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TOFT WAR MEMORIAL

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Compiled and copyright © 2000 Martin Edwards

There is no memorial in the church or village to men who died in the First World War, however there is a plaque on the church organ saying that is was built as a memorial to those who served in the Great War, and restored as a memorial to those who died in the Second World War.

The County First World War memorial lists one man for Toft:

TAYLOR, MC

Denis Percival [Beauchamp]

Lieutenant, 3 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and 3rd (King's Own) Hussars. Killed in action 14 March 1916. Aged 21. Born 22 September 1894 in Aldershot. Son of Col Philip Beauchamp Taylor, CBE. Awarded the Military Cross (M.C.). Educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey. Royal Aero Club Aviators’ Certificates, 1 September 1915. Buried in the North part of BILLY-MONTIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Grave 1. See also Charterhouse School

Extract from England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations) 1919:

TAYLOR Denis Percival Beauchamp of Toft Manor Cambridge M.C. lieutenant 3rd Hussars and Royal Flying Corps died on or since 14 March 1916 in France Administration London 9 May to Philip Beauchamp Taylor colonel H.M. Army (retired). Effects £4512 0s. 8d.

Note: There are adverts in the Cambridge newspapers in August 1918 for the contents of Toft Manor being sold on the instructions of Col P Beauchamp Taylor.

For Second World War, see Toft Methodist.

TOFT METHODIST CHURCH WAR MEMORIAL

The memorial is inset into the wall of the Methodist Church.

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IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO DIED IN THE WAR OF

1939-1945

TEBBIT	Harold Paul Lister	Third Radio Officer, M.V. Abosso (Liverpool), Merchant Navy who died on Thursday, 29th October 1942. Age 18. Son of Bernard Lister Tebbit, and May Tebbit, of Haverhill, Suffolk. No known grave. Commemorated on TOWER HILL MEMORIAL, London, United Kingdom Panel 2.
CUSTERSON	Norman Charles	Private 5933218, 1st Battalion, The Cambridgeshire Regiment, Suffolk Regiment, a prisoner of war, who died of dysentery, at Tamarkan, Thailand, on Sunday, 3rd October 1943. Aged 23. Buried in KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY, Thailand. Plot 2. Row K. Grave 15. Kanchanaburi is 129 kilometres west-north-west of Bangkok.
BRAYSHER	Roland Norris	Private 5933280, 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. 18th Division. Died as a Japanese Prisoner of War from Chronic Enteritis in Japan, Prisoner of War Camp Ha1B 1 December 1943. Aged 34. Born 24 January 1909 and baptised 18 April 1909 in Toft, Cambridgeshire, son of Owen and Mary Braysher. Husband of Annie P. Braysher, of Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 3, born Toft, Cambridgeshire, son of Owen and Mary Braysher, resident Brookside, Toft, Cambridgeshire. Japanese POW Registration Card No. 1/1564. Occupation given as Farm Labourer. Originally PoW at Muroran but then moved to Hakodate POW Camp #4, Ashibetsu, working in the coal mines. Buried in YOKOHAMA WAR CEMETERY, Japan. British Section Plot C. Row A. Grave 7. See also Eversden Memorial Extract from Cambridge Independent Press 1945: Died in Japanese Hands. — Official news has been received by Mrs. Braysher, of High Street, Eversden, that her husband, Pte. R. N. Braysher, Suffolk Regiment, died of chronic dysentery on December 1st, 1943, whilst a prisoner of war in Japanese hands. Before the war te. Braysher was employed by the L.M.S. Yokohama War Cemetery is 9 kilometres west of the city on Yuenchi-Dori, Hodogaya Ward, which branches left off the old Tokkaido highway.

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

Last updated 6 August, 2025

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