Milton Keynes Map Of Honour - UPDATE

In 2022 I began researching the names on all war memorials within the City of Milton Keynes, I wanted to add information which would lift their names off the stone and help to make them real people. I feel the way Armistice Sunday services are held each year up and down our city is special but I would like to give something more to those who gather to honour and remember those who gave their young lives so we can live our old lives. I am here trying to take remembrance to a higher level placing where their addresses are known into a Milton Keynes Map of Honour.

I have now completed information from Bletchley Saint Mary's War Memorial, Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial and Radcliffe School War Memorial. Names thus far on our map are:

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.

 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.

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.

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.

BURY STREET NEWPORT PAGNELL:

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.

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.

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.

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 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. 

DENBIGH ROAD:

Reginald Cottages - 1917 Sergeant 14109 Frederick John King 7^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Wednesday 9^th May 1917 at the age of thirty-three years.

DUNCOMBE STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 11 - 1915 Rifleman Z/2264 Francis William Gurney 4^th Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own)  Killed in action on Tuesday 16^th March 1915 at the age of twenty years.

Number 28 - 1918 Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant 50807 Horace Edward Crane C Company 1^st Battalion The Royal Worcester Regiment. Killed in action Friday 30^th August 1918 at the age of twenty-nine years.

Number 58 - 1917 Private 36205 Charles Henry Wright 2^nd/4^th Battalion Princess Charlotte of Wales (Royal Berkshire Regiment). Died of wounds Thursday 6^th December 1917 at the age of thirty-five years.

Number 84 - 1918 Corporal William Caldwell 1^st Battalion Hampshire Regiment transferred to 222164 Employment Company attached to 4^th Division Train Labour Corps. Died on Friday 22^nd March 1918 at the age of forty-seven years.

FONT STREET EMBERTON:

Number not known - 1915 Petty Officer Mechanic F/3129 Edward Osmond Parsons Armoured Car Division (Dardenelles) Royal Naval Air Service Died of dysentery and septic fingers onboard Dundee Castle in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday 10^th October 1915 at the age of twenty-three years.

HIGH STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 16 – 1916 Private 42625 George Edward Day 1^st Battalion Worcester Regiment (Formerly Private 22877 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.) Killed in action on Sunday 22^nd October 1916 at the age of nineteen years.

Number 61 - 1917 Private 33463 Thomas Jackman 6^th Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Thursday 20^th September 1917 at the age of nineteen years.

HIGH STREET NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 9 – 1915 Private 6129 Lawrence Bennett Wright X Company 1^st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers Formerly 5619 Lancers of the Line. Died of wounds Monday 11^th December 1915 at the age of twenty-six years.

Number 47 – 1918 Private 32614 Ronald Augusts Harris 42^nd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps. Killed in action on Sunday 24^th March 1918 at the age of twenty-four years.

Number 28 - 1916 Private 2305 William Henry Lineham 1^st/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Wednesday 23^rd August 1916 at the age of twenty-four years.

Number 61 - 1917 Private 911 Commonwealth War Graves Commission or 205147 Soldiers Died Great War John Robert Fleet Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars. Died ion service on 4^th February 1917 at the age of twenty-one years.

LAUREL TERRACE OLD BLETCHLEY:

Number not known - 1916 Private 19421 Walter James 5^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Thursday 24^th August 1916 at the age of forty-six years.

MILTON KEYNES VILLAGE:

Manor Farm - 1918 Private RR/1225 John Montague Shakeshaft 1^st Regiment South African Infantry. Died on Sunday 24^th 1918 at the age of thirty years.

NAPIER STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 59 - 1918 Acting Sergeant WR/289130 Herbert Thomas Goodman 115^th Railway Company Royal Engineers. Died in Egypt on Saturday 28^th September 1918 at the age of thirty-three years.

OSBORNE STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 7 – 1918 Rifleman B/201415 Jesse Scott 1^st Battalion Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own) Killed in action on Thursday 29^th August 1918 at the age of twenty-five years.

Number 9 - 1915 Private 12692 Harold Southwell 11^th Battalion The King’s Liverpool Regiment. Killed in action on Tuesday 28^th August 1917 at the age of nineteen years.

OXFORD STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 9 - 1918 Private 10825 George Whiting 4^th Battalion Canadian Infantry. Died Wednesday 17^th July 1918 at the age of thirty-eight years.

Number 16 - 1918 Lance Corporal 650912 Frederick John Daniel 21^st (County of London) Battalion (1^st Surrey Rifles) London Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 30^th March 1918 at the age of twenty-seven years.

Number 27 - 1917 Private 24224 Charles William Janes 2^nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action on Tuesday 9^th October 1917 at the age of twenty-seven years.

PARK STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 21 - 2^nd Corporal 161184 George Holton 42^nd Signal Company The Royal Engineers. Died from Tuberculosis in Park Hospital, Hither Green, London on Tuesday 13^th January 1920 at the age of twenty years.

Number 44 - 1917 Private G/7633 Albert Edward Doyle 1^st Battalion Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Formerly 981 West Kent Yeomanry. Killed in action on Thursday 4^th October 1917.

