RAMPTON WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Dave Edwards
These
names are taken from a small framed scroll in the church.
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Photograph
Copyright © Roll-of-Honour.com 1999
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In
Memoriam
this Tablet was erected in Memory of
BARNES |
Frederick Charles
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Private
326914, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 20th June
1918. Enlisted Cambridge. Formerly 4758, Cambridgeshire Regiment.
Buried in Ecoust-St. Mein British cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.
Grave A. 7. |
CURRINGTON |
Albert
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Private
6004, 16th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Invasion Force.
Killed in action on the Somme 6th February 1917. Age 27. Occupation
Farmer. Born London. Enlisted Nyabing, Western Australia on 10th
March 1916. Residenmt Kattanning, Western Australia. Next of kin,
father, W Currington, The Green, Rampton, Cambridgeshire. Commemorated
on Villiers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France. |
NORMAN |
Alphonso Norris
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Private
3255, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed
in action 13th November 1916. Aged 19.
Enlisted Cambridge. Son of James and Emmeline Norman, of High St.,
Rampton, Cambridge.
Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and
Face 16 B |
NORMAN |
Harry
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No
further information currently. |
PARKER |
Albert
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probably
Albert PARKER, Private 205968, 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment.
Died 9th August 1919 in France & Flanders. Enlisted Cambridge.
Formerly 4560, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Buried in Cambridge City
Cemetery, Cambridge, Grave C. 2053. |
PARKER |
Frederick
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Private
36608, 6th Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire
Regiment). Killed in action 4th May 1917 in France & Flanders.
Born and resident Rampton, enlisted Cottenham. Formerly 4762, Cambridgeshire
Regiment. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Bay 7. |
PARKER |
Stanley
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Gunner
154099, 335th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Killed in action 2nd July 1918. Aged 21.
Born Rampton, enlisted Cambridge. Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Parker,
of North View, Rampton, Cambs. Buried
in Solferino Farm Cemetery, Brielen, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
Grave II. C. 21. |
YOUNG |
Ernest George
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Private
G.14897, 13th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action
near Ypres 24th December 1916. Aged 22. Born in Rampton and enlisted
in Cambridge. Brother of Sidney and Jesse Jakes (below).
Son of Levi and Elizabeth Young, of Sunnyside, Rampton, Cambs.
Buried in Essex
Farm Cemetery, Boesinghe, Belgium. Grave B.73. |
YOUNG |
Jeremiah
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Private
G.11327, 11th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 39th Division
(SDGW 9th. Battalion). Died
of wounds 3rd September 1917. Wounded at Ypres. Born Rampton, enlisted
Huntingdon. Buried
in Voormezeele Enclosures 1/2 Belgium. Grave B.124. Also commemorated
on Chichester Cathedral Memorial Panels. |
YOUNG |
Jesse
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Private
326912, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died
of wounds 5th August 1917. Aged 21.
Born Rampton, enlisted Cambridge. Brother of Ernest George Jakes
(above)m and Sidney Jakes Young (below). Son of Levi and Elizabeth
Young, of Sunnyside, Rampton, Cambs. Formerly 4756,
Cambridgeshire Regiment. Buried
in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
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YOUNG |
Sidney Jakes
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Private
7239, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died of wounds 26th August
1914 in France & Flanders. Age 29. Born Rampton, enlisted Waterbeach.
Son of
Levi and Elizabeth Young, of Sunnyside, Rampton, Cambs. Husband
of Mrs. M. Young, of near The Old Schools, Histon, Cambs. Brother
of Ernest George and Jesse Young (above). Commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre
Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France. |
of
this village
who made the supreme sacrifice during
The Great War 1914-1918
Greater
love hath no man than this
That a man lay down his life for his friends
Attached
to the base of the frame is a further plate
1939
– 1945
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JAGGARD |
Leslie Walter
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Probably:
Flight Sergeant, Pilot 407 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron, Royal Air Force
Volunteer Reserve, died 31st January 1942, age 20. Son
of Walter and Mabel Jaggard; husband of Joyce Sylvia Jaggard. Buried
in Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery, Netherlands. See also Chesterton.
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MASKELL |
Victor
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Driver
2003073, 560 Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died as Prisoner of
War (Japanese) 1st December 1943, age 25.
Born and resident Cambridgeshire. Buried
in Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand. Grave 6.A.8. |
Buried
in the Churchyard NOT on memorial: |
STEARN |
Sidney Arthur
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Private
5959508, Pioneer Corps. Died 11th January 1944, age 33. Son of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Stearn, husband of Frances Lilian Stearn, of Rampton.
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Last updated
3 March, 2022
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