COMMEMORATING THE FALLEN OF THE GREAT WAR
Ceremonies were held between 2014 and 2019 at Goudhurst and Kilndown war memorials on the hundredth anniversaries of the deaths of 69 parishioners who served in the First World War.
Compiled by Goudhurst resident & historian Peter Rolington
Centenary Date | Name | Final Unit | Age | Local Addresses |
Goudhurst | ||||
08 September 2014 | Percy Tester | L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery | 21 | Wickham's Cottages (Trottenden), Lidwells Lane; Stoney Lane |
28 October 2014 | Oliver Page | 1st Buffs | 24 | Mill House Cottages, Church Rd |
30 October 2014 | William Burgess | (Attached) 2nd Life Guards | 31 | Breach Cottages, Wilsley Pound (b); Stream Farm; Monk's |
15 November 2014 | Ernest Cole | 2nd Grenadier Guards | 25 | Bluecoats Lane; Crowbourne farm (w) |
09 April 2015 | Alfred Gurr | Army Service Corps | 33 | North Rd; Trowswell Cottage |
24 April 2015 | Basil Clarke | 7th Bn., Canadian Infantry | 42 | The Vicarage (now Queen Anne's), Church Rd |
11 May 2015 | Thomas Relf | Royal Field Artillery | 18 | Combourne Farm; Worms Hill (Combourne Farm) |
28 September 2015 | Bertie Blackmore | 2nd Buffs | 32 | Iden Green (Glassenbury estate); Little Glassenbury (w) |
28 September 2015 | George Vinall | 2nd Buffs | 26 | 1 Brandfold Cottages; Lidwells Cottages |
13 October 2015 | Stewart Clarke | 6th Buffs | 34 | The Vicarage (now Queen Anne's), Church Rd |
13 October 2015 | Frederick Robbins | 6th Buffs | 27 | Old Workhouse, Clay Hill; 2 Rose Cottages, Clay Hill |
13 October 2015 | Herbert Penfold | 6th Buffs | 24 | Beresford Rd |
07 January 2016 | Herbert Stone | 1/5th Buffs | 33 | Cloth Edge, Church Rd; 13 Beresford Rd; Davis & Leaney (w) |
13 January 2016 | Augustus Lovell | 1/5th Buffs | 23 | Clay Hill Mount; Crouch Blacksmith, North Road (w) |
16 January 2016 | Thomas Wickham | 1/5th Buffs | 24 | Cloth Edge (b); Mount Pleasant House, Ranters Lane (Risebridge) |
06 June 2016 | John Coleman | 28th Bn., Canadian Infantry | 29 | 1, Little Crowbourne Cottage; Lower Cottage, Crowbourne |
03 July 2016 | William Maitland | 6th Buffs | 26 | Chingley Lane, Kilndown; Bluecoats Lane, Goudhurst |
25 July 2016 | Sydney Osborne | (Attached) Queen Victoria's Rifles | 30 | Church Rd; Clay Hill Mount; 1 Hillside |
03 August 2016 | Frederick Wilson | 12th Suffolk Regiment | 26 | Marlingate Cottages (Bedgebury) (b); Forge Farm (w) |
14 September 2016 | Ernest Brabon | 2nd Grenadier Guards | 25 | Town Row (now Rope Walk), Church Rd |
28 September 2016 | Philip Simmons | 1/5th Buffs | 30 | Ladham House |
28 September 2016 | George Baker | 1st East Surrey Regt | 34 | Baker's Farm Cottages (Combourne) |
05 October 2016 | Frederick Hammond | 7th Buffs | 20 | Providence Place, North Rd; Risebridge; Spelmonden (w) |
07 October 2016 | James Luck | 6th Buffs | 40 | Risebridge; Davis & Leaney (w); Cherry Gardens (w); Spelmonden (w) |
07 October 2016 | Percy Penfold | 6th Royal West Kent Regt | 21 | Beresford Rd |
14 October 2016 | William Vousden | 6th Buffs | 20 | 2 Morebreddis, Chequers Rd |
05 January 2017 | George Chestney | 10th Royal West Surrey Regt | 33 | Brandfold Gardens |
14 March 2017 | Albert Chenery | 2nd Royal West Surrey Regt | 34 | Tattlebury Yard; Hawkridge Farm (w); Burgess (w) |
28 April 2017 | Albert Luck | 4th Middlesex Regt | 22 | Combourne (b); Bockingfold (w); 1 Bockingfold Cottage |
25 May 2017 | Walter Reynolds | Royal Garrison Artillery | 36 | Gore Court (w); Gore Cottages |
15 June 2017 | Thomas Waghorne | 8th Buffs | 22 | Riseden Quarter; Great Horden; Gatehouse; Finchurst, Summerhill |
27 June 2017 | Charles Kemp | 23rd Middlesex Regt | 37 | Monk's Farm; Little Combourne Farm (Mr Baker) (w) |
