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BURTON BY LINCOLN, ST VINCENT'S CHURCH WAR MEMORIAL

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Compiled and Copyright © Transcribed Bill Ball; Researched Martin Edwards 2004

The memorial fo St Vincent's Church, Burton-by-Lincoln takes the form of a white stone tablet with a white surround and is to be found on the north side of the nave.

Photograph Copyright © Bill Ball 2006

ERECTED
BY THE PARISHIONERS
OF
BURTON-BY-LINCOLN
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918

BALDOCK

Frank

Guardsman 25271, 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Killed in action 27th August 1918. Aged 24. Born Skillingthorpe, Lincoln, enlisted Lincoln. Son of Thomas and Lizzie Baldock, of Burton, Lincoln. Buried in MORY ABBEY MILITARY CEMETERY, MORY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot IV. Row C. Grave 21.

DAUBNEY

George Henry

Private 55822, 1st/1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Yeomanry. Died of wounds in Palestine 5th December 1917. Aged 24. Born and resident Burton, enlisted Lincoln. Son of William and Annie Daubney, of Water House, Burton, Lincoln. Buried in RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY, Israel. Row B. Grave 10.

DENTON

Albert Clarence

No further information currently available

LEEDELL

Charles Ernest

Private 118272, 1st/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). Killed in action 17th October 1918. Born South Carlton, enlisted Lincoln. Buried in BUSIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Nord, France. Plot IV. Row A. Grave 19.

ORMSBY

Cyril George

[Listed as George ORMSBY on SDGW & CWGC] Private 281904, 20th Husssars. Killed in action 1st April 1918. Enlisted Lincoln, resident Burton. Commemorated on POZIERES MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Panel 6.

Commemorated in the church but not on the memorial

CHAPPELL

Colin

Private 2238, "D" Company, 1st/6th Battalion, King's (Liverpool Regiment). Killed in action at Kleine Zillbeke, while helping a wounded colleague, 23rd March 1915. Aged 26. Enlisted Liverpool, resident Hoylake, Cheshire. Son of George and Emily Chappell, of Storrs Hill, Windermere. Buried in SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot IV. Row G. Grave 15. Commemorated on a brass plaque on a wood surround, on south side of nave; there is an emblem with words

6TH RIFLE BATTALION, KING’S LIVERPOOL REGT.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO
PERPETUATE THE GRACIOUS
MEMORY OF COLIN CHAPPELL
SOMETIME LIEUTENANT IN HIS
MAJESTY’S FORCES WHOSE
FOREBEARS DWELT IN THIS PARISH.
AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE GREAT
EUROPEAN WAR HE ENLISTED AS A PRIVATE
SOLDIER AND FELL WHILST HELPING A
WOUNDED COMRADE AT KLEINE ZILLEBEKE
IN FLANDERS MARCH 23RD 1915. AGED 26 YEARS.

“Qui ante diem periit.
Sed miles, sed pro patria.”

LARKEN

Edmund Lawrance Monson

Doctor (M.D), H.M. Indian Army. Died at Byculla, Bombay 19th February 1861. Aged 26. Eldest son of the Reverend Edmund Roberts Larken, M.A., once rector of Burton St Vincent. Commemorated on a white stone tablet on a grey surround, on the wall of the choir area:


IN MEMORY OF
EDMUND LAWRANCE MONSON LARKEN M.D.
H.M. INDIAN ARMY
ELDEST SON OF
THE REVD. EDMUND ROBERTS LARKEN M.A.
RECTOR OF THIS PARISH:
HE DIED AT BYCULLA, BOMBAY,
FEBRUARY 19TH. 1861,
AGED 26 YEARS.

I SHALL GO TO HIM, BUT HE SHALL
NOT RETURN TO ME.

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

Last updated 29 May, 2006

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