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Herbert
George Cadd was a Private in the Royal
Buckinghamshire Hussars who was killed in action in Egypt on 11/12/1915
and is buried at grave E.115 in the Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War
Memorial Cemetery. A Herbert Edward Cadd, born 1893, was living with
his Johnstone grandparents in WS in 1901 and there is no Herbert George
Cadd born in Bucks at an appropriate time, so it may be the same person.
The Johnstones lived in a cottage next to Water Stratford House and Mr
Johnstone was a wheelwright.
Kenneth Borrodaile Henry was a Rifleman in the Rifle Brigade who died of his wounds on 12/07/1916 and is buried at grave II.B.5 in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe. He was born in 1895 in Hendon. His connection with WS is unknown so far, as his home was Pillerton Priors at the time of his death, his parents came from Edinburgh and Derbyshire, and his father was a self-employed merchant in London in 1901. Francis John May was a Lance-Sergeant in the Canadian Infantry who died 15/8/1917. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, Pas de Calais. He was born in 1888 in WS to Peter and Betsy May (Lace, now Honesty, Cottage) but he must have emigrated to Canada as he enlisted in British Columbia on 3/3/1915. Thomas Walter Pearson was a Private in The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) who died 17/7/1918 and is buried at grave 4.B.28 in Chauny Communal Cemetery British Extension, Aisne, France. He was born in 1897 in WS to Walter and Frances Pearson who lived in the Old Post Office. William James Hilsdon was a Private in the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) who died 14/10/1918 and is buried at grave XIV.H.16.in Hodge Crater Cemetery, Belgium. He originally enlisted in the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars. He was born in 1898 and lived at Town Farm. He was a son of William and Mary Ann Hilsdon. Robert Gordon Sikes was a Lieutenant in the Leicestershire Yeomanry/4th (Queen's Own) Hussars who died 22/02/1919 and is buried at grave S.V.M.12 in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. He was born in 1888 in Leicestershire, the son of James Sikes, younger brother of John Sikes who was head of the family living in Water Stratford House in 1901. Robert married John’s daughter, his cousin Clementina Gwendoline Sikes. She was living in WS when he died and had a son, also Robert Gordon, a few months later. His father was living in Canada by 1919. No-one from the parish is recorded as being killed in action in World War II |