From Andy Pay's research into the Marquis de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour the following:

Volume 2, Part 3, Page30 - BORTON, Cyprian Edward - Major, Malay States Guides

Elder son of the Rev. Neville Borton, vicar of Burwell, co.Cambridge, by his wife Annie Louisa, dau of the late Rev. Edward Heale, Incumbent of All Saints, Jersey. Born Barkly,Griqualand West, South Africa 15th Aug 1879, educated Felsted school and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was an undergraduate when the South Africa war broke out, and he obtained a university commission, being gazetted 2nd Lieut, Worcester Regiment 23rd May 1900, promoted Lieutenant 3rd August 1901, transferred to the Indian Army 15th May 1903, promoted Captain 23rd May 1909. Served in the South African War 1900 - 01 ( Queens medal with 3 clasps ), proceeded to India in March 1902, when for a time he was attached to the Suffolk Regiment, being subsequently appointed to the 129th D.C.O. Baluchis, with which Regiment he served at Karachi, Hong Kong and Ferozepore, was then appointed for three years to the Malay States Guides, with the local rank of Major. He was in command in Penang when the Emd! en visited that place in Oct 1914; went to Aden in early 1915 and was killed in action at Imad, near there, 2nd Aug 1917. Buried at Sheikh Othman.

While at Cambridge he was an ardent oarsman and a keen sportsman in India and South China, sending home many heads and skins from both places.

Lieut - Col C.W.B. Lees wrote "I cannot tell you what his loss means to the Regiment and to me personally. He was one of the finest soldiers i have ever met, with a fund of energy I never got to the end of, and he was just my right hand as regards this Regiment, to me he is irreplacable." Unmarried.

Sergeant 22031, 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action between 10 and 12 April 1918 near Fleurbaix in the Battle of the Lys. Aged 23. Born 27 August 1894, baptised 16 November 1894 at Burwell, enlisted Uppingham. Son of Eliza Ann Brown, of The Laurels, Burwell, Cambs, and the late John Brown, yongest of six children. Attended the Cambridge and County School 1906-1910. In the 1901 census he was a son, aged 6, born Burwell, Cambridgeshire, resident with his parents at The Causeway, Burwell, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire. Clerk in Barclay's Bank. No known grave. Commemorated at PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL, Hainaut, Belgium. Panel 3. See also Cambridge County High School

Extract from Cambridge Daily News - Thursday 16 May 1918:

BURWELL

SERGT. CHARLES BROWN.—Mrs. Brown, of Burwell, widow of Mr. John Brown, for many years Inspector to the Newmarket Urban Council has received official information of the death in action of her youngest son, Sergt. Charles Brown, of the Bantam Battalion of the Suffolks. Sergt. Brown was 24 years of age last August. He was for 18 months in the office of the Ocean Company in Cambridge, when joined Barclay’s Bank and served with the utmost satisfaction at their Oundle, Leicester, and Uppingham branches of that bank. When the war broke out volunteered, but was rejected being under the standard height. When he learned that his friend, the late Lieut. Tom Blackwell, had joined the Bantam Battalion of the Suflolks, he immediately applied and was accepted. They came home on leave together, both sergeants. Tom Blackwell went to France, but Brown was given home billets, until he told the authorities that he was tired of “cushy” jobs, and wanted real soldiering. So he was sent out to France. He was in the big German attack March 21st of this year, and wrote home: “It will a huge relief to you to know that I have escaped without scratch.” He was in the midst of the German attack April 8th, and in this he was shot through the head and killed instantly. At any rate, such is the information furnished by the O.C. of his company, but in the carnage and confusion there may be an error of identification. Mrs. Brown has had letters of condolence from the directors and officials of Barclay’s Bank; from Mr. Praed, who has charge of the Leicester and Uppingham Banks; and from the Rev. C. J. N. Child (Headmaster the Cambridge County School), all speaking in high terms of praise of her son.

Note: HMS Bulwark was a London-class battleship built in Devonport Dockyard, Plymouth in 1902. She was one of five pre-Dreadnought battleships laid down in response to France's turn-of-the-century shipbuilding program. One of the first major units fitted with Marconi wireless telegraph, Bulwark served as flagship of the Mediterranean fleet, based at Malta, from 1902 to 1907. Detailed to the Home Fleet, formed as a counterbalance to Germany's North Sea fleet, Bulwark served as divisional flagship until 1911 when she was transferred to the Fifth Battle Squadron of the reserve fleet. Mobilized and fully manned upon the outbreak of World War I, she was assigned to the Channel Fleet, which comprised nineteen pre-Dreadnought battleships. On 26th November 1914, Bulwark was anchored off Sheerness when at 07:53 the ship was "rent asunder" by a massive internal explosion caused by the poor storage of cordite charges, some of which were twelve years old. The ship sank instantly, taking with her a full complement of 781 ranks and ratings.

Corporal 45345, Machine Gun Corps. Died of wounds 12th February 1921. Aged 29. Son of George and Sarah Fuller, Heath Road, Burwell; husband of Ethel Daisy, father of Olive Sarah May and John Arthur also of Heath Road, Burwell. Believed buried in an unmarked grave in St Mary's churchyard, Burwell. No known grave. Commemorated on a special memorial headstone in BURWELL (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD, Cambridgeshire.

Photograph Copyright © Pamela Rice 2014

Corporal 15662 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment killed in action on Saturday, 1st July 1916. Aged 39. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Mason and the husband of Mabel Mason. Born in Burwell in January 1877. Enlisted Newmarket.No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A.

Photograph Copyright © Margaret Cole 2002

Mrs. Parr, North-street, Burwell, has received information that her youngest son, Private Herbert Parr (19), of the Suffolk Regt., was killed on July 3rd. Mrs. Parr has still four sons serving in the Army—William (Cambs.), Harold (Dragoon Guards), now in Salonica, Urban (with the Australian Forces), and Charlie (Northamptons), who was wounded in the retreat from Mons.

Private 14445, 11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment who was killed in action on Saturday, 1st July 1916. Age 23. Born Burwell, enlisted Cambridge. Son of Ephraim and Ellen Warren, of Burwell; husband of A. M. Warren, of The Chapel, High St., Burwell, Cambs. In the 1901 census he was aged 8, born Burwell, resident with bis parents, Ephraim and Ellen, in Bedlam Yard, 4, High Street, Burwell, Cambridgeshire. In the 1911 census he was aged 18, a stockman, born Burwell, resident with bis parents, Ephraim and Ellen, in Ness Road, Burwell, Cambridgeshire. On the 9th December 1911, aged 19, he married Alice May Ready, at Burwell (the banns were read 26th November 1911). Buried in BAPAUME POST MILITARY CEMETERY, ALBERT, Somme, France. Plot II. Row J. Grave 3.

Later Addition to memorial

Also buried in the churchyard

1939 - 1945

Photograph Courtesy & Copright © Richard E Hinkle 2002

Note: On 21st September 1944 the Hofuku Maru sailed with Convoy MATA-27 for Takao in Formosa. She was attacked by an American aircraft carrier about 80 miles north of Corregidor, the aircraft carrier’s planes sunk the whole fleet including the Hofuku Maru, not knowing she carried prisoners.

The Hofuku Maru was carrying 1289 prisoners from Manila to Japan, 1047 were lost including Percy.