St Thomas's Church War Memorial, Oxford

St Thomas the Martyr Church

This First World War memorial is a wooden board with an oak and gilt frame on the wall of St Thomas the Martyr Church, Becket Street, Oxford. There are 54 names of the dead in gilt-painted lettering, with one added later at the top of the newer board (shown below) dedicated to the Second World War.

Key:

OJI = Photograph available in the Oxford Journal Illustrated
WM = War Memorial
City 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)

ROLL OF HONOUR
Frederick Allsworth. CWGC / Not on City Roll / OJI (26 Jul 1916) Also on St Frideswide's Church WM BIOGRAPHY		William Loveridge. CWGC / City Roll
Harold Archer. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (11 Nov 1914) Also on St Frideswide's Church WM and Central Boys's School WM BIOGRAPHY		Charles Leckford. CWGC not found / Not on City Roll
William Baldwin. CWGC not found City Roll states that he was a Private in the Seaforth Highlanders, attached to the Machine Gun Corps, and died of sickness in Mesopotamia in 1917		Clarence Maasz. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (29 May 1918)
Albert William Broadway. CWGC / City Roll Also on St Ebbe's Church WM		John Manners. ?CWGC / Not on City Roll / ?OJI (30 Sep 1914) ?Hon. J. N. Manners on Balliol College WM
William Brogden. CWGC / City Roll Also on Holy Trinity Church, St Ebbe's WM BIOGRAPHY		Thomas Mitchell. CWGC / City Roll
Percy Bossom. CWGC / Not on City Roll OJI (11 Apr 1917), after winning Military Medal		Alfred Mobey. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (19 Sep 1917) Also on St Frideswide's Church WM BIOGRAPHY
Montague T. S. Browning CWGC / City Roll / OJI (16 Dec 1914) Also on Central Boys' School WM		Percy John Mobey. CWGC / Not on City Roll / OJI (9 Feb 1916) Also on Cowley St John WM
Charles Burley. CWGC / City Roll / Also on St Ebbe's Church WM		Lewis Neville. CWGC not found / Not on City Roll
Henry Cousins. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (23 Jan 1918)		William Neville. CWGC / City Roll
Henry Evans. CWGC not identified / City Roll / OJI (5 Jul 1916)		William North. CWGC / City Roll
Arthur Frank Drewert. [Appears to be an error for Drewett] CWGC / City Roll / OJI (17 Oct 1917)		Giles Parsons. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (27 Oct 1915)
Richard Claridge. CWGC / Not on City Roll Also on Wolvercote Church WM		George Pritchard. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (6 Sep 1916 Also on Headington Quarry Church WM BIOGRAPHY
George Cudd. ?CWGC / Not on City Roll		George James Snell. CWGC / Not on City Roll / OJI (7 Oct 1914)
George Davies. ?CWGC / Not on City Roll		Henry Thomas Shepherd. CWGC not identified / Not on City Roll
Charles Dean. CWGC / City Roll		Charles Spence. CWGC not identified / Not on City Roll
Gwynne Field. CWGC / City Roll		Joseph Simms. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (9 May 1917) Also on Oxford University Press WM
William Clemson Goodman. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (12 Jan 1916)		William Squires. CWGC / Not on City Roll
Frederick George William Green. CWGC / City Roll [wrongly listed as Frederick G. M.] Also on St Ebbe's Church WM		William Watts. CWGC / City Roll
Charles Hack. CWGC not identified / Not on City Roll		Henry Worth. CWGC not identified / Not on City Roll
Frank Harwood. CWGC not identified / Not on City Roll J. G. Harwood who lived in Paradise Place?		Cyril Wyatt. CWGC / City Roll
Harry Holland. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (25 Nov 1914) Also on St Ebbe's Church WM		Walter Washbrook. ?CWGC / Not on City Roll
William Henry Himms. CWGC / City Roll		Frederick Whitlock. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (5 Oct 1915)
Alban Benedict Hudson, M.C. CWGC / Not on City Roll / OJI (11 Nov 1914) Also on St Giles' Church WM with BIOGRAPHY Magdalen College WM with BIOGRAPHY and St Barnabas' Church WM		Frederick W. Davies. CWGC / City Roll Also on Central Boys' School WM
Charles Kilbee. CWGC / Not on City Roll / OJI (10 May 1916)		Thomas F. Hambridge. CWGC / Not on City Roll / OJI (5 Jun 1918)
Henry Kilbee. CWGC / ?OJI (16 Dec 1914) City Roll says that W. H. Kilbee was a Lance-Corporal in the the 2nd Oxf. & Bucks Light Infantry, killed in action on 25 October 1914		Thomas Omey Bryant. CWGC / City Roll / OJI (30 Aug 1916)
George Lake. CWGC / City Roll		Arthur George Forrister. CWGC not found / Not on City Roll
Charles Lydford. CWGC / Not on City Roll		Walter J. Reeve. CWGC / Not on City Roll
One name added to top of the World War II memorial shown below: 1914-18 Reginald Stringer CWGC / City Roll / OJI

These memorials on the Database of the Imperial War Museums:
St Thomas The Martyr Church Board WW1 and WW2
and on War Memorials online

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