Author: Hare

Private Percival Burrell, of the South Staffs Regiment, was killed in action in northern France on 23 August 1918, his death being memorialized in the Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery in the Pas-de-Calais

Lance Corporal Herbert Walter Burrell, of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme on 23 July 1916, his death being commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.

Herbert was killed at the battle of the Somme on 4 August 1916 at the age of 24

died in Salonika in 1918

John Cadman Brooks (1879‒1917) was a printer-compositor with the Cambridge University Press until he was called up in July 1916 and died in action at the Battle of Paschendaele on 26 September 1917, aged 38.

enlisted at Westminster as Rifleman (551149) in the 2/16th (County of London) Battalion (Queens Westminster Rifles).

Private (3/776) in the 2nd Battalion the Suffolk Regiment, died of wounds at the Somme in France on 20 July 1916.

Private [probably acting Corporal] (326012) in the 1st/1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on 21 September 1918, aged 25, at the Second Battle of the Somme

Private (26264) in the 11th (Service) Battalion (Lewisham), the Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, attached to the Trench Mortar Battery was killed in France on 5 August 1917

Lance Corporal in the 2nd Battalion the Bedfordshire Regiment (No. 27215), was killed in action in France on 6 September 1916.

Private (326274) in the 1st Batallion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action at St Julien on 31 July 1917, aged 22

Private (352959) in the 2/9th Battalion Territorial Forces of the Manchester Regiment, formerly Private (4457) in the Cambridgeshire Regiment fell in action in France on 9 October 1917

Rifleman (S/20542) in the 9th (Service) Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own), formerly Private (34437) in the Suffolk Regiment. He fell in action in France on 23 October 1917

William Henry Woodcock (1890-1918), servant at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, served with the East Yorks Regiment in WW1 and died in action in northern France 27 April 1918.

Sergeant (13822) in “A” Company, the 11th Battalion, the Suffolk Regimen, died on 6 July 1916 of wounds

Private (260770) in the 1st County of London Yeomanry (Middlesex Duke of Cambridge Hussars) of the Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line, died 20 July 1916

temp 2nd Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), wounded in action and died of his wounds on 20 January 1917

Lance Corporal (768) in the 5th (City of London) Battalion (London Rifle Brigade), London Regiment, died in action on 13 May 1915

Sapper (217779) in the 98th Light Railway Train Crew Company, Corps of Royal Engineers

died on 17 November 1918, aged 27, was on the register of Shipping and Seamen, and had been awarded medals

served with the 11th Battalion the Suffolk Regiment (known as the ‛Cambs Suffolks’), wounded by a shell and died on 4 August 1916

Private (168/18582) in the 3rd/5th East Anglian Cyclists Division Company, transferred to the Labour Corps with the rank of Corporal (622740). He died on 5 March 1919, aged 27

Thomas Henry Stearn (1893‒1918), Gunner (156666) with the 25th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed in action at the Somme in northern France on 31 (or 30) May 1918.

Private (G/18130) in the 7th (Service) Battalion, the Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment, formerly Private (3654) of the Suffolk Yeomanry, was killed in action on 23 July 1917

killed in action in Polygon Wood, near Ypres, in northern France, on 26 September 1917

Lance corporal in the Cambridgeshire Regiment, fell ill while awaiting shipping to the Western Front and died of tuberculosis on 14 August 1916

Sapper (20577) in the 7th Field Company, the Royal Engineers, died on 29 August 1918, aged 30

Private (13798) in the 5th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment) died on 2 January 1915

served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment. He was wounded on 28 August 1918 and died a day later

Lance Corporal (2074) in the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on 3 June 1915 at Houplines, Armentières, France

Private (201445) in the 7th Battalion the Tank Corps, formerly Private (32435) of the Machine Gun Corps, killed in action on 14 April 1918, aged 19

Private (19336) in the Army Pay Corps, died of pneumonia on 22 November 1918 aged 33

Private (27480) in the 8th Batallion the Norfolk Regiment. He was killed in action at the Somme, in northern France, on 26 March 1918, aged 27

Private (73965) in the 2nd Battalion the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) formerly Private (291452) in the Welch Regiment, was killed in action in France on 29 October 1918, aged 35

Private (3061) in the 1st/7th Battalion the London Regiment, was killed in action in France on 25 September 1915, aged 23.

