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WICKEN WAR MEMORIAL

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The memorial is on the village green (Pond Green), Wicken, and takes the form of an stone obelisk. There are eight names listed for World War 1 and four for World War 2.

Wicken © Doug Ireland (WMR-8403)

1914 – 1919

"They loved not their lives unto the death." – Rev. 12, 11.

BAILEY	Fred	Gunner 90313, 277th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 27 June 1919. Aged 31. Son of Mrs. H. Bailey, of Wicken; husband of Ethel Bailey, of Chapel Rd., Wicken, Ely, Cambs. Buried in COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY, Koln (Cologne), Nordrhein-Westfal, Germany. Plot IX. Row E. Grave 18.
BAILEY	Leslie Morris	Private 138719, 19th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Died of wounds 8 November 1918. Born and resident Wicken, enlisted Newmarket. Formerly 616283, London Regiment. Buried in DELSAUX FARM CEMETERY, BEUGNY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot III. Row A. Grave 4.
BAILEY	Robert Joseph William	Private G/18808, 7th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Killed in action 3 May 1917.Enlisted Bury St Edmunds, resident Wicken, Formerly 5870, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). No known grave. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7.
HALL	Arthur George	Drummer (Private) 13955, 8th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 3 June 1916. Aged 20. Born Wicken, enlisted Newmarket. Son of John and Eliza Hall, of 3, High St., Wicken, Soham, Cambs. Buried in BRONFAY FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BRAY-SUR-SOMME, Somme, France. Plot I. Row A. Grave 6.
NORMAN	Percy Robert	Private 13970, 8th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 12 October 1917. Aged 21. Born Wicken, enlisted Newmarket. Son of Nathan and Charlotte E. Norman, of North St., Wicken, Soham, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 40 to 41 and 162 to 162A.
RUMBELOW	Charles William	Private G/13263, 10th Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Died in United Kingdom 2 June 1917. Aged 20. Born and resident Wicken, enlisted Newmarket. Son of George and L. Rumbelow, of Chapel Lane, Wicken. Buried in WICKEN CEMETERY, Cambridgeshire. Grave 245.
SCRIVENER	William	Private 26728, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 9 August 1916. Aged 31. Born Wicken, enlisted Bury St Edmunds. Son of Robert and Rachel Scrivener, of Wicken, Soham, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A.
SENNITT	William [Henry]	Private 7453, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment who was killed in action Friday, 5th March 1915. Aged 30. Born Stretham, enlised Ely, resident Soham. Son of Harry and Susan Sennitt; husband of Dora Alice Sennitt, of Upware, Soham, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 31 and 33. Also listed on Swaffham Fen Methodist memorial
"This monument is erected in grateful memory of the men from this Parish who served in His Majesty's Forces and died in the Great War." 1939 – 1945
BAILEY	Frederick William	Lance Corporal 2623007, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Killed in action in Western Europe 29 April 1945. Aged 23. Born and resident Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Youngest son of George and Eliza Sarah Bailey, of “Afterway,” Wicken, Cambridgeshire. In the 1939 Register he was born 21 January 1922, an Agricultural Labourer, single, son of George and Eliza S Bailey, resident Afterway, Stretham Road, Wicken, Newmarket R.D., Cambridgeshire. Buried in BECKLINGEN WAR CEMETERY, Soltau, Niedersachsen, Germany. Plot 3. Row A. Grave 3. [Corporal on memorial] Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1945: BAILEY Frederick William of Afterway Wicken Cambridgeshire died 29 April 1945 on war service Administration Peterborough 2 November to George Bailey agricultural labourer. Effects £293 2s. 4d.
FITCH	Eric Ronald	Private 14577070, 14th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Died of wounds in Italy 14 March 1944. Aged 20. Born and resident Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Son of Charles and Lena Rose Fitch, of Wicken, Cambridgeshire. In the 1939 Register he was born 20 June 1923, on Land Work, single, son of Charles and Rose (Lena) Fitch, resident Upware Road, Wicken, Newmarket R.D., Cambridgeshire. Buried in BEACH HEAD WAR CEMETERY, ANZIO, Italy. Plot VII. Row E. Grave 1.
MARTIN	Ernest Henry	Private 5933772, 2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died during the Battle for Singapore against the Japanese between 14 and 15 February 1942. Aged 23. Born 14 July 1918 in the Isle of Ely, baptised 18 August 1918 in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, son of Joseph Henry and Mary Elizabeth Martin, of Hook Street, Littleport, Cambridgeshire. Husband of Anne Christina Martin, of Newmarket, Suffolk. No known grave. Commemorated on SINGAPORE MEMORIAL, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Column 59.
RUMBELOW	Claude Walter George	Gunner 1142116, 454 Battery, 3 Mountain Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died of wounds in Western Europe 26 March 1945. Aged 22. Born and resident Wicken, Ely, Cambridgeshire. Buried in REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Plot 53. Row C. Grave 1. [Spelt Claud on memorial] Extract from Ely Standard in 1945: KILLED ON THE RHINE. A letter recently received by Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Rumbelow, of Wicken, from the Commanding Officer of the R.A. Battery to which their son—Gnr. Claude Rumbelow—was attached, gives the sad news that he was killed in action during, the battle of the Rhine crossing, at Marienbaum, Germany, in March. He had been overseas only a few days. His officer speaks of him as ... “an excellent fellow, whom all liked immensely and miss very much.” In February last, Gnr. Rumbelow was married, and spent his honeymoon at Wicken. Before joining up three years ago, he was employed by Mr. A. Hawes, of Padney. Much sympathy is extended to the family in their sad loss.

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