Extracts from the Deddington Deanery Magazine 1914-1922 relating to the Men who Served
Reverend Thomas Boniface, Vicar of Deddington
These records are the work of the Reverend Thomas Boniface, Vicar of Deddington. At the time of writing, he had been the Vicar since 1878 and if you read the original magazine, which is held in the Oxford Record Centre, you will detect the increasing level of despair in the records.
| December 1914 | |
|---|---|
| Chas. Callow | Killed in Action |
| Wm Wilkins | Killed in Action |
| John Beesley | Wounded |
| Wm Tustain | Wounded |
| January 1915 | |
| Corporal J Beesley | Convalescent |
| A Spencer | Convalescent |
| M French | Invalided from Front |
| E A Hicks | Invalided from Front |
| George Castle of another Deddington family | Killed |
| February 1915 | |
| We were delighted recently to welcome from the Front (on leave): R Beesley, W Holiday, J M French S R Hall, W Page, J C Warren | |
| June 1915 | |
| The Curate, the Rev Tyrell Green has joined the Royal Army Medical Corps | |
| July 1915 | |
| G Sykes jnr. | Killed |
| Sergeant-Major Warren | Wounded |
| Corporal T Holiday | Wounded |
| L/Cpl. D Hopcraft | Wounded |
| Private H Miller | Wounded |
| Private H Checkley | Wounded |
| Killed previously and not recorded were: | |
| W Wilkins, C Callow, G Castle | |
| Note, in fact, the names of all these men had been recorded already | |
| Wounded previously but not recorded: | |
| J Beesley, W Tustain, W Brooks | |
| J H Warren, A Callow | |
| August 1915 | |
| A Spenser of Hempton | Wounded |
| Clarence Gilkes | Wounded |
| Note Private Clarence Bert GILKES, 5th Battalion Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry died on 16 October 1917. He has no known grave but his name is recorded on panel 96-98 of the Tyne Cot Memorial yet he is not on the Deddington Memorial | |
| October 1915 | |
| Private Spenser of Hempton | Killed |
| Lieut. Geoffrey Bowler | Wounded in the Dardanelles |
| November 1915 | |
| William Allen | Wounded: in Manchester |
| Albert Tustain | Wounded: in Netley |
| Walter Gibbs | Dangerously ill |
| Loder French | Welcome home |
| February 1916 | |
| J F Hawkins of Field Barn | Killed |
| W F Bolton of Clifton | Killed |
| Walter Albert Gardner | Died in Cornwall on home service |
| March 1916 | |
| Loder French | Died age 24. Elder son of Mr & Mrs W J French, Council Street |
| April 1916 | |
| Lieut. G Bowler | Wounded and his foot was amputated whilst serving in the Dardanelles. He has been promoted to Captain |
| Sergeant Major Warren DCM | Now commissioned and has transferred from the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars |
| Sergeant H Grace DCM | Died of fever in the Persian Gulf |
| F Hutt | Killed in action 8 February 1916 |
| August 1916 | |
| Walter D Hancox | Royal Engineers, killed 1 July. A ringer at the Church and Captain of the Football and Cricket Clubs |
| Private J E Twissell | Serving with 32 Battalion Canadian Infantry, he died in Calgary Holy Cross Hospital. A former chorister he was buried on 5 June |
| Lieut. Warren | Wounded for the second time |
| Private G Clarke | Wounded |
| H Checkley | Wounded |
| J W Cowley | Prisoner of War in Turkey |
| October 1916 | |
| Corporal W Rufus Hancox | Killed age 20 serving in the Ox. & Bucks. Light Infantry. He was a Bell ringer at the Church, a Scout and a Territorial |
| November 1916 | |
| Private J H Checkley | Killed in action in July. Previously wounded |
| L/Cpl M J Tustain | Killed in action in July |
| F Tustain - his brother | Coldstream Guards. Killed |
| December 1916 | |
| Bernard Wheeler | Died in Shorncliffe Military Hospital on 18 November and was buried on 23rd. He was the son of James Wheeler and he had become a Canadian Resident |
| February 1917 | |
| Percy Pinfold of Clifton | Killed in action 1 January 1917 |
