BUCKDEN BAPTIST - Roll of Honour

"Renovation of the old Baptist Chapel in the High Street has necessitated the removal of its war memorial. The names of those it honours are also on the memorial in front of St Mary's Church, so the Parish Council decided that it would be appropriate to find it a home in a neighbouring Baptist church. The outcome is that it has gone to Perry,which already houses memorials from the Staughtons. There it will eventually be re-mounted and dedicated anew - the dedication service will be publicised in the Roundabout. The Council is grateful to the new owner of the Chapel, to the contractors who ensured that the memorial was taken down without damage and to Graham Licence, the Perry minister who came to collect it, his car visibly bowed under the weight as he drove away

The move has been notified to the Local History Society and the County Records Office in Huntingdon; if you are aware of any member of these men's families still living in Buckden, please let them know too - we hope that they will approve of the Council's action. If they can supply any biographical details, the Clerk would be interested to hear from them. The Records Office unfortunately has very little information on soldiers who served in the Great War, although one of their researchers believes that "G White" may well be George White, a Buckden-born policeman who was called up into the Grenadier Guards at the start of the Great War and died in 1917 in an accident near Rouen. His death takes on an added poignancy when one learns that only a few days earlier he had written to his wife and son to say his term of service had expired and he would soon be on his way home. And "H Hubbard" may be Harry Hubbard, a member of the Hunts Cycling Battalion who was killed in the last year of the war while serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment."