John Derek Corbould Warren
From the War Memorial Display, “a Village at War” in the lane approaching the church.
J. Derek Corbould Warren
John Derek Corbould-Warren (Derek) was born in 1899. His parents were Rev. John Corbould Warren of Caistor Hall and Agnes Elizabeth Corbould Warren (nee La Fontaine). His father was Rector of Caistor-with Markshall from 1914. He was a cadet at Sandhurst, where he suffered a riding accident in training, following which he died in Surbiton Cottage Hospital on 10 July 1917.
He is buried in the churchyard alongside his parents.
The inscription on his headstone reads:-
“Jesu Mercy
In ever loving memory of
JOHN DEREK
(Derek)
The only and most dearly loved son of
JOHN and AGNES CORBOULD-WARREN.
A cadet of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Who passed (suddenly) into the higher life
on July 10th 1917, aged 18 years.
No obvious Civil Probate for this man.
No match on Picture Norfolk, the County Image Archive.
Family history site
Parents John Warren Corbould-Warren (1870 -) and Agnes Elizabeth LaFontaine.
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From a piece on the Corbould-Warren family of Tacolneston Old Hall.
John Derek (Derek) Corbould-Warren, b.1899, cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Died in Surbiton Cottage Hospital, 10 July 1917, the result of a riding accident at Sandhurst, near Camberley.
Rev. John Warren Corbould-Warren, M.A., J.P. (Norf.) of Caistor Hall, Norfolk, b. 30 June 1870, educ. At Felsted and at Downing College, Cambridge (matric. 1891, B.A. 1894, M.A. 1899) and at Ely Theological College, 1894. Ordained deacon 1895 and priest 1897 by the Bishop of Salisbury. Appointed curate of Broadwinsor 1895-8, and Blechingley, Surrey, 1898-1901. Vicar of Dersingham 1901-10. Patron of Tacolneston. Rector of Caistor-with-Markshal from 1914. Lord of the Manor, Patron and sole landowner of Caistor St. Edmund.
Married in 1896 AGNES ELIZABETH, dau. of the late James Stephen Edward La Fontaine, Esq., J.P., of Berkhampstead and of Constantinople, by his wife Helen.
(Their other child was Enid Helen, (born 1901))
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From “Memorial of Rugbeians who fell in the Great War Volume V11”
GENTLEMAN CADET J. D. CORBOULD-WARREN
Hawkesworth
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST
JOHN DEREK CORBOULD-WARREN was the only son of the Reverend
John Warren Corbould-Warren, Rector of Caistor St. Edmunds, and of
Agnes Elizabeth his wife, of Caistor Hall, Norwich.
He entered the School in 1913, and left in December, 1916, when he went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, with a view to obtaining a Commission in the 16th Lancers.
On July 7th, 19 17, he met with a fatal accident while riding on Esher Common, when a motor came into collision with his horse, and he died at Surbiton Cottage Hospital on July loth, and was buried at Caistor.
Age 18.
An Under-Officer at Sandhurst wrote :-
" Your son was always a great favourite the Company, always so cheerful, always generous and willing to help a friend. He was tremendously keen on the Army and was longing for the day when he was to join his Regiment, the 16th Lancers. He always worked hard at work
and games alike. I know that no one will be able to fill the gap which he leaves in the Company."
His Housemaster at Rugby wrote :-
"Some of the qualities which make life happiest at home he brought here, his happy temperament, his pleasure in the pleasure of others, his tenderness of heart, and he responded eagerly to all that was bright and sympathetic and interesting, and beneath it all there was an innate sense of honour and a conscience of a very sensitive kind."
A School friend wrote :-
"I learned to know and appreciate the frankness and generosity which showed so dearly and with such ever-increasing clearness as he grew older in all his flow of happy good spirits. He was one of those who have the gift of conveying their own joy in life to less buoyant spirits. All my
memories of him seem to show him smiling. He went through storms and dark places of School life impulsively, perhaps, but always a little triumphantly, I think, always with a splendid, if subdued, hint of confidence in himself which filled one with great hopes of what he might do."
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1899 - Birth
The birth of a John Derek Corbould-Warren was registered with the Civil Authorities in the District of Godstone in Surrey in the April to June quarter, (Q2), of 1899.
1901 Census of England and Wales
The 1 year old John D Corbould-Warren, born Blechingley, Surrey, was recorded living at Poplar House, Blechingley. This was the household of his parents, John W, (aged 30, a Church of England Clergyman, born Tacolneston, Norfolk) and Agnes E, (aged 31, born Constantinople, British Subject). They had two visitors on the night of the census plus three live in servants.
