KEYSOE
- War Memorial
World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed
information
Compiled and copyright © 2001 Brenda Asplin
with additional information by Lynda Smith
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Keysoe War Memorial
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Keysoe Inscription Close-up
Photographs Copyright © Brenda Asplin 2001
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SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
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BROWN
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Elijah
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Pte 28738. 4th
Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Monday 13 November
1916. Born Keysoe. Lived St. Neots. Enlisted Ampthill. Commemorated:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Ref. Pier & Face 2C.
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BULL
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Frank
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Pte. 44/251. 14th
Battalion Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment). Died Friday 6 October
1916. Age 26. Son of James & Sarah Ann Bull of Keysoe Row, St.
Neots. Commemorated: Ste. Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime,
France. Ref. Div.3.K.3.
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CASTLEMAN
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Frederick
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Possibly
Frederick George Castleman. Leading Stoker K/3303. HMS “Jason”,
Royal Navy. Died Tuesday 3 April 1917. Age 29. Son of the late Deborah
Briars (formerly Castleman) of Baldock, Herts. Commemorated: Chatham
Naval Memorial, Kent. Ref. 23.
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FILSELL
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Albert
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Pte. G/25931. 10th
(Royal East Kent & West Kent Yeomanry) Bn., The Buffs (East
Kent Regiment). Died of wounds Monday 23 September 1918. Served
in Palestine and France. Born Northampton. Lived St. Neots. Enlisted
Bedford although St Neots also stated. Father Samuel Filsell. Commemorated:
Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France. Plot 5 Row D
Grave 6. Also commemorated at Parish Curch of All Saints, Maidstone,
Kent.
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FREEMAN
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Elijah
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Pte. 472841. 46th
Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regt.). Died Saturday
24 March 1917. Age 25. son of George & Catherine Freeman of
Fern Cottage, Keysoe. Commemorated: Keysoe (Brook End) Baptist Chapelyard,
Bolnhurst & Keysoe, Beds. In S.E. part.
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GREEN
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Dudley
John
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Pte. 3831. 50th
Battalion Australian Infantry A.I.F. Born 16th July 1891, parents
Louisa Fensom, father Thomas Green, farmer of Bolnhurst, Bedford.
Enlisted at Renmark with the 50th Battalion.A I.F. Australian Army,
23rd September 1915 as a Private. Disembarked at Marseilles, killed
in action on Monday 4th September 1916. Monday 4 September 1916.
Buried at Moquet Farm. Commemorated: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial,
Somme, France. Panel 150. 26
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HALL
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David
Charles
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Pte.
200920. 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed
in action Friday 8 June 1917. Age 19. Lived Keysoe. Enlisted
Bedford. Son of Sarah Jane Barnett (formerly Hall) of Brookend,
Keysoe, St. Neots. Commemorated: Perth Cemetery (China Wall),
Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. II.E.10.
Note:
Although he died serving with the 2nd Beds his number, and
the Imperial Service Badge he is wearingn, show he served
in the 5th Battalion prior to this.
Photograph
kindly supplied by John Wainwright.
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KING
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Oliver
Charles
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Possibly:
L/Corporal 15035. 7th Battalion Northamptonshire
Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 25 September 1915. Born Thurleigh.
Enlisted Northampton. Commemorated: Loos memorial, Pas de Calais,
France. Ref. Panel 91 – 93.
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SEARS
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Arthur
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probably
Arthur Joseph Sears, Private 22976, 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire
Regiment. Killed in action 13th November 1916 in France & Flanders.
Born Wellingborough, enlisted Ampthill, resident Irthlingborough,
Northants. Buried in Serre Road No.1 Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave IX. B. 4.
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STAPLETON
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David
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Pte. 204571. 1st
Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Monday 4 November
1918. Born & lived Keysoe. Enlisted Bedford. Commemorated: Ghissignies
British Cemetery, Nord, France. Ref. A.6.
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WHEELER
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Henry
[Harry] Thomas
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Pte. 2129145. 43rd
Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment). Died Tuesday 1
October 1918. Age 24. Foster son of Mrs. E.R. Freeman of Keysoe
Row, St. Neots. Commemorated: Canada Cemetery, Tilloy-les-Cambrai,
Nord, France. Ref. I.C.3.
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WRIGHT
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Laurence
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possibly
Lawrence Albert Wright, Private, 4518, 10th (Prince of Wales's Own
Royal) Hussars who died of wounds on Monday, 26th October 1914.
Born Bedford, enlisted Rushden, resident Chesterfield.
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MEN
OF THIS VILLAGE WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE WAR 1914 – 1918
AND GAVE THEIR LIVES IN HER DEFENCE.
THESE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
ALSO 1939 – 1945
BROWN
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Eric
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No
definite service information found but the information at Keysoe
Chapel on Eric Brown indicates his mother was Elizabeth Jane Brown
who died 30th March 1938, aged 42 years, probaly from burns received
when a lamp fell over. His father was George Brown who died 16th
June 1969, aged 76 years. Any information on this man would be
welcomed.
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26 October 2003
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