Oxford War Memorial, St Giles’


New Marston War Memorial, Marston Road


Wall memorial in All Saints' Church, Headington


Headington Quarry War Memorial, Holy Trinity

First and Second World Wars

Most of these were originally First World War memorials, but most have later inscriptions also remembering the dead of the Second World War.

Those free-standing war memorials marked with an asterisk below are Grade II listed structures

If the memorial you are interested in has not been put online, you can often get the names from the database of the Imperial War Museums. For example, the names of the 17 men of St Mary Magdalen parish can be seen here

Some of the memorials below (where indicated) are linked to external websites not connected to this one

As St Michael's Church is the City Church, it has a book recording the details of all Oxford men killed in each world war. This is very useful in making positive identifications of many men on the CWGC site this can be viewed online by members of the Oxfordshire Family History Society

Memorials on Oxford's streets and green spaces

City War Memorial* in St Giles’, Oxford
Free-standing memorial with no individual names
Photographs of memorial

New Marston war memorial, Marston Road, Oxford*
Free-standing war memorial
Full biographies

Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry War Memorial at Rose Hill, Oxford*
Free-standing memorial with no individual names
Photographs of memorial

Oxford Crematorium World War II
Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorial plaque
Plaque on an outside wall in crematorium garden
List of names

Summertown War Memorial, Banbury Road, Oxford*
Free-standing memorial with no individual names
Photographs of memorial

Wolvercote Airmen, Port Meadow
Free-standing memorial with names
PDF biographies, plus photographs of unveiling

Three airmen and civilian killed at Linton Road in 1941
Memorial on the site at Wolfson College where the plane crashed
List of the four names, linked to CWGC pages

Memorials in churches or churchyards

All Saints’ Church, Headington, Oxford
Small free-standing memorial in churchyard
plus board inside with names
Full biographies

Cowley Road Methodist Church
Memorial tablet inside the church
Biographies by the church and
Biographies by “Wesleys Oxford”

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry, Oxford*
Free-standing memorial in churchyard
plus stone plaque in porch with names
Full biographies

Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's, Oxford
Plaque now in St Aldate's parish centre
Biographies on “Roll of Honour” website

St Aldate's Church, Oxford
Plaque on outside wall of church and oak reredos inside unveiled
as a war memorial by the Bishop of Oxford on 5 June 1920
Biographies on “Roll of Honour” website

St Aloysius' Church, Woodstock Road, Oxford
Plaque inside church
List of names with CWGC links

St Andrew’s Church, Old Headington, Oxford
Triptych on inside wall of church
Full biographies

St Barnabas's Church, Jericho
Plaque inside church
List of names with CWGC links

St Clement's Church, Marston Road, Oxford*
Free-standing memorial with no names, which are listed separately on a scroll inside the church
List of names with CWGC links

St Columba's Church, Alfred Street, Oxford
Panels inside church
List of names on Imperial War Museum website

St Cross (Holywell) Church, Oxford
Plaque inside former church
List of names with CWGC links and
Brief biographies on “Roll of Honour” website

St Ebbe's Church, Oxford
Board inside church
List of names with CWGC links

St Frideswide’s Church, Botley Road, Oxford
Board inside church
Brief biographies (with some full ones)

St Giles’ Church, Oxford
Brass memorial on wall inside church
PDF biographies written for the church

St John the Evangelist Church, New Hinksey
Board inside church
List of names

St Margaret’s Church, Margaret Road, North Oxford*
Free-standing war memorial outside church
Full biographies

St Mary-the-Virgin Church, Iffley, Oxford
Bronze plaque inside the church
List of names

St Mary & St John Church, Cowley Road, Oxford
Triptych inside the church
List of names

St Matthew's Church, Marlborough Road, Oxford
Board inside church
Full biographies on “66 men of Grandpont” website

St Michael at the Northgate Church, Cornmarket, Oxford
Framed rolls of honour for the two world wars
List of names with CWGC links and
PDF biographies by Barry Burnham

St Nicholas’s Church, Old Marston, Oxford*
Free-standing war memorial with no names, which are listed on plaque inside church
Full biographies

St Paul's Church, Walton Street, Oxford
Plaque has been moved to St Barnabas' Church
List of names with CWGC links

St Peter-in-the-East Church, Oxford
Plaque now in the former St Cross Church
Full biographies

St Peter's Church, Wolvercote, Oxford
Free-standing memorial in the churchyard
List of names with CWGC links

St Peter-le-Bailey Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
Wooden board inside the former church
List of names with CWGC links

St Thomas the Martyr Church, Becket Street, Oxford
Wooden board on wall of church
List of names with CWGC links

Walton Street Methodist Chapel, Oxford
Plaque has been moved to the Wesley Memorial Church
Full biographies

Wesley Memorial Church, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
Plaque on wall of church
List of names with CWGC links and
Biographies on the “Wesleys Oxford” website

Memorials in Schools and Clubs

Central Boys' School, Gloucester Green
Board transferred to the Spires Academy
Brief biographies

Dragon School, Bardwell Road, North Oxford
Free-standing war memorial
Biographies on “Roll of Honour” website

Oxford Boys’ High School, George Street, Oxford
Plaque inside former school
List of names with CWGC links

Balliol College Boys' Club
Plaque moved from club house in St Ebbe's to Balliol Archives, St Cross Road
Brief biographies

Memorials in Colleges

Christ Church has a war memorial garden. The only other college to have a free-standing war memorial was Magdalen, but they gave it away to Wheatley in 1974. All colleges have a war memorial board or plaque, usually in or near the chapel, and some of them include townspeople who worked for them

Jesus College, Oxford
Board in private room inside college
Full biographies

St John’s College, Oxford
Stone plaque in inner courtyard
List of names

Online biographies produced by the colleges themselves:
   Balliol College
   Christ Church
   Corpus Christi College
   Exeter College (PDF)
   Keble College
   Magdalen College
   Merton College
   Pembroke College
   Worcester College

St Catherine's Society: this plaque listing unattached students of the University of Oxford is now in the former St Cross Church (later St Catherine's College chapel, and now Balliol College Archives), and the Archivist has transcribed the names here

Memorials in Oxford workplaces

Lion Brewery, St Thomas's Street, Oxford
Brass plaque on outside wall of former brewery
List of names linked to CWGC pages

Oxford City Police
Two memorials, one at St Michael-at-the-Northgate Church and the other at St Aldate's Police Station
List of names linked to CWGC pages

Oxford Post Office
Tablet moved to Royal Mail House, Oxpens Road, Oxford
List of names on Imperial War Museum website

Oxford University Press*
Free-standing memorial in the front quadrangle in Walton Street
List of names

Oxfordshire County Council staff
Plaque inside Old County Hall, New Road, Oxford
Brief biographies

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Military hospitals in Oxford in the First World War

Photographs

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Botley War Cemetery

Oxford (Botley) Cemetery (left) is a war cemetery with about 740 war graves. Of these 156 are Commonwealth war graves from the First World War and 516 from the Second World War. In addition there are about 68 non-Commonwealth war graves, whose headstones have a distinctive shape

Fuller details about Botley War Cemetery

 

Right: Unveiling ceremony outside St Peter's College, Oxford on 9 August 2016 of a paving stone celebrating the first of the two First World War Victoria Crosses awarded to Noel Chavasse