Milton Keynes Map of Honour A to C

Work and research taking names from the war memorials around Milton Keynes then where addresses can be found creating a map is going well. The memorials I have so far included are shown in bold. 

Bletchley    Bow Brickhill    Bradwell    Broughton    Calverton    Castlethorpe

Fenny Stratford    Great Brickhill    Hanslope    Haversham    Lavendon

Little Brickhill    Little Linford    Loughton    Milton Keynes    New Bradwell

Newport Pagnell    Olney    Radcliffe School    Shenley    Simpson    Wavendon    Willen    Woburn Sands   Wolverton And Old

Wolverton    Woughton On The Green

I am currently about one third of the way through working with those on Wolverton and Old Wolverton War Memorial. I will share more letters over the coming days. This work is happening alongside my enhancing the Roll of Honour which I put together last year. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A DRAFT - LOTS MORE WORK STILL TO DO.

They gave their young lives so we can live our old lives.

ABBEY TERRACE NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 1 - 1918 Private 77433 Henry Archibald Smith 1^st Battalion Tank Corps Formerly 13011 Northamptonshire Regiment. Died Thursday 8^th August 1918 at the age of twenty-two years.

ALBERT STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 18 – 1916 Private 9400 William John Quinby 1^st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died Wednesday 4^th June 1916 at the age of twenty-two years.

Number 23 – 1917 Private 26662John Stanley Morris 2^nd/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died Thursday 19^th April 1917 at the age of twenty years.

Number 37 – 1916 Private T/1807 Sidney William Brewer 1^st/5^th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) Died on service Saturday 26^th August 1916 at the age of twenty-two years.

Number 42 – 1918 Second Lieutenant Frederick Charles Baldwin 2^nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment Died of wounds on Saturday 11^th May 1918 at the age of twenty-six years.

ANSON ROAD WOLVERTON:

Number 22 - 1917 Private 25903 Albert Hardwick 2^nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Tuesday 1^st May 1917 at the age of thirty-seven years. Husband of Louise Hardwick 22 Anson Road Wolverton.

AYLESBURY STREET FENNY STRATFORD:

Number 21 - 1944 Gunner 943426 Geoffrey Lionel Chew 512 Battery 148 (Bedfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment Royal Artillery. Died at sea as a Japanese prisoner of war on Tuesday 12^th September 1944 when the prisoner of war transport ship Rakuyo Maru was sunk off East Hainan Island when torpedoed by US Submarine Sealion.

Number 35 - 1918 Private 16004 Victor Reginald Lenard Page  Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died on Friday 6^th December 1918 from injuries sustained before the end of the war aged twenty-three years.

BEACONSFIELD PLACE NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 9 - 1918 Private PO/ 2284 (S) Craker 1^st R M Battalion R N Division Royal Marine Light Infantry. Died Thursday 22^nd August 1918 at the age of thirty-five years.

Number 33 - 1914 Able Seaman 196044  (RFR/CH/B/2469) Frederick French HMS Good Hope Royal Navy Died Sunday 1^st November 1914 at the age of thirty-four years.

BEDFORD STREET WOLVERTON:

Number 24 – 1916 Private 6993 Arthur George Goodridge 1^st (City of London) Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) Killed in action Sunday 8^th October1916 at the age of twenty-six years.

Number 29 - 1918 Able Seaman R/6257  Wilfred Cunnington Drake Battalion Royal Naval Division Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. Died of wounds Tuesday 19^th March 1918 at the age of thirty years.

NUMBER 38 - 1916 Private 9438 Harry Norman King (Listed as Henry on memorial tablets) 1^st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died 8^th June 1916 at the age of twenty-five years.

BLETCHLEY ROAD FENNY STRATFORD:

Birchfield - 1916 Private 12264 John Wallsgrove 6^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Wednesday 15^th March 1916 at the age of twenty years.

Number 27 - 1916 Private 3226 Francis John Vassey 11^th Battalion Australian Infantry. Killed in action by a machine gun bullet through the heart on Tuesday 25^th July 1916 at the age of twenty-four years.

Number not known - 1918 Lance Corporal DM2/163805 Herbert George Staniford 689^th M.T. Company Royal Army Service Corps. Died on Wednesday 6^th November 1918 at the age of thirty-seven years.

BOW BRICKHILL:

School House - 1917 Private 286200 Antcliffe Edward Burton 2^nd/1^st Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars. Died Wednesday 28^th March 1917 at the age of eighteen years.

BROAD STREET NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 43 - 1917 Private 13859 Frederick William Burnell 7^th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. Formerly 14130 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment Light Infantry. Killed in action Tuesday 24^th April 1917 age of twenty-three years. AND 1917 Private 14303 Harry Burnell D Company 7^th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment. .Killed in action Tuesday 24^th April 1917 age of twenty-three years.

BROOKLANDS ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Number 8 - 1917 Private 13865 Sidney W White 7^th Battalion Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) Killed in action on Tuesday 24^th April 1917 at the age of twenty-four years.

