The following table contains all the names on the Peasedown St John Village War Memorial, located in the Parish Church of St John the Baptist. The bronze First World War Memorial Plaque was paid for by public subscription and dedicated on 24th June 1928. Public subscription also funded a second bronze Memorial Plaque in honour of those who Peasedown men who laid down their lives in the Second World War. This was dedicated by the Bishop of Taunton on 5th July 1953 and unveiled by Brigadier Arnold Cazenove. All Service Personnel who died in the service of the Crown were entitled to an Official War Grave. Those whose remains have never been discovered instead have their sacrifice is recorded on an Official Memorial. Both the War Graves and the Memorials are maintained ‘in perpetuity’ by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). The table below records all those on the Peasedown St John War Memorial along with links to their Graves or Memorials. Sometimes the Regiment given by the CWGC are at variance with that on the War Memorial owing to soldiers transferring Regiments or Battalions as the War progressed. First World War 1914-1918 Name Regiment/Service Died Grave or Official Memorial details Address/notes PARFITT, Pte. MARK 1st Bn. The Coldstream 29/10/1914 Memorial details Hillside View Guards Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium WILLCOX, Sgt. THOMAS 1st Bn. The Somerset Light 10/11/1914 Memorial details HENRY DCM Infantry Ploegsteert Memorial, Comines- Warneton, Belgium COLE, Pte. FREDERICK 1st Bn. The Wiltshire 26/12/1914 Memorial details 41 Hillside View PHILIP Regiment Menin Gate, Belgium BAKER, Sgt. THOMAS 1st Bn. The Somerset Light 28/05/1915 Grave location Stowbrough Cottages HENRY Infantry Hop Store Cemetery, Belgium DAVIDGE, Driver 18th Div. Ammunition Col., 03/10/1915 Grave location 49 Hillside View FREDERICK CHARLES The Royal Field Artillery Mericourt-L’Abbe Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France FUSSELL, Driver PERCY 61st Bty. The Royal Field 25/12/1915 Memorial details 3 Stowbrough Cottages JAMES Artillery Helles Memorial, Turkey LATCHEM, Pte. RICHARD 10th Bn. The Welsh 08/01/1916 Grave location THOMAS Regiment St Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'avoue, France BARTLETT, Pte. JAMES 2nd Canadian Mounted 05/02/1916 Grave location Emigrated to Canada 1911. Parents remained in Rifles Battalion Bailleul Communal Cemetery Peasedown. Joined up at Medicine Hat, Alberta. Right leg Extension (Nord), France and arm wounded in Battle 3rd Feb 1916. Died at Base Hospital at Bailluel. SWIFT, Pte. ALBERT 1st Bn. The Somerset Light 29/06/1916 Memorial details THOMAS Infantry Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France NEWMAN, Pte. FRANK 6th Bn. The Dorsetshire 07/07/1916 Memorial details Regiment Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France GAY, Pte. WILLIAM 2nd/4th Bn. Royal 14/07/1916 Grave location 10 Bloomfield Terrace THOMAS Berkshire Regiment Merville Communal Cemetery, See personal memorial in St John’s Church France Died of wounds received in the Battle of the Somme HOLMAN, Pte. FREDERICK 6th Bn. The Somerset Light 18/08/1916 Grave location Infantry Delville Wood Cemetery, Somme, France VRANCH, Sgt. EDWARD 6th Bn. The Somerset Light 16/09/1916 Memorial details Ashgrove JOSEPH MID, LS&GCM, Infantry Thiepval Memorial, Somme, Order of St. George 1st France Class (Russia) MATTHEWS, Pte. WILLIAM 10th Bn. The Devonshire 24/04/1917 Memorial details Bath Road ARTHUR Regiment Dorian Memorial, Greece See personal memorial in St John’s Church Died in the Salonika Campaign WESTERMAN, Sapper The Royal Engineers 04/06/1917 Grave location FREDERICK C Tilloy British Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France HIBBERT, Sapper WILLIAM The Royal Engineers 20/08/1917 Grave location H Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension, Armentieres, France FORD, Pte. MARK 10th Bn. Royal Berkshire 28/10/1917 Grave location Died of wounds. Pte. Ford’s Official CWGC