1911 Census of England and Wales
The 11 year old Derek Warren, born Blechingley, Surrey, was recorded as a residential pupil at Eagle House School, Sandhurst, Berkshire.
His parents were recorded living at Caistor Hall, Caistor St Edmund. Father John Warren Corbould-Warren, (40, a Church of England Clergyman) and mother Agnes Elizabeth, (41), have been married 15 years and have had 2 children, both then still alive. Living with them is a 9 year old daughter, Enid Helen, born Blechingley, and a 22 year old unmarried niece, Sybil Le Fontaine McAnally, (born West Hampstead, London), who is recorded as a Governess. There are also 6 live in servants.
On the day
There is a death notice in the edition of The Times dated July 20, 1917.
CORBOULD-WARREN. – On the 10th July, at the Surbiton Cottage Hospital, the result of a riding accident on Esher Common, JOHN DEREK, beloved and only son of the REVD.J. and MRS. CORBOULD-WARREN of Caistor Hall, Norwich, in his 19th year. A cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
From the local papers.
Eastern Daily Press Friday July 13, 1917
(From the Births, Deaths and Marriages announcements)
DEATHS.
CORBOULD-WARREN – On Tuesday, July 10, at Surbiton Cottage Hospital, the result of a riding accident on Esher Common, John Derek, the beloved and only son of the Rev. J. and Mrs. Corbould-Warren, of Caistor Hall, Norwich, in his 19th year. A cadet of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, R.I.P. (Funeral on Monday, July 16th, 1 p.m., at Caistor Church.)
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A NORFOLK CADET.
Our obituary notices to-day record the death at Surbiton Cottage Hospital last Tuesday of John Derek, the only son of the Rev. J. and Mrs. Corbould-Warren of Caistor Hall, the result of a riding accident on Esher Common. Mr. Corbould-Warren was a cadet of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was in his 19th year. The funeral takes place at Caistor Church on Monday, at 1 p.m.
Eastern Daily Press Monday July 16, 1917
THE DEATH OF MR. J.D. CORBOULD-WARREN.
At Surbiton, on Saturday, an inquest was held on John Derek Corbould Warren, aged 18, who died from injuries received in a riding accident. The Rev. John Warren Corbould Warren, rector of Caistor, and residing at Caistor Hall, near Norwich, father of the deceased, said his son was a cadet in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. On Saturday last he came to Surbiton, where his mother and sister were staying, and in the evening went out with his sister riding on horseback. On Esher Common his horse became startled by a dog snapping at its heels and broke into a gallop. Deceased appeared to lose control of the animal, which left the Common at some cross roads, and collided with a motor car driven by Mr. Harrison Fidge, of Esher. The horse turned a somersault, the deceased being thrown to the ground and his skull being fractured. He died on the following Tuesday.
The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death,” attaching blame to no one.
Eastern Daily Press Thursday July 19, 1917
FUNERAL OF MR. J.D. CORBOULD-WARREN.
The funeral of Mr. John Derek Corbould-Warren, only son of the Rev. J. and Mrs Corbould Warren, of Caistor Hall, Norwich, took place on Monday at Caistor Church, Deceased, who was in his 19th year, was a cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was expecting a commission in the 16th Lancers. He was killed as a result of a riding accident on Esher Common, Surrey, and died on July 10th in Surbiton Cottage Hospital. The body was conveyed from the Hall to the church on a gun carriage, with an escort provided by the R.F.A. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Thetford and the Rev. C.M. McAnally. The chief mourners were the father and Miss Enid Corbould-Warren, the Rev. J. and Mrs. Corbould-Warren, (Talconestone Old Hall), Mr. and Mrs. La Fontaine, Mrs. D. Corbould-Warren (Braconash), and Mr. A.H. Barker. Mrs. Corbould-Warren was too ill to attend. Amongst those who attended were Mr. G.F. Baset, Mr. G. Birkbeck, Mr. J.H. Gurney, Major Gurney, Dr. Riviere, Hon. Ruthven, Mr. Sargent, Mr. Cooke, the churchwardens, and many parishioners and tenants. Beautiful wreaths were sent among them being one from the officers and gentlemen cadets of C Co, Sandhurst Military College. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs. Hinde & Co. of Kingston-on-Thames, and Messrs. Chamberlin, Norwich.
John Derek Corbould Warren
From the War Memorial Display, “a Village at War” in the lane approaching the church.
