BARFRESTONE - Kent Fallen

BARFRESTONE
The parish tribute is a marble tablet inside the (parish church (St Nicholas)
FRY F.S
The Great War
(1914 – 1919)
Private 3057 Frederick Swinford FRY. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
(M.G.C). Formerly (L/11359) East Surrey Regiment. Died 12 th May 1916. Born
Dover. Enlisted Dover.

MARSH A.W
Private G/429 Arthur William MARSH. 6 th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent
Regiment). Died 14 th October 1915. aged 25 years. Born Shepherdswell.
Enlisted Canterbury. Resided Barfrestone.
MARSH P
Private G/603 Percy MARSH. 6 th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment).
Died 13 th October 1915. Born Shepherdswell. Enlisted Nonnington. Resided
Barfrestone.
PHILPOTT W.G
Battery Quartermaster Sergeant 22691 Walter George PHILPOTT M.M. 80 th
Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Died 16 th April 1918. Born Deal.
Enlisted Dover.
RIGDEN H.H
Lance Corporal G/7636 Horace Henry RIGDEN. 10 th Battalion, The Queen’s
(Royal West Surrey Regiment). Died 19 th August 1917 aged 27 years. Born
Wooton. Enlisted Dover. Resided Dover.
YOUNG T
Lance Corporal G/543 Thomas YOUNG. 6 th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent
Regiment). Died 7 th October 1916. aged 37 years. Born Gisburn, Yorkshire.
Enlisted Nonnington. Resided Wakefield.
Although a Yorkshireman Thomas was probably one of the miners from the
Yorkshire coalfields who moved to Dover to work in the Kent coalfields of
Betteshanger, Tilmanstone and Snowdon.