ALDIS

Ralph Harry

ALLEN

Owen Ellis Augustus

BAMPTON-TAYLOR

Oswald George

BANYARD

James Hirst

BAUSOR

Thomas Paul

BEAUMONT

Claude Leopold

BOWEN

William

BRADBURY

Dennis John Freeland

BRADFORD

Alfred Royal

BREUL, MC *

Oswald George Frank Justus

See also Cambridge Guildhall and Cambridge St Mark's

BURNS

Islay Ferrier

From Martin Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 1, Part 3, Page 42 - BURNS, ISLAY FERRIER, 2nd Lieut., 97th Coy., Machine Gun Corps, elder s. of the Rev. Islay Ferrier Burns, of Westminster College, Cambridge, by his wife, May Carmichael, dau. of Robert Henderson; b. Darenth, co. Kent, 20 Sept. 1896; educ. Perse School, Cambridge, and Ilklcy Grammar School; matriculated at the London University in June, 1914, after which he became an Engineering Studnt at. the Imperial College of Science and Technology, being a member of the O.T.C. enlisted in the 10th Battery, Machine Gun Corps, in Jan. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, where he was employed as scout and despatch rider until 20 Sept. 1916, when he returned to England, and. after a period of training at Bisley, was gazetted 2nd Lieut. March, 1917 ; went back to France in May, being then given command of a section of machine guns and was killed in action at Nieuport. 11 July, 1917. While at school he was a keen Rugby football player, a ready debater and co-editor of the school magazine

See also Cambridge Guildhall

CHALK

Stanley Frederick W

CHAPLIN

Arthur Hugh Bates

CHAPLIN

Charles Montague

CHEESEMAN

Sydney Hudson

CLAYE

Geoffrey Woolley

COATES

Basil Mongomery

COOPER

Maurice Stanley Charles

CULLIN

James Robert

CUNNINGHAM

James Michael

DAVIES

John Llewelyn

DEVEREUX

Humphrey William

DOGGETT

George Patrick

EDWARDS, MC

Donald William

FITCHES

William     

FITZHERBERT, MC

Gilbert Clare

FROST

Leonard Arthur

GILES

Frank Eric

GOODE

George Mortlock

GOODMAN

Geoffrey Thomas

GRAY

Arthur John    

HADLEY, MC *

Peyton Sheldon

HARRIS

T W S

HEAL, DSO

Frank Henry

HUNT

John William Reynolds

HUTT

Ernest Reginald

JACOBS

Joel

JENKINS

William Edwin

JOHNS, MC

Owen Llewelyn

JOHNSON

George Arthur Moxey Tuker

JOLLEY

John Andrew Benjamin

From Martin Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 1, Part 2, Page 186 - JOLLEY, JOHN ANDREW BENJAMIN, 2nd Lieut., 9th (Service), attd. 5th (T.F.), Battn. The Lincolnshire Regt.. 2nd s. of John Thomas Jolley, of Green Bank, Lightcllffe, M.A. (Cantab.), Senior Mathematical Master, Heath Grammar School, Halifax, by his wife, Harriet, 2nd dau. of Thomas Irvine Graham, of Aughnacloy; b. Anghnacloy, co. Tyrone, 12 Aug. 1895; educ. Perse Grammar School, Cambridge, where for many years he was a member of the Cadet Corps, obtaining Certificate A; subsequently gained a Classical Exhibition, and had just entered his name on the books of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, when war broke out; volunteered for foreign service, joining the Public Schools Battn. of the Royal Fusiliers; trained at Epsom, where he held the post of Acting Sergt.-Instructor; obtained a commission in the 9th Lincolnshire Regt. 17 Oct. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force In France and Flanders, attached to the 5th Lincolns, from Aug. to 13 Oct. 1915, on which latter date he was killed in action during the storming of the Hohenzollern Redoubt; unm.

See also Cambridge Guildhall and Cambrige Short Street Weslyan Methodist

SALUSBURY-JONES

Ivor Cynric

SALUSBURY-JONES

Merfyn Harman

JONES

William Edwards

KEATING *

George Henry

KNOTT

Charles Singleton

LAIDLAW

Charles Glass Playfair

Private 3375, 14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) (Territorial Force), London Regiment. Died of wounds 3rd April 1915. Age 27. Born and enlisted London, resident Chelsea. Son of Dr. Robert Laidlaw and Elizabeth Playfair, his wife, of Grantchester Meadows, Cambridge. Brother of Walter below. Buried in BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot IV Row B Grave 11. See also Cambridge Guildhall and Cambridge St Mark's

