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Possibly: Private 34742, John Ginn, 8th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. Killed in action 12 October 1917. Born Cowlinge, Suffolk, enlisted Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. No known grave. Commemorated on TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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Possibly: Private, Percy Caleb Grass, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died 6 November 1917. Aged 21. Son of Charles William and Agnes Lucy Grass, of Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket, Suffolk. Buried in FAVREUIL BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. See also Six Mile Bottom.

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Believed to be: Private 14372, 8th Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 26 June 1916. Aged 19. Born Stetchworth, enlisted Newmarket. Son of Clemence and Henrietta Pearson, Station Road, Dullingham. Buried in Carnoy Military Cemetery, Row F. Grave 24.

Frederick Joseph George

Private G/39282, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) posted to 2nd/20th Battalion, London Regiment. Died of wounds 20 October 1918. Aged 19. Born Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire, enlisted Cambridge. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Plumb, of Westley Lodge Farm, Six Mile Bottom, Newmarket. Native of Westley, Newmarket. In the 1911 census he was aged 11, born Westley Waterless, Cambridgeshire, at school, son of Frederick and Elizabeth Sarah Plumb, resident Westley Lodge, Westley Waterless, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire. See also Six Mile Bottom. Buried in CARNIERES COMMUNAL CEMETERY, Nord, France. Plot I. Row C. Grave 3.

C Frederick

Private 30395, 9th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment formerly 13842, Suffolk Regiment. Died of wounds 14 April 1918. Born and resident Westley Waterless, Cambridgeshire, enlisted Newmarket, Suffolk. Son of Mrs. E. A. Precious, of 55, Flint Cottage, Westley Waterless, nr. Newmarket, Cambs. Buried in ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot XXIX. Row C. Grave 1.

William John

Private 5484, William John Sargent, 6th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Infantry (Australian Imperial Force). Died of wounds if France 29 April 1918. Aged 22. Born Westley, Cambridgeshire, resident Victoria, Australia. Son of Thomas and Mrs. Susan Sargent, of Dullingham Ley, Newmarket, formerly Hill Farm, Westley, Waterless, Cambridgeshire. Educated at Westley, Farm Servant by trade. Emigrated aged 18. Buried in EBBLINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY, Nord, France. Plot I. Row D. Grave 24. Australian Circular

King

Private 7342, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action 26 August 1914. Born Burrough Green, Cambridgeshire, enlisted Cambridge. No known grave. Commemorated on LA FERTE-SOUS-JOUARRE MEMORIAL, Seine-et-Marne, France.

Richard

Corporal 8135, 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment. 6th Division. Killed in action during the German Spring Offensive 21 March 1918. Born in Westley and enlisted in Bury St. Edmunds. No next of kin details. Commemorated on ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France. Bay 8.

Arthur Thomas

Lance Corporal, Military Foot Police, Military Police Corps. Died 24 November 1918. Aged 24. Son of Jacob and Rebecca Webb, of Westley Waterless; husband of Eva Margaret Cleal (formerly Webb), of East St., Beaminster, Dorset. Buried in WESTLEY WATERLESS (ST. MARY THE LESS) CHURCHYARD, Cambridgeshire.

Thomas William

Private G/10344 7th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). 18th Division. Killed in action on the Somme 18 November 1916. Born and resident Westley Waterless and enlisted in Bury St. Edmunds. Next of kin resident in Westley Waterless. Buried in Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt. Row F. Grave 535

Reginald George

Sergeant (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner) 1875077, 21 Operational Training Unit, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, Bomber Command. Killed while flying based at Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, in a Vickers Wellington III, serial number BJ782, when the aircraft crashed near Adderbury during an attempted landing at Barford St John following an engine fire during a night cross country, an air gunner survived, 9 December 1944. Aged 20. Native of Westley Waterless. Born 30 November 1924. Baptised at Wood Ditton 4 January 1925. Son of Dora Mary Jacobs, of Westley Waterless. In the 1939 Register he was born 30 November 1924, single, a Butcher's Van Boy, resident 46, Westley Waterless, Burrough Green, Newmarket R.D., Cambridgeshire. Formerly a member of Newmarket A.T.C. Buried 16 December 1944 in WESTLEY WATERLESS (ST. MARY THE LESS) CHURCHYARD, Cambridgeshire. Details of his funeral appeared in the Cambridge Independent Press in 1944.

Extract from England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1945:

CLEMENTS Reginald George of 46 Westley Waterless Cambridgeshire died 9 December 1944 on war service Administration Llandudno 21 April to Dora Mary Jacobs (wife of Arthur Harry Jacobs). Effects £135 1s. 1d.

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