Roll of Honour - Essex - Little Yeldham

Ministry of Defence

Lest We Forget

The Royal British Legion

LITTLE YELDHAM WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Martin Edwards 2014

The Little Yeldham memorials can be found in St John the Baptist Church, Mashbury Road, Little Yeldham.The First World War memorial has a backbaord of stone upon which is mounted a cast iron plaque with the inscription and names in relief. There are 9 names listed for those who gave their lives and 39 more names of those who served and returned. There is a brass plaque with a wooden backboard to the one man who died in World War 2. There is a further plaque to a man who died in World War 1.

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
BY THE PARISHIONERS IN
GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF
THE MEN OF THIS PARISH, WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR
COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1919

GARDINER	William Ewer	Trooper, 1st Essex Yeomanry. Killed in action at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, Belgium, 13 May France 1915. Aged 32. Elder son of Wiliam Canning and Charlotte Mary Gardiner of Upper Yeldham Hall. TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF TROOPER WILLIAM EWER GARDINER, 1ST ESSEX YEOMANRY, ELDER SON OF WILLIAM CANNING AND CHARLOTTE MARY GARDINER OF UPPER YELDHAM HALL, WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR AT THE 2ND BATTLE OF YPRES, BELGIUM, ON MAY 13TH 1915 AGE 32 YEARS. HE NOBLY GAVE HIS LIFE FOR KING AND COUNTRY WHEN THE ESSEX YEOMANRY MADE THEIR GALLANT CHARGE. " GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS." GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
COLLAR	C W	1/5th Essex Egypt 1915
ALLEN	W L	8th Norfolks France 1916
LAVER	A	4th Hussars France 1916
CATTERWELL	W	9th Essex Drowned 1917
MARTIN	S A	11th Essex France 1917
STOCK	C	2nd Essex France 1917
RULTON	S J	21st Manchesters Missing 1917
PILGRIM	W	5th Essex Died 1918
1939 † 1945 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
SMITH	Ronald V	Sergeant, R.A.F. Killed on active service 11 April 1944.
WORLD WAR 1 THE SERVICES OF THE FOLLOWING ARE ALSO COMMEMORATED.
GARDINER	C E	No further information currently available
BUTCHER	J	No further information currently available
YELDHAM	F C	No further information currently available
TURNER	A W	No further information currently available
BUTCHER	C W	No further information currently available
LAVER	A	No further information currently available
STOCK	W	No further information currently available
COLLAR	G S	No further information currently available
RULTON	W	No further information currently available
SMITH	H	No further information currently available
TURNER	A B	No further information currently available
HART	G W	No further information currently available
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LAWRENCE	T W	No further information currently available
MARTIN	F	No further information currently available
GARDINER	A H	No further information currently available
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YELDHAM	F	No further information currently available
BARBER	M	No further information currently available
MITSON	A	No further information currently available
TAYLOR	G	No further information currently available
LAVER	T	No further information currently available
SMITH	H W	No further information currently available
PEARSON	P T	No further information currently available
HOWARD	A M	No further information currently available
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BUTCHER	W	No further information currently available
PILGRIM	A	No further information currently available
ALLEN	H	No further information currently available
COLLAR	J	No further information currently available
RULTON	T	No further information currently available
MARTIN	S G	No further information currently available
BROWN	A L	No further information currently available
PILGRIM	S	No further information currently available
ANDREAE	R V	No further information currently available

Last updated 25 August, 2014

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