ST
MARY’S , LONGFORD WAR MEMORIAL
World
War 1 - Detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Chris Harley - 2006
Relocated
when St Mary’s was deconsecrated to St Nicolas Parish Church,
Newport, Shropshire about 1979. The names have been listed in the same
order as inscribed on the memorial.
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Photograph
Copyright © Chris Harley 2006
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They
whom this roll commemorates
were numbered among those who
at the call of King and Country, left all
that was dear to them, endured hardness
faced danger and finally passed out of
the sight of men by the path of duty
and self sacrifice , giving up their own
lives that others might live in freedom.
Let those who come after see to it
that their names be not forgotten
1914-1918
LEEKE |
Ralph
H |
Ralph
Henry Leeke Major The Rifle Brigade attd 4th Bn King's African Rifles.
Died 5th November 1915 East Africa aged 31. Son of Colonel Ralph
& the Hon Mrs Mary Teresa Leeke of Aston, Newport, Shropshire. Born
Aston Hall, Shropshire. Buried Taveta Military Cemetery Grave III.B.2.
His brother Charles below also died in the Great War. |
LEEKE |
Charles |
Lieutenant
1st Bn Grenadier Guards (ODGW shows M G Coy Special Reserve). Died
of wounds 11th April 1916 aged 29. Son of Col Ralph & Hon Mrs Mary
Teresa Leeke of Longford, Newport, Shropshire. Born London, England
26th March 1887. Went to Ceylon in 1905 and spent two years in tea
and rubber planting there and in Navancoure. Had to leave the East
owing to a severe attack of Malaria he then proceeded to British
Columbia and worked for one summer on a fruit farm then took up
land in Saskatchewan. Went on a shooting trip to the Cassiar Mountains
in North British Columbia in the autumn of 1913 and spent the winter
trapping on the Stikeen River and in the spring of 1914 took up
a mining claim there. Volunteered for Foreign service and joined
the 31st Bn. Canadian Infantry as 79206 at Edmonton, Alberta 16th
Nov 1914. Trained at Calgary, was gazetted Second Lieutenant Grenadier
Guards 4th May 1915 and promoted Lieutenant Sept. 1915. Served with
the BEF in France and Flanders from the 23rd Aug. 1915, was posted
to the Machine Gun Coy., 3rd Guards Brigade the following month
and died in hospital at Le Touquet from wounds received in action
at Ypres on the 7th April. Buried Etaples Military Cemetery Grave
I.B.25. Click Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais for grave
photo. His brother Ralph is listed above |
FRASER,
MC |
John
Courtenay |
Lieutenant
Grenadier Guards attached to Guards Machine Gun Regiment. Drowned
9th September 1918 aged 29 when the SS Missababie was sunk by the
German submarine U87 while 50 miles from Cobh, Ireland whilst on
passage from Liverpool to New York. Born Simla, India, 7 April 1890,
baptised Murree, Holy Trinity, Bengal 24 April 1890, son of Thomas
and Rose Mabel Fraser. Son of Rose Mabel Fraser of 5 Kelso Place,
Kensington, London & the late Capt Thomas Fraser (1st Bn Argyll
& Sutherland Highlanders) of Castlehill, Inverness. Educated at
Fette College, Edinburgh from 1902 to July 1907. Before the war
he was a farmer. Served in France. Emigrated
to Canada, aged 18, destination declared as Franklin, Manitoba,
Canada. Enlisted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, December 1914, received
a commission in the Imperial Army in August 1916. Attested 12 December
1914 in Winnipeg, Manitioba, aged 24 years 6 months, as Private
81283, 32nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry, son of James Fraser, of
Forebank House, Brechin, Scotland, Farmer by trade, single at attestation,
height 6 feet, chest 41 inches. fair complexion, green eyes, light
brown hair, religious denomination Church of England. Awarded the
Military Cross (M.C.). Commemorated Hollybrook Memorial, Southampton.
Also commemorated on
Canadian Virtual War Memorial and Neepawa Memorial, Manitoba,
Canada. National Archives of Canada Accession Reference: RG
150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3285 - 44 |
COLE |
Humfrey |
Humfrey
Theodore Shuldham Cole 2nd Lieutenant 19th Bn London Regiment. Died
of wounds 12th February 1917 aged 20. Son of Canon Theodore Edward
Fortescue Cole (Previously Canon of St Paul's, Calcutta) & Mrs E
M Cole of Longford Rectory, Shropshire. Educated at Radley College
1910 - 1913 & Oxford 1915. Buried Varennes Military Cemetery I.D.52. |
ROGERS |
Albert |
Bombardier
Royal Field Artillery - No further information currently. |
FELTON
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William
H |
11307
Private William Herbert Felton 5th Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
Killed in action 16th June 1915 aged 25. Born & Resident Newport,
Shropshire Enlisted Shrewsbury. Son of Mrs Jane Felton of Longford
Lodge, near Newport, Shorshire & the late William Felton. Landed
in France 22 May 1915. Commemorated Ypres Menin Gate Memorial. |
LANGLEY |
Edwin
C |
34183
Private Edwin Charles Langley 10th Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
Died of wounds 9th September 1918 aged 36. Born Jiverne (or Iwrene)
Minister, Dorset Enlisted Newport, Shropshire. The 1901 census shows
him as an under gamekeeper resident in Hanford, Dorset. Son of Arthur
and Elizabeth Langley, of Hanford, Blandford, Dorset; husband of
Eliza Langley, of 43, Pave Lane, Newport, Salop. Buried in Dernancourt
Communal Cemetery Extension Grave VIII.E.19. |
LANGFORD |
Leonard |
Probably
26873 Private 2nd Bn Wiltshire Regiment. Killed in action 1st August
1917 aged 26. Formerly 53983 Sherwood Foresters & 32057 Lincolnshire
Regiment. Born Blomfield, Shropshire Enlisted Hucknall Resident
Mapperley, Nottingham. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Langford, of
Newport, Salop; husband of Dorothy Duckmanton (formerly Langford),
of Halfway Lake, Alberta, Canada. Commemorated Ypres Menin Gate
Memorial. |
LANGFORD |
George
Henry |
154464
Private George Henry Langford 6th Bn Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
formerly 10055 King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Killed in action
4th November 1918. Born Ludlow, Shropshire Enlisted Shrewsbury Resident
Market Drayton. Wounded whilst serving with the KSLI in 1916. Buried
Ors British Cemetery Grave C.33 |
Last
updated
30 November, 2018
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