From Martin Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 1, Part 1, Page 218 - LAIDLAW, CHARLES GLASS PLAYFAIR, Private No. 3375, D Coy. 1/14th (The London Scottish), The London Regt. (T.F.), 5th &. of the late Dr. Robert Laidlaw, M.D., F.R.C.S.E., sometime Medical Goverment Officer in the Seychelles Islands, by his wife, Elizabeth (Woodside, Grantohester Meadows, Cambridge), dau. of Patrick Playfair, of Ardmillan, co. Ayr; b. Stoke Newington, London, N., 13 Dec. 1887 : educ. The Perse School, Cambridge, from which In Dec. 1906, he was elected to an Entrance Scholarship for Natural Science at St. John’s College. At school he was football capt., sergt. in the cadet corps, a member of the cricket team, and head of the school. While still at school he played water polo for the university when the team was one short. Later he played, lacrosse for his college and sometimes for the University. He commenced residence in Oct. 1907. He obtained a First Class in Part 1 of the Natural Science Tripos in 1909, and in June of that year was elected a Foundation scholar of the College. He took the Second Part of the Tripos in 1910, obtainIng a First Class for Botany. In June, 1911, he was elected a Hutchinson Student of the College, and took up research in Plant Physiology at the Botany School of the University, under the direction of Mr. F. F. Blackman, the University Reader in Botany. The subject of his research was an electrical method of determining carbon dioxide in relation to photo-synthesis. In 1912 he was elected by the governing body of Gonville and Caius College to a Frank Smart Studentship, a recognition of the promising nature of his investigations. At the same time he was offered a Research Scholarship by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries; after some hesitation he accepted this latter offer, which necessitated his removal to London. From the autumn of 1912, until the outbreak of war, Laidlaw worked, at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, under the direction of Prof. V. H. Blackman. Here he entered on an investigation of the Physiological conditions of plants forced under glass, working also at the effect of temperature on the rate of growth of a fungus, Sclerotinia libutiana. On the outbreak of war he volunteered and joined the London Scottish as a Private, 21 pet. 1914, and after a period of training, embarked at Southampton with a draft of some 600 officers and man for the 1st Battn., 10 March, 1915. On Good Friday, 2 April, his (D) Coy. were in some barricades at Richebourg l’Avoué, south of Neuve Chapelle. After having been in the trenches all night, he was smoking after breakfast in what seemed a perfectly safe place, when a stray bullet passed through a sand-bag and penetrated the right side of his chest. To his comrades the wound seemed a slight one, and after first aid was given he was removed to No. 3 Field Ambulance, near Bethune. There it was discovered that internal hæmorrhage had set in, and he died in the early hours of the morning on 3 April, 1915, and was buried in Bethune Cemetery.

LAIDLAW

Walter Siballd

LAMBERT

Stanford Leigh

[Also listed a Stamford Leigh] Private 2106, 1/1st Battalion, East Anglian Field Amublance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 26th August 1915 at Gallipoli. Age 25. Born Lincoln, enlisted Burt St Edmunds, Suffolk. Son of John and Annie M. Lambert, of The Cove, Fairhaven, Lytham, Lancs. Buried in HILL 10 CEMETERY, Turkey. Plot II Row D Grave 9.

From de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour Volume 1, Part 1, Page 219:

LAMBERT, STAMFORD LEIGH, Private, No, 2106, 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. (R.F.), 29th Division, 4th s. of John Lambert, of 86, Chesterton Road, Cambridge, late Postmaster of that town, by his wife, Annie M., dau. of John Mostock; b. Lincoln, 10 Sept 1890; educ. Perse School, and Training ship ‘Worcester; served in the Milne and Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. lines as 3rd officer; joined the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, 28 Sept. 1914 ; left for the Dardanelles with the 29th Division, 21 March 1915; was present at Beach W., Gallipoli, during the landing on 25 April and following days, at the actions of 24 June and 4 July, near Krithia and Gully Ravine, and at the Aug. landing at Suvla Bay, and the subsequent operations, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 26 Aug. 1915. Buried Suvla; unm. On the day preceding his death his name was sent up for mention in Despatches for his work during the campaign. One of his officers wrote: “He was a brave, fearless fellow, one of the best boys we had in my section.” And another: “Voicing the opinion of the whole corps. he was one of the most popular men, ready to assist in anything which was required and to help anybody who was in trouble.”

