Military

Private (1038) in “A” Company, 1st Battalion the Lancashire Fusiliers, was killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 aged 25

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

fought and died in the Boer War in South Africa

Private (271192) in the 7th (Service) Battalion the Bedfordshire Regiment, was killed in action at Villers-Bretonneux (Somme, northern France) on 24 April 1918, aged 19

Rifleman (50287) in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, which was posted to the 6th Battalion the London Regiment (City of London Rifles), was killed in action in northern France on 10 September 1918, aged 18

Inscription : The Cambridgeshire Regt 3397 Private T BARTON Cambridgeshire Regiment 6th December 1916 age 27 (Commonwealth War Grave)

Inscription : Imperial War Graves Commission headstone H L BAVISTER Stoker 1st Class RN SS 110902 – HMS Pembroke d 3 Sept 1917 (Commonwealth War Grave)

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

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

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

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

Inscription : W T BLEET served as 8455 Private W T REED Northamptonshire Regt 29th January 1916 age 29 (Commonwealth War Grave)

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

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

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.

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

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

died while fighting in the second Boer War

Inscription : War Grave Commission headstone 20732 Pte A BURLINGHAM Suffolk Regt 24 Aug 1916 age 29 (Commonwealth War Grave)

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.

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

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

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

Charles Cave (1857-1928) served in the Scots Guards for ten years and in the 62nd Wiltshires for twelve years, serving in Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus, Ireland, India and Pakistan. Born in St Ives, he ended his life in Cambridge.

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

Private (G/19117) in the 2nd Batallion the Royal Sussex Regiment, was killed in action in France on 13 October 1918

Frederick Alfred Clark 1898-1917

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

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

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

2nd Lieutenant with the 10th Battalion (Service Battalion), the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own) killed in action on the western front on 7 September 1915

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

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

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

Inscription : G14939 Private R B CULPIN Royal Sussex Regiment 16th December 1918 age 20 (Commonwealth War Grave )

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

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

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

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

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

Inscription : In Loving Memory of HERBERT JOHN ELLIS d 21st Dec 1938 aged 77 also HARRIETT ELLIS d 10th August 1942 aged 75

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

Inscription : 166375 Sapper WR EVERARD Royal Engineers 9th November 1918 age 27 (Commonwealth War Grave)

during the war became a signaller in the Cambridgeshire Regiment. He appears to have been discharged from his regiment by the time of his death at the age of 21 in January 1918.

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

died in the second Boer War in South Africa

Died on 8 November 1918 at the age of 31, was initially a Private (30934) in the Suffolk Regiment, was transferred as a Private (179202) to the I.W.B. (Infantry Works Battalion) Middlesex Regiment (Res) Garrison Battalion, then transferred to (80610) the Labour Corps.

Inscription : 139931 Airman 2nd CL W FOULGER Royal Air Force 29th January 1919 age 34 (commonwealth War Grave)

2nd Lieutenant in the 10th Siege Battery, the Royal Garrison Artillery, contracted Spanish ’flu and and died in the Magdalene Hospital, Winchester

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

Private (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

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

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

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

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 (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

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

died on 19th July 1917 at the age of 30. He was an Acting Bombardier in the Royal Field Artillery, ‘B’ Battery 83rd Brigade, service number 85830.

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

Inscription : In Loving Memory of ROBERT CLEMENT GIBSON d 22 Oct 1906 aged 42 also wife KATIE d 1 Jan 1953 aged 76

Horace Francis Henry Gigney died on 14 June 1941. He was an RAF pilot based at Barnack, Northamptonshire.

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

Inscription : b — October d June 16 1855 here be the body of JOHN ——– OCTAVIUS GLOVER ———- DOTAT — 1— US

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Frederick Heal was a Corporal in the 73rd Black Watch. His death in 1901 suggests that he was a casualty of the Second Boer War.

Inscription : In Loving Memory of my dear husband ERNEST JOSEPH HIPKIN d 14 July 1945 aged 55 and of EMILY MAUD HIPKIN d 4 Nov 1971 aged 85 also their darling children ERIC RONALD HIPKIN d 8 July 1926 aged 10 EDNA JOYCE MAUD HIPKIN d 5 Nov 1932 aged 14

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

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

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

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

Inscription : 26874 Private C F G HOYE E Kent Reg (The Buffs) d 19 July 1919 aged 19 (Commonwealth War Grave)

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

Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, served at the First Eastern General Hospital 1914–19. He died on 5 February 1920

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Edward Kirbyshire joined the 9th Light Infantry, fighting with them in the Crimean War. He joined the Borough Police Force in October 1856.

Corporal (325671) in the 1st Battalion the Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on 26 September 1917, aged 27 in ‘Tower Hamlets’, a name given to an area of the Western Front near Ypres

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

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

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

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

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

Anderson Marsh (1822-71) served for ten years with the 15th Regiment the Hussars in India , returned to Cambridge, and ended his life in the Union Workhouse, finally committing suicide.

died in Salonika in 1918

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inscription : Royal Engineers Crest 203937 Sapper G H B NICE Royal Engineers 21 July 1919 age 34 (Commonwealth War Grave)

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

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

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

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

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

Inscription : 1642148 Gunner TJ PARR Royal Artillery 28th March 1941 age 31 (Commonwealth War Grave)

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

Private (1805) in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), stationed at the 1st Eastern General Hospital, where he died on 5 June 1915, aged 28

Frederick Charles Prevett, Boy 1st Class, Royal Navy died of influenza on the HMS Royal Sovereign on 1st October 1918, aged 18 (Commonwealth War Grave).

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

Inscription : In Memory of WILLIAM

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

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

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

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

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

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

Private (423319) in the 10th Battalion, the London Regiment, died on 21st May 1917, aged 38

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

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

Inscription : War Grave 1793 Loyal Suffolk Hussars 3192 Shoeing Smith T SMITH Suffolk Yeomanry 30 Nov 1914 age 37 (Commonwealth War Grave)

Inscription : MM2 177157 Private LC SPARKES Army Service Corps 4th July 1916 age 32 (Commonwealth War Grave)

Inscription : In Loving Memory of CATHARINE STEARN d Jan 2nd 1907 aged 66 CHARLES STEARN d Feb 28th 1910 aged 81

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.

Inscription : kerbs In Loving Memory of SUSAN LYDIA SUMMERTON d Aug 29th 1933 aged 63 small slab: also / THOMAS WILLIAM / SUMMERTON / d March 12th 1946 / aged 71

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

Inscription : Suffolk Regiment Insignia Private 9585 H H TAYLOR Suffolk Regiment 17 Jan 1919 aged 47 (Commonwealth War Grave)

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

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

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

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

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

Inscription : In Loving Memory of Lieutenant FRANK L TREWEEKE RE b 23rd March 1882 d 7th Nov 1916

Alfred Arthur Wallis (1885-1918) fought during the First World War on the western front with the 1/2 Cambridgeshire Regiment, and died on 24 October 1918.

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

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

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

He survived the war, died on 15 January 1920 and was buried on 19 January in the parish area of St Andrew the Great in this cemetery “under the Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880”

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

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.

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

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

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