Balliol Boys' Club began in 1907 when a group of Balliol undergraduates decided to run a club for the boys of the deprived parish of St Ebbe's. It began life in a former sweet factory at 9 Littlegate Street. It remained there until 1921, so this is the club that all the young men on this war memorial would have known.
A new club house was opened in Blackfriars Road, St Ebbe's on 19 November 1921 (photograph) and named after Keith Rae, President of the Balliol Boys' Club in 1909–10, who had been killed in the First World War. The First World War wooden memorial (right) was originally on the wall of Keith Rae House, but when that building was demolished in the 1960s as part of the redevelopment of St Ebbe's, it had to be moved, and it is now on the wall of Balliol Archives (formerly St Cross Church).
On the memorial itself, the 39 names comprise 12 former Balliol undergraduates, 26 boys from around the St Ebbe's area of Oxford, and one man who was included in error.
Many of the men died early in the war, which meant that they were volunteers.
- Material on this boys' club held in Balliol Archives
- Balliol College: Boys' Club WWW1 exhibition in 2014
The memorial reads at the top:
1914 [Crest] 1918
THESE ARE THE MEMBERS OF
THIS CLUB WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR: THEIR NAMES ARE
HERE RECORDED THAT THOSE WHO
COME AFTER MAY NOT FORGET.
This is followed by the names of the boys and Balliol men in alphabetical order with no differentiation between town and gown. Members of both are often recorded on this memorial with the abbreviated forename or nickname by which they were known (e.g. Fred, Jack, Mannie, Reg, Ted, Tom, Will), while Lord Spencer Douglas Compton is just Spencer Compton.
Brief biographies of the club members on the war memorial
Below is basic information on all those club members who died.
Key:
- CWGC = Individual page on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website
- City Honour Roll = “Roll of the Citizens of Oxford who Fell in the Great War 1914–1918” (kept in the City Church of St Michael-at-the Northgate and available online to members of the Oxfordshire Family History Society)
- The Balliol undergraduates who ran the club are listed with a pale yellow background. The rest are city boys who attended the club and who mostly lived in St Ebbe's parish
Born in Cambridge on 25 April 1894 Son of James Adam, D.Litt. and Adela Marion Kensington, M.A., who were married at Paddington on 22 July 1890. His father was a Platonic scholar who taught at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and his mother was a Classical Lecturer at Girton. Censuses
School: Winchester College: On the school war memorial (with biography) Captain, “A” Company, 1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment Buried at Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension, France
(IV. Q. 12) He obtained a First in Honour Moderations in Classics in 1914. He was known to members of the Boys' Club as “The Scarecrow”. His widowed mother was living at 29 Barton Road, Cambridge in 1921. |
Born at 15 Friars Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 31 August 1894 and privately baptised by Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 18 March 1896 Son of William Alder, a labourer for the Oxford Local Board, and Jane Smith, who were married at Cumnor Church on 5 February 1881 Censuses
Private, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried in the Cork Military Cemetery, but his grave could not be maintained there, and CWGC / On City Honour Roll / Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 25 November 1914 |
Born at 33 South Street, Osney, Oxford and baptised at St Frideswide's Church on 23 February 1896 Son of George Robert Bennett, a Great Western Railway porter and later a brewer's carter, and Rosa Eeles, who were married at St Frideswide's Church in Oxford on 15 September 1892 Censuses
Private, “D” Squadron, Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France (I.F.46) CWGC / On City Honour Roll / Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 16 June 1915 |
Born at Rookcliffe, Palace Road, Streatham, Surrey on 20 October 1887 and baptised at Christ Church, Streatham on 4 December Son of Robert Edmund Adolphus Eugene Brandt, a Russian timber and grain merchant, and Florence Druce, who were married at St Leonard's Church, Streatham on 29 May 1884 Censuses
Hazelwood School: on the school's war memorial (with biography) Came up to Balliol College in 1906: Biography in the college's Memorial Book Elected Fellow & Lecturer of Brasenose College in 1910, but resigned his fellowship in 1913 and joined the Oxford University Officer Training Corps. He resigned his commission on 12 December 1913 and became a social worker in Bermondsey Lieutenant, 6th, attached 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade No known grave: remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (Panel 46–48 and 50) Obituary in the Brasenose College magazine The Brazen Nose See also his Wikipedia entry and his book of letters published on 1 January 1920 |
