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PERSE
SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE
World
War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Transcribed Hugh Pattenden; Martin Edwards
"Qui
facit per alium facit per se."
The
Memorial was in two portions, one a new playing field adjoining
the old field and comprising ten or eleven acres; two, an oak tablet
in the School Hall.
The
Oak Tablet contained the names of the Eighty-Five Fallen, and above
the names are the Coat of Arms and the School Motto, with the following
inscription: "These died for England." Below the names is the inscription:
"Their spirit endureth for ever." The tablet was unveiled by General
Lord Horne in the presence of the Bishop of Ely, the Chairman of
the Governors, the Headmaster, Scholars and relatives of the fallen,
on May 25th, 1921. It was the work of Mr. Cyrus Johnson.
The
playing fields form the main Memorial, and they have already been
levelled and laid out, and it is hoped that they will be opened
for cricket during 1927. The new fields, the property of the Trustees
of the Perse School Tercentenary and the War Memorial Fund, which
will shortly be known as " The Perse School Commemoration Trust,"
of which the Chairman will be Mr. Harold P. Cooke, will, together
with the old fields, comprise nearly twenty acres.
A
new plaque has been put up with the names of those Perseans who
died in World War 1 and were not on the memorial previously. [See
also Wikipedia
- The Perse School]
1914-1918
|
ALDIS |
Ralph
Harry |
Lieutenant,
"C" Company, 2nd/21st (County of London) Battalion (First
Surrey Rifles) (Territorial Force), London Regiment. Killed in action
31st October 1917. Age 27. Son of Harry Gidney Aldis and Janet Aldis,
of Clifton Grange, Ootacamund, Nilgiri Hills, South India. Engineer.
Born at Southtown, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Buried in BEERSHEBA
WAR CEMETERY, Israel. Row J Grave 71. |
| ALLEN |
Owen
Ellis
Augustus |
[Listed
as Owen Augustus Ellis ALLEN on SDGW] Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps.
Killed in an accident 3rd November 1917. Age 24. Son of William
Augustus and Alice Morley Allen, of 53, Montague Rd., Cambridge.
Embarked France 8 September 1915. Buried in HISTON ROAD CEMETERY,
CAMBRIDGE, Cambridgeshire. Plot 6 Row A Grave 17. See also Cambridge
Guildhall, Cambridge
Short Street Wesleyan Methodist and Chesterton |
|
BAMPTON-TAYLOR |
Oswald
George |
Private
65340, 103rd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in
action 14th July 1916. Age 31. Born Chesham, Buckinghamshire, enlisted
Worthing, Sussex. Son of the Rev. W. Bampton Taylor and C. M. Bampton
Taylor, of "Elstow," Lynn Rd., Wisbech. Buried in ALBERT
COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot I Row I Grave 6. |
| BANYARD |
James
Hirst |
 Lieutenant,
3rd Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed
in action 3rd September 1916. Educated at Perse School and Christs
College; articled as a solicitor to Messrs. Whitehead and Todd;
later he practised at Birmingham and Leyburn. Commemorated on THIEPVAL
MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 2 C. See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Cambridge St
Pauls
Extract
from The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Sep 27, 1916;
pg. 10; Issue 41283:
LIEUTENANT
JAMES HIRST BANYARD, Bedfordshire Regiment, killed in
action on September 3, aged 29, was the second son of the late
Mr. Francis Banyard. He was educated at the Perse School, and
entered Christ College, Cambridge, taking his degree in the Law
Special in 1908. He passed his final solicitor's examination in
1911, and leaving Cambridge the following year, began practice
at Birmingham and Leyburn. In May, 1915, he was given a commission
in the Bedfordshire Regiment through the O.T.C., of which he was
a member, and after training at Pembroke College and Landguard,
he went to the front on August 8 this year. His commanding officer
wrote:—" Lieutenant Banyard's death occurred while
taking part in the finest attack I have ever' witnessed. The attack
was resumed next day and led to far-reaching results . . . . He
had not been long with us, but he was very popular with us all,
and did his work well."
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|
BAUSOR |
Thomas
Paul |
Second
Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry attached
Trench Mortar Battery. Killed in action 6th April 1916. Commemorated
on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Panel 47 and 49. See also Cambridge
Guildhall |
| BEAUMONT |
Claude
Leopold |
Sergeant
550540, 16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
(Territorial Force), London Regiment. Killed in action 1st July
1916. Age 35. Enlisted Westminster, resident Cambridge. Son of Augustus
John and Elizabeth Pavey Beaumont, of Harston, Cambs.; husband of
Una Mary Nobbs (formerly Beaumont), of Haig Rd., Cambridge. Buried
in CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, Pas de Calais, France.
Plot XXII Row C Grave 16. |
|
BOWEN |
William |
Second
Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, attached 15th Battalion, Welsh Regiment.
Died of wounds 30th August 1918. Age 30. Son of Henry and Mary Bowen,
of 9, Milton Terrace, Mount Pleasant, Swansea. A clerk of the G.
W. Rly. (Swansea). Enlisted in Pembroke Imperial Yeomanry. Buried
in FIENVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France. Row C Grave 33. |
| BRADBURY |
Dennis
John Freeland |
Second
Lieutenant, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) attached 10th
Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Died of wounds 15th
November 1916. Age 19. Son of Patrick Joseph O'Leary Bradbury, M.A.
(Director of Education) and Ellen Mary Bradbury, of Jamaica, British
West Indies. Born at Antigua, British West Indies. Buried in MAILLY
WOOD CEMETERY, Somme, France. Plot I Row B Grave 26. |
|
BRADFORD |
Alfred
Royal |
Lieutenant,
1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action when shell hit Battalion
H.Q. on 14th October 1916. Aged 22. Educated at Hunstanton Prep
School and Bedford Grammar School, joined the school O.T.C. Commissioned
12th May 1915 into 2/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Transferred
to ‘B’ Company, 1/1st Battalion on 22nd July 1915. At the time of
death he was battalion intelligence officer. Son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. P. Bradford, Brooklands House, Brooklands Road, Cambridge and
University Arms. Buried in Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille, Plot IX.
Row A. Grave 5. See also Cambridge
Guildhall, Cambridge St Pauls
and Cambridge St Andrew the Great |
| BREUL,
MC * |
Oswald
George Frank Justus |
Lieutenant,
5 Corps HQ, Royal Engineers. Died of illness 16th October 1917.
Age 21. Son of Professor K. Breul, Litt.D., Ph.D., and Mrs. Breul,
of Barton Cottage, Cambridge. Awarded the Military Cross (M.C.).
Buried in LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY, Pas de Calais,
France. Plot IV Row E Grave 49.
See
also Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge St Mark's |
|
BURNS |
Islay
Ferrier |
Second
Lieutenant, 97th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Killed in
action 10th July 1917. Age 20. Son of May C. Burns, of 215, Chesterton.
Rd., Cambridge, and the late Rev. Islay F. Burns. Joined London
University O.T.C. in 1914. Enlisted as Private in Motor Machine
Gun Corps. Went to France in 1915, Gazetted in 1916. Commemorated
on NIEUPORT MEMORIAL, Nieuwpoort, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
From
Martin Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of
Honour the following:
Volume
1, Part 3, Page 42 - BURNS, ISLAY FERRIER, 2nd Lieut., 97th Coy.,
Machine Gun Corps, elder s. of the Rev. Islay Ferrier Burns, of
Westminster College, Cambridge, by his wife, May Carmichael, dau.
of Robert Henderson; b. Darenth, co. Kent, 20 Sept. 1896; educ.
Perse School, Cambridge, and Ilklcy Grammar School; matriculated
at the London University in June, 1914, after which he became an
Engineering Studnt at. the Imperial College of Science and Technology,
being a member of the O.T.C. enlisted in the 10th Battery, Machine
Gun Corps, in Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in
France, where he was employed as scout and despatch rider until
20 Sept. 1916, when he returned to England, and. after a period
of training at Bisley, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. March, 1917 ; went
back to France in May, being then given command of a section of
machine guns and was killed in action at Nieuport. 11 July, 1917.
While at school he was a keen Rugby football player, a ready debater
and co-editor of the school magazine
See
also Cambridge Guildhall |
| CHALK |
Stanley
Frederick W |
Private
203979, 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Killed in action 1917.
Born Linton, enlisted Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey, resident Richmond,
Surrey. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay
6. |
|
CHAPLIN |
Arthur
Hugh Bates |
Captain,
1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorial Force) Died
of wounds 21 May 1917. Age 41. Husband of M. Chaplin. In the 1911
census he was the huisband of Amelia, father of Eillen Mary (aged
1), aged 35, a Drapery Buyer, born Leytonstone, Essex, resident
Dalkeith, Hills Road, Cambridge. Buried at the south end of SS.
MARY AND MICHAEL NEW CHURCHYARD, TRUMPINGTON, Cambridge. See also
Trumpington, Cambridge
St Andrew the Great, Cambridge
St John's and Cambridge
Guildhall |
| CHAPLIN |
Charles
Montague |
Second
Lieutenant, 1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorial
Force). Killed in action 26th September 1917. Age 35. Son of Arthur
Edward and Alice Mary Chaplin, of "Dalreagh," Chaucer
Rd., Cambridge; husband of Elizabeth Joan Chaplin, of "Dalreagh,"
Chaucer Rd., Cambridge. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 148. See also Trumpington
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|
CHEESEMAN |
Sydney
Hudson |
 Pioneer
1641, 2nd Battalion, Australian Pioneers, A.I.F. Killed in action
[Australian ROH states died of wounds] at Ypres 25th September 1917.
Age 22. Born Reading, Berkshire, enlisted Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Draper by trade. Educated Perse School, Cambridge and Daniel Stewarts,
Edingburgh. Emigrated to Australia aged 19. Son of James Alfred
and Isabella Cheeseman, of 20, Shaftesbury Rd., Southsea, England.
He had six brothers who all enlisted for the war, the eldest was
wounded severely and the youngest one, Eric Septimus, was awarded
the Military Medal (M.M.). Buried in MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY,
Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II Row G Grave 7. See Australian
Roll of Honour |
| CLAYE |
Geoffrey
Woolley |
Lieutenant,
1/7th Battalion (Territorial Force), Cheshire Regiment. Killed in
action 29th March 1917. Age 23. Son of Maj. H. Sandford Claye and
Mrs. A. G. Claye, of Elm House, Bollington Cross, Cheshire. Scholar
and Graduate of Clare College, Cambridge. Buried in KANTARA WAR
MEMORIAL CEMETERY, Egypt. Row F Grave 30. |
|
COATES |
Basil
Mongomery |
Second
Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Killed in action 7
September 1915. In the 1901 census he is aged 7, son of William
m and Susan Coates, born Cambridge, resident Upper Sheringham,
Sheringham, Norfolk. Commemorated on PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Comines-Warneton,
Hainaut, Belgium. Panel 10.
See also Cambridge St Mark's
and Cambridge Guildhall
Extract
from de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918 Volume
1, Part 2, Page 72:
COATES, BASIL MONTGOMERY, 2nd Lieut., 10th (Service)
Battn. The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), only
s. of the late W. Montgomery Coates, Graduate of Trinity
College, Dublin, and Fellow Bursar and Assistant Tutur of Queens’
College, Cambridge; b. Cambridge, 10 Sept. 1893; educ.
Perse School, Cambridge; Oundle School, and Queens’ College
Cambridge (where he was in the athletic team that won the International
Cup); volunteered shortly after the outbreak of war, and was gazetted
2nd Lieut. to the 10th Rifle Brigade 22 Sept. 1914: served with
the Expeditionary Force in France and was killed in action while
on patrol duty 7 Sept. 1915. Lieut.-Col. S. J. Loftus. Commanding
10th Battalion, wrote to Mrs. Montgomery Coates: “ Your
son was killed yesterday (7 Sept.) while on patrol duty, and unfortunately
we were unable to recover his body, which the Germans have taken
into their lines, and which they will no doubt give an honourable
burial. He was out patrolling with a Corpl. Fenton, crawling about
in the crops, was seen by the enemy, fired on and killed, and
the corporal crawled home about 300 yards with three bullet wounds.
. . . A young officer called Everard went out with a man, and
at very great personal risk got up to your son, but was fired
at so persistently that he was unable to do anything towards moving
him. As soon as it was dark another party, under Lieut. Sanstone,
went out to the place to try to bring the poor boy in, but only
found tracks through the corn, showing the way the enemy had taken
him into their lines.” Lieut. C. Warren also wrote: “Coates
was one of the bravest men I’ve known. . . . He had become
very keen about day patrolling, which is risky work, and had done
several good patrols. One day be was very keen to go out, and
although Capt. Lascelles was very unwilling to let him go, he
got his permission and started with one other man. The next that
was heard were cries for help coming from outside the trenches;
his platoon sergeant, who was devoted to him, an old man of 53,
dashed out as he was, in a white guernsey, which, of course, was
a most conspicuous thing in the bright light, and he found Corpl.
Fenton struggling through our wire. The corporal was wounded in
five places, but had managed to get back to got assistance, as
Coates had been hit. He described the place, and Everard, one
of his best friends, started off with two men to find him; this
was a most heroic deed, as he was only 80 yards from the German
wire and the Germans were firing machine guns over the place.
Our Machine Gun Officer managed with great skill to silence these
guns, and Everard got to the spot, but found poor Coates dead.
It was a terrible shock to us all, as we were all immensely fond
of him. He was so good-natured and had such charming manners,
and was always cheerful and considerate.” Unm.
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| COOPER |
Maurice
Stanley Charles |
Second
Lieutenant, 9th Battalion attached 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.
Killed in action 10th August 1916. Age 19. Son of Jonathan and Emma
Emily Cooper, of 8, Market St., Cambridge. Buried in MILLENCOURT
COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. Row A Grave 30. See
also Cambridge Guildhall
and Cambridge All Saints |
|
CULLIN |
James
Robert |
Corporal
22/1118, 22nd Durham Light Infantry. Killed in action 23rd October
1916. Age 25. Born Fulham, London, enlisted Seaham Harbour, resident
Newcastle-on-Tyne. Son of Isaac James and Frances Mary Cullin, of
72, Cherryhinton Rd., Cambridge. Commemorated on THIEPVAl MEMORIAL,
Somme, France. Pier and Face 14 A and 15 C |
| CUNNINGHAM |
James
Michael |
Captain,
7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 28th March 1918.
Age 39. Son of William Cunningham, D.D., and Adele Rebecca Cunningham;
husband of Bertha M. Cunningham, of 2, St. Paul's Rd., Cambridge.
Buried in GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France.
Plot II Row G Grave 16. See also Cambridge
Guildhall, Cambridge St Paul's
and Cambridge St Mary the
Great |
|
DAVIES |
John
Llewelyn |
 Major,
11th Essex Regiment. Killed in action 25th September 1915. For
nearly 6 years assistant master at Perse School. Commemorated
on LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 85 to 87.
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| DEVEREUX |
Humphrey
William |
 Lieutenant,
1/5th Battalion (Territorial), South Staffordshire Regiment. Killed
in action 26th June 1916. Age 22. Son of Walter de Laci Devereux
and Blanche Isobel Devereux, of Middlewood, Worth, Sussex. Born
at Scarning, Dereham, Norfolk. Buried in HUMBERCAMPS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II Row A Grave 1. Also on
Village Hall Memorial
and Great Shelford Village Memorial
Extract
from Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 7 July 1916,
page 4:
Lieut.
H. W. Devereux, of Great Shelford, Killed.
Lieut. Humphrey William Devereux, eldest son of Mr. Walter de
Laci Devereux, of Great Shelford, Cambs., and grandson of the
late Rear-Admiral the Hon. Walter Bourchier Devereux, R.N., was
killed by a shell in the trenches on June 26th, aged 22 years.
Lieut.
Devereux was educated at Victoria College, Jersey, and the Perse
School, Cambridge, and when war broke out was in his second year
as a Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He received
a commission in the South Staffs. Regiment (T.F.), went out to
France in February, 1915, and was gazetted lieutenant the following
May. Lieut. Devereux was wounded on October 13th, 1915, at the
battle of Loos. He rejoined his regiment in January, 1916, and
went abroad again in April.
His colonel writes: “He was my best subaltern, and in a
few weeks would have been recommended for promotion to captain.
His loss is a great grief to all who served with him. I wish to
Heaven I had more of his sort. His fearless resolution was an
inspiration to his men.” And his company commander says
of him: “It is impossible to tell you how much he will be
missed by the whole battalion, particularly by those of us, and
they are now very few, who were privileged to be in close contact
with him since the regiment came to France. He has been in my
company since he joined, and has earned the love and admiration
of all.”
Lieut. Devereux’s two brothers are serving in His Majesty’s
Forces—Sub-Lieut. Edmund Bourchier Devereux. R.N., and Sec.
Lieut. Robert de Bohun Devereux, 1st the Royal Scots. His father,
Mr. W. de L. Devereux, has been working for some time in the Y.M.C.A.
Hute in France. |
|
DOGGETT |
George
Patrick |
 Second
Lieutenant, 1/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
(Territorial Force). Died of wounds in hospital 4 July 1917. Agde
22. Son of George Henry and Mary Ann Doggett, of Abbey Lodge, Beche
Rd., Cambridge. Buried in CAMBRIDGE CITY CEMETERY, Cambridge. Section
B Grave 1802.
See also Cambridge Guildhall
and also Cambridge, Christ
Church |
| EDWARDS,
MC |
Donald
William |
Captain,
45 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Army Service Corps. Killed
in action 6th April 1917. Husband of Mrs. C. G. K. Edwards, of 31,
Hatherley Grove, Westbourne Grove, London. Awarded ther Military
Cross (M.C.). Buried in TOURNAI COMMUNAL CEMETERY ALLIED EXTENSION,
Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium. Plot II Row J Grave 6. |
|
FITCHES |
William |
Private
5371, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died of wounds 25th January
1917. Enlisted Cambridge. Formerly 3613, Suffolk Yeomanry. Commemorated
on THIEPVAl MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A. |
| FITZHERBERT,
MC |
Gilbert
Clare |
Lieutenant,
2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. Killed in action 18th
September 1918. Commemorated on VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais,
France. Panel 9. |
|
FROST |
Leonard
Arthur |
Rifleman
551149, 2nd/16th (County of London) Battalion (Queen's Westminster
Rifles) (Territorial Force), London Regiment. Killed in action 20th
February 1918. Age 25. Born Colchester, enlisted Westminster, resident
Southend. Son of Helen Frost, of "Rockbarton," 14, St.
Barnabas Rd., Cambridge, and the late Arthur Thomas Frost. Buried
in JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY, Israel. Row K. Grave 62.
See
also Cambridge Holy Trinity
and Cambridge
Guildhall and
and
also Cambridge
St Barnabas
|
| GILES |
Frank
Eric |
Private
701275, 1/23rd (County of London) Battalion (Territorial Force),
London Regiment. Killed in action 16th September 1916. Age 25. Born
at sea, enlisted Clapham Junction, resident Clapham Park. Son of
Capt. William S. Giles and Edith E. Giles, of 285, Trinity Rd.,
Wandsworth Common, London; husband of Mary Reeve Giles, of San Francisco,
California, U.S.A. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.
Pier and Face 9 D 9 C 13 C and 12 C. |
|
GOODE |
George
Mortlock |
Lieutenant,
43rd Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and General List formerly Bedfordshire
Regiment. Killed in action 24th May 1917. Age 23. Only son of Arthur
William Goode, of The Poplars, Old Chesterton, Cambridge, and the
late Angelina Abigail Goode. Commemorated on ARRAS FLYING SERVICES
MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. See
also Cambridge County
High School, Chesterton,
Cambridge Gas Company and
Cambridge
Guildhall |
| GOODMAN |
Geoffrey
Thomas |
Lieutenant,
(Territorial), Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action 1st June
1917. Age 23. Only son of Thomas and Edith M. Goodman, of The Plantation,
Royston, Herts. Buried in LA CLYTTE MILITARY CEMETERY, Heuvelland,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II Row F Grave 35. |
|
GRAY |
Arthur
John |
Captain,
1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorial Force). Killed
in action 31st July 1917. Son of Mr. A. B. Gray, of 29, Chesterton
Hall Crescent, Cambridge. Buried in BUFFS ROAD CEMETERY, Ieper,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Row C Grave 12.
See
also Cambridge
Guildhall and
Chesterton |
| HADLEY,
MC
* |
Peyton
Sheldon |
 Captain.
Born 27 March 1895, 1st son of William Sheldon Hadley (Master of
Pembroke College, Cambridge) and Edith, his wife, of The Master's
Lodge, Pembroke College, and Heacham, Norfolk. He was at Charterhouse
[B] 1909 - 1914, where he was a good scholar and an outstanding
sportsman. He won a place at Pembroke College, Cambridge but shortly
after the declaration of war he took a commission in the Northamptonshire
Regiment, joining 7th Bn. [This was a sportsman’s battalion raised
by the Northampton Rugby international Edgar Mobbs, who was later
himself Battalion Commander and died at Passchendaele.] He won the
M.C. In the autumn of 1918 he was seriously wounded and was invalided
home to the Central Military Hospital, Eastbourne. Here on 25 October
1918 he died of pandemic influenza. There were about a dozen other
influenza deaths at the hospital October - December that year, including
2 nurses. His grave is in the north-east part of St. Mary’s churchyard,
Heacham, North Norfolk. He lies under a private stone, bearing inset
in bronze the sword of sacrifice and the military cross. His parents
are buried next to him. See also Charterhouse
School, Godalming, Surrey, Heacham,
Cambridge University
Press & College Servants and Cambridge
Guildhall
Extract
from Lynn Advertiser - Friday 1 November 1918, page 8:
HEACHAM
THE LATE CAPTAIN HADLEY.
