Second World War Memorials

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World War II memorial plaque at Oxford Crematorium

Unveiling of plaque by memorial trees on the Marston Road in 2012

Links on the names of the war dead listed below are to
their pages on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website

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St Andrew’s Church, Old Headington

Only these five men of Old Headington parish who died in the Second World War are commemorated on an addition below the First World War Memorial on the wall inside St Andrew's Church:

• George William Coggins (9 The Croft)
  Born 29 September 1922, the son of Sidney George Coggins & Dorothy May Webb, and baptised at St Andrew's on 12 October
  Lance Serjeant, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died on 17 February 1944, aged 21 and buried at the Rome War Cemetery, Italy
  See Oxford Mail, 2 November 2025: “Oxford mother was told all three sons missing during WW2”
• Frank Armistice Goodchild (12 The Croft)
  Son of George William Goodchild & Mary Emily ...
  Guardsman, Scots Guards
  Died on 14 November 1942 aged 22 and remembered on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt
• Alfred Cyril Hudson (6 Hawthorn Avenue)
  Born in 1922 in Cheadle district, the son of Gilbert Hudson & Emily Worthington
  Able Seaman, Royal Navy (HMS Dunedin)
  Died on 24 November 1941, aged 19 and remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial
• Reginald Morris (241 London Road)
  Born in c.1915, the son of Alfred Richard Morris (Miriam appears to be a second wife)
  Serjeant, Pioneer Corps
  Died on 3 October 1943, aged 28 and buried at the Imtarfa Military Cemetery in Malta
• Gordon Robert Sugar (5 Lyndworth Close)
  Born in the Mildenhall district in 1921, the son of Robert J. Sugar & Daisy M. Willsmore, who were married in Lambeth in 1919
  Gordon married Dulcie May Sugar in Oxford in 1942
  Flying Officer, Royal Air Force
  Died aged 22 on 13 June 1943 and buried at the Hindeloopen Protestant Churchyard, The Netherlands

In addition, however, the following people who died all appear to have lived on the outskirts of St Andrew’s parish (which then included Barton). Addresses obtained from Kelly’s Directory for 1945 and 1947

• Serjeant Frank Akers (19 Coniston Avenue)
  Born 23 June 1892. Worked for the Corporation as a general labourer
  Lived at 19 Coniston Avenue. Died aged 40
• Private Stanley Allen (Barton Road)
  Died aged 38
• Corporal Thomas Edward Hooper (5 Delbush Avenue)
  Born 15 August 1912. Builder's labourer. Lived with Phyllis D. Merry. Died aged 31
• Corporal Heather Joyce Houlberg (Staunton Road), age 23
• Alan Henry Hunt (civilian) (Milham Ford School, Harberton Mead)
  Died aged 18
• Edgar Samuel Kirk (9 Hill View, Sandhills)
  Son of Herbert & Beatrice Ella Kirk of Headington
  1939 Register: Edgar's parents were living at 9 Hill View and he was probably with them
  Steward, Royal Navy (HMS Exmouth)
  Died on 21 January 1940 aged 21 when his ship was torpedoed in the Moray Firth and remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial
• Lieutenant Thomas Donald Maitland (Pullen’s Lane),
  Died aged 23
• Driver Arthur James Shone (Headley Way)
  Died aged 30. See his grave in Headington Cemetery
• Serjeant George Valentine Thompson (Headley Way)
  Born on 14 February 1902. Metal finisher body work. Lived at the shop in Headley Way with the shopkeeper William Thompson (probably his brother). Died aged 43
• Flying Officer Chris Noel Woodcock (NE end of London Road)
  Died aged 22. See his grave in Headington Cemetery

 

Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry

Unlike the dead of the First World War, the names of the men of Quarry parish who died in the Second World War are not engraved anywhere at the church, but a stained-glass window by Sir Ninian Comper (right), installed in 1951, honours their collective memory. The Imperial War Museum lists it here as a war memorial.

