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LEAVING CHELTENHAM …………..and all that was dear |
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
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Cheltonians Commemorated On Memorials to the Missing in France |
There are 331 Cheltonians commemorated on Memorials to the Missing in France
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The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established by Royal Charter in 1917. Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of members of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth who were killed in the two World Wars, to build memorials to those who have no known grave and to keep records and registers, including, after the Second World War, a record of the Civilian War Dead. The 14 memorials built in France to commemorate those of the Great War who have no known grave are: La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial. Commemorates nearly 4,000 missing officers and soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force who died in August, September and early October 1914 in Belgium and France. Le Touret Memorial. Commemorates over 13,000 missing officers and soldiers of the British forces who fell in the fighting from October 1914 until 24th September 1915 – thereafter the missing in this area are commemorated on the Loos Memorial. Loos Memorial. Commemorates over 20,000 missing officers and soldiers of the British forces who fell in this area from the first day of the Battle of Loos on 25th September 1915 to the Armistice in November 1918. Thiepval Memorial. Commemorates more than 72,000 missing officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died on the Somme battlefields before 20th March 1918 . Most were killed between July and November 1916. Arras Memorial. Commemorates almost 35,000 missing officers and soldiers from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand forces who died in the Arras sector between the Spring of 1916 and 7th August 1918. Cambrai Memorial. Commemorates more than 7,000 missing officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in the Battle of Cambrai in November and December 1917. Pozieres Memorial. Commemorates over 14,000 missing officers and soldiers of the British and South African forces who died on the Somme battlefields between 21 March and 7 August 1918. Most are from March and April. Vis-en-Artois Memorial. Commemorates over 9,000 missing officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom and South African forces who fell in 1918 in the final allied advances in Picardy, on the Hindenburg Line, the River Selle and in the Artois region. Soissons Memorial. Commemorates almost 4,000 missing officers and soldiers of the British forces who died during the Battles of the Aisne and the Marne during May to August 1918. Arras Flying Services Memorial. Commemorates nearly 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service, the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave. Caterpillar Valley (New Zealand) Memorial. Commemorates over 1,200 missing New Zealand Division soldiers who died in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Neuve Chapelle Memorial. The Indian national memorial to over 4,700 missing officers and soldiers of the Indian Army who were killed on the whole Western Front. Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. The Australian national memorial erected to commemorate all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War, to their dead, and especially to those of the dead whose graves are not known. The 10,700 Australian servicemen actually named on the memorial died in the battlefields of the Somme, Arras, the German advance of 1918 and the Advance to Victory, August to November 1918. Vimy Memorial. The Canadian national memorial to all Canadians who served their country in battle during the First World War, and particularly to the 60,000 who gave their lives in France. It also bears the names of 11,000 Canadian servicemen who died in France – many of them in the fight for Vimy Ridge – who have no known grave. Salta Memorial. The memorial in Plot 62 of St Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, marks the graves of 24 casualties from the hospital ship ‘Salta’ and her patrol boat, sunk by a mine on 10 April 1917. The memorial also commemorates by name the soldiers, nurses and merchant seamen lost from the ‘Salta’ whose bodies were not recovered, and those lost in the sinking of the hospital ship ‘Galeka’ (mined on 28 October 1916) and the transport ship ‘Normandy’ (torpedoed on 25 January 1918), whose graves are not known. (The Ploegsteert Memorial sited in the Berks Cemetery Extension near the Belgian village of Ploegsteert commemorates more than 11,000 officers and soldiers of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died in this sector during the First World War and have no known grave. The memorial serves the area from the line Caestre-Dranoutre-Warneton to the north, to Haverskerque-Estaires-Fournes to the south, including the French areas of Hazebrouck, Merville, Bailleul and Armentieres and the Forest of Nieppe. Details of Cheltonians listed on this memorial can be see here).