Quite
a gloom was cast over the village and the greatest sympathy was
expressed by all when the sad news came to hand, at the end of
last week, that Captain Peyton Sheldon Hadley, M.C., elder son
of the Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Mrs. Hadley
(of The Lodge, Pembroke College. Cambridge. and of Shallcross,
Heacham) had fallen a victim to septic pneumonia following influenza,
while convalescing at Eastbourne, on Friday, at the early age
of 23. Additional pathos is added to the tragic occurrence by
the fact that his younger brother is now lying seriously wounded
in France. Capt. Hadley was educated at St. Ronan's, West Worthing
(Mr. S. S. Harris) and at Charterhonse (Mr. F. Dames Longworth),
where he was in the Sixth Form and was a member of the cricket
and football elevens, and won distinction as a runner. He was
to have begun residence at Pembroke College. Cambridge, in October
1914, but on the outbreak of war he acceoted a commission in the
Northampton Regiment. In France he gained distinction and the
Military Cross as a leader of bombing attacks, in which he displayed
the utmost daring. He was twice severely wounded, first on the
Somme in 1916, and again on the 26th March last. On recovering
from his first wound he was appointed to an Officer's Cadet Battalion
at Cambridge. but at his own earnest desire he went out again
to the front, where he served until he received his second wound
in March last. On leaving hospital his health was far from being
completely re-established. and he was sent to convalesce at Eastboune,
where he fell victim to influenza and septic pneumonia as stated.
The
remains arrived at Headcham on Monday and were conveyed by men
of a locally stationed regiment to the parish church, where they
rested until noon of the following day, when the funeral took
place. This was of a military character, the military arrangements
being carried out by the colonel and officers of a regiment now
stationed in the locality. A guard of honour of the regiment was
present, as were also the pipers (under the leadership of Bugle-Major
Woods), and the quaint and mourneful tone of an old Irish lament
from the pipes honoured the dead officer as his remains were carried
from the church to the grave.
The
mourners present were the Master of Pembroke and Mrs. Hadley (parents).
Mrs. Reginald Appach (aunt), Mr. J. M. Dodds. Fellow of Peterhouse,
Cambridge (godfather), and Mrs. Herring. of Narborough.
A
large number of vi!lagers and others were present and we understand
that many were absent through being unaware of the hour of the
funeral. Among those present were Col. L. G. Oliver, Mr. C. E.
Strachan, Mr. James Jackson, Mrs. Cockburn Stewart, the Rev. W.
A. and Mrs. Day, Mrs. Clement R. Ingleby, the Misses Black, Mrs.
Hill, Mr. C. B. L. and Miss Tylecote. Mr. and Mrs. W. Clarke,
Mr. and Mr. C. Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. N. Rolfe, Mrs. Martin
ffolkes. Miss Jarvis, Mrs. R. T. Gunther, Mr. and Mrs. G. Robinson,
Mr. and Mrs. W. Perfitt. the Misses Spencer. the Misses Beck and
Miss Kvlleberg, Miss Spurrell. Mrs. Brevitt, Mrs. J. E. Hodgett,
Mr. and Mrs. R. Pull. Mr. and Mrs. Lowerison, Mr. and Miss Suter,
Miss Jessie Spencer and Miss Foulsham. Captain H. B. Jones, M.C.,
Wiltshire Regiment, attended to represent the command depot at
Eastbourne, and Pte. E. Graver, Northamptonshire Regiment (the
deceased's regiment) on furlough in the village, was also present,
As
many members of the choir as could be present attended and Mr.
Suter rendered the music with the sympathy which invariably accompanies
his playing: and in the voluntary which was given at the end.
"My ain folk." played by request, he bore eloquent testimony
to the loyalty which one of Captain Hadley's predominant chnractiristics.
*Captain
Hadley was a member of choir and always assisted in the church
music when at home. He had considerable ability, a rich base voice,
and as recently as last Christnas sans solos in the Christmas
music. While the large congregation was assembling Mr. Suter plated
"O for the wings of a dove" and "O rest in the
Lord" (Mendelssohn) and after the lesson, which was impressively
read by Mr. C. W. N. Rolfe, the congregation stood while the grand
theme of Handel's Dead March from "Saut" pealed forth
from the organ. Psalm 39 was sung to a double chant by Turle,
and after the lesson the hymn "The saints of God, their conflict
past," found a place in the service.
The Rev. G. T. Thompson(vicar) most sympathetically and impressive!y
rendered the rest of the service, and at the usual services on
Sundav he made touching reference to the sad event, and appropriate
hymns were sung.
The
grave which is near that of the late Lieut. A. B. Thorne, R.A.F.,
was draped with purple and chrysanthemums. After the Blessing
three farewell volleys were fired and the Last Post, sounded by
five buglers, bade "goodbye" to the departed.
Flowers
and wreaths, in spite of the notice to the contrary, were sent
in great profiusion. Many of these were placed, recalling the
sad occasion. in the chapel of Pembroke College. Among those that
covered the spot where he lies there were:—"From his
father mother ard brother." "Mrs. Cockburn Stewart,
'For he has won and now for ever wears, the spotless flower of
a hero's life.' With tender sympathy." "In loving memory
of dear Peyton, from Ena." "To a dear friend, with the
heartfelt sympathy of S. P. Ora." "A small tribute of
the deepest sympathy, from Reginald.' "With affectionate
sympathy and regret, from Mrs. Strachan and Agneta." "With
sincere sympathy and deep regret, from Hurn and Sarah." "Loving
sympathy, from the Rev. William, Mrs. and Miss Day." "In
most affectionate remembrance, Mr. and Miss Tylecote." "With
deepest sympathy, Mr. and Mrs. Chapman." "With love,
from Mrs. Martin ffolkes." "In loving memory of dear
Peyton, from Arnold." "In memory of dear Master Peyton,
who was loved by us all. Eva." "From the Fridhem children."
"With deep sympathy, from two old friends of his mother,
Miss Beck and Miss Kvlleberg." "With much love and smoothy,
from Alice and Edward Browne." "In proud and loving
memory of my dear nephew. Miss Hadley." "Loving sympathy,
Mr. and Mrs. Neville Rolfe." "For Peyton, with love
and tender thoughts, from Jack, Gordon, Rosamund and Dick Thorne."
"In memory of Capt. P. S. Hadley, M.C., Northamptonshire
Regiment, from the officers of the Officers' Command Depot, Eastbourne."
"With very deepest sympathy, from Mrs. herring and Lady Seale."—One
of the wreaths placed in Pem,broke College Chapel is of bay and
laurel leaves and bears the inscription, "In memory of a
gallant English gentleman."
Extract
from Cambridge Daily News - Saturday 26 October 1918,
page 3:
DEATH
OF CAPT. P. S. HADLEY, M.C.
Elder Son of the Master of Pembroke.
We
regret to announce the death of Captain Peyton Sheldon Hadley,
which occurred at Eastbourne on Friday of pneumonia. Captain Hadley
was the elder son of the Master of Pembroke, and was educated
at Charterhouse (Mr. F. Davies Longworth's), where he was in the
Sixth Form. He was member of the school cricket and football elevens,
and won distinction also as a runner. He was to have come into
residence at Pembroke in October, 1914, but the outbreak of war
he accepted a commission in the Northamptonshire Regiment. He
was wounded on the Somme in August, 1916, and a second time the
26th March last; he was convalescing from the latter wound when
he was attacked by influenza and septic pneumonia, from which
he died after very short illness. Captain Hadley was awarded the
Military Cross in June, 1916.
|
|
HARRIS |
T
W S |
Captain,
Royal Air Force. Killed in an accident 4th October 1918. Buried
in ILFORD CEMETRY, Essex. Grave 3215. |
| HEAL,
DSO |
Frank
Henry |
Lieutenant-Colonel,
Commanding 1st Regiment, South African Infantry. Killed in action
24th March 1918. Age 37. Son of Capt. W. H. Heal, of Twyford Cottage,
Acton, London; husband of Lilian Mary Austin Heal (nee Fabb), of
Brooklyn House, 148, Chesterton Rd., Cambridge. Awarded the Distinguished
Service Order (D.S.O.). Commemorated on POZEIERES MEMORIAL, Somme,
France. Panels 95 to 98. See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Chesterton
Extract
from The V.C. and D.S.O. Book Vol. III:
HEAL,
F. H. (D.S.O. L.G. 17.12.17) (Details, L.G. 23.4.18)
; s. of Capt. 1: H. Heal : educ. Perse School, Cambridge, where
he gained his colours in football : Lt.-Col., S. African Inf.
Regt.; commissioned in the Yeomanry promoted to Lt. and made Adjt.
; was posted to the Cape Peninsula Rifles and in Sept. 1915, left
with the first S. African Contingent for Egypt, afterwards to
another front ; was given command of a battalion of S. Africa
infantry, and was mentioned in Despatches. He was wounded twice,
and was reported missing and afterwards as killed 21-24.3.18.
|
|
HUNT |
John
William Reynolds |
 Second
Lieutenant, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 28th
April 1917. Age 20. Son of John and Annie Elizabeth Hunt, of Manor
House, Coton, Cambridge. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de
Calais, France. Bay 4. See also Coton. |
| HUTT |
Ernest
Reginald |
Second
Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Killed in action
25th September 1915. In the 1901 census he was aged 8, born South
Africa, a baorder, resident Lyndewode House, 19, Lyndewode Road,
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 18, born
Ispannesburg , Africa, a Mining Student, resident Guston, Dover,
Kent. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel
46 to 49. |
|
JACOBS |
Joel |
Second
Lieutenant, 3rd/5th Battalion (Territorial), Alexandra, Princess
of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment). Killed in action 20th July
1916. Age 21. Son of Michael and Pearl Jacobs, of "Ffynonfa,"
Park Drive, Swansea. Buried in LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, Heuvelland,
West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot VII Row D Grave 13. |
| JENKINS |
William
Edwin |
Second
Lieutenant, 60 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and East Surrey Regiment.
Killed in accident 23rd November 1917. Age 19. Son of Edwin and
Annie Jenkins, of Poplar Hall, Fen Ditton, Cambs. Buried in TYNE
COT CEMETERY, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot XLVII Row
D Grave 13.
