BALDING

Reginald Norman

Lt, 5th Bedfordshire Rgt, attd. Machine Gun Corps (Inf), who died on Friday 30th March 1917. Age 22. Son of the Rev J. W. Balding, of 41, Chatsworth Rd., Croydon, Surrey. BASRA MEMORIAL, Iraq.

BECKETT

Victor Louis Sydney

Major, 9th Yorkshire Rgt, who died on Friday 14th July 1916. Age 34. Died of wounds received on 10th July. Son of the late Dr. Francis Mears Beckett and Harriet Elizabeth Beckett, of St. Audrey's, Ely, Cambs. HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE, Somme, France.

BOULTBEE

Arthur Elsdale

Lt, 25th Sqdn Royal Flying Corps, and 3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Rgt, who died on Saturday 17 March 1917. Age 19. Son of the Rev Frederick Croxall Boultbee and Henrietta Eleanor Boultbee, of Arnion Lodge, The Avenue, Combe Down, Bath, Somerset. CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2, NEUVILLE - ST. VAAST, Pas de Calais, France. At King's School from 1909 until July 1915.

Born 1897 at Colne. Son of the Rev. Frederick Croxall Boultbee & Henrietta Eleanor Boultbee. of Hargrave Rectory, Northamptonshire. Educated at St. John's, Leatherhead & St. Catherine's College, Cambridge; left Cambridge after one term to join Northamptonshire Regiment. Transferred to RFC. Trained as pilot and posted to 25 Squadron in France 1st January 17th. Killed in action 17th March 1917; flying FE.2b with observer AM 2 F. King (also killed), on photographic escort. attacked by enemy fighters south-east of Oppy; shot down by Ltn. Manfred von Richthofen of Jasta 11 (his 27th of 80 victories). Buried at Canadian Cemetery No. 2, Neuville-St. Vaast, France. See "Under the Guns of the Red Baron" (Franks, Giblin & McCreery; pub. Grub Street, 1995) for full account & photograph of Boultbee.

BURNS

William Beaumont

2nd Lt, 1st Worcestershire Rgt, who died on Saturday 8th July 1916 . THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.

COATE

Alfred Melbourne

Second Lt, 15th Bty. 36th Bde., Royal Field Artillery, who died on Wednesday 28th August 1918. Age 19. Son of the Rev. Harry Coate and Henrietta Mercy Coate, of The Vicarage, Sharnbrook, Beds. DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.

COBBOLD

E F W

Lt, 7th Cheshire Rgt, who died on Wednesday 12th January 1916. CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, Pas de Calais, France.

FOOTE

Richard christopher George

Lt, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who died on Thursday 15th October 1914. Age 20. Son of the Rev. John Vicars Foote and Margaret A. Foote, of 14, Powis Square, Notting Hill, London. Born at Clevedon, Somerset. GENT CITY CEMETERY, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

FORDE

Kenneth Rowley

Lt, 3rd The Buffs (East Kent Rgt), who died on Friday 23rd July 1915. Age 28. Son of Canon Forde, LL. D., and Mrs Forde, of 18 Salisbury Terrace, Poltrush, Co. Antrim. DRANOUTER CHURCHYARD, Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

HAMPTON

William Orr

2nd Lt, 3rd Norfolk Rgt attached 70th Machine Gun Company, who died on 1st July 1916, age 28. Son of Rev W H Hampton, vicar of parish. Lonsdale Cemetery, Authille, Somme, France. Also listed on Ramsey memorial and Pondersbridge.

INGLE

Roland George

2nd Lt, Lincolnshire Rgt, who died on Saturday 1st July 1916. Age 30. Son of Robert and Harriet Alice Ingle, of 92, Hills Rd., Cambridge. BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT, Somme, France.

JONES, CMG, DSO

Frank Aubrey

Lieutenant Colonel, 4th Regt., South African Infantry, formerly Welsh Rgt, who died on Tuesday 11 July 1916. Age 42. Son of Arthur Mowbray Jones and Clara Belinda Jones. Born at Clifton, Bristol, England. PERONNE ROAD CEMETERY, MARICOURT, Somme, France.