See also Cambridge Guildhall and Chesterton

MACFARLANE-GRIEVE

Alwyn Ronald

MASON

Peter

McPHERSON

Archibald Dixon

MORRISON

John Claud[e]

MORTON

Joseph Leonard Milthorp

MOULTON

William Ralph Osborne

MUIRHEAD

Alexander Hugh

OPPENHEIMER

John [Rudolph]

PAPWORTH, MM

William Henry

PARKER-SMITH

Wilmot Babington

PHYPERS

William Anthony

PIGG

Bernard William

PULLIN, MC

Bernard John

RAWES

Joscelyn Hugh Russell

ROSS

Donald Neil Campbell

RUDDOCK

Walter David

SAINT, DSO

Edward Twelvetree

SAINT

William Douglas

SCALES

A R

SEDGWICK

Francis Balfour

SELBIE

Robert Joseph aka Joe

SINDALL

Richard Edward

[Listed as Richard Ernest ISNDALL elsewhere] Captain, 1/1st Battalion (Territorial Force), Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds 1st July 1915. Age 26. Son of William and Henzell Margeret Sindall, of "The Elms," Great Shelford, Cambridge. Buried in BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (NORD), Nord, France. Plot I Row D Grave 30.

From Martin Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 1, Part 1, Page 328 - SINDALL, RICHARD ERNEST, Capt. (Shelford Detachment), 1st Battn. Cambridgeshire Regt. (T.F.), 2nd s. of William Sindall, of The Elms, Shelford, Cambridgeshire, Contractor, and a Member of the Cambridge Town Council, by his wife, Henzell Margaret, dau. of Thomas Usher Crass ; b. Cambridge, 11 April, 1889; educ. Perse School, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Cambridgeshire Regt., 1 Oct. 1908, promoted Lieut. 1 March, 1910, and Capt. 23 June, 1913 ; left for the Front with his regt., 14 Feb. 1915, was seriously wounded by the bursting of a shell on 26 June near Armentièrcs, and died from his wounds, 1 July, 1915; buried at Bailleul; vnm. The 1st Battn. of the Cambridgeshire Regt. was warnily congratulated by Brig.-Gen. Longley for the part it took in the Battle of St. Eloi. He stated that the way that they advanced under very heavy shell and rifle fire towards St. Eloi was splendid and that they were of the greatest assistance in holding the village when the German attack was at its worst. Col. Copeman in a letter published by the Cambridge Daily News, said “We were in the thick of the great fight last Sunday, and I am proud to tell you that the regt. did very well, so the General told me, It was an unexpected attack, and we were hurled into the midst of terrific shell and rifle fire which lasted from 4.30 on Sunday to about 5 am. Monday” A special correspondent with the Cambridgeshire Regt. wrote: “The people of Camhridgeshire must not be allowed to forget that She 1st Cambridgeshires took part in what has been reported as the greatest engagement of the present war and the world’s history. At 10 p m. amid the dull boom of our artillery and the terrific, earsplitting explosions of the French 75’s, we went out ready to do our part. The officers in charge of the company were Capt. R. F. Sindall, Capt. Keenlyside, Lieut. Shaw, and Lieut. Bates., Lieut. Seaton and Lieut. Sir H. G. Butlin, also officers of the company, were already gaining experience in the trenches, and had a rough time of it, After drawing tools and sandbags, w e went forward. Ceaseless numbers of ‘flares’ were sent up, and when passing a gate, the man with the biggest laugh in our company, L.-Corpl. E. Vawser, was hit. He was promptly attended to, and hopes were expressed that he would soon be better. An R.E. officer took charge of us, and we were allotted our job. All the while bullets and shells were flying around us, and one could mark the passage of the shells through the air by a streak of light from them. It was rather a terrifying experience for us to be baptized with such a hail of bullets, and I must say that I iiever saw one case of funk in the whole company. The boys may be heartily congratulated on their sang froid, and the ‘Cambridgeshire people have good reason to be proud of them After our ‘spelt close up, we manned some reserved trenches, eventually arriving home’ at 8 a.m after a good hard night’s work.” His brother, Capt. H. T. Sindall, of the same regt., was invalided home from the Front on 6 April, 1916.

