War Memorial, Haddenham (RHL2025)

Haddenham War Memorial

History of the War Memorial

Listed Building

War memorial, unveiled in 1921, dedicated to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars. The war memorial is rectangular in plan, constructed of granite, and takes the form of a Celtic wheel cross on a tapered rusticated plinth and rusticated step. 

WWI

Ernest Charles Acred, b 1886, RFA, killed 21.3.1918

Archibald Ainger, b 1891, Suffolk Regiment, d. 13.5.1917

Herbert Aibger, b 1896, Suffolk Regiment, d 25.9.1916

Harry Allebone, b 1888, Befordshire Regiment, d.29.1.1917

Robert William Ambrose, b 1895, Bedfordshire Regimen, d 28.7.1917

Sidney Marcus Bristow, Suffolk Regiment, d 26.9.1917

Walter Leonard Burgess, b 1895, Cambridgeshire regiment, d.14.10.1916

Alfred Burton, b 1883, Suffolk Regiment, d.30.8.1918

Arthur Carman, b 1897, Royal Marines, d.13.11.1916

Sidney Arthur Chapman, b 1897, Suffolk Regiment, d.5.9.1918

Arthur Charles, b 1890, Cambridgeshire Regiment, d. 26.9.1917

Clement Claud Driver, b 1894, Australian Infantry, d. 29,8.1915

John Granger, b 1881, Lincolnshire Regiment, d.16.4.1918

Thomas Granger, b 1883, West Surrey Regiment, d. 2.11.1918

Henry Ballard Hall, Cambridgeshire Regiment, d.31.7.1917

William Henry Hart, b 1897, Oxford and Bucks, d.16.10.1917

Charles Hayden, b 1897, Northampton. Regiment, d. 4.11.1918

Arthur Hostler, b 1882, RGA, d.12.6.1919 exhaustion

Arthur Cuttriss Hostler, b 1889, RAMC, d. 3.7.1916 Somme

John Louis O’Rorke, b 1888, married Haddenham girl Grace Markwell, Loyal North Lancashire regiment, d. 13.9.1914

Leopold Oakey, b 1882. landlord of Black Horse in Hill Row, essex Regiment, d.17.12.1916

Thomas Patterson, West Surrey Regiment, d.18.9.1916, meningitis

William Patterson, Bedford Regiment, August 1917 taken prisoner by Turkish army, died October 1917

William Curtis Pettengell, London Regiment, died Sepotember 1916 Somme

Everard Marsden Porter, b 1893, Royal Naval Air Service HMS Ark Royal, d.6.8.1918 Suda Bay

Joseph Ransome, b 1895, Cambridgeshire Regiment, d.9.5.1915

William Robinson, King’s Royal Rifles, d.15.9.1916

George Jenner Russell, b 1883, Medical Corps, d.19.4.1918

Harry Smith, b 1892, Suffolk Regiment, d.11.4.1918

Ebenezer Edward Southgate, b 1986 Wilburton, Middlesex Yeomanry, d.4.8.1918 Palestine from disease

James Thaxter, Suffolk Regiment, d. 9.8.1916

Robert William Webster Toates, b. 1892, Suffolk Regiment, d. 8.5.1917

Fred Watts, b. 1880, HMS Juno, d. 14.4.1917 Great Yarmouth

Albert Wolfe, b 1890, Sussex Regiment, d. 30.11.1917

Hugh Anthony Rupert Crookham, 1892, son of William Vicar of Haddenham. William was chaplain to the Suffolk Regiment. Hugh did 3.8.1915 of meningitis following a head injury.

Thomas Green, b 1889, d.7.10.1918

Edward Castray Guineu, married Lucy Kermode daughter of Sidney Kermode, Vicar of Haddenham 1915-1925 who had been working as a teacher in South Africa. Edward was Captain in the Nyasaland Field Force. Died 14.2.1918 after his ship was suck in a cyclone.

Joseph Pardoe, married Mabel Ellen Pake from Linden End. Royal Worcester Regiment, d. 4.9.1918 northern Greece.

Vincent Robert Wordingham, b 1890, Royal Worcester, married Annie Chambers of Haddenham December 1916, d. 16.8.1917.

William James Alsop, b 1890, Suffolk Regiment, d.1.7.1916

Albert Edward Brookes, b 1881, married Adeline Holden from Haddenham, Staffordshire Reg. d.25.1.1917 Mesopotamia

Charles Abraham Cundell, b 1892 Bedlam Farm, Middlesex Reg., d.7.4.1918

Isaac John Frost, b 1891, boarded in village while in care of Dr Barnardo’s before being sent to Canada. Maintained contact with foster mother, Mary Ann Levell. Canadian Infantry, d. 2 11.1917.

Percy Gateson, b 1897, Cambridgeshire Regiment, d.5.2.1917

William Burnett Good, b 1897, RFA, d.15.5.1917.

Harold Hunt [Edwin Henry J Hunt], b 1893. Australian Infantry, d.Oct 1917.

Percy Kinns, married Mary Few. Australian Infantry, d. 28.4.1917 from gas poisoning.

John Drage Newman, son of Rebecca Ann Camps, sister of Maggie. Australian Infantry. D. 10.10.1918.

George Samuel Thaxter, b 1892, Royal Berkshire Regiment, d. 4.9.1917.

Willian Thomas Weeks, b 1893, in care of Barnardo’s boarded with Mrs Ada Jackson at Mill End before going to Canada. Canadian Infantry, d. 17.9.1917.

Frederick James Whittaker, b 1885, Border regiment, d. 1.7.1915, Gallipoli.

WWII

Clarence William Ainger, b 1915, Pioneer Corps, d. 28.2.1941 in London when wall collapsed

Arthur Ernest Carman, b 1916, Norfolk Regiment, d. 7.2.1942 in Malaya

Edward Montague Clark, b.1924, Royal Signals, d. 30.8.1944 in plane crash in Italy

Bertie Clements, b 1919, Suffolk Regiment, d. 29.5.1940 Dunkirk

George Edmund Lees, b 1909, Grenadier Guards, d. 30.1.1944 Italy

Harry Jack Thomas Mansfield, captured February during fall of Singapore and sent to Thailand. Died at sea while being transferred from Thailand to Japan, probably autumn of 1944.

John Bedford Norman, b 1920, RAF, d.17.5.1943 when his Beaufighter crashed due to mechanical failure in Bangladesh.

Arthur James Palmer, b 1917, Royal Artillery, d. 1.2.1943 meningitis

Walter James Peters, Irish Guards, d. 4.2.1944 Italy Monte Cassino

Alec John Stringer, b 1920, Royal Lancers, d. 16.6.1942 El Alamein whilst driving Crusader tank.

William George Webster, b 1919, RAF, d. when SS Anelm torpedoed by U-96 off Azores.

Claude Albert James Woodbridge, b 1913, Cambridgeshire regiment, d. 5.6.1943 in prisoner of war camp in Thailand from enteritis. He had been captured after the fall of Singapore.

Thomas Alfred Sizer, b 1915, lived in Station Road, Northamptonshire Regiment, 18.1.1944 d. in action in Burma

James Haswell Wood, b Australia, mother was daughter of Daniel Ward of Ivy House, Wilburton Road. d. 21.3.1945 over Munster in Lancaster of New Zealand Squadron.