LANGDON

Laurence

Lt, B Coy. 14th Hampshire Rgt, who died on Tuesday 14th March 1916. Age 41. Son of Thomas Charles and Mary Ann Langdon. Born at Winchester. SAILLY-SUR-LA-LYS-CANADIAN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.

MOXON

Hugh Cecil

2nd Lt, 5th attd. 8th Bedfordshire Rgt, who died on Thursday 19th July 1917. Age 20. Son of the late Rev E. A. Moxon, Vicar of All Saints, Newmarket, and of Maud M. Moxon, of Oak Cottage, Great Shelford, Cambs. BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.

PLEDGER

Percy Eaton

Pte, STK/496, 10th Royal Fusiliers, who died on Wednesday 12th July 1916. Age 23. Son of Arthur Deer Pledger and Louisa Pledger, of Koumala, 50 New Barn's Rd., Ely, Cambs. THIEPVAL MEMORIA, Somme, France.

PUNCHARD

Edmund Elgood

Lt, 2nd Bedfordshire Rgt, who died on Saturday 31st October 1914. Age 24. Son of the late Rev Canon Punchard, D.D., and the late Catherine Mary Punchard, of St. Mary's St., Ely, Cambs. YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

STOCKDALE

Edmund Leslie Johnson

Lt, B Coy. 10th Lancashire Fusiliers, who died on Friday 7th July 1916. Age 22. Son of William Edward and Rose Ellen Stockdale, of The Tower, Ely, Cambs. THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France.

TAYLOR

John Ellis

Lance Corporal 1111, The Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars, Imperial Yeomanry, who died on Saturday 21st of August 1915, son of Mrs Ellis Taylor, of Eye Hill, Soham. Helles Memorial. A Day Boy at King's School, Ely from 1906 to 1910.

TEMPLE

Arthur Hilliard Williams

Captain, "A" Company, 2nd Suffolk Rgt, who died on Monday 14th December 1914. Age 39. Son of the Rev Robert and Mrs Temple; husband of Enid Powys Temple, of Albert Lodge, Shanklin, Isle of Wight. YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

TUCK

Gilbert Bernard Owen

2nd Lt, 54th Australian Infantry, AIF, who died on Monday 19th February 1917. Age 35. Son of the Rev Julian George and Fanny Tuck, of Tostock Rectory, Bury-St-Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Native of Bucknall, Staffs. Enlisted at Parramatta, New South Wales. A.I.F. BURIAL GROUND, FLERS, Somme, France.

TYNDALL

Arthur George

2nd Lt, A Coy. 2nd Rifle Brigade, who died on Sunday 18th November 1917. Age 19. Son of George Herbert and Annie Tyndall, of Minster Cottage, Ely. Formerly Cambridge University O.T.C. TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

VAILE

Laurence Edward Stuart

2nd Lt, General List and Royal Flying Corps, who died on Wednesday 29th August 1917. Age 24. Son of Jeannette Stuart Vaile, of West House, Seaford, Sussex, and the late Arthur Vaile. NARBOROUGH (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD, Norfolk. Killed in a flying accident at Narborough where he was an instructor. See also Exning.

VERRALL

Charles Royston

Private 235040, 157th Depot, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Wounded and died 12th of March 1918. Born the 22nd of May 1883, attended KSE from 1895 to 1899. He was a journalist and involved in the South African War 1900. Buried in Grangegorman Military Cemetery, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Grave CE. 675.

WOODROFFE

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There were two Woodroffe's at the school Norman Frederic and Walter Gordon, brothers. However Norman Frederic does not appear as having died, but Walter Gordon does and the age matches up [at first assumed that it was Norman Leslie Woodroffe]. W.G. Woodroffe was born in January 1894, but in the Register of the King's School Ely it is his brother who was supposedly killed in the first World War. Norman is supposed to have won the Legion of Honeur and the Croix de Guerre so if one swaps the information for the two boys the theory is that it is Walter Gordon who died.

Walter Gordon Woodroffe, Captain, 7th Battalion (Territorial), Middlesex regiment. Killed in action Saturday 16th September 1916. Age 22. Son of Walter Henry and Mildred M. Woodroffe, of 5, Bedford Row, High Holborn, London. Awarded Croix de Guerre with Palm (France). BRONFAY FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, BRAY-SUR-SOMME, Somme, France. Grave II. D. 4.

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