Born 9th July 1898 at Rushden, Northants. East Surrey Regt. and
2nd Lieutentant RFC. Royal Aero Club Cert. No. 4414, 14th March
1917. To 60 Sqn. RFC April 1917; this Squadron was one of the most
prestigious scout squadrons in the Corps. Jenkins served in B Flight,
commanded by the New Zealand 'ace' Capt. K.L. "Grid" Caldwell;
another flight commander during Jenkins' period of service was the
famous (but now arguably infamous) Canadian "Billy" Bishop
VC. Jenkins was promoted to Lieutenant during summer, 1917, and
by the time of his death had been credited with 10 victories; 1
balloon destroyed, 3 aircraft destroyed (2 shared), 6 aircraft out
of control (4 shared). He is therefore an 'ace'. He was killed in
a mid-air collision with another SE.5a of his formation (2nd Lieutenant
M. West-Thompson also killed), both aircraft crashing near Poperinghe.
(A propoganda film made during 1917, called something like "Our
Heroes of the Air" featured 60 Squadron and the film contains
a shot, often used in modern WW1 television documentaries, of a
group of 60's pilots, with Caldwell and Bishop at the centre. Jenkins
is at the left-hand end of the group.) See also Fen
Ditton and Cambridge
Guildhall |
|
JOHNS,
MC |
Owen
Llewelyn |
Second
Lieutenant, "Y" 133rd Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Field
Artillery. Killed in action 28th June 1916. Age 24. Son of the Rev.
Thomas and Mary Dorothy Johns, of Manor Owen, Pembrokeshire. Awarded
the Military Cross (M.C.). Buried in BOUZINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot II Row A Grave 7. |
| JOHNSON |
George
Arthur Moxey Tuker |
Second
Lieutenant, SDGW states 19th (County of London) Battalion (St Pancras)
and CWGC 9th (County of London) (Queen Victoria's Rifles) (Territorial
Force), London Regiment. Killed in action 21st May 1917. Age 20.
Son of George Arthur Johnson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (London), and Isabella
Anderson Johnson, of 58, St. Andrew's St., Cambridge. No known grave.
Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Panel 24. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall and
Cambridge St Andrew the Great |
|
JOLLEY |
John
Andrew Benjamin |
Second
Lieutenant, 1/5th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorial
Force). Killed in action 11th October 1915. Commemorated on LOOS
MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 31 to 34.
From Martin
Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
the following:
Volume
1, Part 2, Page 186 - JOLLEY, JOHN ANDREW BENJAMIN, 2nd Lieut.,
9th (Service), attd. 5th (T.F.), Battn. The Lincolnshire Regt..
2nd s. of John Thomas Jolley, of Green Bank, Lightcllffe, M.A. (Cantab.),
Senior Mathematical Master, Heath Grammar School, Halifax, by his
wife, Harriet, 2nd dau. of Thomas Irvine Graham, of Aughnacloy;
b. Anghnacloy, co. Tyrone, 12 Aug. 1895; educ. Perse Grammar School,
Cambridge, where for many years he was a member of the Cadet Corps,
obtaining Certificate A; subsequently gained a Classical Exhibition,
and had just entered his name on the books of St. Catharine’s
College, Cambridge, when war broke out; volunteered for foreign
service, joining the Public Schools Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers;
trained at Epsom, where he held the post of Acting Sergt.-Instructor;
obtained a commission in the 9th Lincolnshire Regt. 17 Oct. 1914;
served with the Expeditionary Force In France and Flanders, attached
to the 5th Lincolns, from Aug. to 13 Oct. 1915, on which latter
date he was killed in action during the storming of the Hohenzollern
Redoubt; unm.
See
also Cambridge
Guildhall
and Cambrige Short
Street Weslyan Methodist |
| SALUSBURY-JONES |
Ivor
Cynric |
Lieutenant,
1/5th Battalion, King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry). Died of
wounds 21st September 1916. Age 22. Son of Thomas and Martha Salusbury-Jones,
of West End Manse, Haverhill, Suffolk. Born at Sutton Valence, Kent.
Buried in PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme, France. Plot I Row
D Grave 60. |
|
SALUSBURY-JONES |
Merfyn
Harman |
Second
Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry).
Killed in action 11th August 1918. Age 22. Son of the Rev. Thomas
Salusbury-Jones and Martha Salusbury-Jones, of 16, Waterloo Avenue,
Leiston, Suffolk. Commemorated on VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de
Calais, France. Panel 8. |
| JONES |
William
Edwards |
Trooper
1401, Essex Yeomanry. Killed in action 14th May 1915. Age 19. Enlisted
Colchester, resident Watford. Son of Ernest Edwards Jones and Clara
Jones, of Western Moor, Neath, Glamorgan. Commemorated on YPRES
(MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 5.
See also Cambridge
County High School, Cambridge
St Paul's and Cambridge
Guildhall |
|
KEATING
* |
George
Henry |
Lieutenant
(Bombing Officer), 1/1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorial
Force) formerly served in 16th (Public Schools) Battalion, Middlesex
Regiment. Killed in action 18th September 1918. Age 25. Son of Mrs.
Keating, of The Ley, Northwich, Cheshire, and the late Canon J.
F. Keating, D.D. Born at Edinburgh. Buried in EPEHY WOOD FARM CEMETERY,
EPEHY, Somme, France. Plot II Row D Grave 1. |
| KNOTT |
Charles
Singleton |
Second
Lieutenant, "C" Company, 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers.
Killed in action 23rd March 1918. Aged 19. Son of Mr. and Mrs Hammett
C. Knott, of 8, Cranmer Rd., Cambridge. Head boy of the Perse School,
Cambridge, and Scholar-elect of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
in the 1911 census he was the son of Hemmett Charles and Ada Maude
Knott, aged 12, at school, born Cambridge and resident 8 Cranmer
Road, Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL,
Somme, France. Panel 19 to 21. Also
listed on family gravestone in St Giles churchyard. Grave
1A24. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall, Cambridge
St Mary the Great and Cambridge
St Giles |
|
LAIDLAW |
Charles
Glass Playfair |
 Private
3375, 14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) (Territorial
Force), London Regiment. Died of wounds 3rd April 1915. Age 27.
Born and enlisted London, resident Chelsea. Son of Dr. Robert Laidlaw
and Elizabeth Playfair, his wife, of Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge.
Brother of Walter below. Buried in BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, Pas de
Calais, France. Plot IV Row B Grave 11.
See
also Cambridge
Guildhall
and Cambridge St Mark's
From Martin
Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
the following:
Volume
1, Part 1, Page 218 - LAIDLAW, CHARLES GLASS PLAYFAIR, Private No.
3375, D Coy. 1/14th (The London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.),
5th &. of the late Dr. Robert Laidlaw, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., sometime
Medical Goverment Officer in the Seychelles Islands, by his wife,
Elizabeth (Woodside, Grantohester Meadows, Cambridge), dau. of Patrick
Playfair, of Ardmillan, co. Ayr; b. Stoke Newington, London, N.,
13 Dec. 1887 : educ. The Perse School, Cambridge, from which In
Dec. 1906, he was elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Natural
Science at St. John’s College. At school he was football capt.,
sergt. in the cadet corps, a member of the cricket team, and head
of the school. While still at school he played water polo for the
university when the team was one short. Later he played, lacrosse
for his college and sometimes for the University. He commenced residence
in Oct. 1907. He obtained a First Class in Part 1 of the Natural
Science Tripos in 1909, and in June of that year was elected a Foundation
scholar of the College. He took the Second Part of the Tripos in
1910, obtainIng a First Class for Botany. In June, 1911, he was
elected a Hutchinson Student of the College, and took up research
in Plant Physiology at the Botany School of the University, under
the direction of Mr. F. F. Blackman, the University Reader in Botany.
The subject of his research was an electrical method of determining
carbon dioxide in relation to photo-synthesis. In 1912 he was elected
by the governing body of Gonville and Caius College to a Frank Smart
Studentship, a recognition of the promising nature of his investigations.
At the same time he was offered a Research Scholarship by the Board
of Agriculture and Fisheries; after some hesitation he accepted
this latter offer, which necessitated his removal to London. From
the autumn of 1912, until the outbreak of war, Laidlaw worked, at
the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under the direction
of Prof. V. H. Blackman. Here he entered on an investigation of
the Physiological conditions of plants forced under glass, working
also at the effect of temperature on the rate of growth of a fungus,
Sclerotinia libutiana. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and
joined the London Scottish as a Private, 21 pet. 1914, and after
a period of training, embarked at Southampton with a draft of some
600 officers and man for the 1st Battn., 10 March, 1915. On Good
Friday, 2 April, his (D) Coy. were in some barricades at Richebourg
l’Avoué, south of Neuve Chapelle. After having been
in the trenches all night, he was smoking after breakfast in what
seemed a perfectly safe place, when a stray bullet passed through
a sand-bag and penetrated the right side of his chest. To his comrades
the wound seemed a slight one, and after first aid was given he
was removed to No. 3 Field Ambulance, near Bethune. There it was
discovered that internal hæmorrhage had set in, and he died
in the early hours of the morning on 3 April, 1915, and was buried
in Bethune Cemetery.
|
| LAIDLAW |
Walter
Siballd |
Lieutenant,
203rd Field Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action 23rd November
1917. Age 28. Born London. Son of Robert and Elizabeth Laidlaw,
of Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge. Brother of Charles above. Buried
in DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot
III Row C Grave 8.
See
also Cambridge
Guildhall
and Cambridge St Mark's
|
|
LAMBERT |
Stanford
Leigh |
 [Also
listed a Stamford Leigh] Private 2106, 1/1st Battalion, East Anglian
Field Amublance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed
in action 26th August 1915 at Gallipoli. Age 25. Born Lincoln, enlisted
Burt St Edmunds, Suffolk. Son of John and Annie M. Lambert, of The
Cove, Fairhaven, Lytham, Lancs. Buried in HILL 10 CEMETERY, Turkey.
Plot II Row D Grave 9. From de Ruvigny's
Roll of Honour Volume
1, Part 1, Page 219:
LAMBERT,
STAMFORD LEIGH, Private, No, 2106, 1st East Anglian Field
Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (R.F.), 29th Division, 4th s. of John Lambert,
of 86, Chesterton Road, Cambridge, late Postmaster of that town,
by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Mostock; b. Lincoln, 10 Sept
1890; educ. Perse School, and Training ship ‘Worcester; served
in the Milne and Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. lines as 3rd officer;
joined the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, 28 Sept. 1914 ; left
for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division, 21 March 1915; was present
at Beach W., Gallipoli, during the landing on 25 April and following
days, at the actions of 24 June and 4 July, near Krithia and Gully
Ravine, and at the Aug. landing at Suvla Bay, and the subsequent
operations, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 26 Aug. 1915.
Buried Suvla; unm. On the day preceding his death his name was sent
up for mention in Despatches for his work during the campaign. One
of his officers wrote: “He was a brave, fearless fellow, one
of the best boys we had in my section.” And another: “Voicing
the opinion of the whole corps. he was one of the most popular men,
ready to assist in anything which was required and to help anybody
who was in trouble.”
