Roll of Honour - Bedfordshire

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TILSWORTH WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Lynda Smith 2006

The Memorials are both in the Parish Church. One takes the form of a Roll of Honour with the names of those who served as well as those who died in the service of the country in both World Wars. The other commemorates those who served in The Bedfordshire Regiment in the First World War.

Photographs Copyright © Lynda Smith 2006

FOR GOD, KING AND COUNTRY
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
PRIVATE HENRY CHARLES ELLIOT BUNKER
KILLED IN ACTION IN TRONES WOOD, FRANCE
JULY 11 1916. AGE 28 YEARS.
ALSO OF PRIVATE HARRY JOHN KING
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE MAY 5, 1915
AGED 30 YEARS
AND OF PRIVATE ARCHIE WILLIAM KING
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE SEPT 23 1915.
AGED 28 YEARS

ALL OF THE 2ND BATT. BEDFORDSHIRE REGT.

In the Midst of Life we are in Death.

IN ACTIVE SERVICE
1914 – 1918 WAR

	ABRAHAM	AEC	No further information available at present
	BUNKER	Henry Charles Elliott	Private 13317. 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 11th July 1916. Born and lived Leighton Buzzard. Enlisted Luton. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 2 C. See also Dunstable, Waterlow & Sons Limited Memorial Extract from Luton Reporter - Monday 2 April 1917, page 1: TILSWORTH Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Bunker have now been officially informed by the War Office that their son, Pte. Hy. Bunker, who was reported missing last July, is presumed to have died of wounds on July 11th. Pte. Bunker had been employed at Messrs. Waterlow's works at Dunstable since leaving school, and was a keen all-round sportsman, being a member of Waterlow's Cricket Club, and for some few years before the war vice-captain of the Stanbridge and Tilsworth club, and he is the third Tilsworth member of the village cricket club to make the supreme sacrifice. He was one of the first in the village to enlist in response to the call for volunteers after the outbreak of war, and went to France in March, 1915. From a letter received from his officer it appears that he was badly wounded by shrapnel in the back at Trones Wood, and rendered insensible. The officer saw him bound up and placed on a stretcher, but was then called away for a short time, and when he returned Pte. Bunker had been taken away, and he was not able to again trace him.
	CRAWLEY	Wallace	No further information available at present
	CRAWLEY	F	No further information available at present
	CRAWLEY	William	No further information available at present
	EMERSON	F	No further information available at present
	FENWICK	A G	No further information available at present
	FENWICK	G E	No further information available at present
	GURNEY	F	No further information available at present
	GURNEY	E	No further information available at present
	HARRUP, MC	Frederick [Charles Leonard]	Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Killed in action 21st September 1918. Born in London. Son of Frederick and Laura (Nee Tompkins) Harrup. Laura was originally from Tilsworth and the family eventually moved back there. Frederick joined the ASC in August 1915 as a Private. He was eventually transferred to the Royal Fusiliers as a Second Lieutenant. Awarded the Miltary Cross (M.C.). No known grave. Commemorated on VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 3.
	INNS	W	No further information available at present
	JONES	W A	No further information available at present
	KING	Henry John	Private 13035. 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 5th May 1915. Aged 30. Born Tilsworth. Lived Dunstable. Enlisted Luton. Son of Alfred and Sarah King, of Tilsworth, Leighton Buzzard, Beds; husband of Ethel Emily Kesteven (formerly King), of 12, Periwinkle Lane, Dunstable. Buried in Bedford House Cemetery Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. Enclosure No.4 XI. D. 7.
	KING	Archie William	Private 13034. 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Died of wounds in France & Flanders on 23rd September 1915. Aged 28. Born & lived Tilsworth. Enlisted Luton. Son of Mrs. S. A. King, of Tilsworth, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire. Buried in Chocques Military Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France. Ref. I. D. 117.
	KING	E	No further information available at present
	PIGGOT	John	Private 26133. 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 24th April 1917. Aged 20. Born Stanbridge. Lived Tilsworth. Enlisted Ampthill. Son of Carrie Piggott, of The Green, Tilsworth, Leighton Buzzard, and the late Frederick Piggott. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 5.
	PIGGOT	W	Possibly Willie PIGGOTT MM. Corporal 23271. 1st Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Formerly G/11524 The Buffs. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 27th September 1918. Aged 30. Born Totternhoe, Bedfordshire. Lived Hemel Hempstead Herts. Enlisted Watford. Awarded the Military Medal. Buried in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery, Nord, France. Ref. V.D. 14.
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	PRICE	S T	No further information available at present
	PRICE	F G	No further information available at present
	PRICE	H B	No further information available at present
	PRICE	F W	No further information available at present
	SINFIELD	Edward Cyril	Lance Corporal 30598. 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 7th August 1918. Born and lived Tilsworth. Enlisted Luton. Commemorated on Pozieres Memorial Somme, France. Panel 28 and 29.
	SINFIELD	A	No further information available at present
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	TOMPKINS	W M	No further information available at present
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	URQUART	W	No further information available at present
	WILLSON	F	No further information available at present
1939 – 1945 WAR
	HOLMES	F	No further information available at present
	INDGE	W J	No further information available at present
	JONES	A C	No further information available at present
	KING	F	No further information available at present
	KING	J	No further information available at present
	PIGGOT	A	No further information available at present
	TOMPKINS	R F	No further information available at present
	WHITTINGTON, M C	C R	No further information available at present
FOR KING & COUNTRY

Buried in the graveyard, not on the memorial
	NORTH	Herbert Henry	Serjeant 18251. Depot, Bedfordshire Regiment. Died at home on 5th August 1917. Aged 47. Born Tilsworth. Lived Hockliffe. Enlisted Bedford. Son of Harry and Elizabeth North, of Hockliffe; husband of L. North, of The Bell Inn, Hockliffe. Served in the South African Campaign. Buried in Tilsworth (All Saints) Churchyard. Near South boundary.

Last updated 27 April, 2023

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