YAPTON - St MARY’s CHURCH – MeMorial

We are grateful to Lynne Coles for providing the photographs © above,

and the majority of the information below.

Pte G/4628 Edward Bacon

7th Battalion, 12th Division

Died: 3rd March 1916 - Killed in Action

Born: Yapton

Enlisted: Arundel

Husband of Elizabeth Bacon, of Rope Cottage, Yapton, Arundel, Sussex.

Memorial Reference: Panel 69 to 73.

Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

Pte G/4629 Frederick Bacon

2nd Battalion, 1st Division

Died: 30th April 1915 - Killed in Action

Age: 37

Born: Yapton

Enlisted: Arundel

Son of Frederick Bacon, of Church Lane, Yapton, Arundel, Sussex.

Memorial Reference: Panel 20 and 21.

Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL

Pte TF/201074 (Henry) William Goodger

1/4th Battalion, 53rd Division

Died: 26th March 1917- Killed in Action – Egypt

Age: 33

Born: Yapton

Enlisted: Bognor

Son of Mrs. Harriett Arm Goodger, of 3, West Cottages, Tapton, Arundel, Sussex.

Memorial Reference: Panels 26 and 27.

Memorial: JERUSALEM MEMORIAL

Pte L/8365 Robert Hill

7th Battalion, 12th Division

Died: 8th April 1916 - Killed in Action

Born: Harting

Enlisted: Chichester

Son of Mrs. G. B. Hughes, of Yapton, Arundel, Sussex.

Memorial Reference: Bay 6.

Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL

Pte TF/1369 Arthur Holden

1/4th Battalion, 53rd Division

Died: 10th August 1915 - Killed in Action - Gallipoli

Age: 21

Born: Yapton

Enlisted: Eastergate

Son of Walter and Charlotte Holden, of 5, West Cottages, Yapton, Arundel, Sussex.

Memorial Reference: Panel 125.

Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

Pte TF/201073 Harold Hother

1/4th Battalion, 53rd Division

Died: 26th March 1717 - Killed in Action – Egypt

Age: 21

Born: Yapton

Enlisted: Horsham

Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Hother, late of Bilsham, Yapton, Arundel.

Memorial Reference: Panels 26 and 27.

Memorial: JERUSALEM MEMORIAL

Pte G/4178 William Pratt

"D" Coy.7th Battalion, 12th Division

Died: 13th March 1916 - Of wounds after being shot by a sniper

Age: 26

Born: Merston, Sussex

Enlisted: Arundel

Son of William and Mary Pratt, of Tillington Cottage, Yapton, Arundel, Sussex.

Grave Reference: V. B. 20.

Cemetery: BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

A/Sjt SD/3008 Frederick John Saxby

11th Battalion, 39th Division 

Died: 13th December 1916 - Of wounds, at home

Born: Yapton

Enlisted: Chichester

Grave Reference: West of Church, near South side of main path.

Cemetery: YAPTON (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Pte TF/200899 Jesse Stenning

1/4th Battalion, 53rd Division

Died: 6th November 1917 - Killed in Action - Egypt

Born:

Enlisted: Horsham

Memorial Reference: Panels 26 and 27.

Memorial: JERUSALEM MEMORIAL

Pte G/6646 Frank Robert Stone

9th Battalion, 24th Division

Died: 11th March 1917 - Killed in Action 

Born: Stubbington, Hants

Enlisted: Bexhill

Grave Reference: Coll. grave 1-4.

Cemetery: AIX-NOULETTE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Pte TF/201071 John Stubbs

1st/4th Battalion, 53rd Division

Died: 20th March 1917 - Of disease in a Cairo military hospital - Egypt

Age: 29

Born:

Enlisted: Bognor

Grave Reference: F. 201.

Cemetery: CAIRO WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY