Potton’s Roll of Honour
Lest We Forget
| Potton’s Roll of Honour – First and Second World Wars | ||
| 1914 – 1918 | ||
| BAKER | William | Private G/14509, 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. |
| BLANE | Horace | Private 5855, “B” Company, 2/5th Battalion (Territorial) Gloucestershire Regiment. |
| BONESS | Arthur John | Private 18787, 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| BOSTON | Charles H | Corporal G/2922, 9th East Surrey Regiment. |
| BREED | Frederick C | Private 23417, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| CARTER | Frederick | Private 8283, 8th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. |
| CARTER | Harry | Private 23431, “B” Company, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| CHARTER | Albert | Private 20639, 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| CLARK[E] | William Walter | Private 31995, 117th Company, Machine Gun Corps (inf.). Formerly 23434 Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| COLLINS | Sam | Private 27468, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| COMPTON | Boston Leopold | Signaller 159089, 1st/1st (Warwick Bty.) 15th Bde. Royal Horse Artillery. |
| DARLOW | Albert | Private 51607, 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. |
| DEEBLE | Samuel | Private 49257, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| DELANEY | J | [Probably Joseph Delaney] L/Corporal 1279, 9th Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London) Regiment. |
| DENNIS | John | Sergeant 33557, 14th Army Bde. Royal Field Artillery. |
| EMERY | F | Private 2854, 5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| FELTS | Percival Claude | 2nd Lieutenant, 6th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. |
| FOSTER | A | No information available. |
| FOSTER | Ernest | Private 23437, 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| FREESTONE | J H | Private 114640, 17th Company Machine Gun Corps (Inf.). Formerly 23467 Essex Regiment. |
| GARDINER | Stanley Tysoe | 2nd Lieutenant 55th Field Company, Royal Engineers. |
| GATES | William Henry | Private 2654, East Surrey Regiment. |
| GIDDINGS | Harry K | L/Corporal 32199, 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| GINN | Frederick William | Driver 182822, 62nd Bty. 38th Bde. Royal Field Artillery. |
| GURNEY | Albert G | Sergeant 28160, 259th Siege Royal Garrison Artillery. |
| HARE | William Charles | Private 203183, 5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| HILL | W | No information. |
| HUTCHINSON | Herbert | [Hutchison on CWGC] Private 9271, 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| HUTCHINSON | (Charles) Nicholas | Private 8196, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| HUTCHINSON | George | Private G/8320, 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. |
| HUTCHINSON | William | [Hutchison on CWGC] Sergeant 13370, 47th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Inf.). Formerly 8319 Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| INSKIP | Bert William | Private G/14547, ‘C’ Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. |
| KITCHENER | James | Private 133841, 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers Labour Corps. Formerly 35187 Middlesex Regiment. |
| LINFORD, MM | Alfred William | Company Sergeant Major G/20279, 12th Royal Sussex Regiment. |
| MANNING | John | L/Corporal L/8831, 8th Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). |
| MARSDEN | George James | [Transcribed as D J Marsden] Private 29213, 11th Battalion Essex Regiment. |
| MARSDEN | Fred | Sergeant 39316, 11th Battalion Essex Regiment. Attd. 6th Div. H.Q. Formerly 07704 R.A.O.C. |
| MOORE | F | Private 7311, Depot. East Surrey Regiment. |
| MUNKMAN | Frank | Private 30946, 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment. |
| PAYNE | Walter | Private 27644, 8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| PEACOCK | William Henry | Private 29558, 1/4th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. Formerly 46472 Yorkshire Regiment. |
| REYNOLDS | Arthur George | Private G/25785, 1st battalion Buffs (East Kent Regiment). |
| REYNOLDS | J F | [Probably Frederick J. Reynolds] Private 25135, 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| REYNOLDS | W E | No information. |
| RICHARDSON | E G | No information. |
| RICHARDSON | James | Private 3/8288, 7th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| RICHARDSON | Wilfred Ernest | Private 2711, 2nd East Surrey Regiment. |
| SHEARMAN | William | Private 23436, 4th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| SPRIGGS | Frederick Harry | Driver 177485, ‘D’ Bty. 38th Bde. Royal Field Artillery. |
| SURTEES | Richard Barron | Private 2720, 2nd Battalion East surrey Regiment. |
| SYMONDS | James Howard | Private F/2805, 16th Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment). |
| WHITFIELD | Frederick | Private 141584, 21st Battalion Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment). |
| WHITFIELD | Allen Pettengell | Private 26754, 1st (Herts) Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. |
| WOODS | F T | No information. |
| 1939 – 1945 | ||
| APTHORPE | Arthur Walter | Fusilier 14701379, 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers. |
| COBB | George William | Sapper 14631797, 20 Bomb Disposal Company, Royal Engineers. |
| DAISLEY | Arthur William | Gunner 863416, ‘D’ Bty. 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. |
| EDWARDS | R | No information. |
| EMERY | Jack | Inscription in Potton Cemetery on Memorial Plot G214 reads: Died 7th August 1943 whilst a Prisoner of War in Malaya. |
| HUTCHINSON | A | No information. |
| JAKES | Dick | Driver T/187282, 64 Bulk Petrol Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps. |
| KIDD | V | [Probably Victor Alfred Kidd] Private 6409423, 2/7th Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment (W. Surrey). |
| KITCHENER | Macdonald | Trooper 10602953, 4th Regiment Reconnaissance Corps. R.A.C. |
| LANGLEY | G T | [Possibly Gordon Thompson Langley] Flt/Lt. 83713, 68 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. |
| MONTEITH | E W A | Trooper 14991645, 3rd Carabiniers (POW Dragoon Guards), R.A.C. |
| NORMAN | Stanley Edmund | Gunner 845570, 65 (The Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-tank Regiment, Royal Artillery. |
| TRUNDLEY | Leonard Gordon | Private 5952150, 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. |
Information taken from http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/PottonRollofHonour.html