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In
Loving Memory of our Fallen
THE FALLEN OF THE GREAT WAR
Surnames I,
J, and K
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INGRAM, W.
Wallace Ingram was born in 1893 in Newport Pagnell, the
youngest of the seven children of farm labourer Jesse Ingram and his
wife Anne, née Clarke. The couple had married in 1874. Their firstborn
was Sarah, followed by William, Kate, Frank, Charles, and Hilda.
The family moved several times, living at 56a
Tickford Street in 1881 and 2 Priory Street in 1891. Mr Ingram died at
the age of 51 in 1899, and the family had moved to 43 Priory Street by
1901, and in 1911 Mrs Ingram was living at 69 Tickford Street and
earning money by doing laundry and supplementing her income by taking in
a lodger; in the early days of her marriage she had been a lacemaker.
Mrs Ingram later would move to 36 Queen Ann's Houses in St John Street.
By 1911 Wallace had left home and become a Private in
the Grenadier Guards, stationed at Caterham. He was still serving in the
Guards as Private 15020, in the 2nd battalion, when he was killed in
action. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France, Pier and
Face 5d.
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IVES, J. F.
James Frederick Ives was born around 1900 in Belfast and
lived there. However, for a short time he lived with his parents in
Newport Pagnell, and was employed in the town before enlisting in
Bletchley.
He served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1st
battalion, as a Private, 50968 (according to Soldiers Died, 50868). He
died from wounds on 30 August 1918 and is buried in the Ligny-St Flochel
British Cemetery, Averdoingt, France. grave III A 31. At the foot of his
headstone are the words, "Father in thy gracious keeping leave we now
our loved one sleeping".
He was the son of Frederick and Bertha Ives, from 2
Avonbeg Street, Belfast.
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JEEVES, F. C.
Frank Cyril Jeeves was born at Leatherhead in 1896. He was
the youngest of three children, the others being Herbert William and
Florence Mabel. They were the children of Charles Jeeves and his wife
Ann Selina, née Figg, who had married in 1888. The family lived at 3
Church Walk, Waterloo Place, Leatherhead. Mr Jeeves was a coach and
motor trimmer, born in Biggleswade, and by 1911 Herbert had become a
clerk in the GPO, while Frank was an office boy.
Frank enlisted in London to become Rifleman, 4062, in
the London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles). He was serving in the
1.9th battalion when he died on 1 July 1916 at the age of 20. He is
commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, pier and face 9c.
Mrs Jeeves is recorded by the CWGC as living at 17a Caldecote
Street, Newport Pagnell; her husband is noted as deceased. A search
of death indexes suggests that Mr Jeeves died in 1928 in Newport
Pagnell at the age of 65.
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JONES, W. G.
William George Jones was born at Shenley in 1883, the first
son and second child of John James and Sarah Jones. Mr Jones was a farm
labourer in 1891 and a milkman on a farm in 1901. The family lived at
Loughton, and there were nine children in the family; Emma E, William
George, Albert, Lily May, Arthur Harold, Fred, Beatrice, Dorothy, and
Bertha.
William in 1901 was a carter on a farm, and in 1906
he married Mary Flexman, from Tring. The couple had two children in
1911; Florence May and William Joseph. They probably had three more
children; Harold, born 1911, Beatrice, 1913, and Edward, born about
1916. William in 1911 was working as a farm labourer, and the family
were living at 4 Brookfield Cottages, Old Bradwell.
William enlisted in Wolverton and became a Private,
9078, in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He was serving
in the 2nd battalion when he died from wounds on 1 March 1917. He is
buried at the Étaples Military Cemetery, France, XXI K 7A. On his
headstone are inscribed the words, "Peace, Perfect Peace".
Mrs Jones later lived at 11 Paggs Court, Newport
Pagnell. She remarried in 1919, to Thomas Hammond.
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Note: Phyllis Margaret Jones was stationed at Bletchley
Park during World War II. She worked as a Hollerith operator and also a
supervisor in the now-demolished Hut 7 and in what is currently the
Visitors' Centre. Hollerith machines summarised information on punched
cards. Miss Jones is recorded in the 1939 register as living at 9 St John
Street. Her mother was possibly Sarah Jones, née
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KEECH, A. E.
Arthur Edward Keech was born in Newport Pagnell about 1894.
He was the first son and fourth of the seven children of Edward J. Keech
and his wife Annie. Mr Keech was in 1901 an iron furnaceman for the
railway works, and the family lived at 31 Caldecote Street. The first
born was Sarah Anne, in 1887, followed by Rosa Kate in 1899, and Jessie,
1892. Arthur was then followed by Frederick Oliver in 1896 and
Horace in about 1898. The last child was Frank, born in 1905.
