BLOOMFIELD

William George

Private 18556, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 24/10/1917. Age 25. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Bloomfield of Waldringfield. Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery

BUTTON

Harry

Gunner 85951, 155th Siege Artillery Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 19/04/1917. Age 24. Son of Robert and Ellen Button of White Hall Lodge, Waldringfield. Buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery

PRENTICE

Charles Lemon

Shipwright 4th Class CH/M/23950, Royal Navy. HMS Theseus. Died 05/01/1919. Born in, and resident of Waldringfield. Commemorated on the Baku Memorial, Azerbaijan.

HMS Theseus, first-class cruiser of the Edgar Class. Launched in 1892, HMS Theseus saw service as tender to HMS Cambridge from 1905 to 1913 and then joined the Queenstown Training Squadron in February 1913. Theseus joined the 10th Cruiser Squadron during 1914-1915 after which she was rearmed and bulges added for Dardanelles service. She returned from service in the Mediterranean in 1916 and was sent to the White Sea. In 1918 she was stationed as a depot ship in the Aegean and later in 1919 in the Black Sea, returning home in 1920. She was sold and scrapped in 1921. The Baku memorial, erected in 2004, commemorates those 47 soldiers -- out of a total of 92 who were killed in the Azerbaijani capital in 1918 and 1919 -- who have been identified by name. Originally occupied briefly by British forces in 1918, Turkish troops in turn evacuated Baku in November 1918 and were replaced by a new Commonwealth contingent that remained there until the Bolshevik advance made it impossible to stay. The 92 British soldiers were initially buried in Baku’s Christian cemetery, but this cemetery was destroyed under the Soviet regime that took over from the short-lived Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan in the early 1920s

SCOGGINS

Sidney

Private 265482, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 04/08/1918. Age 25. Son of Mr and Mrs J Scoggins of Waldringfield. Buried at Aire Communal Cemetery

FELGATE

Stanley

Private 5832983, 5th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 07/08/1943. Age 30. Son of Frederick Arthur and Edith Beatrice Felgate, husband of Edith Jeanette Felgate of Waldringfield. Buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery

WALLER

Thomas Henry Whalley

Lieutenant, 14th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Killed in action at Arras 22/10/1917. Aged 21. Son of Dr. Alfred Whalley Waller and Violet Sarah Waller, of Stroud. Commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial.

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