ST
BURYAN WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 & 2 -
detailed information
Compiled and copyright © George Pritchard 2005
Researched Martin Edwards 2008
The
St Buryan memorial is on the right hand side of the churchyard wall
and sits in a recess with a Saxon Cross. The World War 1 inscriptions
are to be found on a plaque at the foot of the cross and on the ledge
is an additional plaque to those whoi died in World War 2. The memorial
was unveiled 3 June 1921 by Brig. Gen. Lord St. Levan, C.B., C.V.O.
and dedicated by Rev. A. Cornish, C.F. (Rector of St. Buryan). There
are 19 names listed for World War 1 and 5 for World War 2.
TO
THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PROUD AND
GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE
FROM ST BURYAN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918
BLEWETT,
MM |
Seth
|
[Spelt
BLEWITT on SDGW] Wheeler/Quartermaster Sergeant 17116, 11th Heavy
Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died on service 8 April 1918.
Aged 40. Born and resident St. Buryan, enlisted Penzance. Husband
of Jessie Blewitt, of High St., Wedipworth, Hunts. Awarded the Military
Medal (M.M.). Buried in NAMPS-AU-VAL BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France.
Plot I. Row B. Grave 28. |
CARBIS |
Francis
John aka Frank |
Private
345292, 16th (Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and Royal North Devon Hussars)
Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Killed in action 3 December 1917.
Enlisted Teignmouth, Devon, resident St Buryan, Cornwall. Buried
in JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza).
Section F. Grave 16. |
CHAPPLE |
Sydney
|
No
further information currently available |
COCK |
Hubert
Charles Langslow |
[Listed
as Herbert on memorial] Major, P.S.C. 17th Brigade attached to
Staff, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action in Persian Gulf
between 22 November 1915 and 24 November 1915. Born 6 February
1876 in Bengal and baptised 6 March 1876 in Allahabad Trinity
Church, Bengal, son of Charles Richard and Anna Cock. Twice Mentioned
in Despatches (MiD). No known grave. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL,
Iraq. Panel 4 and 61.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918, volum 2, page 73:
COCK,
HUBERT CHARLES LANGSLOW, Major, 23rd Peshawar Mountain
Battery R.G.A., elder s. of the late Major Charles Richard
Cock, D.A.A.G., Eastern Frontier Brigade (who was killed at the
siege of Khonoma, Naga Hills), by his wife, Anna (26, Scarsdale
Villas, Kensington, W.), 7th dau. of the late Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick
Pollock, 1st Bart. ; and gdson. of General James Cock, I.A. ;
b. Allahabad, North-West Provinces, 6 Feb. 1876 ; educ.
Margate ; Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich ; gazetted 2nd Lieut. R.A. 21 March, 1896 ; promoted
Lieut. 21 March, 1899 ; Capt. 2 Sept. 1901, and Major 30 Oct.
1914 ; was employed with the West African Frontier Force from
17 Jan. 1903 to 21 Jan. 1908; served (1) in the Kano-Sokoto Campaign
1903 (Medal with clasp) ; (2) in Northern Nigeria, 1906 (men¬tioned
in Despatches [London Gazette, 18 Sept. 1906) ; Clasp) ; entered
the Staff College in 1910 ; served (3) with the Indian Expedi¬tionary
Force at the Persian Gulf from Sept. 1914 ; was wounded before
getting to Basra in the following Nov., but returned to duty by
the 20th ; appointed Brigade Major to the 17th Brigade, and was
killed in action at the Battle of Ctesiphon, 22 Nov. 1915, being
shot through the heart while leading his men. Buried near the
Arch of Ctesiphon. A brother officer wrote: “I never came
across anyone who had served under him who did not wish to do
so again, and I am sure that if any devotion on the part of his
brother officers or subordinates could have saved him, it would
have come, and come from a sense of deep affection and respect."
Major Cock was twice mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes,
13 July and 25 July, 1915], for gallant and distinguished service
in the field ; unm.
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JEFFREY |
Thomas
|
No
further information currently available |
JELBART |
Selby
|
Sapper
150633, Inland Water Transport, Royal Engineers. Died in United
Kingdom 22 November 1917. Aged 21. Born St Buryan, enlisted St.
Just. Son of John Treweeke Jelbart and Phyllis Jelbart. Buried in
CROWS-AN-WRA WESLEYAN CHAPELYARD, Cornwall. |
JEWELLS |
[Albert]
Owen |
[Spelt
JEWELS on SDGW] Lance Corporal 494988, 77th Field Company, Royal
Engineers. Killed in action 1 April 1918. Born Camborne, enlisted
Penzance, resident St. Buryan. Buried in DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot VII. Row B. Grave 10. |
LEADER |
Benjamin
Eastlake |
Captain,
3rd Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) attached 2nd
Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). Killed
in action on the Somme 12 October 1916.Born 17 June 1877. Aged
39. Son of the late B. W. Leader, R.A., and Mary Eastlake Leader,
of Burrows Cross, Gomshall, Guildford; husband of Isabella Leader
(nee Anderson), of Rosemerrin, Bude, Cornwall. Educated at Charterhouse
and Cambridge. An Artist. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL
MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 5 D and 6 D. See also Charterhouse
School and also Trinity
College, Cambridge University
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1916:
LEADER
Benjamin Eastlake of Rosemerrin Saint Buryan Cornwall
captain 3rd Queen's West Surrey regiment died 12 October 1916
in France on active service Probate London 21
December to William Boyd Anderson writer.
