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The War Memorials in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge
(Photo : 28th61st)
The Trinity College, Cambridge War Memorial is situated in the Trinity College Chapel which was completed in 1567. The chapel is entered through a Victorian Porch.
On the west wall is a memorial to Members of College who were killed in the Second World War and on the east wall, the names of those who died in the First World War. 28th61st has transcribed the names of those killed in the First World War, and of these nine men have been identified as having served in the Yorkshire Regiment.
A Roll of Honour, with biographies of those listed on the Trinity
College War Memorial can be found on
http://trinitycollegechapel.com/media/filestore/general-documents/RollOfHonourWWI.pdf
Captain Wilfred Hubert Chapman. 6th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Mr. J. J. and Fanny Chapman, of Whitby, Yorks; husband of May Campbell
Chapman, of The Home Farm, Cromer, Norfolk. Served in the South African Campaign.
Killed 7 August 1915. Aged 35.
Buried AZMAK CEMETERY, SUVLA.
2nd Lieutenant Erasmus Darwin. (also commmeorated
on the Cambridge King's
College Chapel and Cambridge
Guildhall War Memorials.)
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Horace and Ida Darwin, of The Orchard,
Cambridge. Grandson of naturalist Charles Darwin and statistician Thomas Farrer,
1st Baron Farrer. Died 24 April 1915. Aged 33.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES
(MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
The following information is taken from the Marlborough
College Roll of Honour;-
"The son of H Darwin Esqr F.R.S. of Cambridge, and grandson of Charles
Darwin and of the 1st Lord Farrer, was born on 7th December 1881 and was at
Marlborough College (Cotton House) from September 1895 to Midsummer 1901.
He became an Exhibitioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1902 and was Senior
Optime in 1904. From Cambridge he went through the Shops of Messrs. Mathers
& Platt of Manchester, and at the outbreak of war was Secretary of Bolckow
Vaughan & Co. Ltd. of Middlesbrough.
In September 1914 he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion .. Yorkshire
Regiment, with which he crossed to France in the Northumbrian Division in
April 1915. This Division was almost immediately engaged in the Second Battle
of Ypres. Erasmus Darwin was killed during a successful attack at Fortuin
near St. Julien on 24th April 1915."
The following biographical information is taken from Robert Coulson's "Biographies
of Yorkshire Regiment Officers";
"Erasmus Darwin was the grandson of Charles Darwin the renowned naturalist
and was born in Cambridge on 7 December 1881.
He was educated at Horris Hill, Marlborough College and then Trinity College
at Cambridge where he specialised in mathematics and mechanical sciences.
He then worked for Mather and Platts in Manchester, the Cambridge Scientific
Instrument Company and at the outbreak of war was company secretary for Bolckow
and Vaughans Ironworks in Middlesbrough.
Erasmus Darwin spent just six days on the Western Front before being killed.
The 4th Battalion landed at Boulogne on April 18th 1915 and were immediately
moved up to the Ypres Salient. At 1-00am on April 24th the battalion were
by the canal to the east of Ypres and later in the morning they were ordered
on to Potijze.
From here they advanced through the wire in an attempt to push the Germans
back into St Julien.
“The battalion lost heavily crossing the open level ground.”
2nd Lt Erasmus Darwin died in this action on April 24th 1915 at the age of
33."
Captain Francis Dodgson. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of
Henley F. Dodgson, of Bovingdon, Herts. Educated at Marlborough College and
Trinity College, Cambridge. Killed 10 July 1916. Aged 27.
Buried SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2.
2nd Lieutenant Aylmer Eade. 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment,
attached to 2nd Battalion. Son of the Rev. Charles John Aylmer Eade and Constance
Eade, of Aycliffe Vicarage, Darlington. Killed 9 October 1917. Aged 25.
Buried CEMENT HOUSE CEMETERY.
(Also commemorated on the war memorial in Charterhouse School Memorial Chapel,
Godalming)
Lieutenant William Percy Orde-Powlett, 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Hon. A. and Mrs. Orde-Powlett, now 5th Baron Bolton and Lady Bolton,
of Bolton Hall, Leyburn, Yorks. Killed on 17 May 1915. Aged 21.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
Captain Frank Bryan Parker. 7th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, attached
to 6th Battalion. Son of Reginald B. and Margaret A. Parker, of Milford Hall,
South Milford, Yorks. (buried Bolshoi Ozerki Cem.). Killed 23 March 1919.
Aged 22.
Commemorated ARCHANGEL MEMORIAL.
Lieutenant Christopher Butler Prior-Wandesforde. 4th Battalion Yorkshire
Regiment. Son of Capt. R. H. and Mrs. Prior-Wandesforde, of Castlecomer House,
Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. Killed 27 June 1917. Aged 20.
Buried ACHIET-LE-GRAND COMMUNAL
CEMETERY EXTENSION.
Captain John Cecil Rix. Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 9th Battalion
the Yorkshire Regiment. Son of the late William H. and Rosalie J. Rix, of
Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Killed 6 July 1916. Aged 40.
Buried BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY, BECORDEL-BECOURT.
Captain Clifford Sandford Simpson. 8th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Killed 10 July 1916.
Buried BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY.
Robert Coulson has provided biographical details of Captain Simpson in his
Biographies of Officers
of the Yorkshire Regiment;-
"Clifford Simpson was born in Liverpool on February 11th 1891 and was
educated at Repton School where he joined the Officer Training Corps followed
by Trinity College at Cambridge which he entered in 1910.
At the onset of war he applied for a commission and was gazetted as a 2nd
Lt with the 8th Battalion in September 1914 and received promotion to Lieutenant
in December.
In August 1915 he married his fiancée Winifred Stokes at Petersfield
in Southampton and on the 26th of the month sailed with the 8th Battalion
from Folkestone to Boulogne.
By now a Captain and Adjutant to the battalion Clifford Simpson spent the
remaining months of 1915 in the Bois Grenier sector to the south of Armentieres.
In June 1916 the battalion moved to Longeau near Amiens to prepare for the
Somme offensive and on July 5th the battalion were in action in the attack
on Horseshoe Trench.
On July 10th the battalion attacked the village of Contalmaison from the direction
of Baillif Wood, the advance going in at 4.50 p.m.
Captain Clifford Sandford Simpson was killed in this action at Contalmaison
on July 10th 1916 at the age of 25.
A brother officer wrote later,
“He was killed in the thickest of actions at about 5-30pm. Nobody could
have wished for a better or more noble end. He was with Col Vaughan in the
thick of it charging across the open to attack the village. The whole battalion
mourns him”.
Another wrote,
“He died as he lived a very great and gallant gentleman”.
Lieutenant Anthony Reginald Welsh. 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of William and Florence Elvira Welsh, of Owslebury House, Winchester.
Born Altrincham, Cheshire. Died 19 February 1916. Aged 32.
Buried BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY.
Wilfred Chapman's Name on the Trinity College War Memorial
(Photo : 28th61st)
Photographs of the panels with the names of the other men of the Yorkshire Regiment have also been photographed by 28th61st.
The entrance to the Chapel, Trinity College (Cambridge University)
Photo : Trinity
College Chapel
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