It shows the figure of the risen Christ, with the text below reading: “Dedicated in memory of the men of this parish who gave their lives for their country 1939–1945”.

 

 

The names of the 31 men of Quarry listed below who died in the Second World War are taken from the Quarry Roll of Honour, a large board which probably stood in the church during the war, but this list does not appear to have been complete.

Eighteen of the men listed were in the army, nine in the air force, and four in the navy.

There is another list at the foot of this page of people who appear to have lived in Quarry parish and died in the Second World War but who are not listed on the Holy Trinity Roll of Honour

 

Below: “1935–1945” was also added to the Headington Quarry parish war memorial in the churchyard

Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry Roll of Honour, World War II

Some of the men listed on this roll of honour lived in parishes outside Headington Quarry but presumably attended the church

• Norman Oswald Allen 
  Son of Oswald King Allen and May Allen
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 19 on 13 January 1941 and remembered on the Runnymede Memorial
• Dennis Herbert Bagnall (29 Fettiplace Road, Barton)
  Son of James Bagnall and Evelyn May Bagnall
  Sapper, Royal Engineers
  Died aged 21 on 28 July 1942 and buried at Headington Cemetery See his grave there
• Tom Beament. See under Lime Walk Methodist Church below
• Thomas Henry Boyce (43 Quarry High Street)
  Son of Leonard Boyce & Susan May Boyce.
  Thomas married Joyce May West in Oxford in 1942
  Corporal, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 24 on 11 November 1943 and buried at the Cassino War Cemetery, Italy
• Phillip Gordon Burrell 
  Son of Wilfred Burrell & Bertha Daisy Burrell.
  Philip married Constance Rose Knight in Oxford in 1941
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 22 on 22 September 1942 and remembered on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt
• Walter John Cox (66 Margaret Road)
  Son of Alfred John Cox & Alice Cox
  Walter was husband of Joan C. M. Cox (no marriage found)
  Leading Aircraftman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 24 on 31 March 1944 in the Chichester district and buried at Headington Cemetery See his grave there
• Glyndwr Vincent Fisher
  Son of John William Fisher & Annie Elizabeth Fisher of Kennington, Berkshire
  Aircraftman First Class, Royal Air Force
  Died aged 22 on 17 September 1939 and remembered on the Runnymede Memorial
• Norman Simms Flowers (13 Ridgeway Road, Risinghurst)
  Son of Edward Flowers & Kathleen Mary Flowers
  Married Freda Simpson in Wolverhampton in 1938
  Captain, Hampshire Regiment.
  Died aged 31 on 13 October 1943 and buried at the Minturno War Cemetery, Italy
• Colin Raymond Glover (71 Windmill Road)
  Son of Beatrice Louisa Glover & stepson of George T. D. Eva of Headington
  Colin married Dorinda R. Bergonzi of Dalston, London in 1936
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 27 on 26 May 1941 and remembered on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt
• Patrick Leonard Goddard 
  Born 12 August 1918, the son of Nellie Goddard
  1939 Register: Living with his mother at 37 Edith Road and working as haulage clerk
  Patrick married Violet Irene Simmons in Oxford near the beginning of 1939
  Died aged 20 (actually 21) in the Elham district of Kent on 1 June 1940 and buried at Osney Cemetery, Oxford
• Aubrey Griffin See Lime Walk Methodist Church below
• Arthur Fairlie Hamilton (8 Hockmore Street, Cowley)
  Born on 4 June 1921 in Bradford, the son of John Jackson Hamilton & Alice Abigail Arundel who were married in Bradford in 1912
  1939 Register: Still at school and living at 8 Hockmore Street, Cowley with his parents and siblings
  Flight Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 23 on 25 December 1944 and buried at Heliopolis War Cemetery, Egypt
• Charles Bertram James Hay (73 Weyland Road)
  Son of John and Julia Hay
  Private, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
  Died aged 23 on 15 January 1943 and buried at the Tripoli War Cemetery, Libya
