Roll of Honour - Cambridgeshire

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Lest We Forget

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FOWLMERE - Roll of Honour

World War 1 and 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Dave Edwards

This memorial is a cross in the centre of the village at the junction of High Street and Long Lane. There is also a bronze tablet inside the Church with the First World War names.

To the Glory of God and in pious memory of
our Fowlmere men who fell in battle
during the Great War
1914 – 1918.

He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

	1914 – 1918
John BAKER	[spelt Jonney on CWGC] Private 6400 1st Bn., Bedfordshire Regiment who died on Monday, 9th November 1914. Age 36. Son of Fredrick and Emma Baker, of Rectory Lane, Fowlmere; husband of Florence Baker, of 25, Belgrave Rd., Mill Rd., Cambridge. Commemorated on LE TOURET MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 10 and 11
Alfred CHAMBERLAIN	Pte. 2nd Bt. Suffolk Reg., d 27/9/1917, age 29, commemorated: TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Son of John and Elizabeth Chamberlain, of Meldreth, Herts; husband of Elsie Annie Chamberlain, of High St., Fowlmere, Royston, Herts.
George Edwin INGREY	Pte. 13587, 11th Bt. Suffolk Reg., killed in action 1st July 1915, age 21, commemorated: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Son of Edwin and Emily Ingrey, of Mill Lane, Bassingbourn, Royston, Herts. Born Royston, enlisted Cambridge. His family came from Fowlmere and George worked fo Mr Woodcock of Fowlmere before he enlisted on the 5th September 1914. He was trained at Cambridge and in Yorkshire before he left for the front in January 1916. It was soon after that the family moved from Fowlmere to Mill Lane in Bassingbourn, where they were told of his death. He was one of the 189 who died from his Regiment on the 1st day of the battle of the Somme, George died in the Loch Naggar Crater and is commemorated on the Thiepival Memorial Pier and face 1c and 2a. The Crater at Lochnager See also Bassingbourn
Charles [H] KNIGHTS	Private 26127, 92nd Company, Infantry Brigade, Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action Tuesday, 1st May 1917 in France & Flanders. Born Ickleton, enlisted Cambridge, resident Fowlmere. Formerly 15776, Suffolk Regiment. Buried in ORCHARD DUMP CEMETERY, ARLEUX-EN-GOHELLE, Pas de Calais, France. Grave VIII. B. 2.
Wilfred Maulkin NASH	Pte. 7th Bt. Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Reg.), d 15/8/1917, age 33, commemorated: VIMY MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Son of Thomas M. and Etheldred L. Nash, of Fowlmere, Royston, Herts, England.
Arthur SHELDRICK	Pte. 7th Bt. Lincolnshire Reg., d 21/3/1918, age 23, commemorated: ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Son of Richard and Jane Sheldrick.
Harry [Frank] SMITH	Private 20333, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action Saturday, 22nd January 1916 in France and Flanders. Age 35. Born Fowlmere, enlisted Cambridge. Husband of Emily A. Clow (formerly Smith), of 8, Pilot St., King's Lynn. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 21
Mark SMITH	Private 8907, 3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. Killed in action Friday, 28th April 1916 in France and Flanders. Born and resident Fowlmere, enlisted Bury St Edmunds. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France . Bay 6.
Frank WARD	Private 47719, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action Friday, 30th August 1918. Born Fowlmere, enlisted Meldreth. Buried in ECOUST-ST. MEIN BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Grave A. 10.
Septimus WARD	Private 242960, 1/4th Battalion, Prince of Wales' Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment). Killed in action Thursday, 11th April 1918 in France and Flanders. Resident Royston, herts, enlisted Willsden, Middlesex. cOMMEMORATED ON LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 76
Albert WILKINSON	Private 306873, 2nd/8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Died of wounds Saturday, 28th April 1917 in France & Flanders age 33. Son of Joseph & Agnes Wilkinson. Born Fowlmere, enlisted Hitchin, Herts. Buried in LA CHAPELETTE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY, PERONNE, Somme, France. Grave II. A. 5.
	One WW1 name added to the village memorial and not on the Church memorial:
George PAYNE	Pte. 51^st Bt. Royal Sussex Reg., d 13/11/1918, age 18, buried: Fowlmere cemetery. Son of Albert and Annie Payne.
	1939 – 1945
Edwin John HITCH	Pte. 1st Bt. Cambridgeshire Reg., d 5/12/1943, age 27, buried: CHUNGKAI WAR CEMETERY, Thailand.
	Missing:
Colin John SWANN	FO 280 Sqdn. R.A.F.V.R., d 8/10/1944, age 20, commemorated: RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL, Surrey, United Kingdom. Son of Frank C. and Emily Swann, of Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire.

26 March 2003

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