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Surname
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Forename(s)
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Award
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Details
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Memorial/Place
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When
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FARRAR
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George Herbert (Sir)
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DSO
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Colonel, Bart, Assistant Quarter Master
General to Centre Division of Union of South Africa Forces. Active
Citizen Force. Died of Wounds 18 May 1915, age 56, motor trolley
collided with a train at Knibis, near Gibeon, German South West
Africa, on 17 May 1915. Third son (born 17 June 191859 at Chatteris)
of the late Charles Farrar MD, of Chatteris, and Mrs Helen Farrar,
of Bedford. An engineer, he went to South Africa in 1879 and lived
in the Transvaal. Founder and chairman of East Rand Proprietary
Mines Ltd. Took part in Jameson Raid of 1895 and sentenced to death
for treason by the Afrikaners, but remitted on payment of £25,000
fine. Awarded DSO (London Gazette 19 April 01) for services during
Boer War. Knighted in 1902. MP for Georgetown in the first parliament
of Union of South Africa in 1910-11. Created Baronet on 2 February
11. Married Ella Mabel Waylen on 3 June 191893, had six daughters.
Bedford Farm Cemetery, Gauteng, South Africa.
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Chatteris
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WW 1
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FENN
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J W or W J
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D.C.M. and Chevalier de Londre de Caronne &
Croix de Guerre, Belgium
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Acting-Brigade Quartermaster Sergeant. 26034, 123rd
Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Distinguished Conduct Medal
(DCM) (LG 21 June 1916) & Wisbech Standard 30 June 1916. Later
commissioned. Captain Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM). Cambridgeshire
Times 22 March 1918. See Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM).
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Ely
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WW1
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FIELDING
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Monty
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M.M.
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Private, Waterside, Ely. 28th Field Ambulance,
Royal Army Medical Corps. Military Medal (MM) at Longueval, Somme,
18 August 1916, going through barrage to dress wounds. Cambridgeshire
Times 15 September 1916.
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Ely
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WW1
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FINCHAM
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Sam
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D.C.M. & M.M.
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Lance-Corporal Military Medal (MM). 16318, Grenadier
Guards. Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for 15 September 1916.
(LG 14 November 1916). Cambridgeshire Times 27 October 1916. Military
Medal (MM) for general efficiency. Cambridgeshire Times 27 October
1916.
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Little Downham
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WW1
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FISHER
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William
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MM
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Private (A/Lance-Corporal). Machine Gun Corps. Son of Mr Mark Fisher,
High St, Doddington. Wisbech Standard 12 April 1918. |
Wisbech
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WW 1
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FLETCHER
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Bertram
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M.M.
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Corporal, Elm Road, Wisbech, age 19. 11th Suffolk
Regiment Awarded for 1 July 1916. Wisbech Standard 15 December 1916.
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Wisbech
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WW1
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FORD
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Francis William
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MC
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Captain, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment Killed in
action 26 September 1917, age 24. Awarded Military Cross for 31
July 1917. BA, Cambridge. March Grammar School teacher. Only son
the Rev John Thomas Ford, head of Grammar School and curate of St
John's Church, March, later rector of Rede, Suffolk, & Mrs G
Lucy Ford. Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium.
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1. March
2. March Grammar School
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WW 1
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FREEMAN
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E H
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M.M.
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Private, Brone House, Walsoken. East Lancashire
Regiment, good work with machine gun during raid by Germans. Wisbech
Standard 3 August 1917.
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Walsoken
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WW1
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FRESHER
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Isaac
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MM
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Private. Suffolk Regiment . Son of Mr & Mrs William Fresher, Parson
Land, Doddington. Cambridgeshire Times 17 May 1918. |
Doddington
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WW 1
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FULLER
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Roger
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D.C.M.
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Private Roger. 6682, 2nd Suffolk Regiment (LG 1
April 1915). Wisbech Standard 16 July 1915. Suffolk Regiment history
says that on December 14th, 1914, the battalion was in trenches
at Petit Bois, on the Kemmel-Ypres road: "Private R Fuller was awarded
the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) for gallantry and devotion
to duty in leaving his trench voluntarily and assisting in the rescue
of a wounded officer, he himself being wounded in doing so." Fuller
was also wounded in 1917.
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Sutton & Spaldwick
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WW1
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FULLER
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W
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M.M.
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Sapper, living Canada. Canadian Railway Troops.
Cambridgeshire Times 3 May 1918.
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Wisbech
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WW1
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17 February
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