Effects 6219 12S. 10d. Resworn £7053 10s. 4d.
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll Of Honour 1914-1918, volume3,
page 171:
LEADER,
BENJAMIN EASTLAKE, Capt., 3rd (Reserve) Battn. The Queen's
(Royal West Surrey Regt.), eldest s. of Benjamin William
Leader, of Burrows Cross, Gomshall, co. Surrey, R.A.. by his wife,
Mary, dan. of William Eastlake ; b. Worcester, 17 June,
1877 ; educ. Charterhouse ; Trinity College, Cambridge, and on
leaving there studied as a Landscape Painter under Sir H. Von
Herkomer, and later at Newlyn ; formed part of the Artists' Colony
at Lamorna, near Penzance, being for five years a well-known exhibitor
at the Royal Academy ; volunteered his services after the outbreak
of war ; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. The West Surrey Reg_ 25 Sept.
1914 ; promoted Lieut. 20 Nov. following, and Capt. 22 May, 1915
; served with the Expeditionary Force In France and Flanders from
Jan. 1915, and was killed in action at Le Transloy 12 Oct. 1916.
He m. at Glasgow, 8 Sept. 1910, Isabella (1, Grosvenor
Crescent, Glasgow), 3rd dau. of William Boyd Anderson, of Glasgow,
and had two children : Benjamin John, b. 7 June, 1914,
and Alison Mary, b. 1 June, 1916.
Extract
from Evening Mail - Monday 13 November 1916, page 3:
CAPTAIN
BENJAMIN EASTLAKE LEADER, Royal West Surrey Regiment,
killed on October 12, was the eldest son of Mr. B. W. Leader,
R.A., and was 39 years of age. He was educated at Charterhouse
School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He followed his father's
profession and studied at Bushey under Sir H. von Herkomer, and
afterwards at Newlyn. He formed part of the artists' colony at
Lamorna, near Penzance. He married in 1910 Isabella, third daughter
of Mr. W. Boyd Anderson, of Glasgow, and leaves two children.
At the beginning of the war he joined the Royal West Surrey Regiment
and attained the rank of captain. He had been at the front for
nearly two years.
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MATHEWS |
James
[Thomas] |
[Spelt
MATTHEWS on CWGC & SDGW] Private 31756, 1st Battalion, Duke
of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Died of wounds 14 April 1917. Aged
19. Born and resident St. Buryan, enlisted Exeter. Son of Phyllis
Lena Matthews, of St. Buryan, Cornwall, and the late Albert Matthews.
Formerly 3340, 1st Battalion, Devonshire Yeomanry. Buried in CABARET-ROUGE
BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, Pas de Calais, France. Plot XXIX. Row
A. Grave 27. |
OSBORNE |
Harry
William |
[Listed
as William Henry OSBORNE on SDGW and CWGC] Private 35165 [SDGW}
or 34165 [CWGC], 6th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. Died of wounds
24 August 1918. Aged 19. Born St Buryan, enlisted Helston. Son of
John and Charlotte Ann Osborne, of Nancegollan, Helston, Cornwall.
Buried in MAILLY WOOD CEMETERY, MAILLY-MAILLET, Somme, France. Plot
II. Row Q. Grave 13. |
PROWSE |
Andrew
|
Driver
207004, 464th Battery, 179th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Died
13 November 1918. Aged 26. Son of Joseph and Ellen T. Prowse, of
St. Buryan, Cornwall. Buried in TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE,
Pas de Calais, France. Plot X. Row E. Grave 21. |
PROWSE |
Joseph
|
Gunner
321236, 546th Siege Battery, Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) T.F.,
Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 11 October 1918. Aged
27. Born and enlisted St. Buryan. Son of Joseph and Ellen T. Prowse,
of Tregiffian Cliff, St. Buryan, Cornwall. No known grave. Commemorated
on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 6 to 7 and
162. |
STRICK |
Charles
aka Charley |
Private
2021225, 72nd Canadian Infantry, Canadian Infantry. Died of wounds
12 December 1918; admitted to 33 Casualty Clearing Station 5 November
1918 with wounds to the thigh, dangerously wounded, transferred
12 November 1918 to 26 General Hospital, Etaples, France, dangerously
ill still 1 December 1918, died of his wounds. Aged 30. Born 9 January
1888 in Cornwall. Son of Samuel and Margaret Jane Strick, of Crean,
St. Buryan, Cornwall formerly Bottoms, St. Buryan, Cornwall. Attested
24 October 1917 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, aged 29
years 9 months, Farm Labourer by trade, single, religious denomination
Church of England, height 5 feet 7¾ inches, weight 170lbs,
chest 39-42 inches, dark complexion, grey eyes, black hair. Originally
arrived in England aboard S.S. Metagama 11 March 1918, to France
15 August 1918. Buried in ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais,
France. Plot XLVII. Row D. Grave 11. National Archives of Canada
Accession Reference: Canadian
Expeditionary Force (CEF), RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 9382
- 39 |
STRICK |
John
|
Private
28795, 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed in action 4 September
1918. Aged 19. Born and resident Lamorna, Cornwall, enlisted Penzance,
Cornwall. Son of Charles and Mary Strick, of Lamarna, Penzance.