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Arras Memorial To The Missing |
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28 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Arras Memorial |
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Rfn T H Baker Pte Harold Beard 2Lt John Jesmond Brunskill Pte Harry James Denchfield Capt Wilfred Roland Desages Cpl William Herbert Earle Pte William East Sgt William Etheridge Pte Alwyne Frederick Green LCpl Harold Gregory Pte Stanley Grenow Pte Arthur John Hall Pte Harry Hayden Lt John Clifford Hutchinson |
LCpl James Allen Jenkins LCpl Thomas Charles Jordan Pte George Henry Long Pte James Austin Morgan Pte Wilfred Ernest Moulder Pte Charles Morris Pearce Lt Robert Hamilton Poynder Gnr Thomas Charles Richings Lt Giles Havergal Shaw Able Seaman Augustus Giles Siddall Pte Henry Townley Pte Joseph Wilks LCpl Frederick James Woolnough Cpl Henry William Yeandle |
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Arras Flying Services Memorial |
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4 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial |
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Capt Robert Edward Angus 2Lt Robert Hartley Deakin |
2Lt Herbert Arthur Dyer Lt Cyril Gordon Hosking |
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Cambrai Memorial |
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19 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial |
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Pte Frederick Beard Pte Frank William Brown Rfn Francis Henry Buskell Pte George Gilbert Clark Pte James Gardner Pte William Arthur Charles Hunt Pte Dudley Kensington Cpl Joseph Charles Mason Pte George Mills CSM William James Murray |
Pte William James Oakley Pte Herbert Sidney Perry Sgt Raymond Pockett Pte Richard Sully Ponting Pte Harry Price Pte Caleb Ryles LCpl Frederick Charles Singer Pte William Robert Tasker Pte James William Tovey |
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Caterpillar Valley New Zealand Memorial |
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Cheltonians commemorated on the Caterpillar Valley NZ Memorial (2) |
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Cpl William Henry Crook |
Rfn Robert Falconer-Taylor |
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La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial |
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6 Cheltonians are commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial |
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Dvr Harold Albert Butler Pte Austin Gammon Lt Cyril Cazelet Harrison |
Pte Alfred Thomas Harvey Maj Francis Gordon Grant Thoyts Pte Frederick Thomas Ward |
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Le Touret Memorial |
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18 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial |
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Capt Barrington Hope Baird Pte William John Clifford Capt John Ramsey Cox Capt Walter Basil Haddon-Smith Pte Henry Guy William Harper Rfn Cyril Frederick Insall Jones Pte Jesse Jones Pte Frank Kearsey Sgt Henry John Locke |
Pte Charles Edward Lyes Pte Frederick Mustoe Capt Oswald Pemberton Pte John Arthur Peters Tpr Ernest Wilmot Scallon Pte George Swann Spr Frederick Taroni Sgt Maj Sydney Barnard Thompson LCpl Charles Gordon Winstone |
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Loos Memorial |
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56 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Loos Memorial |
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Cpl Percival Louis Ballinger Pte George John Henry Bedwell Pte Hubert Frederick Arnold Butler Pte Valentine Arthur Baylis Carter Sgt Thomas Coombey Pte Ernest Davis Pte Cecil James Delaney Pte William Diston Pte Ralph Piercy Draper Pte Henry Arthur Packer Dunn Pte Robert Elliott Pte Thomas Evans Pte Frederick Thomas Faulkner LCpl James Christopher Lipscombe Gapper Sgt Horace Garner Pte John Goodall LCpl Albert George Gostlow Pte Frederick Stephen Groves Cpl Albert Harding Pte Leonard Benjamin Harris LCpl Harry Holder Pte Francis James Hopkins Pte William Aisles Charles Job Hopton Pte Ernest Alfred Jones Pte Francis Lane Pte George Lea Pte Arthur Granville Lockey Pte Frank Thomas Long |
