Roll of Honour - Cambridgeshire

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MURROW - Roll of Honour

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

The Murrow memorial is in the form of an obelisk and stands at the junction of The Bank and Front Road, Murrow. There 16 16 names for World War 1 and none for World War 2. The mmeorial was unveile din March 1920 and cost £170 0s 0d. Further details are held at the Wisbech and Fenland Museum.

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY
THE RESIDENTS OF MURROW & DISTRICT
TO THE SACRED MEMORY AND HONOUR
OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN
THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS / LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." JOHN XV.13

ANDREW	Stanley	No further information currently available.
ANDREW	Thomas	16554 Pte, 6th Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 26-7-16. Caberet Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez.
BALDWIN	Austin Provost	2nd Lt, 2nd Suffolk Regiment. 27-9-18, age 35, at Flesquieres. Son of William and Anna Baldwin, 182 Park Rd, Peterborough. Buried Lowrie Cemetery, Havrincourt, France.
BRIGHTON	Harry	22051 Pte, 11th (Cambs) Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 1-7-16. Listed Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.
CUTHBERT	Arthur	331045 Pte, 8th Suffolk. Killed in action 12-10-17. Artillery Wood Cemetery, Boezinge, Belgium.
DANN	William	T4/172505, Pte (Motor transport loader), Army Service Corps. Husband of Florence Elizabeth Dan, Flo Villa, Murrow. Attested 12-2-16, mobilised 3-6-16, posted to Army Service Corps. Posted to B.H.T.D. Havre on 20-6-16. Invalided to England with pleurisy 20-6-17. Discharged 10-10-17. Died Addenbrooke's Hospotal, Cambridge, shock after operation sometime during 1918.
HART	Albert E	No further information currently available.
HILL(S)	Sidney	18487 L/Sgt, 1st Leicestershire Regiment. Killed in action 27-4-17. St Patrick's Cemetery, Loos, France.
JACK	George	17765 Pte, 1st Suffolk Regiment. Dow 3-10-15. Loos Memorial, France.
KING	Jonah	No further information currently available.
KIRBY	Herbert	26787 Pte, 7th Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 27-3-18. Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.
KNOWLES	Horace	44690 Pte, 23rd btn Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 29-6-18, age 23. Formerly 5310 Notts & Derby Regiment. Son of Mrs E Knowles, of Murrow. Buried Barenthal Military Cemetery, Italy.
MANN	Albert E	326486 Pte, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 28-4-18, age 37. Husband of Annie Rebecca Mann, of Mill Road, Murrow. Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
ROBINSON	John William	7165 Pte, 2nd Suffolk Regiment. Dow 1-11-18. Etaples Military Cemetery, France.
TANSLEY	Charles Ernest	16868 Pte, BCompany, 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action 11-5-15, age 19. Son of Alfred & Harriet Tansley, Naseby. Merville Communal Cemetery.
WRIGHT	Walter	36009 Pte, 2nd btn Machine Gun Corps. Died appendicitis 21-6-18, age 25. Son of Fanny Wright, of Murrow. Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.

Last updated 28 May, 2008

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