Memorial

McCudden Family

KentFallen 2002-9

Source: Copyright KentFallen 2002-9

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Current Location

Grave of W H McCudden Plot CC959, Maidstone Road Cemetery, Maidstone Road, Chatham, Rochester Upon Medway, Kent, ME4 6EL, England

TQ 75620 66540

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Type of Memorial: Addition to gravestone
WMR Reference Number: 62137
Description: Addition to family grave, possibly marked by a cross.
Inscription: In Loving Memory/of/ MAJOR/ JAMES T. BYFORD McCUDDEN, V.C./ D.S.O. & BAR, M.C. & BAR, M.M., CROIX DE GUERRE DE FRANCE/ & AMERICAN MEDAL, R.A.F./ ACCIDENTALLY KILLED WHILE FLYING/ ON HIS WAY TO DUTY IN FRANCE,/ 9th JULY 1918,/ AGED 23 YEARS./ R.I.P Also/ 2nd Lieut John Anthony McCudden MC, RFC/ (Pilot)/ Killed in aerial combat/ over Busigny, near Le Cateau, France/ 18th March 1918/ Aged 20 year/ RIP Also/ Arthur Scott Spears/their brother-in-law/ killed by the explosion in /HMS Princess Irene/27th May 1915/Aged 29 year/ RIP

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 3
Died: 3
Information shown: surname,rank,year died,regiment,forename,manner of death,age of death,decorations

Tablet

Made from: Marble

Condition: Good

A Glint in the Sky by M Easdown and T Genth pp.120, 122 Published:Barnsley: Pen & Sword 2004
The Times 11 June 1920 Erection of granite memorial to the three McCudden brothers.