Pte Edmund John Maisey Cpl John Douglas Martin Pte Frederick George Mason Pte Alfred Matthews Pte George Mayall Pte George Mitchell Cpl Walter John Mitchell Pte Frank Charles Murphy Pte Francis Thomas Nash Maj Ralph Elliot Noyes Pte Albert Edward Page Pte James Henry Page Pte William Arthur Peart Pte Henry Potter Dmr Edward George Ricketts Pte William Rivers Sgt George Ernest Robinson Pte John Shellam LCpl Charles Alfred Smart Pte Frederick Smith Pte William Frank Smith LSgt Richard Tarling Sgt James Henry Taylor 2Lt George Rowland Hart Thornton Pte Alfred Ursell Pte Henry John Wheeler Pte Charles Wicks LCpl Albert John Williams |
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Neuve Chapelle Memorial |
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1 Cheltonian is commemorated on the Neuve Chapelle Memorial |
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Lt Elliot Blair Grasett |
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Pozieres Memorial |
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32 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial (32) |
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Pte Frank Joseph Arkell Capt Minden Francis Badcock Pte William John Lambert Baylis Pte George Albert James Blackmore LCpl William Joseph Bowles Pte Ernest Walter Brooks Pte William Edward Church LCpl Cyril Henry Cox Pte Stanley Gilbert Dale Pte Harry Wilfred Eaketts 2Lt Lionel Winningham Forde 2Lt Frank Sidney Thomas Fosberry Pte Ernest Henry Guest 2Lt Stewart Spiers Jackson Lt Noel Graham Lake Pte Cecil Charles Long |
2Lt Robert Mather Pte William Sidney Charles Mills Pte John Robert Brunsdon Page Sgt Alfred Wallace Pascoe Pte Wilfred Ernest Paul LCpl William Thomas Pontin Lt George Powell Rathbone Pte Francis Thomas Stephens Pte Edward Herbert Taylor Pte Jack Taylor LCpl Edmund Joseph Wale Pte Sydney Charles Wells LCpl William White Wells Pte Cyril James Wentworth Sgt William Arthur Woore LCpl Frederick York Workman |
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Thiepval Memorial |
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139 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial |
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Pte Herbert Edgar Aldridge 2Lt John Harold Allender Pte Ernest John Amery LCpl Ernest Aston Pte Herbert William Austin Pte Frederick Ballinger Pte William Banning Pte Herbert James Bates Pte Andrew James Black LCpl William James Bliss Pte Albert John Thomas Bond Pte Albert Charles Henry Brazener Pte Frederick Charles Brazil Lt Henry Alfred Hogarth Bren 2Lt Alan Francis Donald Brown Pte William Matthias Brown Cpl John Charles Burnell Capt Leonard Gray Butler Major James Carnegy Pte Gilbert William Carter LCpl Ernest Henry Chess Pte Percy Thomas Clark LCpl Norman Frank Ewart Cole LSgt Frederick Albert Coole Cpl Frederick Cooper Sgt Frederick Cowley Pte Albert Richmond Cox Pte Alfred Edgar Creech Pte Reginald Albert John Creech Pte Albert Cyril Creed Capt Elliott Hampden Crooke Sgt George Thomas Daniels Pte John Davies Pte Albert Ernest Davis 2Lt Cyril John Baghot De La Bere Pte Sidney Diston Pte Alfred Ernest Christie Dix Pte William Norman Downes 2Lt Hubert Lionel Du Boulay Sgt Reginald Theodore Dunn Pte Sydney Ernest Dyer Rfn Arthur Leonard Emerson LCpl Alfred William George Enoch Pte John Edward Essery Sgt John Charles Faulkner 2Lt Frank Aldridge Fawcett Pte George Francis Fear Cpl Walter James Febery Pte Walter Fitchett Pte William James Flowers Pte Arthur Frederick Fordham Pte Edward George Gapper Pte Samuel Henry Gardner Sgt Edward Garner Pte William Gibbins Pte George Green LCpl Herbert Greenslade Pte George Grimsby Pte Charles Ernest Hale Pte Francis Arthur Hann Pte Harold Alfred Harding Pte Thomas William Harris Capt Maurice Cazelet Harrison Pte Bert Haycox Pte Arthur Phillip Hayling Pte Albert Heeks Pte Frederick Hill Sgt Harry Holloway Pte Robert Hooper |
