|
Surname |
Forename(s) |
Award |
Details |
Memorial/Place |
When |
|
SALISBURY |
Robert Walter |
Mentioned in Despatches |
Petty Officer Royal Navy. Son of Mr & Mrs R Salisbury,
Ryebury, Rosemary Lane, Chatteris. CT 9-7-43. |
Chatteris |
WW2 |
|
SEAL |
Sam J |
M.M. |
Private, The Shade Soham. Stretcher bearer, Northumberland
Fusiliers. Cambridgeshire Times 16 February 1917. |
Soham |
WW1 |
|
SEARBY |
John Henry |
DSO |
Squadron Leader 106 Squadron RAF. Son of the late
Joseph William Searby, 18 Low Cross, Whittlesey. CT 23-4-43. |
Whittlesey |
WW2 |
|
SEARS |
Harold B |
D.S.O. & M.i.D. |
Eng Lieutenant-Commander, Royal Navy, LG 11 December
1918, Cambridgeshire Times 20 December 1918. Mentioned in Despatches,
1918. |
Manea |
WW1 |
|
SEEKINGS |
Herbert |
MM |
28215 Lance Corporal, 11th Border Regiment 2 December
1917. Son of Samuel & Clara Seekings, Burn Street, Norwood Estate.
Awarded Military Medal. Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. |
March
Benwick |
WW1 |
|
SEEKINGS |
Albert Reginald |
MM |
Cambridgeshire Regiment & SAS, awarded DCM,
MM & MID in WW2. He was one of the original members of L Detachment
SAS, formed in July 1941. |
Prickwillow |
WW2 |
|
SEEKINGS |
Reginald |
DCM, MM & MID |
Cpl Son of Mr & Mrs Seekings, of Prickwillow. MM
in Libya (Cambs Times 3-4-42). |
Trumpington |
WW2 |
|
SEWTER |
E V |
M.M. |
Private, son of Mr & Mrs G E Sewter, Station
Road, March. Royal Engineers, mending lines under fire at Battle
of Loos, 1915. Unknown award, probably Military Medal (MM). |
March |
WW1 |
|
SHAW |
S D |
M.M. |
Corporal. King's Liverpool Regiment, Wisbech Standard
5 October 1917. |
Walsoken |
WW1 |
|
SINCLAIR |
James |
DCM & MM |
28207 Sergeant, 1st Bedfordshire Regiment Killed
in action 12 November 1917. Awarded MM, followed by DCM (London
Gazette 4 March 1918). "When ordered to take his platoon to assist
on the left flank he did so quickly and without showing any movement
whatever. When he failed to get in touch he made his way into No
Man's Land and got to headquarters, a distance of 150 yards, being
sniped on the way." Wisbech Standard 8 March 1918. Hooge Crater
Cemetery, Belgium. |
Wisbech St Mary |
WW1 |
|
SKEELS |
A |
M.M. |
Signaller. Cambridgeshire Times 25 October 1918.
|
Chatteris |
WW1 |
|
SKEELS |
Ernest |
M.M. |
Lance-Corporal, Lilac House, Chatteris. Essex Regiment,
for raid. Cambridgeshire Times 20 April 1917. |
Chatteris |
WW1 |
|
SMITH |
Abraham |
M.M. |
Pte. 11th Bt. Suffolk Reg., d 19/4/1918, age 20, buried:
Suffolk Cemetery, La Rolanderie Farm, Erquinghem-Lys, Nord, France.
Son of J. W. and E. A. Smith, of 13 Chiefs St., Ely, Cambs. Cambridgeshire
Times 9 November 1917. |
Ely |
WW1 |
|
SMITH |
E A |
D.C.M. |
Lance-Corporal, son of Mr & Mrs G Smith, 23
Prince Street, Wisbech. 15007, Royal Sussex, LG 26 January 1918.
Wisbech Standard 21 September 1917. |
Wisbech |
WW1 |
|
SMITH |
Albert |
MM |
Sergeant 325714, 1/1st Battalion Cambridgeshire
Regiment, killed in action, France and Flanders, 27th September
1916. Born Bourn, Cambridgeshire, enlisted Cambridge. B company,
1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment Awarded Military Medal as Corporal:
"As a company runner in an attack on September 3rd 1916, he showed
great bravery and devotion to duty in carrying message backwards
and forwards under very difficult circumstances and under very heavy
shellfire." |
Bourn |
WW1 |
|
SMITH |
James Bowley |
DCM |
Pte 2417, D Company.
James Bowley Smith was born at Welches Dam, and went on to win a
Distinguished Conduct Medal in the Great War, afterwards he moved
away. His father was the publican of the Three Fishes. DCM for 14-10-16
at Schwaben Redoubt (LG 11-12-16). Born 8-Mar-1895 at The Three
Fishes Public House, Welches Dam, Cambridgeshire. Youngest son of
Edward and Sarah Smith. After the war he moved to Doncaster, Yorkshire
where he worked as a Coal Miner until he retired. He died in 1982.
Citation from London Gazette:
"2417 Pte.
J. B. Smith, Camb. R.
For conspicuous gallantry
in action. He went down the trench himself before the barricade
was put across and drove off a party of the enemy by throwing bombs.
Later, he climbed on top of the barricade and shot four of the enemy."
|
Welches Dam |
WW1 |
|
SMITH |
Harry |
MM |
Son of Mr & Mrs F Smith, New Rd, Chatteris. For
bravery in rescuing three airmen from a burning plane. CT 21-11-41.
|
Chatteris |
WW2 |
|
SPARROW |
John |
MM |
40722 Private, 2nd Suffolk Regiment Died of Wounds
30 August 1918, age 28. Son of George and Eliza Sparrow, of Christchurch.
Awarded Military Medal. Formerly 4584 Suffolk Regiment Buried Mory
Abbey Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. |
Upwell (Christchurch) |
WW1 |
|
STACEY |
Colin W |
DFC |
Flt-Lt RAF. Son of Mr & Mrs A T Stacey, Berrington,
Station Rd, Manea. 50 operational trips in Wellington bombers &
commissioned in 1944; another 21 trips in Lancasters. CT 22-12-44.
|
Manea |
WW2 |
|
STEEL |
G W |
D.C.M. |
Corporal. 1101, 7th London Regiment (LG 24 June
1916). Later Sgt. Cambridgeshire Times 16 February 1917. |
Haddenham |
WW1 |
|
SUTTON |
David |
MM |
26398 Private, 1st East Surrey Regiment Killed
in action 20 May 1918. Son of Mrs Sutton, The Lane. Awarded Military
Medal. Tannay British Cemetery, Thiennes, France. |
Benwick |
WW1 |
|
SWANN |
George |
MM |
Corporal, Stretham, 8th Suffolk Regiment. MM for 19
& 20 July 1916 at Delville Wood, Somme. Cambs Times 15-12-16. |
Stretham |
WW1 |
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