• Edward John Higgs (21 Ridgeway Road, Risinghurst)
  Son of Frederick John Higgs & Annie Louisa Higgs
  Married Nellie Holden Melloy in the Witney district in 1932
  Bombardier, Royal Artillery
  Died aged 36 on 20 November 1942 and remembered on the Singapore Memorial
• Frederick Harry Hooper (27 Chestnut Avenue)
  Son of Jesse Hooper & Harriet Ellen Hooper
  Married Jean Pratt in Oxford in 1939
  Trooper, Reconnaissance Corps, R.A.C.
  Died aged 25 on 24 June 1944 and remembered on the Bayeux Memorial
• Bernard Noel Jones (5 Bowness Avenue)
  Son of Frank Tindall Jones & Bertha Edith Jones (nee Childs)
  Married Edna Grace Collins in Oxford in 1934
  Warrant Office Class II, Royal Artillery
  Died aged 29 as Prisoner of War in Japan on 30 November 1942 and remembered on the Yokohama Cremation Memorial
• Alan Anthony Kimber (Stowe, 118 The Slade)
  Son of Thomas Kimber & Ella Kimber and nephew of Capt. W. Brooker, Home Guard, of Great Sankey, Lancashire
  Sapper, Royal Engineers
  Died aged 25 on 13 March 1941 and buried at the Ismaila War Cemetery, Egypt
• Charles Arthur Kyme (14 Mayfair Road, Littlemore)
  Born 7 January 1917. Son of William Kyme & Laura Elizabeth Kyme of Oxford
  Married Phyllis Joan Smith in Oxford in 1938
  Chief Clerk in Coal Company in 1939
  Corporal in the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 27 on 16 July 1944 and buried at the Brouay War Cemetery, France
• Peter Lauriston Charles Melville Lee (Stoke, Stoke Place)
  Son of Lt.-Col. R. H. Melville Lee and Mrs. K. E. Lee
  Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy (HM Submarine Odin)
  Died aged 21 on 27 June 1940 and remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial
• Reginald Morris: See St Andrew’s Church above
• Norman Patterson (80 Collinwood Road, Risinghurst)
  Son of James Patterson & Elizabeth Patterson and
  Married Rose Lilian Lynch in Oxford in 1936
  Leading Aircraftman in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 32 on 24 February 1943 and buried at the Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery, Tunisia
• Cyril George Pead
  Son of Mr & Mrs George Pead
  Married Mary Margaret Dolton in Oxford in 1939
  Private in the Gloucestershire Regiment
  Died aged 24 on 28 May 1940 and buried at the Cassel Communal Cemetery Extension, France
• Frank Pike
  Private in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
  Died aged 22 on 24 October 1944 and buried at the Eindhoven (Woensel) General Cemetery, The Netherlands
• Donald Reid Hard to identify. Not on Oxford City Honour Roll, not obviously in the area in the 1939 Register,
  and not possible to identify in CWGC database.  A Mrs M. J. Reid lived at Rock Edge
• Robert Chaffer Richards (brother of next) (Lane End, 64 Kiln Lane, Risinghurst)
  Son of Cyril Duncan William Richards & Mary Ray Richards of Headington Quarry
  Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
  Died aged 22 on 26 November 1941 and buried at the Tobruk War Cemetery, Libya
• Walter Hughes Richards (“Peter”) (brother of previous) (Lane End, 64 Kiln Lane, Risinghurst)
  Son of Cyril Duncan William Richards & Mary Ray Richards of Headington Quarry
  Leading Aircraftman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 18 in the Warminster district of Wiltshire on 10 October 1941 and burried at the Chippenham (London Road) Cemetery, Wiltshire
• Hubert Horace Richardson (6 Stile Road)
  Son of Charles James Richardson & Mabel Richardson
  Sub-Lieutenant (a), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Mentioned in Dispatches
  Shot down by flak at Melsvik, Altenfjord during an attack on the Tirpitz (Operation Tungsten)
  Died aged 22 on 3 April 1944 and buried at the Tromso Cemetery, Norway
• William Arthur Stannard (3 Hawthorn Avenue)
  Born 21 January 1913, the son of William Arthur Stannard & Emily Alice Stannard of Oxford
  Married Mary Caroline Turner in Oxford in 1936
  Lived with his wife and son and his father-in-law Joseph Turner, who was an incapacitated farm labourer
  Private, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 30 and buried at the Minturno War Cemetery, Italy

