THE
EVERSDENS - GREAT & LITTLE - Roll of Honour
World
War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Ann Thompson
The war
memorial is applicable to both the villages. It is situated in the churchyard
in Great Eversden. As stated on the memorial, there were no men from either
village killed in the second world war.
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Photographs
Copyright © Ann Thompson & H C Chapman 2000
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GRATEFUL
AND LOVING MEMORY OF
GT. AND LT. EVERSDEN MEN
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
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Frank
BARNES
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Private
29073, 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
Born Caldecote, enlisted Bury St Edmunds, resident Gt. Eversden.
Died of wounds 17th Ocotber 1918 in France & Flanders.M
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Wilfred Edward
BESTER
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Private
16569 11th Bn., Suffolk Regiment who died on Saturday, 1st July
1916. Age 23. Son of Edward A. and Elizabeth Bester, of Great
Eversden, Cambridge. Commemoarted on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme,
France. Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A
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Peter CLARK[E]
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Private
29847, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment).
Born and resident Little Eversden, enlisted Cambridge. Killed
in action 21st March 1918 in France & Flanders. Formerly 24226,
Suffolk Regiment.
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Ernest COURSE
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Private
13660 7th Bn., Suffolk Regiment who was killed in action on Friday,
30th November 1917. Age 22. Born Eversden, enlisted Cambridge.
Son of Walter and Martha Course, of Chapel Rd., Great Eversden,
Cambs. Commemorated on CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL, Nord, France.
Panel 4.
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David M FLACK
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Private
G/26913 12th Bn., Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)
who was killed in action on Saturday, 17th February 1917. Born
Barrington, enlisted Bury St Edmunds, resident Little Eversden.
Buried in REGINA TRENCH CEMETERY, GRANDCOURT, Somme, France. Special
Memorial B. 2.
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Alfred LEADER
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Private
305762, 1/8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and
Derbyshire Regiment). Born Great Eversden, enlisted Newark, Nottinghamshire.
Killed 18th April 1918 in France & Flanders.
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Ellis MORRIS
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possibly
Ellis Humphreys MORRIS, Private 31360, 3rd Battalion, South Wales
Borders. Born Hirnant, Montgomeryshire, enlisted Wrexham. Died
at home 6th September 1917. Formerly 32898, King's Shropshire
Light Infantry.
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Frederick
William PARKER
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Private
4288, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Born Bottisham, enlisted
Little Eversden. Died of wounds 14th December 1916 in France &
Flanders.
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[William]
Sidney PAULEY
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Private
35890, 10th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Born Little
Eversden, enlisted Bury St Edmunds, resident Blackwell, Berkshire.
Died of wounds 26th July 1917 in France & Flanders. Formerly
3369, Royal Fusiliers.
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William ROBERTS
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[Listed
as Wilfred on memorial] Private 18/944, 18th Battalion, Durham
Light Infantry. Died of wounds 15th June 1917. Aged 23. Born Boston,
Lincolsnhire, enlisted Durham, resident Great Eversden. Son of
Caleb and Amelia Roberts. of Great Eversden, Cambridge. Buried
in DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN, Pas de Calais, France. Plot
IV. Row J. Grave 34.
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Albert SEARLE
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Private
18273 2nd Bn., Bedfordshire Regiment who was killed in action
on Monday, 27th September 1915. Age 32. Born Eversden, enlisted
Cambridge, resident Sandy. Son of Stephen and Matilda Searle,
of Little Eversden, Cambs; husband of Kate Elizabeth Searle, of
Cambridge Rd., Sandy, Beds. Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas
de Calais, France. Panel 41
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Ansel[l] Vere
SEARLE
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Private
36616 6th Bn., Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of
Wales) who was killed in action on Friday, 4th May 1917. Age 20.
Born Little Eversden, enlisted Cambridge (Little Eversden). Son
of Stephen and Matilda Searle, of Buck's Lane. Little Eversden,
Cambridge. Formerly 4463, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Commemorated
on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7.
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[George] Harry
TABRAHAM
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Private
41767 8th Bn., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers who was killed in
action on Wednesday, 15th August 1917. Age 27. Born and enlisted
Cambridge. Son of Edward Tabraham. Formerly 209862, Army Service
Corps. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Panel 70 to 72
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Joseph Patman
WALLIS
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Private
184804 Depot Training Bn., Machine Gun Corps (Inf) who died at
home on Thursday, 31st October 1918. Age 30. Born and resident
Eversden, enlisted Caxton. Son of Joseph P. and Elsie Louisa P.
Wallis. of Toft. Buried in GREAT EVERSDEN (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD,
Cambridgeshire. North of East end of church.
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[Harry] Basil
WICK
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Private
7602, 19th Battalion, Royal fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
Born and enlisted Colchester, resident Great Eversden. Killed
in action Tuesday 28th December 1915 in France & Flanders.
Buried in WOBURN ABBEY CEMETERY, CUINCHY, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave I. D. 16. Also on the Duxford memorial.
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A framed
roll of honour inside the church includes the following:
"NONE
FROM THE EVERSDENS LOST THEIR LIVES 1939-1945"
Despite
this notice there is listed for Little Eversden parish in the Ely Cathedral
Second World War Book
of Remembrance:
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Roland
Norris BRAYSHER
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Private,
4th Bt. Suffolk Reg., d 1/12/1943, age 34, buried: YOKOHAMA WAR
CEMETERY, Japan. Husband of Annie P. Braysher, of Little Eversden,
Cambridgeshire.
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1 November 2001
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