Frank Predam BAILEY

[Spelt PREDON on SDGW] Corporal 16414, 11^th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. killed in action 2nd May 1918, age 21. Born South Shilds, Durham, enlisted Cambridge. Son of William N. Bailey, of 10, Maids Causeway, Cambridge. Buried in WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Maurice Stanley Charles COOPER

2^nd Lieutenant, 9^th attached 6^th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died of wounds 9th August 1916, age 19. Son of Jonathan and Emma Emily Cooper, of 8, Market St., Cambridge. See also Cambridge Holy Trinity. Buried in MILLENCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France.

John CLARKE

possibly John CLARKE, Private S/11798, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders. Killed in action Tuesday 18th July 1916 in France & Flanders. Born Chatteris, enlisted Rochdale. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 15 B and 15 C

Harry [Henry] DARKINS

[Listed as Henry on SDGW and CWGC] Lance Corporal 26689, 1^st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Died of wounds 11th June 1917, age 32. Son of George and Caroline Darkins, of 25, Malcolm St., Cambridge. Buried in MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

George GATES

Either Private 39562, 1/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Died 9th October 1917 in France & Flanders. Age 31. Born Cambridge, enlisted Hertford. Son of William and Edith Katherine Gates. Formerly 2738, 1st Hertfordshire Regiment. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 72 to 75. or George Albert GATES, Private 22317, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 9th April 1917 in France & Flanders. Age 24. Born Stetchworth, enlisted Cambridge. Son of George and Elizabeth Gates, of Stetchworth, Newmarket. Buried in ROCLINCOURT VALLEY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Grave IV. A. 10.

George [James] GOULD

Private 21368, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 28th July 1917 in France & Flanders. Born and resident Cambridge, enlisted Norwich. Formerly 2866, Royal field Artillery. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 31 and 33

Anthony Frederick GRAY

Lieutenant, 1^st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 26th August 1918, age 26. Son of Arthur and Alice Honora Gray, of Masters' Lodge, Jesus College, Cambridge. See also Cambridge St Giles. Buried in RIBEMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France.

Leonard HALL

possibly LEONARD HALL, Stoker 1st Class 298848, (RFR/PO/B/6455). R.N. H.M.S. "Invincible.", Royal Navy. Died on Wednesday 31st May 1916. Commeorated on PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire. Panel 18.

Bertie Archibald [Blinkhorn] HARRIS

Private 325563, 1^st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 4th September 1917, age 31. Born and enlisted Cambridge. Son of Thomas William Harris, of 34, Glisson Rd., Cambridge; husband of Eleanor Annie Harris, of 15, Malcolm St., Cambridge. Formerly 2186, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Buried in VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES No.1 and No. 2, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. See also Cambridge St Mary the Great.

Gerard [Younghusband] HARRISON

Sub-Lieutenant, H.M.S. "Vanguard.", Royal Navy. Died Monday 9th July 1917. Age 20. Son of Ethel Harrison, of Elysium, Framingham Pigot, Norwich, and the late Rev. A. L. Harrison. Commeorated on CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, Kent. Panel 20.

Charles McGREGOR

possibly Charles McGregor, 2nd Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Killed in action 24th March 1918. Age 29. Son of Charles and Henrietta McGregor, of Greenock. Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 45.

George [Alliston] MERRILL

Private 235139, 1^st/4^th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Died of wounds 1st October 1917, age 30. Born Cambridge, enlisted Bury St Edmunds. Son of Harry Merrill, of Cambridge; husband of Lily Merrill, of 37, Park St., Cambridge. Buried in DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

George Frederick MILLER

2^nd Lieutenant, 4^th Battalion, attached 11^th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment. Killed in action 23rd March 1918, age 24. Son of the late George Christopher and Gertrude Miller. Enlisted 1914. Formerly Cambridgeshire Regiment. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France

[Charles] Sidney MILLS

Rifleman 3008, 1^st/8^th Battalion, London Regiment, (Post Office Rifles), Killed in action 23rd December 1915. Resident and enlisted Cambridge. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France.

Arthur Conway Osborne MORGAN

Lieutenant, 4^th Battery, 3^rd North Midlands Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 13th October 1915, age 30. Son of the Revd. Henry Arthur Morgan, D.D., Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and of Charlotte Linda Morgan (nee Barnes), of 12, Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea, London. Territorial. Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn; King's Gold Medallist, 1903, Winchester College; Chancellor's Gold Medallist, Trinity College, Cambridge; President of the Union Society, 1906. Buried in CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2, NEUVILLE - ST. VAAST, Pas de Calais, France.

John NEWMAN

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Geoffrey PALMER

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Thomas PEATMAN

Private 55507, 24^th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Died 31st October 1918 in Italy, age 25. Born Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, enlisted Gillingham, Kent, resident Cambridge. Son of Joseph and Susannah Peatman, of 45, Kimberley Rd., Cambridge. Formerly 541176, Royal Engineers. Buried in STAGLIENO CEMETERY, GENOA, Italy

Arthur [Hubert] PENTON

2^nd Lieutenant, 14^th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, attached 1^st/5^th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Killed in action 16th April 1918, age 24. Son of Ellenor Penton, of 48, New Square, Cambridge, and the late Henry Penton. Buried in COUIN NEW BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. See also Cambridge St Giles and Cambridge St Andrew the Great.

Cecil [McGowen] PLEASANCE

Private 201285, 4^th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 12th April 1918, age 26. Born and enlisted Cambridge. Son of Alfred and Kate Pleasance, of 13, Portugal Place, Cambridge. Buried in MOREUIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION, Somme, France.

