Roll of Honour - Huntingdonshire

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Private 16414, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Died of wounds whilst prisoner of war 30 December 1917, aged 25. Born Glatton (1892), enlisted Old Fletton, resident Glatton, Hunts. On the 1911 Census Harry was a horseman, aged 18, living with his parents in Glatton. Son of William and Selina Butt; brother of Florence, Ethel, Elsie, Leslie and Penelope. Buried in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Germany. Plot XX. Row A. Grave 5.

Private 43112, 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action Boom Ravine 17 February 1917, aged 20. Formerly 26588, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Born Washingley (1896), enlisted Peterborough, resident Washingley. On the 1911 Census Ernest was a Labourer, aged 15, living with his parents in Four Lodges, Washingley, Hunts. Son of John and Caroline Hadman; brother of Millie and Elijah. Four Lodges, Washingley, Huntingdonshire. No known grave. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Panels 11A and 11D.

Private G/20239, 23rd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Killed in action during an attack on Dammstrasse near Messines on 7 June 1917, aged 20. Born Great Gidding (1896), enlisted Huntingdon, resident Glatton. On the 1911 Census Arnold was a Farm Labourer, aged 14, living with his parents in Glatton. Son of Arthur William and Eliza Inglesby, Glatton, Hunts; brother of James, Gertrude, Edith, Lily, Violet and Ellen. No known grave. Commemorated on Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panels 49 to 51.

Private 26111, 3rd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died at home 15 March 1916, aged 19. Born Glatton (1896), enlisted Huntingdon, resident Glatton, Hunts. On the 1911 Census he was a schoolboy, aged 14, living with his grandmother Elizabeth Savage in High Street, Somersham. Son of Firman and Catherine Susan Savage, Glatton. Buried in Glatton (St. Nicholas) Churchyard, Huntingdonshire.

Extract from Peterborough Standard - Saturday 8 July 1916, page 8:

GLATTON.

GIFT TO THE CHURCH—A beautiful double pica folio Prayer Book has been presented to the Church by Mrs. F. Savage, in memory of her son, George Edward Savage, who died March 15th, 1916. It is bound in Turkey Morocco, with gilt edges. On the cover outside, in gilt letters, is “St. Nicholas Church, Glatton,” on the inside of the same cover, done in gilt letters, is the inscription:—“To the Glory of God. In loving Memory, George Edward Savage, 3rd Beds. Regt., who died of pneumonia March 15th, 1916, in his twentieth year, while serving his country in the War.”

GLATTON WAR MEMORIAL