See also Great Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridge St Mark’s, Shelford Village Hall Memorial, Cambridge St Marks, Cambridge St Mary the Less and Cambridge Guildhall

SMYTH

Gerald Hugh

SPEARING

Edward

SPEARING, Edward - Lieutenant, 4th ( Territorial ) Battalion, Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)

Only son of James Spearing of Great Shelford, Cambridge, Solicitor, by his wife, Fanny Elizabeth, dau. of William Clayton. Born Cambridge 25th March 1890, educated Purse Grammar School, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (scholar), where he took a first class in part 1 of the Historical Tripos in 1910, a second class in part 2 in 1911, and graduated LL.B in 1912, being subsequently articled as a Solicitor; volunteered for Foreign service; obtained a commission as a 2nd Lieut. 4th Battn, Royal Lancaster Regt. 22nd Aug 1914 and was promoted Lieutenant 12th June 1915; served with The Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 3rd May 1915; was wounded near Fricourt 30th Dec. and invalided home; returned to the front in April, 1916 and was killed in action near Delville Wood, 11th Sept following, while leading his company in an attack on the German trenches. Buried where he fell. His Commanding Officer wrote: " He was commanding the Company and pulling it together awfully well. He was a splendid fellow and had no idea of fear. We will all miss him greatly." Unm.

Lieut. Edward Spearing. King's Own Royal Lancashire Regiment, reported missing September 11th, is now known to have been killed in action on that dale. Born in 1890 he was educated at the Perse Grammar School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he won an open scholarship in History. He obtained a First Class in Part 1, of the Historical Tripos, 1910, and Second Class in Part II, 1911. He took his LL. B. degree in 1912. The officer commanding the battalion at present writes: "He was commanding the company and pulling it together awfully well. He was a splendid fellow, and had no idea of fear. We all miss him very greatly."

Also on Gt Shelford Village Hall Memorial, Gt Shelford Village memorial, Cambridge Emmanuel College and Cambridge Guildhall

SUSSUM

George Andrew

THOMAS

Lionel George [Theophilus]

THOMPSON

William George

TOOLIS

James Hollingworth

TOWNSEND

Gilbert

WARLAND

Maurice George

WEBSTER

Lawrance Fitzgerald

WESTWOOD

Walter Peter

WHITTET

John Webster

WHITWORTH

Arthur George Richard

WIGG

Sydney Harold

WIGHT

Ronald Toynbee

WILSON

William Clement

WOODS

James

WOODWARD

Ernest Harold Hamley

From Martin Edwards's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 1, Part 3, Page 291 - WOODWARD, ERNEST HAROLD HAMLEY, LIeut., 10th (Service) Battn. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regt.), elder s, of the Rev. Alfred Ernest Woodward, M.A., Vicar of UgIey, co. Essex, and formerly Senior Classical Master of Christ’s Hospital, by his wife. Alice Harriet, dau. of J. Hamley, of Guernsey b. Dnlwich. London. S.E.. 29 Jan. 1888; educ. Shirley House School, Blackheath, and Old Chariton; Christ’s Hospital, London, and Horsham, where he was head of his house, Grecian, and School Exhibitioner: Herttord College. Senior Classical Scholar (open). where he graduated BA. Classical Honours (Second and Third Class), and Grenoble University, France; was Assistant Classical Master and Football Coach at Oundle School, and subsequently Assistant Classical Master at Perse School, Cambridge; ; volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war, refusing a commission, and enlisted as a private in the 18th Battn. (Public Schools) The Royal Fusiliers in Sept. 1914 ; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 1915 to 1916. and when the Public Schools and Universities Battn. was disbanded, he accepted a commission, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. 10th Battn. The Royal West Surrey Regt. ; joined his Regiment in France in Sept. 1916, taking part in the Somme offensive of that year, having at one time to take command of his company owing to the other officers being wounded; was reported wounded and missing at Vierstraat 24 Dec. following, and is now known to have been killed in action on that date. His Commanding Officer. Lieut.-Col. Talbot Jarvis, wrote: Lieut. Woodward went out on patrol as he has done many times before, and was shot by a German sentry. Your son did so well in action on the Somme, and has always shown such great personal bravery, that it has endeared him to all ranks,” and his Commanding Officer. Major R. Gwynne :“ I considered hime a very, very noble, gallant officer and gentleman, as brave as a lion, and I know all here had the very, very highest opinion of him and affection for him.” The Chaplain also wrote: “Your son wished to crown the night’s work with the capture of a German. He therefore, apparently alone, went ahead, and attained the German barbed wire in front of their trenches. A sudden rush, and he might quite well have succeeded in bustling a surprised and terrified sentry, and bringing him into our lines some short distance away. But he had the misfortune, according to the reports of his men, to stumble accidentally against one or more Germans out repairing their wires, and before he had time to defend himself, was struck down and almost certainly killed. He was therefore reported missing, believed killed,’ and his body would be taken in and buried (I hope with honours, as befitted so brave a man).” Lieut. Woodward was famous at Rugby football, having been captain of his School XV., also of his college team, and of the Old Blues’ First XV. He also played in the Surrey County XV., as well as several times for Oxford University, though he just missed his “ Blue.” Unm.

