WW1 -Those who served and returned - page 2

Servicemen known to have served but no additional details held.

The following are known to have served but there is no record of their Wartime Service or whether they should be included in any of the other categories.Unfortunately there is no longer any comprehensive archive which enables us to add to this information

G Adams
C Austin
Richard G Beesley
G Bennet, Clifton
M Bennett
J Berridge
William G Berry
B Bletsoe
D Bliss
S Boffin, Clifton
E Bolton
J Bolton, Clifton
R F Bolton, Clifton
W Brooks or Brookes
James H Callow
P Callow
Robert Callow
R Callow, Clifton
R Cambray
P Carvill
J Castle
W Checkley
P Churchill
W Churchill
H Clark, Clifton
R Clarke
E Clutterbuck, Hempton
F Clutterbuck, Hempton
H Collect
John Compton
W Course
F Cowley
Jacob Cowley
John Cowley
B Dodwell
W Dodwell
F Davis
F Durran
E Field
F Finch
W Fincher, Clifton
S Fox, Clifton
H Gardiner
Charles EGibbs
Walter E Gibbs
C Gilkes
F Gregory
H Griffin
S Hall
E Hancox
Arthur Harper, Clifton
H Harper
A Harris, Clifton
F Hawkins
E Hickson, Clifton
B Hiorns
John Hiorns
S Hiorns
William Holiday
F Hopcraft
S Hopcraft
E Hore
W Jennings
C Jones
Lieut D Jones
C Large
John H Lewis
T Luker
Frederick C Mayo
G Meadon, Clifton
E Mobley
L W Morton
L Nicholls, Hempton
F Page
W Page
J Quarterman, Clifton
T Quarterman, Clifton
W Sanders
Alfred A Smith
W G Smith
W O Smith
W Smith
E Stimpson
E Stockford
Stone
B Sykes
F Sykes
George Sykes
G I Sykes
Hubert Sykes
Joseph Sykes
John Sykes
R Sykes
Ro. Sykes
S Sykes

Servicemen whose details have been submitted by families or friends

In the course of researching the Second World War Rob Forsyth came across several names of those who served in WWI and are not recorded in either the Vicar's notes or the Roll of Honour. 

Frank Bowler (1898 - 1989) 2nd Lieutenant Royal Flying Corps. Frank and his two older brothers were all in uniform in both world wars. His eldest brother  Leslie was highly decorated – MC with bar and twice Mentioned in Dispatches – and wounded twice.  He and the middle brother Geoffrey are listed in the Roll of Honour for Deddington but Frank is not, probably because he did not join until April 1918. The story of the Bowler Boys at war is contained in Personal Stories

Bartholomed Callow (1881 -1964).   Driver in the Army Service Corps

Jon Maurice French 

Henry Thomas Harper (b 1898) Private   Royal Berkshire Regiment        

Arthur John (Jack) Malcher (1898 - 1997)    Royal Gloucestershire Regiment

James Henry Hone Malings (1885 - 1929) Private  Royal Engineers and Northumberland Fusiliers (1914 to 1920)

John Thomas Malings (1878-????) John  served in the 20th Hussars in South Africa and Egypt, emigrated to Canada in 1907 and served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force by subtracting 6 years from his age!

Frank BOWLER (1898 - 1989)

Membership records of Deddington Branch, Royal British Legion

The list of members, extant since 1953, includes five men additional to those in the lists on previous pages.  The complete membership can be found in Appendix…. Royal British Legion, Deddington Branch.

James H. BREEN               Flight Lieutenant. Royal Flying Corps
Frank Seymour HIRONS    5th Battalion Royal Fusiliers        
Bernard WALLIN               Sergeant. 1st/4th Ox and Bucks Light Infantry        
Lewis DARLINGTON           Guardsman. Grenadier Guards
Leonard G A BOFFIN         Sergeant. Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars,The Royal Welch Fusiliers and
                                        The Grenadier Guards. He served in the Hong Kong Police from 1926 to 1932.