CAUNT C.

Cecil Caunt 

Private 306443

1st/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)

Cecil Caunt died on Friday 30 August 1918, Age 21, and was buried in the FOUQUIERES CHURCHYARD EXTENSION, Pas de Calais, France.

He was born c1897 at Skegby Notts, and was the son of Henry Caunt and Emily (formerly Smith) who married at St Andrew's Church, Skegby in February 1888. At the time of Cecil's death his parents were living at 34 Vere Avenue, Stoneyford Road, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 

Cecil Caunt is also remembered on the Skegby and Stanton Hill War Memorials.

An elder brother of Cecil Caunt also died in the war, and Percy Caunt is remembered on the Sutton-in-Ashfield, Skegby and Stanton Hill War Memorials.

 

 

Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour (Addendum) - 17th January 1919

Caunt, Private Cecil, Sherwood Foresters, 34 Vere Avenue, Stoneyford Road, who was killed on August 30th last at the age of 21 years. His only brother, Private Percy Caunt, also of the Sherwood Foresters, was killed on July 1st 1916.

 

From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’

CECIL CAUNT. Enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield). 1/5th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 306443, Killed in Action France & Flanders 30th Aug 1918.


From "Lest we forget - The Blackwell Colliery War Souvenier"

C. Caunt, 34 Vere Avenue, Stoneyford Lane, Sutton. Enlisted 10-11-15. Pte., Sherwood Foresters. Actions: France. Killed in action 30-8-18.

 

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Research by Helen Wilson, Heather Faulkes and Douglas Caunt