CAMBRIDGE
ST. MARY THE GREAT WAR MEMORIAL
World War 1 & 2 - Roll
of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2002 Dave Edwards
additional information by David Manning
This
memorial is a stone plaque inside the church.
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Photographs
copyright © Chris Harley 2005 |
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TO
THE MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THIS CHURCH
WHO DIED IN THE WAR, 1914-1919, THE EAST
WINDOW IN ST ANDREW'S CHAPEL IS DEDICATED
These
died for their country
1914 - 1919
ARMSTRONG |
Christopher
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His
birth was registered in the October to December Quarter 1888 in
the Chesterfield Registration District. In the 1891 census he was
the son of Charles and Beatrice Armstrong, aged 2, born Chesterfield,
Derbyshire, resident Masters Lodge, Selwyn College, Cambridge. In
the 1901 census he was a boarder, aged 12, a student born Cambridge,
resident "Elmhurst", Petition Road, Torquay. In the 1911
census he was the son of Charles and Beatrice Armstrong, aged 22,
a brewing Pupil, born Chesterfield, Derbyshire, resident The Grove,
Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.
Possibly
Christopher Armstrong, Second Lieutenant, 14th Battalion, Royal
Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) attached to 6th Battalion,
North lancashire Regiment. Killed in action 9 April 1916.
See
also Cambridge Guildhall |
BOUGHEY |
Anchitel
Edward Fletcher |
Lieutenant
8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade who died on Thursday, 10th October
1918. Aged 26. Son of the Rev. A. H. F. Boughey (Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge) and Katharine A. Boughey, of 4, Cranmer Rd.,
Cambridge. CE. Officers. Buried in GRANGEGORMAN MILITARY CEMETERY,
County Dublin, Ireland. Grave 26.
See
also Cambridge St Giles
and Cambridge
Guildhall and
also Cambridge, St Faith's
School
Extract
from de Ruvigny' s Roll of Honour Volume 2, Part 5, Page
18:
BOUGHEY,
Anchitel Edward Fletcher - Lieutenant, 8th (Service)
Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consorts Own)
Youngest
son of the Rev.Anchitel Harry Fletcher Boughey, Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, by his wife,Katharine Annie, dau. of I. S.
Lovell of Thornby, co.Northampton; born Cambridge 6th Nov1891;
educated Marlborough College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 1st Cambridgeshire
Regiment, 5th Feb. 1910; resigned his commission in 1913; went
to Canada in that year, and settled at Montreal, where he was
on the staff of the Bank of Montreal; returned to England immediately
on the outbreak of war, and volunteering for active service, was
gazetted 2nd Lieut. 8th Rifle Brigade 14th Sept. 1914; served
with The Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from May 1915;
was wounded at Hooge the following July, and invalided home; on
recovery, not being passed as fit for active service, was appointed
Instructor to an Officers Cadet Battn., and was subsequently given
a post at the War Office; proceeded to Ireland in Sept.1918, on
special recruiting work, and, returning to England on the S.S.
Leinster, was drowned when that ship was torpedoed in the Irish
Sea, 10th Oct. 1918. Buried in Dublin Military Cemetery. His General
( in Ireland) wrote: "His sad fate has cast a gloom over
all those here who knew him. For myself I feel that I have lost
a true friend." A few days before his death his appointment
as staff captain was recommended and approved. Unm.
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COOKE |
Christopher
Arthur Gresham |
Midshipman,
HMS Vanguard, Royal Navy. Killed in action 9 July 1917. Aged 18.
Son of Arthur Cooke, F.R.C.S., and Lucy Vivien Cooke, of Grove
Lodge, Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on CHATHAM NAVAL
MEMORIAL, Kent, United Kingdom. Panle 20.
