Leaving school, perhaps going to university, starting work. Starting life.
What was life like for these FORTY-SIX nineteen year olds ? What was life like for them in 1914, 1915, 1916,1917, 1918. 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 ?
Please read the list which is now following and take these young men into your hearts.
1914 Private 9683 Percy George Jarvis 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. Killed in action Thursday 10th September 1914 at the age of nineteen years. Born Stantonbury. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Private Jarvis is buried in Vaily British Cemetery Aisne France Grave IV A 54.
1914 Private 8405 Ernest Ayre(s) Nichols 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Wednesday 21st October 1915 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Sarah Purcell of 30 Stratford Road Wolverton. Named on Broughton War Memorial. Private Nichols has no known grave. He is commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) memorial Ieper West-Vlaanderen Belgium Panel 37 and 39.
1914 Private 9828 George William Goom 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in act ion Sunday 8th November 1914 at the age of nineteen years. Son of James Groom 22 Buckingham Street Wolverton. Named on Wolverton and Old Wolverton War memorial. Private Goom has no known grave. He is commemorated on Ploegeteert Memorial Comines-Warneton Hainult Belgium Panel 4.
1915 Private 3/703 Arthur Edward Farmer 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Monday 19th April 1915 at the age of nineteen years. Son of William and Emma Farmer Ivy Cottage The Leys Woburn Sands. Named on Woburn Sands War Memorial. Private Farmer has no known grave. He is commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Ieper West-Vlaanderen Belgium Panel 31 and 33.
1915 Private 1460 Edward Evans Whitfield 1st/1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Thursday 6th May 1915 at the age of nineteen years. Resident of Stantonbury. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Private Whitfield is buried in Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery Comines-Warneton Hainult Belgium Grave IV C6.
1915 Private 1982 Leonard Powell 1st/1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Sunday 9th May 1915 at the age of nineteen years. Born and resident of Stantonbury. Private Powell is buried in Ploegsteert Wood Military Cemetery Comines-Warneton Hainult Belgium Grave IV B1.
1915 Private 9973 Thomas Walter Holt 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Sunday 16th May 1915 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Ellen Holt of 52 Priory Street Newport Pagnell. Private Holt has no known grave. He is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial Pas de Calais France Panel 26.
1915 Private 12692 Harold Southwell 11th Battalion The King’s Liverpool Regiment. Killed in action on Tuesday 28th August 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Edward and Ellen Southwell of 9 Osborne Street Bletchley. Named on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Private Southwell is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery Pas de Calais France Plot IV Row D Grave 3.
1916 Private 1570 Edmund Percy Cranwell 14th (County of London) Battalion (London Scottish) London Regiment. Killed in action Wednesday 7th June 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Son of William and Elizabeth Cranwell of 11 Brooklands Road. Named on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Private Cranwell is buried in Hebuterne Military Cemetery Pas de Calais France Plot III Row G Grave 5.
1916 Lance Corporal 1459 James Markcus Thompson 1st/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Died of wounds Saturday 24th June 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Born and resident of Stantonbury. Son of John and Caroline Thompson of 26 King Edward Street Stantonbury. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Lance Corporal Thompson is buried in Saint Sever Cemetery Rouen Seine-Maritime France Grave A 20 44.
1916 Lance Corporal 11097 Private Sidney Irving Dickens 1st Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borders. Killed in action on Saturday 1st July 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Frank and Annie Dickens of Bletchley. Named on Bletchley Saint Mary’s War Memorial. Lance Corporal Dickens is buried in Knightsbridge Cemetery Mesnil-Martinscart Somme France Grace C 30
1916 Lieutenant Francis Maurice Taylor 10th Battalion Royal Fusiliers. Killed in action Saturday 15th July 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Francis Taylor The Limes Newport Pagnell. Named on Newport Pagnell Newport Pagnell. Lieutenant Taylor has no known grave. He is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial Somme France Pier and Face B C 9 A and 16 A.
