Great Tew
A plaque in the Church of St Michael & All Angels
1914 - 1918 TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR: Pte W T DEAN Royal Berks Reg Pte H V Friend Durham Light Inf Pte A H Gough Rl Warwicks Reg Pte G H Knibbs Oxon & Bucks LI Cpl L J Richards QO Oxon HSRS Cpr G E Vipond Can Mtd Rifles Pte H J Williams Coldstream Grds Lce Cpl F Yeates Oxon & Bucks LI Also Cpl F G Hartley MGC in Russia 1919 1939 -1945 Sq/Ldr R M Coles RAF Sgt E Harper RAC Pte E G Newell Oxf & Bucks LI |
The Fallen from WW1
William Thomas DEAN Private, 1st Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment), 99 Brigade, 2nd Division. Army no. 39091 He was formerly with Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry). Army no. 41738 He died from his wounds on 31 August 1918. He was 19. He was the son of Harry and Jane Dean, Barn Cottages, Tracey, Enstone He is buried in grave B 17 Ligny-Sur-Canche British Cemetery. Henry Victor FRIEND Private, 2nd/6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, 177 Brigade, 59th Division. Army no. 85777. He was formerly with The Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Army no. 8304 He was killed in action on 6 October 1918 during the Final Advance in Artois. He was 31 He was the son of Henry T Friend of Great Tew and the late Mary A Friend. He is buried in grave VI I 4 Ration Farm Military Cemetery, La Chapelle d'Armentières Albert Henry GOUGH Private, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 22 Brigade, 7th Division. Army no. 29928. He was formerly with The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Army no. 23042 He was killed in action on 4 May 1917. He was 25 He was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Gough He is remembered on bay 3 of the Arras Memorial Frederick George HARTLEY Corporal, 19th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Army no. 13833 He was killed in action on 13 September 1919. He was 21 He was the son of Frederick G and Sylvia Hartley He is buried in Sp Mem B11 New British Cemetery, Murmansk Additional information He is buried in Svyatnavolok Chyd but there is a special memorial to him and his colleagues in the Cemetery in Murmansk George Herbert KNIBBS Private, 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment. Army no. 17112. He was formerly with The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Army no. 18188 He died from natural causes on 8 November 1916. He was 19 He is buried in grave XXI M 7 North Gate War Cemetery, Baghdad Leslie John RICHARDS Private, 6th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 60 Brigade, 20th Division. Army no. 32852. He was formerly with Oxfordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars). Army no. 3680 He died from his wounds on 19 October 1916. He was 23. He was the son of John W and Mary Richards of Tracey, Enstone. He is buried in grave I N 27 Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte George Emerson VIPOND Private, Eastern Ontario Regiment, 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. Army no. 225272 He died on 2 September 1918. He was 38. He was the son of William and Jane Vipond of Houghton le Spring. He is buried in grave I C 28 Dury Mill British Cemetery Additional information He had lived in Great Tew Herbert Thomas WILLIAMS Private, 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, 1 Guards Brigade, Guards Division. Army no. 7416 He was killed in action on 29 September 1915 at the Battle of Loos He is buried in grave IV G 9 Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos Frederick YEATES Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 5 Brigade, 2nd Division. Army no. 9683 He was killed in action on 16 May 1915. He was 21. He was the son of Henry and Mary Yeates of Garsington, Oxford. He is remembered on panel 26 of Le Touret Memorial The Fallen of WW2 Rodney Maxwell COLES Flight Lieutenant, 211 Squadron, Royal Air Force. RAF no. 41553. He was reported missing, presumed killed, on 18 October 1944. He was 27 He was the son of Oscar T and Martha M Coles He is remembered on column 431 of the Singapore Memorial Additional information His address for probate was Porch House, Great Tew. He had joined the RAF just before WW2. After a tour in Coastal Command, he was posted to Canada and then to 211 Squadron. This squadron became operational in the Far East in January 1944 equipped with Beaufighters armed with the, then novel, rockets On 18 October 1944, six aircraft led by Squadron Leader Martineau attacked Mingaladon airfield in Burma (Myanmar). Japanese fighters chased the Beaufighters. Rodney Coles and his Navigator Flying Officer Raymons S Painter did not return. More information can be found at http://www.211squadron.org/ and go to India and Burma Edward HARPER Sergeant, 61st Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps, Royal Armoured Corps. Army no. 5380505 He was killed in action on 19 October 1944. He was 34. He was the son of William J and Florence Harper of Exhall, Warwickshire He is buried in plot 12D, row 2, grave 19, Soestbergen General Cemetery, Utrecht Additional information He had previously served with The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Eric George NEWELL Private, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 2nd (Airborne) Battalion. Army no. 5388641 He died on 7 June 1944, otherwise known as D Day plus 1. He was 27 He was the son of Eva M Newell of Great Tew. He is buried in grave 20, Herouvillette New Communal Cemetery. 11 kilometres from Caen Those not mentioned on the Memorial Charles BARNETT Private, 5th Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment), 35 Brigade, 12th Division. Army no. 19961 He was killed in action on 30 July 1916 in the fighting at Pozières Ridge on the Somme. He was 20. He was the son of William H and Mary E Barnett, 49 Granby Gardens, Reading. He is remembered on pier and face 11D of the Thiepval Memorial Additional information He was born in Great Tew Hope Jubilee Victor MONK Sergeant, 6th Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 60 Brigade, 20th Division. Army no. 12116 He died from his wounds on 29 August 1916 probably received during the fighting at Delville Wood. He was 19. He is buried in Plot 2 Row B Grave 50 Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension Additional information He lived in Great Tew |
