Roll of Honour - Huntingdonshire

Ministry of Defence

Lest We Forget

The Royal British Legion

COVINGTON - Roll of Honour

World War 1 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Martin Edwards

The memorial is in the form of a wooden plaque affixed to the wall inside St. James church. A single wooden cross also sits in the porch of the church to the memory of Major C. Barnett.


Photographs Copyright © Martin Edwards 2000

TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THE
FOLLOWING MEN FROM
COVINGTON WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914-1918
THIS TABLET WAS ERECTED
AND THE BELLS REHUNG

BARNETT	Carew	Major 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry who was killed in action on Thursday, 12th August 1915. Age 48. Son of the late Edward Barnett, of Kenton Court, Sunbury-on-Thames; husband of Elsie Kathleen Barnett, late of Covington, Kimbolton, Huntingdon. Educated at Summerfield and Charterhouse. Late of the Indian Army; awarded Burma Medal (1889-92), and China Medal (1900). Buried in YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave X. D. 21.
HEATON	Norman Child	Second Lieutenant 1st/Ist Battalion, London Regiment who was killed in action on Thursday, 3rd May 1917. Age 29. Son of the late Rev. A. F. Heaton former Rector of Covington parish church. Commemorated on the ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 9 and 10.
SMITH	A W	Private. No further information currently.
MEHEW	Fred	Private 22193, 5th Battalion, Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers) who died on Saturday, 13th July 1918. Born and resident Tilbrook, enlisted Bedford. Formerly 7244, Bedfordshire Regiment. Buried in BLARGIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Oise, France. Grave I. D. 10.

THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE

7 August 2004

War Memorials Trust

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