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Military personnel

BARKER Harold Edward Wainwright Barker, Sergeant. (1880–1963) Grave Section 5C No. 357. Born Sydney, Australia. Sergeant, Australian Imperial Force, World War One, regimental number 9432, joined on 15 October 1915, aged 34. Embarked on the ship HMAT Suevic A29 on 31 May 1916; see https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1770226. Served in Rouen, France

Australian War Memorial

Group Portrait of the Staff of C Subsection (3rd Div.) of Australian Base Records, Rouen, France, 24 Sept 1918. Section: Harold Edward Wainwright Barker is standing second row from back, second person along from the right hand side. See https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C395604

After the war Harold was living in Bryanston Square in London and married his first wife Eliza Alison Russell at the Church of St Saviour in Sept 1919.

Later, in Jan 1952 he married Phyllis Hedger Crogan (1907-1988), daughter of Grace and Nicholas Crogan from Graffham near Petworth.

According to Mrs Makolski Mrs Barker [Phyllis Hedger Barker] worked as a cleaner for Helen Beale and lived at Standen in the flat opposite Helen’s bedroom with her elderly husband.

When Harold died in 1963 at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, Phyllis Hedger Barker moved away to live at 13 Monmouth Close Mitcham where she died in 1988. Harold’s probate registration indicates that his address was listed as Standen when he died.

Harold’s probate registration

Both are buried in Mount Noddy Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

BLISS John Plomer , Lieutenant Colonel Retired – Grave Section 2U No.501 Burial 30/08/1941 (No Headstone) He married Eva Janet Lees, daughter of Sir Harcourt James Lees, 4th Bt. And Charlotte McTaggart on 31 July 1902. He died in 1941. He gained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 2nd West India Regiment. https://thepeerage.com/p49646.htm

Lieutenant Colonel John Plomer Bliss was born 21.11.1870; Second Lieutenant March 1892; Lieutenant 14.11.1893; Captain 8.6.1898; Adjutant 27.8.1898-26.8.1902, served in the Ashanti Expedition 1895-6, and then West Africa 1897-99 being employed in the Hinterland, and the Operations in Sierra Leone 1898-99, medal with two clasps. https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19939/lot/197/

Eliot Bliss – Wikipedia   Daughter and Author The Paris Review – Feminize Your Canon: Eliot Bliss – The Paris Review

BURT Frederick Julius Augustus, LLB and Major Royal Engineers. Grave Section 3C No. 238. Born 06/12/1877, Perth, Western Australia. Died 26th February 1965.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burt-5152

BUSHONG Edward, Died 1994 Aged 48 (MOD Headstone) Grave Section 4U No. 68

CATT Donald James, Acting Pilot Officer, RAF. Grave Section 2U No. 193 Died 17/01/1939. Acting Pilot Officer Donald James Catt – Kenley Revival

Grave is between John Gordon & William Briggs – there is no headstone.

DONOVAN James Patrick – Army Major retired, Grave Section GOR 228 Interred 14/04/1997

DUNCAN Charles Moorhouse MC – Major, Royal Field Artillery, Grave Section 3C No.144 Died 21/01/1939 Aged 42. Charles married Violet Louisa Handcock, daughter of Robert Arthur Handcock Baron Castlemaine (6th) and Ethel Violet Bainbridge, on 12 Feb 1919. (Violet Louisa Handcock was born on 26 May 1895.) His Daughter, Veronica Mary Duncan was to marry Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan who will be known to most of us as Lord Lucan.

FIELDER John, Captain MC – RCA – Grave Section 5C, No. 113 https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L139-DX7/john-george-fielder-1876-1955

FUNNELL Arthur James, Corporal, Royal Armoured Corps ‘A’ Sqn 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) Commemorated on Grave Section 3C No. 134 Died 31 August 1942 Aged 27. Buried at El Alamein Cemetery, Egypt.

GUAYS Victor Pierre, Retired French General –Grave Section 2U No.480 Burial 28/09/1923

HARPER Edward Middleton , Lieutenant Colonel – Grave Section 5C No. 878 09/11/1905 – 25/12/1994. Burial 05/01/1995

JENNER Alfred, 11546 Bombadier, Royal Field Artillery “D” Bty, 83rd Bde Died 06/05/1917, buried Arras Memorial, Bay 1. France. Also commemorated on Grave Section 3C No. 47 Aged 22 years.

