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War Memorial - Pensford, Somerset, England


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Cameron Ruck
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Private
21452

17 March 1916

"A" Coy. 1st Bn. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
formerly Somerset Light Infantry
Basra Memorial, Iraq
Son of George and Annie Ruck,
of Hillside, Pensford, Bristol,
husband of Jessie Elizabeth Jackson (formerly Ruck),
of The Lodge, Badgemore, Henley-on-Thames.
Enlisted 1914. Wounded in France in Aug. 1915.
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Charles Coles
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Private
3/5944
abt. 1892
15 June 1915
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1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium
Son of Mrs. Annie Coles,
of 183, Woollard, Pensford, Bristol.
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Sidney Corp
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Private
617

03 September 1916

2nd Bn. Royal Irish Regiment
Thiepval Memorial, France
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Reginald Duckett
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Somerset Light Infantry

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Disney Grant
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Gunner
23259

26 October 1918

"D" Bty. 102nd Bde. Royal Field Artillery
Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy
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James William Membery
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Gunner
291301
abt. 1894
06 October 1917
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127th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
Zuydcoote Military Cemetery, France
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Reginald Harding Watts
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Private
143035
abt. 1893
21 March 1918
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25th Bn. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Arras Memorial, France
Son of Henry George and Alice Ruth Watts,
of Station Hill, Pensford, Bristol.
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Enos Henry Bennett
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Private
4754079
abt. 1914
17 March 1943
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6th Bn. Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)
Sfax War Cemetery, Tunisia
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Henry Hector Bennett
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Private
5676448
abt. 1918
10 July 1944
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4th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
Bayeux Memorial, France
Husband of Doris Bennett,
of Timsbury, Somerset.
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Albert Reginald Blanning
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Gunner
14247771
abt. 1924
16 July 1944
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110 Field Regt. Royal Artillery
Fontenay-Le-Pesnel War Cemetery, Tessel, France
Son of Albert John and Elizabeth Blanning,
of Publow, Somerset.
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John Frank Carter (Probably)
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Trooper
14988043
abt. 1922
11 October 1945
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Royal Armoured Corps
Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece
Son of William Reginald and Frances Carter,
husband of Constance M. C. Carter,
of Pensford, Somerset.
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Edward Ronald Nelthorpe
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Lance Corporal
5729911
abt. 1915
31 May 1943
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"K" Provost Coy. Corps of Military Police
Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia
Son of Arthur and Hilda Louise Nelthorpe,
husband of Vera J. Nelthorpe,
of Pensford, Somerset.
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Charles John Smewin
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Sergeant
580591
abt. 1917
23 July 1940
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21 Sqdn. Royal Air Force
Publow (All Saints) Churchyard, Somerset, England
Son of Frederick George and Ann Ellen Smewin,
of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire.
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Alan Walter Whitmarsh
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Flight Lieutenant (Pilot)
157834
Distinguished Flying Medal

20 December 1943

10 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Rheinberg War Cemetery, Germany
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Phyllis Coles (Probably)
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Civilian

abt. 1908
25 September 1940
32

Sodbury, Rural District, Gloucestershire
Died at Bristol Aeroplane Works, Filton.
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Thomas Wood
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Private
5724622
abt. 1911
06 June 1944
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1st Bn. Dorsetshire Regiment
Bayeux War Cemetery, France
Son of Ernest Wood, and of Elizebeth Wood,
of Pensford, Somerset.
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