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The First World War War Memorial for King's College, Cambridge
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The First World War Memorial for King's College, Cambridge, is on three panels situated in a small chapel on the South side of the main chapel. The memorial commemorates the names of 202 men who fell in the First World War.
There is a separate Second World War memorial commemorating the names of 137 casualties.
2nd Lieutenant Erasmus Darwin. 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.
(Commemorated as one of the "Boys at the Choir School" on the Memorial)
nd Lieutenant Maurice Kemp-Welch. 10th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of James and Olive Kemp-Welch, of "Olantye," Weybridge, Surrey;
husband of Margaret Frazer Kemp-Welch. B.A. (Cambridge). Killed 11 April 1917.
Aged 36.
Commemorated on Bay 5, ARRAS MEMORIAL.
The following biographical notes are provided by Robert Coulson in his "Biographies
of Officers of the Yorkshire Regiment";-
"A university man Maurice Kemp-Welch went up to Cambridge entering Kings
College in 1899.
He joined the 10th Battalion during the third week in June 1916 as the battalion
were gearing up for the forthcoming Somme Offensive.
When the great battle opened on July 1st 1916 at 7-30 a.m. 2nd Lt Kemp-Welch
and the battalion attacked just to the north of the village of Fricourt.
Later in the month they were in action at Mametz and the Bazentin Woods.
In August 1916 the battalion were moved to the Arras sector and then back
to the Somme and finally ending 1916 around the town of Loos.
April 1917 saw the opening of the Battle of Arras and 2nd Lt Kemp-Welch and
his men went into action at 6-30 a.m. crossing no-man’s land. The battalion
frontage was from the front line south east of Henin sur Cojeul and after
reaching the German lines 2nd Lt Kemp-Welch and his men were faced with unusually
thick enemy wire, which the artillery had failed to cut. The men were boxed
in against the wire and casualties were high.
2nd Lt Maurice Kemp-Welch was killed in this action on the morning of April
11th 1917 at the age of 36."
The following biographical information is provided in a Royal
Society of Chemistry booklet commemorating those who fought and died in
the First World War;-
"Born in Bristol in 1880, son of James and Olive, Maurice Kemp-Welch
entered King’s College Cambridge in 1899, gaining his BA in business
three years later.On leaving Cambridge, he entered into business, dealing
with the commercial chemistry of oils. Immediately after the outbreak of war
he applied himself to adapting German methods in rubber and with a colleague,
devised a process of coating canvas with rubber. Although his main focus was
primarily commercial, the one characteristic he always displayed was ‘science
for science sake’. He married Margaret Frazer Kemp-Welch in 1911; they
had one daughter, Margaret, in 1912."
(Commemorated as a "Pensioner" on the Memorial)
Captain John Vivian Nancarrow. 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of George Bennett Nancarrow and Charlotte Alice Nancarrow, of "Ravenscroft,"
Grove Hill, Middlesbrough. Killed 25 April 1915. Aged 30.
Commemorated Panel 33, YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL.
(Commemorated as a "Pensioner" on the Memorial)
The Panel on the First World War War Memorial for King's College, Cambridge
Commemorating Erasmus Darwin
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The Panel on the First World War War Memorial for King's College, Cambridge
Commemorating Maurice Kemp-Welch and John Vivian Nancarrow
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King's College Chapel, Cambridge, - Viewed from Queen's Road.
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