LITTLE
DOWNHAM WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 and 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Dave Edwards
There
is a memorial to those who died in the First World War in the churchyard
of St. Leonard's church and a scroll giving additional information,
including World War II, within the church. There is commemorative stained
glass window within the church around which are photos of some of the
First World War men.
To
the glory of God
and in grateful memory
of those who went out from this parish
and laid down their lives for us in the
Great War 1914 - 1918.
Their name liveth for evermore.
BARRETT |
Albert
Edward |
Private,
9th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 16 September 1916.
No known grave. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
|
CARTER |
Alfred
William |
Rifleman,
3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Died 3 January 1917 Aged
28. Son of Arthur William and Mary Ann Carter, of School Lane, Downham.;
husband of Lilian Carter, of Tower Rd., Little Downham, Ely, Cambs.
Buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais,
France. |
CORNWELL |
Alexander
|
Possibly: Private,
3rd Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment. Died 22 June
1918 (21 June 1918 in church). Buried in Hull Western Cemetery,
Yorkshire. |
CORNWELL |
Percy
William John |
Private,
11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 17 April 1917,
Aged 20. Son of Richman and Isabella Jane Cornwell, of Main St.,
Little Downham, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on Arras Memorial,
pas de Calais, France. |
CORNWELL |
Peter
|
Private,
8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 26 September
1915 Aged 18. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Cornwell, of 2, Barrack's Square,
Little Downham, Ely, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on Loos
Memorial. |
CULPIN |
Henry
|
Lance
Corporal, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 23 November
1917 Aged 22. Son of Mrs. Hannah Hobbs, of Third Drove, Little Downham,
Ely, Cambs. Buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery, Somme, France.
|
FINCHAM |
Charles
Burton |
Private,
2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 3 August 1918 Aged
28. Son of Samuel and Sarah Ann Fincham, of Little Downham, Cambs.
Buried in Sandpits British Cemetery, Fouquerevil, Pas de Calais,
France. |
FRYETT |
Charles
|
Private,
1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 8 May 1915 Aged
33. Son of Charles and Louisa Fryett, of Prickwillow, Ely; husband
of Elizabeth Fryett, of Lawn Lane, Little Downham, Ely, Cambs. No
known grave. Commemorated on Ypres Menin Gate. |
GARNER |
George
|
Private,
7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, wounded 7 November
1916, died of wounds 12 November 1916. Lived First Drove, Downham.
Buried in Contay British Cemetery, Contay, Somme, France.
|
GOUDGE |
John[Jack]
WIlliam |
[GOODGE
in CWGC]. Private, 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry,
attd. Military Foot Police, Military Police Corps., died 12 February
1917. Husband of Emma Jane Goudge of Third Drove, Downham. Son of
Henry and Amelia Goodge, of Littleport, Cambs. Buried in Wanquetin
Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France. See also Littleport.
|
GREEN |
Horace
William |
Private,
1st Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry, attd. Supply & Transport Corps.. Died of nephritis,
10 February 1917 Aged 20. Son of William Woods Green and Emily Green
of Bury House, Little Downham, Ely. Buried in Basra War Cemetery,
Iraq. |
HARRISON |
Albert
|
Private,
34th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Labour Corps. Died of
gas poisoning 18 May 1918. Son of Mrs Ann Frances Harrison, 4th
Drove, Little Downham Fen. Aged 30. Buried in St. Sever Cemetery
Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. |
HARRISON |
Frederick
|
Private,
5692, 15th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Died
21 August 1917. Son of Francis and Eleanor Harrison. Born Little
Downham. Buried in Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany. |
HILL |
John
|
Private,
2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s
Own). Died 26 December 1914 Aged 23. Adopted son of Mrs. M. Nicholas,
of School Lane, Little Downham, Ely, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated
on Le Touret Memorial Pas de Calais, France. |
JORDAN |
John
|
Private,
7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died 27 September
1916. Buried in Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval, Somme, France. |
MARTIN |
Abraham
|
[Private, on CWGC] Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk
Regiment. Died 17 October 1917, Aged 26. Son of James and Naomi
Martin, of Oxlode, Ely, Cambs. Buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery,
Pas de Calais, France. |
MARTIN |
Albert
|
Private,
1st/5th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Died 30 August 1918, Aged 19. Son of James Martin, of 3 Tower Rd.,
Little Downham, Ely. Prisoner of War. Brother of Herbert. Buried
in Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany. |
MARTIN |
Herbert
|
Private,
7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 17 October
1917. Aged 33. Husband of Daisy Martin, of 4th Drove, Little Downham,
Ely. Son of Mr & Mrs James Martin. Brother of Albert. Buried in
Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. For more details
see Herbert
Martin web page |
MISSIN |
Harry
|
Private,
"D" Company, 8th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Died 1 July 1916. Lived First Drove, Downham. No known grave. Commemorated
on Thiepval Memorial, Sommwe, France. |
PEACOCK |
Jacob
Arthur |
[Arthur on CWGC] Private, 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire
Regiment. Died 15 September 1916. No known grave. Commemorated on
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. |
PEARSON |
Walter
James |
Private
23703, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 9 August
1916 Aged 21. Son of Martin and Sarah Jane Pearson, of Oxlode, Isle
of Ely, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial,
Somme, France.
Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A. |
RUDDERHAM |
John
William |
Private,
4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Died 23 April 1917.
