The
Cambridge University, Downing College World War 1 memorial is in the
form of two decorated stone tablets set into the wall of the ante-chapel.
The tablets bear the names in incised blue lettering. There are 50 names
listed. The memorial was unveiled 21st October
1923.
The
World War 2 memorial tablet takes the form of a rectangular, bronze,
plaque with engraved rope-pattern edge and the arms of the college in
enamel above the inscription; it was designed by Mr Bamford of Northfield
and Company, Cambridge and was cast in bronze by the Birmingham Guild.
It was unveiled by the Master, Sir Lionel Whitby, and dedicated by the
Bishop of Ely on September 25th 1948 in the presence of members of the
Association and their wives assembled for the Annual Meeting together
with relatives of the fallen
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The
following notes apply:
[date]
indicates date of matriculation.
(1914) indicates those who were admitted for the Michaelmas Term of
1914, but who never actually matriculated.
A date marked with an asterisk denotes that the person to whom the entry
refers joined the College in that year by some procedure other than
matriculation, e.g. by migration from another College or the non-collegiate
body.
The extra
details here are taken from `The War List of the University of Cambridge,
1914 – 1918’ by G.V. Carey. (Cambridge University Press,
1921.)
M denotes
those mentioned in despatches.
MC denotes Military Cross
The
brass plaque with the college coat of arms, situated on the end wall
of Accommodation Block I. was unveiled 1st January 1920; designer P.F.
Alexander. Originally in the college dining hall but it was moved in
1948.
ASTON |
Walter
Douglas |
[1901]
Capt., Cambridgeshire Regt. Died 2 Nov. 1917 of wounds received
in action |
BENNETT |
Sydney
Garner |
[1907]
2nd Lieut., Suffolk Regt. Killed in action 20 July 1916 |
BROWN |
Ian
Macdonald |
[1907]
Capt., R.A.M.C. Killed in action 15 Nov. 1916 |
BRYAN
BROWN |
Guy
Spencer |
[1904]
Rev., C.F., N. Zealand Chaplains’ Dept. Killed in action 4 Oct.
1917 |
BUCHANAN |
Alan |
[1910]
Pte., King’s (Liverpool Regt., Liverpool Scottish, T.F.). Killed
in action near Ypres 16 June 1915 |
BURGESS |
Wilfred
Charles |
[1909]
2nd Lieut, Somerset L.I. (T.F.). Killed in action 22 Aug. 1917 |
CORKE |
Guy
Harold |
[1909]
2nd Lieut., Northumberland Fus. M. Killed in action 17 Sept. 1916 |
DAVIES |
Frederick
Charles |
[1903]
Capt., R.A.M.C. Killed in action 17 Oct. 1917 |
DAWE |
Alfred
Henry |
[1913]
2nd Lieut., King’s Royal Rifle Corps. Killed in action 11 April
1917 |
DEWAR |
David |
[1912]
Lieut., W. Yorks. Regt. and M.G.C. M. Killed in action 22 March
1918 |
DUNKERLEY |
Harold |
[1907]
Major, R.A.M.C. Died 23 March 1918 of wounds received in action |
EDMUNDS |
Cecil
Harry |
[1908]
Lieut., London Regt. (Surrey Rifles). |
EMINSON |
Robert
Astley Franklin |
[1909]
2nd Lieut., King’s Royal Rifle Corps; attd. M.G.C. Killed in action
20 July 1916 |
EVERETT |
William
Wallis |
[1910]
Capt. and Adjt., Norfolk Regt. Killed in action near Brancourt 8
Oct. 1918 |
GREEN,
VC |
John
Leslie |
[1907]
Capt., R.A.M.C. (T.F.) Killed in action 1 July 1916. V.C.
V.C. Citation extract from the Supplement to The London Gazette,
5 Aug. 1916.
‘For
most conspicuous devotion to duty. Although himself wounded, he
went to the assistance of an officer who had been wounded and
was hung up on the enemy’s wire entanglements, and succeeded in
dragging him to a shell hole, where he dressed his wounds, not-withstanding
that bombs and rifle grenades were thrown at him the whole time.
Captain Green then endeavoured to bring the wounded officer into
safe cover and had nearly succeeded in doing so when he was himself
killed’
|
HARMER |
Gerlad |
[1914]
2nd Lieut., N. Staffs. Regt. Killed in action 11 Aug. 1916 |
HILLIARD |
Gerald
William |
*1906
R.N.A.S. Died Aug 1915 of wounds received in action |
HUCKLE |
Henry
William |
[1907]
2nd Lieut., Cambridgeshire Regt. Killed in action 5 Sept. 1918 |
JENKINS |
David
Jones Capenhurst |
[1912]
Sergt., Canadian Infy. Killed in action 8 April 1916 |
JOLLY |
Benton
Ord |
[1913]
2nd Lieut., Yorkshire Regt. Died 9 Feb. 1917 of wounds received
in action |
KEARNEY |
James
John |
[1902]
Trooper, Gloucestershire Yeo. Killed in action in Gallipoli 21 Aug.
