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ELSWORTH ROLL OF HONOUR - Handwritten Plaque

World War 1 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Martin Edwards
updated by Paul Harding

A handwritten Roll of Honour for those serving in World War 1 was to be found inside the church hanging from the wall but now the original framed Roll of Honour appears to have been lost/destroyed. Interestingly the war is referred to as the European War. The names were transcribed from the photograph and some were partially illegible but Paul Harding has rectified this. The poppy denotes those men killed during the conflict.


Photographs Copyright © Martin Edwards - 2001

ROLL OF HONOUR for the Parish of Elsworth EUROPEAN WAR 1914
The following were serving in the Army when war was declared.
	Pte Charles Cooper	Pte Charles Lyon
	Pte Arthur Circus	Pte Thomas Thurlow
	Pte Robert Day	L Cpl John Smith
	Cpl Charles Day	Pte William Circus
	Pte Harry Kemp
The following answered the call to arms, King & Country in the time of peril.
	Pte. George Rolt	Pte John Hinson
	Pte. Arthur Desborough	Pte Ephraim Dawson
	Pte Israel Parnwell	Pte James Tabraham
	Pte Harold Allgood	Pte George Fountain
	L Cpl William Braybrook	Pte James Canwell
	Pte Thomas Circus	Pte William Parnwell
	L Cpl Herbert Desborough	Capt Arthur Tibbits
	L Cpl George Driver	Pte Percy Longhurst
	Pte Herbert Driver	Pte Daniel Taylor
	L Cpl Arthur Dawson	Pte Walter Day
	Pte Edwin Lyon	Pte Frank Kirby
	Pte Harold Witherow	Pte Charles Clark
	Pte George Day	Pte Jonathan Barnes
	Pte Frank Cooper	Pte Frederick Brand
	Pte John Desborough	Pte Thomas Buckley
	Pte Frederick Childerley	Pte Sydney Wright
	Pte King Clarke

Those who died from scroll

CHILDERLEY	Frederick	G/18129. Royal West Kent Regiment. Died 30th September 1916. Aged 19. Son of Mrs Francis Childerley, Paddock Row, Elsworth. Serre Road Cemetery No. 1. See also Elsworth From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny' s Roll of Honour the following: Volume 2, Part 3, Page 53 - (different spelling in Roll of Honour) CHILDENLEY, Frederick - Private, No 18129, 7th (Service) Battalion, The Queens Own (Royal West Kents) Eldest son of the late John Childenley, by his wife Francis (Paddock Row, Elsworth, co Cambridge), dau of William Tabraham. Born Elsworth aforesaid, 16th April, 1897; educated there, was an Agricultural Labourer; enlisted 29th March, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 27th August; was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at Thiepval on 30th Sept, 1916, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. Unm.
CIRCUS	Thomas [Edwin]	[Listed as Private] Lance Cpl. 11th Battalion Suffolk Regiment Son of Thomas and Sarah Circus, Brook St Elsworth. Killed 28th April 1917. Aged 28. Arras Memorial. See also Elsworth
CLARKE	Charles	Private, 6th Battalion Northants Regiment. Private 43036. Born Bourne, Cambs. Enlisted Huntingdon. Died 15/12/17. Formerly 26724 Bedfordshire Regiment. Aged 28. Son of Emily Clark of Alms Hill, Bourn, Cambs and the late Charles Clark. Buried Niederzwehren Cemetery, Germany. See also Elsworth
CLARKE	King [Richard]	[Spelt CLARKE on memorial] Private 2617A, 47th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. killed in action at Passchendaele 12th October 1917. Aged 24. Born Elsworth, 1893. Son of Alfred King Clark and Eleanor Stone (nee Lack) Clark, of Brockley Rd., Elsworth. Enlisted 17th August 1915 at Brisbane, into the 25th Battalion. He was sent to Egypt for about 12 months, after which he was transferred to the 47th Battalion and sent to Belgium. Born near Cambridge. Labourer by trade. Previously spent 3 years in the Suffolk Regiment prior to emigrating. In the 1901 census he lived at the Plough Inn in Brooke Street with his parents and 2 of his sisters. Buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot XXXIX. Row F. Grave 16. See also Elsworth
CROSS	Arthur	Private. No further information currently available
DAY	Walter	[Memorial states 11th Battalion Suffolk Regiment 1st July 1916. Thiepval Memorial - details extracted from Cambridge Independent Press 16 June 1916] Coldstream Guards. Killed in action 18 May 1916. Served three years in the Metropolitan Police. See also Elsworth
DESBOROUGH	Herbert	[Listed as Lance Corporal] Corporal. 14436. 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Thursday, 3rd August 1916. Aged 28. Son of William & Louisa Desborough. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. See also Elsworth
DESBOROUGH	John	Private 3/10210. 1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment. Died 19th Feb 1918. Aged 28. Husband of Dorothy Alma Desborough of Cowdell End, Elsworth. Colougne Southern Cemetery. See also Elsworth
DRIVER	George [Percy]	[Listed as Lance Corporal] Corporal. 14432. 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. 1st July 1916. Aged 24. Son of Thomas and Lydia Driver. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. See also Elsworth
HINSON	John	Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own). Rifleman S/5682. Born Elsworth. Enlisted St Neots. Resident Knapwell. Died 12/9/18. Commemorated Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas De Calais. See also Elsworth
KIRBY	Frank [Philip]	London Regiment. 3rd (City of London) Battalion (Royal Fusiliers). Private 4404. Died 23/9/16. Enlisted London. Resident Elsworth. Aged 25. Only son of Frank and Mary Ann Kirby, Elsworth, Cambs. Husband of Mary Ann Kirby, Elsworth. Boisguillaume Communal Cemetery, Seine Maritime, France. See also Elsworth
PARNWELL	Israel	Private 325886 1/1st Cambs Regiment. Died 26th September 1917. Aged 23. Son of Frederick and Sarah Parnwell, Brook Street, Elsworth. Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke. See also Elsworth
SMITH	John	Lance Corporal 3/8287, 2nd. Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment. 3rd, Division. Killed in action on the Somme 16th August 1916. Son of Mr.Smith & Mrs Edith Smith of Church Lane, Elsworth. Born in Lewisham. Enlisted in Cambridge. Commemorated on The Thiepval Memorial MR.21. See also Elsworth

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