Extract
from de Ruvigny' s Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Volume 2,
Part 4, Page 35
COOKE,
Christopher Arthur Gresham - Midshipman, Royal Navy
Eldest son of Lieut-Col Arthur Cook, of Grove Lodge, Cambridge,
R.A.M.C.(T.F) by his wife, Lucy Vivien, dau. of John Collyer;
Born Cambridge, 16th June,1899; educated St.Peters Court, Broadstairs,
and the Royal Naval College at Osborne and Dartmouth; joined the
Navy in May 1912; served in H.M.S.
Aboukir, which was torpedoed 22nd Sept, 1914; later he served
in H.M.S.Vanguard; took part in the Jutland Battle and was killed
in action 9th July,1917, by an explosion. His Commanding Officer
wrote: "He was such an exceptionally brilliant young officer,
and I know Capt. Dick had a vert high opinion of him; so much
so that he specially selected him for his personal staff in action."
Unm
See
also Cambridge Holy Sepulchre
and Cambridge Guildhall
and
also Cambridge, St Faith's
School |
CRAFT |
Cecil
Edward |
Pte.
13th Bt. Middlesex Reg., died 21/3/1918, commemorated:
POZIERES MEMORIAL Somme, France. |
CUNNINGHAM |
James
Michael |
Captain,
7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 28th March 1918.
Age 39. Son of William Cunningham, D.D., and Adele Rebecca Cunningham;
husband of Bertha M. Cunningham, of 2, St. Paul's Rd., Cambridge.
Buried in GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France.
Plot II Row G Grave 16. See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Perse School |
DARLING |
Frederick
George |
Private
40299, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action
7 September 1918. Enlisted Cambridge. Son of Mrs. Louisa Darling,
of 90, Tring St., Cambridge. Formerly 4237, Suffolk Regiment. Buried
in ROYAL IRISH RIFLES GRAVEYARD, LAVENTIE Pas de Calais, France.
See also Cambridge Guildhall
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GOODCHILD |
John
Stanley |
Pte.
Suffolk Yeomanry, died 29/11/1915, commemorated: HELLES MEMORIAL
Turkey. |
HARRIS |
Gilbert
Neville |
Lance
Corporal G/9033, 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London
Regiment). Killed in action 6 June 1915. Born and resident Cambridge,
enlisted Dover. His birth was registered in the July to September
Quarter 1892 in the Cambridge Registration District. He was baptised
31 August 1892 at St Barnabas Church, Cambridge, son of Thomas William
(a tobacconist) and Harriotte (sic) Harris, of Willis Road, Cambridge.
In 1901 he was a Boarder, aged 8, a School Pupil, born Cambridge
and resident Shortmead Street, Biggleswade. On 2 March 1909 he enlisted
(Territorial Force Attestation) in the 2nd Home Counties Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery, aged 17, born Great St Mary's, Cambridge,
a Draper with Plumisnnet Reddis (sic), resident 10b Queen's Road,
Hastings, height 5 feet 6½ inches, girth 34 inches; service
no. 302, he served 4 years with the Territorials being discharged
28 February 1913; his next of kin were listed as being at 6 Petty
Cury, Cambridge. In the 1911 census he was a Sales Assistant, aged
18, born Cambridge, resident 10b Queens Road, Hastings. No known
grave. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey (including Gallipoli).
Panel 37 to 41 or 328. See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Cambridge
County High School |
HARRIS |
Bertie
Archibald Blinkhorn |
Pte.
1st Bt. Cambridgeshire Reg., died 4/9/1917, age 31, buried:
VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES No.1 and No. 2 Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Son of Thomas William Harris, of 34, Glisson Rd., Cambridge; husband
of Eleanor Annie Harris, of 15, Malcolm St., Cambridge. See
also Cambridge All Saints
and Cambridge
Guildhall |
HOPKINS |
Edward
Favill George |
Second
Lieutenant, 181st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed
in action 30 March 1917. Aged 19. Baptised 5 December 1897 at Cambridge,
All Saints, son of Edward Jodrell and Augusta Maud Harriette Hopkins,
of 31 Jesus Lane, Cambridge. Son of Mr. E. J. Hopkins, of 15, Hills
Rd., Cambridge. In the 1901 census he was aged 3, born Cambridgeshire,
son of Edward Jodrell and Augustin M H Hopkins, resident 31, Jesus
Lane, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Buried in AIZECOURT-LE-BAS CHURCHYARD Somme, France. Grave 1.
