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MANEA PRIMITIVE METHODIST WAR MEMORIAL

Memorial unveiled April 1920.

World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Cliff Brown
2000

The Cambridgeshire Times of 1920/21 details the unveiling of the Manea Primitive Methodist Chapel memorial. Most of the men named (about 10 to 12) are on the main Manea memorial, but there were perhaps four or five who were not neither are they on other local memorials. This memorial was sold with the chapel and is now in private hands. Fortunately Barry Cundell managed to photograph the memorial prior to the sale.

Photograph Copyright © Barry Cundell 2003

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THOSE BELONGING TO THIS CHURCH WHO
LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
AUG. 1914 -------- NOV. 1918

BEEKEN

Harry

16982 Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 28 March 1918. Aged 21. Son of Thomas & Hannah Beeken, The Green. Formerly 11th Suffolk Regiment. No known grave. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 4.

CLIFTON

Arnold C

No further information

COOPER

Alfred aka Fred

34939 Private, 9th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Died 3 September 1917. Aged 29. Son of Samuel and Rebecca Cooper, of Ten Mile Bank, Hilgay, Norfolk; husband of Bertha Delina Cooper, of Fodder Fen, Manea. March, Cambs. Buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. Section P. Plot III. Row C. Grave 4A.

GRAY

George Henry

13753 Private, 99th Company, Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 1-8-16. Aged 25. Son of Henry & Catherine Gray. Husband of Daisy Gray, School Lane. Formerly 18840 Suffolk Regiment. Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.

HAYLOCK

William G

No further information

JACKSON

Claud

No further information

LARKINS

George Rose

50846 Private 5th Suffolk Regiment. Drowned 25-8-18 (Eygpt). Son of George Rose Larkins. Formerly TR/13/74193 Training Reserve. Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel.

MARSHALL

Harry

14622 Private 6th Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action 22-3-18. Second son of Mrs Stacey, Upwell Rd, March. Groom to Dr Black, of Manea. Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.

MOAT

Leonard

[Listed as MOATE on memorial] 76206 Gunner, 156th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 8-4-17. Aged 22. Horsekeeper, exemption disallowed March 1916. Only son of George & Mary Moat, Westfield. Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas de Calais, France.

Photograph Copyright © Barry Cundell 2010

NEWBY

Walter

G/24726 Private 6th East Kent Regiment. missing, Killed in action 30-11-17. Only son of Mr & Mrs Newby, School Lane. Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France.

POPE

George H

S/29545 Rfn, B company, 16 platoon, 2nd Rifle Brigade. Missing, Killed in action 28-5-18. Lived Field Road. Son of Henry & Susan Pope. Formerly 18838 Suffolk Regiment. Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France.

RUSH

Herbert

5459 Private 11th Royal Fusiliers. died of wounds 12-11-16. Aged 37. Son of William & Maggie Rush. Husband of Mrs Rush, School Lane. Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.

SHARPE

Edgar T

M/300666 Private 406th Mechanical Transport Coy, Army Service Corps, attached 73rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Wounded 21-7-17, died of wounds 26-7-17. Aged 41. Son of George & Sarah Smart, of Glen House, Welney. Husband of Mrs Smart, 28 Cambridge Rd, Walthamstow, London. Grandson of 'Turkey' Smart, the Fen skater. Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium. (Brother of below)

"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN
HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS"

1939-45

NEWTON

David Lloyd

Petty Officer Cook, P/MX 542341, HMS Holcombe, Royal Navy. 12-12-43. Aged 26. Son of John H & Edith A Newton, of Bournemouth (formerly of Manea). Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire.

MOATE

Harry

Home Guard. Killed by passing train on Home Guard duty at Delph Bridge 21-6-41. Son of Mrs Moate, School Lane, Manea. Manea Cemetery, Cambs.

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