
HEYDON (Essex) WAR MEMORIAL - Roll of Honour
World
War 1 and 2 - Rolls of Honour with detailed information Compiled and
copyright © 2000 Ann Thompson
Heydon is,
after 1974, in Cambridgeshire but prior to then was in Essex. The war memorial
is inside the parish church of the Holy Trinity.
|
Photograph
Copyright © Ann Thompson 2000 |
IN
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF HEYDON WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
Frank Henry
BARNES |
Lance Corporal
16781, 1st. Battalion The Grenadier Guards. Died of wounds in base hospital at
Boulogne 9th. June 1915. aged 22. Son of Benjamin & Mary Ann Barnes of Heydon.
Buried Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. F.102 |
Benjamin
BARNES |
Lance Corporal
16868, 11th. Battalion The Essex Regiment. 6th. Division. Killed in action at
Loos 26th. September 1915, aged 26. Son of Benjamin & Mary Ann Barnes of Heydon.
Commemorated on The Loos Memorial MR.19 |
Frank NEGUS
|
Private.
21285 2nd. Battalion The Royal West Surrey Regiment. 7th. Division. Died on the
2nd. May 1917, aged 22. Son of John & Fanny Negus of Heydon. Brother of Edward
John Negus. Buried Heydon (Holy Trinity) Churchyard. |
Walter Joseph
NEGUS |
Private.
G.18071 7th. Battalion The Royal West Kent Regiment. 18th.Division. Wounded at
Ypres and died in military hospital at Poperinghe, 13th.October 1917, aged 27.
Son of Luke & Mary Elizabeth Negus of 8, Corona Road, Cambridge. Born in Cambridge
and enlisted in Eley (Ely). Formerly with the Suffolk Yeomanry. Buried Meninghem
Military Cemetery, Poperinghe, Belgium. B.18 |
Arthur WALLER
|
Private
203952, 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Killed in action
Sunday 30th December 1917. Burn Heydon, enlisted Chestunt, resident
Waltham Cross. Buried in FLESQUIERES HILL BRITISH CEMETERY, Nord,
France. Plot VIII Row E Grave 4
|
Job STANFORD
|
Private
59344, 6th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment. 18th Division. Killed in
action at Vend`huille 29th September 1918. Born in Melbourn. Enlisted in Cambridge.
Buried in Unicorn Cemetery, Vend`huile. Grave F.212 |
Edward John
NEGUS |
Private.
G.22627 The East Kent Regiment. Died at home on 20th. April 1919, aged 20. Son
of John & Fanny Negus of Heydon. Brother of Frank Negus. Buried Heydon (Holy
Trinity) Churchyard. |
ALSO
IN THE WAR 1939 - 1945
John Alan Douglas GREEN |
Pte. 6th Bt. Royal Norfolk Reg.,
d 28/5/1943, age 24, buried: KANCHANABURI WAR CEMETERY, Thailand. Son of Charles
and Mary Ann Green, of Heydon, Hertfordshire. |
Douglas
William OYSTON |
Gunner, 5933795, 558 Battalion 92nd. Searchlight Regt. Royal
Artillery. Died at home on the 14th. July 1942, aged 20. Son of Frederick &
Jessie Emily Oyston of Heydon. Buried Heydon(Holy Trinity)Churchyard. |
Edward Lionel WRIGHT |
Gnr. 46 (5th Bt. Lincolnshire
Reg.), d 7/8/1944, age 22, buried: HEYDON (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD, Cambridgeshire,
United Kingdom. Son of Bernard John and Elizabeth Wright of Heydon. |
4 June
2003 |