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15 Hinton Avenue, Oxford Villa
History of 15 Hinton Avenue
1911
Edward John Papworth, 44, railway clerk GNR, born Cambridge
Mabel, 36 (married for 4 years), born Somerset
Constance Ruth, 15, lady’s companion, born Cambridge
Oswald Jack, 13, born Cambridge
Gladys Mabel, 12, born Royston
Oswald Jack Papworth, an employee of Matthew and Son Ltd, a large store in at 19-21 Trinity Street, served first with the Suffolk Yeomanry then became a lance corporal with the 9th coy Machine Gun Corps. Born 1898 in Panton Street, he was the son of Edward, a railway clerk. He was killed on 13th April 1917. (Of approximately 90 employees of Matthew and Son who served in the forces, 5 were killed.)
Horace Bernard Smith was a lieutenant with the 32nd Bttn Australian Imperial Force. He was a laborer from Katanning, Western Australia and had enlisted in July 1915 age 22. He had joined his unit in France as private in March 1917 after a bout of dysentery in Egypt kept him in hospital there. He was sent to Cambridge for officer training in December 1917. He qualified for his commission in June 1918. He ended up back in Cambridge in the 1st Eastern general hospital in December 1918 with diarrhea. He was awarded the Military Cross in January 1919 for the following action:
During the operations near Fontaine-les Cappy, on 27th-29th August, 1918, when the flank of the company was held up by a well-concealed machine gun and about thirty men, he advanced with two men and a non-commissioned officer, and captured the gun and eight prisoners, putting the remainder to flight with heavy loss. His gallantry and good leadership were conspicuous, and his complete disregard for his own safety was a splendid example to his men.
On 8th May 1919 he married Florence Bass, daughter of Charles Bass, gardener, at St John’s, minister Rev. I B Gibbs.
Thomas Dickson Darcus became a corporal with the Canadian Military Police. He was born in 1888 in Dublin and was a student when he enlisted in May 1915 in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. On the 19th June 1919 he married Ellen Bass at St John’s.
Harold James Bass was an apprentice in Jesus College kitchens. He served as a corporal in the East Lancashire Regiment in France from 1917 and was reported wounded in a hospital France 5/4/18.
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