Bourton in the Church of St James’
ROLL OF SERVICE
ST JAMES’, BOURTON In honoured remembrance Of the men from this Parish Who served their King and Country In the Great War 1914 -1918 AMES WILLIAM ARTHUR ROGER Oxford & Bucks LI AMES WILLIAM HERBERT Oxford & Bucks LI ASH ALBERT Royal Berks Reg’t ASH FREDERICK Royal Berks Reg’t ASH WILLIAM Royal Berks Reg’t BARRETT WILLIAM Middlesex Reg’t BASSON ALBERT TUCKER Grenadier Guards BASSON ALBERT Royal Engineers BASSOON GEORGE Royal Field Artillery BASSON WILLIAM Royal Engineers BAXTER JOHN Royal Army Medical Corps BEASANT HAROLD Devonshire Reg’t BEASANT RAYMOND Royal Berks Reg’t BEASSANT REGINALD Royal Marines BEDFORD-PIM EDWARD HUGH Royal Field Artillery BONEHAM ALBERT Royal Field Artillery CLACK CHARLES Royal Berks Reg’t CLACK JESSE Royal Garrison Artillery CLINCH CHARLES HENRY Royal Army Medical Corps CLINCH GEORGE ALBERT Royal Warwicks CLINCH WILLIAM JOSEPH Royal Field Artillery *COZENS CHARLES Wilts Reg’t EVANS THOMAS Royal Army Veterinary Corps FIELD REGINALD Royal Field Artillery HATHERALL ALBERT Royal Field Artillery HATHERALL CHARLES Royal Field Artillery HATHERALL WALTER Royal Field Artillery HATHERALL WILLIAM Royal Field Artillery HEAVENS ANGELI Royal Berks Reg’t HOLMES JAMES CUTHBERT Ceylon Planters Volunteers HUGHES FREDERICK Royal Army Service Corps KING CECIL Devonshire Reg’t LEGG THOMAS Wilts Reg’t *LYNN HENRY Wilts Reg’t MAISEY ALBERT Royal Garrison Artillery MITCHELL FREDERICK Royal Field Artillery PAINE WALTER Royal Field Artillery PONTING GEORGE - PONTING REGINALD - PRESTON GEORGE Coldstream Guards PRICE WILLIAM Royal Garrison Artillery REYNOLDS W Royal Berks Reg’t RICH THOMAS Royal Berks Reg’t ROGERS BENJAMIN Royal Field Artillery SEXTON WILLIAM Royal Engineers SWEETING WILLIAM Royal Engineers TELLING ALBERT EDWARD Northants Reg’t TELLING ETHELBERT Royal Berks Reg’t TELLING PERCY Coldstream Guards TIMMS JOSEPH Royal Army Service Corps TITCOMBE HEDLEY Royal Berks Reg’t TITCOMBE WORTHY Wilts Reg’t TONGUE ERNEST Royal Berks Reg’t *TURNER BINGHAM Rifle Brigade TYLER GEORGE WALTER Royal Air Force WALES ERNEST GEORGE Royal Engineers WALES WILLIAM Royal Engineers WALL ERNEST Royal Navy WILLIS JAMES Gloucester Reg’t 
Hanging in the Church for WW2
ROLL OF SERVICE ST JAMES’ BOURTON IN HONOURED REMEMBRANCE of those from This Parish who served in HM Forces in the World War 1939-1945 ALLEN DOUGLAS GLEAVE JOHN L Royal Engineers Royal Army Service Corps ALLEN REGINALD GLEAVE ALAN J Coldstream Guards Royal Army Service Corps ASH FREDERICK GLEAVE THOMAS R Pioneer Corps Madras Regiment ARKELL J OLIVER A HATHERALL GEORGE H Royal Navy Dorsetshire Regiment BAXTER VERA HATHERALL LESLIE Women’s Royal Air Force Royal Elec & Mech Engin BROWN HENRY J HATHERALL WILLIAM A Royal Artillery London Scottish *BROWN WILFRED HAYES Richard Wiltshire Regiment Queens Bays BASSON THOMAS W HEATH ALAN Royal Artillery Royal Engineers BUTLER PATRICK KENDALL HUDGENS JOYCE D Royal Corps of Signals Auxiliary Territorial Service BUTLER CHARLES Royal Army Service Corps CLINCH KENNETH LUKER RONALD Royal Army Ordnance Corps Royal Army Service Corps COATES IVOR PAYNE JOHN Royal Air Force Oxford & Bucks Light Inf COATES LESLIE RICHARDS DANIEL Royal Engineers Royal Army Service Corps COLLETT OLIVER SHUTE REGINALD Royal Artillery Royal Army Service Corps COOPER RICHARD S SHUTE EDWARD Royal Artillery Royal Artillery DIXON BERTRAM W TIMMS THOMAS H Royal Air Force Royal Navy DEVONSHIRE GEORGE *TIMMS WALTER Royal Navy Wiltshire Regiment DEVONSHIRE WILLIAM TIMMS WILLIAM H Royal Artillery Royal Army Service Corps GLEAVE MC JAMES THORNE BASIL Royal Artillery Royal Elec & Mech Engin *Denotes Those who gave their lives. 
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The Fallen in WW1
Charles Haddon COZENS Serjeant, 1st Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment). Army no 3/9223 He died from his wounds on 13 September 1916. He was 24 He is buried in the eastern part of the churchyard of St James' Church, Bourton Additional Information He was the son of the late Edwin and Ellen Cozens of Bishopstone, Shrivenham Henry Thomas LYNN Private, 2nd Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), 21 Brigade, 7th Division. Army no 18232 He was killed in action on 17 May 1915 at the Battle of Festubert. He was 18 He is remembered on panel 33 and 34 of Le Touret Memorial Bingham Alexander TURNER DSO Captain, 6th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, The Prince Consort's Own. He was killed in action on 2 November 1914. He was 37 He is remembered on panel 46 - 48 and 50 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres Additional Information He was the son of the late General Alexander and Helen Bingham Turner of Milesdown, Winchester and the husband of Gladys Gooch (formerly Turner), Hodcott House, West Ilsley, Newbury The Fallen in WW2 Wilfred John BROWN Private, 5th Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment Army no. 5577170 He was killed in action on 10 July 1944 in the fighting for Hill 112 during the battle for Normandy after the Allied invasion. He was 21 He is buried in grave VIII A 20 St Manvieu War Cemetery, Cheux, Normandy Additional Information He was the son of Herbert John and Elisabeth Annie Brown of Bourton Walter William TIMMS Private, 5th Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment Army no. 5577031 He was killed on 2 October 1944 on active service as part of the Allied Army which fought their way through, and liberated, France, Belgium and Holland. He was 21 He is remembered on panel 5 of the Groesbeek Memorial, Holland Additional Information He was the son of William Henry and Alice May Timms of Bourton Further information The Groesbeek Memorial stands within Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery and commemorates by name more than 1,000 members of the Commonwealth land forces who died during the campaign in north-west Europe between the time of crossing the Seine at the end of August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe, and whose graves are not known. A Tribute to the 5th Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment This, their Battalion, landed on D Day, 6 June 1944 and fought through these battles: Oden 25 June-2 July Caen 4-18 July Hill 112 10-11 July Bourgeubus Ridge 18-23 July Maltot 22-23 July Mont Pincon 30 July-9 August La Variniere 4-9 August Seine 1944 25-28 August Nederrijn 17-27 1944 September Before Walter Timms was killed on 2 October |