Headstone can Regiment/Labour Corps Peasedown (St. John The Baptist) be easily seen adjacent to the hedge at the front of the Churchyard, Somerset, UK Churchyard in Peasedown (the West side of the Churchyard) His widow Emily Gulliford in Eckwick Cottages COOMBS, Cpl. ARTHUR The Somerset Light No record yet located Infantry WILSON, Pte. GEORGE 5th Bn. The Somerset Light 14/11/1917 Grave location Parents lived at Elm Place, Tunley Rd., Dunkerton HERBERT Infantry Ramleh War Cemetery, Israel TUCKER, Pte. WILLIAM 7th Bn. The Somerset Light 23/03/1918 Memorial details JOHN Infantry Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France HOWELL, Sgt. ALFRED 6th Bn. The Wiltshire 05/05/1918 Grave location Regiment Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium GREGORY, Pte. LEONARD 5th Bn. The South Wales 30/05/1918 Memorial details 51 Hillside View Borderers Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France NASH, Pte. REGINALD C 16th Bn. The Lancashire 21/06/1918 Grave location Fusiliers Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas de Calais, France FILER, Pte. REGINALD 1st Bn. The Royal 25/08/1918 Grave location ALBERT Inniskilling Fusiliers Mont Noir Military Cemetery, St. Jans-Cappel, France LATCHEM, Pte. MARK 1st Bn. The Gloucestershire 18/11/1918 Grave location Pte. Mark Latchem was a Reservist who joined up when Regiment Cologne Southern Cemetery, War broke up. He was injured in action and captured by Germany the Germans as a Prisoner of War, being held at No.25 Pent Gustrow Camp, Mecklenburg. Buried in Peasedown (St John the Baptish) Churchyard but not on the War Memorial CLARK, Petty Officer Stoker H.M.S. Bacchante, The 13/02/1919 Grave location Petty Officer Stoker Gilbert Clark is buried at the very GILBERT JOHN Royal Navy Peasedown (St. John The Baptist) rear of the Churchyard abutting the field boundary where Churchyard, Somerset, UK the Official CWGC Headstone can be easily seen. Second World War 1939-1945 Name Regiment/Service Died Address/notes BUTTON, Sgt. CECIL The Corps of Military 01/09/1944 Grave location Police Arezzo War Cemetery, Italy BAMPFYLDE, Pte. HERBERT 6th Bn. The Green Howards 10/08/1944 Grave location WILLIAM St. Charles De Percy War Cemetery, Calvados, France FORD, Gnr. HUBERT F The Heavy Anti-Aircraft 15/06/1945 Grave location Son of Mark and Emily Ford – see WW1 Memorial. Regiment, The Royal Hamburg Cemetery, Germany Husband of Doris Ford. Artillery GARRETT, Able Seaman HMS Blackwood, The Royal 15/06/1944 Grave location The frigate HMS Blackwood was torpedoed in the English FREDERICK ARTHUR Navy Portland Royal Naval Cemetery, Channel by U-Boat 674. The explosion blew off the bows Dorset, UK but the Blackwood initially remained afloat. There were 58 causalities including Able Seaman Frederick Garrett. MOORE, Sapper ARTHUR The Royal Engineers 26/03/1942 Grave location JOHN Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt MILLER, Stoker 1st Class HMS Quebec, The Royal 18/07/1943 Memorial details GEORGE EDWARD Navy Plymouth Naval Memorial, Devon, UK ROSSITER, Cpl. FRANK 9th Bn. The Cameronians 05/11/1944 Grave location (Scottish Rifles) Maarheeze (Sterksel Monastery) Cemetery, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands STOCK, Fus. JACK 1st Bn. The Royal between Memorial details Inniskilling Fusiliers 18- Rangoon Memorial, Burma 19/02/1943 VOKES, Lance Bombardier 4/2 Maritime Regt. The 07/12/1942 Memorial details EDWARD L Royal Artillery Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire, UK Buried in Peasedown (St John the Baptist) Churchyard but not on the War Memorial BAKER, Miss FREDA Civilian Night of Peasedown (St John the Baptist) Aged 17. A Peasedown girl killed when 29 The Paragon, Sunday 26th - Churchyard Bath was hit during the 3rd and final phase of the Bath Monday Blitz. Freda was one of 22 who lost their lives when 27th April numbers 28, 29 and 30 were hit Funeral taken by the 1942 Vicar of Peasedown (Rev E Rothwell) and Burial by the Radstock Methodist Minister (Rev Henderson Brown) .