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CRANFIELD'S ROLL OF HONOUR WORLD WAR I   

1914-1918

REGINALD ANSTEY.
Killed in action, in France, in June 1916, aged 28.

FRED BILLINGTON

Died of influenza, in Salonika, Greece,   in November 1918, aged 30.

His brother
Thomas BILLINGTON
Died of meningitis, in France, in November 1917, aged 38.

WILLIAM GEORGE BITCHENER

Died of, malaria,  in Salonika, in August 1917, aged 41.

ERNEST BROWN

Killed in action, on HMS Dublin torpedoed off the Albanian Coast in June 1915, aged 26.

CYRIL COOK

Killed in action, ln the Arras area of France, in April 1917, aged 21.

FRANK COOK
Died of wounds, aboard Hospital Ship "Franconia'  Gallipoli, in May 1915, aged 30.

WILLIAM COOK

Killed in action, in France, in April 1918, aged 40.

CHARLES COOPER

Died of influenza in Parchim POW Camp,  in October 1918, aged 26.

PHILIP WILLIAM EVANS

Died of wounds, at the Somme, France, in November 1916, aged 25.

JOHN HARPUR EVANS

Wounded at the Somme in March 1918 Died in Wolverhampton Hospital. in February 1919, aged22,  Buried in the Cranfield Churchyard.

GEORGE FORD

Killed in action, at the Somme in May 1917, aged 23.

FRANK FOSTER

Killed in action, at Passchendaele,  Belgium.  In November 1917 aged 21.

His brother

JAMES FOSTER

Killed in action, in French Flanders, in April 1918, aged 23.

HERBERT GARNER

Died of illness at home (discharged unfit to serve) in February 1917, aged 35. Buried in the Cranfield Churchyard. (Not named on War Memorial)

WILLIAM JOHN GREEN

Killed in action, at the Somme, in March 1918, aged 37.

CHARLES HALE

Killed in action, at the Somme in March 1918, aged 19.

CECIL WILLIAM  HARDY

Died of wounds, in Ypres Belgium. in May 1915, aged 26.

 

LEONARD CHARLES HARDY

Killed in action, at the Somme in September 1916, aged 21.

 

ALFRED HARPUR

Killed in action, at Festubert, France.  in May 1915, aged 17. (Youngest on the Roll of Honour)

His brother

CHARLES HARPUR

Killed in action, at the Somme, in July 1916, aged 27.

 

HARRY HEWLETT

Killed when his submarine sank off Harwich in a collision on exercise in August 1916, aged 30.

 

FREDERICK JOHNS0N

Killed in action, ln the Arras area of France, in April 1917, aged 23.

 

ALFRED JOHN  KINNS

Died of influenza, at Clipstone Camp Hospital in February 1919, aged 30, Buried in the Cranfield Churchyard.

 

The Lancaster Cousins:

THOMAS ARTHUR LANCASTER

Killed in action, in the Arras area of France, in May 1917, aged 21.

 

THOMAS LANCASTER

Killed in action, in the Ypres, Belgium, in September 1917, aged 23.

 

WILLIAM FREDERICK LANCASTER

Killed in action, in Cambrai France in November 1917, aged 24.

 

VICTOR JOHN  LINEHAM

Died of influenza, at Salonika in December 1918, age 24.

 

HARRY LOVESEY

Died of wounds, in Jaffa Israel, in November 1917, aged 41.

 

THOMAS MATHEW ODELL LOVESEY

Killed in action in the Loos area of  France, in  October 1915, aged 23.

JOSEPH MANYWEATHERS

Died of wounds, in Belgium.  In  September 1915, aged 48. (The oldest on the Roll of Honour)

 

THOMAS JAMES MINARDS

Killed in action, in the Arras area of France, in April 1917, aged 23.

 

CHARLES PARKER

Died of wounds, in the Arras region of France, in  June 1917, aged 25.

 

GEORGE SALISBURY

Died of influenza, in France, in November 1918, aged 41.

 

GEORGE SAVAGE

Killed ill action, at the Somme, in November 1916, aged 19.

 

JOSEPH SEAMARK

Died of wounds, in France, in June 1917, aged 20.

 

JOSEPH SPARKES

Killed in action in France,  in April 1918, aged 26.

 

EDGAR HAROLD WHITE

Killed in action, in Belgium in June 1916, aged 24.

WILLIAM  HERBERT WHITE

Died at Bury St Edmunds, while training in January 1915, aged 29. Buried in Cranfield churchyard.

 

ARTHUR JAMES WILSON

Died of wounds, in Belgium in October 1917, aged 22.

 

His brother

GEORGE WILSON

Killed in action, in Belgium, in  October 1917, aged 34.

 

CORNELIUS WILLIAM YOUNG

Died of wounds, in France, in February 1918, aged 25.

 

His cousins

OWEN YOUNG

Killed in action, at the Somme in October 1916, aged 21.

 

His brother

WILLIAM FREDERICK YOUNG

Died of malaria, in Alexandria  Egypt. in December 1916, aged 25.

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