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Nobel Dewey, Searle Street (UK Roll of Honour)1911: UK Census
Elizabeth Dewey, 66, college servant, b Chesterton
Ada Ann Dewey, 44, housekeeper, b Chesterton
Ethel May Dewey, 29, shop assistant drapery, b Chesterton
Lesley Dewey, 27, tailor, b Chesterton
Noble Dewey, 25, laboratory assistant, b Chesterton
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1913: Kellys
Mrs Betsy Dewey, college servant
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1915: UK Roll of Honour
Noble Dewey: Corporal, 1357, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment. Died of wounds Thursday, 4th March 1915.
Born Cambridge 28-9-1885, educated St Lukes school, Chesterton. Joined the 1st Cambridge Territorials in Jan 1912, volunteered for Imperial service after the outbreak of war, went to France in feb 1915, and was killed in action 4-3-15. He was shot by a sniper and died about 5.30 am.
His commanding officer, Lieut-Col C.E.F.Copeman, in a letter to the Cambridge Chronicle said “Corporal Dewey was shot through the lungs as he was getting into a trench, and died a few hours afterwards. He was most plucky and never once complained, his only regret being that he could not get at the Germans”, and in a letter to Mrs Dewey he wrote “his platoon commander tells me he was the best n.c.o. that he had, and I know that he was one of the most useful men in the battalion”.
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1970:
Ernest Darby
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