Richard John Green was born on the 9th April 1898 in Streatham, London. His father John Green was a tailor but Richard’s mother Mary Jane (nee Arnold) died shortly after his birth possibly from complications during labour. Richard boarded at Lord Williams’s School in Thame from September 1907 to July 1915 where he was a member of both […]
Francis Willoughby Fielding was born in Towersey on 8th October 1892 to parents Harry and Letitia Fielding who later lived at Stoneleigh in Thame. After leaving Lord Williams’s Grammar School, by 1911 he had moved to Coventry and begun work in the fledgling motor industry as a draughtsman. He volunteered in the Queens Own Oxfordshire […]
Sidney Maskell Dicker was born in Brixton, in October 1886, and he and his sister May were brought up by his mother Louisa Dicker, and uncle Charles Maskell. He married Dora Edith Jane Read in October 1909, living in Grenfell Road, Mitcham, and they had 2 children Sidney Charles Maskell Dicker (b. 1910) and Muriel […]
Reginald John Culverwell was born in Long Crendon on 27th December 1893 where his father George was a farm labourer, and later coachman. His mother was Sarah Ann Culverwell (nee Kirk). John was a pupil at Lord Williams’s school in Thame and in 1911 he was studying to be a teacher. He enlisted with the 4th Battalion Oxf […]
Frederick William Cross was born in Moreton in 1894. He was the middle child of nine born to William George Cross of Moreton and Adelaide Cross (nee Higgins) of North Weston. In 1911 he was a 16 year old horsemen on a farm in Moreton living with his parents and eight siblings. Frederick enlisted at Oxford with the […]
Stanley Riswyn Colbert was born on 26th September 1921 in Sheffield, Yorkshire. His parents were George Cyril and Olive Bertha Colbert (nee Haynes). The family later lived at Orchard House, Cuxham, Oxfordshire from where Stanley attended Lord Williams’s School in Thame from 1934 to 1938. In April 1940 Stanley enlisted in the Royal Air Force […]
Wilfred Harry Clarke was born in Thame on 14th May 1895 and baptised at St Mary’s on 16th July 1896. He was the son of Harry and Esther Sarah Clarke (nee Guntrip) of 17 Chinnor Road, Thame. The eldest of four siblings, he was apprenticed in his father’s cycle repair business. Wilfred enlisted in the […]
George Chowns was born in Thame in late 1878 when his parents John and mary (nee Phillips) were living in North Street. He was baptised at St Mary’s on 17 August 1882. The family moved to Moorend Lane in 1901 where George was working as a driver for a butcher. He married Annie Phillips on 1st December 1906 […]
Frank Chowns was born in Moreton in 1883 the second of four sons and one daughter born to William and Emma Chowns. He married Rose Squires at St Mary’s Thame on 16th September 1905 when he was living at 13 Bell Lane, Thame. His wife Rose lived at 50 High Street, Thame with their three daughters, Kate Elizabeth […]
David John Burbridge was born in Horsham, Sussex on 6th September 1886 to Joseph Henry Burbridge and Ellen Mary (née Brown). In 1901 the family were living in Lambeth, London. By 1911 he had moved to Thame where he was boarding at 32 Upper High Street with James West and family and was employed by […]