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IN MEMORy by Pierre Vandervelden

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

SCHORISSE Communal Cemetery (Oost Vlaanderen Belgium)

Left Plot : E. C. Malyon – W. A. G. Chaffe
Middle Plot: F. E. Buckingham – E. A. Bristow – A. A. Henderson – P. J. F. Tracey
Right Plot: D. McLaughlan – S. Pelling – F. G. Beeching – L. Margrie

Pte Edward Claude "Bob" Malyon 28/05/1940 aged 28
Following the erection of the new Ingatestone and Fryerning War Memorial in June 2006, a member of Bob’s family wrote this:
"Even at school he was always called “Bob”. He was the second of eight children born to Grace and William John Malyon of 1 Victoria Cottages, Mill Green, Ingatestone. After school, with no work, Bob and his elder brother Jim walked to Kent to join the Army. Bob passed the medical and was accepted (Jim failed with ear trouble and came home). After training, Bob was sent to India for seven years. When he came home to Mill Green he worked at Hoffman’s and then we all moved to 2 Council Houses, Ingatestone. In 1939 he married Beatrice May and had a daughter Maureen. Being on the Reserve, he was called up for service a week before war was declared and the day war was declared he went to France from Pembroke Dock, South Wales. In March 1940 his daughter died on her first birthday. He managed to get seven days leave but arrived too late for the funeral (that was in April 1940). He went back to France and was killed on the 28 May 1940, aged 28, in Belgium. I must add he was a great cricketer and played for Ingatestone in the Recreation Ground and once scored “Six” by hitting the ball into the church grounds."
For his family and the members of The Ingatestone cricket club's , Essex, England

10 casualties

BEECHING FREDERICK GEORGE
United Kingdom Lance Corporal The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 2nd Bn. Age: 29 Date of Death: 23/05/1940 Service No: 6284129 (2)

BRISTOW ERNEST ALBERT
United Kingdom Private East Surrey Regiment 1st Bn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 22/05/1940 Service No: 6144406 (7)

BUCKINGHAM FRANCIS EDWARD
United Kingdom Private Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment 4th Bn. Date of Death: 25/05/1940 Service No: 6345494 (8)

CHAFFE WILLIAM ALFRED GEORGE
United Kingdom Private The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1/6th Bn. Age: 21 Date of Death: 27/05/1940 Service No: 5622033 (9)

HENDERSON ALEXANDER A.
United Kingdom Private Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 6th Bn. Age: 32 Date of Death: 24/05/1940 Service No: 2757269 (6)

MALYON EDWARD CLAUD
United Kingdom Private The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 2nd Bn. Age: 28 Date of Death: 28/05/1940 Service No: 6284192 (10)

MARGRIE LESLIE
United Kingdom Private The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 16th Bn. Age: 19 Date of Death: 22/05/1940 Service No: 5499737 (1)

McLAUGHLAN DUNCAN
United Kingdom Corporal Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 6th Bn. Age: 30 Date of Death: 24/05/1940 Service No: 2757522 (4)

PELLING SIDNEY
United Kingdom Private Royal Sussex Regiment 2nd Bn. Age: 19 Date of Death: 24/05/1940 Service No: 6400098 (3)

TRACEY PATRICK JOSEPH FRANCIS
United Kingdom Private East Surrey Regiment 1st Bn. Age: 23 Date of Death: 22/05/1940 Service No: 6143155 (5)

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