This memorial commemorates 1 Officer and 45 NCOs and men from the Cheshire Regiment, all of whom were killed in August and September 1914 and originally buried on the battlefields.

The La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial commemorates 3838 officers and men of the British Expeditionary Force who died in August, September and the early part of October 1914 and who have no known grave.  Names are listed on the memorial by Regiments in order of precedence, under the title of each Regiment by rank, and under each rank alphabetically.



1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment
Officers, N.C.O.s & Men of the 1st Battalion, Commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial
©: G E Conway, 2009
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Private E J Conway (circa. 1905)
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All of the men named below were awarded the 1914 Star (with "clasps and roses"), the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
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'A' Company:





Pt. 9879 Francis James. HEFFERAN

Pt. 7451 Joseph     JONES (A.R.)
Pt. William         MASSEY
'B' Company:




Pt. 6879 Joseph  ARNOTT (A.R.)
Pt. 9060 William    BYRNE
Pt. 10266 Samuel BURKHILL
Pt. 7511 Edward  GOOCH (A.R.)
L/Cpl. 10271 Albert    HOLT
Pt. 7833 William     JONES
Pt. 7034 James McDERMOTT (A.R)
Pt. 7225 William
McDEAN (A.R.)
Pt. 7805 George T. MORRIS (A.R.)
Pt. 10083 Henry     NOLAN (A.R.)
Pt. 6986 Thomas PEARSON (A.R.)
Pt 9991 William James
SMITH
Pt. 8720 James UNSWORTH

Pt 7768 Albert Stephen
WALKER (A.R.)
Pt. 7462 Jeremiah WILKINSON (A.R.)
'C' Company:




Pt. 6771 William BULLOCK (A.R.)
Pt. 8069 Gerald COPPOCK (A.R.)
Pt. 9156 Edward    EATON
Pt. 7879 Arthur     FROST (A.R.)
Pt. 9507 John    HAGGERTY

Cpl. 6932 Thomas
HEWITT

L/Cpl. 4829 Edward HUGHES
Pt. 7926 Charles Alfred
KING (A.R.)
Pt. 6360 Arthur William Joseph WALDEN

'D' Company:




Pt. 7091 James  BARNES (A.R.)
Pt. 7700 Alfred  BELSHAW (A.R.)
Pt. 10088 John      BYRNE
Pt. 8540 Sidney      DALE (A.R.)
Pt. 7831 James       DIXON (A.R.)
Pt. 8036 John      FEENEY (A.R.)
Pt. 7597 Jacob GRIFFITHS (A.R.)
Pt. 7579 George William HOLBROOK (A.R.)
Pt. 7308 Harry HOUGHTON (A.R.)
Pt. 10089 William Henry HULL

Pt. 7769 William  McCANN (A.R.)
Cpl. 9993 James W
ROBERTS
Sgt. 8891 Walter  TAYLOR
Pt 7835 Sam
WHITELY (A.R.)
L.Cpl. 8097 John
WHITLOW (A.R.)
Pt. 7257 Samuel WHITTAKER (A.R.)
Pt 10135 George
WIGLEY
Pt. 10169 James Albert WILLIAMSON

 
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La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial
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40 of the 1st Battalion commemorated here fell at Audregnies on 24 August. This includes Lt. K T Frost whose body was subsequently identified as being buried at Wiheries. Of the remaining 5, one fell at Le Cateau and four on the Aisne.
Audregnies Communal Cemetery contains the bodies of 14 soldiers of the 1st Battalion who were killed in action on 24th August 1914. Without doubt they are some of the 39 who are commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing at  La Ferte-sous-Jouarre who fell on that day.
 
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