Tackley
St Nicholas Church, Tackley.
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 
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 
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 Extension 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. |