1915 |
KEESEY |
George
Ernest |
[1905]
Capt., Rifle Brigade. M. Killed in action on the Somme 24 Aug. 1916 |
KEITH |
Alexander
James |
[1912]
2nd Lieut., Middlesex Regt. Killed in action on the Somme 14 July
1916 |
LINE |
John
Young Alexander |
[1914]
2nd Lieut., N. Staffs. Regt. Died 13 March 1916 of wounds received
in action near Neuve Chapelle 12 March 1916 |
LYON |
George
William |
No
further information currently |
MCLAREN |
Arthur
Donald |
[1908]
Pte., R. Scots. Killed in action 9 April 1917 |
O’REILLY |
Henry
Duncan Ryan |
(1914)
Pte, R. Fusiliers; Capt., The Queen’s (R.W. Surrey Regt.). Died
31 May 1919 of wounds received in action in Mesopotamia. |
REES |
Kenneth
David |
No
further information currently |
ROUND |
William
Haldane |
[1913]
Capt., Sherwood Foresters (Notts. And Derby Regt., T.F.). Killed
in action 1 July 1916. |
ROWLAND |
Sydney
Domville |
[1889]
Major, R.A.M.C. Died 6 March 1917 of illness contracted on active
service |
SKELTON |
Francis |
No
further information currently |
STERCKEMAN |
Pierre |
[1909]
Cpl., French Infy. Died 15 Feb. 1917 of wounds received in action |
STRATFORD |
Ernest
Pipkin |
*1903
Lieut., R.A.M.C. Died 20 April 1915 of wounds received in action
near Neuve Chapelle 17 March 1915 |
STRINGER |
Gerald
Moffat |
[1911]
2nd Lieut., Cheshire Regt. Accidentally killed 15 March 1915 |
TOPHAM |
Michael |
(1914)
Sergt., R. Fusiliers (P.S. Bn.); 2nd Lieut., R.F.C. Killed in action
13 April 1917. Had a place but did not metriculate due to the outbreak
of war. |
TYNDALL |
Charles
Thomas Alexander |
No
further information currently |
WHITWORTH |
Arthur
George Richard |
[1914]
2nd Lieut., Northumberland Fus. Died of wounds received in action
21 March 1918 |
WILL |
John
George |
[1911]
Lieut., Leinster Regt.; attd R.F.C. Killed in action 25 March 1917 |
WILSON |
Frederick
Thomas Austin |
No
further information currently. Had a place but did not metriculate
due to the outbreak of war. |
WILTON |
Samul
Brammer |
[1911]
Capt., N. Staffs Regt. M.C. Killed in action 14 March 1917 |
THEIR
BODIES ARE BURIED IN PEACE BUT THEIR NAME
LIVETH FOR EVERMORE |
BLOGG,
MM |
Joseph
Andrew Martin |
College
Servant |
THE
COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL 1939-1945 |
BARLOW |
Robert
Frederick |
(1937)
|
BEALE |
Richard
Stewart |
(1936)
|
BEECHING |
Kenneth
Roy |
(1935)
|
BOON |
John |
(1931)
|
BOSTOCK |
Thomas
Maurice Twynam |
(1930)
|
BRINDLEY |
Anthony
Harley |
(1941)
|
CARLTON |
Victor
Julius |
(1941)
|
CARRICK |
Richard
James David Carrick |
(1936)
|
CHAN |
Oswald |
(1938) |
CHURCH |
Frankham
Noel John |
(1932)
|
CLARKE |
Michael
Wilfrid Peter |
(1941)
|
COWIE |
Keith
Cunningham |
(1939)
|
DARLOW |
John
Michael |
(1941)
|
DAVISON |
Peter
Ewart |
(1941)
|
DEVEREUX |
John
Stuart |
(1938)
|
DOOYEWAARD |
Harry
Orme |
(1938)
|
DREW |
Basil
Whitfield |
(1939)
|
DUFTON |
Charles
Theodore |
(1931)
|
EDWARDS |
William
Lionel |
(1937)
|
ELLIOTT |
Alexander
McKenzie |
(1940)
|
EVANS |
John |
(1941) |
GELDARD |
Horace
Marsden |
(1931)
|
GLAISHER |
John
Malcolm |
(1922)
|
GOULDEN |
Ernest
Osmond |
(1913)
|
HARDEN |
George
James |
(1932) |
HIND |
William |
(1939) |
HOWARD |
Louis
Alexander |
(1931) |
HUGHES |
John
Douglas |
(1939) |
HUMPHRIES |
Cedric
Alfred |
(1932)
|
IREMONGER |
Kenneth
George |
(1930)
|
JOB |
Michael
Isdell Blyth |
(1939)
|
LASCELLES |
Francis
Alfred George |
(1932)
|
LAWFORD |
Peter
Wyndham Riou |
(1939)
|
MITCHELL |
Thomas
Ellis |
(1924)
|
PARNALL |
Denis
Geach |
(1935)
|
PARSONS |
Philip
Trevor |
(1935)
|
PEARSON |
John
Henry |
(1937)
|
ROCYN-JONES |
Augustus
Huws |
(1928)
|
SHAW |
Errol
Devereux Lancelot |
(1933)
|
SLIGHT |
Hugh
Templeton |
(1937)
|
SOKOLOW |
George
Stanislaus |
(1932)
|
SPRAKE |
Noel
Geoffrey |
(1937)
|
STEVENS |
Donald |
(1938)
|
STOUT |
Geoffrey
Stephenson |
(1939)
|
STRATTON |
John
Peter Houghton |
(1944)
|
TAN |
Sim
Eng |
(1933) |
VARLEY |
Harry |
(1935)
|
WAYMOUTH |
Arthur |
(1932)
|
WHITING |
William
Robert Humphrey |
(1938)
|
WIESSNER |
Charles
Frank Horace |
(1932)
|
WILKIE |
John
Percival |
(1943)
|
WINTON |
Thomas
Stanley |
(1935)
|
WOODHOUSE |
Harold
Walter |
(1936)
|
ELSDEN |
Maxwell
Charles |
(Clerk) |
Name not on the Memorial |
EARL |
H C |
(1902)
A name not on the Memorial but someone who died on board a hospital
ship during repatriation after internment by the Japanese |