J. Derek Corbould Warren
John Derek Corbould-Warren (Derek) was born in 1899. His parents were Rev. John Corbould Warren of Caistor Hall and Agnes Elizabeth Corbould Warren (nee La Fontaine). His father was Rector of Caistor-with Markshall from 1914. He was a cadet at Sandhurst, where he suffered a riding accident in training, following which he died in Surbiton Cottage Hospital on 10 July 1917.
He is buried in the churchyard alongside his parents.
The inscription on his headstone reads:-
“Jesu Mercy
In ever loving memory of
JOHN DEREK
(Derek)
The only and most dearly loved son of
JOHN and AGNES CORBOULD-WARREN.
A cadet of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Who passed (suddenly) into the higher life
on July 10th 1917, aged 18 years.
No obvious Civil Probate for this man.
No match on Picture Norfolk, the County Image Archive.
Family history site
Parents John Warren Corbould-Warren (1870 -) and Agnes Elizabeth LaFontaine.
www.corbould.com/phpftree/index.php?a=person/1/i_I469/joh...
From a piece on the Corbould-Warren family of Tacolneston Old Hall.
John Derek (Derek) Corbould-Warren, b.1899, cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Died in Surbiton Cottage Hospital, 10 July 1917, the result of a riding accident at Sandhurst, near Camberley.
Rev. John Warren Corbould-Warren, M.A., J.P. (Norf.) of Caistor Hall, Norfolk, b. 30 June 1870, educ. At Felsted and at Downing College, Cambridge (matric. 1891, B.A. 1894, M.A. 1899) and at Ely Theological College, 1894. Ordained deacon 1895 and priest 1897 by the Bishop of Salisbury. Appointed curate of Broadwinsor 1895-8, and Blechingley, Surrey, 1898-1901. Vicar of Dersingham 1901-10. Patron of Tacolneston. Rector of Caistor-with-Markshal from 1914. Lord of the Manor, Patron and sole landowner of Caistor St. Edmund.
Married in 1896 AGNES ELIZABETH, dau. of the late James Stephen Edward La Fontaine, Esq., J.P., of Berkhampstead and of Constantinople, by his wife Helen.
(Their other child was Enid Helen, (born 1901))
www.corbould.com/tcgbook/pdf_ocr/TCG-16_Corbould-Warren_o...
A picture of John can be seen here
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also here
www.thegenealogist.co.uk/imagearchive/fullrecord.php?id=1...
From “Memorial of Rugbeians who fell in the Great War Volume V11”
GENTLEMAN CADET J. D. CORBOULD-WARREN
Hawkesworth
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST
JOHN DEREK CORBOULD-WARREN was the only son of the Reverend
John Warren Corbould-Warren, Rector of Caistor St. Edmunds, and of
Agnes Elizabeth his wife, of Caistor Hall, Norwich.
He entered the School in 1913, and left in December, 1916, when he went to the R.M.C., Sandhurst, with a view to obtaining a Commission in the 16th Lancers.
On July 7th, 19 17, he met with a fatal accident while riding on Esher Common, when a motor came into collision with his horse, and he died at Surbiton Cottage Hospital on July loth, and was buried at Caistor.
Age 18.
An Under-Officer at Sandhurst wrote :-
" Your son was always a great favourite the Company, always so cheerful, always generous and willing to help a friend. He was tremendously keen on the Army and was longing for the day when he was to join his Regiment, the 16th Lancers. He always worked hard at work
and games alike. I know that no one will be able to fill the gap which he leaves in the Company."
His Housemaster at Rugby wrote :-
"Some of the qualities which make life happiest at home he brought here, his happy temperament, his pleasure in the pleasure of others, his tenderness of heart, and he responded eagerly to all that was bright and sympathetic and interesting, and beneath it all there was an innate sense of honour and a conscience of a very sensitive kind."
A School friend wrote :-
"I learned to know and appreciate the frankness and generosity which showed so dearly and with such ever-increasing clearness as he grew older in all his flow of happy good spirits. He was one of those who have the gift of conveying their own joy in life to less buoyant spirits. All my
memories of him seem to show him smiling. He went through storms and dark places of School life impulsively, perhaps, but always a little triumphantly, I think, always with a splendid, if subdued, hint of confidence in himself which filled one with great hopes of what he might do."
lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Me...
1899 - Birth
The birth of a John Derek Corbould-Warren was registered with the Civil Authorities in the District of Godstone in Surrey in the April to June quarter, (Q2), of 1899.
1901 Census of England and Wales
The 1 year old John D Corbould-Warren, born Blechingley, Surrey, was recorded living at Poplar House, Blechingley. This was the household of his parents, John W, (aged 30, a Church of England Clergyman, born Tacolneston, Norfolk) and Agnes E, (aged 31, born Constantinople, British Subject). They had two visitors on the night of the census plus three live in servants.
