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Vermelles British Cemetery
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1060 Private
Maurice Edward Napper
7th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
17th March 1916, aged 29.
Plot II. A. 14.

Son of Mrs. James Napper, of Tismans Common, Rudgwick, Horsham; husband of Edith Annie Napper, of West Park Cottages, Newchapel, Lingfield, Surrey.

Picture courtesy of Colin Stenner

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Lieutenant
Herbert Theodore Louis Neish
1st Bn. Northamptonshire Regiment
31st August 1915, aged 21.
Plot I. B. 26.

Son of Thomas and Annie Ingram Neish, of 231, Browning Rd., Manor Park, Essex.


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Second Lieutenant
Edward Boynton Pedder
18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
17th January 1916, aged 26.
Plot I. M. 3.

Second son of Arthur Edward and Eliza Pedder, of Mundesley, Norfolk.


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Lieutenant
Jasper Prescott Phillimore
6th Bn. The Buffs. (East Kent Regiment)
13th October 1915, aged 23.
Plot I. E. 10.

Son of Joseph and Alice Ellen Phillimore. A student of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. B.Sc. (London). Born at Newquay, Cornwall.


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Lieutenant
Reginald William Phillipps
King's Coy. 1st Bn. Grenadier Guards
16/10/1915, aged 19.
Son of Mr. W. W. G. and Mrs. F. M. Phillipps, of Berwick House, Berwick, Shrewsbury. Educated at St. Vincents, Eastbourne. Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Plot I. J. 3.

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Lieutenant
Aubrey Blackwood Porter
4th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Highland Light Infantry
3rd October 1915, aged 24.
Plot VI. C. 21.

Son of the late Lt. Gerald M. Porter (7th Hussars), and Mary Blackwood Porter, of West Lodge, North Berwick. Educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford. Gazetted Aug., 1914 from O.T.C. Rowed in New College boat in Torpids. Member of Swiss Alpine Club. Born at Stanton Harcourt, Oxford.


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904 Corporal
William George Stenner
7th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
17th March 1916, aged 26.
Plot II. A. 16.

Son of James and Emma Stenner, of Binfield Heath, Henley-on-Thames.

Picture courtesy of nephew, Colin Stenner

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5756 Private
Thomas Thornber
20th Bn. Royal Fusiliers attached to 160th Coy. Royal Engineers
11th April 1916, aged 28.
Plot II. L. 27.

Son of Alderman and Mrs. T. Thornber, of Henley Hall, Burnley; husband of Elsie Thornber, of The Gables, Scott Park, Burnley.



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14038 Private
William Edward Torkington
2nd Bn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
2nd September 1916, aged 31.
Plot VI. E. 9.

Resided at 38 Mill Street, Burnley. He was a moulder at Messrs. Palmer's Pentridge Mill, Burnley prior to enlisting. It appears that he was a widower and left two small children.


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Second Lieutenant
Charles Henry Essex Varndell
6th Bn. The Queen's. (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
13th March 1916, aged 22.
Plot II. J. 17.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Varndell, of Bagshot; husband of Janet Kay Varndell, of 28, Roseneath Place, Edinburgh.


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Captain
Phillip Stafford Gordon Wainman, M. I. D.
6th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
26th September 1915, aged 35.
Plot VI. D. 12.

Son of Mrs. Waimnan and the late Gordon Wainman, of Vine Cottage, Northallerton; husband of Christine Wainman, of Otterington Hall, Northallerton, Yorks. Served in the South African Campaign.


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Captain
Henry Walter Cecil Weldon
7th Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
27th April 1916, aged 34.
Plot II. G. 24.

Son of Sarah and the late Henry Walter Weldon, of 72, Pembroke Rd., Dublin. Native of Bantry, Co. Cork.


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Lieutenant
Leonard Williams
1st Bn. South Wales Borderers
11th September 1915, aged 20.
Plot I. C. 19.

Son of Alfred and Amy Williams, of The Mount, Caerleon, Mon.


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Captain
Geoffrey Woodhams
7th Bn. Royal Sussex Regiment
19th March 1916, aged 24.
Plot II. L. 8.

Son of Albert Woodhams, of "Sundvolden." Littlehampton, Sussex.


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