See also Cambridge Guildhall
and Fen Ditton and also Cambridge,
St Faith's School |
KIRKUP |
Alfred
William |
Corporal
325671, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action
26 September 1917. Aged 27. Born and enlisted Cambridge. Son of
Alfred and Alice Kirkup, of 75, King St., Cambridge. Employed Cambridge
& District Co-operative Society Ltd. Formerly 2354, Cambridgeshire
Regiment. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel
148. See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Cambridge
Holy Trinity |
KNOTT |
Charles
Singleton |
Second
Lieutenant, "C" Company, 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.
Killed in action 23rd March 1918. Aged 19. Son of Mr. and Mrs Hammett
C. Knott, of 8, Cranmer Rd., Cambridge. Head boy of the Perse School,
Cambridge, and Scholar-elect of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
in the 1911 census he was the son of Hemmett Charles and Ada Maude
Knott, aged 12, at school, born Cambridge and resident 8 Cranmer
Road, Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL,
Somme, France. Panel 19 to 21. Also
listed on family gravestone in St Giles churchyard. Grave
1A24. See
also Perse School and Cambridge
St Giles and Cambridge
Guildhall |
MANN,
MM |
George
Henry |
Serjeant
235374, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. Died of wounds
1 October 1918. Aged 28. Born Chesterton, enlisted Cambridge. Formerly
1343, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Awarded the Military Medal (M.M.).
Son of Henry John Mann, of 177, Victoria Rd., Chesterton, Cambridge.
IN the 1911 census he was aged 20, son of Henry John and Susan Mann,
a Printer Compositor Apprentice, born Chesterton, resident with
his parents at 177 Victoria Road, Chesterton, Cambridge. Buried
in ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN Seine-Maritime, France. Section
R. Plot III. Row I. Grave 10. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall,
Cambridge
St Lukes
and
Cambridge University Press |
MORGAN
|
Fothergill
Lewis |
2nd
Lt. 1st/7th Bt. London Reg., died 3/12/1917,
age 28, buried: ROCQUIGNY-EQUANCOURT ROAD BRITISH CEMETERY, MANANCOURT
Somme, France. Son of Lewis James and Ellen Morgan, of Abergavenny,
Mon.; husband of Ethel B. Morgan, of "Langstone," Milton Rd., Cambridge.
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PHEAR |
Henry
John |
Lieutenant,
Royal Field Artillery, attached 14th Army Brigade. Died of wounds
17 October 1917. Aged 28. Born in Cape Province. Son of Mr. H. H.
Phear, of Salisbury, Rhodesia. In the 1901 census he was aged 11,
born Kimberley, South Africa, a school boarder, resident The Grange,
St Annes Road, Eastbourne, Sussex. Buried in ADINKERKE MILITARY
CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Row G. Grave 6. Also commemorated
on Charterhouse
School, Goalming, Surrey, and also Holborn Metropolitan Borough
Council War Memorial, Camden, London. |
PHEAR |
Norman
Carlyon |
2nd
Lt. 27 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, died 20/11/1917, age 19, buried:
LAPUGNOY MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France. Son of Henry Herbert
and Alice Mary Phear, of Salisbury, Rhodesia. Observer with 27 Sqn.
RFC. Killed in flying accident in a DH.4, with pilot Lt. Harold
Edgar Darrington (ex-9th Battn., Middx.Regt. and 5th Battn., London
Regt.; from Wanstead ,Essex, aged 24 - also killed). |
PLATTS |
Edgar
Lovell [Filmer] |
Lieutenant,
1st Royal Marine Battalion, Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Light
Infantry. Missing, later reported killed in action 28 April 1917.
