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KER William
Private 65886 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Born Feb 1888 at Kings Cliffe, William was a son of butcher John
Thomas Walker and his wife, Maud Mary. The butchers shop
was on Park Street and William worked there as an assistant.
In May 1911, William married Florence Chapman with the
marriage being registered in Oundle.
Florence lived and worked at her uncle’s pub, the Cross Keys
on West Street,now the only pub in Kings Cliffe. Her parents
ran the Horse & Pannier Inn in nearby North Luffenham. Her
mother was the sister of Tom Richardson, the landlord of the
Cross Keys.
William and Florence had two children – Eleanor May born 8th
Feb 1914, and Thomas born 7th Jan 1917.
William enlisted on 17th May 1916, soon after conscription
came in at the beginning of that year and became Private 65886
3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Rather surprisingly, considering the need for manpower at
that stage of the war, he was not actually mobilised until 27th
September 1918, just a few months before the end of hostilities
On enlistment he was 5ft 6 ½in tall (1.7m), weighed 144 pounds
(65kg) and had a 35in chest (89cm).
William did not leave Britain and was discharged on 14th Feb
1919, returning to Kings Cliffe, where a job awaited him.
WALPOLE Frederick George
Private 9916 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Frederick was born on the 11th February 1893 in Rollesby,
Norfolk, to Henry and Ann Elizabeth Walpole.
Rollesby is a Broadland village North West of Great Yarmouth.
Frederick’s connection with Kings Cliffe is not well documented,
but the fact that his brother, Henry William Walpole, had married
Kings Cliffe girl, Elizabeth Giddings, in 1907 and was living
with her and their children in the village and that Frederick was
included in the original list of men from the village who died
in the Great War, suggests that it is likely that he had come
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Private 65886 3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Born Feb 1888 at Kings Cliffe, William was a son of butcher John
Thomas Walker and his wife, Maud Mary. The butchers shop
was on Park Street and William worked there as an assistant.
In May 1911, William married Florence Chapman with the
marriage being registered in Oundle.
Florence lived and worked at her uncle’s pub, the Cross Keys
on West Street,now the only pub in Kings Cliffe. Her parents
ran the Horse & Pannier Inn in nearby North Luffenham. Her
mother was the sister of Tom Richardson, the landlord of the
Cross Keys.
William and Florence had two children – Eleanor May born 8th
Feb 1914, and Thomas born 7th Jan 1917.
William enlisted on 17th May 1916, soon after conscription
came in at the beginning of that year and became Private 65886
3rd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment.
Rather surprisingly, considering the need for manpower at
that stage of the war, he was not actually mobilised until 27th
September 1918, just a few months before the end of hostilities
On enlistment he was 5ft 6 ½in tall (1.7m), weighed 144 pounds
(65kg) and had a 35in chest (89cm).
William did not leave Britain and was discharged on 14th Feb
1919, returning to Kings Cliffe, where a job awaited him.
WALPOLE Frederick George
Private 9916 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Frederick was born on the 11th February 1893 in Rollesby,
Norfolk, to Henry and Ann Elizabeth Walpole.
Rollesby is a Broadland village North West of Great Yarmouth.
Frederick’s connection with Kings Cliffe is not well documented,
but the fact that his brother, Henry William Walpole, had married
Kings Cliffe girl, Elizabeth Giddings, in 1907 and was living
with her and their children in the village and that Frederick was
included in the original list of men from the village who died
in the Great War, suggests that it is likely that he had come
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