Number 11 - 1916 Private 1570 Edmund Percy Cranwell 14^th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) London Regiment. Killed in action Wednesday 7^th June 1916 at the age of nineteen years.

BUCKINGHAM ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Number not known - 1915 Rifleman S/2200 Harold Cutler 12^th Battalion, 2^nd Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) Killed in action Saturday 25^th September 1915 at the age of twenty-two years.

BUCKINGHAM STREET WOLVERTON:

Number not known - 1917 Driver 69166 Frank Harold Cole 2^nd Division Signal Company Royal Engineers. Died on Wednesday 19^th December 1917 at the age of twenty-two years.

Number 22 –1914 Private 9828 George William Goom 2^nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in act ion Sunday 8^th November 1914 at the age of nineteen years.

Number 32 - 1916 Private 4206 Joseph Thomas James Francklow  (Spelt Franklow on war memorial and listed as Tom JJ Franklow) 1^st Regiment South African Infantry. Died Monday 17^th July 1916 at the age of twenty years.

BURY STREET NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 1 –1917 Acting Corporal 11742 Thomas Stowe 6^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Battalion. Died of wounds Friday 17^th August 1917.

Number 30 - 1917 Lance Corporal 14012 Charles Edward Mitchell 7^th Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Died 28^th April 1917 at the age of twenty-six years.

Number 23 The Crescent - 1917 Private 23445 William Henry (Or Harry) Kiplin 8^th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Died of wounds Sunday 16^th September 1917.

CALDECOTE STREET NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 1 Frederica Cottage - 1915 Lance Corporal 344 Percy Edward Baxter 1^st/1^st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died Sunday 1^st August 1915 at the age of twenty-one years.

Number 17 - 1918 Corporal 72408 John William Baxter 4^th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Formerly 12633 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died of wounds Wednesday 10^th April 1918 at the age of twenty-five years.

Number 17A - 1916 Rifleman 4062 Frank Cyril Jeeves 9^th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) London Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 1^st July 1916.

Number 28 – 1918 2^nd Lieutenant Leonard Chapman 5^th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princes Charlotte of Wales) Died of wounds Monday 2^nd September 1918 at the age of twenty-one years.

Number 29 - 1915 Private 13336 Walter Burnell 7^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Wednesday 6^th October 1915 at the age of twenty-one years.

Number 37 – 1918 Private 39097 Alek Augustus Charles Ellis Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Died of wounds Thursday 10^th October 1918 at the age of nineteen years.

Number 44 – 1919 Private DM2/207728 George Arthur John Daniells R Siege Park Heavy Artillery attached to XVII Corps Royal Army Service Corps. Died Thursday 16^th January 1919 at the age of twenty-one years. AND 1918 Private 26724 Reginald Daniells 10^th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died of wounds Friday 26^th April 1918 at the age of eighteen years.

Number 65 - 1917 Lance Corporal 8538 Frederick John Bull 2^nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action Monday 8^th October 1917.

CAMBRIDGE STREET WOLVERTON:

Number 21 - 1917 Aircraftman 1^st Class 7987 John Ashkam Billingham 9^th Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Accidentally drowned, no aircraft involved Sunday 11^th November 1917 at the age of twenty-five years.

Number 47 - 1916 Private 266221 (Frank) Sidney Hodgson (Listed as S Fred Hodgson on memorial plaques) 2^nd/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Wednesday 19^th July 1916 at the age of twenty years.

CHICHELEY STREET NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 13 - 1915 Private 2245 William Holland 1^st/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died of wounds Thursday 8^th April 1915 at the age of twenty-three years.

CHURCH END WAVENDON:

School House –1918 Captain Richard Percy Buxton 4^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died Saturday 15^th June 1918 at the age of twenty-nine years.

1914 Private 11297 Walter Frederick Deveraux 10^th (Prince of Wales own Royal) Hussars formerly 9704 Bedfordshire Regiment. Died of wounds Saturday 31^st October 1914 at the age of twenty-three years.

CHURCH GREEN ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Number not known - 1918 Sapper WR/256547 Edwin William Leonard 18^th Waggon Erecting Company Royal Engineers. Died Wednesday 30^th October 1918.

CHURCH PASSAGE NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 2 – 1917 Lance Corporal 13100 Jack Umney 5^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Monday 2^nd April 1917 at the age of twenty-five years.

CHURCH STREET BLETCHLEY :

Number 3 - 1915 Private 10315 Harry James Stevens 5^th Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Sunday 1^st August 1915 at the age of twenty years. 

CROSS END WAVENDON:

Wavendon House - 1917 Captain Henry Colt Arthur Hoare B Squadron Dorset Yeomanry (Queens Own) Died Thursday 20^th December 1917 at the age of twenty-nine years.

1915 Private 16618 Alfred W Payne 2^nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action Sunday 9^th May 1915 at the age of twenty-three years.

1918 Private PLY/2648(S) John Thomas Tansley Plymouth Division Royal Marine Light Infantry. Died from disease at Plymouth Wednesday 5^th May 1918 at the age of eighteen years and five months.

THEY GAVE THEIR YOUNG LIVESS SO WE CAN LIVE OUR OLD LIVES