Born at Spennymoor, Durham on 19 December 1892 Son of the Revd George Gibson Brown and Nelly Hardman, who were married at Hey Church on 20 August 1891 Censuses
The family later lived in St Mary's Rectory, Bedford Schools: The Dragon: on Dragon School War Memorial and Came up to Balliol College in 1912: Second Class in Honour Moderations in 1914 Captain, 6th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment No known grave: remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier and Face 2C and 3A) |
Born at Spring Road, Abingdon on 7 July 1891 and baptised at St Helen's Church there on 2 August Son of Thomas William Buckland, an upholsterer, and Emily Martha Walton, a laundress, who were married at St Ebbe's Church on Christmas Day 1888 Censuses
Private, 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment No known grave: remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier and Face 11D) His parents later lived at 6 Abbey Place, St Ebbe's, Oxford CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 6 September 1916 |
Born in Oxford in 1893 Son of Thomas William Buckland, an upholsterer, and Emily Martha Walton, a laundress, who were married at St Ebbe's Church on Christmas Day 1888 Censuses
Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France (I. B. 13A) His parents later lived at 6 Abbey Place, St Ebbe's, Oxford CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 30 December 1914 |
Born in Church Lane, Cowley, near Oxford in 1896 and baptised at St James's Church there on 3 January 1897 Son of James Church, a traction engine driver, and Emily Jane Higgins, who were married in the Faringdon registration district of Berkshire in 1882 Censuses
Private, 2nd/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry No known grave: remembered on Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier and Face 10A and 10D His family later lived at Friars Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford CWGC / Not on City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 28 March 1917 |
Born at 6 Jericho Street on 10 September 1897 and baptised at St Paul's Church, Oxford on 8 October Son of Philip James Clack, a labourer, and Sarah Ann Page, who were married at St Paul's Church, Oxford on 26 December 1896 Censuses
William enlisted as a volunteer on 2 October 1915, just after his eighteenth birthday. He was then still living with his parents at 19 Blackfriars Road and had been working at Oxford University Press as a feeder in the Machine Room (Miehle). Private, 101st Field Battalion, Royal Army Medical Corps Buried in St Leger British Cemetery, France (E.13) CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 23 May 1917 |
Born in London in 1893 Second son of William George Spencer Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton, K.G. and the Hon. Mary Florence Baring, who were married in 1884 Censuses
Spencer's mother died in 1902. His father died in 1913, and Spencer's older brother William Bingham Compton (born 1885) succeeded as 6th Marquess. School: Eton At the outbreak of war he was already a Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment No known grave: remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (Panel 3) |
Born at 5 Sadler Street, St Ebbe's on 6 November 1894 and baptised at St Ebbe's Church on 2 December Son of William Cowles, an ostler, and Rosa Martha West, who were married in Oxford in 1889 Censuses
John served in the Oxford Territorials. In 1913 John emigrated to Canada, where he became a farmer. On 24 October 1914 he volunteered to serve in the Canadian Infantry. Private, “B” Company, 28th Battalion, Canadian Infantry No known grave. Remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (Panel 10 - 26 - 28) CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 5 July 1916 |
Born in Oxford in 1896, registered as Albert Drewett, but later known as Albert E. Drewett. Son of Arthur Drewett, a college servant, and Mary Cudd, who were married at St Leonard's Church, Sunningwell, Berkshire on 6 December 1883 Censuses
Albert became a decorator. Near the beginning of 1915 in Oxford, Albert E. Drewett married Elsie May Walklett, and they had two daughters: Ivy Joan Drewett (born in Hackney on 27 April 1915) and Diana Drewett (born in Oxford near the beginning of 1917). Albert's father and all four of his sons volunteered to serve early in the war, and the Oxford Journal Illustrated depicts all five of them on 11 August 1915, when they were living in Beef Lane. Serjeant, 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried at the Hermies British Cemetery, France (A. 11) CWGC / On City Honour Roll (listed as Albert E. Drewett) Albert's widow appears to have moved to Warwick |
Born at 8 Albert Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 28 September 1894 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 24 October Son of Frederick William Hall, a dairyman and later a coal porter, and Rose Ella Elizabeth Rushton, a domestic servant, who were married at St Ebbe's Church, Oxford on 7 September 1893 Censuses
