Roll of Honour - Devon - Exeter, Cathedral

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EXETER CATHERAL, WESSEX FIELD AMBULANCE WAR MEMORIAL

World War 1 - Detailed information
Compiled and copyright © Martin Edwards 2025

Within Exeter cathedral is a wall mounted, portrait aligned, nowy-headed, plaque with relief at top centre of four soldiers including one wounded soldier and stretcher. There is a badge in relief with named battle grounds, to either side of the soldiers, with the names, with unit, in three columns below, listed in raised lettering. There are fifty nine names listed.

Photographs Coyprright © Martin Edwards 2024

NEUVE CHAPPELLE
LA SOMME
YPRES
ST. AMAND

1914 - 1919

ARRAS
YPRES
LA SOMME
GIVENCHY

24th. (1/1st. WESSEX) FIELD AMBULANCE
BLANDY, M.C.	Francis Dawson	Lieutenant Colonel, 24th Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 14 August 1917. Buried in RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot III. Row B. Grave 8.
DUNCAN	T	Major
DE LA BERE	Charles [Edward]	Captain, Adjutant 66th "Y" Brigade H.Q., Royal Garrison Artillery. Killed in action 10 September 1918. Son of the Rev. John and Mrs. De la Bere, of 23, St. Aubyns, Hove, Sussex. Buried in ECOUST-ST. MEIN BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Row B. Grave 10. Link to Royal Army Medica Store not established; he could have been attached either way.
SUSSEX	R	Second Leiutenant
BASTIN, M.M.	Ernest Albert	Sergeant 457072, 24th Field Ambulance, 1st/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 3 March 1921. Aged 27. Buried in EXETER (EXWICK OR ST. THOMAS) CEMETERY, Devon. Row V. Grave 67.
PEMBERTHY, M.M.	A V	Corporal
BAKER	A	Private
BAILEY	Frederick Henry	Private 1914, 24th Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Died of wounds 1 July 1916. Aged 21. Born Exmouth, Devon, enlisted Exeter, Devon. Son of R. H. and Annie Bailey, of 9, Priory Rd., Exeter. Buried in RIBEMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, Somme, France. Plot IV. Row E. Grave 8.
BODEN	Arthur Charles James	Private 457270, 24th Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 19 November 1917. Aged 21. Enlisted Exeter, Devon. Son of W. H. and Lucy Boden, of Exeter, Devon. Buried in VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot VIII. Row C. Grave 2.
BOND	F W	Private
CARDER	H J	Private
CARR	G E	Private
COLBBOURNE	R S	Private
COLLINS	W M	Private
DAVIS	H G	Private
EDWORTHY	R	Private
FORD	W J	Private
HAYES	C C	Private
HULL	R	Private
JEFFERY	R F	Bugler
JEFFERY	R H	Private
LAVER	B C	Private
NICHOLLS	T H	Private
PARSONS	F W	Private
PEDRICK	J G	Private
RADFORD	E	Private
SIBBITT	B	Private
SWEETLAND	F	Private
SWITHENBANK	L S	Private
TAYLOR	A	Private
TOTHILL	E E	Private
VICARY	W R L	Private
VOSPER	A E	Private
WALKER	H	Driver
WHITE	J	Private
WHITE	W E	Private
WILLS	G	Private
24th. (2/1st. (WESSEX) FIELD AMBULANCE
SAYRES, MiD	Alexander Ward Fortescue	Lieutenant-Colonel, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Died 10 October 1917. Aged 50. Youngest son of the Rev. Edward Sayres, of Cold Ashton Rectory, Glos.; husband of Bertha Sayres, of 4, Marlborough Terrace, Bovey Tracey, Devon. Mentioned in Despatches (MiD). Buried in ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme, France. Plot III. Row C. Grave 28.
McVICKER	E H	Lieutenant
NEILL, U.S.A.	Mc	Lieutenant
COLWILL	C	Sergeant
SEALEY	John William	[Listed as J K SEALEY on memorial] Corporal 457030, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 3 August 1917. Aged 22. Son of John and Bessie Sealey, of Teignmouth, Devon. Born West Teignmouth, Devon, enlisted Teignmouth, Devon. Buried in BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot II. Row C. Grave 3.
COLE	Arthur Richard	Lance Corporal 457379, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Died of wounds 10 April 1918. Aged 23. Born Monmouth, Monmouthshire, enlisted Exeter, Devon. Son of Arthur Cole, of 31, Wonford Rd., Exeter. Buried in CHOCQUES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot I. Row M. Grave 38.
POOK	A E	Lance Corporal
ADAMS	Alfred James	Private 2291, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 1 August 1916. Enlisted Camborne, Cornwall. Buried in DIVE COPSE BRITISH CEMETERY, SAILLY-LE-SEC, Somme, France. Plot II. Row D. Grave 30.
BASTIN	A R	Private
BRAILEY	S	Private
CATTERALL	H	Private
COOMBES	E	Private
DeVIELL	A J	Driver
MARTIN	Fredeirck Adam [Sanford]	Private 457322, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 3 June 1917. Aged 20. Born and enlisted Cullompton, Devon. Son of Adam Sanford Martin and Miriam Frances Martin, of "The Pines," Alcombe, Minehead. Buried in BRANDHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Plot I. Row B. Grave 20.
MURRAY	L	Private
PARKER	Samuel John	Private 2253, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 14 August 1916. Born West Teignmouth, Devon, enlisted Exeter, Devon. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 4 C.
RICHARDS	Francis Henry	Private 457391, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 2 August 1917. Born and resident Tiverton, Devon, enlisted Exeter, Devon. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 56.
RICHARDSON	Robert Daniel Crawford	[Listed as R D W RICAHRDSON on memorial] Private 8064, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 9 November 1918. Aged 23. Born Crook, Durham, enlisted Sunderland. Son of Oscar and Sarah Richardson of Dean Bank, Ferryhill, Co. Durham. Buried in CHERCQ CHURCHYARD, Hainaut, Belgium. Row A. Grave 3.
SHEPPERD	A J	Driver
STONEMAN	Leonard George	Private 457344, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 9 April 1918. Aged 23. Born Okehampton, Devon, enlisted Exeter, Devon. Son of Richard and Martha Stoneman, of 3, Castle Rd., Okehampton, Devon. Buried in HOUCHIN BRITISH CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France. Plot III. Row F. Grave 3.
WILLIAMS	F	Driver
YEATES	Albert James	[Listed as YEATS on CWGC] Private 2003, 24th Field Ambulance, 2nd/1st Wessex Field Ambulance (Territorial Force), Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action 14 August 1916. Aged 18. Born Budleigh, Devon, enlisted Exeter, Devon. Son of W. J. and Fanny Yeats, of 14, High St., Budleigh Salterton, Devon. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 4 C.

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