Aged 17. Son of Mrs. Jessie Platts, of 38, Harcourt Terrace, Earl's
Court, London, and the late Rev. C. Platts; brother of John Carrick
Platts (below). Gazetted Sept., 1915. In the 1901 census he was
aged 1, born Cambridge, son of Jessie and Mary D Platts, resident
34, Station Road, Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS
MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France.
Bay 1.
See also Cambridge Guildhall
and
Cambridge, St Faith's School
Note:
The youngest officer killed in World War 1, aged 17. Officer Commanding
12th Platoon, 'C' Company, 1st Royal Marine Battalion 23 February
19/17; he was ex-London Z/1623 Ordinary Seaman Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve, Public Schools Battalion, enlisted 30 April 1915, transferred
to Royal Marine Light Infantry as CH/833/S for Cyclist Company
21 June 1915; Discharged to commission 3 September 1915 as Temporary
2nd Lieutenant, Royal Marines; proceeded on visit to British Expeditionary
Force (BEF) in the field in France 2-10 April 1916; served with
the Royal Marine Battalion in Ireland (Sybil Point) 26 April 1916-14
May 1916 (Irish Rebellion, "Easter Rising"); in draft
for British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 1 July 16, joined 1st Royal
Marine Battalion 18 August 1916, went to Bomb School 5 September
1916-8 September 1916, accidentally wounded by bomb (cut under
right eye), rejoined 1st Royal Marine Battalion 9 September 1916-13
November 1916, gunshot wound to hand, invalided to United Kingdom
15 November 1916; in draft for British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
7 February 1917, joined 1st Royal Marine Battalion 23 February
1917 until his death.
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PLATTS |
John
Carrick |
Captain,
17th Cavalry attached to 10th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Lancers
(Hodson's Horse) formerly (Transport Officer) 11th Battalion,
Suffolk Regiment. Died 7 March 1920. Aged 22. Baptised 6 June
1897 in Cambridge, St Giles, son of Jessie and Charles Platts,
of Chesterton Lane, Cambridge. Son of Jessie Platts, of 38, Harcourt
Terrace, Earl's Court, London, and the late Rev. Charles Platts;
brother of Edgar Lovell Filmer Platts (above). In
the 1901 census he was aged 3, son of Jessie Platts, resident
34, Station Road, Cambridge. Buried in BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR
CEMETERY, Iraq.
Plot XVIII. Row E. Grave 3. See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Cambridge,
St Faith's School
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1920:
PLATTS
John Carrick of 80 Huntingdon-road Cambridge
died 7 March 1920 in Mesopotamia Administration London
18 August to the reverend Charles Platts clerk.
Effects £407 18s. 6d.
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1924:
PLATTS
John Carrick of 20 Huntingdon-road Cambridge
died 7 March 1920 in Mesopotamia Administration London
3 April to Thomas Benjamin Bainbridge solicitor and Francis Henry
Brown gentleman. Effects £100.
Former Grant P.R. August 1920..
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RAYNER |
Donald
|
Lieutenant,
1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 8th August
1918. Aged 25. Son of George Green Rayner and Flora G. Rayner, of
"Glebelands," Grange Rd, Cambridge.
In the 1911 census he was the son of George Green and Flore Gertrude
Rayner, aged 17, a Student, born Cambridge and resident with his
parents at Glebelands, Grange Road, Cambridge. Buried in RIBEMONT
COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Somme, France. See also Cambridge St
Mary the Great.