• Dudley Ralph Wicks 
  Son of Victor Houghton Wicks & Beatrice Ellen Wicks of Headington
  Flight Sergeant, Royal Air Force
  Died aged 20 on 10 November 1941 in the Thanet district and buried at Reading Cemetery
• Albert John Wharton (28 Downside Road, Risinghurst)
  Son of Thomas Wharton & Mary Wharton of Headington Quarry
  Married Vera Emily Butt in Oxford near the beginning of 1935
  Private, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 30 and buried at the Coriano Ridge Cemetery, Italy See photograph of grave immediately below
• Lionel James Winstone (58 Salisbury Crescent)
  Son of William Winstone & Bertha Winstone
  Married Nellie Kathleen Mary Winstone in Oxford in 1933
  Gunner, Royal Artillery
  Died aged 36 on 29 November 1942 when a Prisoner of War in Japan and remembered on the Yokohama Cremation Memorial

The following people are not listed on the Holy Trinity Roll of Honour but appear to have lived within its parish (addresses obtained from Kelly’s Directory for 1945 and 1947)

• Supply Assistant Arthur Roland Allsopp (Langley Close), age 21
• Private Sidney George Barrett (Headington Quarry), age 28
• Ronald Frederick William Clark (1 Grovelands Road, Risinghurst)
  Born 4 October 1915. Married Edna Clark in 1939. Leather & Rexine cutter. Lived with his wife at 1 Grovelands Road
• Able Seaman Robert James Hockridge (Collinwood Road), age 34
• Serjeant Hugh Thomas Ledsome (Green Road), age 59
• Corporal William Henry Lowe (Headington Quarry), age 37
• Leading Aircraftman Arthur William Lynch (Shotover Road), age 20
• Lance Corporal Henry Albert Mills-Hicks (Mark Road and Ramsay Road), age 32
• Craftsman Frederick Charles Moore (Langley Close), age 34. See his grave in Headington Cemetery
• Sergeant Frank Morris (South-east end of Windmill Road), age 21
• Lance Corporal Reginald Nuttall (Langley Close), age 23
• James George Price (York Road): this appears to be an error for his son
        Stoker 1st Class William John Price of Headington, age 21
• Driver John Henry Short (Green Road), age 21
• Captain & Quartermaster Henry Edward Upton (Langley Close), age 61
• Rachel Mary Wright (4 York Road),
  Born on 28 May 1884, the daughter of the Revd & Mrs Frank Wright of Milnrow, Lancashire
  1939 Register: Living at 36 Oakley Street, Chelsea and working as the Secretary of the National Federation of Women's Institutes
  Lived at 4 York Road according to CWGC, but at 31 Malvern Road, Weston-super-Mare according to probate record
  Civilian war dead
  Died at 14 Malvern Road, Weston-super-Mare aged 58 on 28 June 1942 and buried in the cemetery there See her grave

All Saints’ Church, Highfield

All Saints’ (Highfield) Church has no list of its war dead of the Second World War, but “1939-1945” was added to the stone base (below) of the All Saints’ Church First World War Memorial, which has no names of the dead

The following men who died in the Second World War either lived in All Saints’ parish (according to Kelly’s Directory and/or the 1939 Register) or attended its church:

