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Cook Benjamin Sydney Hunt
British Private 13th Bn. Royal Scots 35 6 december 1881 , Somersham , Suffolk 22 august 1917 Son of Cook William and Ellen Sherman Hunt of Bramford , Suffolk Two of brothers also fell: - Thomas Stephen Cook, Private, 61564, 23rd April 1917, 10th Bn.Royal Fusiliers Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. - George Charles Cook, Driver, 19357, Died of Wounds, 3rd November 1916 'A' Battery , 92 nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France. On the 1st April 1907, at Hitcham Parish Church, Suffolk, Benjamin married Mary Winter Keeble, born August 1886, Hitcham, Suffolk. They had 6 children Milkman Bedford House Cemetery Enclosure 2 , Plot V , Row B , Stone 38 |
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Coren Edward Walker
British Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery 22 8 february 1893 , Gloucester 15 june 1915 Only son of the late John William Coren, of Guyscliffe , Gloucester Single Educated at Cheltenham College where he was a prefect and in the cricket eleven, and was considered a good bowler. He also played football and won the High Jump two years in succession. He was also an exceptionally good horseman. Career soldier Bedford House Cemetery Enclosure 2 , Plot V , Row B , Stone 38 |
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Leaving Cheltenham College did 12 months' training at Aldershot with the RFA. Special Reserve. He the went to the Malay States, but on the outbreak of war returned, and was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Royal Field Artillery Gazetted into the Regular Army He went to the Front in March, and was severely wounded on the night of 14 june 1915, while out with a party of men laying telephone wires. They had had to take shelter three times owing to the heavy shell fire. He made a fourth attempt to finish the work, but he and three out of the four men with him were so severely wounded that they died the following day. The fourth man , a driver, was seriously wounded but survived. His Colonel wrote speaking very highly of the work he had done while under his command. Coren was an all-round athlete and sportsman. |
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Craston John
British Second Lieutenant 3rd Bn. attd. 1st Bn. Royal West Kent Regiment 19 april 1915 Bedford House Cemetery Enclosure 2 , Plot V , Row A , Stone 60 |
