War–associated and military graves

Reference numbers refer to the plan of the churchyard used in the Monumental Inscription Transcript prepared by the Oxfordshire Family History Society (OFHS).  A CD–ROM giving the full transcript of all the memorials in the churchyard is available from the OFHS.   A–H are areas in the churchyard and CH refers to inscriptions inside the church.

Memorial reference

Name

Dates

Circumstances

Type of Memorial

A110

 

Alan S Mitchell BA Oxon

 –1942 (aged 33)

Killed while flying on active service

 

Family

 

A120

Kenneth R S Price

 –1942 (aged 28)

Possibly killed on active service

Family

A213

 

Abner H Harrold

 –1945 (aged 27)

Private, Royal Army Medical Corps

C H

A222

 

A Bagnall

 –1944 (aged 22)

Ldg Aircraftman, RAF

 

C H

B047

 

H Surrage

 –1920

 

Serjeant, Royal Engineers

 

Family

C H

B085

Ernest Alfred Barfoot

 –1916

 

Interred in Mesopotamia

Family

B215

 

A Mustoe

 –1919 (aged 42)

Able Seaman RN, HMS Victory

 

C H

B241

 

John Dearnley

 –1895 (aged 58)

Late Sergeant Major of Carabineers

 

Individual

B245

 

John Holloway

 –1895 (aged 59)

Qr. Mr. Serg., Coldm. Gds,  Head Porter Christ Church, Oxford

Family

C001

 

George Albert Morley

 –1922 (aged 23)

Cpl. R.M.L.I

Family

C067

 

Frederick Dawson

 

–1917 (aged 20)

2nd 4th Batt. O.B.L.I.

 

Family

 

C064

 

D Lynn

–1915

O.B.L.I.

C H

C075

 

John Edward Dawson

 -1918 (aged 19)

Wounded at Poziers 1916

Family

C086

 

H.W.F. Randall

 –1918 (aged 18)

Private, Royal Fuseliers

 

C H

C114

F Jarrett

 –1916 (aged 31)

Serjeant, Canadian Pioneers

C H

C131

George Albert Day

 –1916 (aged 18)

Killed in action in France

Family

C162

Harry Charles Green

–1918 (aged 32)

Died in France, buried at Etaples, France

Family

C168

H Miller

 –1917

Private, O.B.L.I.

C H

C182

Percy Turner

 –1915 (aged 22)

Lance Corporal, 5th Bn., O.B.L.I.Fell at Loos, France.

Family

C235

Arthur Hamer Birtles

 –1917 (aged 27)

Royal Engineers

Family

C281 and F007

Arthur William Stevens

–1917 (aged 35)

Died in France

Family

CH30

Cowley St John Roll of Honour

1914–1919

Triptych inside the Church commemorating 185 names

Triptych

CH31

Cedric Horace Veary

Alfred William Veary

–1915 (aged 23)

 

–1916 (aged 33)

Killed in battle

 

Died of wounds, France

Plaques on statue pedestal

D001

Thomas Hyde Newell

–1915 (aged 32)

5th Batt. O.B.L.I.  Killed in action in France

Family

D022A

Richard Roberts

 –1916 (aged 31)

Killed in France

Family

D104

Seymour Aylwin Hills

–1917 (aged 31)

Killed on active service in France

Family

D113

Thomas Bernard Skelly

–1917 (aged 39)

Died of wounds, interred at Boesinga, Belgium

Family

D113

Samuel Skelly

–1927 (aged 73)

Captain,  K.S.L.I. 

Family

D148

George Gordon

 –1938 (aged 51)

Captain, 87th The Royal Irish Fuseliers

 

Family

D237

William Thomas Hunt

 –1918 (aged 24)

L C. 24th O.B.L.I., Missing in France

Family

E090

John Lowe

dates uncertain (aged 27)

Inscription is partially illegible, but refers to "3 years active service"

scrapped stone

E114

Ralph Spencer Beddin

–  1917 (aged 25)

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial Cemetery, Somme, France

Family

E120

Reginald Donaldson Abbiss

 –1917 (aged 30)

Commemorated at Mendinghem Military Cemetrary, Poperinge, Belgium

Family

E138

William Percival Green

–1916 (aged 21)

Killed in action in France

Family

E149

Ernest George Franklin

–1917 (aged 28)

Killed in action in France

Family

F007

and C281

Arthur Stevens

 –1917 (aged 35)

Died in France

Family

 

F040

Kenneth John Howes

 –1942 (aged 27)

Cpl. RAF, killed on active service

Family

F098

Mary Cardwell

 –1940 (aged 58)

Killed by enemy action

 

F200

Frederick James Timms

 –1943 (aged 43)

Killed in action on H.M. ship

C H

F244

Thomas King

1860–1941

Major, O.B.L.I.

Family

F257

George Bunce

 –1918 (aged 39)

Killed in action

Family

G008

William Hare Maunsell

1845–1907

Commander, RN

Family

G103

C Phipps

 –1916

Private, O.B.L.I.

C H

Abbreviations:–  C H: Commonwealth War Graves Commission Headstone; O.B.L.I. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry; K.S.L.I.: King's Shropshire Light Infantry. R.M.L.I.: Royal Marines Light Infantry. Spellings reflect the actual inscriptions.


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