• Oscar Thomas Adams (8 Cardwell Crescent)
  Son of Oscar T. Adams senior & Nellie M. Harris who were married in the Headington district in 1914.
  Oscar junior married Gladys Isabella Kerry in 1938
  1939 Register: Living at 8 Cardwell Crescent with his new wife and working as a college scout
  Private, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 25 on 30 May 1940 and buried at the Hotton War Cemetery, Belgium
• Michael Harry Bullock (11 Sandfield Road)
  Born in the Headington district on 7 July 1923, the son of Harry Godding Bullock & Mary Stewart Tyler who were married in that district in 1916
  Lieutenant, Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
  Died aged 21 on 13 April 1945 and buried at the Becklingen War Cemetery, Germany
  See the stained glass window erected in All Saints' Church in his memory pictured below
• Charles Albert Davis (39 Gipsy Lane)
  Born on 14 Jun 1917 in Paddington, London, the son of George Ernest Davis & Letitia Elizabeth Stroud
  Leading Supply Assistant, Royal Navy (HMS Edinburgh)
  1939 Register: not found. Parents at home at 39 Gipsy Lane
  Died aged 23 on 4 November 1940 from injuries sustained in a railway accident at Norton Fitzwarren, near Taunton, Somerset
  and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford (See his grave)
• Robert Emil Geoffrey Dawson (23 Latimer Road)
  Born 11 April 1914 at Beckenham, Kent: son of William Harbutt Dawson & Else Munsterberg
  Magdalen College School and Brasenose College, Oxford: MA (Oxon) in Classical Greats in 1942
  Working as a rail traffic apprentice in 1939 and lodging in Crosby, Lancashire
  Captain, Royal Engineers
  Torpedoed off the coast of north Africa aged 29 on 17 June 1943 and remembered on the Brookwood 1939–45 Memorial, UK
• Hubert James Edmunds (90 Valentia Road)
  Son of Charles William Edmunds & Mary Anne ...
  Hubert married Winifred Hoare on 26 December 1928 at St Giles' Church, Oxford
  Driver, Royal Army Service Corps
  Died aged 38 on 27 May 1940 and buried at the Hondschoote Communal Cemetery, France
• Ronald Gould (67 Lime Walk)
  Son of Horace Gould & Bessie M. Johnson who were married in the Headington district in 1922
  Lance Corporal, Corps of Royal Military Police
  Died aged 21 in the Westminster district on 2 November 1947 and buried at Headington Cemetery. See his grave there
• George Arthur Frederick Hewlett (33 New High Street)
  Born 3 May 1909, the son of George Arthur Hewlett & Ada Maud Beesley who were married in the Headington district in 1906
  1939 Register: Working as a plasterer and living with his parents and four younger brothers
  Fusilier, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
  Died aged 34 and buried at Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio, Italy
• George Herbert Howard (11 Stapleton Road)
  Born 8 July 1914. Son of Charles Howard & Florence Hannah Buckingham who were married in the Headington district in 1900
  1939 Register: Living with his mother and siblings
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 26 on 31 March 1941 and remembered on the Runnymede Memorial
• Ernest Leslie Lee
  Married Violet Annie Ada Allsworth in Oxford near the beginning of 1941
  Private in the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 23 on 4 October 1941 and buried at Headington Cemetery. See his grave there
• Francis Paul Miller (112 London Road)
  Born on 8 February 1918, the son of James Miller & Frances Lilian Denman, who were married in the Headington district in 1915
  1939 Register: Living at 112 London Road with his widowed mother, and already a Corporal in the RAF
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force
  Died aged 23 in the Maidstone district on 21 November 1941 and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford
• Theodore Narishkin (90 Windmill Road)
  Born in St Pancras, London in 1922, the son of Capt. Vadim A. Narishkin, M.A. of the Intelligence Corps
      & Elizabeth Alexandrovna Timacheff
  Serjeant, Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve
  Crashed at Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire, when flying back to RAF Cranfield and died aged 20: more information
  Buried at Headington Cemetery. See his grave there
• Eric Stanley Raymond Norgrove (4 St Leonard's Road)
  Born 21 June 1921, the son of Hubert James Norgrove & Winifred Hester Norgrove, and baptised at Al Saints' Church on 24 July
  1939 Register: An apprentice compositor living with his parents
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 22 on 15 August 1943 and remembered on the Malta Memorial
• Leslie Thomas Nutt (23 New High Street)
  Born 1 April 1918, the son of Thomas William Nutt & Elsie Maud Nutt of Headington
  A baker who lived with his parents
  Private, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
  Died aged 26 on 21 April 1944 and buried at the Imphal War Cemetery, India
• Donald Frederick Phipps (16 Harcourt Terrace)
  Son of William Arthur Thomas Phipps & Florence Ellen Phipps of Headington
  Fusilier, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
  Died aged 22 on 14 September 1944 and buried at the Gradara War Cemetery, Italy
• Louis Arthur Trinder (10 Piper Street, then called Cross Street)
  Son of Thomas John Trinder & Kate Elizabeth Trinder of Headington
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 19 on 2 March 1943 and buried at Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium

See also at the end of this web-page a list of more people who may have lived in All Saints's parish and who died in the Second World War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left: This stained-glass window in All Saints’ Church reads:

“In loving memory of Michael Harry Bullock, Lieut. RTR. Killed in action crossing the River Aller, Germany, 13 April 1945, aged 21 years”

 

St Francis of Assisi: Bulan Road area

The following men lived in the Bulan Road area of Headington. This came under the new St Francis of Assisi Church in Hollow Way:

• Peter Henry Bowles (7 Cinnaminta Road)
  Born 16 November 1916, the son of Walter H. Bowles & Harriett A. Bowles of Headington
  Worked as a spot welder
  Gunner, Royal Artillery
  Died aged 29 on 8 April 1945 and buried at the Labuan War Cemetery, Malaysia
• John Edward Ford (6 Lye Valley)
  Born 15 September 191on of John & Lucy Ford of Headington
  1939 Register: Inspector at the motor works and living with his parents
  Sargeant. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 26 in the Devizes district on 1 March 1943 and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford
• Richard Charles France (99 Dene Road)
  Son of Frederick Richard France & Dora Maria France of Headington
  Pilot Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 21 and buried at the Ranchi War Cemetery, India
• Ronald Ernest Gibbons (50 Dene Road)
  Born in Oxford on 19 September 1924, the son of Ernest Gresford Gibbons & Emily Irene ...
  1939 Register: Family not found
  Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy (HMS Limbourne)
  Died aged 19 on 23 October 1943 when his ship was sunk in action and remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial
• Royston Gomershall (4 Fairview Road)
  Born in Witney on 24 December 1922, the son of Vestus John Gomershall & Edith Mary Holland
  Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy (HMS Hood)
  Died aged 17 on 24 May 1941 when his ship was sunk in the Battle of the Denmark Strait
  and remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial (photograph)
• Leslie Arthur Hibbett (77 Bulan Road)
  Son of Arthur Hibbett & Ivy Anna Hibbett
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force
  Died aged 19 on 21 June 1940 and remembered on the Runnymede Memorial
• Edward Stacey (50 Glebelands)
  Son of Richard Stacey & Daisy Blanche Stacey
  Married Doris Mabel Poole in Oxford in 1939
  Gunner, Royal Artillery
  Died aged 31 on 21 April 1942 and buried at Headington Cemetery. See his grave

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Lime Walk Methodist Church

Two men died (and both are also remembered on the Quarry memorial roll). They were in the air force, and each has his own plaque on the wall of the church.

