BURLING

John

Private 4294 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment who was killed in action on Tuesday, 18 July 1916. Aged 27. Enlisted Cambridge. Husband of Kate Elizabeth Burling, of 4, Crampton Terrace, Sawston, Cambs. Buried in GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot II. Row B. Grave 11.

COLLINS

Robert

Private 12283, 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment who died on Wednesday, 19 April 1916. Aged 21. Born Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, enlisted Cambridge. Son of John and Julia Collins, of Button End, Harston, Cambs. Native of Shepreth, Cambs. Buried in ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN, Seine-Maritime, France. Plot A. Row 19. Grave 26.

Extract from Cambridge Independent Press - Friday 5 May 1916, page 4:

Harston Man's Death.

News has been received at of the death in a hospital in France of Pte. R. Collins, of the Suffolks. In a letter to Mrs. Collins, dated April 20th, the Rev. W. E. Harper, chap lain of the hospital, says “May I sympathise deeply with you over the death from wounds of your dear son, Pte. R. Collins, of the Suffolks, in this hospital yesterday. I was with him just before the end but he did not recover consciousness and passed peacefully away to be with Christ, ‘which is far better.’ Your dear boy made the supreme sacrifice for God, King, and country. Do not sorrow as one without hope, for you and his loved ones will meet him in a better land where war is no more.” The chaplain added that he was burying Pte. Collins that afternoon with full military honours.

LAMAN

Edward Claridge

Private 20252, 8th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment who was killed in action on Wednesday, 19 April 1916. Aged 39. Born Holborn, Middlesex, resident Harston, enlisted Bedford. Son of the late George Edward Laman; husband of Elizabeth Laman, of High St., Harston, Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 31 and 33. See also Foxton, University Tutorial Press

NORTHROP

Edward Charles

Private 12288 7th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment who died of wounds on Wednesday, 13 October 1915. Aged 22. Born Harston, enlisted Cambridge. Son of Frank Northrop, of High St., Harston, Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on the LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 37 and 38

NORTHROP

Frederick George

Private 82503, 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regiment), formerly 75180, 107th Training Reserve Battalion, who was killed in action on Tuesday, 25 June 1918. Born and resident Harston, enlisted Cambridge. Buried in the WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot VIII. Row G. Grave 5.

NORTHROP

Percy

Corporal 13577, "B" Company, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment who was killed in action on Saturday, 1 July 1916. Aged 18. Born Harston, enlisted Cambridge. Son of Arthur and Elizabeth Ann Northrop, of High St., Harston, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 1C and 2A.

RAE

Colin

Private G/20304 12th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment who was killed in action on Tuesday, 25 September 1917. Aged 39. Born Cambridge, enlisted Mill Hill. Son of the late James and Mary Ann Rae. No known grave. Commemorated on the TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 86 to 88

SADLER

William Harold

Second Lieutenant, 24th Battalion, London Regiment (Queens Regiment.) attached to 1st Battalion, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) who died on Saturday, 24 August 1918. No known grave. Commemorated on the VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Panel 10

SEAMAN

George Arthur Gordon

Able Seaman J/6780, Royal Navy. HMS "Queen Mary". Lost with the Battlecruiser at Jutland 31 May 1916. No next of kin. No known grave. Commemorated on PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire. Panel 13.

SMITH, M.C.

William Leslie

Captain, 2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment who died of wounds on Monday, 15 April 1918. Aged 23. Son of Thomas and Mary E. Smith, of The Mill House, Harston, Cambs. No known grave. Commemorated on the PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. Panel 5

TAYLOR

William

Private 16604, "B" Company, 11th Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action at Arras 28 April 1917. Aged 21, Son of William and Sarah Taylor, of Harston, Cambs. Son of William & Sarah Taylor of Harston,Cambs. Born in Harston and enlisted in Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on the ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 4.

CATER

Leslie

Sergeant/Pilot 741384 113 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve who died on Monday, 30 September 1940. Son of John William and Hilda Annie Cater, of Harston, Cambridgeshire. No known grave. Commemorated on the ALAMEIN MEMORIAL, Egypt. Column 239.

HORNER

William Richard

Gunner 1493810 61 Anti-Tank Regt., Royal Artillery who died on Friday, 6 September 1940. Aged 22. Buried in HARSTON BURIAL GROUND, Cambridgeshire. Row 4. Grave 36.