Roll of Honour - Somerset

Ministry of Defence

Lest We Forget

The Royal British Legion

CHILLINGTON WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2 - Detailed information
Compiled and Copyright © Julie England & Chris Perry - 2005

The Roll at Chillington, Somerset (map ref. ST389111), is a framed list of names on paper inside St. James Church, Chillington. There is no War Memorial on the site. The names cover both World War 1 and 2 and show those who served, were wounded and died. The names are listed with a forename and surname.

ROLL OF HONOUR
1914 - 1918

AVERY	Tom	No further information currently
BUSSELL	William	No further information currently
COPP	John	No further information currently
COUSINS	William	No further information currently
EDWARDS	Arthur	No further information currently
EDWARDS	Ernest	No further information currently
HILL	Arthur	No further information currently
HUTCHINGS	Fred	No further information currently
KNIGHT	Edward	No further information currently
KNIGHT	George	No further information currently
KNIGHT	Reginald	No further information currently
LARCOMBE	Charles	No further information currently
LARCOMBE	George	No further information currently
LARCOMBE	Reginald	No further information currently
MATTHEWS	Tom	No further information currently
PERRY	Charles	No further information currently
PERRY	George	No further information currently
PERRY	Samuel	No further information currently
ROBERTS	William	No further information currently
SALTER	Fred	No further information currently
SINGLETON	William	No further information currently
Wounded
EDWARDS	Joseph	Wounded
HOOPER	Edward	Wounded
Died
MATTHEWS	Herbert	Private 260248, 2nd/6th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 6th April 1918. Born Chillington, enlisted Crewkerne, resident Lower Chillington. Buried in CHILLINGTON CEMETERY, Chillington, Somerset.
1939-1945 Served
BRICE	Roy	No further information currently
BROWN	Arthur	No further information currently
BUSSELL	Fred	No further information currently
GARRETT	Percy	No further information currently
GARRETT	Ronald	No further information currently
HARWOOD	William	No further information currently
HOOPER	William	No further information currently
LARCOMBE	Reginald	No further information currently
MATTHEWS	Walter	No further information currently
MILLER	Dick	No further information currently
MILLER	Jack	No further information currently
SCRIVEN	Jack	No further information currently
SMITH	William	No further information currently
THYER	Kenneth	No further information currently
Died
LEGG	Stanley [George]	Trooper 7938762, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps. Died 15th June 1942. Aged 20. Son of Henry William and Annie Beatrice Legg, of Higher Chillington. Buried in Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt. Plot 1. Row B. Grave 9.
SINGLETON	Joseph	Private 6028971, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, Suffolk Regimentt. Died in Tarsao Camp, Thailand, of beri-beri, 26th November 1943; prisoner of war. Son of Joseph and Bessie Singleton, of Ashwell, Somerset. Buried now at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand. Plot 4. Row D. Grave 53.

19 November 2005

War Memorials Trust