
BARFRESTON
WAR MEMORIAL
World War 1 - Roll of Honour
with detailed information
Compiled and
copyright © David
Hughes & Neil Clark 2005
The
parish tribute is a marble tablet inside the parish church (St Nicholas).
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Photograph
Copyright © David Hughes & Neil Clark 2004
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TO
THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF
FRY |
Frederick
Swinford |
Private
3057, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) (M.G.C). Formerly (L/11359) East
Surrey Regiment. Died 12th May 1916. Born Dover. Enlisted Dover.
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MARSH |
Arthur
William |
Private
G/429, 6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died 14th
October 1915. aged 25 years. Born Shepherdswell. Enlisted Canterbury.
Resided Barfrestone. |
MARSH |
Percy |
Private
G/603, 6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died 13th
October 1915. Born Shepherdswell. Enlisted Nonnington. Resided Barfrestone.
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PHILPOTT,
MM |
Walter
George |
Battery
Quartermaster Sergeant 22691, 80th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison
Artillery. Died 16th April 1918. Born Deal. Enlisted Dover. |
RIGDEN |
Horace
Henry |
Lance
Corporal G/7636, 10th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey
Regiment). Died 19th August 1917 aged 27 years. Born Wooton. Enlisted
Dover. Resided Dover. |
YOUNG |
Thomas |
Lance
Corporal G/543, 6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died
7th October 1916. aged 37 years. Born Gisburn, Yorkshire. Enlisted
Nonnington. Resided Wakefield. Although a Yorkshireman Thomas was
probably one of the miners from the Yorkshire coalfields who moved
to Dover to work in the Kent coalfields of Betteshanger, Tilmanstone
and Snowdon. |
WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
"Their
name liveth for evermore."
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February 2005
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