AVORY

James William

[Listed as AVERY] Driver 218463, aged 28, 175th Brigade. Royal Field Artillery. Died at home 29th February 1920. Son of George & Sarah Jane Avery of 9,Victoria Terrace, Hemmingford Grey, Hunts. Buried in Hemmingford Grey Cemetery.

AVORY

Sidney James

Born St Ives, Hunts. Enlisted Huntingdon. KIA 6/11/1918. Private G/39206. 2/20th London Regiment. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Posted to 2nd/20th Bn., London Regiment. Obies Military Cemetery, Nord, France. In South corner.

BRIARS

William

Rifleman R/16421. Born St Ives, Hunts. Enlisted Holborn. Resident Wolverton, Bucks. KIA 18/4/1918. 17th Bn Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Aged 29. Son of Mr and Mrs Briars of Hemingford Grey. Husband of Constance Gabell (formerly Briars). of 25 Church St, Wolverton, Bucks. Tyne Cot Memorial. Panel 115 to 119 and 162A to 163A.

DOO

Frederick John

Born Gidden, Hunts. Enlisted Walthamstow. Resident St Ives, Hunts. Driver T4/212011. Royal Army Service Corps. Died at home 11/11/1916. 668th Company. Hemingford Grey Cemetery. North West part.

FAVELL

George

Private 14100. Born St Ives, Hunts. Enlisted Cambridge. KIA 10/5/1917. 2nd Bn, Suffolk Regiment. Son of William and Sarah Jane Favell of Hemingford Grey. Aged 19. Arras Memorial. Bay 4.

Report from the Hunts Post [Hunts Post, 1st June, 1917] :

SORROW AT HEMINGFORD

PTE GEORGE FAVELL, son of Mrs. Wm. Favell, of Hemingford Grey, has met a soldier's death on the field of war. He joined the Suffolks at the start of hostilities when he was only 16½ years of age. He was invalided home about a year ago with shell shock and loss of speech from which he recovered in three or four months, and was again sent out. The sad news came on Saturday last from the War Office that he was killed on the 10th May. The sympathy of everyone who knew him is with his mother (a widow) and family. A memorial service was held on Tuesday evening the Church being nearly full. Afterwards a dumb peal was rung by ringers from both villages.

HARRISON

Ronald

Lieutenant, 1/5th Battalion, Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders. 52nd. Lowland Division. E.E.F. Killed in action at the Third Battle of Gaza 10/11/17, aged 23. Son of John & Elizabeth Harrison of Hemingford Grey. Buried in Gaza War Cemetery, Palestine.

HOOKHAM

William

Private 6703. Born Hemingford, Hunts. Enlisted Peterborough. Resident Hemingford. KIA 16/11/1914. 1st Bn Bedfordshire Regiment. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Panel 31 and 33.

HULL

Arthur

Private 8363. Born Godmanchester. Enlisted Huntingdon. Resident St Ives. KIA 26/8/1914. 1st Bn Bedfordshire Regiment. Aged 28. Husband of Sarah Mulley (formerly Hull) of High St, Hemingford Grey. Troisville Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Sp. Mem.

JAKINS

George

Private 12608. Born Hemingford. Enlisted Cambridge. DOW 20/12/1915. 9th Bn, Suffolk Regiment. Aged 21. Son of Joseph and Julia Jakins of Millers Cottage, Hemingford Grey. Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium. 11.B.8A.

KNIGHTS

John 'Jack'

Private 183671, 49th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. 3rd Canadian Division. Killed in action 10/6/17, aged 34. Son of Thomas & Georgianna Knights of Hemingford Grey, Hunts. Buried in Nouex-Les-Mines Communal Cemetery.

MULLEY

John Victor

A/Cpl 22158. Born Ipswich. Enlisted Huntingdon. KIA 16/9/1916. 9th Bn, Suffolk Regiment. Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 1C and 2A.

OLIVER

Frank Leslie Stokes

Private 51348. Born Blackmoor, Essex, Enlisted Huntingdon. DOW 2/11/1918. 2nd Bn, Manchester Regiment. Formerly 3/33809, East Surrey Regiment. Aged 27. Son of the late Mr and Mrs Stokes Oliver. Husband of H E Jolly (formerly Oliver) of 32 Victoria Terrace, Hemingford Grey. Hemingford Grey Cemetery. South West part.

PRATCHETT

[Robert] William

Born Sheffield. Enlisted London. Resident St Ives, Hunts. Sgt 23105. DOW 30/9/1918. Royal Garrison Artillery. Aged 35. Son of Robert and Henrietta Sophia Pratchett of Meadow Cottage, Hemingford Grey, Hunts. Tincourt New British Cemetery, Somme, France. V.F.6.

STOCKER

[Harry] Arthur

Private 19649, 1st. Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment 32nd. Division. Died of wounds near Ypres 14/7/17, aged 19. Born in Hemingford Grey and enlisted in Huntingdon. Son of Harry & Matilda Stocker of Hemingford Grey. Formerly with the Bedfords. Buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery, Belgium.

WALKER

Herbert Frederick

Private 40000. Born Houghton, Hunts. Enlisted Godmanchester. Resident Houghton Hill, Hunts. DOW 1/12/1918. Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry). Formerly 1171 1/1st Beds Yeomanry. 9th M.G. Sgdn, 1st Cavalry Division. Etaples Military Cemetery. L1.E.17.

WARRINGTON

John

Born Sawtry. Enlisted Huntingdon. Resident Hemingford Grey. Private 4/7330. KIA 31/10/1915. 1st Bn, Bedfordshire Regiment. Aged 22. Son of Samuel and Lucy Maria Warrington of Court Estate, Rushden, Northants. Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Panels 31 and 33.

To the memory of

FRASER

Patrick Desmond George

2nd Lt, EC/3763, 3rd Bn, 17th Dogra Regt. Died 15-2-42, age 20. Son of William Henry and Phoebe Constance Frazer, of Dovercourt Bay, Essex. KRANJI WAR CEMETERY, Singapore

HAMILTON

William Ian

L/Sgt, 2880299, 1st Bn The London Scottish, Gordon Highlanders. Died 11-1-44, age 23. Son of William Norman and Dorothy Maud Hamilton. MINTURNO WAR CEMETERY, Italy.

Extract from Hunts Post in 1944:

KILLED IN ACTION.— L./Sgt. William Ian Hamilton, The London Scottish, who was killed in action during January. Aged 23, he was the only son of Lt.-Col. and Mrs W. N. Hamilton, of Hemingford Grey, who were in Malta from 1938-42. He made his home with his aunt Miss W. Knights, of Hemingford Mills.

RANSOM

Frederick Mervyn

Driver, 1876442, 17 Field Coy., Royal Engineers. Died 1-6-40, age 20. Son of Charlotte A. Clifton, of Hemingford-Grey, Huntingdonshire. DUNKIRK MEMORIAL, Nord, France.

who gave their lives in the World War AD 1939 - 45.