COLEMAN

Bert

ALLEN

John Charles Hinton

ASHFIELD

Leslie James

BACON

Douglas Alfred

BARWELL, DFC

Philip Reginald

BEALES

Christopher Day

CHAPMAN

Arthur Reginald

CHAPPLE

Ellicott Alfred Hunter

CHOUVILLE

Pierre

COPLEY

John James Hawke

CRESWICK

Cuthbert George (Tom)

DAVEY

Renford Percy

DUNN

Godfrey Hugh

ETHERIDGE

Nigel Paul

FRAZER

Patrick Desmond George

FREDMAN

Levin

GADSBY

Cyril Frank

HALL

Edward Ralph

HYAMSON

Philipp Henry Samuel

IRELAND

Peter James

JACOBSON

Lawrence

JOHNSTON

Kenneth

JUPP

Philip Anthony

*LACEY

Robert Joseph

LAMB

Dennis Charles

LEELAND

Sidney John

MALT

Douglas Frank

MATTHEWS

Bernard Frederick West

Note: As part of the Air Component of the BEF and equipped with Blenheims, No. 18 Squadron suffered heavy losses in their attempts to stem the German advance the Europe before being withdrawn to the UK in May 1940. The Squadron was then assigned to anti-shipping duties, but during one raid over France in August 1941, one aircraft dropped a box over St Omer airfield containing an artificial leg. It was a spare for Wing Commander Douglas Bader. The Squadron then moved to North Africa with the Blenheim V and took up day bombing duties. During an unescorted raid on Chouigui airfield in December 1942 led by Wing Commander HG Malcolm, his aircraft was shot down and he was posthumously awarded the VC. During 1943-45, No. 18 Squadron supported the allied advance through Italy before moving to Greece in September 1945, disbanding there a year later.

McKECHNIE, GC

William Neil

The London Gazette of 18th October, 1929, gives the following details in announcing the award to Group Captain (then Flight Cadet) McKechnie of the Empire Gallantry Medal, which was exchanged for the George Cross by the terms of the institution of that award in September 1940: On 20th June, 1929, an aeroplane piloted by Flight Cadet C. J. Giles crashed on landing at Cranwell aerodrome and burst into flames. The pilot was stunned, but managed to release his safety belt and fall out of the machine in a dazed condition. Flight Cadet McKechnie, who had landed in another aeroplane about the same time some two hundred yards away, left his machine and ran at full speed towards the scene of the accident. The petrol had spread over an area about ten yards in diameter, in full blaze, with Giles lying in it semi-conscious. McKechnie, without hesitation, ran into the flames and pulled out Giles, who was badly burned. McKechnie, who was himself scorched and superficially burned, then proceeded to extinguish Giles's burning clothing. There is no doubt that without McKechnie's assistance Giles would have been burned to death, as he was quite incapable of moving himself. His machine was entirely destroyed, and the ground for some distance around was burned up by the spread of the ignited petrol.

See also Wikipedia - William Neil McKechnie

ROGERS

Robert Edward

SHARP

Leslie Mark

Note: On 18 December 1940, No. 422 Flight, a Hurricane night-fighter unit at Cranage, was redesignated No. 96 Squadron. In February 1941 it received Defiants as additional equipment and flew night patrols over Merseyside and the Midlands. Beaufighters arrived in May 1942 and in April 1943 the Squadron started to fly intruder missions using Ford as an advanced base. In June 1943 the Squadron converted to Mosquitoes and resumed defensive operations in August from Church Fenton. In September it moved to Scotland for two months before coming south to Kent. After the Normandy landings, the Squadron provided night cover over the landing areas and was soon engaged in countering flying-bombs launched against London at night. On 12 December 1944, the Squadron was disbanded.

No. 96 reformed again at Leconfield on 30 December 1944 as a Halifax Squadron in Transport Command but gave these up in March when the Squadron moved to the Far East. Arriving in Egypt, it collected Dakotas and flew these to India where it engaged in parachute and glider training. Detachments were provided for operations over Burma and in September the Squadron began general transport flights throughout South-East Asia Command.

STEPHEN, TD

Alfred Bodger Grant

TATTENBAUM

Tobias (Tuvia)

TODD

Arthur Landon Thomas

WALLIS

Stanley Thomas Banks

WOSENCROFT

Stanley Reginald