Thomas Hubert Beament (“Tom”)
Son of William Hollingshead Beament & Harriet Ann Beament
Married Gwendoline Janette Johnson in Oxford in 1940, with forenames reversed
Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died aged 30 and buried at Charleroi Communal Cemetery, Belgium

[Ernest] Aubrey Griffin 
Son of Ernest Griffin & Mary E. Griffin of Headington
Leading Aircraftman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Died aged 19 in the Sleaford District of Lincolnshire on 11 December 1941
    Also remembered on the memorials for Oxford Crematorium and Oxford Corporation employees

St Nicholas’s Church, Old Marston

Three men are listed on the extension to the First World War Memorial inside the church:

• Frederick Gordon Matthews (“Melbourne”, Marston)
  Born 23 March 1924, the son of Walter Matthews, a brewer's horseman, and his wife Alice of Old Marston
  Corporal, Royal Marines
  Died aged 19 on 19 January 1944 and buried at the Minturno War Cemetery, Italy
• Henry Bylett [sic] Simms
  Son of Henry Simms & Rose Anne Simms
  Henry married Dorothy Ellen Davey in Oxford in 1934
  Serjeant, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 31 between 10 May & 1 June 1940 and buried in Dunkirk Town Cemetery, France
• Dennis William Ward
  Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy (HMS Versatile)
  Died aged 21 on 13 May 1940 and buried at Marston Cemetery.
  Presumably the same man as the Dennis Ward on the New Marston memorial below
  

New Marston War Memorial, Marston Road

Twelve men died (of whom two appear also to be on Old Marston war memorial): six were in the army, four in the air force, one in the navy, and one in the marines. Their names were added to the left-hand side of the New Marston First World War memorial. Arthur Kerry appears to have been omitted initially, as his name was added to the horizontal part of the step under this inscription

• Tom Bailey  Hard to identify. Not on Oxford City Honour Roll, not obviously in the area in the 1939 Register, not in St Nicholas' Church parish registers, and not possible to identify in CWGC database
• Philip James Crank (68 William Street)
  Son of Phillip Crank & Lilly Crank
  Married Evelyn Frances Belson in the Ploughley district in 1942:
  Daughter Sandra Jean Crank born on 1 May 1943 and baptised at St Nicholas' Church on 11 July
  Flying Officer, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Based at Harwell and died aged 22 after colliding with another plane during a night flying exercise on 28 April 1944 (just before his daughter's first birthday). Buried at Marston Cemetery (photograph of his grave side-by-side with that of his daughter)
• Walter Edward James Giles (44 Ferry Road)
  Born in Old Marston on 20 October 1920, the son of Walter John Giles and Mary Evelyn Sawyer, and baptised at St Nicholas' Church on 14 December. Father died aged 40 in 1936
  1939 Register: Motor-cycle mechanic, living with his widowed mother and sister
  Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 22 on 4 October 1943 when plane came down over North Thoresby, Lincolnshire
  and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford (see his grave)
• Gordon Hern 
  Son of Charles Thomas Hern & Mildred Cicely Hern of New Marston
  Private, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 19 between 27 & 28 August 1943 and remembered on the Cassino Memorial, Italy
• Kenneth Graham Hope 
  Born 3 August 1909. the son of William Hope & Margaret Agnes Hope
  B.A. (Oxon).
  Married Margaret Phyllis Dixon in Oxford in 1935
  1939 Register: Schoolmaster living at Bedingham College in Leatherhead, Surrey
  Lieutenant, Royal Engineers
  Died aged 32 in the Staines district on 10 December 1940 and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford
• Arthur Thomas Kerry 
  Son of Thomas Kerry & Clara Kerry of Oxford
  Married Gabrielle A, M. J. Edmonds in the Wantage registration district in 1928
  Gunner, Royal Artillery
  Died aged 37 or 38 on 19 June 1945 in the Northampton district and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford
  