KOE Lancelot Charles  CBE – Brigadier General,  Grave 3C No. 11 https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/16715

MacMUNN Sir George Fletcher, Lieutenant General retired. Grave Section 1C No. 633 Died 23/08/1952 Burial 29/08/1952

Guide to the Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn [MSS 021] | UNSW Canberra (adfa.edu.au)

Sir George Fletcher MacMunn – Person – National Portrait Gallery (npg.org.uk)

MUSGRAVE Arthur David – Brigadier General Grave Section 1C No. 481 Died 12/09/1931. Aged 57. He was in the Royal Field Artillery and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) Also, his address is shown as Hurst-an-Clays which is where Hurst Farm Road runs through and one of the roads leading off this is Musgrave Avenue. He died of heart failure in Scotland, while on a sport shoot.

Arthur David Musgrave (1874-1931) – Find A Grave Memorial

Person Page (thepeerage.com)

Arthur David Musgrave – Person – National Portrait Gallery (npg.org.uk)

PISTEL Hugon Jeofil, Polish Naval Commander – Grave Section 2U No.568 Burial 27/02/1954

PURDON Richard Ireland – Colonel, 3C Grave No. 94 https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/5399204 https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/story/50272

RICE Cecil, Lieutenant-Colonel –Grave Section 1C No.3 Born 28/02/1831. Died 06/05/1917 Aged 86.  He was a career British Army officer who served with the 72nd Highlanders (Seaforth Highlanders) between 1850 and 1913.

Son of Edward Royd Rice, MP and Elizabeth Rice
Husband of Frances Anne Rice and Lady Matilda Horatia Seymour
Brother of Admiral Sir Edward Bridges Rice; Frances Margaretta Finch-Hatton; Captain Henry Rice; Rev. John Morland Rice; Elizabeth Louisa Rice; Marianne Sophia Laurie; Commander George William Rice; Maj. Gen. Charles Augustus Rice; Caroline Cassandra Rice; Walter Brook Rice; Lieutenant Arthur Rice; Admiral Sir Ernest Rice; Florence Mary Osmaston and Lionel Knight Rice

Lt. Col. Cecil Rice (1831 – 1917) – Genealogy (geni.com)

ROWE Ivor Clifford – Lieutenant R.N. Grave Section 1C No.386 Burial 13/11/1936

RUCK William Ernest – Colonel 1C Grave Section 1C No.676 Burial 11/10/1935

SHARP Lily Blanche – Womens Voluntary Service, Died 26/09/1940, 67 Warwick Square. Section 1C Grave 331 (See William B J SHARP, Son) https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/3123656/lily-blanche-sharp/

SHARP William Bernard John – Service No. 1280786, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve 24 Sqdn, Died 20/05/1942 commemorated at Runnymede Memorial, Panel 73. Remembered on headstone Section 1C Grave 331 (see Lily Blanche SHARP) https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1806943/william-bernard-j-sharp/

SMITH George Thomas, Major, Grave Section 3C No. 438

SMITH David Patrick, Guardsman 25004965 Grenadier Guards, Grave Section 4U No.65 Died 06/11/1991 Age 24 (MOD Headstone)

TERRY George – Grave has a badge as a headstone of the Old Contemptibles, Grace Section 5C No. 418

TERRY George headstone

WATKINS Mary  died 27th March 2024 aged 103 – Section Garden of Remembrance No. 684

WHITTING Mary Le Grice, ARRC, Grave Section 3C No. 307. Died 1941. Headstone shows after her name A R R C – possibly Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. (Daughter of Rev. W. H. Whitting M.A.)

WHITTING Mary Le Grice

Brother – Edward Le Grice WHITTING – not interred in Mount Noddy (Captain Everard Le Grice Whitting, Royal Artillery, 26th Jacob’s Mountain Battery, Indian Army. For consistently good and gallant service during operations near Gaba Tepe, Dardanelles, from 25th April, 1915, and especially on 27th April in directing the fire of a warship whilst exposed to the enemy’s heavy rifle fire. Captain Whitting again displayed conspicuous gallantry on 13th June; when his emplacement came under severe fire he withdrew the whole of his men and remained himself in the position as an Observer, under heavy fire the whole time and at great personal risk.) https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-244419

WHYMARK Albert, Army Sergeant Major retired –Grave Section 2U No.588 Burial 23/04/1926