1916 Corporal 1477 Albert Victor Fincher 2nd/1st Buckingham Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Wednesday 19th July 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Frederick and Ada Fincher 43 High Street New Bradwell. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Corporal Fincher has no known grave. He is commemorated on Loos Memorial Pas de Calais France Panel 83 to 85.
1916 Private 265211 Frank Herbert Andrews 2nd/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action 19th July 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Mr and Mrs Frank Andrews 61 Thompson Street New Bradwell. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Private Andrews has no known grave. He is commemorated on Loos Memorial Pas de Calais France Panel 83 to 85.
1916 Private 266634 Richard William Guntrip (p) 2nd/1st Buckinghamshire Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Wednesday 19th July 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Richard and Agnes Guntrip 24 Saint James Street New Bradwell. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial, Private Guntrip has no known grave. He is commemorated on Loos Memorial Pas de Calais France Panel 83 to 85.
1916 Private 3628 Lawrence Smith 51st Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Formerly 7766 Bedfordshire regiment. Killed in action 21st August 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Joseph and Caroline Smith Russel Street. Named on Woburn Sands War Memorial. Private Smith is buried in Foncquevillers Military Cemetery Pas de Calais France Row M Grave 8.
1916 Private 42625 George Edward Day 1st Battalion Worcester Regiment (Formerly Private 22877 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.) Killed in action on Sunday 22nd October 1916 at the age of nineteen years. Son of George and Louisa Day of 16 High Street Bletchley. Listed on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Private Day has no known grave. He is listed on Theipval Memorial Somme France Pier and face 5A and 6C.
1917 Private CH/1294 (S) Walter Charles Smith 1st Royal Marine Battalion Royal Naval Division Royal Marine Light Infantry. Died Sunday 28th April 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Charles and Annie Smith 28 Spring Gardens Newport Pagnell. Named on Newport Pagnell War Memorial. Private Smith has no known grave. He is commemorated on Arras Memorial Pas de Calais France Bay 1.
1917 Rifleman 652538 John T Worker 1st/21st Battalion (First Surrey Rifles) London Regiment Formerly 22538 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action Thursday 7th June 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Edith Worker New Road Castlethorpe. Named on Castlethorpe War Memorial. Private Worker has no known grave. He is commemorated on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Ieper West-Vlaanderen Belgium Panel 54.
1917 Private 33457 Ernest Hubert Fennemore (Spelt Fennymore on SDGW – Soldiers Died Great War ) 6th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Thursday 16th August 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Mr and Mrs E Fennemore 21 Victoria Road. Named on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Private Fennemore has no known grave. He is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke West-Vlaanderen Belgium Panel 96 to 98.
1917 Private 41743 George Samuel Palmer 7th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Killed in action Wednesday 16th August 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Mr and Mrs J Palmer 1 Windsor Street Bletchley. Named on Bletchley Saint Mary’s War Memorial. Private Palmer has no known grave. Private Palmer is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial Zonnebeke West-Vlaanderen Belgium Panel 70 to 72.
1917 Private 33463 Thomas Jackman 6th Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action on Thursday 20th September 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Henry and Mary Jackman 61 High Street Bletchley. Named on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Private Jackman is buried in bard Cottage Cemetery Iper West-Vlaanderen Belgium Plot IV Row H Grave 40.
1917 Private 28240 John Walton 1st Battalion Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry) Killed in action Thursday 4th October 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of George and Alice Walton 5 Cobbs Garden Olney. Named on Olney War Memorial. Private Walton has no known grave. He is commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial West-Vlaanderen Belgium.
1917 Private 32253 Newman Riley 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment. Killed in action Monday 8th October 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Thomas and Edith Riley of 1 High Street New Bradwell. Private Riley has no known grave. He is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial Somme France Panel 48 to 50 and 162A.
1918 Private 266421 William George Brice (Listed as GW) 5th Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Killed in action 23rd March 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Mr and Mrs G Brice of Castlethorpe. Named on Castlethorpe War Memorial. Private Brice has no known grave. He is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial Somme France Panel 50 and 51.