In 1911 Arthur was an apprentice finisher at the
railworks. A month after war broke out, Arthur volunteered, enlisting in
Wolverton. He became a Private, 12619, in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry, 6th battalion. He served at Camberly, Blackdown, and
Salisbury Plain before he went to the Western Front in July 1915. There
he engaged in the heavy fighting on numerous occasions before losing his
life at Ypres on 5 March 1916.
He is buried at Essex Farm cemetery, Belgium, grave
I. I.11.
"His life for his country"
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KILPIN, W. H.
William Harry Kilpin was the son of bricklayers' labourer
William Kilpin and his wife Mary Esther, formerly Feasey. The couple had
married in 1888, and in 1891 were living at 69 Caldecote Street. With
them were Mary's three children, John Henry Feasey, born about 1883,
Thomas Kilpin Feasey, and Caroline Ada K Feasey, born about 1887.
William Harry was born in 1894, followed by his
sister, Annie, in about 1899. By 1901 the family were at Club Court, 1
Priory Street, where they remained in 1911. In that year William was
working as a general labourer, as was the other son at home, Thomas.
Their census return was signed with the mark of William Kilpin. The
family later moved to 23 The Crescent, Bury Street.
William volunteered in December 1915, enlisting in
Bedford to become Private, 23445, in the 8th battalion of the
Bedfordshire Regiment. Seven months later he was sent to France, and
there was wounded in the Battle of The Somme in July 1916. He was sent
back to England to convalesce, and by March 1917, after his recovery,
returned to the Western Front. He took part in the battles at Arras, and
finally was badly wounded at Ypres. He died at Étaples hospital on 16
September 1916.
He is buried in St Patrick's cemetery, Loos, France,
in grave II D 11. "His life for his country, his soul for God"
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KING, R. D.
Ralph Deards King, born about 1896, was the son of Charles
Trinder King and his wife Mary Ann Deards, née Elson. The couple married
in 1888. There were six children in the family, one of whom died early.
The others were Charles Elson, born 1889, Edward, born 1890, Elsa Kate,
born 1892, and Ella Grace, 1904.
Mr King was in 1901 a police sergeant. The family was
living at 18 St James Road, Bethnal Green, London, and had two boarders,
Francis Read, a bus conductor, and Frank Crawley, a cabinet maker. By
1911 Mr King had become a police pensioner aged 47, and had moved with
his family to 50 High Street South, Dunstable, the town of his birth.
Ralph returned to London to enlist, joining at Armoury House the
Honourable Artillery Company on 21 July 1915. On 21 July 1916 he
left Southampton for Havre, and was out in the field by 29 July
1916. He joined his battalion, the 1st, on 16 October 1916, being assigned to
D company the next day. He was killed in action just ten days later,
on 27 October 1916. He was 20.
Private King, 4082, is buried at Knightsbridge Cemetery,
Mesnil-Martinsart, France, in grave F60. At the foot of his headstone
are the words, "From father and mother: love and remembrance last
forever".
The Kings later moved to 1 London Terrace, Dunstable, and in July
1922 Private King's medals were sent to his family. They also received
his effects, amongst them photographs, a birth certificate, a wrist
watch, a pipe, a leather case, a pocket case and pocket knife, a wallet,
a handkerchief, letters, two pencils, a sleeping helmet, and a fountain
pen and a mirror each in their own cases.
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 KNIGHT,
L
This headstone is in the churchyard of St Peter and St
Paul. It reads "In loving memory of James Knight, the beloved husband of
Mary Knight, died Sept 29 - 1905, aged 63 years. Also of Corporal
Leonard Knight RE, youngest son of the above, wounded at Armentières,
died June 16 - 1915, aged 29 years. Also of Mary Knight, wife of the
above, born June 19 - 1844, died March 29 - 1928".
Leonard was the second youngest of probably thirteen
children; their father was a master shoemaker and their mother, the
former Mary Elizabeth Rose, had been a shoe closer when the couple
married in 1860. In 1871 and 1881 the family had lived in the High
Street; afterwards at 15 St John Street.
In 1901 Leonard had become a coach wheeler apprentice
and by 1911 he was a sapper and a wheelwright in the Royal Engineers at
Chatham. His mother was living with one of her sons, William, at 20
Church Street, Wolverton. William was a widower with a daughter, Eva,
then aged 12, and was working as a gas fitter.
Leonard enlisted in Wolverton, and when he died was
serving as 20958 in the 3rd Building Company of the Royal Engineers. He
is buried at Newport Pagnell, in grave 9 D (U) 2. His date of death
according to the CWGC is 17 June.
 Leonard's siblings included James Andrew (or Andrew
James). George W (in 1881 William Geo), Ambrose J (in 1881 John A),
Thomas W (in 1881 Walter Thomas), Sarah, Frederick Charles, Ada, Ernest,
Edwin Albert, Herman, Florence Emily M, and Leonard's only youngest
sibling, Kate Arabella.
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