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Military Records information for Coddington and places above it in the hierarchy

Coddington

The Great War Bulletin for November 23rd, 1914 tells us that: Septimus G. BACKHOUSE - aged 30 - was killed the prior week on his first night in the trenches with the 1st Btln. Sherwood Foresters during the Battle of La Bassee. Septimus was born in 1884 to coachman John and Margaret BACKHOUSE of Newark road in Coddington.

In All Saints Church there is a wall memorial to the men from this parish who were killed in the Great War 1914-1918. One name has been added from World War II.

There is also a plaque to John Somerled THORPE who died in World War I.

These are the men listed on memorials for WWI:

  1. sergeant Alfred BRYAN, 1st Bn Lincolnshire Regt., died 21 Mar 1918
  2. private Walter Leonard BRYAN, 2nd Bn Durham Light Infantry, died 22 Apr 1918
  3. srgt.-major Charles William CANT, 2nd Bn Yorkshire Regt., died 01 Jul 1916
  4. petty officer George Henry CLARICOATES, HMS Good Hope, died 01 Nov 1914
  5. private Alfred HENTON, 22nd Bn Northumberland Fusiliers, died 11 Apr 1918
  6. major John Somerled THORPE, 2nd Bn Scots Guards, died 15 Sep 1916
  7. private George Richard YOUNG, 2/7th Bn Sherwood Foresters, died 26 Sep 1917
  8. lance corporal Charles William YOUNG, Nottinghamshire Yeomanry, died 28 Nov 1917
  9. corporal Charles J YOUNG, 2/8th Bn Sherwood Foresters, died 31 Oct 1917

The two BRYAN boys were brothers, sons of Joshua and Matilda BRYAN,

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