No known grave. Commemorated on PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Hainaut, Belgium.
Panel 6. |
STRICK |
William
|
Private
28005, 15th (Service) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed in action
20 September 1917. Aged 19. Born St. Burian, Cornwall, enlisted
Penzance, Cornwall. Son of Charles and Mary Strick, of Lamorna,
Penzance. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Panel 88 to 90. |
THOMAS |
Richard
|
Sapper
104936, 183rd Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action
1 December 1915. Born St. Ives, Cornwall, resident Penzance, Cornwall,
enlisted Whitehall, Middlesex. No known grave. Commemorated on PLOEGSTEERT
MEMORIAL, Hainaut, Belgium. Panel 1. |
TRENOWETH
|
Richard
|
Leading
Trimmer 3100/ST, H.M.S. "Attentive," Royal Naval Reserve.
Died 26 October 1918. Buried in ST. BURYAN CHURCH CEMETERY, Cornwall.
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THESE
ARE THEY WHO FOR GOD AND THEIR COUNTRY
JEPOARDED THEIR LIVES UNTO THE DEATH
THEREFORE THEY SHALL BE MINE SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS
IN THAT DAY WHEN I MAKE UP MY JEWELLS
AND
TO THE MEMORY OF THE FALLEN
1939 - 1945 |
BROWN |
Christopher
Thomas |
Lance
Sergeant 2732759, 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards. Died on service in
United Kingdom 8 April 1942. Aged 33. Son of William Telford Brown
and Elizabeth Brown; husband of Elizabeth Doris Brown, of Penberth,
Cornwall. Buried in CODFORD ST. MARY (ST. MARY) NEW CHURCHYARD,
Wiltshire. |
CHAPPLE |
Joseph
|
possibly
Joseph Sidney CHAPPLE, Chief Engineman LT/JX 157810, H.M.S. Sandown,
Royal Naval Patrol Service. Died 22 January 1945. Aged 45. Son of
Joseph Sidney and Esther Chapple; husband of Lily Rose Chapple,
of Shirley, Southampton. Buried in SOUTHAMPTON (HOLLYBROOK) CEMETERY,
Hampshire. Section K. 11. Grave 231. |
FAVELL |
Edward
Vernon Molyneux |
Major
75263, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry.
Killed in action 19 June 1944. Aged 27. Born Sheffield, resident
Cornwall. Son of Richard Vernon Favell and Alice Molyneux Favell,
of Penberth, Cornwall. In the 1921 census he was resident Penzance,
Cornwall. Buried in RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY, Calvados, France. Plot
IA. Row L. Grave 15.
Extract
from Western Morning News - Wednesday 5 July 1944, page
2:
Cornish
Major Killed
The
death in action is announced of Maj. Edward Vernon Molyneux Favell,
younger son of the late Dr. R. Vernon Favell and Mrs. Vernon Favell,
of Penberth, St. Buryan.
A
member of the Regular Army, he was serving with the airborne forces
at the time of his death. His elder brother is Com. Richard Favell,
D.S.C., R.N., submarine ace.
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GILBERT |
Joseph
Henry |
Flight
Sergeant (Navigator) 1602863, 166 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Flying in an Avro Lancaster III, serial number PB635, took
off from R.A.F. Kirmington on a night mission to Nurnberg; the aircraft
was hit by Flak (possibly American) and crashed west of Puttelenge,
France, 2 January 1945. Aged 22. Son of James Rominal Gilbert and
Mary Gilbert, of St. Buryan, Cornwall. Buried in CHOLOY WAR CEMETERY,
Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Plot 2. Row C. Collective grave 3. |
LUGG |
Sidney
John Penrose |
Warrant
Officer (Air Gunner) 1354463, 620 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Died 29 June 1945. Aged 23. Son of Sidney and Elizabeth
Jane Lugg, of St. Buryan. Buried in ST. BURYAN CHURCH CEMETERY,
Cornwall. N.E. Corner. Row 3. Grave 46. |
"THEIR
NAME LIVETH FOREVER"
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2 May, 2022
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