A considerable amount of further research has been carried out since the Parish at War articles were first published several years ago.The updated research is now published in the book A Parish at War launched on 11.11.11 and obtainable via Deddington Library or email Rob Forsyth
By Michael Allbrook
Extracts from the Deddington Deanery Magazine 1914 – 1919 relating to the Men who Served.
These records are the work of the Reverend Thomas Boniface, Vicar of Deddington(Eds note: to be seen here in the centre of his choir in 1906) At the time of writing, he had been the Vicar since 1878 and if you read the original magazine, which is held in the Oxford Record Centre, you will detect the increasing level of despair in the records.
(additional notes and comments by Michael Allbrookare in italics)
1914
| December 1914 | |
| Chas Callow | Killed in action |
| Wm Wilkins | Killed in action |
| John Beesley | Wounded |
| Wm Tustain | Wounded |
1915
|
January 1915 |
|
| Corporal J Beesley | Convalescent |
| A Spencer | Convalescent |
| M French |
Invalided from Front |
| EA Hicks |
Invalided from Front |
| George Castle |
of another Deddington family. Killed |
| February 1915 |
| R Beesley | W Holiday | J M French |
| S R Hall |
W Page |
J C Warren |
June 1915
The Curate, the Rev Tyrell Green has joined the Royal Army Medical Corps
| July 1915 |
|
| G Sykes jnr | Killed |
| Sargeant-Major Warren | Wounded |
| Corporal T Holiday | Wounded |
| L/Cpl. D Hopcraft | Wounded |
| Private H Miller | Wounded |
| Private H Checkley | Wounded |
Killed previously and not recorded were:
W Wilkins C Callow G Castle
(Note: in fact, the names of all these men had been recorded already)
Wounded previously but not recorded
J Beesley W Tustain W Brooks
J H Warren A Callow
August 1915
A Spenser of Hempton Wounded
Clarence Gilkes Wounded.
(Note Private Clarence Bert GILKES, 5th Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry died on 16 October 1917. He has no known grave but his name is recorded on panel 96-98 of the Tyne Cot Memorial yet he is not on the Deddington Memorial)
| October 1915 |
|
| Private Spenser |
of Hempton. Killed |
| Lieut.GeoffreyBowler | Wounded in the Dardanelles |
| November 1915 |
|
| William Allen | Wounded/ in Manchester |
| Albert Tustain | Wounded/ in Netley |
| Walter Gibbs | Dangerously ill |
| Loder French | Welcome home |
1916
|
|
| February 1916 |
|
| J F Hawkins of Field Barn | Killed |
| W F Bolton of Clifton | Killed |
| Walter Albert Gardner | Died in Cornwall on home service |
| March 1916 |
|
| Loder French | Died age 24. Elder son of Mr & Mrs W J French, Council Street |
| April 1916 |
|
| Lieut. G Bowler | Wounded and his foot was amputated whilst serving in the Dardanelles. He has been promoted to Captain |
| Sargt Major Warren DCM |
Now commissioned and has transferred from the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars Died of fever in the Persian Gulf |
| F Hutt | Killed in action 8 February 1916 |
| August 1916 | |
| Walter D Hancox | Royal Engineers, killed 1 July. A ringer at the church and Captain of the Football and Cricket Clubs. |
| Private J E Twissell | Serving with 32 Battalion Canadian Infantry, he died in Calgary Holy Cross Hospital. A former chorister. He was buried on 5 June |
| Lieut Warren | Wounded for the second time |
| Private G Clarke | Wounded |
| H Checkley | Wounded |
| J W Cowley | Prisoner of War in Turkey |
| October 1916 |
|
| Corporal W Rufus Hancox | Killed age 20 serving in the Ox. & Bucks.Light Infantry. He was a Bell ringer at the church, a Scout and a Territorial |
| November 1916 | |
| Private J H Checkley | Killed in action in July. Previously wounded |
| L/Cpl M J Tustain | Killed in action in July. |
| F Tustain |
his brother, Coldstream Guards. Killed |