Pte Owen Joseph Hunt Pte Arthur Charles Iddles Pte Albert Ivin Pte Leonard Ivin Pte John Thomas James Pte William Frederick Jarvis Pte Edward Charles Jenkins Pte Harry William Jenkins Cpl Frank Jones Sig Tudor Stanley Jones Pte Thomas Knight LCpl Charles Henry William Mace Pte Sidney Albert Mahon 2Lt Arthur Norris Marshall Pte Ellis Mather 2Lt Arthur James Maybrey Pte Charles Henry Mayfield Pte Edward McCormick Pte Francis Albert Melhuish Cpl Percival George Mitchell LCpl Walter Joseph Mitchell Pte Joseph Morris Pte Thomas Murphy Pte Robert Bertie Parkhouse Pte Frederick Payne Pte Alfred Thomas Poole LSgt Wilfred Home Porter Pte Frank Powis Pte Walter Protherough Pte Hubert William Ralph Pte Francis Ratcliffe Pte Jack Richardson Cpl George Hume Ricketts Rfn Archer Edward Roberts Pte Edward Robinson 2Lt Gwilliam Emmanual Henry Ross 2Lt John Emerton Sanders Pte Harry Sharp Pte Richard Sharp Pte Arthur William Sims LCpl Harry George Smith Pte John George Soames RSM Joseph Middleton Staines Pte William Lewis Stiley Lt James Muloch Thompson Stock Pte Jack Sumner Pte Albert Edward Taylor Pte Oliver James Taylor Pte Sidney Theyer 2Lt Hugh Gareth Thomas 2Lt Leonard Neville Thornton Capt Francis Henry Tuke Pte George Edward Turner Pte William Arthur Ursell 2Lt Reginald Charles Waitt Pte Albert Henry Wakefield Pte Frank Edward Wakefield Pte Alfred Walkley Pte Frederick James Walton Pte William Walter Waring Pte Wilfred Adolphus Watkins Pte George Albert Webb Pte Thomas Gilbert Wheeler Pte Edgar Whitby Sgt Alfred White Pte Albert Edward Whittingham Pte James Wilkins LCpl Frank Andrew Williams Pte Stanley George Wilson Lt Cyril William Winterbotham |
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Soissons Memorial |
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7 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Soissons Memorial |
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Pte William Ashcroft Pte Herbert Stanley Cowell 2Lt Owen Loftus Desages Lt William Saville Jones |
Pte Harry Frederick Randall Pte Frank Savage Pte Arthur James Skeen |
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Villers Bretonneux Memorial |
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5 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial |
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Sgt Albert Victor Bracher Pte John Franklin Brown Pte Frank Martin |
Pte Vernon Rogerson Pte James Russell |
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Vimy Memorial |
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4 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Vimy Memorial |
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Pte Alfred William Belcher Pte Philip Johnson Toms |
CSM William Willis Lt Thomas Arthur Worsey |
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Vis-en-Artois Memorial |
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9 Cheltonians are commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial |
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Pte William George Aldridge Pte Cyril Ernest Dunford Able Seaman Percival Thomas Fildes Pte Edgar Alan Gater Pte Alfred Edwin Harding |
Pte Leigh Mansell Pte Reginald Harry May Pte Arthur Moorman Pte Charles Niblett |
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Salta Memorial |
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Salta Memorial, Ste Marie Cemetery Copyright and source – Commonwealth War Graves Commission |
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1 Cheltonian is commemorated on the Salta Memorial |
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Pte Ernest Arthur BIRT |
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Notes: 1. War Cemeteries in France can be viewed here. |
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