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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

The visit of Commonwealth graves in Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

WAMBAIX Communal Cemetery (Nord France)

G. M. Ponsonby who was the son of the Rev. Hon Maurice Ponsonby (later Lord DeMauley) the Vicar of Wantage U.K.

A. J. Woodthorpe - G. E. Wright - G. R. M. Caldwell - A. E. Warner

Lt Gavin Ralston Mure Caldwell 09/10/1918 aged 21
Here with his father, the Rev. Caldwell, and his great-uncle, General Sir G. B. Wolseley.
Gavin Ralston Mure Caldwell was born in Kent in 1897, the only child of the Rev. William McKennal Caldwell and his wife Jessie Elsie. The Rev. Caldwell was Rector of East Ilsley in Berkshire from 1913 to 1916, and then of Fetcham in Surrey. Gavin attended Clifton College in Bristol, joined the Officers Training Corps there and was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders on 21/10/1914. He was transferred to the Coldstream Guards in 08/1916.
For Kay Sanderson

5 casualties

CALDWELL GAVIN RALSTON MURE
United Kingdom Lieutenant Coldstream Guards 2nd Bn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 09/10/1918

PONSONBY GERALD MAURICE
United Kingdom Captain Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 2nd Bn. Age: 37 Date of Death: 31/08/1914

WARNER A E
United Kingdom Lance Corporal Coldstream Guards 2nd Bn. Age: 31 Date of Death: 10/10/1918 Service No: 22749

WOODTHORPE ARTHUR JOHN
United Kingdom Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery 276th Siege Bty. Age: 37 Date of Death: 09/10/1918

WRIGHT GEORGE EDWARD
United Kingdom Second Lieutenant Army Service Corps Secondary Royal Garrison Artillery Secondary attd 276th Siege Bty Age: 26 Date of Death: 09/10/1918

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