Born in Whitechapel, London, in 1895, William Elhanan Gascoyne was one of 14 children born to Gilbert and Eliza Gascoyne. Having moved by 1901 to Long Crendon, where his father was manager of Horner’s Works, William attended Lord Williams’s School in Thame. Initially enlisting just before the start of WW1 with the 2nd London Regiment (Royal […]
Christie West Fletcher was born on 12th December 1874 in Kew, London the seventh of nine children born to Charles and Lucy Fletcher. His father was a member of the London Stock Exchange. He attended Lord Williams’s School in Thame and afterwards trained as an electrician. Christie married Louise Eveline Conway in Wandsworth in the […]
William Spencer Drake was born in Thame early in 1885 the eldest of eight children born to William and Emily Drake of 28 Park Street Thame, carpenter. However by 1911, the family had moved to 165 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire where father William was a fruit merchant. William enlisted in the Oxford and Bucks Light […]
Stanley David Victor Dover was born in Moreton, near Thame, on the 28th February 1898, the third son of Charles and Harriet Dover (nee Hall). He was baptised at St Mary’s Church in Thame on 2nd April 1898. His father was a publican at the Bell Inn in Moreton. By 1911 the family had moved to the Rising […]
Reginald Isaac Cross was born in Moreton near Thame in 1893 the son of Thomas Cross and Zilpah Lewis Cross. His father later lived at Northend Henley on Thames. In 1911 when 18yrs Reginald was employed as a grocers assistant and living in Moreton with his widowed father Thomas and his younger sister Ella. In […]
20836 Private George Harry Thomas Crook, was killed in action on the 3rd May, 1917, while serving with the 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. The battalion was one of the leading battalions in the first day of the Third Battle of the Scarpe, and sustained 299 casualties out of a total strength of […]
Henry John Cozier was born in Thame in September 1879 and baptised at St Mary’s Church on 2nd October. He was the fourth child of seven born to Richard and Phyllis Cozier living in North Street. He married Florence Wharton in Thame on 23rd May 1904 and went to live at 20 Wellington Street*, from […]
The sixth of seven children born to Charles and Harriet Bowler, John William Bowler was born at Park Terrace, Thame in 1894, his father was a brick maker at the local brickworks. By 1901, the family had moved to Maidenhead, Berkshire, and then move on to Reading, where John was employed as a butcher’s assistant […]
George Bowdery was one of twin boys born in Thame in February 1891 to Benjamin and Mary Bowdery. Upon the death of his mother in 1892, his father remarried and George was brought up in East Street and then Park Street with his four siblings and five step siblings. By 1911, he had left the […]
Henry Anthony Birrell-Anthony was the only child of Henry Anthony Birrell – Anthony and Mary Annette (née Reynolds). He was born in Maindy, Cardiff on 16th June 1887. In 1895 he went to Llandaff Cathedral School and was vice-captain of the cricket XI in 1899. He was also selected for the football XI and described […]