See
also Cambridge
Guildhall
and Chesterton
|
| MACFARLANE-GRIEVE |
Alwyn
Ronald |
Lieutenant, 1st/8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Killed in action at Rodincourt, Arras, 17 March 1917. Aged 28. Son
of Florence E. Macfarlane-Grieve, of Toft Manor, Cambridge, and
the late W. A. Macfarlane-Grieve. Matriculated 1908 Keble College,
Oxford University. Member of University OTC prior to 1915. Buried
in HIGHLAND CEMETERY, ROCLINCOURT, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II.
Row A. Grave 13. See also Cambridge,
St Faith's School and Cambridge,
Perse School and Impington
Extract
from De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918, Volume 4, page 70-71:
MACFARLANE
- GRIEVE, ALWYN RONALD, Lieut., 8th (Territorial) Battn.
Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), 2nd s.
of William Alexander Macfarlane-Grieve, of Impington Park, Cambridge,
and Edenhall and Penehrise, co. Roxburgh, M.A.. S.C.L., F.S.A.,
J.P., by his wife, Florence Emily, dau. of the Rev. Morris Fuller;
b. London, 17 May, 1888 ; educ. St. Faith's School ;
the Perse School, Cambridge, where he was captain of the school
and senior sergeant in the O.T.C., and Keble College, Oxford,
where he was an exhibitioner and sergeant in the University O.T.C.,
graduating with second class honours in the Modern History school
in 1911 ; he afterwards studied and lectured at the University
of Rennes. On the outbreak of war he undertook military work in
Cambridge, and was also Lieut. of the Perse School O.T.C. ; underwent
a musketry course at Hythe, and returned to Cambridge as instructor
to an Officers' Cadet Battn. ; obtained a commission in the Argyll
and Sutherland Highlanders in July, 1916 • served with the
Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from the following
Nov., and was killed in action at Roclincourt, near Arras, 17
March, 1917. Buried there. His Company Commander wrote : "
He was killed on the forefront of the German front line, while
encouraging his men, like the good soldier he was. We miss him
very much indeed, and all mourn the loss of an excellent soldier,
a great organizer and a dear friend." The Head Master of
the Perse School also wrote : " Lieut. Macfarlane-Grieve
was the embodiment of chivalry and honour, and he died like a
man and a soldier in a great cause." Unm.
|
|
MASON |
Peter |
Second
Lieutenant, 6th Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, King’s Royal
Rifle Corps. Killed in action 17th February 1917. Age 21. Son of
Margaret Mason, of Brooklands, Abergele, Denbighshire, and the late
William Tate Mason. M.A. Educated at Perse School and St. John's
College, Cambridge. Buried in REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT,
Somme, France. Plot IV Row G Grave 5. |
| McPHERSON |
Archibald
Dixon |
Trooper
569, 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers. Died of wounds 13th May 1915.
Born and resident Cambridge, enlisted Hounslow. Son of Charles and
Elizabeth McPherson. of Cambridge. Buried in VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY
CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II Row E Grave 3.
See also
Cambridge
Guildhall
and Canterbury, 9th
Lancers Memorial and also Cambridge
St Barnabas |
|
MORRISON |
John
Claud[e] |
Trooper
1726, "B" Squadron, Leicestershire Yeomanry. Killed in
action 13th May 1915. Age 27. Born and residnt Spalding, enlisted
Leicester. Only son of the late Hector Mackay Morrison, J.P., and
Emma Morrison, of Argus House, Spalding, Lincs. Educated at the
Perse School, Cambridge. Mobilized August, 1914. Commemorated on
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel
5. See also Spalding
WW1 memorial |
| MORTON |
Joseph
Leonard Milthorp |
Captain,
23rd Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Killed in action 22nd October
1917. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Panel 120 to 124 and 162 to 162A and 163A |
|
MOULTON |
William
Ralph Osborne |
 Second
Lieutenant, 14th Battalion, attached 12th Battalion, Manchester
Regiment. Killed in action 4th August 1916. Aged 24. In the 1911
census he was the son of James Hope and Elizabeth Helling Moulton,
aged 19, a Student at Didsbury College Manchester, born Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire. Buried in BERNAFAY WOOD BRITISH CEMETERY, Somme,
France. Row C Grave 1.
Extract
from England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index
of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966:
MOULTON
William Ralph Osborn of Baslow Derbyshire second-lieutenant
of the Manchester regiment who was killed in action 5 August 1916
in France Administration (limited) Derby 30 January
(1917) ro William Fiddian Moulton wesleyan minister the attorney
of James Hope Moulton. Effects £326 18s. 6d.
Further Grant Derby July 1917.
See
also Cambridge Ley's School
and Cambridge Short
Street Wesleyan Methodist
|
| MUIRHEAD |
Alexander
Hugh |
Second
Lieutenant, 1/1st Battalion (Territorial Force), Cambridgeshire
Regiment. Killed in action 31st July 1917. Age 35. Son of Alexander
and Emily Muirhead, of Lyndewode Rd., Cambridge. Also served at
Gallipoli as Serjt. in Suffolk Yeomanry. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN
GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 50 and 52. |
|
OPPENHEIMER |
John
[Rudolph] |
Private
G/61383, 1st Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Died
of wounds 13th May 1918. Age 21. Enlisted and resident Marylebone,
Middlesex. Son of Mrs. E. Hirsch (formerly Oppenheimer), of 70,
Harley House, Regent's Park, London, and the late Sina Oppenheimer.
Formerly 5241, 2nd Battalion, London Regiment. Buried in ESQUELBECQ
MILITARY CEMETERY, Nord, France. Plot I Row D Grave 10. |
| PAPWORTH,
MM |
William
Henry |
Private
29725, 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action 27th
September 1918. Age 31. Born, resident and enlisted Cambridge. Husband
of Mrs. E. M. Papworth, of 159, Ross St., Romsey Town, Cambridge.
Awarded the Military Medal (M.M.). Buried in MOEUVRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION, Nord, France. Plot I Row B Grave 36. See also Cambridge
Guildhall and Cambridge
St Paul's |
|
PARKER-SMITH |
Wilmot
Babington |
Lieutenant,
1st/3rd Scottish Horse (Territorial Force). Died of wounds 12th
September 1915. Age 30. Son of the Rt. Hon. James Parker Smith,
of Jordanhill and Mary Louisa Hamilton, his wife, of the Bombay
Company, Calcutta. Buried in PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY, Malta. Plot
B Row XII Grave 6. |
| PHYPERS |
William
Anthony |
Sergeant
SD/2057, 12th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Died of wounds 17th
July 1916. Age 31. Born cambridge, enlisted Eastbourne. Son of William
and Mary Phypers, of Cambridge; husband of Audrey Phypers. Buried
in ST. VENANT COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II
Row J Grave 2. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
|
PIGG |
Bernard
William |
Second
Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Killed in action
3rd July 1916. Age 27. Son of Charles and Alice Maud Pigg, of 12,
Lansdown Crescent, Cheltenham. Proceeded to France, September, 1914
with Honorable Artillery Company. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL,
Somme, France. Pier and Face 5 A and 6 C. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
| PULLIN,
MC |
Bernard
John |
Lieutenant,
"D" Battery, 291st Brigade,(Territorial), Royal Field
Artillery. Died of wounds 21st October 1917. Age 29. Son of James
Henry and Marion Eugenie Pullin, of "Myoora," Grange Rd.,
Bushey, Herts. Awarded the Military Cross (M.C.). Buried in DOZINGHEM
MILITARY CEMETERY, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot IX
Row C Grave 23. |
|
RAWES |
Joscelyn
Hugh Russell |
Second
Lieutenant, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action
1st July 1916. In the 1911 census he is the son of Ellen Rawes,
aged 15, at school, born Bradford, North Devon, resident 96 Chesterton
Road, Chesterton, Cambridge. His father, Francis Russell Rawes was
a Church of England Clergyman according to the 1901 census where
Joseclyn is aged 5, born Bradford, Devonshire, rewsident at the
Rectory, Bradford, Devon. Buried in CARNOY MILITARY CEMETERY, Somme,
France. Row F Grave 32. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall and Cambridge
St John's |
| ROSS |
Donald
Neil Campbell |
Second
Lieutenant, "D" Battery, 46 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Died of wounds 3rd November 1917. Age 22. Son of the Rev. G. A.
Johnston Ross, D.D., and Mary Louisa Campbell Ross, of Union Theological
Seminary, New York City, U.S.A. Born at Bridge of Allan, Scotland.
Volunteered for service while a student at Princeton University,
1916. Buried in MENDINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Plot VI. Row AA. Grave 17. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
|
RUDDOCK |
Walter
David |
Captain,
3rd Battalion, Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F. Died of wounds 13th June
1917. Age 28. Son of Archdeacon Ruddock and Annie Ruddock, of Napier
Rd. North Havelock, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand Native of Brisbane,
Queensland. Also served in Gallipoli and Palestine. Previously wounded
a Rafa. Buried in TROIS ARBRES CEMETERY, STEENWERCK, Nord, France.
Plot I Row P Grave 17. |
| SAINT,
DSO |
Edward
Twelvetree |
 Lieutenant-Colonel,
Commanding 1/1st Battalion (Territorial Force), Cambridgeshire Regiment.
Died of wounds 29th August 1918. Age 33. Son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Saint, of Cambridge; husband of Ida Elsie Saint, of 6, St. Barnabas
Rd., Cambridge. Awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.).
Three times mention in desptaches. Buried in DAOURS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot VII Row A Grave 43. [Photograph
from the London Illustrated News]
See
also Cambridge
Guildhall
|
|
SAINT |
William
Douglas |
Private
13798, 5th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment),
C.E.F. Died of illness 2nd January 1915. Born 5th July 1891 in Cambridge.
Next of kin William Saint, of Tenison Road, Cambridge. Charted Accountant
by trade. Previousy spent 4 years in the Officer's Training Corps
(OTC). Passed fit on 31st August 1914, enlisted 17th September 1914
at Valcartier, Canada, accepted 20th September 1914. Age at enlisted
23 years 2 months, height 5 feet 10 inches, girth 36½ inches,
complexion fair, eyes grey, ahir black 5 vaccination marks on left
arm, appendicetory scar in right groin. Religion Church of England.
Buried in MILL ROAD CEMETERY, CAMBRIDGE, Cambridgeshire. Section
XXXVIII Grave 22. National Archives of Canada Accession Reference:
RG
150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 8613 - 10 See
also Cambridge
Guildhall
and Cambridge St Barnabas |
| SCALES |
A
R |
Believed
to be: Arthur Robert SCALES, Private 21544, 12th
Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died of wounds 23rd July 1916. Born
Peckham, Surrey, enlisted Woolwich. Son of Mrs. A. Scales, of 23,
Acacia Road, Sydenham, London. Formerly G/16990, Middlesex Regiment.