1918 Second Lieutenant Bouverie Walter St John Mildmay 70th Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Killed Tuesday 16th April 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Named on Wolverton and Old Wolverton War Memorial. Second Lieutenant Mildmay is buried at Gezaincourt France.
1918 Private 57848 Harold W Garner 16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment attached to 7th Battalion Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Killed in action Sunday 25th April 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Thomas and Esther Garner School Yard Wavendon. Named on Saint Mary War Memorial Wavendon. Private Garner is buried in Ypres Town Cemetery Extension West-Vlaanderen Belgium Plot II Row A Grave 37.
1918 Private 120227 John Roland Casemore 55th
Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Formerly 35558 Wiltshire Regiment. Died
of wounds Monday 29th April 1918 at the age of nineteen years. 
Son of Mr and Mrs J Casemore of 53 High
Street New Bradwell. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Private Casemore is
buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery Pas de Calais France Grave IX D 7.
1918 Private 30678 (Albert) Ernest Limbrey 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Killed in action Thursday 8th August 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Harry Limbrey 67 Weston Road Olney. Named on Olney War Memorial. Private Limbrey has no known grave. He is commemorated on Vis-en-Artois Memorial Das de Calais Panel 3.
1918 Private 26171 Reginald Whatley 2nd/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action on Monday 19th August 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Son of John and Emily Whatley of Bletchley. Named on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Private Whatley is buried in Tanny British Cemetery Thiennes Nord France Plot 5 Row D Grave 11.
1918 Private 14722 William Charles Mansfield 18th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Formerly 41685 London Regiment, Killed in action Thursday 22nd August 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Son of W C and Mary Mansfield of Holly Tree Farm Woughton on the Green. Named on Woughton on the Green War Memorial. Private Mansfield is commemorated on Vis-en-Artois Memorial. Pas de Calais France Panel 10.
1918 Private 26536 Cecil Vernon Cownley East Sussex Regiment. Died Thursday 22nd August 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Arthur and Louie Cownley 36 Western Road Wolverton. Named on Wolverton and Old Wolverton War Memorial. Private Cownley is buried in Beacon Cemetery Sailly-Laurette Somme France Grave II J 9.
1918 Rifleman R/42987 Donald Paxton Cave (Listed on Wolverton War Memorial SDGW – Soldiers Died Great War and CWGC – Commonwealth War Graves Commission) 18th Battalion King’s Own Rifle Corps. Died of wounds on Tuesday 3rd September 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Rifleman Cave’s right leg, right foot and left foot were amputated on 3rd September 1918, he died after the operation. Son of Mr and Mrs J J Cave of 150 Windsor Street Wolverton. Named on Wolverton War Memorial and Radcliffe School War Memorial and Wolverton and Old Wolverton War Memorial. Rifleman Cave is buried in Lijsssenthoek Military Cemetery Poperinge West-Vlaanderen Belgium Plot XXV Row J Grave 23A.
1918 Private 26173 Michael Smith 2nd/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died of wounds Wednesday 4th September 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Born and resident of Hanslope. Son of Thomas and Mary Smith of Hanslope. Named in Hanslope War Memorial. Private Smith is buried in Aire Communal Cemetery Pas de Calais France Grave IV D 1.
1918 Private 39097 Alek Augustus Charles Ellis Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Died of wounds Thursday 10th October 1918 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Arthur and Eliza Ellis 37 Caldecote Street Newport Pagnell named on Newport Pagnell War Memorial Private Ellis is buried in Grevillers British Cemetery Pas de Calais France Grave XVII A3
1918 Private 50605 William Charles Wright 1st Battalion Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry) Killed in action Saturday 2nd November 1917 at the age of nineteen years. Son of William and Mary Wright of Bedford Road Lavendon. Named on Lavendon War Memorial. Private Wright is buried in Querenaing Communal Cemetery Nord France Grave A 5.
1940 Pilot Officer (Pilot ) 42043 David Conquest Barker 44th Squadron Royal Air Force Died Friday 24th May 1940 at the age of nineteen years. Named on Radcliffe School War Memorial. Pilot Officer Barker is buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery Nordrhein-Wastfalan Germany Plot 5 Row E Grave 22.
