Milton Keynes Map of Honour

 

I  began researching names on all war memorials across Milton Keynes towards the end of 2021. In the Spring of 2020 I compiled MILTON KEYNES BOOK OF HONOUR listing all who gave their young lives so we can live our old lives.

The Milton Keynes war memorials I worked from were: Bletchley Bow Brickhill Bradwell Broughton Calverton Castlethorpe Fenny Stratford Great Brickhill Hanslope Haversaham 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 then began sharing day by day names on social media. The interest was so great I decided to enhance the listing by undertaking a more in depth research bringing out the real people behind the names.

AN EXAMPLE OF BASIC LISTING:

10^th October: 1915 Petty Officer Mechanic Edward Osmond Parsons Armoured Car Division Royal Naval Air Service.

AN EXAMPLE OF ENHANCED LISTING:

21st October: 1916 Second Lieutenant Acting Captain Frank Harold Ives 11^th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. Killed in action on Saturday 21^st October 1916 at the age of twenty-nine years. Named on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Acting Captain Ives has no known grave. He is commemorated on Theival Memorial Somme France Pier and Face 7C.

My interest in this area of our city's heritage originated from research I undertook many, many years ago into my own family's history, 

My grandfather I never knew who died from Tuberculosis following his contacting the illness in the trenches of The Great War.

My uncle I never knew who died at the age of twenty years when his Lancaster Bomber was hit by enemy fire on the night of 8th March 1948.

Private William Ashford and Flight Sergeant Billy Ashford were residents of Birmingham. 

Those of us who had families living in Great Britain and The Commonwealth will have similar family members who have their young lives so we can live our old lives,.

In sharing my work I hope I am able to inspire others to undertake their researches into their families.

Extending the information within our Milton Keynes Book of Homnour I was able to find for some the address where they lived. I have decided to compile within the new Book of Honour a MAP OF HONOUR listing these addresses. Those residing there today can take into their personal heritage their homes' former residents.

VERY VERY VERY early stages right now, I am half way through Fenny Stratford War Memorial but am able to place these young servicemen on the map.

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 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.

BROOKLANDS ROAD:

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

REGENT STREET:

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.

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.

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

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 19 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.

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.

WINDSOR STREET BLETCHLY:

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.

I think this project will take me until next Summer to complete. Within the research I want to visit every single memorial within our city.

When the work is complete and I am able to share it with fellow Mkeneyans I hope it will add somethiong special to our city's heritage.