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34 Merton Place, Madingley Road, Northampton Street
History of 34 Merton Place
1911
William Walter Ashman, 33, groom, b Chesterton
Agnes Bertha, 35, b Little Shelford
Sidney William James, 9, b Cambridge
Winifred May, 7, b Cambridge
Frank Henry, 5, b Cambridge
Stanley Ashman, son of William and Agnes, and wife of Edna Lilian, was killed in action on 14 Feb 1942 in the Battle of Singapore. He was a corporal serving with the Cambridgeshire Regiment.
(For more information on the Cambridgeshire Regiment in WWII read ‘Battalion at War – Singapore 1942’ by Michael Moore, Gliddon Books 1988)
1913
William Ashman
1939 Northampton Street
Sydney N Pryke, b 1870, carpenter joiner retired
Amelia, b 1871
Gordon C Hessing, b 1929
Albert E Hessing, b 1927
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