Duns Tew
The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene
The Roll of Honour that hangs in The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene
Aldsworth, Daniel Cavalry Wounded Aldsworth, Ernest Cavalry Bennett, Albert Edward Oxford & Bucks L.I Killed Bolton, James Royal Artillery Dashwood, Robert Henry Seymour Brigade Major, 61st Infantry Brigade Wounded Dashwood, Wilfred James 2nd Lieutenant, Grenadier Guards Killed Dashwood, Lionel Albert 2nd Lieutenant, Oxford & Bucks L.I Killed Dashwood, Henry Godfrey 2nd Lieutenant, Oxford & Bucks L.I French, John Lance Corporal, Oxford & Bucks L.I Gillam, Charles John Gloucester Regiment Killed Gillam, Albert Edward East Surrey Regiment Killed Gillam, Charles William Reeve Guards Machine Gun Corps Harris, Henry Oxford & Bucks L.I Invalided Holton, John Oxford & Bucks L.I Hudson, Christopher Oxfordshire Heavy Artillery Jarvis, Fred Worcestershire Regiment Jarvis, Percy Royal Ordnance Corps Mobbs, James London Irish Rifles Killed Mole, Albert Oxford & Bucks L.I Invalided Pullen, Laurie Royal Navy Reeve, Frank Labour Corps Ziekel, Frank DCM Sergt, Oxford & Bucks L.I Wounded Their name liveth for evermore |
The Fallen from WW1
Albert Edward BENNETT Private, D Squadron, 1st/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 2nd Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. Army no. 1932 He died from wounds received during the first Battle of Ypres on 23 May 1915. He was 19 He was the son of George R and Rosa Bennett, 28 Blackfriars Road, Oxford. He is buried in grave I F 46 Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord) Lionel Albert DASHWOOD Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 5 Brigade, 2nd Division. He was killed in action at the Battle of Festubert on 16 May 1915. He was 27 Five sons of Sir George J E Dashwood, 6th Bart. and Lady Mary M Dashwood served in WW1. Three were killed Ernest, Lionel and Wilfred. Robert and Henry survived. Lionel is remembered on panel 26 of the Le Touret Memorial Wilfred James DASHWOOD Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 3rd Guards Brigade, Guards Division. He was previously with 18th (Public Schools) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). He died of the wounds he received during the fighting at Pilckem Ridge during the Battle of Ypres on 2 August 1917. He was 34 Five sons of Sir George J E Dashwood, 6th Bart. and Lady Mary M Dashwood served in WW1. Three were killed Ernest, Lionel and Wilfred. Robert and Henry survived. He is buried in grave II G 22 Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium Additional information His address for Probate was 1 Fleet Street, London Charles John GILLAM Private, 15th (Service) Battalion, The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), 120 Brigade, 40th Division. Army no. 64665. He was formerly with The Gloucestershire Regiment. Army no. 30178 He was killed in action on 27 August 1918. He was 33 He was the son of John and Alice Gillam, the brother of Albert, see next entry, and the husband of Ann M Gillam, 56 Duns Tew He is buried in grave IV A 17 Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul Albert Edward GILLAM Private, 8th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment, 55 Brigade, 18th Division. Army no. 25169. He was formerly with The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Army no. 5674 He was killed in action at Passchendaele on 1 December 1917. He was 28 He was the son of John C and Alice Gillam of Duns Tew and the husband of Agnes Gillam, 30 Spring Lane, Kenilworth He is buried in grave II B 23 Bleuet Farm Cemetery James MOBBS Rifleman, 1st/18th (County of London) Battalion (London Irish Rifles), London Regiment, 141 Brigade, 47th (2nd London) Division. Army no. 590364 He was killed in action in the Somme on 7 April 1917. He was 20 He was son of John and Annie Mobbs of Duns Tew He is remembered on panel 54 of the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres The Fallen who are not in the Roll of Honour Ernest George DASHWOOD Captain. 