LYMPNE
WAR MEMORIAL
World War 1 & 2 -
Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright
© David
Hughes & Neil Clark 2005
The
village tribute is on a plinth, the names are listed around the base
for World War 1 and the World War 2 names are listed on an extra stone
behind the memorial. The memorial itself stands by the lychgate to the
parish churchyard.
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Photograph
Copyright © David Hughes & Neil Clark 2005
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GREAT
WAR
1914-1918
CHAMPNEYS |
J.
Amyan Ludford |
Second
Lieutenant, 73rd Squadron, Royal Air Force Died 17th June 1918.
Son of Edward Hugh and Magdalene Champneys. Born Sellindge. Buried
Marissel French National Cemetery, Beauvais, Oise, France. Grave
664. On the 1901 census for Lympne, this officer is recorded as
Amyan J.L. Champneys. |
FAGG
|
Charles
Frederick |
[Listed
a F C FAGG on memorial] Private L/10341, 2nd Battalion, The Buffs
(East Kent Regiment). Died 28th September 1915. Age 19. Born Temple
Ewell, Dover. Enlisted Dover. Resided Lympne. Son of Thomas Fagg,
of Lympne Street, Hythe, Kent. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial,
Pas de Calais, France. Probably known by villagers as Fred, as a
Fred Fagg is commemorated on the village school memorial plaque,
he is also recorded on the village war memorial as Frederick C Fagg,
however the CWGC, SDGW & MICs show Charles Frederick Fagg for this
casualty. |
HOWLAND
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William |
Private
G/4361, 6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died 13th
October 1915. Age 18. Born Monks Horton, Kent. Enlisted Hythe. Resided
Monks Horton. Son of George and Jane Howland, of “Sunnyside”, Hythe,
Kent. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Pas de Calais, France.
William is commemorated on several other local war memorials, they
being Monks Horton (St Peters) Church. St Leonard’s School Hythe
memorial plaque, and Hythe town civic war memorial. |
KENNETT
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Ernest
Edward (Ted) |
Trooper
2437, Household Battalion. Died 10th October 1917. Age 28. Born
Lympne. Enlisted Dover. Son of Frederick and Mary Mercy Kennett,
of “Forge Cottage”, Lympne, Hythe, Kent. Commemorated on the Tyne
Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Also commemorated
on the Lympne School memorial plaque as Ted Kennett. |
McNICHOL
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William |
[Also
listed as McNICHOLL] Corporal 309255, 17th Battalion, Tank Corps.
Died 21st August 1918. Age 28. Enlisted Blackford, Perth. Enlisted
London. Formerly 23144 Royal Flying Corps. Son of Duncan and Isabel
McNicoll, of Scotland. Husband of Annie Susan McNicoll, of “The
Nest”, West Hythe, Kent. Buried Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont,
Somme, France. There are variants of this casualties surname recorded
by SDGW, CWGC and the MIC, headstone on grave shows his surname
as being McNicoll. |
PEEL
|
Albert
[Jonathan] |
Private
25921, “4 Company” 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Died 8th July
1917. Age 30. Born Bournemouth. Enlisted Hythe. Son of George and
Mary Jane Peel. Buried Canada Farm Cemetery. Ieper, West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium. Grave I.B.7. |
PIDDOCK
|
Percy
[William] |
Lance
Corporal 38749, 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment. Formerly (222252)
Army Service Corps (A.S.C). Died 1st October 1918. age 26. Born
Hythe. Enlisted Grove Park. Son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Piddock, of
Boltophs Bridge, West Hythe, Kent. Husband of, Mrs S.J. Piddock,
15 East Street, Hythe, Kent. Buried Laventie Military Cemetery,
La Gorgue, Nord, France. Grave IV.D.6. Also commemorated on the
Lympne School memorial plaque. |
ROLFE
|
Benjamin
Alfred |
Private
L/8807, 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died 16th
December 1918. Age 30. Born Saltwood. Son of Mark Andrew Rolfe and
Thurza Rolfe, of Lympne Street, Lympne, Hythe, Kent. Buried Mikra
British Cemetery, Kalamaria, Greece. Grave 997. Also commemorated
on the Lympne School memorial plaque. |
ROLFE
|
Mark |
Leading
Stoker K/143, “H.M.S. Laforey”. Died 23 March 1917. Age 29. Son
of Daniel Jesse and Sarah Jane Rolfe, of the Street, Lympne, Hythe,
Kent. Commemorated on the Chatham Memorial. Panel 23. Also commemorated
on the Lympne School memorial plaque. |
SKERRITT
|
Edward
J |
Private
555, 26th Battalion, Australian Infantry A.I.F. Died 26th March
1917. Age 36. Born Folkestone. Commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux
Memorial, Somme, France. Also commemorated on the memorial plaque
in St John’s Church, Folkestone, and on the town civic war memorial. |
TAYLOR
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Jesse |
Private
T/271070, 10th (Yeomanry) Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment).
