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Tackley

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St Nicholas Church, Tackley.
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The War Memorial Plaque

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND
IN PIOUS MEMORY OF THE MEN
WHO FELL IN THE  GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918

L/CPL ARTHUR WATKINS DCM   OX & BUCKS LI
PTE EDGAR SAUNDERS ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGT
PTE WILLIAM COOK  ROYAL WELSH FUSILERS
PTE OLIVER BROOKS  YORKSHIRE REGT
GUNR HARRY BROOM ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY
CORPL EDWARD BULL  LONDON REGT
PTE PERCY WETHERALL  OX & BUCKS LI
PTE SAMUEL WILKS  OX & BUCKS LI
PTE FREDERICK TYRELL  ROYAL BERKS REGT
PTE ERNEST BLOOMFIELD  WORCESTER REGT
SAPPER ALFRED HOARE ROYAL ENGINEERS
PTE HUBERT CRAWFORD  2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS
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Roll of Service

1939 – 1944
Navy         Royal Air Force
Michael Badham  Desmond Evetts  Aubrey Adams
Lennox Churchill  Arthur Edgington  Reginald Brooks
Gordon Churchill  Ernest Franklin   Leslie Brooks
William Cox   Bernard Hoare   Albert Broome
Ronald Grimsley  William Honey    Basil Clark
Jack Paine   Arthur Honey   Albert Crawford
Stephen Sampson  
Jack Huxley wounded 
Ronald Franklin Anthony Sampson 
Lionel Jessett wounded  
Fred Grimsley Laurence Smith   Robert Joyce    
John Hamilton
Norman Wells   Christopher Kilby  William Harwood
William Hitchin   Fred Hayward John Lewington   
Christopher Lee Frederick Ludlow  Cyril Pearman
Percy Adams   Reginald Manningham Buller Gilbert
Phipps William Adams   George Mobley  Leslie Pike
James  Adams   wounded 
Sidney Pearman  William Roche George Absalam
Albert Pearman   Cyril Rolphe Cyril Brooks   
Walter Phipps    Roland Thornton Colin Broome   
John Rackstraw   William Wilding Kenneth Broome  
Peter Smith     Peter Wright Victor Broome   
Ronald Scott   Edward Bull  Cecil Skidmore Godfrey Beauchamp  David Thornton
Robert Badham  George Thomas   Edwin Bloomfield  
Cyril Warwick wounded 
 Olive Haines ATS Kenneth Cross Reginald Wells
Barbara Honour VAD Guthrie Cooper  Kenneth Evetts  
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Ernest William Bloomfield
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The Fallen from WW1

Ernest William BLOOMFIELD  
Private, 6th Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment. Army no. 67397. 
He died on 12 November 1918. He was 30  
He was the son of George and Harriett Bloomfield and
the husband of Ellen Bloomfield of Nethercote, Tackley
He is buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas Church, Tackley
Additional information
The fact that he is buried in England means that he died in England whether from illness or as a result of being wounded is not established.
 
Oliver BROOKS 
Private, 9th (Service) Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own, (Yorkshire Regiment), 69 Brigade, 23rd Division.  Army no. 28292. 
He was killed in action at the Battle of the Transloy Ridges on
7 October 1916. He was 32.
He was the son of James and Ester Brooks of Tackley and the husband of Emily Rolfe (formerly Brooks) also of Tackley
He is remembered on pier and face 3A and 3D of the Thiepval Memorial

Harry Spencer BROOM 
Gunner, 92nd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. Army no. 63844. 
He died on 12 January 1918. He was 35
He was the son of John and the late Elizabeth Broom of Tackley and the husband of Florence M Broom, Garden View, North Curry, Somerset
He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Dodford, Northamptonshire
Additional information
He had probably been awarded the Silver War Badge signifying that he had been discharged from the Army as being medically unfit. The cause of his death is not known but he was buried in England means that he died in England, probably in Dodford and his death was registered as a civilian

