Roll of Honour - Lincolnshire

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HAUGHAM WAR MEMORIAL

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Compiled and Copyright © Michael Peck 2009
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Haugham is a small village just off the A16 south of Louth. No memorial has been found but there is a single plaque in All Saints church and a reference on a gravestone in the churchyard. There is also one man known to live in Haugham but not commemorated.

Individual Memorial
ANTON	Henry		IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF LIEUT. COLONEL HENRY ANTON, 1ST WEST INDIA REGIMENT, LATE GOVENOR OF THE GAMBIA, ELDEST AND DEARLY LOVED SON OF CAPT. ALEXANDER AND JESSY RACHEL ANTON, WHO DIED OF DYSENTERY, ON BOARD THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SHIP “LAGOS”, ON HIS PASSAGE HOME, 1ST AUGUST, 1871, AGED 47 YEARS. MOST DEEPLY REGRETTED. “I WAIT FOR THE LORD, MY SOUL DOTH WAIT, AND IN HIS WORDS DO I HOPE.” PSALM CXXX.3
Churchyard Headstone.
WATSON	Edwin		IN LOVING MEMORY OF FRED WATSON, WHO DIED JUNE 1ST 1899, AGED 48 YEARS. “BE YE ALSO READY: FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH.” ALSO EDWIN, SON OF THE ABOVE WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE, MAY 30TH 1918, AGED 39 YEARS. “WARS BITTER COST, A DEAR LIFE LOST.”
		Private 42523. 8th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, formerly 27191 Lincolnshire Regiment. Killed in action 30th May 1918. Son of Fred and Mary Watson. Born Partney and enlisted Louth, Lincs. Commemorated Soissons Memorial.
Known Haugham connection – NOT commemorated at church.
GUNTHORPE	George William	Lance Corporal 43519. 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, formerly 1370 Norfolk Yeomanry. Killed in action 26th January 1917, aged 22 years. Son of George and Kate Gunthorpe of Westholme, Ruskington, Lincs. Born Haugham, Lincs and enlisted South Creake, Norfolk. Commemorated Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay. I.M.36.

Last updated 25 June, 2009

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