Buried in PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE, Pas de Calais,
France. Plot I Row J Grave 39. |
|
SEDGWICK |
Francis
Balfour |
Captain,
No. 54 Training Depot Station, Royal Air Force. Killed in an accident
18th October 1918. Age 22. Son of Professor Adam Sedgwick and Mrs.
L. H. Sedgwick, of 10, Harrington Court, South Kensington, London.
Buried in BROOKWOOD CEMETERY, Surrey. Section J Grave 181783. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
| SELBIE |
Robert
Joseph aka Joe |
Lieutenant,
13th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment), C.E.F. Killed
in action 13th June 1916. Aged 24. Born 10th December 1891 in
London. Enlisted 9th September 1915, aged 34 years 8 months, passed
fit 17th May 1916 in Toronto, Canada. Height 5 feet 7½
inches, girth 40½ inches, complexion fresh, eyes hazel,
hair dark brown. A scar on left thigh and right shin. Religion
Presbyterian. Tutor by trade. Single man. Son of Dr. William Boothby
Selbie, of Mansfield College, Oxford, England. Between 1902 and
1909 his father was minister at Emmanuel Church in Cambridge and
he attended the Perse School. Previously served 4 years in Officer
Training Corps at Oxford University prior to 1915. Matriculated
1910, Wadham College, Oxford University. In the 1901 census he
was agd 9, born Highgate, Middlesex, son of William b and Mildred
M Selbie, resident 11, North Road, Hornsey, Edmonton, Middlesex.
In the 1911 census he was aged 19, born Highgate, Middlesex, son
of Mildred Mary Selbie, resident Principals House, Mansfield College,
Oxford, Holywell, Oxfordshire. Commemorated in HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY,
Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Special memorial B 3. National
Archives of Canada Accession Reference: RG
150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 8769 - 50
Extract
from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index
1916:
SELBIE
Robert Joseph of Mansfield College Mansfield-road Oxford
lieutenant 13th Canadian Highlanders 92nd battalion died 13 June
1916 at Ypres on active service Administration Oxford
27 September to the reverend William Boothby Selbie D.D principal
of Mansfield College. Effects £171 18s. 5d.
|
|
SINDALL |
Richard
Edward |
 [Listed
as Richard Ernest ISNDALL elsewhere] Captain, 1/1st Battalion (Territorial
Force), Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds 1st July 1915. Age
26. Son of William and Henzell Margeret Sindall, of "The Elms,"
Great Shelford, Cambridge. Buried in BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
EXTENSION (NORD), Nord, France. Plot I Row D Grave 30. From Martin
Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
the following:
Volume
1, Part 1, Page 328 - SINDALL, RICHARD ERNEST, Capt. (Shelford Detachment),
1st Battn. Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Sindall,
of The Elms, Shelford, Cambridgeshire, Contractor, and a Member
of the Cambridge Town Council, by his wife, Henzell Margaret, dau.
of Thomas Usher Crass ; b. Cambridge, 11 April, 1889; educ. Perse
School, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Cambridgeshire Regt., 1 Oct.
1908, promoted Lieut. 1 March, 1910, and Capt. 23 June, 1913 ; left
for the Front with his regt., 14 Feb. 1915, was seriously wounded
by the bursting of a shell on 26 June near Armentièrcs, and
died from his wounds, 1 July, 1915; buried at Bailleul; vnm. The
1st Battn. of the Cambridgeshire Regt. was warnily congratulated
by Brig.-Gen. Longley for the part it took in the Battle of St.
Eloi. He stated that the way that they advanced under very heavy
shell and rifle fire towards St. Eloi was splendid and that they
were of the greatest assistance in holding the village when the
German attack was at its worst. Col. Copeman in a letter published
by the Cambridge Daily News, said “We were in the thick of
the great fight last Sunday, and I am proud to tell you that the
regt. did very well, so the General told me, It was an unexpected
attack, and we were hurled into the midst of terrific shell and
rifle fire which lasted from 4.30 on Sunday to about 5 am. Monday”
A special correspondent with the Cambridgeshire Regt. wrote: “The
people of Camhridgeshire must not be allowed to forget that She
1st Cambridgeshires took part in what has been reported as the greatest
engagement of the present war and the world’s history. At
10 p m. amid the dull boom of our artillery and the terrific, earsplitting
explosions of the French 75’s, we went out ready to do our
part. The officers in charge of the company were Capt. R. F. Sindall,
Capt. Keenlyside, Lieut. Shaw, and Lieut. Bates., Lieut. Seaton
and Lieut. Sir H. G. Butlin, also officers of the company, were
already gaining experience in the trenches, and had a rough time
of it, After drawing tools and sandbags, w e went forward. Ceaseless
numbers of ‘flares’ were sent up, and when passing a
gate, the man with the biggest laugh in our company, L.-Corpl. E.
Vawser, was hit. He was promptly attended to, and hopes were expressed
that he would soon be better. An R.E. officer took charge of us,
and we were allotted our job. All the while bullets and shells were
flying around us, and one could mark the passage of the shells through
the air by a streak of light from them. It was rather a terrifying
experience for us to be baptized with such a hail of bullets, and
I must say that I iiever saw one case of funk in the whole company.
The boys may be heartily congratulated on their sang froid, and
the ‘Cambridgeshire people have good reason to be proud of
them After our ‘spelt close up, we manned some reserved trenches,
eventually arriving home’ at 8 a.m after a good hard night’s
work.” His brother, Capt. H. T. Sindall, of the same regt.,
was invalided home from the Front on 6 April, 1916.
See
also Great Shelford, Cambridge,
Cambridge St Mark’s, Shelford
Village Hall Memorial,
Cambridge St Marks, Cambridge
St Mary the Less and Cambridge
Guildhall |
| SMYTH |
Gerald
Hugh |
Second
Lieutenant, No. 2 Fighting School, Royal Air Force. Native of Cambridge.
Trainee pilot, No. 2 Fighting School, Marske; killed in flying accident
Thursday, 5th September 1918, flying a Sopwith Camel, which stalled
and spun in from 700ft. In the 1901 census he was the son of John
and Annie Smyth, aged 2, born Baldock, Hertfordshire, resident 76,
Chesterton Road, Chesterton. In the 1911 census he is the son of
John and Annie Eliz Smyth, aged 12, at school, born Baldock, herts
and resident The Laurels, Cavendish Avenue, Cherryhinton. Buried
in south end of SS. MARY AND MICHAEL CHURCHYARD, TRUMPINGTON, Cambridge.
See
also Cambridge
Guildhall
and Cambridge
St John's
|
|
SPEARING |
Edward |
Lieutenant,
4th Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Killed in
action 11th September 1916. Age 26. Son of James and Fanny Spearing,
of Troodos, Great Shelford, Cambridge. B.A., LL.B. Emmanuel College,
Cambridge. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier
and Face 5 D and 12 B.
From Andy
Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the
following:
Volume 2,
Part 3, Page 254 - SPEARING, Edward - Lieutenant, 4th ( Territorial
) Battalion, Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Only son
of James Spearing of Great Shelford, Cambridge, Solicitor, by his
wife, Fanny Elizabeth, dau. of William Clayton. Born Cambridge 25th
March 1890, educated Purse Grammar School, and Emmanuel College,
Cambridge (scholar), where he took a first class in part 1 of the
Historical Tripos in 1910, a second class in part 2 in 1911, and
graduated LL.B in 1912, being subsequently articled as a Solicitor;
volunteered for Foreign service; obtained a commission as a 2nd
Lieut. 4th Battn, Royal Lancaster Regt. 22nd Aug 1914 and was promoted
Lieutenant 12th June 1915; served with The Expeditionary Force in
France and Flanders from 3rd May 1915; was wounded near Fricourt
30th Dec. and invalided home; returned to the front in April, 1916
and was killed in action near Delville Wood, 11th Sept following,
while leading his company in an attack on the German trenches. Buried
where he fell. His Commanding Officer wrote: " He was commanding
the Company and pulling it together awfully well. He was a splendid
fellow and had no idea of fear. We will all miss him greatly."
Unm.
Also on Gt
Shelford Village Hall Memorial
and Cambridge
Guildhall |
| SUSSUM |
George
Andrew |
Private
27764, 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Killed in action 25th
November 1917. Age 42. Born St Andrew's, Cambridge, enlisted Winchester.
Son of George and Mary Anne Sussum. Buried in FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH
CEMETERY, Nord, France. Plot VII. A. 8. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
|
THOMAS |
Lionel
George [Theophilus] |
Second
Lieutenant, 5th Battalion (Territorial) Welsh Regiment attached
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Killed in action 20th September 1917.
Age 19. Son of T. E. and Edith H. Thomas, of Trehale, Mathry, Pembrokeshire.
Buried in HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Plot X Row B Grave 3. See also Hayscastle,
Pembrokeshire. |
| THOMPSON |
William
George |
Captain,
41 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and 5th Battalion (Territorial),
Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 14th July 1917. Age 28. Son of
William Frederick and Lydia Thompson, of Brunswick Lodge, Cambridge.
Buried in LEBUCQUIERE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Pas de Calais,
France. Plot I Row E Grave 4. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
|
TOOLIS |
James
Hollingworth |
Lieutenant,
2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 1st July
1916. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and
Face 1 C. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
| TOWNSEND |
Gilbert |
Lance
Corporal 768, 5th (City of London) Battalion (London Rifle Brigade)
(Territorial Force), London Regiment. Killed in action 13th May
1915. Age 25. Enlisted London, resident Cambridge. Son of William
Henry and Emily Townsend, of 134, Tenison Rd., Cambridge. A clerk
in Barclay's Bank. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL,
Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 52 and 54. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall,
Cambridge Emmanuel
United Reformed Church
and Cambridge St Paul's |
|
WARLAND |
Maurice
George |
Second
Lieutenant, 1/5th Battalion (Territorial Force), Duke of Edinburgh's
(Wiltshire Regiment). Died of wounds 20th January 1917. Age 25.
Son of the late George Henry and Helen Warland, of Cambridge. Buried
in AMARA WAR CEMETERY, Iraq. Plot XXVI Row A Grave 5. See
also Cambridge
Guildhall |
| WEBSTER |
Lawrance
Fitzgerald |
Lieutenant,
5th Battalion, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment), C.E.F.
Killed in action 30th October 1917. Age 31. Son of Harris and Martha
Ellen Webster, of Fulbourn, Cambridge, England. Commemorated on
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel
30 and 32. See also Fulbourn |
|
WESTWOOD |
Walter
Peter |
Second
Lieutenant, 6th (Cyclist) Battalion (Territorial), Suffolk Regiment.