Second Lieutenant in the 101st Squadron, Royal Air Force, and East Lancashire Regiment, died of accidental injuries at the Somme, in northern France, on 2 August 1918, aged 20

Private (G/21187) in the 15th Middlesex Regiment, attached to the 7th Battalion the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, was killed in action at the Battle of the Somme on 28 September 1916, aged 25

Sergeant (415746) in the 23rd Regimental Battalion, the Canadian Infantry (part of the Canadian Expeditionary Force) died on 23 August 1917, aged 23

Private (325191) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, died on 16 February 1918 of wounds received in action

Rifleman (S/15364) in the 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own). He is recorded here as reported missing in France in September 1916

of the Sherwood Foresters was killed in action on 5 June 1915

Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps (1991), died of pneumonia on 9 March 1917

Douglass Walter Masterson (1889-1928) fought with the NZ Expeditionary Force at Gallipoli in 1915, was injured there, and was transported back to New Zealand in 1916, where he lived a further twelve years.

Private in the Cambridgeshire Regiment, attached to the 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment (No. 242470), was killed in action in France on 19 July 1917

Private (27480) in the 8th Batallion the Norfolk Regiment. He was killed in action at the Somme, in northern France, on 26 March 1918, aged 27

of the Royal Army Medical Corps, killed in action in 1917

Private (2928) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, died on 28 October 1916 of wounds sustained at the Battle of the Somme, aged 25

Corporal (326100) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action in Belgium on 28 April 1918 aged 27

Private (72802) in the 10th Field Ambulance was killed in action on 13 April 1917

Lance Corporal (1145) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action in northern France on 12 May 1915, aged 20

Corporal (L/2583), 16th (The Queen’s) Lancers, was killed in action at Le Glairet, France on 8 September 1914, aged 24

Private (26051) in the 9th Battalion the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action at Ginchy in northern France at the Battle of the Somme, on 3 September 1916, aged 25.

2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, attached to the 5th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment died on 11 October 1915

served in the 18th Batallion the Lancashire Fusilliers (No. 56552) and killed in action on the western front on 28 September 1918

Lance Corporal (36316) in the 7th Battalion (Extra Reserve) the Royal Fusiliers (London Regiment), was killed on the first day of the Battle of Ancre on 13 November 1916, aged 31

Sergeant (932163) in 101 Squadron, the Royal Air Force, was killed on active service on 8 or 9 July 1942

Warrant Officer Class II (311894) in the Royal Armoured Corps, died at sea on 11 July 1943 aged 57, while on active service

Telegraphist (C/WRX/160) on H. M. Trawler Sisapon, Royal Navy, died on 12 June 1940, aged 25

Lieutenant (304135) in the 2nd Battalion the Essex Regiment, was killed in action on 18 July 1944, aged 30

Lieutenant (EC/16274) in the 1st Battalion the 10th Gurkha Rifles, died in Rangoon, Burma, on 9 May 1946 aged 19.

Private William James Hunt, G/10329, Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment, was killed by shell fire on September 18, 1918, aged 33.

died in the war in German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) on 26 March 1915, aged 34.

2nd Lieutenant (2810) in the 1st/4th Battalion the (City of London) London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), formerly Private (2810) of the Cambridgeshire Regiment, killed in action on 27 May 1918

Pioneer (84460) in the 228th Field Company, the Royal Engineers, died of wounds in France on 9 August 1918

Sergeant 12017, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regimenr, killed in France on 20 July 1916

Sergeant (481035) in the 41st General Hospital Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) died of accidental injuries (burns) on 29 September 1918 aged 26

Corporal (325307) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment formerly No. 1687 of the Cambridgeshire Regiment, killed in action in France on 28 August 1918

Lance Corporal (G/9033) in the 2nd Battalion the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 June 1915

Private (325563) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, formerly Private (21886) in the Cambridgeshire Regiment, killed in action on the Western front on 4 September 1917

Lance Corporal (3009), 1st/8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles), was killed in action in France on 23 December 1915, aged 23

Driver (T4/108340) in the Royal Army Service Corps, attached to Headquarters, 19th Division, died 30 May 1918 aged 39