Died Palestine 25th December 1917 (Christmas Day). Son of William
and Martha Taylor. Born Lympne. Enlisted Hythe. Resided (Court at
Street) Lympne. Buried Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel. Grave C.29.
Former pupil of Lympne School and commemorated on school memorial
plaque. |
UDEN
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Jack
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No
further information currently availavle SDGW/ODGW or CWGC, the MICs
list a Private 49038 Jack UDEN. Royal Army Medical Corps. Jack is
numbered amongst the seven former Lympne School pupils that are
commemorated on the school memorial plaque. |
UPJOHN
|
William
Moon |
Captain,
1st Battalion, Welsh Guards. Died Saturday 24th August 1918 aged
33 years. Eldest son of William Henry Upjohn K.C. and Mrs Upjohn
of “Lympne Place”, Aldington Road, Lympne, Hythe, Kent, and 91 Sloan
Street, London. Husband of Dora Upjohn, of 30, Connaught Square,
Hyde Park, London. Buried Beaulencourt British Cemetery, Ligny Thilloy,
Pas de Calais, France. Also commemorated on Aldington war memorial
plaques, also those of Trinity Collage, Cambridge, and Eton College.
William has the rank of Lieutenant on his headstone, but he was
promoted Captain on 20th May 1918. William’s younger brother Gerald
also served in the Welsh Guards during WW2, attaining the rank of
Brigadier, in 1963 he became Baron Upjohn C.B.E. |
WRATTEN
|
Roland
Glover |
Private
TF/241550, 3/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. Died 21st August
1917. Born Deal. Enlisted Hythe. Son of George Jeremiah and Sophia
Wratten, of “Channel View”, Dymchurch Road, Hythe, Kent. Buried
locally in the Burmarsh (All Saints) Churchyard. |
THE
SECOND WORLD WAR1939 – 1945 |
BUTCHER
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Frederick |
No
further information currently available. |
COOPER
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Peter |
No
further information currently available. |
CROUCHER
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Leonard
George |
Private
S/235981, Royal Army Service Corps. Died 17th June 1943. Age 27.
Son of Harry and Ellen Eliza Croucher. Husband of Gwendoline Croucher,
of Lympne, Hythe, Kent. Commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial,
Surrey. Panel 17. Column 3. |
DUPE
|
Reginald
[Frederick Cyril] |
Sergeant
(Pilot) 517894, 97 Squadron, Royal Air Force. Killed while practising
night landings at R.A.F. Abingdon flying Whitley K7255 10th February
1940; the aircraft crashed at Boar Hill, Wooton, Abingdon. Son of
Mr & Mrs S J Dupe, Gate House, Lympne Airport. Buried Lympne
(St Stephen’s) Churchyard. Grave 16 C. [Note: There is a plaque
adjacent to the Crash Site in a Public Open Space called Elizabeth
Daryush Memorial Garden.] |
FINN
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Robert |
No
further information currently available. |
HOPKIN
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Harry |
Lieutenant
230535, 14th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment).
Died 24th October 1942. Age 39. Son of Richard and Lily Hopkin.
Husband of Florence Ellen Hopkin, of Lympne, Hythe, Kent. Buried
El Alamein War Cemetery, Egypt. Grave IX.E.23. |
ROLFE
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Albert
[Henry] |
Sapper
2060407, Royal Engineers. Died 12th September 1939. Age 18. Son
of James Thomas Arthur and Phyllis Jane Rolfe, of Sellindge, Kent.
Buried nearby in Lympne (St Stephen’s) Churchyard. Grave 6C. Also
commemorated on the Stanford village war memorial. |
Last
updated
12 August, 2019
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