The Early Warrant List

Cambridge District Scout Archive

The List

The following list of Cambridge District Warrant holders between the years 1909 and 1914   are from the Gilwell Archives. 

The list is in sets by date and alphabetically within those sets. The years run across individual file cards

They do not appear to be complete in that many other names of people regularly active in the district are recorded in local records.  They are certainly not complete in terms of active workers on the ground awaiting warrants or working in peripheral roles.  A significant amount of support across troops is not listed and most are not linked to a particular troop.

It is not known why the list is incomplete.  The local timing of assessment before or after involvement is not clear.  Some cards are numbered but we do know some were lost or the compilation incomplete.

The Uses of the List

The index is very useful  for linking to other work of reference, in particular the locally very useful ‘Cambridge University War List’, which gives further details of most of those who were or had been at the University and fought in the Great War.  Whilst limited it can add or confirm a piece of information that points more strongly towards one person or another.

The Limitations of the List

The list does not give first names, which is not such a problem when searching those with three initials or a double barrel, but does not help to distinguish H Halls.

Local addresses are very useful when identifying students, if they are in halls, but the lack of home addresses makes linking with other sources difficult.  A student address and a ‘March’ troop brings lack of certainty – why are they listed with Cambridge, do they travel to March (a fair distance), is this an error by address or yet another name with no identified local troop.

152 listed Warrants, some names appearing twice.

The listed Troops were 1^st (3 individuals), 2^nd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th (3), 7^th, 8^th (2), 11^th, 12^th, 14^th, 15^th and 1^st Cambridge District . This observation is not very useful in that most were presumably attached to a Troop and a few to a District role. 

106 of the 152 were resident in Cambridge

• 106      Cambridge
• 11        Wisbech
• 11        Ely
• 7          Newmarket
• 3          Balsham         
• 3          Histon             
• 2          Sawston

33 were College addresses, but some other students were not in recognizable student accommodation.

Allpress	1st Cambridge
Balls (no initials)	1st Cambridge
Bass
Bass
Blandford Francis George	1st Cambridge	6th Cambridge	CU Educationalist
Carter
Clarke			CU
Fagge F W L Norton			Captain died WW1 Teacher
Fenton G F	Soham		Headmaster
Hicks

Howard
Duncan-Jones	First Chair and a Vice President		Rev
Mott
Muncey (Edward Howard Parker)	1st Cambridge (poss)		CU Later Rev Teacher
Pepper			CU
Pettifor
Stimpson
Symonds			died WW1 CU
Walker			died WW1 CU
White			later Rev CU
Wilkinson			CU
Wood	5th Cambridge		CU

Card Y 1909 – B 1910 is possibly missing or there are no names between Y and B for this date. This possible gap sits between the reverse of Card 1 and the front of Card 2 and there is no mechanical break in the sequence.

Challis
Cleaver
Crick			Later Rev CU
Crump	2nd Cambridge	9th Cambridge	CU
Curzon	1st Cambridge
Ferguson	5th Cambridge		CU
Gibberd
Harper	Wisbech		Rev
Hine LSE	ASM and member of Exec.	Repeat
Kingdon F W P	4th Cambridge

Leighton JW			later Rev CU
Mallett F J			CU
Mallett Howard R	10th Cambridge		CU
Ollard (John William Arthur)		Repeat	CU Lt Col (WW2)
Padget W H			CU
Pepper G E	6th Cambridge

Smith			CU
Spiller	7th Cambridge	9th Cambridge	CU
White C
Wright R W	1st Cambridge		CU Died pre WW1
Bailey			Rev
Bruce	1st Wisbech
Coombes	1st
Copplestone W R J	6th	Repeat	CU

Dunkerley J V	6th	Repeat	CU
Eastwell M M	13th		CU
	Wisbech
Hills C H	11th
Hine LSE	ASM and member of Exec.	Repeat
Howell	5th		CU

Love	1st Cambridge District		Rev
Masters	8th Cambridge
Morrish (later Murrish)		12th Cambridge	Teacher CU
Ollard (John William Arthur)			CU Lt Col (WW2)
Padget			CU
Parsons	Wisbech
Phillips W E G	1st Cambridge
Ranner	13th Cambridge

Robinson	8th Cambridge
Staveley	2nd Cambridge		later Rev
Wright R W	9th Cambridge	DSM	CU Died pre WW1
Bonnett	1st Cambridge
Brandran			later Rev CU

Carter	15th Cambridge
Cole	11thCambridge		CU
Coombes	1st Cambridge
Copplestone	6th Cambridge	Repeat	CU
Crafter	8thCambridge		Rev
Culling (mis entered ELB Cutting see below)	17th Cambridge
Davidson (Francis Reginald Clear)	10th Cambridge		CU RFC
Dunkerley	6th Cambridge	Repeat	CU
Duthie			CU

Edge	14th Cambridge (1920)		CU
Ellis	14th Cambridge
Hake	15th Cambridge		Dir. Nat Portrait Gallery CU
Hall			CU
Howlett			Rev
Hutchinson K G
Impey	7th CD Cambridge Association
Kerridge	12th Instructor		CU
Malden	15th Cambridge		Rev CU
Osborne	Wisbech

Petch	Cambridge Association
Ranner	13th
Resker			Rev CU
Riddell	DSM		CU
Robinson	5th Cambridge
Scott	15th Cambridge		CU
Simms	5th Cambridge		CU
Staveley	2nd Cambridge		Rev
Stearn			later Rev

Cripps			Rev CU + St Phillips &13th?
Cutting	17th Cambridge		17th Died WW1
Davidson (Francis Reginald Clear)	10th Cambridge		CU RFC
Davies	3rd Cambridge		CU

Duchemin (Charles)		17th	Later Rt Rev Monseigneur CU
Ellis	14th Cambridge		CU
Farbrother (Alfred Steele)			Rev
Forbes			Rev
Gray			CU
Haley	Instructor
Henwood			Rev
Jagenberg Leonard Hubert	Instructor		died WW1 CU
James	11th Cambridge		CU

Kay			Rev
King	Instructor
Kirkland			Rev
Laidlaw	Instructor
Low	11th Cambridge		CU
Luscombe	3rd Cambridge		later Rev CU
Macalistair			Miss
MacFarlene Grieve	5th Cambridge		Teacher
Marriott			Rev CU
Morton	DSM 1914/15		died WW1

Nott	13th Cambridge		died WW1 CU
Redwood	5th Cambridge		later Rev CU
Shaw			died WW1 CU
Smith			Rev
Strachan			Rev Professor

Young	Instructor		Miss
Arrowsmith	24th Cambridge (1920)		Rev
Bywater			later Rev

Everett			Rev
Ferguson			died WW1 CU
Nicholls			CU

Perfect
Savile	5th Cambridge		died WW1 CU
Thurmott (Harold John)			born in Cambridge
Young			Rev

JWR Archivist Nov 2019