Henry Claude Bernard was born in 1893, son of Dr Claude and Florrie Bernard who lived at 1 Spencer Terrace, Fishponds, Bristol. He was a nephew of W G Grace. He was head boy at Lord Williams’s Grammar School and studied mathematics at St John’s College, Cambridge, where he was in the Officer Training Corps. […]
Thomas Bates was born in 1888 and baptised at St Mary’s Church Thame on 17th March 1889. He was the son of George Thomas Bates and his wife Jane. After his mother died in 1890, his father married Elizabeth Crowdy. Thomas continued to live with his father and stepmother, together with his four brothers and […]
George Alfred Bateman was one of the seven children of James and Annie Bateman. He was born in Gas Alley, Thame in 1878, and baptised at St Mary’s church on the 29th February 1880. In 1891, at the age of 13, George was working as an agricultural labourer. By 1901, the family had moved to Four Ashes, Hughenden, […]
Clifford Birt Bateman was born in Thame on 1st September 1893, one of four children to Alfred and Eliza Bateman, living at 44 Wellington Street. In 1911 Clifford was a bill sticker, and in 1912 he enlisted with the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry (service no. 9632), being posted with the 2nd battalion. The battalion, […]
Vivian Evelyn Lower was born in Edmonton, Middlesex on 6th May 1912 to Nynian Evelyn Walter and Edith Grace Lower (nee Morley) of 289 The Cottage, Stoke Newington, Hackney. He attended Lord Williams’s School in Thame from 1922 to 1929. In 1939 Vivian had followed his father into the banking profession and was living at […]
William Robert Loosley was born in Towersey in 1888 the sixth of nine children born to George and Sarah Ann Loosley (nee Chowns). By 1901 he was a live-in errand boy with grocer George Bailey at 107 High Street Thame, and in 1911 his widowed mother and family were living at 2 Bridge Terrace, Thame. […]
George Edmund Ladbrook was born in Honington, a small Hamlet near Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire in November 1884. He was the eldest child of the eight children born to George Ladbrook, a gardener, and Fanny (née Gee). After first moving to Dinton, Buckinghamshire, the family settled in Thame in the late 19th century, living in […]
Herbert Edward Jones was born in January 1917, the fifth of six children by Edward, a railwayman, and Jane, a dressmaker, originally from Oswestry in Shropshire. The family moved firstly to Bristol, and then to Watcombe Road, Watlington in 1916. Herbert became a pupil at Lord Williams’s School in Sept 1931 and his school career […]
Charles Raymond Jarratt was born in Edmonton, Middlesex in 1921. He was the son of Charles William and Amelia May Jarratt (nee Spicer), of Goring-by- Sea, Sussex, and educated at Lord Williams’s School Thame from 1930 to 1939. Charles William was a retired jeweller who was living with his family at Wynchmore, Hill Road, Watlington in 1939. Charles […]
Willis Janes was the youngest of three sons of William and Amelia Janes, and was born in Long Crendon in 1889. He also had two step brothers and two step sisters from a previous marriage of his father, who was a local police constable (died in 1889). A pupil of Lord Williams’s Grammar School, Thame, […]