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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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PACEY
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T
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M.M.
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Corporal. Lincolnshire Regiment CambridgeshireTimes
30 May 1919.
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March
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WW1
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PAINTER
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L
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M.i.D.
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Bombadier, son of Mr C H Painter, 36 St Peter's
Road, March. Age 20. Divisonal Ammunition Column, West Riding Royal
Field Artillery. Enlisted March 1915, worked in Post Office telegraph
dept. March Town FC player. Had moved to Sheffield.
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March
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WW1
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PAMMENT
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Victor
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DCM
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Lance-Corporal, Back Hill, Ely. 16620, 11th Suffolk
Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) (LG 22 September 1916)
for work with machine gun on 1 July 1916 in second line of German
trenches, at La Boiselle, Somme. Age 22, buried: Bailleul Road East
Cemetery, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France. Son of Mr.
and Mrs. Pamment, of "Cherryvale," Back Hill, Ely, Cambs.
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Ely
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WW1
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PAPWORTH
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Frederick Charles
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M.C.
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Captain, Eldest son of Mr & Mrs H G Papworth,
Gaul Road, March. Lance-Corporal, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment,
discharged 23 October 1915. Capt, Northants Regiment Military Cross
(MC) for 13 October 1918. Cambridgeshire Times 13 December 1918.
Regular Army after war, retired 1959, Lieutenant-Colonel. Died January
1973, Guildford, age 78.
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March
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WW1
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| PARDOE |
Joseph
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DCM |
Company
Serjeant Major, 11th Bt. Worcestershire Reg., d 4/9/1918, age 32,
buried: Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece. Son of Alfred Pardoe,
of Chaddesley Corbett, Kidderminster; husband of Mabel Helen Pardoe,
of West End, Haddenham, Ely. DCM London Gazette 16/1/1915. |
Haddenham |
WW
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PARKER
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James
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MBE
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CSM 1st Btn Isle of Ely Home Guard. Thory's Farm,
Glassmoor, Whittlesey. For devotion to duty, King's special honours
to Home Guard. CT 22-12-44.
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Whittlesey
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WW2
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PARKINSON
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Gordon James William
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DFM
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Sgt Son of Mr & Mrs William Parkinson, Council
Houses, Main Rd, Wimblington. Rear gunner, shot down a Junkers 88
& had taken part in nine missions over Berlin. CT 25-8-44.
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Wimblington
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WW2
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PELL
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Beauchamp T
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DSO
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Lieutentant-Col, The Queen's Royal West Surrey
Regiment 4 November 1914, age 18 (must be a mistake, no-one would
be a commanding officer with a DSO at 18). Son of Rev Beauchamp
H St John Pell & Julia C M Pell. Husband of Alice M Pell, The
Rectory, Wilburton. Born Ickenham, Middlesex. Zantvoorde British
Cem, Zonnebeke, Belgium.
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Wilburton
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WW 1
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PETERS
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Fred
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M.M.
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Trooper. Cambridgeshire Times 13 December 1918.
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Haddenham
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WW1
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PHILLIPS
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F C
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M.M.
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Lance-Corporal. 95th Canadian Infantry. Cambridgeshire
Times 22 March 1918.
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Prickwillow
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WW1
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PORTER
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E
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DCM & MM
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Cpl. Cambridge. Royal Engineers. DCM (L/Cpl, LG
26-9-16) for gallantry during enemy counter attack . Awarded MM
on 15-8-17, when working at an ammunition dump a German shell hit
a store of trench mortars and very few escaped. He dug out the wounded
and threw earth over another heap of bombs he saw on fire. Hunts
Post 21-9-17.
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Cambridge
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WW 1
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POULTER
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Smith Stevens
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MM
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Sgt, 13573, 11th Suffolk Rgt, Killed in action 1-7-16. Thiepval
Memorial, Somme, France.
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Willingham
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WW 1
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PRICE
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W
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Italian Bronze Medal
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Quartermaster Sergeant, former March policeman.
Grenadier Guards, Cambridgeshire Times 17 May 1918.
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March
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WW1
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