RAILWAY TERRACE BLETCHLEY:

Number 5 - 1917 Private 94581 George Henry Rose Labour Corps (Formerly 24060 10^th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment) Died of wounds Thursday 1^st November 1917.

Number 15 - 1915 Private 24276 Thomas Charles Tooth 1^st/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died Thursday 4^th March 1915 at the age of twenty-one years.

REGENT STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 5 - 1916 Private George Morris Benbow 1^st/14^th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) London Regiment. Killed in action on Saturday1^st July 1916.

RIVERSIDE NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number 10 - 1917 Private 19327 Arthur Charles Vickery 3^rd Battalion Coldstream Guards. Killed in action 1^st December 1917 at the age of twenty-five.

SIMPSON ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Number 182 - 1915 Private 10250 Frederick Nicholls 1^st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Saturday 13^th March 1915 at the age of twenty-one years.

Rose Cottage - 1916 Private 192242 Cyril Ralph Hill The Canadian Infantry. Died of wounds on Monday 9^th October 1916.

STAPLE HALL ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Fair View - 1944 Private 5956852 Albert Caterall 5^th Battalion Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment. Died on Wednesday 21^st September 1944 at the age of twenty-eight years.

STATION ROAD FENNY STRATFORD:

Number 1 – 1914 Corporal of Horse 2569 Arthur Rose DCM 1^st Life Guards. Killed in action Friday 20^th November 1914 at the age of twenty-seven.

TAVISTOCK STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 10 – 1942 Private 5957569 William Gladstone Chambers 1^st/7^th Battalion The Queens Royal Regiment (West Surrey) Killed in action on Saturday 24^th October 1942.

Number 13 – 1917 Private 12702 Victor George Lord 7^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Died Wednesday 9^th May 1917.

Number 29 - 1916 Corporal Edward Charlie Battams 2^nd/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Wednesday 19^th July 1916 at the age of twenty years

UNION STREET NEWPORT PAGNELL:

Number not known - 1943 Pilot Officer 143695 Robert Geoffrey Higgins 161 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Killed while piloting Halifax DG405 MA-Y when the aircraft crashed into Ijselmer Holland during Operation Lemontree on Wednesday 23^rd June 1943 at the age of twenty years.

VICTORIA ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Number 21 - 1917 Private 33457 Ernest Hubert Fennemore (Spelt Fennymore on SDGW – Soldiers Died Great War ) 6^th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Thursday 16^th August 1917 at the age of nineteen years.

Number 27 – 1916 Private 2613 Joseph Sidney Litchfield 2^nd/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died Friday 8^th September 1916 at the age of twenty years.

Number 60 - 1945 Private 1694022 George William Lovell 1^st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Wednesday 18^th April 1945 at the age of thirty-two years.

VICTORIA STREET WOLVERTON:

Number 39 - 1916 Private 61048 Arthur Lewis Lloyd Royal Army Medical Corps Killed in action on Sunday 20^th August 1916 at the age of twenty-one years.

WATER EATON ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Number not known - 1918 Guardsman 29454 James William Garner 2^nd Battalion Grenadier Guards. Died from wounds on Friday 12^th April 1918 at the age of twenty years.

WESTERN ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Tudor House - 1917 Sergeant 201365 Arthur French 1^st/4^th Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Thursday 19^th April 1917 at the age of twenty years.

Number 150 - 1916 Lance Corporal 16038 Frederick Thomas Purcell 1^st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action on Thursday 17^th August 1916 at the age of thirty-four.

WHADDON ROAD BLETCHLEY:

Three Trees Square – 1917 Sapper 446962 Laurence aka Bob Meager 474^th Field Company Royal Engineers. Died of wounds on Friday 28^th September 1917 at the age of thirty-eight years.

WILLEN:

The Vicarage – 1941 Sergeant 961524 Montague Victor Berry 107 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died on Saturday 7^th June 1941 at the age of twenty years.

WINDSOR STREET BLETCHLEY:

Number 1 – 1917 Private 41743 George Samuel Palmer 7^th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Killed in action Wednesday 16^th August 1917 at the age of nineteen years.

Number 9 - 1916 Private 4331 Benjamin William Green Warr 2^nd/1^st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Wednesday 19^th July 1916 at the age of twenty-two years.

WINDSOR STREET WOLVERTON:

Number 43 – 1918 Sergeant 109667 William (aka Frank) Webber 4^th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion Taken prisoner of war at Dulmen on Monday 3^rd July 1916. On Thursday 10^th January 1918 he died from gunshot wounds while he was a prisoner of war.

Number 150 – 1918 Rifleman R/42987 Donald Paxton Cave (Listed on Wolverton War Memorial SDGW – Soldiers Died Great War and CWGC – Commonwealth War Graves Commission) 18^th Battalion King’s Own Rifle Corps. Died of wounds on Tuesday 3^rd September 1918 at the age of nineteen years.

WOLVERTON ROAD STONY STRATFORD:

Number 22 - 1918 Second Lieutenant Edgar Archer Brown Buckingham Battalion (Territorial) Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Friday 23^rd August 1918 at the age of twenty-one years.

This is a work in progress and in its very early stages. When finished it will cover all memorials in Milton Keynes. 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    Wolverton And Old Wolverton    Woughton On The Green

I am now about to start work on BROUGHTON War Memorial