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Surname
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Forename(s)
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Award
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Details
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Memorial/Place
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When
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CAMPBELL
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Horace
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M.M.
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Private. Lincolnshire Regiment, for 22 March
1918. Wisbech Standard 3 May 1918.
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Wisbech
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WW1
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CANHAM
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Ernest
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M.M.
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Sergeant. Royal Engineers. Cambridgeshire Times
19 April 1918.
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Ely
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WW1
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CANHAM
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Jack Thomas
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MM
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47184, Corporal, 11th Sherwood Foresters (Notts
& Derby Regiment). Died of Wounds 31 October 1918, age 35,
Bangor. Husband of Elizabeth Canham, 7 Cannon Street. MM, London
Gazette 12 December 1917, for gallantry & devotion to duty
when in the attack near Zillebeke, near Ypres, on 20 September
1917. Wisbech Borough Cemetery, Cambs.
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Wisbech
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WW 1
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CARTER
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E
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M.M.
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Lance-Corporal. 97459, 47th Battalion MGC, LG
11 February 1919.
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Manea
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WW1
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CARTER
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Thomas
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M.M.
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Private. 18th Division, for 10 March 1917 at
Irles, carried wounded corporal under fire for five hours. Cambridgeshire
Times 27 April 1917.
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Hundred Foot Bank, Welney
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WW1
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CARTER
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John Samuel
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MM
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40241 Private, 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Died
of Wounds 18 April 1917, age 28. Awarded Military Medal. Formerly
20737 Norfolk Regiment Son of John Samuel Carter, of Bristol.
Husband of Grace Amy Carter, of 64 Colville Rd, Wisbech. Duisans
British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
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Wisbech
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WW 1
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CASE
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A
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OBE
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Captain & Quartermaster, son of Mrs Case,
12 Nene Parade, March. 6th South Wales Borderers. For services
rendered. Cambridgeshire Times 4 July 1919.
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March
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WW1
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CAVE
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R
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M.M.
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Lance-Corporal. 11th Suffolk Regiment, bombing
at Bazentin le Grand 5 August 1916? Cambridgeshire Times 1 February
1918.
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Chatteris
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WW1
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CHASE
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Malcolm
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Croix de Guerre, France
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Regimental Sergeant Major. 1st Suffolk Regiment
Presented 14 September 1917. Probably for his gallantry in bringing
up supplies under heavy fire between 24/27 April 1915 during the
Second Battle of Ypres.
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Ely
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WW1
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CHEESEWRIGHT
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Lionel S
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M.C.
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Lieutenant, formerly Littleport. Northumberland
Fusiliers. Cambridgeshire Times 5 October 1917.
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Littleport
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WW1
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CHURCH
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Albert George
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M.M.
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Cpl, only son of Mr & Mrs G Church, 138 Station
Rd, March. Military Medal during first two days of Normandy invasion
when he rescued three men pinned down by German machine gun fire.
Cambs Times 18-8-44.
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March
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WW2
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CLARE
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George William Burdett
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VC
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6657
Trooper, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers. Born 18 August 19 1888. Killed
in action 28 November 1917 at Bourlon Wood. 12 Burnsfield Street.
Known as Billy Clare. Awarded
posthumous Victoria Cross.
Formerly Bedfordshire Yeomanry for eight years, registered for
National Reserve 29 January 1914. Re-enlisted and sent to Remounts
dept. Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France. Cambridgeshire Times
18 January 1918.
His parents lived in Plumstead, London, but he
lived with his grandparents in Anchor St, Chatteris (which was
renamed Clare St in his honour). His VC is held by the 16/5th
Lancers, at Aliwal Barracks, Hampshire. A stained glass window
was placed in the south side of Chatteris parish church in his
honour, depicting Christ rewarding a faithful soldier; it was
dedicated in Sept 1918. Clare had served in the Beds Imperial
Yeomanry for eight years, then registered for the National Reserve
in January 1914. As a result he was called up when war was declared
and placed in the Remouth Dept, before going into the 5th Lancers.
Clare's VC can be seen at the 17/21 Lancers Museum
at Grantham.
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Chatteris
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WW 1
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CLARK
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H F
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M.M.
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Private. Lincolnshire Regiment, for 14 October
1917. Wisbech Standard 16 November 1917.
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Wisbech
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WW1
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CLARKE
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S
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D.C.M.
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Acting-Company Quartermaster Sergeant. 5633,
2nd Lincolnshire Regiment Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) awarded
for action of 9 May 1915, when he led his platoon to the German
support line. (LG 5 August 1915), Wisbech Standard 13 August 1915.
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Soham
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WW1
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CLARKE
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William H
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D.C.M. & M.M.
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14472 Private Military Medal (MM). 14472, Grenadier
Guards. Citation: LG 14 November 6. Also Military Medal (MM).
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Manea
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WW1
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CLAYTON
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Muirhead Collins
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DSO & OBE
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Col Commanding officer 1st Isle of Ely Btn, Home
Guard. OBE (Military Division) in King's Birthday Honours in recognition
of military services. CT 16-6-44.
