26259 Private Christopher Robert Green first enlisted with the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry after July 1916 when his appeal against conscription failed. Later he transferred to 9 Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), Regimental No. 66836, Private. The railway station at Vichte, east...
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Edward Hilsdon
Full name Edward Richard James Hilsdon, born on 4 November 1887 in Woodstock, Oxon. Son of Edward Hilsdon and Emma Biggs. Brother of Cyril Hilsdon and Walter Hilsdon. They lived on Friday Lane and Edward junior was attending Wheatley Night School in 1911. He was a labourer on farm in 1901 and at a...
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George Smith
9974 Private George Smith served with 5th (Service) Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, which embarked for Gallipoli from Liverpool on 3 July 1915, bound for Mudros, the base facility on the island of Imbros. It took part in the landing at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, on 6 August, engaging with Turkish forces...
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Harry Jones
27910 Private (later Lance Corporal) Harry Jones enlisted with 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 14 August 1914. The bulk of the Battalion was sent to Belgium within weeks and fought through 'First Ypres' October-November 1914, which established an Allied defence line...
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Richard Summers
39021 Private Richard Summers enlisted 1 September, 1914, with 2/4 Battalion Hampshire Regiment, Kitchener's New Army. After 46 days' service he was discharged in October 1914. He re-joined in January 1916, at the commencement of national conscription, Regimental No. 28461, apparently with the...
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Samuel Johnson
T2/016739 Driver Lawrence Samuel Johnson, Army Service Corps (prefixed Royal in late 1918) enlisted with Kitchener's New Army, 9 August 1914 (Oxford Times, 26 September).
He was the first Wheatley man to die on active service, serving with a Labour Company, Army Service Corps. Most of the...
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Thomas White
Probably born in 1863, son of Elizabeth White. Brother of John White. In 1881 Thomas was a groom, living with his mother and John at Breach Yard. By 1891 he was married to Ann, born in Thame. They continued to live on High Street in 1901 and 1911. His name appeared on the Roll of Honour carried in...
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W. T. Niash
01573 Private William Thomas Naish served with 1/4 Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He enlisted at Oxford in April 1915 and went to France early in 1916. The Battalion fought with 143 Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division, on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Somme...
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Walter Crick
207285 Private Walter Ernest Thomas Crick appears to have served with 3rd Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment, rather than the Gloucestershire as indicated on the List of Wheatley men who served. At the end of May 1918, 3rd Battalion fought on the Aisne river in several battles - St Quentin and...
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Walter Hilsdon
Full name Walter Herbert Hilsdon, born in 1898 in Denchworth, near Wantage, son of and nbsp Edward Hilsdon and Emma Biggs. Brother of Cyril and Edward Hilsdon. He was attending Wheatley Elementary school in 1910. In 1911 he was employed as a farm boy scaring birds. He joined the Duke of Cornwall's...
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Charles Jennings
40035 Private Charles Jennings enlisted at Oxford in 1917 with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, but either before sailing for France, or in France, was posted to C Company, 2nd Battalion the Royal Berkshire Regiment, Service number 50620. His nephew and great nephew, Ray Johnson and Steve Morrison,...
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James Munt and Richard James Munt
Baptised Richard James Munt in Wheatley Church on 1 November 1895, son of James Munt, gardener's labourer also born in Wheatley, in 1874, and Annie nee Jeffrey, born in Barton, Middlesex in 1869. The family were living at 1 Shotover View, also listed as 11 Littleworth, in 1901 and 1911. Richard was...
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Lionel Collinson and Charles Gomm
Full name, according to the 1911 Census, Lionel Harry Gordon Collinson, born 1 April 1896 in Birmingham, son of Harry Collinson and Amelia nee Smith. In 1901 he was boarding at the Crown Road, Wheatley home of Charles and Sarah A. Gomm. Ten years later he was still a boarder there, but now employed...
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Llewellyn Jackson
Born in Aberdare, Glamorganshire in 1889, son of Thomas/James Jackson, engine driver with the Great Western Railway, and Alice nee Jackson. They lived in Fulham, London in 1901. Llewellyn attended the Night School in Wheatley from 1911 - in the Census of that same year, he was enumerated at Station...
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Richard Munt
Baptised Richard James Munt in Wheatley Church on 1 November 1895, son of James Munt, gardener's labourer also born in Wheatley, in 1874, and Annie nee Jeffrey, born in Barton, Middlesex in 1869. The family were living at 1 Shotover View, also listed as 11 Littleworth, in 1901 and 1911. Richard was...
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Robert Stanley
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Thomas Ray
He was baptised in Holton Church on 20 November 1887, the son of George Ray, woodman and labourer born in Headington, and Sarah born in Forest Hill. In 1891 the family were living at Holton Lodge. At the 1901 Census, Thomas was living at the Missionary College, Dorchester-on-Thames, working there as...
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W M Clements
33688 Private William Clements, Wiltshire Regiment, (according to his Commonwealth War Graves Commission gravestone in St Mary's churchyard) was transferred to 605 Agricultural Company of the Labour Corps, with Service No 263037. Formed in January 1917, the Labour Corps grew to some 389,900 men...
The Wheatley Society and the local branch of the Royal British Legion plan a multi-year marking of the centenary of The Great War. Of the 181 village men who served, thirty-six (20) were killed, a strikingly high proportion. Planning is under...