Killed in action 26th September 1917. Age 23. Son of Mrs. Clara
Westwood, of 43, Queen's Rd., Royston, Herts. Commemorated on TYNE
COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 40 to 41
and 162 to 162A |
| WHITTET |
John
Webster |
Private
427559, 58th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment),
C.E.F. Died of wounds/illness 12th September 1916. Born 25th August
1897 in England. Enlisted and passed fit 13th September 1915 in
Regina, Saskatawan, Canada, aged 18 years. Vision 20/20, height
5 feet 8½ inches, girth 33½ inches, complexion sallow,
eyes blue, hair brown, scar on right side of nose. Church of England.
Next of kin Charles Whittet, Box 497, Regina, Saskatawan, Canada.
Electrician by trade. Member of the 95th Saks. Rifles. 1½
years OTC, 2 years 3rd Field Troop, C.E. Buried in GAMLINGAY CEMETERY,
Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire. Section E Row 127. National Archives
of Canada Accession Reference: RG
150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 10331 - 55 See also Gamlingay
|
|
WHITWORTH |
Arthur
George Richard |
Lieutenant,
24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion attached 19th Battalion, Northumberland
Fusiliers. Died of wounds 30th March 1918. Age 20. Son of Julius
Harry and Selina Elton Whitworth, of "Strathray," Birling
Rd., Tunbridge Wells. Born at Fordham, Cambs. Educated at Perse
School, Cambridge, and Downing College, Cambridge. Buried in DOULLENS
COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION No.1, Somme, France. Plot III Row A
Grave 17. See also Cambridge St
John's and Cambridge
Guildhall |
| WIGG |
Sydney
Harold |
Captain,
"C" Battery, 255th Brigade (Territorial), Royal Field
Artillery. Killed in action 13th October 1918. Age 29. Son of Mr.
A. S. Wigg, of Fairfield House, Newmarket, Suffolk. Buried in RAMILLIES
BRITISH CEMETERY, Nord, France. Row D Grave 10. |
|
WIGHT |
Ronald
Toynbee |
Trooper
1600, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Yeomanry (The Duke of York's Own Loyal
Suffolk Hussars). Died of illness at Malta 30th October 1915. Age
20. Born Askville, USA, enlisted Bury St Edmunds, resident Cambridge.
Son of T. H. Toynbee Wight and Ellie W. Wight. Born at Asheville,
North Carolina, U.S.A. Buried in PIETA MILITARY CEMETERY, Malta.
Plot D Row I Grave 3. |
| WILSON |
William
Clement |
Lieutenant,
1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Killed in action 25th September
1915. Commemorated on PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut,
Belgium. Panel 5. |
|
WOODS |
James |
Private
137, 1/1st Battalion, 544h East Anglian Casualty Clearing Station
(Territorial), Royal Army Medical Corps. Drowned at sea 13th August
1915. Age 29. Son of Mrs. E. A. Woods, of 32, St. Mathew's Church
Lane, Ipswich. Commemorated on HELLES MEMORIAL, Turkey. Panel 199
and 200 or 236 to 239 and 328 |
| WOODWARD |
Ernest
Harold Hamley |
Second
Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment).
Killed in action 24th December 1916. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN
GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 11 - 13 and
14.
From Martin
Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour
the following:
Volume
1, Part 3, Page 291 - WOODWARD, ERNEST HAROLD HAMLEY, LIeut., 10th
(Service) Battn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regt.), elder
s, of the Rev. Alfred Ernest Woodward, M.A., Vicar of UgIey, co.
Essex, and formerly Senior Classical Master of Christ’s Hospital,
by his wife. Alice Harriet, dau. of J. Hamley, of Guernsey b. Dnlwich.
London. S.E.. 29 Jan. 1888; educ. Shirley House School, Blackheath,
and Old Chariton; Christ’s Hospital, London, and Horsham,
where he was head of his house, Grecian, and School Exhibitioner:
Herttord College. Senior Classical Scholar (open). where he graduated
BA. Classical Honours (Second and Third Class), and Grenoble University,
France; was Assistant Classical Master and Football Coach at Oundle
School, and subsequently Assistant Classical Master at Perse School,
Cambridge; ; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war,
refusing a commission, and enlisted as a private in the 18th Battn.
(Public Schools) The Royal Fusiliers in Sept. 1914 ; served with
the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 1915 to 1916.
and when the Public Schools and Universities Battn. was disbanded,
he accepted a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 10th Battn.
The Royal West Surrey Regt. ; joined his Regiment in France in Sept.
1916, taking part in the Somme offensive of that year, having at
one time to take command of his company owing to the other officers
being wounded; was reported wounded and missing at Vierstraat 24
Dec. following, and is now known to have been killed in action on
that date. His Commanding Officer. Lieut.-Col. Talbot Jarvis, wrote:
Lieut. Woodward went out on patrol as he has done many times before,
and was shot by a German sentry. Your son did so well in action
on the Somme, and has always shown such great personal bravery,
that it has endeared him to all ranks,” and his Commanding
Officer. Major R. Gwynne :“ I considered hime a very, very
noble, gallant officer and gentleman, as brave as a lion, and I
know all here had the very, very highest opinion of him and affection
for him.” The Chaplain also wrote: “Your son wished
to crown the night’s work with the capture of a German. He
therefore, apparently alone, went ahead, and attained the German
barbed wire in front of their trenches. A sudden rush, and he might
quite well have succeeded in bustling a surprised and terrified
sentry, and bringing him into our lines some short distance away.
But he had the misfortune, according to the reports of his men,
to stumble accidentally against one or more Germans out repairing
their wires, and before he had time to defend himself, was struck
down and almost certainly killed. He was therefore reported missing,
believed killed,’ and his body would be taken in and buried
(I hope with honours, as befitted so brave a man).” Lieut.
Woodward was famous at Rugby football, having been captain of his
School XV., also of his college team, and of the Old Blues’
First XV. He also played in the Surrey County XV., as well as several
times for Oxford University, though he just missed his “ Blue.”
Unm. |
|
Not on memorial but attended Perse School |
|
COLEMAN |
Bert |
Private
5248, 1st/14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish). Killed
in action in the attack on Gommecourt 1st July 1916. Enlisted London,
resident Leicester. He attended Sawston School, Cambridgeshire in
the 1890s. A bright pupil, in 1898 he was awarded a county scholarship
to Perse Grammar School, Cambridge. He won a book, with prize label,
awarded to him for gaining Form VB first prize in 1900. No known
grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and
Face 9 C and 13 C. See also Sawston. |
|
1939-1945 |
|
ALLEN |
John
Charles Hinton |
Sergeant
1264193, Pilot, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 17th April
1942. Aged 21. Son of Charles Augustus Allen and Lilian Alice May
Allen, of Cambridge. Scholar of The Perse School, Cambridge. Buried
in HISTON ROAD CEMETERY. CAMBRIDGE. Grave Plot 39. Row F. Grave
3. See also Cambridge St Lukes |
| ASHFIELD |
Leslie
James |
Flying
Officer 40198, 44 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Died 15th May 1940.
Aged 22. Son of Frederick Henry and Stina Ashfield, of Horseheath,
Cambridgeshire. Buried in OOSTERHOUT PROTESTANT CEMETERY, Noord-Brabant,
Netherlands. Grave 5. |
|
BACON |
Douglas
Alfred |
Flying
Officer 151232, Air Bombardier, 50 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Died 22nd May 1944. Buried in REICHSWALD FOREST WAR CEMETERY,
Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Plot 26 Row F. Joint grave
15-16. |
| BARWELL,
DFC |
Philip
Reginald |
[Memorial
states Wing Commander, Pilot, Commander, Royal Air Force Biggin
Hill] Group Captain 22062, Royal Air Force. Died 1st july 1942.
Aged 35. Son of Reginald and Alice Mary Ann Barwell; husband of
Mary Elizabeth Barwell, of Peterborough, Northamptonshire. Awarded
the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Buried in CALAIS CANADIAN
WAR CEMETERY, LEUBRINGHEN, Pas de Calais, France. Plot 5. Row G.
Grave 1. |
|
BEALES |
Christopher
Day |
Flight
Lieutenant 49973, Royal Air Force. Died 30th May 1944. Aged 25.
Son of Hubert G. D. and Alice L. Beales. Buried in BARI WAR CEMETERY,
Italy. Plot XV. Row C. Grave 29. |
| CHAPMAN |
Arthur
Reginald |
Captain
101508, 118 Light A.A. Batery, Royal Artillery. Died 16th September
1940. Aged 53. Son of Arthur and Susan Chapman, of Cambridge, husband
of Blanche Isabel Chapman, of Torquay, Devon. Buried in MILL ROAD
CEMETERY, CAMBRIDGE. St. Clements Parish Section Row 8. Grave 29. |
|
CHAPPLE |
Ellicott
Alfred Hunter |
[Memoiral
states Pilot Officer] Flying Officer (Pilot) 36231, 79 Squadron,
Royal Air Force . Died 12th September 1941. Aged 23. Son of Alfred
Chapple, M.A., B.Sc., Barrister-at-Law, and Hannah Melville Chapple,
of Great Abington. B.A. (Cantab.). Buried in ST. MARY CHURCHYARD,
LITTLE ABINGTON, Cambridgeshire. See also Little
Abington. |
| CHOUVILLE |
Pierre |
Born
Cambridge circa 1910, stuident at Perse School. Died of a heart
attack in France 1944. No further information currently available. |
|
COPLEY |
John
James Hawke |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) 41258, 41 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Died 14th September
1939. Aged 18. Son of Sqdn. Ldr. Reginald James Copley and Josephine
Myra Copley, of Newton. Buried in ST. MARGARET CHURCHYARD, NEWTON,
Cambridgeshire. See also Newton,
Cambridge memorial |
| CRESWICK |
Cuthbert
George (Tom) |
Lieutenant,
HMS Victory, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Died 17th April 1941.
Age 29. Husband of Cynthia Elizabeth Creswick, of Esher, Surrey.
Buried in HASLAR ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY, Hampshire. Plot G. Row 9.
Grave 13. |
|
DAVEY |
Renford
Percy |
|
| DUNN |
Godfrey
Hugh |
Gunner
1126852, 179 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died 9th April 1945.
Aged 22. Son of George M. Dunn and Fanny I. Dunn, of Cambridge.
Buried in RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY, Kamp Lintfort, Nordrhein-Westfal,
Germany. Plot 12. Row J. Grave 19. |
|
ETHERIDGE |
Nigel
Paul |
Pilot
Officer 190973, Flight Engineer, 186 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve. Died 27th February 1945. Buried in REICHSWALD FOREST WAR
CEMETERY, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Plot 20. Row D. Grave
3. |
| FRAZER |
Patrick
Desmond George |
 Second
Lieutenant EC/3763, 17th Dogra Regiment, Indian Army. Died 15th
February 1942 on the day Signapore surrednered to the Japanese.