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Isle of Ely
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WW2
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CLEMENTS
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Reginald Francis
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M.C.
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Lieutenant,
7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment killed in action on 14th August
1918, age 26.
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Wisbech G.S.
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WW1
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CLIFTON
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Kenneth Edgar William
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DFM
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Aircraftman 1st Class (Air gunner) 92 Broad St,
Ely. When on a reconnaissance flight over Ramadi, his pilot was
shot and fell across the controls. Clifton, who had no flying
training, took over the controls and took the aircraft back to
base. CT 11-7-41.
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Ely
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WW2
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COBB
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W F T
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M.M.
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Private, Royal Fusiliers. Cambridgeshire Times
30 May 1919.
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Ely
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WW1
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COLE
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Albert G
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M.M.
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Lance-Corporal, clerk at Chatteris Post Office.
46th Division Signal Coy, Royal Engineers, laying telephone line
in dark under heavy fire, 17 September 1918.
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Chatteris
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WW1
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COLLINGWOOD
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J Stanley
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M.C.
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Lieutenant, Darthill, March. 43rd Infantry Brigade
signalling officer. Devotion to duty March 1918. Cambridgeshire
Times 24 May 1918.
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March
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WW1
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COLLIS
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James
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V.C.
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On
28 July 1880 during the retreat from Maiwand to Kandahar, Afghanistan
when the officer commanding the battery was trying to bring in a
limber with wounded men under cross-fire, Gunner Collis ran forward
and drew the enemy's fire on himself, thus taking their attention
from the limber. Aged 24. Gunner
Collis was born at Cambridge on 19 April 1856. He enlisted in
the British Army in 1872 and first served in the 32nd Regiment later
the 2nd Battalion the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. He then
transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery. He won his Victoria
Cross in Afghanistan on 28 July 1880. At the outbreak of the
First World War he enlisted at the age of 58 in The Suffolk Regiment
and served with the Regiment until August 1917 when he was discharged
on medical grounds. He is one
of eight VCs whose medals were forfeited under the authority
of the Royal Warrant because each subsequently committed a criminal
offence. Gunner Collis was a bigamist who was sentenced to 18 months
with hard labour. In 1895 it was discovered that although he had
a wife in India, Collis has married again in England. A special
Royal Warrant was served on 18 November 1895, stripping him of the
VC. On 28 June 1918 he died of a heart attack in a hospital in Battersea
at the age of 62. In 1920 the Secretary of State for War approved
amendments to the Royal Warrant for the Victoria Cross, specifying
that only 'treason, cowardice, felony or an infamous crime' should
lead to forfeiture of the award; the amendments were not retrospective.
It was not until 1953 that the War Office issued a list of VCs which
included Gunner Collis and the seven other forfeitures. He is buried
in Wandsworth Council's Magdalen Road Cemetery. |
Cambridge
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2nd Afghan War
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COOK
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G
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M.M.
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17729 L Cpl 3 Suffolk Reg.
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Cambridge
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WW1
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CORNWALL
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C E
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M.M. & Bar
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Lance-Corporal. 8th Suffolk Regiment Awarded
Military Medal (MM) for 1 February 1917, as battalion scout, at
Miraumont, Somme. Bar for ?, Cambridgeshire Times 1 March 1918.
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Isleham
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WW1
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CORNWALL
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Horace
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M.M.
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Private. Cambridgeshire Times 29 November 1918.
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Little Downham
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WW1
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COULSON
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H
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M.M.
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Corporal. Military Medal (MM). Cambridgeshire
Times 1 December 1916.
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Soham
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WW1
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COVILL
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A
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MM
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No details.
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Ely
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WW1
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COX
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Charles William Hall
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MM
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Flt Sgt RAF. Son of Mr & Mrs Alfred Cox, Golden
Holme, West End, March; husband of Mrs Cox, 33 Agenoria St, Wisbech.
Awarded MM for his part in the Bruneval raid 27-2-42. Citation:
"This NCO volunteered to carry out a hazardous task in the parachute
raid on Bruneval on the night of February 27th-28th 1942. The
success of the operation on the technical side depended largely
on the performance of the duty allotted to him. After being dropped
by parachute, he had only a few minutes to complete a task which
had previously been estimated to require half an hour and during
this time he was continuously under heavy fire. He displayed great
courage, skill and devotion to duty in completing his task in
spite of the difficulties, thereby contributing greatly to the
successful execution of the raid."
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Wisbech
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WW2
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COX
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Edward Hugh
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Croix de Guerre, Belgium
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Private. 11th Suffolks, Military Medal, stretcher
bearer, rescuing wounded under fire. Wisbech Standard 16 January
1918. Croix de Guerre, Wisbech Standard 19 April 1918. (see Military
Medal (MM)).
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Outwell
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WW1
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CROUCH
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Arthur George
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Mentioned in Despatches
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Cpl Son of Mr & Mrs G Crouch, 138 Station Rd,
March. For gallantry in the first two days of the Normandy invasion
& bringing in three wounded men. CT 18-8-44.
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March
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WW2
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