HOLY TRINITY, LYNE WAR MEMORIAL Researched and written by Graham Webster The Holy Trinity church, Lyne, Surrey’s War Memorial takes two forms: a stone cross and a tablet on the church’s west wall. Holy Trinity church, Lyne Surrey War Memorials (© Graham WEBSTER) The inscriptions on the three sides of the plinth of the cross read as follows: In everlasting honour of those who having left all that was dearest to them made the great sacrifice for the sake of righteousness and freedom May they rest in peace” This cross is erected to the glory of God for our victories by sea and land during the Great War 1914 – 1919 In perpetual and glorious memory of the sixteen men of this parish who laid down their lives for their country Their name liveth for evermore The memorial was unveiled on 9 October 1920 by Lt Gen Sir Edward T H HOTTON and dedicated by the Archdeacon of Surrey, Canon A G ROBINSON. It was created by Farmer and Brindley of London, a firm of monumental masons and sculptors, stone importers and architectural modellers, responsible for a number of war memorials, including the Albert Memorial, London and the Waterloo Station Victory Arch. The tablet lists the names and regiments of the 16 men: Holy Trinity church, Lyne Surrey War Memorial tablet (© Graham WEBSTER) ATKINS, T Thomas ATKINS, son of T and A ATKINS, husband of Jane ATKINS, of Botleys Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey, a Private with 1st Bn, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), service number G/37874, died 26 September 1917. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium. Thomas was born 9 April 1882 in Chertsey, Surrey to Thomas and Ann (nee PATFIELD) ATKINS; he was baptised at St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey on 14 May 1882 (father is a gas stoker at the time). In 1891, Thomas is living with his parents (father is a gas works labourer) in Green Lane, Chertsey, Surrey; he has two older sisters, Sarah and Fanny, two younger brothers, Frank and William, and a younger sister, Ann. In 1887 he is enrolled in Windsor Street Church of England / Council School, Chertsey (infants). In 1901, he is still living in Green Lane Chertsey, Surrey (he is a farm labourer), with parents – father still a gas works labourer) with Sarah, Frank and Ann, and another younger sister, Kate. On 18 February 1905 he marries Jane SEWELL at St Peter, Chertsey, Surrey, living at Pretoria Cottages, Chertsey, Surrey - they have had a daughter born in 14 February1904, Harriet Mary. In 1911 he is living with wife, Harriet and son Thomas born 10 June 1905 at 15 Mead Lane, Chertsey, Surrey, together with Jane’s widowed father and her brothers and sister. Thomas joined up under the Derby Scheme* and enlisted in July 1916; he had been was employed by Mr H GOSLING JP. He transferred to France on 27 November 1916. Thomas died of wounds in his legs and thighs sustained on 24 September 1917; the Chaplain wrote to Jane and said that Thomas suffered little owing to the shock and was too weak to speak or understand and passed away peacefully after the Chaplain had commended his soul to God. *The Derby Scheme was proposed by Lord DERBY as an attempt to increase recruitment and avoid the need for conscription by allowing men to voluntarily attest for service at a later date. Between 1 December 1915 and 13 December 1915, 1,070,478 men were attested under the Derby Scheme; this was nearly 48% of the total number of men who had attested up to 15 December 1915. ATTFIELD, S Stuart ATTFIELD (celiahill21, Ancestry.co.uk) Stuart ATTFIELD, son of Mrs W ATTFIELD, of Lyne Lane, Chertsey, Surrey, was a Lance Corporal with the 1st/5th Bn, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, service number 37381, died 17 March 1919. He is buried at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Stuart was born on 27 March 1899 in Lyne, Surrey to William John ATTFIELD (when he was 39) and Elizabeth (nee WATTS) (when she was 34), and he was baptised there on 29 September 1899. In 1901 Stuart (also Stewart) was living in Lyne, Surrey with parents (father was a gardener) and older brothers and sisters – William A, Mary, Mabel, Jillian, Betsey (or Bessie), and Arthur (or John). By 1911, the family had grown to include Maurice, Walter, and Edgar with all but Mary, Mabel and Jillian living in the family home; father was still a gardener and they were living in Lyne Lane, Chertsey, Surrey. His parents had a further daughter, Winifred Helen later in 1911. Stuart had been promoted from Private. He died after contracting influenza and pneumonia after returning to France; he was buried on 19 March 1919. Stuart was the second cousin of George Hugh CHANDLER and the first cousin once removed of William CHANDLER, who both also died in the First World War and are also commemorated on the War Memorial at Lyne. (celiahill21, Ancestry.co.uk) His