COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER

 

 

 

INDEX

 

CHITTENDEN

 

Albert.Cecil    

Private  

Wiltshire Regiment            

24th Mar   

1918

 

Albert Edward

Lance Corporal 

Machine Gun Corps (Inf)

19th Jan    

1918

 

Alice Emily

Civilian   

 

14th Oct   

1940

 

A.G

2nd Lieutenant   

Royal Field Artillery   

21st Aug   

1917

 

Alfred George 

Private 

Hampshire Regiment 

8th   May   

1915

 

A.G. 

Lance Corporal  

Canadian Machine Gun Corps    

30th Oct    

1917

 

Arthur Grant     

2nd Lieutenant

Manchester Regiment  

 9t h   Sep   

1914

 

Alan Reginald  

Lieutenant      

Royal Sussex Regiment 

5th  Aug    

1944

 

Charles C        

Lance Corporal

King’s Shropshire Light Infantry  

25th Jan    

1916

 

Arthur Ernest    

Corporal/Saddler

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)

13th May  

1915

 

Clifford George

Lance Serjeant

Royal Horse Artilley 

24th Nov  

1941

 

Cyril Roy  

Craftsman 

Royal Electrical & Mechanical Eng 

7th Feb    

1944

 

E

Private 

Dorsetshire Regiment    

10th Apr   

1918

 

Edward     

Skipper   

Mercantile Marine 

29th Oct   

1914

 

Edward Anthony George

Boy 1st Class

Royal Navy

11th Mar  

1942

 

Emily Frances  

Civilian

 

 7th   Mar   

1945

 

Edward George    

Rifleman

Rifle Brigade    

16th Feb   

1917

 

Evelyn Marilyn 

Civilian 

 

7th  Mar    

1945

 

Ernest Sydney    

Corporal

Royal Fusiliers   

29th Apr   

1917

 

F.

Rifleman

Kings Royal Rifle Corps        

11th Apr   

1917

 

Frederick   

Civilian    

 

 9th   Jul     

1943

 

Frank   

Able Seaman

Royal Navy    

22nd Sep   

1914

 

Frederick William

Shipwright 2nd Class 

Royal Navy  

9th   Jul      

1917

 

George Alfred  

Private 

The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)    

1st   May   

1917

 

George Clifton

Private

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

24   Jan     

1917

 

G.F

Private

Lincolnshire Regiment  

31st  Jul    

1915

 

G.H

Seaman

Mercantile Marine   

30th Jan    

1915

 

Horace 

Lance Corporal

Queens Own (Royal West Kent Rgt)

25   Dec   

1916

 

Harry 

Civilian 

 

7th  Mar   

1945

 

Henry    

Corporal

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

16th Apr    

1917

 

Herbert  

Private 

South African Infantry  

11th Mar   

1916

 

Henry   

Sergeant     

South African Infantry  

28th Mar   

1918

 

Hugh John  Robert

Sergeant   

East Africa Corps Military Police

30th Oct    

1942

 

Iris Noreen     

Civilian     

 

31st Oct    

1942

 

James  

Rifleman

Royal Irish Rifles 

15th Sep    

1914

 

John Albert      

Private   

The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regt) 

20th Mar   

1942

 

J.D

Driver         

Army Service Corps   

9th   Oct    

1916

 

John David 

Sub-Lieutenant (A)

Royal New Zealand Naval Vol Res

29th  Jun    

1944

 

Jack David   

Private    

Royal Regiment of Canada R.C.I.C.

13th April  

1945

 

John Phillips   

Private    

Australian Pioneers      

27th   Oct  

1917

 

Leonard   

Craftsman   

Royal Electrical & Mechanical Eng

27th  Nov  

1944

 

L.H. 

Bombadier 

Royal Field Artillery  

22nd Oct    

1916

 

Mabel Hilda   

Civilian     

 

31st  Oct    

1940

 

Peter    

Sergeant 

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

2nd  Jan     

1944

 

S.

Private 

Royal Marine Light Infantry       

17th Apr    

1915

 

Sidney Edwards

Civilian  

 

7th  Mar    

1945

 

Sydney Frederick      

Private       

East Surrey Regiment      

10th Oct    

1917

 

Thomas  

Private   

The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 

1st   May   

1915

 

Vernon Stanley

Private  

Intelligence Corps

23rd  Jan    

1945

 

Victor Thomas

Serjeant  

Lancashire Fusiliers       

4th   Jun    

1944

 

William    

Private 

The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)   

21st  Jan    

1916

 

Walter

Private    

Suffolk Regiment       

 7th   Sep   

1918

 

William

Private     

Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.

