will be deeply regretted by a wide circle of friends at Cambridge and elsewhere, for he was a man of a lovable disposition, combined with high intellectual attainments and lofty ideals". |
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| VINSON | Harry |
Probably:
Gunner 26349, Harry William Vinson, 86th Heavy Battery,
Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 31st December 1916, in the Persian
Gulf. Born and resident Layer-De-La-Haye, Essex, enlisted Colchester.
Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq. |
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| WOOTTEN | Hubert [Ross] |
Sergeant
11384, 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts &
Derby Regiment). Killed in action 9th August 1915. Born and resident
Cambridge, enlisted Derby. Son of Edwin Wootten, of 14, Willow
Walk, Cambridge, and the late Ellen Wootten. See also Cambridge
Holy Trinity. Commemorated
on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Cambridge
Holy Trinity. |
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| WRIGHT | George Edward |
Private,
8th Bt. Royal Fusiliers, d 7/7/1916, age 21, commemorated: THIEPVAL
MEMORIAL Somme, France. Son of John Wright, of 45, Lawrence Avenue,
Manor Park, Essex, and the late Jane Wright. See
also Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge
County High School |
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From
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