84375 Driver, 71st Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died Bermondsey Hospital, Lewisham, 21-12-17, age 24. Wisbech Borough Cemetery, Cambs, UK. Brother of below.

Captain, 1st East Yorkshire Regiment. killed in action 7-5-15, age 28. Eldest son of Thomas & Henrietta Markham, Popenhoe, Emneth. Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert.

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 1, Part 1, Page 244.

MARKHAM, JOHN ADDIS, Capt., 1st Battn. The East Yorkshire Regt., eldest s. of Thomas Markham, of Popenhoe, Wisbech, Norfolk, by his wife, Henrietta Jane, dau. of William Addle, of London; b. Faulkner House, Walpole-St-Peter, Wisbech, 31 Dec. 1886 ; educ. Dover College; gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the 1st East Yorkshires from the Militia, 27 May, 1908, and promoted Lieut. 3 Sept. 1910. He was appointed temporary Capt. 15 Nov. 1914, and this rank was made substantive, 6 Feb. 1915. He went to France with the 6th Division In Sept. 1914, and was mortally wounded by a sniper's bullet in the trenches near Armentières, 7 May, 1915, and died two hours later, being buried in Le Bizet Convent; unm. Major I. L. I. Clarke, commanding 1st East Yorkshires, wrote: "I looked upon Markham as my most reliable Company Commander, always cheery and a splendid example to all under him. He was beloved by his men, and exceedingly popular with his brother officers"; and Private John Brady, of his company: "He was the gentleman who led my platoon to the trenches on the Aisne, the platoon that was the first to come under the fire of the Germans' famous coalboxes. He laughed at those shells, bucked us up, making us so that we could not do anything else but follow him." Capt. Markham was a fine horseman, and in 1913 he won the East Yorkshire's Regimental Point-to-Point Race, on his horse, Loretto.

See also Emneth and Wisbech Grammar School

21955 Sgt, 118th Brigade Machine Gun Corps. killed in action 31-7-17. Lived 44 Ramnoth Road. Awarded Military Medal. Formerly 2260 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium. See also Liverpool Street Station, London

Extract from Wisbech Standard 1916:

AWARDS FOR BRAVERY.
MILITARY MEDAL FOR WALSOKEN
SOLDIER.
Comrade's Stirring Account of His
Bravery.

A stirring account of how a Walsoken soldier gained the Military Medal was given to our representative by a comrade, Pte. L. Fennilow, of Leverington, who is home on ten days' leave from the front. The brave soldier is Corpl. Robert Ernest Rawling, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rawling, of Ramnoth-road, Walsoken, whose three sons are all in the Army. Fred is in the Life Guards, Tom is in the Cambridgeshire Territorials, but attached to the Norfolks in France, while the one mentioned above is in the Machine Gun Corps. Mrs. Rawling had received a letter from her son to say he had won the Military Medal. Pte. Fennilow stated that he was in the same trench as Corporal Rawling in the big attack on Saturday, Oct. 14th, when the Cambridge Territorials made their name at the Schwaken Redoubt, their machine gun corps moving up with them. On the Sunday morning, he continued, "All our guns had been put out of action by the Germans with the exception of Corpl. Rawings'. The Germans attacked, but the Corporal with his gun succeeded in repulsing them on his own, and succeeded in driving them back. All our officers had been wounded, but one of the Cambridgeshire officers took us in charge, and lie recommended Rawlings for his gallantry. A day or two afterwards we were relieved, and Corpl. Rawlings went away, returning wearing the Military Medal. We were all proud of his success." It is a singular coincidence that Corpl. Rawling and Pte. Fennilow enlisted together on Sept. 4th, 1914, in the Cambs. Territorials, and went out to France together 21 months ago with the Machine Gun Section of the Cambs. Territorials, but were afterwards transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. They were the only two men from Wisbech district in their company. Before enlisting Corpl. Rawling was a goods clerk in the employ of the Great Eastern Railway Company.

Pte 5933600, 2nd Cambridgeshire Rgt, Suffolk Regiment. Died at sea 21-9-44, age 24, Prisoner of War. Singapore Memorial, Singapore. Also listed Walsoken.

possibly Frederick John Miller, Sgt, 2090365, 287 Field Coy Royal Engineers. Died 1-10-43, Prisoner of War, age 24. Thanbyusayat War Cemetery, Myanmur.

Able Seaman, C/JX 355305, HM LST 422, Royal Navy. Died 26-1-44, age 19. Son of George & Elizabeth Hotchen, of Finsbury. Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio, Italy.

Spr, Royal Engineers, 5933472. Died 1-8-43, Prisoner of War, age 27. Thanbyusayat War Cemetery, Myanmur.

Warrant Officer, 365571, Royal Air Force. Died 9-11-42, age 33. Son of Albert Percival & Winifred Oxenbury; husband of Enid Cynthia Oxenbury, of Walsoken. Wisbech (Walsoken) Cemetery, Norfolk.