Aged 20. Son of William Henry and Phoebe Constance Frazer, of Dovercourt
Bay, Essex. Buried in KRANJI WAR CEMETERY, Singpore. Plot 12. Row
A. Joint grave 15-16. 
|
|
FREDMAN |
Levin
|
Flying
Officer 90405, Pilot, 615 Squadron, Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air
Force). Died 12th May 1940. Aged 21. Son of Israel and Miriam Fredman.
Buried in WIHOGNE CHURCHYARD, Juprelle, Liege, Belgium. Grave 9. |
| GADSBY |
Cyril
Frank |
Private
5832599, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (T.A.). Died 9th
July 1943 as a prisoner of war. Aged 29. Son of William and Mary
Gadsby, of Cambridge. Buried in CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY, Thailand.
Plot 4. Row H. Grave 4.
|
|
HALL |
Edward
Ralph |
Sergeant
749477, Pilot, 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
Died 15th June 1941. Aged 21. Son of Ralph Edgar and Hilda Martha
Hall, of Cambridge. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE AIR FORCE MEMORIAL,
Surrey. Panel 44. |
| HYAMSON |
Philipp
Henry Samuel |
Corporal
1012829, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 20th August 1944.
Aged 32. Son of Albert Montefiore Hyamson and Marie Rose Hyamson,
of West Kensington, London. B.Sc., Hons. (Lond.). His brother Theodore
David also died on service. Buried in GOLDERS GREEN JEWISH CEMETERY,
Middlesex. Row 49. Grave 34. |
|
IRELAND |
Peter
James |
Lieutenant
271889, 15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. Died
24th September 1944. Aged 22. Son of John Knowles Ireland and Rhoda
Ireland, of Barrow, Suffolk. Buried in MIERLO WAR CEMETERY, Noord-Brabant,
Netherlands. Plot VI. Row G. Grave 6. |
| JACOBSON |
Lawrence
|
Second
Lieutenant 126616, 11th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps. Died 15th
June 1941. No known grave. Commemorated on ALAMEIN MEMORIAL, Egypt.
Column 19. |
|
JOHNSTON |
Kenneth
|
[Spelt
JOHNSON on memorial] Lieutenant EC/5170, 6th Rajputana Rifles, Indian
Army. Died 10th march 1944. Aged 22. Son of the Revd. Alec Bowman
Johnston, M.A., and Agnes May Johnston, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
B.A., Hons. (Cantab.). Scholar of the Perse School, and of Magdalene
College. Buried in CASSINO WAR CEMETERY, Italy. Plot XVIII. Row
A. Grave 18.
|
| JUPP |
Philip
Anthony |
Flying
Officer (Pilot) 123126, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died
1st October 1942. Buried in SAGE WAR CEMETERY, Oldenburg, Niedersachsen,
Germany. Plot 7. Row A. Grave 3. |
|
*LACEY |
Robert
Joseph |
Flying
Officer (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 160577, 626 Squadron, Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died between 14th and 15th January
1945. No known grave. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey.
Panel 267.Note:
No 626 Squadron was formed at Wickenby on 7 November 1943 from C
Flight of No.12 Squadron. Its Lancasters took part in the strategic
bomber offensive for the remainder of the war, and after a few months
on transport duties, the squadron was disbanded on 14 October 1945.
|
| LAMB |
Dennis
Charles |
Sergeant
(Pilot), 108 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 19th
October 1939. Aged 26. Son of Sidney Charles and Alice Lamb, of
Impington. Buried in St. ANDREW CHURCHYARD, CHERRY HINTON, Cambridge.
See also Cherry Hinton. |
|
LEELAND |
Sidney
John |
Major
187882, Royal Artillery attached 7th Indian Infantry Division. Died
9th February 1944. Aged 30. Son of Sidney John and Ellen Annie Leeland,
of Cambridge. Buried in TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY, Myanmar (formerly
Burma). Plot 3. Row B. Grave 18. |
| MALT |
Douglas
Frank |
Captain
163686, (Royal) Army Dental Corps. Died 5th March 1945. Aged 33.
Son of Frank and Kate Marion Malt, of Cambridge. Buried in SAFFRON
HILL CEMETERY, LEICESTER, Leicestershire. Section D. General Grave
575. |
|
MATTHEWS |
Bernard
Frederick West |
Pilot
Officer 62004, 18 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died
12th August 1941. Aged 25. Son of George Henry and Sophia Ann Matthews,
of Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL,
Surrey. Panel 33.
Note:
As part of the Air Component of the BEF and equipped with Blenheims,
No. 18 Squadron suffered heavy losses in their attempts to stem
the German advance the Europe before being withdrawn to the UK in
May 1940. The Squadron was then assigned to anti-shipping duties,
but during one raid over France in August 1941, one aircraft dropped
a box over St Omer airfield containing an artificial leg. It was
a spare for Wing Commander Douglas Bader. The Squadron then moved
to North Africa with the Blenheim V and took up day bombing duties.
During an unescorted raid on Chouigui airfield in December 1942
led by Wing Commander HG Malcolm, his aircraft was shot down and
he was posthumously awarded the VC. During 1943-45, No. 18 Squadron
supported the allied advance through Italy before moving to Greece
in September 1945, disbanding there a year later. |
| McKECHNIE,
GC |
William
Neil |
Group
Captain (Pilot) 26144, 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Died 30th
August 1944. Aged 37. Born on 27th August 1907 the son of Lt.-Col.
William Ernest McKechnie, I.M.S., and Marion A. McKechnie; husband
of Mary Roma McKechnie, of Musselburgh, Midlothian. Awarded the
George Cross (G.C. originally the Empire Gallantry Medal) as an
Flight Cadet, Royal Air Force, attending an air crash 18th October
1929. No known grave. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey.
Panel 200.
The
London Gazette of 18th October, 1929, gives the
following details in announcing the award to Group Captain (then
Flight Cadet) McKechnie of the Empire Gallantry Medal, which was
exchanged for the George Cross by the terms of the institution of
that award in September 1940: On 20th June, 1929, an aeroplane
piloted by Flight Cadet C. J. Giles crashed on landing at Cranwell
aerodrome and burst into flames. The pilot was stunned, but managed
to release his safety belt and fall out of the machine in a dazed
condition. Flight Cadet McKechnie, who had landed in another aeroplane
about the same time some two hundred yards away, left his machine
and ran at full speed towards the scene of the accident. The petrol
had spread over an area about ten yards in diameter, in full blaze,
with Giles lying in it semi-conscious. McKechnie, without hesitation,
ran into the flames and pulled out Giles, who was badly burned.
McKechnie, who was himself scorched and superficially burned, then
proceeded to extinguish Giles's burning clothing. There is no doubt
that without McKechnie's assistance Giles would have been burned
to death, as he was quite incapable of moving himself. His machine
was entirely destroyed, and the ground for some distance around
was burned up by the spread of the ignited petrol.
See
also Wikipedia - William
Neil McKechnie |
|
ROGERS |
Robert
Edward |
Sapper
1946323, 4 Railway Construction and Maintenance Company, Royal Engineers.
Died 3rd March 1942. Aged 20. Son of Richard Williams Rogers and
Rose Beatrice Rogers, of Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated
in CAMBRIDGE CREMATORIUM, Cambridge. Column 2. |
| SHARP |
Leslie
Mark |
Pilot
Officer (Pilot) 85241, 96 Squadron, Royal Air Force/ Died 28th December
1940. Aged 23. Son of Mark and Annie Sharp, of Belfast. Buried in
CARNMONEY JEWISH CEMETERY, County Antrim. Line I. Grave 4.
Note:
On 18 December 1940, No. 422 Flight, a Hurricane night-fighter unit
at Cranage, was redesignated No. 96 Squadron. In February 1941 it
received Defiants as additional equipment and flew night patrols
over Merseyside and the Midlands. Beaufighters arrived in May 1942
and in April 1943 the Squadron started to fly intruder missions
using Ford as an advanced base. In June 1943 the Squadron converted
to Mosquitoes and resumed defensive operations in August from Church
Fenton. In September it moved to Scotland for two months before
coming south to Kent. After the Normandy landings, the Squadron
provided night cover over the landing areas and was soon engaged
in countering flying-bombs launched against London at night. On
12 December 1944, the Squadron was disbanded.
No.
96 reformed again at Leconfield on 30 December 1944 as a Halifax
Squadron in Transport Command but gave these up in March when the
Squadron moved to the Far East. Arriving in Egypt, it collected
Dakotas and flew these to India where it engaged in parachute and
glider training. Detachments were provided for operations over Burma
and in September the Squadron began general transport flights throughout
South-East Asia Command. |
|
STEPHEN,
TD |
Alfred
Bodger Grant |
Major
32392, 2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (T.A.). Died 14th
February 1942 during the Japanese advance on Singapore. Aged 40.
Son of George and Annie Stephen; husband of Dora Valentine Stephen,
of Cambridge. M.A. (Cantab.). No known grave. Commemorated on SINGAPORE
MEMORIAL, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore. Column 55.
|
| TATTENBAUM |
Tobias
(Tuvia) |
Aircraftman
2nd Class 774021, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 24th April
1941. Aged 20, born February 1921. Joined the Perse School (Hillel
House) in the Autumn 1936. Son of Abraham and Malca Tattenbaum,
of Hampstead, London. In April 1940 he was with 103 Maintenace Unit
in Aboukir, Egypt before becoming a mechanic/ground crew on the
Greece-Albanian border, employed to try and salvage planes that
had made false landings. It was here that he was killed, by German
straffing, as the British Armed Forces were being evacuated. Initially,
he was buried by the Germans in Argos Civil Cemetery, but, on 7th
September 1945, he was re-intered in PHALERON WAR CEMETERY, Greece.
Plot 5. Row C. Grave 19. |
|
TODD |
Arthur
Landon Thomas |
Pilot
Officer 79558, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 4th February
1941. Aged 21. Son of the Revd. Hugh Wilfrid Todd, M.C., M.A., and
Clara Todd, of Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on RUNNYMEDE
MEMORIAL, Surrey. Panel 35. |
| WALLIS |
Stanley
Thomas Banks |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 741434, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died 20th May
1940. Aged 23. Buried in St. ANDREW CHURCHYARD, CHERRY HINTON, Cambridge.
See also Cherry Hinton. |
|
WOSENCROFT |
Stanley
Reginald |
Corporal
7261290, Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 19th February 1942. Aged
36. Son of Robert Henry and Edith Wosencroft. Buried in STANLEY
MILITARY CEMETERY, Hong Kong, China. Plot 1. Row A. Grave 105. |
*
= Not on the School War Memorial, but believed to have been Perseans.
If you have any further details on the men above please contact Hugh
Pattenden email: hcfpattenden@hotmail.com
- the school web site is at www.perse.co.uk
and the Old Perseans web site at www.oldperseans.org
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updated
20 September, 2023
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