1st/4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 145 Brigade, 48th (South Midlands) Division He was killed in action on 12 May 1915 shortly after the regiment had arrived in Belgium. He was 35. Five sons of Sir George J E Dashwood, 6th Bart. and Lady Mary M Dashwood served in WW1. Three were killed Ernest, Lionel and Wilfred. Robert and Henry survived. He is buried in grave III F 2 Cemetery, Rifle House Cemetery, near Ploegsteert, Belgium Additional information His address for Probate was Ludwell Farm, Woodstock He is remembered in Wootton The Men who served Daniel C ALDSWORTH Initially with The Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars. When he was conscripted, he served with the Machine Gun Corps and then The East Yorkshire Regiment, Army no. 40269 where he was wounded. He was hospitalised to York 27 April to 31 May 1918 with a shell wound right thigh and then transferred to 7th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment, Army no. 44142 He was the son of Isaac and Rachel Aldsworth. He was born in Stanton Harcourt James BOLTON There are insufficient clues in the records to enable a certain identification of his unit in the Royal Artillery This is probably the son of Joseph and Sarah Bolton who lived in Steeple Aston who was born about 1890 Robert Henry Seymour DASHWOOD MiD (twice) Captain, 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles, Major, 3rd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and Brigade Major in 1914, 61st Infantry Brigade and he was wounded twice Sir Robert Henry Seymour Dashwood, 7th Bt. was born on 19 July 1876. He was the son of Sir George J E Dashwood, 6th Bt. and Lady Mary M Dashwood. He married Margaret Helen Henry on 14 January 1903. He died on 3 July 1947 at age 70 He succeeded to the title of 7th Baronet Dashwood of Northbrook in September 1933. He held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. Henry Godfrey DASHWOOD Captain 3rd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Five sons of Sir George J E Dashwood, 6th Bart. and Lady Mary M Dashwood served in WW1. Three were killed Ernest, Lionel and Wilfred. Robert and Henry survived. He married Helen Gladys Cartmel on 12 June 1918 and subsequently he married Dora Holmes on 6 March 1947. He died on 2 February 1970 when he was 80. John William FRENCH Initially with The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Army no. 22468; he was then transferred as Lance Corporal, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry). Army no. 25913. He was the son of John Henry and Mary E French He was born 1895 in Duns Tew Charles William Reeve GILLAM He served with the Devonshire Regiment from October 1916, the Dorset Regiment from December 1917 and 4th (Foot Guards) Battalion, Guards Machine Gun Regiment. Army no. 2469 from April 1918. He first went to France in June 1918. He was born in 1895, the son of William C and Kate Gillam and married Lily Dyer in 1925 Henry Thomas HARRIS Recorded as being invalided out of The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry He was the son of George H and Fanny Harris born in 1895 in Duns Tew. No further records have been identified. John HOLTON Private, 1st/4th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He had two Army numbers 1911 and 200254 Christopher Eli HUDSON He was born in Upper Heyford in 1884 and married Mabel in 1904 but he does not feature in the 1901 census. Frederick John JARVIS Born 1890 in Overthorpe the son of William and Hannah Jarvis and brother of Percy Details of his service with the Worcestershire Regiment has not been identified He married in 1915 and died in Birmingham in 1968 Percy James JARVIS He was born in 1895 in Middleton Cheney, the son of William and Hannah L Jarvis. He married Violet E P Pink in 1920 Details of his service with the Royal Ordnance Corps has not been identified Cecil Albert MOLE He was the son of James and Mary Mole and he was born in 1895 in Duns Tew. The records show his service was with The Northumberland Fusiliers Army no. 50487. It appears that he had suffered from malaria which re-occurred and he had a stiff right big toe Laurie PULLEN I suspect this is the family in 43 Duns Tew: Henry Edward Pullen, Annie Elizabeth Pullen, and their sons, Thomas L and William V Pullen. No record of his service with the Royal Navy has been found, Perhaps Thomas L was known as Laurie! Frank REEVE He was born in 1877, the son of William and Hannah Maria Reeve No detail of his army service have been identified Frank William ZEACLE DCM He was born in 1896, the son of John William and Emily and he married Rose E Sandford in Guildford in 1919. He died in 1940 in Surrey age 44 Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Army no. 10021 On his Medal Index Card he is recorded as living at 2 Redway’s Cottages, The Lye, St John’s, Woking. He was awarded the DCM in 1915 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 5 AUGUST 1915. Citation for Distinguished