Commonwealth War Graves Commission Burials at Langton Long Blandford Churchyard (All Saints)
Research by Richard Smith into the lives and deaths of the CWGC War Casualties buried in Langton Long Blandford.
Burials from CWGC at Langton Long Blandford Graveyard (All Saints)
BROWN James Thomas Private No. 6796 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
Born at Blandford about September 1883 son of Charles Brown, a carter who
died in 1908, and his wife Sarah Ann Riggs. Enlisted in Dorsetshire Regt.
on 11th May 1903. and his Army record says that he suffered a gunshot wound
in his right hip in Oct. 1914, from pneumonia whilst in India in 1914, and
tuberculosis in his lungs 11th April 1916. Declared Unfit and discharged
2nd May 1916. He had married Ida Edith Foot at Langton Long on 1st May
1915, but died on 9th February 1916, cause not found but likely above
illness. He was buried in grave No. 102. His brother Stephen Harold Brown
born 1892 had died serving with the Dorsetshires in France on 2nd May 1915.
CARTER Lionel George William 2nd Lieutenant No. 137176 Royal Engineers.
Born at Devonport, Plymouth on 11th July 1920 son of Edgar Lionel Carter,
an auctioneer's articled clerk in 1921, and his wife Georgina Grace
Matthews. Passed out from 142nd Officer Cadet Training Unit R.E. on 29th
June 1940 as a 2nd Lt. On 10th October 1940 a 250 Kg bomb was found with
a badly damaged fuse but thought to be safe. Lionel thought it should go to
the bomb cemetery at Regents Park from the Duke of York's Barracks driving
the lorry himself with five in his team. Driving up Marylebone Road near to
Madame Tussauds the bomb exploded killing all six on the lorry. Lionel was
buried in Langton Long churchyard. Probate granted to his father on 10th
December 1940 was £400. His address was 31 White Cliff, Mill Street,
Blandford.
Richard Smith
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February 2025
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