• Ernest Mackenzie
  Born 28 March 1923, the son of Richard James Mackenzie & Doris Mackenzie
  1939 Register: Apprentice fitter & turner living at 59 Ferry Road with his father
  Serjeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died aged 21 on 23 February 1945 and buried at the Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany
• Frederick Gordon Matthews See Old Marston memorial above
• George Arthur Thomas 
  Born in the Camberwell district on 13 December 1911, the son of Henry Thomas & Elizabeth Joyce
  George married Phyllis May Webster in the Ploughley district of Oxfordshire in 1942
  1939 Register: Not found
  Private, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
  Died aged 33 on 11 July 1944 and buried at the Banneville-la-Campagne War Cemetery, France (see his grave)
• Norman Herbert Frederick Wakeley (419 Marston Road)
  Born 11 December 1925 in Oxford, the son of Frederick John Wakeley & Annie Alicia Elizabeth Smith
  1939 Register: not listed, probably because too young, but his parents were at 419 Marston Road (father a boot repairer)
  Stoker 1st Class, Royal Navy (HMS Berwick)
  Died on 11 July 1946 aged 20 at the Royal South Hampshire Hospital, Southampton and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford (see his grave)
  
• Dennis Ward: See Old Marston war memorial above
• [Sydney] George Wiggins (50 Derwent Avenue in 1939, 60 William Street, New Marston in 1942)
  Born 15 January 1912, the son of Mr & Mrs Sidney Henry Wiggins of Oxford
  Married Iris Ruth Hilda Clifford in Oxford in 1939
  1939 Register: Bookbinder's clerk living in Derwent Avenue with his wife Iris
  Gunner, Royal Artillery
  Died 13 August 1942 aged 30 and buried in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq
• Kenneth Eric Young (probably 39 Ferry Road)
  Born in Guildford, Surrey in 1919/20, the son of William Young and Doris Read
  1939 Register: Not found
  Kenneth married Winifred M. Jennings in Oxford in 1942
  Private, Royal Artillery
  Died aged 24 on 25 July 1944 in the Spilsbury district of Lincolnshire and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford (see his grave)

Others who appear to have lived in New Marston but are not on the war memorial

• Isaac John Day 
  Born on 2 November 1901, the son of Isaac Henry Day (a coachman) and Maria Jane Fletcher, who lived at Rookery Cottages in Stoke Place, and baptised at St Andrew's Church, Headington on 19 December
  Isaac married Evelyn Westwood in Lincoln in 1922; she is described by the CWGC as being of New Marston
  Corporal, Royal Air Force
  Died aged 43 on 19 February 1944 and buried at the Yokohama War Cemetery
• Leonard Walter Poole 
  Son of Reginald Walter William Poole & Lora Bessie Poole of New Marston
  Steward, Royal Navy (HMS Beverley)
  Died aged 21 on 11 April 1943 when his ship was torpedoed and remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial
• Alfred Leslie Quintrell 
  Son of Frederick & Mabel Quintrell
  Husband of Florence Alberta Quintrell of New Marston
  Stoker 1st Class, Royal Navy (HMS Prince of Wales)
  Died aged 21 on 16 February 1942 and remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial
• Signalman Henry Kitchener Rawlins
  Son of Frank & Emily Rawlins of New Marston
  Signalman, Royal Corps of Signals
  Died aged 29 on 16 April 1946 and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford
• Ronald Percival George Robbins 
  Son of Ernest George & Emily Annie Robbins of New Marston
  Private, Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
  Died aged 30 on 23 September 1944 and buried at Schoonselhof Cemetery, Belgium
• William Stafford 
  Son of Edward & Charlotte Stafford
  Husband of Ivy Stafford of New Marston
  Leading Aircraftman, Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force)
  Died aged 36 on 11 May 1941 and buried at Harrow Weald Cemetery
• Stephen Thomas Timms 
  Son of George & Fanny Timms of New Marston
  Sapper, Royal Engineers
  Died aged 32 on 17 March 1945 and buried in the Jonkerbos War Cemetery, The Netherlands
• Aubrey Waite 
  Son of Louisa Waite of New Marston
  Husband of Edna Waite of High Wycombe
  Trooper, Royal Armoured Corps
  Died aged 27 on 15 May 1947 and buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, Oxford
• Donald Walter Woods (Brookfield Crescent, New Marston)
  Son of Walter & Eveline Woods of Headington
  Sergeant, Royal Sir Force Volunteer Reserve
  Died on 30 July 1943 and remembered on the Runnymede Memorial