Private. 1^st Bt. Bedfordshire Reg.d 17/11/1914 age 23. Buried: Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Son of George & Emma Jane Long of Doddington and later Benwick. Also listed Pondersbridge.

Sergeant 1^st Bt. Suffolk Reg. died 24/4/1915 age 26. Buried: NKG. Husband of Edith Annie Miller (formerly Southon) of London; son of John & Sarah Ann Southon, Park Field, Doddington. Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Private 1^st Bt. Suffolk Reg. died 21/7/1915 age 18. Buried: Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Son of William & Mary Ann Fisher of Doddington

Private ^9315. 7th. Battalion The Suffolk Regiment 12th.Division. Killed in action at Hulluch 13th. October 1915. Commemorated on The Loos Memorial MR.19. Buried: NKG. Spelt OSBORNE in CWGC records. See also Benwick.

Private 11^th Bt. Suffolk Reg. died 1/7/1916 age 24. Buried: NKG. Son of Joe & Sarah Elizabeth Heaps, Newgate St., Doddington. Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

Pte. 58^th Bt. Canadian Infantry died 18/8/1916 age 28. Buried: Poelcapelle British Cemetery, Langemark-Poelkapelle, West-V., Belgium. Son of Samuel & Sarah Woodbine of Doddington

L.Cpl. ²1^st Bt. Northamptonshire Reg. died 19/8/1916. Buried: Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France. Grandson of Mrs J. Reid of Silver Lea, Doddington. Spelt WILMOTT in CWGC records

Pte. 1^st Bt. Cambridgeshire Reg. died 25/8/1916 age 21. Buried: Couin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Son of Mrs J Croote of Angle Bridge, Whittlesey. Formerly of Doddington

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny' s Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 1, Part 2, Page 86. CROOTE, Walter Edwin. Private, 2192, 1st battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (T.F). Son of George Croote, Yardman on farm, by his wife Emma, dau. of Henry Croote; born Walsoken co. Norfolk 25-6-1895; educated Christ Church near Wisbech, Cambs, was employed on a farm at Doddington, co Cambs and voluntarily enlisted 2-9-1914. Went to France with his battalion 14-2-1915, was trained as a bomber, scout and stretcher-bearer, and for the few months before his death was cheif orderly to his commanding officer; was present at the second Battle of Ypres in may 1915, and also at actions at Armentieres and Frise. Died 29-8-1916 in an operating station, of wounds received in action in France. Buried in the British cemetery eight miles east of Doullens.

Captain Strickland, commanding his company, wrote of him "He was wounded on the morning of the 28th August, 1916. He was my cheif orderly, and was sleeping in a little shelter he had erected for himself, just outside my dug out. A shell hit the parapet just where he was and knocked it in , burying your son underneath the debris. We dug him out, but found his right leg badly broken, as well as his right arm. He was badly hurt but wonderfully brave, and i hoped he would have pulled through, though he would have lost both legs and an arm. The doctor gave me hope that he would not die, and I was very cut up to hear of his death. He was in every way a fine fellow, being a trained bomber, scout and stretcher bearer, everybody liked him, and he is badly missed. He did some grand work out here, especially in one attack, where he was continually running for me , and obtained news under very heavy shell fire". Unm

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