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From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2, Part 3, Page 103, the following:

FLETTON, Ernest - Drummer, 6th ( service ) Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment. Son of Arthur Fletton, of 6 Co-operative Terrace, Higham Ferrers, Leather Dresser, by his wife Sabina, dau of Thomas Lee. Born Higham Ferrers, co Northants 28th March, 1895; educated council school there; was a shoe hand in Wrights factory; volunteered after the outbreak of war; and enlisted 5th Sept 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from July 1915; was present in several engagements, and was killed in action whilst on post duty at night in April, 1916. Buried at Carnoy, Bray-Sur-Somme. Captain H. Podmore, his Commanding Officer wrote "The Germans made a sudden attack on a post, where he and another man was at the end of a sap, looking over a crater. The other man was killed instantaneously. Fletton was very badly wounded, but without thinking of his own pain, Immediately ran back to give the alarm. He then proceeded along the trench to get his wounds dressed, and was hit almost immediately by a shell, and killed instantaneously. I am sending his name in for gallant conduct." Unm.

He is also mentioned on page 42 of the book "Four V.Cs in Fourty Months, The proud Record in World War 1 of the 6th (Service) Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment" by Geoffrey Moore. Giving his number as 14919 and date of death as 13 April 1916

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2, Part 3, Page 103, the following:

FLETTON,Ernest - Drummer, No 14919,6th (Service ) Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment. Son of Arthur Fletton, of, 6, Co-Operative Terrace, Higham Ferrers, Leather Dresser, by his wife, Sabina, dau. of Thomas Lee; born Higham Ferrers, co. Northants 28th March, 1895; educated Council School there; was a shoe hand in Wrights factory; volunteered after the outbreak of war, and enlisted 5th September, 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from July 1915; was present in several engagements, and was killed in action whilst on post duty at night in April 1916. Buried at Carnoy, Bray-sur-Somme. Captain H. Podmore, his commanding officer wrote: "The Germans made a sudden attack on a post where he with another man was at the ned of a sap, looking over a crater. The other man was killed instantly. Fletton was very badly wounded, but without thinking of his own pain, immediately ran back and gave the alarm. He then proceeded along the trench to get his wounds dressed, and was hit almost immediately by a shell, and killed instantaneously. I am sending his name in for gallant conduct." Unmarried

Second Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps. Killed 24th December 1917. Son of James and Georgina Janet Hall, of 4, Commercial Street, Higham Ferrers. CWGC states he was awarded the MSM but Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour states the Military Medal (M.M.). Buried on the North bounday of RAUNDS METHODIST CHURCHYARD, Raunds, Northants.

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2, Part 4, Page 73, the following:

HALL, George Henry (Military Medal) - Lieut., Royal Flying Corps.. Youngest son of George Hall, of Higham Ferrers, co. Northampton; born Raunds, Wellingborough, co. Northampton, 5th Jan,1896;was a motor mechanic; joined the Royal Flying Corps 7th Aug, 1914; gazetted 2nd Lieut 17th Nov. 1917; served with The Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 6th Oct following; returned to England in July 1917, to undergo a course of training at Denham, and died at Cambridge Hospital 24th Dec,1917, from injuries received in an aeroplane accident while flying at St.Neots, co.Huntingdon. Buried at Raunds, co.Northampton. He was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette, 1st June,1917) for meritious service in the field. Unm

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2 , Part 5 , Page 101, the following:

KILSBY, George Alfred - 2nd Lieut. 4th(Territorial). attd 6th (Service) Battn. The Northamptonshire Regiment. Eldest son of George William Kilsby, of Nene View, Higham Ferrers; Leather Merchant, by his wife, Katherine, dau. of Alfred Smith; born Rushden, co. Northampton, 26th March 1899; educated Higham Ferrers; was on the staff at the County Surveyors Office, Northampton; joined the Artists Rifles O.T.C. 26th July 1917; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 4th Northamptonshire Regiment, 24th June, 1918, served with The Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 27th July following, being attached to the 6th Battn., and was killed in action at Roussay 18th Sept. 1918, in an attempt to locate the whereabouts of an enemy Machine Gun, which was holding up the Battalion. Buried behind the lines. His Commanding Officer wrote: "... It was one of the Battalions greatest Battles, and was a great success; but a heavy price had to be paid..... Your son was a very promising officer." Unm

From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, Volume 2, Part 3, Page 22, the following:

MOULTON, Joseph Harold - Rifleman, No 644, 16th (Service) Battalion, (Church Lads Brigade) The Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Eldest son of Joseph Moulton, of 36 Corporation Terrace, Higham Ferrers, Gas Stoker, by his wife, Agnes, dau of the late David Hodgkins. Born Higham Ferrers, co Northampton 29th Dec 1896; educated Council Schools; was employed in the sorting department of Mr. Owen Parker, Shoemaker; enlisted 23rd Sept 1914, after the outbreak of war; served with The Expeditonary Force in France and Flanders from 16th Nov 1915 and was killed in action 28th Jan 1916. Buried in Cambrin churchyard. Unm

Note: In 1914, the Belgian Red Cross established a hospital, taken over later by the Germans, at Quievrain. The Commonwealth plot in the communal cemetery was begun in November 1918, and after the Armistice the graves of prisoners of war buried by the Germans elsewhere in the cemetery were moved into it. The cemetery now contains 43 Commonwealth burials of the First World War. The speicla memorial would indicate that although he is buried their the exact plot is not identified.