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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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DAVIES
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F R
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M.M.
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Sergeant. London Regiment Cambridgeshire Times
1 March 1918.
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Ely
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WW1
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DAY
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Leslie George Edward
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DSM
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Sgt Royal Marines. Son of Mr & Mrs Albert Day,
8 Acacia Grove, March. Husband of Hilda Day. In Royal Marines 10
years. For his part in evacuation of Crete while serving on HMS
Coventry. New Years Honours, 1945. Saw service in North Africa,
Scilly, Crete and Normandy Landings. CT 12-1-45.
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March
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WW2
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DAY
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R V
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M.M.
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Private, 2nd Suffolk. Cambridgeshire Times 30 May
1919.
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Ely
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WW1
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DAY
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W
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M.M.
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Private. Australian Imperial Force. Cambridgeshire
Times 23 November 1917.
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Prickwillow
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WW1
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DELLER
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Douglas
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Mentioned in Despatches
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Pte Son of Mr & Mrs H S Deller, 8 Hereward St,
March. For gallant and distinguished service during the landing
on Scilly. CT 21-7-44.
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March
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WW2
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DENNIS
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John Neville
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M.C.
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Lieutenant, son of John Herbert and Florence Amy
Dennis, of 6 Monica Road, Wisbech. 11th North Staffordshire Regiment,
attached 41st company, Machine Gun Corps. For action at Delville
Wood, Somme, 1916. LG 7 March 1918. "When the enemy attacked and
reached his position, he went about in spite of the heavy fire,
visiting his guns and ecnourging his men, regardless of his own
safety. His splendid example contributed largely to the repulse
of the enemy." Wisbech Standard 26 October 1917. Died of wounds 15 October
1917, age 22. Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, Nord, France.
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Wisbech
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WW1
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DOCKERILL
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H
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M.S.M.
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Sergeant. 11th Suffolk Regiment, LG 18 January
1919. Cambridgeshire Times 17 January 1919.
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Ely
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WW1
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DOXAT
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Alexis Charles
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V.C.
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Major,
3rd Bn Imperial Yeomanry, VC awarded for his actions in the Boer War,
20 October 1900, reported in the London Gazette 15 January 1901. Born
Surbiton, Surrey, 9 April 1867, died 29 November 1942,
Cambridge. Buried in Cambridge City Cemetery. |
Cambridge
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Boer War
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DUDDINGTON
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John
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MM
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325586 Private, CCompany, 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment
Killed in action 22 August 1918. Awarded Military Medal. Vis-en-Artois
Memorial, Haucourt, France.
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Coates, Eastrea & Turves
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WW 1
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DUNN
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Albert E
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Croix de Guerre, Belgium
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Lance-Corporal. Lincs Regiment, Wisbech Standard
19 April 1918.
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Sutton St Edmund
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WW1
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1 January 2002
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