Fred[erick] POTTER

Private 9218, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action Thursday, 12th October 1916. Born Weston Colville. Enlisted Cambridge. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. See also Cambridge St Giles.

William POTTER

Lance Sergeant 5447, 2nd Battalion,, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action Saturday, 12th May 1917. Born Cambridge. Enlisted Bury St Edmunds. Buried in FEUCHY CHAPEL BRITISH CEMETERY, WANCOURT, Pas de Calais, France. See also Cambridge St Giles.

Herbert PULL

Company Serjeant Major 325916, 1^st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 31st July 1917. Born cambridge, enlisted Pakenham, Suffolk. Formerly 2748, cambridgeshire Regiment. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Frederick [Ralph] RYDER

Lance Corporal 2074, 1^st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 4th June 1915. Born and enlisted Cambridge. Buried in HOUPLINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Nord, France.

George SHAW

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William SHAW

Lieutenant, 1^st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died in Grman hands 27th September 1916, age 23. Son of William and Alice Shaw, of 2, Tanner's Lane, Soham, Cambs. Buried in PORTE-DE-PARIS CEMETERY, CAMBRAI Nord, France. See also Cambridge St Giles and Soham.

William Hammond SMITH

Captain acting Major, "A" Battery, 52 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action 12th April 1917, age 31. Son of Charles Smith, Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Annie his wife, now of "Hartford," Newton Rd., Cambridge. Educated at St. Faith's School, Cambridge, Blundell's School, Tiverton and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. B.A. Artist, Student of Royal Academy, London and Slade School of Art. Buried in ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France.

From research by Andy Pay, from Tonbridge School and The Great War of 1914 to 1919, published in December 1923.

SMITH, Major William Hammond, 52nd Brigade, R.F.A. Killed in action at Athies, near Roeux, in the battles of Arras, April 12th,1917, aged 31. At the school 1899-1900 ( School House )

Capt. W.H. Smith was the third son of the late master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and Mrs Charles Smith, of Belvoir Terrace, Cambridge. He was only at Tonbridge for a year, from September 1899 to July 1900, when he left from the lower fifth and went to Blundells school, Tiverton. He went up to Sidney in 1904 with an Open Classical Exhibition, and also gained a College Exhibition and graduated in 1907,taking a 1st Div., Second class, in the Classical Tripos. Both at school and at college he was a keen athlete and gained his oar in the college boat in which he rowed 7, in June, 1905.

He became an artist by profession and was regarded as an exceedingly promising painter. One of his works, a portrait, is in the Guildhall at Cambridge.

On the outbreak of war he at once applied for a commission through the university O.T.C., and was gazetted to a temporary commission in the R.F.A., August 26th,1914.

After eight months training he went to the front and was through much of the heaviest fighting, was promoted Temporary Lieutenant September 12th, 1915, and was twice mentioned in Despatches, in January, 1916, and in January, 1917.

In 1915 he served at Festubert and elsewhere in the La Basse Sector, and then opposite the Hohenzollern Redoubt before and during the Battle of Loos, which began on September 25th. His battery was then transferred to the Ypres Sector, where they experienced severe fighting, especially opposite Hill "60".

In 1916 they suffered heavily in the neighbourhood of Montauban in the battle of Albert, the first of the battles of the Somme, and after a rest took part in the battles of the Le Transloy Ridges and of the Ancre Heights in October and November. In December, they were in the Arras Sector.
He had been for most of 1916 in command of the battery, and in December, 1916, though suffering from bronchitis, refused to go to the hospital till they were out of action. He had been detailed for a special course in gunnery, and having with difficulty obtained his discharge from hospital arrived home on Christmas Eve.

On completing this course he returned to the front, and had been acting Major in command of the battery for some time. On April 12th, 1917, towards the end of the first battle of the Scarpe in the battle of Arras, 1917, he was watching an attack and directing his battery from an observation post at Athies, near Roeux, when a large German shell burst close by and a splinter entered his head rendering him immediately unconscious, and he died before reaching the Dressing Station. He was buried ear Athies.

His Colonel wrote :- "I feel his loss very keenly, not only as the loss of a capable officer, but as the loss of a friend whose charming manners had endeared him to all of us, officers and men. No one could have thought less of personal danger than he did, and I cannot help wishing that he had been a little more careful of himself, even at the expense of the observation he was engaged in, for he had been exposing himself fearlessly in an attempt to locate the position reached by our infantry, and this undoubtedly drew the fire which was the cause of his death".

The following appeared in the Cambridge local paper :- "His death will be deeply regretted by a wide circle of friends at Cambridge and elsewhere, for he was a man of a lovable disposition, combined with high intellectual attainments and lofty ideals".

Harry VINSON

Probably: Gunner 26349, Harry William Vinson, 86^th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 31st December 1916, in the Persian Gulf. Born and resident Layer-De-La-Haye, Essex, enlisted Colchester. Commemorated on BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq.

Hubert [Ross] WOOTTEN

Sergeant 11384, 2^nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment). Killed in action 9th August 1915. Born and resident Cambridge, enlisted Derby. Son of Edwin Wootten, of 14, Willow Walk, Cambridge, and the late Ellen Wootten. See also Cambridge Holy Trinity. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

George Edward WRIGHT

Private, 8th Bt. Royal Fusiliers, d 7/7/1916, age 21, commemorated: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Somme, France. Son of John Wright, of 45, Lawrence Avenue, Manor Park, Essex, and the late Jane Wright.