1911 Census of England and Wales
The 11 year old Derek Warren, born Blechingley, Surrey, was recorded as a residential pupil at Eagle House School, Sandhurst, Berkshire.
His parents were recorded living at Caistor Hall, Caistor St Edmund. Father John Warren Corbould-Warren, (40, a Church of England Clergyman) and mother Agnes Elizabeth, (41), have been married 15 years and have had 2 children, both then still alive. Living with them is a 9 year old daughter, Enid Helen, born Blechingley, and a 22 year old unmarried niece, Sybil Le Fontaine McAnally, (born West Hampstead, London), who is recorded as a Governess. There are also 6 live in servants.
On the day
There is a death notice in the edition of The Times dated July 20, 1917.
CORBOULD-WARREN. – On the 10th July, at the Surbiton Cottage Hospital, the result of a riding accident on Esher Common, JOHN DEREK, beloved and only son of the REVD.J. and MRS. CORBOULD-WARREN of Caistor Hall, Norwich, in his 19th year. A cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
From the local papers.
Eastern Daily Press Friday July 13, 1917
(From the Births, Deaths and Marriages announcements)
DEATHS.
CORBOULD-WARREN – On Tuesday, July 10, at Surbiton Cottage Hospital, the result of a riding accident on Esher Common, John Derek, the beloved and only son of the Rev. J. and Mrs. Corbould-Warren, of Caistor Hall, Norwich, in his 19th year. A cadet of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, R.I.P. (Funeral on Monday, July 16th, 1 p.m., at Caistor Church.)
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A NORFOLK CADET.
Our obituary notices to-day record the death at Surbiton Cottage Hospital last Tuesday of John Derek, the only son of the Rev. J. and Mrs. Corbould-Warren of Caistor Hall, the result of a riding accident on Esher Common. Mr. Corbould-Warren was a cadet of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was in his 19th year. The funeral takes place at Caistor Church on Monday, at 1 p.m.
Eastern Daily Press Monday July 16, 1917
THE DEATH OF MR. J.D. CORBOULD-WARREN.
At Surbiton, on Saturday, an inquest was held on John Derek Corbould Warren, aged 18, who died from injuries received in a riding accident. The Rev. John Warren Corbould Warren, rector of Caistor, and residing at Caistor Hall, near Norwich, father of the deceased, said his son was a cadet in the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. On Saturday last he came to Surbiton, where his mother and sister were staying, and in the evening went out with his sister riding on horseback. On Esher Common his horse became startled by a dog snapping at its heels and broke into a gallop. Deceased appeared to lose control of the animal, which left the Common at some cross roads, and collided with a motor car driven by Mr. Harrison Fidge, of Esher. The horse turned a somersault, the deceased being thrown to the ground and his skull being fractured. He died on the following Tuesday.
The jury returned a verdict of “Accidental death,” attaching blame to no one.
Eastern Daily Press Thursday July 19, 1917
FUNERAL OF MR. J.D. CORBOULD-WARREN.
The funeral of Mr. John Derek Corbould-Warren, only son of the Rev. J. and Mrs Corbould Warren, of Caistor Hall, Norwich, took place on Monday at Caistor Church, Deceased, who was in his 19th year, was a cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was expecting a commission in the 16th Lancers. He was killed as a result of a riding accident on Esher Common, Surrey, and died on July 10th in Surbiton Cottage Hospital. The body was conveyed from the Hall to the church on a gun carriage, with an escort provided by the R.F.A. The service was conducted by the Bishop of Thetford and the Rev. C.M. McAnally. The chief mourners were the father and Miss Enid Corbould-Warren, the Rev. J. and Mrs. Corbould-Warren, (Talconestone Old Hall), Mr. and Mrs. La Fontaine, Mrs. D. Corbould-Warren (Braconash), and Mr. A.H. Barker. Mrs. Corbould-Warren was too ill to attend. Amongst those who attended were Mr. G.F. Baset, Mr. G. Birkbeck, Mr. J.H. Gurney, Major Gurney, Dr. Riviere, Hon. Ruthven, Mr. Sargent, Mr. Cooke, the churchwardens, and many parishioners and tenants. Beautiful wreaths were sent among them being one from the officers and gentlemen cadets of C Co, Sandhurst Military College. The funeral arrangements were carried out by Messrs. Hinde & Co. of Kingston-on-Thames, and Messrs. Chamberlin, Norwich.