| The Vicar comments that this is the 20th Death and that there were 209 Deddington men in the armed forces. | |
| March 1917 | |
| A Ell | Wounded a second time and in hospital in Chichester |
| April 1917 | |
| Wallace Carvill | Died on 3 March in hospital in France, he had been suffering from measles |
| Alfred Ell | Died on 3 March, in Chichester Hospital |
| June 1917 | |
| Joseph Austin of Hempton | Killed |
| Alfred Yerbury junior | Killed |
| Aleck Manchip | Killed |
| July 1917 | |
| John Ernest Mundy | Killed on Sunday 3 June |
| Private H White of Hempton | is missing |
| October 1917 | |
| D Hopcraft | Promoted and commissioned |
| J Watts | Promoted and commissioned |
| N Chislett | Killed in July |
| A Hancox | Wounded |
| R, W and T Wheeler | All three wounded |
| E Shirley | Wounded |
| W Mitchell | Wounded |
| F Callow | Wounded |
| P Dunn | Wounded |
| The marriage of Private R E Weaver to Miss G M Miller | |
| November 1917 | |
| Sapper E Hancox | Killed in action 24 July, a bell ringer |
| Harold Freeman | Killed in action |
| January 1918 | |
| E and B Paginton | Both badly wounded and disabled |
| J Higham | Badly wounded |
| Alec Austin | Badly wounded |
| A Hunt | Badly wounded |
| A Cambray | Badly wounded |
| R Gilkes | Badly wounded |
| M French | Indisposed |
| H Churchill from New Zealand | Killed |
| February 1918 | |
| Private F Drinkwater | Awarded Military Medal for rescuing two comrades |
| Lieut D Jones | Has returned |
| Private F Hawkins | Died 18 January after an accident |
| March 1918 | |
| Private A Weaver | Killed. He was a resident and Chorister who had moved to King's Sutton. A nephew of the Wright family in Clifton |
| M French, E and B Paginton | On sick list |
| W White | Missing |
| Lieut. L Bower | Mentioned in Despatches |
| May 1918 | |
| A Hutt | Killed |
| W Dunn | Killed |
| Rev. Tyrell Green | Wounded |
| Lieut. Watts | Wounded |
| H Hicks | Wounded |
| Captain L Bowler | Awarded Military Cross |
| J Higham | RFC won a Belgian Award |
| June 1918 | |
| F Valentine | At first, believed killed but this was corrected in July which states he is a Prisoner of War |
| A Adey of Clifton | Killed |
| The total number of deaths has reached 34 | |
| Hubert Sykes | has fallen; he is the son of Joshua. Note: Hubert Charles SYKES Rifleman, London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles) died on 3 October 1917 age 37. He was the son of Joshua Sykes, New Street, Deddington and the husband of Harriet Cissie Bennetton (formerly Sykes), 99 Evelyn Street, Deptford. He has no known grave but his name is recorded on panel 151 of the Tyne Cot Memorial. His name is not on the Deddington Memorial |
| August 1918 | |
| C J Ell | wounded and his leg amputated |
| F Berry | Wounded |
| H Griffin | Killed |
| H Deeley | Missing |
| September 1918 | |
| B Hawkins of Field Barn | Missing |
| F Berry | Wounded |
| D Hopcraft | Promoted Captain |
| CQMS H J Harmsworth | In the London Gazette for Gallantry |
| November 1918 | |
| Captain L Bowler | Awarded bar to his Military Cross |
| B Cambray from Canada | Awarded Military Medal |
| B Hawkins | Believed to be a Prisoner of War |
| O Dore | Who has recently enlisted died of pneumonia on 5 October |
| December 1918 | |
| Joseph Hiorns | Killed 11 October 1918 |
| R Page Bull | Killed 30 October 1918 |
| Leonard A Long | is a Prisoner of War |
| January 1919 | |
| Harry Gardner | Killed 2 December 1918 in France. He was a Scout and a bell ringer |
| February 1919 | |
| George Davis | Died in Salonica |
| Edwin Bliss | Died in India |
| Bernard Hawkins | has died, he was not a Prisoner as was earlier reported |
| Some others have returned home | |
| Leonard Long | He was a prisoner in Germany |
| James Cowley | He was a prisoner in Mesopotamia |
| QMS H J Harmsworth | From Italy, awarded the Meritorious Service Medal |
| Rev. H Tyrell Green | |