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
Editor Rob Forsyth
Editor Rob Forsyth
Some of the Deddington Men who served in the First World War and who were not killed
These names have been taken from the Deddington Deanery Magazine and a printed Roll of Honour which is undated but probably was published in the Spring of 1917. The combination of these two sources provides a comprehensive and probably incomplete record of those that served, a list that is too often not available.
The following Men of Deddington are known to have been wounded and/or discharged. The surviving Records of Soldiers in WW1 are very poor having largely been destroyed in a bombing raid in WW2.
Editor's notes:
1. click on blue links to see more about these men - some in photographs. Other Group photos of the Ox & Bucks may well contain some of those named below but as yet unidentified.
2. anything in italics is my editorial comment as an addition to the Deanery Magasine/RoH entries
| William Allen | discharged |
|---|---|
| Alec Austin, Hempton | |
| Cpl John Beesley |
discharged |
| Frederick G Berry | |
| Geoffrey Bowler |
foot amputated |
| E Browning | discharged |
| Allan Callow | discharged |
| Frank H Callow | |
| A Cambray | |
| A Castle | discharged |
| E Cherry |
discharged |
| F Clarke (1892 - ?) |
1st cousin to George |
| George Clarke (1874-1951) | leg amputated |
| P Dunn |
|
| Christopher J Ell | leg amputated |
| H Freeman |
|
| M French |
invalided from the Front |
| William J Gardner |
discharged |
| G Gilkes |
|
| R Gilkes |
|
| Rev H Tyrell Green |
|
| A Hands | discharged |
| L Hands |
|
| William J Harper (b1877) |
discharged |
| E A Hicks | invalided from the Front |
| H Hicks | |
| G Hodges | discharged |
| Cpl Thomas P Holiday |
discharged |
| Capt. D Hopcraft | |
| A Hunt | |
| H Malcher | |
| P Mayo | |
| H Miller | |
| W Mitchell |
|
| E Paginton | disabled |
| B Paginton | disabled |
| S Payne | discharged |
| L Rees | |
| O Regan | |
| E Shirley | |
| J Smith | |
| G Smith | discharged |
| A Spenser, Hempton | |
| H Sturch | discharged |
| V Taylor | |
| Albert Tustain | discharged |
| Wm A Tustain | discharged |
| Sarg-Major J Warren DCM | |
| Lieut. J H Warren | |
| Lieut. J Watts | |
| Jas Wheeler | discharged |
| Richard F Wheeler | |
| W E Wheeler |
We know that the following received recognition and Gallantry Awards
| Leslie W H Bowler | Mentioned in Despatches, Military Cross and Bar |
| B Cambray from Canada | Military Medal |
| Private F Drinkwater | Military Medal |
| CQMS H J Harmsworth | Meritorious Service Medal |
| Sarg-Major J Warren | DCM |
Some of the Men of Deddington are known to have been Prisoners of War (and survived)
James W Cowley
Leonard A Long
F Valentine
Continued on second page
©Michael Allbrook
Deddington, July 2009