John Edward BULL 
Lance Corporal, 1st/23rd (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, 142 Brigade, 47th Division. Army no. 702535. He was formerly with the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Army no. 19176
He was killed in action on 11 January 1918. As there was no battle at that date, it is probable that he died in the everyday horrors of trench life. He was 23. 
He was the son of John and Mary Bull of Tackley
He is buried in grave II D 2 Ribecourt British Cemetery

Hubert CRAWFORD
Private, 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards, 1st Guards
Brigade, Guards Division.  Army no. 17487 
He was killed in action on 13 October 1917. This was a few days after The Guards Division had captured Ruisseau Farm during the Battle of Passchendaele. He was 26
He was the son of Edward and Mary Crawford, Ivy Cottage, Tackley  
He is buried in grave D 10 Ruisseau Farm Cemetery, nr Ypres

William COOK
Lance Corporal, 8th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Welsh
Fusiliers, 40th Brigade. Army no. 36400
He died on 15 September 1918
He is remembered on face 4 of the 1914-1918 Memorial, Kirkee, India
Additional information
No connection has been established with Tackley. However there does not appear to be an alternative to this soldier. On
the other hand, his Battalion was in Mesopotamia which is not the area included on this memorial. A mystery

Alfred HOARE  
Sapper, 130th Field Company, Royal Engineers, 25th Division. Army no. 461521. 
He died on 14 November 1918 probably from illness. He was 30. 
He was the son of Alfred J and Louisa Hoare of Tackley.
He is buried in grave VIII A 36 Busigny Communal Cemetery
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Edgar SAUNDERS  
Private, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 22 Brigade, 7th Division. Army no. 4084
He was killed in action during the fighting at Guillemont, Somme on 3 September 1916.  He was 21.
He was the son of the late James and Sarah Saunders of Tackley
He is remembered on pier and face 9A, 9B and 10B of the Thiepval Memorial

Frederick Henry TYRRELL  
Private, B Company, 8th (Service) Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment), 1 Brigade,
1st Division. Army no. 37783. He was formerly with The Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Army no. 28950
He was killed in action during the Battle of the Selle on 23 October 1918. He was 35
He was the son of John and the late Mrs Tyrrell and the husband of Mary A Tyrrell of Nethercote, Tackley
He is buried in grave XI A 16 Highland Cemetery Le Cateau
Additional information
His surname is spelt Tyrell on the Tackley Memorial. This is probably incorrect

William Henry Arthur WATKINS DCM 
Corporal, 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 5 Brigade, 2nd Division. Army no. 10290.
He was killed in action on 10 September 1915.  There was no
major battle at the time.  He was 21 
He is buried in grave II D 4 Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy

Percy Augustus WITHERALL
Private, 5th (Service) Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 42 Brigade, 14th Division. Army no. 16233
He was killed in action during the 3rd Battle of the Scarpe on 3 May 1917.  He was 21
He was the son of Mrs Julia G Timms, 53 New Street,
Chipping Norton and the late John Witherall
He is remembered on bay 6 and 7 of the Arras Memorial
Additional information
His surname is spelt Wetherall on the Tackley Memorial. This is probably incorrect

Samuel Percival WILKS  
Private, 6th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 43 Brigade, 14th Division. Army no. 29215. He
was formerly with the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.  Army no. 17483
He was killed in action on 23 August 1917 during the fighting on the Menin Road, Battle of Ypres. He was 23
He was the son of Harry and Eliza Wilks of Nethercote, Tackley
He is buried in grave XVII A 6 Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood
Additional information
His 1895 birth registration in the Bicester Registration District lists him as Samuel Percival Wilkes but the Army records do not spell it with an “e”

an email received from his son Roger Thornton

David Walter Thornton (and I quote)
He was born in Tackley and joined the Royal Engineers in 1939, he was at Dunkirk then fought the Japanese in Burma later in the war.
He married my mother (who he met in Ceylon when she was there as a Wren during 1943 I think) and died in 1958; it seems his system never fully recovered from multiple doses of dysentery he got in Burma.


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