| December 1916 | |
| Bernard Wheeler | Died in Shorncliffe Military Hospital on 18November and was buried on 23rd. He was the November and was buried on 23rd. He was the son of James Wheeler and he had become a Canadian Resident |
1917
| February 1917 | |
| Percy Pinfold of Clifton | Killed in action 1 January 1917 |
| March 1917 | |
| A Ell |
Wounded a second time.In hospital in Chichester |
| April 1917 | |
| Wallace Carvill | Died on 3 March in hospital in France, he had been suffering from measles |
| Alfred Ell | Died on 3 March, in Chichester Hospital |
| June 1917 | |
| Joseph Austin of Hempton | Killed |
| Alfred Yerbury junior | Killed |
| Aleck Manchip | Killed |
| July 1917 | |
| John Ernest Mundy | Killed on Sunday 3 June |
| Pte H White of Hempton | is missing |
| October 1917 |
|
| D Hopcraft |
Promoted and Commissioned |
| J Watts |
Promoted and Commissioned |
| N Chislett |
Killed in July |
| A Hancox |
Wounded |
| R, W and T Wheeler |
All three wounded |
| E Shirley |
Wounded |
| W Mitchell |
Wounded |
| F Callow |
Wounded |
| P Dunn |
Wounded |
The marriage of Private R E Weaver to Miss G M Mille
| November 1917 | |
| Sapper E Hancox | Killed in action 24 July, a bell ringer |
| Harold Freeman | Killed in action |
1918
| January 1918 |
|
| E and B Paginton | Both badly wounded and disabled |
| J Higham | Badly wounded |
| Alec Austin | Badly wounded |
| A Hunt | Badly wounded |
| A Cambray | Badly wounded |
| R Gilkes | Badly wounded |
| M French | Indisposed |
| H Churchill | from New Zealand. Killed |
| February 1918 |
|
| Private F Drinkwater | Awarded Military Medal for rescuing two comrades |
| Lieut D Jones |
Has returned |
| Private F Hawkins | Died 18 January after an accident |
| March 1918 |
|
| Private A Weaver | Killed. He was a resident and Chorister who had moved to King’s Sutton. A nephew of the Wright family in Clifton |
| M French, E and B Paginton | On sick list |
| W White | Missing |
| Lieut. L Bower | Mentioned in Despatches |
| May 1918 |
|
| A Hutt | Killed |
| W Dunn | Killed |
| Rev. Tyrell Green | Wounded (note: former Deddington curate) |
| Lieut. Watts | Wounded |
| H Hicks | Wounded |
| Captain L Bowler | Awarded Military Cross |
| J Higham. RFC | Won a Belgian Award |
| June 1918 |
|
| F Valentine | At first, believed killed but this was corrected in July which states he is a Prisoner of War |
| A Adey of Clifton | Killed |
The total of deaths has reached 34 in number |
|
| Hubert Sykes | has fallen; he is the son of Joshua |
| August 1918 |
|
| C J Ell | Wounded and his leg amputated |
| F Berry | Wounded |
| H Griffin | Killed |
| H Deeley | Missing |
| September 1918 |
|
| B Hawkins of Field Barn | Missing |
| F Berry | Wounded |
| D Hopcraft |
Promoted Captain |
| CQMS H J Harmsworth | In the London Gazette for Gallantry |
| November 1918 | |
| Captain L Bowler | Awarded bar to his Military Cross |
| B Cambray from Canada | Awarded Military Medal |
| B Hawkins | Believed to be a Prisoner of War |
| O Dore | Who has recently enlisted died of pneumonia on 5 October |
| December 1918 |
|
| Joseph Hiorns | Killed 11 October 1918 |
| R Page Bull | Killed 30 October 1918 |
| Leonard A Long | Is a Prisoner of War |
1919 |
|
| January 1919 | |
| Harry Gardner | Killed 2 December 1918 in France. He was a Scout and a bell ringer |
| February 1919 | |
| George Davis | Died in Salonica |
| Edwin Bliss |
Died in India |
| Bernard Hawkins |
Has died, he was not a Prisoner as was earlier reported. |
| Some others have returned home | |
| Leonard Long | He was a prisoner in Germany |
| James Cowley | He was a prisoner in Mesopotamia |
| QMS H J Harmsworth | From Italy, awarded the Meritorious Service Medal |
| Rev. H Tyrell Green |
©Michael Allbrook
Deddington, July 2009