Roll of Honour - Cambridgeshire

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RAMPTON WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © 2000 Dave Edwards

These names are taken from a small framed scroll in the church.

In Memoriam
this Tablet was erected in Memory of

BARNES	Frederick Charles	Private 326914, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 20th June 1918. Enlisted Cambridge. Formerly 4758, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Buried in Ecoust-St. Mein British cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Grave A. 7.
CURRINGTON	Albert Henry	Private 6004, 16th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Invasion Force. Killed in action on the Somme 6th February 1917. Age 27. Occupation Farmer. Born London. Enlisted Nyabing, Western Australia on 10th March 1916. Residenmt Kattanning, Western Australia. Next of kin, father, W Currington, The Green, Rampton, Cambridgeshire. Commemorated on Villiers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France.
NORMAN	Alphonso Norris	Private 3255, 1^st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Killed in action 13th November 1916. Aged 19. Enlisted Cambridge. Son of James and Emmeline Norman, of High St., Rampton, Cambridge. Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 16 B
NORMAN	Harry	No further information currently.
PARKER	Albert	probably Albert PARKER, Private 205968, 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Died 9th August 1919 in France & Flanders. Enlisted Cambridge. Formerly 4560, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Buried in Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Grave C. 2053.
PARKER	Frederick	Private 36608, 6th Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment). Killed in action 4th May 1917 in France & Flanders. Born and resident Rampton, enlisted Cottenham. Formerly 4762, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Commemorated on Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 7.
PARKER	Stanley	Gunner 154099, 335^th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 2nd July 1918. Aged 21. Born Rampton, enlisted Cambridge. Son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Parker, of North View, Rampton, Cambs. Buried in Solferino Farm Cemetery, Brielen, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Grave II. C. 21.
YOUNG	Ernest George	Private G.14897, 13th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action near Ypres 24th December 1916. Aged 22. Born in Rampton and enlisted in Cambridge. Brother of Sidney and Jesse Jakes (below). Son of Levi and Elizabeth Young, of Sunnyside, Rampton, Cambs. Buried in Essex Farm Cemetery, Boesinghe, Belgium. Grave B.73.
YOUNG	Jeremiah	Private G.11327, 11th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 39th Division (SDGW 9th. Battalion). Died of wounds 3rd September 1917. Wounded at Ypres. Born Rampton, enlisted Huntingdon. Buried in Voormezeele Enclosures 1/2 Belgium. Grave B.124. Also commemorated on Chichester Cathedral Memorial Panels.
YOUNG	Jesse	Private 326912, 1^st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds 5th August 1917. Aged 21. Born Rampton, enlisted Cambridge. Brother of Ernest George Jakes (above)m and Sidney Jakes Young (below). Son of Levi and Elizabeth Young, of Sunnyside, Rampton, Cambs. Formerly 4756, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
YOUNG	Sidney Jakes	Private 7239, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died of wounds 26th August 1914 in France & Flanders. Age 29. Born Rampton, enlisted Waterbeach. Son of Levi and Elizabeth Young, of Sunnyside, Rampton, Cambs. Husband of Mrs. M. Young, of near The Old Schools, Histon, Cambs. Brother of Ernest George and Jesse Young (above). Commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France.
of this village who made the supreme sacrifice during The Great War 1914-1918 Greater love hath no man than this That a man lay down his life for his friends Attached to the base of the frame is a further plate 1939 – 1945
JAGGARD	Leslie Walter	Probably: Flight Sergeant, Pilot 407 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, died 31st January 1942, age 20. Son of Walter and Mabel Jaggard; husband of Joyce Sylvia Jaggard. Buried in Amsterdam New Eastern Cemetery, Netherlands. See also Chesterton.
MASKELL	Victor	Driver 2003073, 560 Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died as Prisoner of War (Japanese) 1st December 1943, age 25. Born and resident Cambridgeshire.Buried in Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand. Plot 6. Row A. Grave 8. Extract from Cambridge Independent Press 1945: RAMPTON Death in a Prison Camp.—Mr. and Mrs. A. W. maskell, of King Street, have received the news that their son, Driver Victor Maskell, Royal Engineers, died of avitaminosis on December 1st, 1943, while a prisoner of war in Thailand. Driver Maskell was 24 years of age when he was taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore. He was a former pupil of the Cottenham Council School, and before joining the Army was employed by Messrs. Unwin, builders, Histon.
Buried in the Churchyard NOT on memorial:
STEARN	Sidney Arthur	Private 5959508, Pioneer Corps. Died 11th January 1944, age 33. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Stearn, husband of Frances Lilian Stearn, of Rampton.

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