Private (57997) in the 20th Battalion Canadian Infantry, died of a gun shot wound to the right thigh at No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium on 13 April 1916

Private (3443) in the 1st/1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on 4 September 1916 in France

Private (14712) in the 8th Battalion the Suffolk Regiment, died at Colchester on 26 April 1915

Gunner (68332), 244th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed when a shell hit his dug-out at Passchendaele on 14 September 1917, aged 22

Private (27968), 1st Battalion, the Grenadier Guards, was killed by a shell at the battle of Canal du Nord, Cambrai, France on 27 September 1918, aged 30

Captain in the 2nd Royal Marine (Plymouth) Battalion, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division, the Royal Marines, died on 20 August 1918 at the Burlington Hotel, London

Private in the 2nd Batallion the Lincolnshire Regiment, formerly (42012) Training Reserve, killed in action in 1918

2nd Lieutenant in the 10th Battalion (Shropshire & Cheshire Yeomanry) Territorial Force, the King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry), killed in action in France on 8 September 1918, aged 19

Sergeant (11591) in the 7th Battalion the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, died in action in Salonica on 25 January 1918, aged 21

served in France in the Royal Army Medical Corps and died on 29 April 1919 aged 45, following active service

Private (67712) in the 6th Batallion, the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment, was killed in action at the Somme on 13 May 1918, aged 19

Private (29074) in the 2nd Batallion the Border Regiment, died of wounds sustained in France on 29 October 1917, aged 36

Lance Corporal (26689), A Company, 1st Battalion the Royal Fusiliers, died of wounds sustained while on active service on 11 July 1917, aged 32

Rifleman (R/33163) in the 18th Battalion the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. He became ill in France and was brought back to England where he died on 12 February 1917, aged 32

Private (325644) in the 1st/1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on 8 July 1917, aged 34

Gunner (156664) in the 153rd Brigade of the Royal Garrison Artillery (No. L/25210). He was killed in action on the Western Front in France on 24 September 1918

Private (3/6628) in the 1st Battalion the Bedfordshire Regiment, was killed in action in France on 9 November 1914 aged 23

Private (2991) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, died in hospital of wounds suffered at the Battle of the Somme on 2 October 1916 aged 17

(G/16011) of the 13th Batallion Royal Sussex Regiment was killed in France in 1918

Lance Corporal (84459) in the 203rd Field Company, Royal Engineers killed in action on 7 June 1918, aged 22

Private (326525) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, formerly Private (3923) in the Cambridgeshire Regiment killed in action on 26 September 1917 aged 24

Private in the 2nd Battalion the Essex Regiment, was killed in action in France on 13 May 1915

Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, the Manchester Regiment, died in action at the Second Battle of the Somme on 25 March 1918, aged 34

Lieutenant in the 12th (Service) Battalion the Highland Light Infantry, died in action at the unsuccessful Battle of Loos on the Western Front on 25 September 1915

Private (79243) in the 31st Battalion, the Canadian Expeditionary Force died of wounds at No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station on 10 August 1916

Lance Corporal (327881) formerly Private (6198) in the 1st Battalion, the Cambridgeshire Regiment, died of wounds on the western front in France on 8 March 1918 aged 19

Private (43757) in the 6th (Service) Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment died of wounds sustained in at the second Battle of Sambre, France on 6 November 1918

Private (10396) in the 5th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) died of wounds sustained in Mesopotamia on 18 April 1916

Lieutenant in the 1/1st Battalion, the Cambridgeshire Regiment (Territorial Force) was killed in action at the Schwaben Redoubt on 14 October 1916.

Private (6273) 1st Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry died in action on 14 September 1914

Private (9182), 7th (Service) Battalion, the Suffolk Regiment. His death was recorded in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord) in northern France, the date given there being 12 July 1915

Private (53179) 61st Company, the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) formerly Private (3472), Suffolk Yeomanry (Territorial Force). He died on 16 August 1917

Private (285029) in the 1st/6th Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment (transferred from the Cambridgeshire Regiment), was wounded and died on 9 October 1917, aged 22

Lieutenant in the 21st Battalion Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment) (59056), and 49th Squadron Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force, was killed in action at Lille on 24 September 1918, aged 28