24th Mar   

1945

 

W.C.

Driver  

Army Service Corps  

11th   Jul    

1915

 

W.D.

Private

Queens Own (Royal West Kent Reg

17th Nov  

1915

 

Willie George Collins

Signalman

Royal Navy

22nd  Sep   

1914

 

Walter John

Flying Officer

Royal Canadian Air Force

29th  Mar   

1945

 

William Oscar  

Private    

King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1st Oct   

1916

 

 

CHITTENDEN ALBERT CECIL                          21642     Private    1st Battalion   Wiltshire Regiment   Date of Death:      24th March 1918    (19)  (St Cath’s   1899   Jun Qtr.   Edmonton  3A  548) Son of Walter J and Agnes Chittenden   Hill View, Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey, Essex

Arras Memorial   Grave:   Bay 7.      ‘Arras Memorial is in the Fauboug-d’Ameins Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras.   The Cemetery is near the Citadal, approximately two kilometres due west of the railway station.   The Memorial commemorates almost 35.000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between spring 1916 and 7th August 1918 with the exception of casualties of the Battle of Cambria in 1917 and who have no known grave’.

CHITTENDEN ALBERT EDWARD                  99058  Lance Corporal  272 Company   Sussex Regt   Machine Gun Corps (Inf)  Date of Death:   19th January 1918 (Mesopotamia)  (20)  Born Dulwich.   Surrey. Enl: Croydon.  R. Thornton Heath   (St Cath’s  B  1898   Mar Qtr   West Ashford  2A  827)   Buried at Sea

CHITTENDEN ALICE EMILY          Civilian   Died Monday 14th October 1940.   Age 53. Wife of Alfred William Chittenden  2 Kings Road, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire   ‘Who died as a result of enemy action:   Injured 13th October 1940 at Eleanor Cross Road.   Died at Chase Farm Hospital.    Urban District Cemetery 0f Enfield’.  Immediately before the attack at Fromelles, and it contained the graves of many Australian soldiers who fell in that engagement.   It continued in use as a front line Cemetery until April 1918.        It was used by German troops for the burial of British soldiers during the following summer: and its use was resumed when our troops re-occupied the village.  There are now over 30.000, 1914-18 and a small number of 1939-45 war casualties commemorated in this site.   Of these, one-fifth from the 1914-18 war are unidentified and special memorials have been erected to seven soldiers and airmen from the United Kingdom, known, or believed to be buried among them, and to three soldiers from the United Kingdom buried by the enemy in Sailly Cyard.

CHITTENDEN ALFRED GEORGE    3/4101/3   Private   2nd Battalion.  Hampshire Regiment  Died  Saturday 8th May 1915    Age 23.   Killed in action @ Gallipoli   Born:  Southsea, Hants.  Enl: Gosport.  R. Southsea.   (St Cath’s   Born 1892  Jun Qtr.  Portsea   2B  527)   Son of Robert E. J. and Alice Chittenden 17 Manner’s Road.   Southsea.   Portsmouth, Hants.

Helles Memorial.   Grave: Panel 125-134: or 223-226: 228-229 and 328       ‘The Helles Memorial stands on the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula.   It takes the form of an obelisk over 30 metres high that can be seen by ships passing through the Dardanelles.    The Memorial bears over 20.000 names and is both the Memorial to the Gallipoli campaign and to the men who fell in that campaign and whose graves are unknown or who were lost or buried at sea in Gallipoli waters (Other than Australians and New Zealanders who are named on other Memorials.   Also inscribed on the Memorial are the names of ships that took part in the campaign and the titles of the Army Formations and Units which served on the Peninsula’.

CHITTENDEN A. G.          148306    Lance Corporal   7th Company.   Canadian Machine Gun Corps. Died     30th October 1917

Poelcapelle British Cemetery   Grave:   XXVIII.   D.  2.  ‘Poelcapelle British Cemetery is located north-east of Ieper town centre on the Brugseweg  (N313) a road connecting Ieper to Brugge.   Two streets connect Ieper town centre on to the Brugseweg: Torhoutstraat leads from the market square onto the Kalfvaartstraat at the end of Kalfvaartstraat is a large junction on which Brugseweg is the first righthand turn.  Poelcapelle (now Poelkapelle) was taken by the Germans from the French on the 20th October 1914.   Entered by the 11th Division on the 4th October 1917.   Evacuated by the British in April 1918 and retaken by the Belgians on the 28th September  1918.     It has given its name to the battle of the 9th October 1917, one of the battles of Ypres.   There are now over 7,000, 1914-18, and a small number of 1939-45 casualties commemorates on this site.   Of these over 6,000 from the 1914-18 war are unidentified and special      Memorials are erected to eight soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from Canada,  known or believed to be buried here.   Other special Memorials record the names of  twenty four soldiers from the United Kingdom, and three from Canada, buried by the enemy, whose graves could not be found’.