31 July 2017 | David Hope | 10th Royal West Kent Regt | 27 | The Grange (a cottage); Etchinghill Cottage |
10 August 2017 | William Roff | 8th Buffs | 23 | Elphicks Farm;Taywell Cottages; Smugley farm (w); Lime Tree Farm (w) |
11 September 2017 | George Brooks | E Battery, Royal Horse Artillery | 23 | Smugley Farm |
24 September 2017 | George Vousden | 11th Royal Sussex Regt | 19 | Hope Mill Cottages; Iden Green; 10 Stoney Lane; Bedgebury Gardens (w) |
22 October 2017 | Arthur Sprange | 12th Middlesex Regt | 25 | Curtisden Green (b); (Mount Villas, Winchet Hill?); Bethany School (w) |
26 October 2017 | Albert Kemp | 1st South Staffordshire Regt | 19 | Ladham Farm Cottages; Mr Ward's bakery, Tattlebury, (w) |
18 November 2017 | Frederick Arnold | 26th Bn, Training Reserve | 23 | North Rd (b); Church Rd; Curtisden Green;Stoney Lane |
20 November 2017 | Gordon Browning | 8th Royal Fusiliers | 26 | Augusta House, Cranbrook Road |
30 November 2017 | Joseph Piper | 2nd Hampshire Regt | 19 | Three Oaks, Curtisden Green |
04 December 2017 | Walter Mitchell | 2nd Manchester Regt | 23 | 2 Love Cottages, Combourne |
15 March 2018 | Charles Brooks | 10th Royal Fusiliers | 28 | Smugley Farm |
30 March 2018 | Arthur Kemp | 2/22nd London Regt | 21 | North Rd (b) (now Grand View) |
13 April 2018 | Cyril Batchelor | 1st Royal West Surrey Regt | 19 | Town Row/Wickham's Row (now Rope Walk); North Road (w); The Grange (w) |
23 April 2018 | Ernest Sillitoe | 4th Bn, Royal Marine Light Infantry | 22 | Holly Villas, Cranbrook Road |
12 June 2018 | Harry Ashdown | HMS Lord Nelson | 22 | Share Farm; Ballard's Hill (b) |
27 June 2018 | Bertram Harris | Canadian Army Medical Corps | 30 | Chequers Inn (b); Lime Tree Farm |
10 July 2018 | George Luck | 18th Middlesex Regt | 41 | Risebridge; Hunts Lane; Smugley Farm (w); 2 Rose Cottage, Clayhill |
07 August 2018 | Charles Vousden | 7th Buffs | 26 | Hope Mill Cottages (b); Iden Green; 10 Stoney Lane |
16 September 2018 | Arthur Bellingham | HMS Africa | 18 | Gore Court Cottages |
29 September 2018 | George Poile | 11th Royal Fusiliers | 24 | Four Wents; Summerhill, Winchet Hill |
03 October 2018 | Walter Austen | 1st Bn, Royal Marine Light Infantry | 27 | Forstal Cottages, Bockingfold |
10 October 2018 | Percy Brissenden | 7th Northamptonshire Regt | 19 | Pope's Row, Kilndown (b); Paine's Farmhouse, Trillinghurst; Bluecoats Lane |
10 October 2018 | Arthur Loader | "I" Company, 328th Regt, US Army | 28 | Combourne (b) |
20 October 2018 | Charles Maitland | 4th North Staffordshire Regt | 19 | Bluecoats Lane, Goudhurst (b) |
26 October 2018 | Hugh Luck | 5th Army Bde HQ, Royal Field Art'y | 29 | Combourne; 1 Bockingfold Cottage |
10 November 2018 | Alfred Bateup | (Attached) Royal Garrison Artillery | 23 | Harpers Farm, Winchet Hill (b); Curtisden Green; |
04 January 2019 | Marjorie Fitzgerald | WRAF | 20 | Lidwells |
05 February 2019 | Frederick Jarvis | 1st Buffs | 27 | Augusta House, Cranbrook Road (w) |
Kilndown | ||||
13 October 2015 | Francis Wenban | 6th Buffs | 28 | Priors Heath (Bedgebury estate) |
27 May 2015 | Victor Iden Moore | HMS Princess Irene | 19 | Paley Farm; Trillinghurst Farm |
07 January 2016 | John Lower | 1/5th Buffs | 24 | Three Chimneys Farm (Bedgebury) |
30 May 2016 | John Waghorn | 52nd Bn., Canadian Infantry | 31 | Riseden Quarter |
03 July 2016 | Ernest Goldsmith | 6th Buffs | 28 | Bedgebury Cross; Priors Heath |
20 August 2016 | John Barrow | 8th Buffs | 22 | Sand Pit (Finchcocks); Pope's Row, Chick's Lane; Spelmonden; Finchcocks |
24 April 2017 | John Colvin | 13th East Surrey Regt | 20 | Rosemary Lane, Flimwell |
30 December 2017 | Henry Emptage | Royal Field Artillery | 36 | Finchcocks (w) |
16 May 2018 | George Forward | Royal Engineers | 40 | Finchcocks |