1940 Leading Aircraftman 1058860 John Charles Dewing Spurgin Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died Friday 20th December 1940 at the age of nineteen years. Leading Aircraftman Spurgin is buried in Little Brickhill Saint Mary Magdalene Churchyard North of Church.
1942 Aircraftman 2nd Class 163397 Albert Henry Thomas Clements Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died Sunday 25th October 1942 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Albert and May Clements of Bletchley. Named on Fenny Stratford and Bletchley War Memorial. Aircraftman Clements is buried in Bletchley Cemetery Grave 1023.
1943 Stoker 1st Class P/KX 135648 Bernard William Frank Lunnon HMS Pakenham Royal Navy. Died Friday 16th April 1943 at the age of nineteen years. Son of William and Phyllis Lunnon of Woburn Sands. Stoker Lunnon has no known grave. He is commemorated on Portsmouth Naval Memorial Hampshire Panel 78 Column 1.
1944 Sergeant 1874338 Cyril Stapleton Air Gunner 207 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died Wednesday 5th July 1944 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Leonard and Beatrice Stapleton Newport Pagnell. Named on Newport Pagnell War Memorial. Sergeant Stapleton is buried in Creil Community Cemetery Olse France Plot 1 Collective grave 731B.
1944 Private 14694981 Kenneth Sidney Woolhead 1/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Died Monday 17th July 1944 at the age of eighteen years. Son of Sydney and Edna Woolhead of New Bradwell. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Private Woolhead is buried in Tenay-le-Pesnel War Cemetery Tessel Calvados France Grave III D 13.
1944 Lance Corporal 14426891 Peter Hooton 1st Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Died Friday 3rd November 1944 at the age of nineteen years. Son of John and Ellen Hooton of Olney. Named on Radcliffe School War Memorial and Olney War Memorial. Lance Corporal Hooton is buried in Leopsoldsburg War Cemetery Limburg Belgium Plot III Row E Grave 10.
1945 Pilot Officer 190279 Flight Engineer Alvin Kenneth Parker 420 (R.C.A.F.) Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died Tuesday 16th January 1945 at the age of nineteen years. Son of Albert and Ann Parker of New Bradwell. Named on New Bradwell War Memorial. Flight Engineer Parker is buried in Berlin 1939 -1945 War Cemetery Berlin Germany Grave 5 G 18-20.
1945 Flying Officer (Navigator) David Forester Sinfield DFC 1566 Squadron Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Died Wednesday 21st February 1945 at the age of nineteen years. Son of William and Mary Sinfield of Bletchley. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Named on Bletchley Saint Mary’s War Memorial. Flying Officer Sinfield is buried in Rheinberg War Cemetery Kamp Linford Germany Plot II Row A Grave 14.
Percy George Jarvis Killed in action Thursday 10th September 1914. How many years ago is that date ? One hundred and nine years. If he were still alive today he would be one hundred and twenty-eight years old.
David Forester Sinfield Died Wednesday 21st February 1945. How many years ago is that date ? Seventy-eight years. If he were still alive today he would be ninety-seven years old.
Percy Jarvis is not 128, he is nineteen. David Sinfield is not ninety-seven, he is nineteen.
If it were not for David and if it were not for Percy and all others named on war memorials across our City there would be no Milton Keynes here and now in 2023.
I would remind you of a poet from The Great War who spoke out against the erecting war memorials saying the fallen should be remembered in peoples’ hearts and not by carving their names on pillars of stone. In the 1920’s that was true but now more than one hundred years later these war memorials are vital within our City’s heritage, without them those young boys giving their teenage lives none of us would be able to live our older ages.
To read the list of sixteen and seventeen year old lads who lost their lives while serving King and Country CLICK HERE.
For our eighteen year old heroes CLICK HERE
These teenagers and those I have recorded over the past two days are NOT part of Milton Keynes history, they are central to our heritage. Please take a look at MILTON KEYNES THE CITY OF HERITAGE.
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