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Lest We Forget
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IN
PROUD MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR ENGLAND
IN THE TWO GREAT WARS
1914 - 1918
| COMBER-TAYLOR |
Eric Horace |
Captain,
No 10 (Reconnaissance) Squadron (A. W. FK8’s), Royal Air Force.
Killed in action 16th June 1918. Aged 29, Son of Mr W. O. Comber-Taylor
and Mrs I E Comber-Taylor of "Furzelands" Albourne. Born
in Brighton. Included on Twineham Parish Church Memorial. (See Twineham
and Hurstpierpoint for more detail).
Buried in Esquelbecq Military Cemetery
Further research by Adrian Vieler: A temporary grave cross made from the propeller of an aircraft brought over from Esquelbecq military cemetery in France. It memorialises Capt. Eric Horace Comber-Taylor, K.I.A. on the 16th of June 1918, at the age of 29. Comber-Taylor began the war as a Private in the Royal Fusiliers, but by 1918 was serving in the newly formed RAF with No.10 Squadron on spotting and bombing duties. On Sunday the 16th of June, his recently delivered Armstrong Bristol F2B (C967), took off from Droglandt aerodrome a few miles north west of Poperinghe. Sadly, the engine immediately failed. Comber-Taylor was killed in the ensuing crash, while his observer, 2nd Lt. Cameron, survived with serious injuries. The son of Mr W. 0. Comber-Taylor and Mrs I. E. Comber-Taylor of "Furzelands" in Albourne, his father placed the cross at Twineham Church. |
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| DAVIES |
Harry Llanover |
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| HOLDER |
William | Private
TF/200098, 1/4th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, 53rd Division.
Enlisted in 1908. Killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza 5th
November 1917. Aged 24. Son of John & Sarah Anne Holder of "Bilsborough"
Woodmancote, Born in Brackstone & enlisted in Henfield. Buried in
Beersheba War Cemetery |
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| MARSHALL |
Oscar Elliott | Rifleman
S/33030, 21st Battalion, Rifle Brigade. Drowned when the Transport
SS "Arcadian" was torpedoed in the Mediterannean 15th
April 1917. Aged 35, Son of William Marshall, (Plumber) and Mary
Anne Marshall of Woodmancote Born in Midhurst and enlisted in Dorking.
Formerly with the Suffolks. Resident of Dorking, Surrey. Plumber
by trade. Commemorated on Mikra Memorial Salonika, Greece. |
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| PIERCE |
Albert | Driver
42686, 77th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died of wounds 19th
December 1915. Aged 19, Son of George & Alice Pierce of Blackstone.
Born in Blackstone and enlisted in Guildford, Surrey. . Buried in
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery |
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| PIPER |
Spencer Joseph | Private
148094, 44th Battalion (New Brunswick Regiment), Canadian Infantry.
4th Canadian Division Killed in action at Amiens 11th August 1918.
Aged 28, Son of Joseph Piper. Farm Baliff of Woodmancote and Mrs
Caroline Piper. Born in Keymer and enlisted in Canada. Buried in
Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-Sur-Somme |
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| SILVERSON |
John | Sapper
185869, 477th Field Company (Special Brigade) Royal Engineers. Died
of wounds 18th August 1917. Aged 40. Husband of Mrs Ellen Silverson
of 23, Chapel Road, Fishersgate. Son of Harry & Eliza Silverson
of Woodmancote. Born in Henfield and enlisted in Hove. Included
on Fishersgate and Portslade War Memorial. Carpenter. . Buried in
Duhallow ADS. Cemetery |
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| WALDER |
Philip Henry | Private
27658, 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers 12th Division, Killed in action
on the Somme 7yj October 1916. Aged 25, Son of Thomas & Mary Walder
of Albourne. Born in Hurstpierpoint and enlisted in Hove. Albourne
resident, Included on Albourne Parish Church War Memorial. Commemorated
on Thiepval Memorial |
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| ANSCOMBE |
Percival Clarence | Leading
Aircraftman Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. One of nine ground
crew killed in a bombing raid on Tangmere Airfield 16th August 1940.
All buried in Tangmere Churchyard. Buried in Tangmere (St. Andrew)
Churchyard |
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| DAVIES |
John Llanover | Major,
8th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Killed in action in the Libyan
desert 21st June 1941. Aged 30, Son of Mr & Mrs H. Llanover Davies.
Husband of Mrs Rosemary Davies. Commemorated on Alamein memorial,
Egypt |
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| GILLETT |
William Richard | Corporal
Corps of Military Police. Died on active service on operations 1st
May 1943. Aged 33, Husband of Molly Rebecca Gillett of Chalfont
St. Giles, Buckinghamshire. Formerly with the Grenadier Guards.
Commemorated on Brookwood Memorial |
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| HILLMAN |
Richard James | Ordinary
Seaman, HMS"Drake" Plymouth Naval Barracks, Royal Navy.
Died at home 18th March 1944. Aged 18. Son of Philip & Florence
Hillman of Woodmancote. Buried in St. Peters Churchyard, Woodmancote.
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| MILLER |
Arthur Thomas | Lieutenant,
2nd Battalion, Kings Royal Rifle Corps, Killed in action in Tunisia
near Medjez El Bab 17th March 1943. Aged 22., Son of Arthur Gerard
& Winifred Louie Miller of Blackstone, near Woodmancote. Commemorated
on Medjez El Bab Memorial, Tunisia. |
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| RAYMENT |
Walter Benedict | Sergeant
(Air Gunner), 61 Bomber Squadron (Hampdens), Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve, Killed in an accident when Hampden X2920 crashed on the
Yorkshire Moors near Leeming 5. 10. 1940. Aged 26, Son of Albert
George & Ellen Mary Rayment of Henfield, . Buried in Henfield Cemetery.
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| SMALE |
Robert Francis | Sergeant
(Flight Engineer), 630 Bomber Squadron (Lancasters) operating from
East Kirkby, Royal Air Force, Lost on operations over Berlin 2nd
January 1944. Aged 21, Son of Thomas Alfred and Ethel Beatrice Smale
of Henfield. Husband of Mrs Joyce Phyllis Smale. . Buried in Berlin
1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany |
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| TIDY |
Moses Edward | Private,
14th Army Field Workshop, Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Lost between
21st and 22nd May 1940 south of Calais during the retreat to Dunkirk..
Buried in Zutkerque Churchyard, Northern France. |
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Let
those who come after see to it
that their names be not forgotten.
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