CHITTENDEN  ARTHUR GRANT BOURNE       Second Lieutenant   2nd Battalion    Manchester Regiment Died:  9th September 1914   Age 20  Died of wounds.  (St Cath’s   Born: 1894   Sept Qtr.   Epsom   2A  15)   Son of Mrs & Mrs G. G. T. F. Chittenden   ‘High Croft’       Steyning,   Sussex

Montreuil-Aux-Lions British Cemetery.   Grave:    Special Memorial 2.         ‘Location: A small cemetery set on the side of a main road.   It is situated to the east of the village of Montreuil-Aux-Lions and to the west of Chateau Thierry.   Montreuil-Aux-Lions British Cemetary can be reached from the direction of Chateau Thierry, following the N3   Chateau Thierry to La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre road on leaving Chateau Thierry via the N3 the road continues through several hamlets.   After about twenty kilometres the road starts to descend into the village of Montreuil-Aux-Lions, and at this point the Cemetery is visable on the left side of the road.    The cemetery was made after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the  battlefields of the Aisne.   There are now 150, 1914-18 and a small number 1939-45 War casualties commemerated on this site, of these over half from the 1924-18 war are unidentified and the names of sixteen soldiers, known or believed to be buried among them are recorded on special Memorials (In the case of eight men of the first  Dorset) The special Memorial in a panel behind the ‘Cross of Sacrifice”’.

CHITTENDEN  ALAN REGINALD  278354   Lieutenant   MC   Royal Sussex Regiment   Attached to 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment    Died:     Saturday 5th August 1944     Age 21    (St Cath’s   1923  Sep Qtr  Steyning   2B  387)   Son of Walter Robert & Ella May Chittenden (nee Smith) Chingford,  Essex

St Manvieu War Cemetery,  Cheux.     Grave:   VIII.   G.16.     ‘The Cemetery is reached from Caen by taking route D9, westwards.    After about eight kilometres  the road by-passes St Manvieu village, while Cheux  lies two kilometres to the left.   You will find St Manvieu  War Cemetery on right hand side.   The men who lie buried in St Manvieu War Cemetary died for the most part in the fluctuating and severe fighting from mid June to the end of July 1944, in the region between Tilly-Sur-Seulles and Caen. Plots XI, XII, XVII contain German Graves.   There are now over 1,500, 1939-45 war casualties commemorated  in this site.

CHITTENDEN CHARLES                  10488   Lance/Corporal     5th Battalion      King’s Shropshire Light Infantry   Died:   25th January 1916   Age 18.   Killed in action, France/Flanders Burwash War Memorial Born:  Bromyard, Worcs.  Enl: Shrewbury. r. Burwash   Son of Thomas and Bertha Alice Chittenden 16 Greenfield Road,  Burwash,  Sussex

Essex Farm Cemetery.   Boezinge.   Grave:   1.  H.  7.   ‘Boezinge is a village in the Province of West Flanders, north of Ieper on the Diksmuidseweg Road (N369) Boesinghe (Boezinge) village during the greater  part of the war directly faced by the German front line on the east side, but further south the British line was several kilometres east of the Canal, a little less than mid-way from Ypres to Boezinge.   There was a farm building in the narrow space between the road and the canal bank, known by the Army as  Essex Farm.   The land south of the farm came into use as a until August 1917.   The burials were made without any definite plan and some of the Divisions which occupied this sector may be traced in almost every part of the cemetery.   But the 49th West Riding Division buried their dead of 1915 in Plot 1, and the 38th Welsh Division in the autumn of 1916 used Plot III.       There are now over 1,000, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.      Of these, over 100 are unidentified and special memorials are erected to nineteen soldiers from the United Kingdom, known or believed buried among them’.

CHITTENDEN ARTHUR ERNEST                   Corporal      6190    Saddler 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays) Died: Thursday 13th May 1915 (21)        Killed in action, France/Flanders   Born:  Wynberg  S.A.  Enl: Woking. r. Aldershot    (St Cath’s  1894  Mar Qtr   Hendon  3A  197)???

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.  Ieper.  West-Vlaanderen.  Belgium.  Panel 3.    ‘Ypres (Now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders.    The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin and Courtrai, and bears the names of men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Sallent’  in the first world war