Frederick joined the army early in 1914. Corporal, Y12th Trench Mortar Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Buried at the Windmill British Cemetery, Monchy-le-Preux, France (I. E. 9) CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 16 May 1917 |
Born at Partick in Scotland on 13 June 1894 Son of William Henderson and Mary Rebecca (surname unknown) Censuses
School: Winchester: Biography on the Winchester College war memorial page His home was 4 Windsor Terrace, Glasgow at time of his death He had received a regular commission in the 1st Rifle Brigade on 26 August 1914 No known grave: remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier and Face 16B and 16C) |
Born in Dacca, Bengal on 12 January 1893 Son of John Stephen Hewett of the Indian Telegraph Service and Mary Katherine (surname unknown, possibly McGuinness), who were married in 1885/6 Censuses
First in Classical Moderations in 1913 and won Hertford, Ireland, and Craven Scholarships School: Downside Second Lieutenant, 19th Battalion (attached 14th Battalion), Royal Warwickshire Regiment No known grave: remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier and Face 9A, 9B, and 9C) |
Born at 8 Pensons Gardens, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 1 May 1898 and baptised at St Ebbe's Church on 3 January 1901 Son of William Holloway, a dealer and later a general labourer for the corporation, and Annie Tarrant, a domestic servant, who were married at St Ebbe's Church in Oxford on 2 April 1888 Censuses
Christopher worked as a local corporation labourer like his father Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry No known grave: remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium (Panel 96 to 98) CWGC /On City Honour Roll |
Born at 9 New Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 1 July 1894 to a single woman Elizabeth Sarah Broadway, who was working as a servant, and baptised as Frank William Broadway at St Ebbe's Church on 10 March 1894. Elizabeth named the father as Archibald Christopher Hunt, a labourer at the gas works/coal porter. His parents were married at St Ebbe's Church on 10 April 1898 when Frank was nearly four, and he took his father's name. He was their only child Censuses
Private, 2nd/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried at Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No. 3, Belgium (I.D.21) CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 10 October 1917 |
Born at 4 Sadler Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 15 June 1898 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 10 July Son of Frederick Hutchings, a labourer (plasterer), and Alice Gardiner, who were married at Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 5 April 1896 Censuses
Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry No known grave: remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium (Panel 96 to 98) CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 13 September 1916 |
Born in Oxford on 21 May 1890 Son of Alfred Charles Hymus, a horse-cab proprietor/driver, and Catharine Matilda Harse, who were married at St James's Church in Cowley on 26 August 1879 Censuses
Richard joined the Royal Navy on 4 January 1910 and died of malaria in China on 9 July 1913. Presumably he is included on this memorial as he died on active service, even though it was a year before the outbreak of the First World War. |
Born at 17 New Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 11 July 1894 and baptised at St Ebbe's Church on 2 January 1895 Son of James Jaycock, a labourer/carter, and (Emma) Elizabeth Haynes, who were married at St Ebbe's Church, Oxford on 13 April 1890 Censuses
Private, “D” Company, 2nd/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried in the Bois-Guillaume Communal Cemetery Extension, France (A. 8B) Parents later lived at 16 Blackfriars Road, St Ebbe's, Oxford CWGC / On City Honour Roll/ Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 6 June 1917 |
Born at Shortlands, Kent in 1893 Son of James Saumarez Mann senior, a journalist and author, and Amy Gertrude Bowman, who were married at Trinity Church, Hampstead on 7 August 1890 Censuses
School: Dulwich College Captain, 6th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment). Croix de Guerre (France), twice mentioned in Despatches Personal Inscription on grave: THEY REST FROM THEIR LABOURS AND THEIR WORKS FOLLOW WITH THEM See James Saumarez Mann [senior], An Administrator in the Making: James Saumarez Mann 1893–1920 |
Born at 22 Great Clarendon Street, Jericho, Oxford on 1 July 1897 and baptised at St Paul's Church on 30 July Son of Frederick Miles, a railway porter and later a labourer/house painter, and Elizabeth Hall, who were married at St Ebbe's Church on Christmas Day 1885 Censuses
Worked as a labourer at Morrell's Brewery (but not on their war memorial) Lance Corporal, 10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (formerly 10404, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) No known grave: remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (Panel 34) CWGC / On City Honour Roll / Portrait photograph in Oxford Journal Illustrated of 16 May 1917 * Albert Miles's obituary in the Oxford Times of 21 July 1917 confirms that he had been a member of the Balliol Boys' Club |
Born at Harborne, Staffordshire on 21 March 1894 Son of Hume Chancellor Pinsent, a solicitor, and Ellen Frances Parker, who were married at St John's Church, Melford, Surrey on 26 July 1888 Censuses
Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Buried at the Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, France (III. A. 3) School: Marlborough College Also on St Leonard's Church, Sunningwell War Memorial (with biography), and has a special brass plaque at Wootton Church |
Born in Oxford on 12 September 1889 Son of Edward Bagnall Poulton, a biology lecturer and later Hope Professor of Zoology at the University of Oxford and Emily Palmer, who were married at St George's Church, Hanover Square, Middlesex on 31 March 1881 Censuses
Schools: Dragon and Rugby Worked at Huntley & Palmer's factory for eighteen months from January 1912 to qualify himself for a Directorship, and then continued his engineering studies in Mather & Platt Lieutenant, 1st/4th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment Buried in the Hyde Park Corner (Royal Berks) Cemetery, Belgium (B.11) Also see his biography on the St Giles' Church war memorial, in Wikipedia and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and his Oxfordshire Blue Plaque page, and in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, which is reproduced in his section of the Dragon School memorial page |
Born at 15 Bridge Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 20 April 1893 but not baptised at St Ebbe's Church until 22 March 1911 Son of Robert James Prowse, a labourer, and Louisa Annie Lee, who were married in Oxford in 1891 Censuses
On 22 February 1917 at St Andrew's Church in north Oxford, Francis James Harold Prowse (23), described as a soldier based at Catterick, Yorkshire, married Agnes May Collins of 24 Charlbury Road. Their daughter Phyllis I. Prowse was born later that year. Private, 1st/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Buried in the Barenthal Military Cemetery, Italy (Plot 2, Row A, Grave 7)
His widow was living at 74 Islip Road, Sunnymead, Oxford after the war. CWGC / On City Honour Roll / |
Born in Oxford in 1898 Son of William Radbone, a general labourer, and Rachel Silvester, who were married in Oxford in 1894 Censuses
Worked at the Electric Light Company at Osney Lance Corporal in the 1st/4th Battalion of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry No known grave: remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium (Panel 96 to 98) CWGC / On City Honour Roll named as James Radbond |
Born in Cheshire on 24 May 1889 Son of Edward Rae, a stockbroker, and Margaret Leathart, who were married in the Gateshead district in 1882 Censuses
Poor health prevented him from attending school Assistant master at Marlborough College after obtaining his degree Second Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade No known grave. Remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (Panel 46–48 and 50) President of the Boys' Club. His individual memorial that was also on the wall of the club house is now in the snooker room of Wolvercote Boys' Club. |
Born in c.1890 (in London according to 1901 census, but in St Ebbe's, Oxford according to 1911 census. Son of Harriet Randall; father uncertain Censuses
Private, 1st Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment No known grave: remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium (Panel 45) His mother was living at 17 Abbey Place, St Ebbe's just after the war CWGC / On City Honour Roll |
Born at 29 Friars Wharf, New Botley on 5 February 1893 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 2 April Son of Charles Read, a blacksmith, and Hannah Holifield, who were married in the Abingdon registration district of Berkshire in 1880 Censuses
Edward enlisted in the Household Cavalry on 27 November 1915. Trooper, Household Battalion Buried in Hamburg Cemetery, Germany (I. D. 4)
CWGC / Not on City Honour Roll |
Born in South Kensington, Middlesex on 17 April 1889 and baptised there on 4 June Son of Charles Arthur Reiss, an East India merchant, and Florence Lacy Baggallay, who were married at St Stephen's Church, Kensington on 15 June 1882 Censuses
Schools: St Andrew's, Eastbourne and Marlborough College After graduating he worked as a History Tutor at the Borough Road Training College, Isleworth Lieutenant, 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment No known grave: remembered on the Loos Memorial, France (Panel 93 to 95) His mother later lived at Hill House, Streatley, Berkshire See also his entry in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour |
Born at 1 Ayres Yard, St Thomas's, Oxford in 1895/6 and baptised at St Thomas-the-Martyr Church on 21 January Son of Thomas Sims, a brewer's labourer, and Harriet Blunsden, who were married in the Wantage registration district in 1881 Censuses
Thomas's address was given as 2 Lake Street, New Hinksey, Oxford at the time of his death. Bugler, 2nd/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried at the La Gorgue Communal Cemetery, France (II. A. 18) CWGC / On City Honour Roll (with surname spelt Simms) Confirmed by Barry Burnham as the correct man as his death was recorded in “The Club at War” magazine of the Balliol Boys' Club |
Born at 18 Gas Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 1 October 1894 and privately baptised by Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 23 October Son of Frank Slatter, a gas labourer, and later a groundsman at the University Running Ground, and Elizabeth (surname unknown, expected marriage around 1880 not found) Censuses
Stanley joined the Royal Navy in 1912. Able Seaman, H.M.S. Southampton, Royal Navy Buried at sea and remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial (13) CWGC / Not on City Honour Roll |
Brother of Stanley Slatter above. He appears to have been included on the memorial in error, |
Born at 4 Wood Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 23 April 1895 and baptised at St Ebbe's Church on 29 May Son of Walter Henry Smith, a boot repairer, and Elizabeth Beckley, who were married at St Thomas's Church, Oxford on 5 December 1880 Censuses:
On 16 April 1916 at Cumnor Church, Harold Smith (20), described as a boot clicker, married Ida Phyllis Allsworth (20), a domestic servant. They had no children. Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried at the New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium (XI. F. 9) His widow was living at Botley Pound, Oxford shortly after the war CWGC / On City Honour Roll |
Born at 4 Wood Street, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 29 January 1898 and baptised by St Ebbe's Church the next day (received into the church on 5 May 1898) Son of Walter Henry Smith, a boot repairer, and Elizabeth Beckley, who were married at St Thomas's Church, Oxford on 5 December 1880 Censuses
Private, 5th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment Buried at the Monchy British Cemetery, Monchy-le-Preux, France (I. B. 22) CWGC / Not on City Honour Roll |
Born at 57 Blackfriars Road, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 14 February 1895 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 12 May Son of James Thomas, a shoeman, and Sophia, surname unknown, who later lived with John Deadman. Censuses
When he volunteered to serve in the army on 3 September 1914, Frederick's address was given as 10 Waterloo Buildings, Blackfriars Road, St Ebbe's. Private, “A” Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Division, Quethoen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars Buried in Wadsley churchyard, Sheffield (Grave Ref. 14) CWGC / on City Honour Roll * Identified by Barry Burnham from a letter from Trooper F. J. Thomas signed Mannie published in “The Club at War” magazine of the Balliol Boys' Club |
Born at 15 Abbey Place, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 31 October 1897 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's on 9 January 1895 Son of George Thomas Wakelin, a carriage painter's labourer, and Emily Hill, who were married at Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's, Oxford on 17 April 1892 Censuses
Private, 5th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried at the Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, France (III. H. 1) CWGC / On City Honour Roll |
Born at Christchurch Road, Eaton, Norwich on 23 September 1891 Son of Arthur Birt West, a mechanical engineer/missionary, and Mary Wingate McLaren, who were married in the Chorlton district in 1890 Arthur's mother Mary Wingate West died in the Solihull district at the age of 41 in 1899, and his father remarried in 1905 Censuses
School: Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon Captain, 6th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Buried in the Honourable Artillery Company Cemetery, Ecoust-Saint-Main, France (VIII. C. 14)
Author of Diary of a Dead Officer (published posthumously in 1919) and war poetry See also entry for (Arthur) Graeme West in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Born at 80 Blackfriars Road, St Ebbe's on 7 October 1893 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church on 21 April 1895 Son of William Woodley, a rag dealer, and Mary Elizabeth (surname unknown: expected marriage in c.1881 not found) Censuses
Private, 1st/4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry No known grave: remembered on the Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier and Face 10A and 10D) CWGC / On City Honour Roll |
Arthur Innes ADAM (1894–1916), recorded on this memorial as Arthur ADAM
Sidney ALDER (1894–1914)This memorial on the Database of the Imperial War Museums: Balliol Boys Club
Not recorded on War Memorials online