No known grave. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
|
RUMBELOW |
George
|
Private,
2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 26 August 1914.
No known grave. Commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouvarre Memorial,
Seine et Marne, France. |
SABERTON |
Archer
|
Gunner,
‘D’ Battery, 23rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Died
14 May 1917 Aged 21. Son of Richard and Elizabeth Mary Saberton,
of Cannon St., Little Downham, Ely, Cambs. Buried in St. Nicolas
British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. |
SABERTON |
Joseph
Victor |
Private,
Royal Army Service Corps. Died 3 February 1920 Aged 21. Buried in
Arquata Scrivia Communal Cemetery Extension, Italy. No. 2 Horse
Transport and Supply Depot, Son of J. and A. Saberton of Pymore,
Ely, Cambs. (Not listed inside church) |
SMITH |
Arthur
Harold |
Second
Lieutenant, 18th Battalion, attd. 9th Battalion,
Manchester Regiment. Died 27 March 1918 Aged 21. Son of J. Fred
and Rovina Smith, of Little Downham, Ely, Cambs. No known grave.
Commemorated on Pozieres Memorial |
STOCKDALE |
Edward
Leslie Johnson |
Temporary Lieutenant, "B" Company, 10th Battalion, Lancashire
Fusiliers. Killed in action near Contalmaison Friday 7th July 1916.
Aged 22. Baptised 24 September 1893 in Little Downham, resident
Tower Farm, Little Downham. Son of William Edward and Rose Ellen
Stockdale, of The Tower, Ely, Cambs.
Admitted
to Bedford Middle Class Public School 1905, Cowper House, left 1908.
Employed with London County Council , Public Health Department.
In the 1901 census he was aged 7, born Downham, Cambridgeshire,
son of William E and Rose Ellen Stockdale, resident Tower Farm,
Downham, Ely, Cambridgeshire. No known grave. Commemorated on Thiepval
Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 3 C and 3 D. See also Elstow,
Bedford County School and Ely
War Memorial |
SWAIN |
Thomas
William |
Private,
G/14901, 13th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed
in action 5 August 1917 (2 August 1917 in church). Born Wisbech,
enlisted Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on Ypres (Menin
Gate). |
TAYLOR |
Alfred
|
Private,
2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Died 9 November 1917.
Aged 20. Son of George and Ellen Taylor, of Little Downham, Ely,
Cambs. Buried in Motor Car Corner Cemetery, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut,
Belgium. |
THORPE |
Solomon
|
Private,
1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 20 August
1918 (1916 in church). No known grave. Commemorated on Loos Memoria,
Pas de Calais, Francel. |
TINGEY |
Alexander
|
Private,
2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 23 August 1918.
Buried in Railway Cutting Cemetery, Courcelles-Le-Comte, Pas de
Calais, France |
WRIGHT |
Horace
Lynford |
Private,
25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Died 7 November 1917
Aged 19. Son of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Wright, of Little Downham,
Ely, Cambs Buried in Dar Es Salaam War Cemetery, Tanzania.
|
1939-1945
The
Second World War names have been taken from a Roll of Honour inside
the church which also lists the First World War names. |
BAILEY |
Eddie
|
Private,
1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment, Suffolk Regiment.
Died 25 August 1942 Aged 32, died of diptheria. Prisoner of War,
Changi gaol, Singapore. Son of Walter William and Mabel Annie Bailey,
of Pymoor, Cambridgeshire. Buried in Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore.
|
BIDWELL |
Arthur
Arnold |
Private,
5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 21 October 1943.
Aged 22. Son of William and Martha Bidwell, of Little Downham, Ely,
Cambridgeshire. Buried in Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar.
|
CRANE |
Bernard
|
Trooper,
142nd Regiment, (7th Suffolks), R.A.C.. Died
1 August 1943. Aged 33. Son of William James Crane and Elizabeth
Crane, of Little Downham, Cambridgeshire. Buried in Dely Ibrahim
War Cemetery, Algeria. |
FROST |
Frank
|
Sergeant,
142nd Regiment, (7th Suffolks), R.A.C.. Died
28 July 1944. Aged 29. Son of George H. and Hannah Frost, of Little
Downham, Cambridgeshire. Buried in Florence War Cemetery, Italy.
|
JEFFERSON |
Archie
|
Private
5933457, 2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, Suffolk
Regiment. Killed in action 12 February 1942 Aged 23. Son of Walter
and Ada Jefferson, of Little Downham, Cambridgeshire. No known grave.
Commemorated on Singapore memorial, Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore.
Column 59. |
MISSIN |
Ronald
George |
Private,
General Service Corps.. Died 25 June 1944 Aged 19. Son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. S. Missin, of Little Downham. Buried in Little Downham (St.
Leonard) Church Cemetery, Cambridgeshire. |
NICHOLAS |
Stanley
|
Sergeant,
2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment).
Died 6 June 1940 (1944 in church) Aged 27. Son of Philip and Emily
Nicholas, of Little Downham, Cambridgeshire; husband of Ellen Lydia
Nicholas, of Little Downham. Buried in Eeklo Communal Cemetery,
Eeklo, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. |
YARDY |
Ernest
Victor |
Private,
Royal Army Service Corps. Died between 31 May 1940 and 2 June 1940
(unknown in church). Aged 21. No known grave. Commemorated on Dunkirk
Memorial, Nord, France. Column 140. |
Last updated
11 January, 2019
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