Conduct Medal For conspicuous gallantry on the 16 May 1915, at Richebourg l'Avour, in bringing up bombs under a heavy shell fire at a critical time, when they were scarce and communication difficult. Private Zeacle was wounded when within 30 yards of the captured German trench. The Roll of Honour records that he was wounded but his Army records do not survive His Birth Certificate and Medal Index Records give this spelling. Additional information Extract from the Woking News and Mail 29 November 1940 supplied by Mark Coxhead BOMBS ON HOUSING ESTATE Four Dwellings Demolished, Another Fatal Casualty An enemy raider passing over a town in the Home Counties released a number of high explosive bombs, two of which demolished two pairs of semi-detached houses on a housing estate outside the town. The collapse of the houses caused a number of causalities, one of which proved fatal. Five bombs fell in line on and near the housing estate. A resident who saw an aeroplane go over at the time stated that it was in flames. Its bombs, at any rate, were jettisoned. Two fell on open ground, causing craters; one landed in a roadway, and the other two destroyed the four houses, which were situated 75 yards apart. FAMILIES BURIED UNDER DEBRIS The house in which the fatality occurred was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. F. Zeacle, their three children and a girl evacuee. The last-named was the one who got out unhurt when the building collapsed. Mr. Zeacle lost his life, Mrs. Zeacle had to be taken to hospital and their three children all suffered from shock. The adjoining house, which was also completely demolished and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Carter, their three children and an evacuated child. These were more fortunate than their neighbours, having a remarkable escape from injury after being buried under the debris of the house. Mr. Carter suffered a slight injury to his shoulder, but all the others came through unhurt. All six in the house, as well as the six next door, were sleeping upstairs. The bomb, which struck in the centre of the semi-detached pair of houses, brought them down in one big heap of rubble. A large part of a chimney stack had been thrown out by the front gate, yet strangely enough a rustic rose pergola in the front garden of Mr. Zeacle’s house still stood unharmed. “HEAD THROUGH THE RAFTERS” Mrs. Carter and her family found refuge for the night with neighbours. She said, “I woke up and found the house was shaking. I said to my husband, ‘There’s one coming’, and no sooner had I said it then it hit us and the house came down. “I found myself sitting on top if the wreckage with my head through the rafters”, Mrs. Carter went on. “ I got out before A.R.P. people arrived. They helped the children, who crawled through the wreckage and were lifted to safety”. A second pair of houses on this estate a short distance away were demolished by another bomb, which scored a direct hit about the same time. In this case, however, the bomb had not landed centrally, and while one house was completely down, a wall and the front doorway of the next house remained in position. NINE PEOPLE ESCAPED This latter house was occupied by nine people, most of whom were sleeping down-stairs. They were Mr. and Mrs. Bates and their two children, who had been evacuated from London, Mr. Bates’ mother, an invalid and four visitors. All of these escaped without injury, including the invalid. The family were endeavouring to retrieve some of their belongings from the wreckage yesterday (Thursday) morning. Mrs. Bates said, “I had just got back into bed when I heard the whistle of a bomb and down it came on us. Although I was upstairs I managed to get out more easily and before the others” The house next door was in ruins. There had been four people in this, Mr. and Mrs. Poole and two young women evacuees. The girls were unhurt, but Mr. and Mrs. Poole had to be rescued from the debris and they were taken to hospital. On a few other houses in the vicinity of those bombed, tiles were displaced. The CWGC website also records: Of the many civilians of the Commonwealth whose deaths were due to enemy action in the 1939-1945 War, the names of some 67,092 are commemorated in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour, located near St. George's Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London. Frank William Zeacle of Woodside, Oakway, Hermitage Estate, St. John's, Woking. Husband of Rose Emily Zeacle. He died at Woodside, Oakway. |
