97495 Pte Walter Brawn, 164th MGC

97495 Private Walter Brawn of the 164th Company, Machine Gun Corps died of wounds on the 18th November 1917. He had previously served with the Cambridgeshire Regiment (number 331092). He is buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

325037 L/Cpl Parker G Childerly, 7th Bn, Suffolk Regt

325037 L/Cpl Parker George Childerly of the 7th Battlion, Suffolk Regiment, was killed in action on the 9th August 1917. His number belongs to the series in use by the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment and indicates that he had originally joined that regiment in late 1908 (his original number was 399). Parker was born in Coton, Cambridgeshire and enlsited at Maddingley.


At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2755 Pte Edmund Arthur Baker, 1st Bn, Cambs Regt

2755 Private Edmund Arthur Baker of the 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment, was killed in action on the 13th April 1915. He was 22 years old, the son of Walter and Martha Baker of Hatley Street, George, Sandy in Bedfordshire. Edmund's number indicates that he joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment in September 1914, and his medal index card states that he arrived overseas in France on the 14th February 1915. No service record appears to survive.

Edmund Baker has no known grave and he is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission