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Cambridge District Scout Archive

The following names have or will be forwarded to Gilwell for inclusion on the Rolls of Honour for WW1 and 1939 -1945. The names of each Roll of Honour follow Gilwell nomenclature.

30th Nov 2018 Numbers √7 – 10, 12, 13 and Savile (now √37), √14, 15, 21 – 23, Casbolt (now on RoH) (all sent before numbering system adopted)
11th June 2020 Numbers √1 – √10, √11 – √20, √21 – √31 sent in three batches

The Great War

Many of the following names are Scouters, taken from the Early Warrants list in Gilwell Archives and identified as being at Cambridge University. The names are often referenced elsewhere in minutes and records.

The connection with Cambridge for some is purely through the University and the home addresses are not given here. The Cambridge University War List is the single most useful source of information giving a very full list of members of the University who fought in the war. It includes members who were also active in Scouting but had moved away before the war, such as Norton Fagge who had moved to India in c 1912.

Increasingly names of Scouts are being uncovered. They are often harder to confirm but are entered below, if they are sufficently close to suggest further investigation would be profitable.

ame	Linked	No.	To HQ			Added
Benjamin Robert Thompson	√	√1	√	Army	13th	√
Thomas Arthur Airey	√	√2	√	Army	18th EW
J H Jagenberg	√	√3	√	German flier	EW
E B Walker	√	√4	√	Army	EW
GCA Nelder	√	√5	√	Army	6th + 8th?
Louis Cameron Nott	√	√6	√	Army	13th ASM	√
Henry Paton Nott	√	√7	√	Army	13th SM	√
Arthur Frederick Gray	√	√8	√	Army	EW	√
Arthur Derrick Hamer	√	√9	√	Army	9th	√
A W H Curzon (Already listed)	√	√10	√	Army	SM 1st
H S Morton	√	√ 11	√	Army 1919	7th and 9th
Frederick Walter Langford Grantly Norton Fagge	√	√ 12	√	Army	EW and teacher at Camb Grammar
Hugh Mortimer Ferguson	√	√ 13	√	Army	5th

Gerald Hugh Smyth	√	√ 34		RN/RNAS/RAF	5th
Whittet possibly John Webster Whittet		√ 33		Army	5th
G Wheaton	√	√ 38		Army	12th Camb Dist
W Shaw		√ 39			? EW
G K Savile	√	√ 37	√	Army	5th
Leslie South	√	√ 45		RN	9th
D Bright	√	√ 46		RN	9th
Percy Albert {Gray] Goose	√	√ 47		Army	Wood photo 1914
Walter Henry Bartlett	√	√ 48		Army (Canadian)	Brighton & Canada
Charles Maltby Molt		√ 49		Army (Canadian)	13th
Benjamin Henry Tabor		√ 50		Army	2nd	√
Victor Thomas King		√ 51		Army	2nd
William Harding Dyson	√	√ 52		Army	Linton 9th CD
Monsieur Armand Van Herp		√ 53
Lionel William Halse		55		Army	instructing
Kenneth Frederick Baines	√	√ 56		Army	2nd
Harold James Glasscock	√	√ 57		Army	2nd
William Henry Arnold		√ 58		Army	14th or 17th
Ernest L B Cutting	√	√ 60		Army	17th
Alec Edward Boucher		√ 61		Army	17th
E Rogers (Bert)		√ 62		Army	17th
Arthur John Gray	√	√ 63		Army	5th
Donald Relph Kirkman		√70		Merc marine	10th
Sidney John Stone		√72			1st CD (Howard Marsh Own)
Ernest Shinn		√76		Army	14th St Columba

EW = Early Warrant list

New Entries from other sources

These have been added to Gilwell Roll of Honour

A H H Horn	13th Cambridge	√
Henry Thomas Bean	7th Cambridge	√

Some brief histories

Captain Frederick Walter Langford Grantly Norton Fagge SM and Sec. of LA. Active within the first fortnight of BPs 1908 visit.

Nov 18^th 1916 Indian Army Reserve of Officers Buried Basra

Captain Hugh Mortimer Ferguson 5^th Cambridge SM

11/06/1917 9th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment Buried Railway Dugouts Burial Ground

Lieutenant G K Savile 5^th Cambridge ASM

20/6/1915 Gloucestershire Regiment

Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Gray Cambridgeshire Regiment

Arthur Frederick Gray was the sixth son of Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus from 1912. He had graduated from Magdalene. This explains the discrepancy between the named College on the Warrant record (Jesus) and College of War Service record (Magdalene). (See also Arthur John Gray [No. 63] Perse)

26^th August 1918

Lieutenant Henry Paton Nott SM 13^th Cambridge (later Notts’ Own for both brothers)

27/4/1916 6^th Gloucestershire Regiment

‘I know that the Nott brothers who were running the 13th troop were in camp at Clayhithe when they were called up as officers. Both were killed in action, they left a legacy of £200 to the troop, a large sum in those days. About 1916 the troop took the title “The Nott’s Own”; at this time many troops had similar titles but I think the 13th is the only one to still retain this after 60 years’

(Written c 1978) http://rabbitmail.co.uk/cam_scouts_hist/history/70years.html

Not listed in Early Warrants

Captain Louis Cameron Nott SM 13^th Cambridge (See above)

18/4/1917 6^th Gloucestershire Regiment

(Louis died alongside a third brother in a mine explosion at the Somme. He was Lt. Col. Thomas Walker Nott and the scout Roll of Honour names him as SM and founder of Llwynon Waterworks troop.)

Captain Arthur Derrick Hamer

Died 06/11/1918 Northern Cyclist Battalion

Our second Camp there in 1914 was with S-M. A. D. HAMER of Queens’ (killed in the War, a week before the Armistice); The Camp ended only three days before war was declared. C. T. WOOD. http://www.rabbitmail.co.uk/cam_scouts_hist/history/ctwood-book.pdf

New

Some of the following have not yet been verified (not in bold). They await forwarding to Gilwell

GCA Nelder ASM 8th Cambridge Died Gallipoli (Scout News, Cambridge Journal November 1915). Gordon Clarke Aldridge Nelder was a teacher at the Higher Grade School and is also reported as helping SM Copplestone with the 6th Cambridge (Mayor’s Own) based at the school. He was ‘the first of the Scouts to volunteer for the army’ according to Rosemary Gardiner in An Epoch making school. This probably refers to the Troop not the District. Second Lt. 2nd Bat Hampshire Regiment, he had attended Christs College. The 8th quoted above may be a newspaper reporting error.

** He is now identified as a Scout, being listed in Early Warrants list as ASM from 7/9/1914

G Wheaton 12th Cambridge District Bottisham Killed (Scout News, Cambridge Journal April 2nd 1915)

W Shaw ASM 12/11/1913 from Early Warrants list. Connection not proven with University War list W Shaw who died 27/9/1916 as a POW of wounds. Lt in Cambridgeshire Reg.

E B Walker 18/4/15 War List and Early Warrants with a March Troop. Dorset Reg and Queens Own From Rectory March, Cambs. At Emmanuel College, Camb 1907. SM 1909

J H Jagenberg Leonard Hubert Jagenberg was a member of the Royal German Navy Flying Corps and was killed in training 7th October 1914. He is listed as an Instructor in the Early Warrants.

T A Airey Thomas Arthur Airey Christ College and ASM of Little St Mary troop in 1914. Died 1/7/1916 Killed in Action.

Drummer Benjamin Robert Thompson 13th Cambridge MM first intake into Troop. Died August 1916 of wounds sustained in Le Boisselle (The Somme) in July 1916.

A W H Curzon Arthur William Harry – A reader at University Pres and ‘a Scoutmaster before the war’ is listed in the War Record of the Cambridge University Press. Died 8/7/1917 a member of 1st/1 Cambridgeshire Regt. Listed but group unknown.

Leslie South Referenced by C T Wood as drowned in war service. Boy 1st Class aged 18 washed overboard from HMS King Edward VII 15/11/1914. First death listed by Cambridge Grammar School for Boys, at school before scouts started there.

D Bright Referenced by C T Wood as drowned in war service. Able Seaman Donovan Neville Bright only CWGC D Bright listed as drowned. No clear connection yet made.

P Goose Wood photo No. 67 P Goose. Percy Albert [Gray] Goose -Died Arras 28/4/1917 L/Cp 11th Bn Suffolk Regiment, Cambridgeshire County High School, St Paul’s Ch, 22 Paradise St in 1911 census, enlisted Willingham (One of only 2 P Goose in ‘Forces’, only dead on CWGC. Gp unknown.

W Dyson/ Dison Clear history, won MM as member of RASC but died of injury received in the event.

Four Members of the 17th Cambridge Catholic Troop are recorded as dying in WW1 by Nicholas Rogers in ‘Catholics in Cambridge’. Pte Ryan is known, the other three may be those identified below.

E (LB) Cutting is listed as SM of 17th in 1915. Listed on OLEM Roll of Honour

Alec Edward Boucher A SM in Halesowen (and 17th?) Listed on OLEM Roll of Honour Died 18th Nov 1916

E Rogers (Bert) Bert Rogers listed as CM 17th in 1915. An E Rogers on OLEM Roll of Honour. Not clear.

Arthur John Gray See Perse RoH and mentioned as ASM in ‘5th Cambridge Scouts: The First 50 years’.

Gerald Hugh Smyth

Arthur Henry Harvey Horn The second Scout to be enrolled into the 13th Cambridge (St Phillip’s). Became a 2nd Lt. and died 18/9/1918 aged 22. Lived a 116 Mill Road.

Henry Thomas Bean Added to Gilwell Roll of Honour. Reference Cambridge Daily News 12th June 1918 but as yet not connected to 7th. Cambridge. Not on School Roll of Honour. Not on Cambridge Guild Hall Roll of Honour. Probably T H Bean born in London and living in Walthemstow at time of death. Did enroll in Cambridge.

Donald Relph Kirkman Mercantile Marine, sunk by submarine 1918 aged 17. 10th Cambridge

Sidney John Stone Member of Cambridge Grammar school for boys and recorded in their magazine as an enthusiastic scout at St John’s Hills Road. Died 14th October 1916. He brother received a MM from B.-P. for rescuing his siblings from a fire.

World War 2

Of the following, five names were taken from the Cambridge list compiled for the IHQ post war collection of War service details. I do not know if this was the final list submitted to IHQ. Some of the names on that list are included in the rolls of honour; those names from the original list not on Gilwell Roll of Honour and new names are listed below.

The following are all new to the Scouting roll of honour.

	Linked	No.	To HQ			Added
(Alfred) Stanley Chessum	√	√31	√	X	9^th
Casbolt T	√	Added	√	RAF	12^th	Added
Brown Douglas	√	√ 23	√	RAF	12^th	Added
Brown William		√ 42		Army	9^th
Culpin R	√	√ 20	√	RAF	23^rd	Added
Summerfield R	√	√ 19	√	RAC	23^rd	Added
Sewell C J	√	√ 21	√	RFA	26^th
Dunn Geoffrey	√	√ 22	√	RA	64^th
Wallis R	√	√ 14	√	Army	23^rd
Carter E W	√	√ 18	√	RAF	23^rd
Bremner James	√	√ 43		RAF	9^th

*Not on original list*
Clow Malcolm Joseph	√	√16	√	RN	41st	Added*
Samuel Wilfred Whitley	√	√15	√	Army	28th
Rev Alfred Sadd	√	√17	√	X	31st
William Turner Pickles	√	√28	√	RAF	60th
Alan Dougherty Shuckburgh	√	√27	√	RAF	60th
Norman McLeod	√	√26	√	RAC	60th
Walter Taylor-Young	√	√25	√	Army	7th
Mervyn Denham Humphrey Gilbart Smith	√	√32		Army	7th
Anthony Frederick Hallett	√	√29	√	RNVR	60th
Stanley Thomas Banks Wallis (SB Wallis in Perse records)		√35		RAF	5th
Leslie James Ashfield	√	√36		RAF	5th
Dennis Charles Lamb	√	√40		RAF	5th
Bernard Frederick West Matthews	√	√41		RAF	5th
Harry Robert (Rob) D’Almaine	√	√44		RN (Subs)	**
Shui Pun Preston Wong	√	√54		Civilian	**
Robert Edward Rogers (tbc: Scout possibly RJ not RE)		59		Army	5th
Stanley Thomas Back	√	√64		Army	28th
Sidney John Leeland		65		Army	5th
Lawrence Lee Pyman	√	√66		RAF	31st
Holford Cave Secretan	√	√67		Army	31st
George Victor Snell (Just Victor in CWGC)	√	√68		RAF	31st
William Bethune Baxter		69		RAF	31st
William Walter Hall		71		Army	?
Donald D Finlayson		√73		RAF	7th
Leslie William Turton		√74		Army	7th

Added* = not as Cambridge

The first lines are from the 1946 District records the second from Commonwealth War Graves Commission. I have only linked those where the CWGC lists the serviceman as having lived in Cambridge. Others of the correct name but no recorded link have been excluded.

From post war list of war service

James Bremner 9th Cambridge RAF Jan 1940 20/1/1940 RAFVR No. 8 Flying Training School 742099 Son of John Rae Bremner and Edith Violet Bremner, of Camberley, Surrey. James was an active member of the 9^th Cambridge Scout Troop, growing up in Queen’s College as the son of the Head Porter. He joined the RAF in the Second World War and whilst training as a pilot, tragically died in a training flight accident in January 1940. In 1938, James married Sylvia M Windeatt in Cambridge. From Chris Rosier 11th/9th Cambridge

Terry Casbolt 12^th Cambridge RAF 20/11/1942 76 Sqd RAFVR 1467115 20/11/42 Milan War Cemetery Son of CV ad EC Casbolt Cambridge

Douglas Brown 12^th Cambridge RAF 16/3/1945 Wireless operator whose Lancaster crashed shortly after take off from Skegness. 44Sqd RAFVR 1874886 16/3/1945 Runnymede Memorial Cambridge

Charles James Sewell 26^th Cambridge RFA (Royal Field Artillery) 17/3/1944 8^th Medium Reg. RA 974588 17/3/1944 Fen Ditton (Cambs)

Godfrey H Dunn 64^th Cambridge Perse student Ambushed whilst seeing a new gun position 179 Field A 1126852 9/4/1945 Nordrhein Westfalen war cemetery (Godfrey Hugh Dunn) Cambridge

Ronald Wallis 23^rd Cambridge Jan 1942 Army 332 Battery Lt AA Reg RA 6094674 26/12/1942 son of Gertrude Wallis Camb.

The following is the list of Cambridge Scouts/ Scouters not on the Roll of Honour, as compiled in 1946 and since. Those above that I have been able to verify are ticked. Chessum is described as being ‘on war service.’ The others I have not been able to confirm the individual and/or the circumstances.

Frederick Cecil Harrold

√

√ 24

RAF

7th

FCH Sent with extra information. One of ‘The Few.’

Peter Luddington Bennett

√

√30

RNVR

31st

PLB Listed on Gilwell Rolls of Honour under 71st Croydon

See also Evercircular /Casualties for those of the 23rd Cambridge

New names

The first has been identified as an ex Wolf Cub in Group records. I do not recall Wolf Cubs being listed locally but The Scouter did recognise ex Cubs as it did ex Scouts and ex Rovers in the Rolls of Honour. The Group had no Troop and the Lady CM was also the local teacher and likely Sam’s teacher. It is very likely her writing on the Group records (below).

Private Samuel Wilfred Whitley 28th Cambridge 5933027 1^st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment Died whilst a prisoner of war of ‘cardiac beriberi’ in 1945. He is buried in Yokohama War Cemetery. Born in 1921 he was 24 when he died.

His brother, also captured in Singapore, survived the war.

Malcolm Joseph Clow 41st Cambridge Pembroke College Choir Awarded Albert Medal (see Individuals)

Shui Pun Preston Wong Cambridge Scout c 1919 – 1922 Oct 1943 Civilian Resistance in Hong Kong.

Names from the 60th In The Scouter October 1947 we have located three entries from the 60th Cambridge (The Leys) school. This is the last monthly Roll of Honour published in The Scouter, none exist for the rest of 1947 or 1948. Two are recorded in The Leys School Archives. A reference from a post war Rover reunion states six of the Group were killed. The Leys School Archives identifies four and Alfred Sadd, who was not a member of the Leys Troop or Crew. The two other members were Michael Fitch and Donald Simms, Rovers who died in an accident in Scotland whilst still with the school and not connected to war service.

W T Pickle RAF 18/12/1942 109972 William Turner
A D Shuckburgh RAF 13/10/1941 903834 Alan Doughty
N McLeod RAC 14/5/1944 284866 Norman

Anthony Frederick Hallett RNVR 30/6/1941 is also listed alongside the three above in The Leys School Archives, as is Alfred Sadd. (see People/ Individuals) Tony’s death in the 1946 AGM notes has the note ‘Crete’ appended.

Names from 7th History (Cambridge Boys High School) not listed at Gilwell

Walter Taylor-Young Teacher and SM 7th Cambridge
Mervyn Denham Humphrey Gilbart Smith 7th Cambridge 26/3/1941 Died in attacking Keren in Itaian Eritrea.
Leslie William Turton Died in RTA returning from leave nr Durham Sapper. Listed as war dead school RoH and CWGC. Also PoW in Greece.
Donald Dennis Finlayson Died saving his crew in a bombing raid

Names from the ‘5th Cambridge The first 50 years’.

S B Wallis Possibly Stanley Thomas Banks Wallis 741434 buried Cherry Hinton
L Ashfield Leslie John Ashfield 40198 of Horseheath
D C Lamb Denis Charles 741579 of Impington buried Cherry Hinton
B F W Matthews Bernard Frederick West Matthews 62004
S J Leeland Sidney John, Major, died 9/2/1944 in the Battle of the Admin Box Burma

Unknown troop

William Walter Hall Lived Trafalgar Road New Chesterton and attended Cambridge Grammar School for Boys. Possibly 7th but not locatede Died whilst escaping from Japanese advance on Singapore. Listed on several local RoH.

Not Cambridge but Deep Sea Scout

H R D’Almaine Member of the crew of the Monorel – 1935 trip to Rover Moot, Sweden

JWR Archivist Apr 2019 and ongoing

The Great War

World War 2

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