father, as next-of-kin, received £16 11s 3d as his effects (including £11 war gratuity). BAIGENT, F (Surrey Herald, 16 Nov 1917) Frank BAIGENT, son of Harry BAIGENT, husband of Amy L Baigent, of 4, May Avenue, Lymington, Hants, a private with 1st Bn, East Surrey Regiment, service number G/6616, died 15 September 1917. He is buried in the Berlin South Western Cemetery, Brandenberg, Germany. Francis ‘Frank’ BAIGENT was born in Longcross, Cherstsey, Surrey, in 21 May 1879 to Henry and Hannah (nee FURZE), and was baptised on 22 June 1879 at Christchurch, Longcross, Surrey. In 1881, he is living in a “private house” in the area of Kits Mead, Longcross with father (a gardener but also “in care of” the house), mother, elder brothers, William Henry E, Frederick and Charles, and younger sister, Mary Beatrice. In 1891, the family – father is still a gardener – is living in Longcross Road, Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey. Elder brother, Frederick is still at home, as is (Mary) Beatrice, but he now has other siblings – brother Weller, sister Emily, brother Valentine, and youngest sister Margaret. In January 1901, brother William dies. The family is living in Well’s Lane, Sunninghill, Berkshire but Frank has moved away from home, working as a domestic footman in Knowlton Court, Knowlton, Eastry, Kent in the house of William H PETO, a retired building contractor. Henry is still a domestic gardener in 1911 and living with Hannah and children Valentine and Margaret at 2 Park Cottages, Lyne Chertsey, Surrey; four of their eight children had died. In Q3 1905, Frank marries Amy Louisa Hendey WHITREN in Lymington, Hampshire. His daughter, Ida Beatrice is born on 2 Jul 1906 in Longcross, Chertsey, Surrey. In the 1911 Census he is a gentleman’s servant at The Royal York and the Royal Albion Hotels, Old Steine, Brighton, while wife Amy is a butler at 103 Ebury Buildings, Hanover Square, London (with daughter, Ida). His son, Norman Arthur is born also in the district of Chertsey, Surrey 21 August 1912. Frank BAIGENT and family (Valmerryweather Ancestry.co.uk) He enlists in Bath, Somerset in November 1914 (according the newspaper cutting below); he joined the 1st Bn, East Surrey Regiment on 15 November 1916. He is reported missing on 8 May 1917 from ‘C’ Coy; he is official recorded as a prisoner of war on 8 May 1917 taken at Fresnoy (although the International Committee of the Red Cross has records from his prisoner of War Camp – Wittenberg - that state he was taken on 6 May 1917). Official he dies from his wounds in the Wittenberg POW Camp, Saxony, Germany although the cutting below states dysentery; his family is informed on 16 October 1917. Surrey Advertiser, 12 November 1917, page 2, col 3 The probate of his estate (granted 9 February 1918 in London) gives Frank’s 1917 as Farleigh Plain, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, with the value of his effects £170 (to Amy, his widow). He is also commemorated on the Longcross war memorial at Christchurch: Christchurch, Longcross Surrey War Memorial (SGW Project http://tinyurl.com/jazadx5 ) BOSHER, F N Source: http://www.hurstatwar.co.uk/ Frederick Norman BOSHER, a Private with the 7th (City of London) Bn. London Regiment, service number 2450, died on 3 April 1915. He is buried in Brown’s Road Military Cemetery, Festubert, Pas de Calais, France. Frederick (also Norman) was born Q3 1894, in the district of Chertsey, Surrey, to parents Frederick and Louisa-Mary (nee HOPKINS) BOSHER; he was baptised 12 August 1894 at St Mary, Thorpe, Surrey. In 1901 they are living in Level Crossing Road, Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey with Frederick’s (Norman in the census) older siblings, John Leslie and Kathleen Eleanor; father is a farmer. The 1911 Census shows that his parents (at Lyne Farm, Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey) had had four children; one had died by this date. Frederick was a pupil at Hurstpierpoint College, Cuckfield, Sussex – he was at the college from 1907-1911. He is recorded as being a farmer when he left school.. He enlists at Sun Street, Finsbury Square, London in September 1914. Frederick’s battalion (some sources record this as 5th Bn) landed in France on 3 March 1915; he was killed in action by a bursting shell and its shrapnel a month later at Bethune near Armentiéres, France – two days after moving to the front line. A war gratuity was paid to his father. He is also commemorated on the Hurstpierpoint College War Memorial in the Chapel to St John: Source: http://tinyurl.com/z5hogsf CHANDLER, G H George Hugh CHANDLER, Son of George John and Jane Elizabeth (nee BINDON) CHANDLER, of Milita Cottage, Lyne, Chertsey, England, was a private in the 8th Bn, Canadian Expeditionary Force, service number 865862, died on 16 July 1918, in Tuxedo, Manitoba, Canada.