Plot I. Row D. Grave 2. See also Cambridge
St Mark's
and
Cambridge
Guildhall
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SORLEY |
Charles
Hamilton |
Captain,
7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment who died on Wednesday, 13th October
1915. Aged 20. Son of Mr. W. R. and Mrs. J. C. Sorley, of St. Giles',
Chesterton Lane, Cambridge. Sorley was educated at Marlborough and
won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He enlisted in
August 1914 and soon found himself in the trenches; he made Captain
in August, 1915. Sorley was killed in action at Loos in October
of the same year. His 'Marlborough and Other Poems' was published
in 1916 and ran into four editions. It was said that Sorley had
a real gift for rhyming. His verse was first published posthumously
in "Marlborough and Other Poems" (Cambridge University
Press) and an account of his service, with a photo, appeared in
"For Remembrance - ed. A. St. J. Adcock - Hodder & Stoughton,
1918 ; repub. by Naval & Military Press, 2002. He has been anthologised
in "Men Who March Away" - ed. I. M. Parsons, Hogarth Press,
1987, & "The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry"
- ed. Jon Silkin, Penguin, 1979. Sorley had studied in Germany pre-war
and had a close attachment to the country and its people, which
gives his war poetry a particular irony.
No known grave. Commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais,
France. Panel 37 and 38. See also Cambridge
St Giles
and
Cambridge
Guildhall |
WOOD |
Patrick
Bryan Sandford |
Lieutenant,
67th Wing, Royal Air Force who died on Friday, 24th May 1918.
Aged 19. Son of Charles Wood (Fellow of Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge), and Charlotte Georgina Wood, of 17, Cranmer Rd., Cambridge.
In the 1911 census he is the son of Charlotte Georgina WWood,
aged 12, at school, born Cambridge, living with hism mother at
17 Cranmer Road, Cambridge. Buried in TARANTO TOWN CEMETERY EXTENSION,
Italy. Plot III. Row A. Grave 2. See
also Cambridge St Giles and
Cambridge Guildhall
Killed
in a flying accident while serving as pilot with 226 Sqn., Pizzone,
Italy; killed flying a DH.4, with observer AM 1 Frederick Johnstone
(226106), ad 21, from Inverallen, Kincardineshire - also killed.
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WITT |
Ernest
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Probably:
Pte. Ernest Albert Witt, 1st Bt. Suffolk Reg., died 8/5/1915,
commemorated: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. |
WITT |
William
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Possibly:
Pte. William Hugh Witt, 2nd Bt. Suffolk Reg., died 26/8/1914,
commemorated: LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL Seine-et-Marne, France.
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Their
name liveth for evermore.
1939
- 1945 |
COOKE,
DFC |
Nicholas
Gresham |
Flt.
Lt., 264 Sqdn., R.A.F., died 31/5/1940, age 26, commemorated: RUNNYMEDE
MEMORIAL Surrey, United Kingdom. Son of Arthur Cooke, and of Lucy
Vivien Cooke, of Cambridge. |
GOODCHILD |
John
Mowbray |
Pte.
5th Bt. Suffolk Reg., died 11/10/1943, age 22, buried:
CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY Thailand. Son of Harold Hicks Goodchild, and
Agnes Joyce Wharton Goodchild, of Cambridge. |
HARDY |
Leonard
|
Sub-Lt.
HMS Ringtail, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, died 9/7/1945, age
25, commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL Hampshire, United Kingdom.
Son of William Alfred and Florence Hardy, of Cambridge. |
NICE |
Leonard
Vincent |
L/Cpl.
2nd Bt. Cambridgeshire Reg., died 21/9/1944, age 35,
commemorated: SINGAPORE MEMORIAL Singapore. Son of Frank Osborn
Nice and Eliza Nice, of Cambridge. |
RODERICK |
Alan
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Able
Seaman, HMS Broadwater, Royal Navy, died 18/10/1941, age
24, commemorated: PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL Devon, United
Kingdom. Son of Henry Buckley Roderick and Hilda Mary Roderick,
of Cambridge. |
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SEWELL |
Kenneth
Randolph |
Sgt.
Observer, 35 Sqdn., R.A.F.V.R., died 15/8/1941, age 25, buried:
REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.
Son of Alfred Randolph and Margaret Sewell; husband of Marjorie
Sewell, of St. Albans, Hertfordshire. |
Last updated
22 May, 2022
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