Mark Wells was born on the 14th February 1892, in Rotherhithe, London. He was the third eldest of 7 children of Louisa, and his father, Mark Wells, a police sergeant in the Metropolitan Police. By 1895 the family had moved to Hackney, where Mark attended Church Street School. His father retired from the police force […]
Charles Dorsett Ward was born in Aylesbury on 14th January 1891 the son of William Ward and Elizabeth (nee Dorsett). His father was a hairdresser but was later described as an accountant. Charles attended the National School in Aylesbury and in 1902 moved to Lord Williams’s school Thame. After leaving school he emigrated to Winnipeg, […]
William was born in 1886 in Lewknor, the oldest of Arthur and Ruth Wallington’s seven children. His father was an agricultural labourer as was William by the age of 14. The family was at Kingston Blount. On 11th May 1907, William married 17 year old Polly Mentor and started living at 11 North Street, Thame. […]
Ethelbert Godwin Stockwell Wagner was born on 12th March 1893 in Taiping, Perak, part of the Malay Federated States, where his father was a Deputy Commissioner of Police. Upon returning to England, he was admitted to Bedford Modern School, in January 1900, and then from 1904, he was one of a number of Wagner brothers […]
Oscar Tyrrell was born on 22nd May 1880 at home at 8 Rymer Street, Herne Hill, the son of Abraham Oscar Tyrrell, a butcher, and Clementine Louisa Tyrrell, formerly Parrish. He had one sister, Amy who was 2 years older than him. In 1911 he was living at home, 35 Queens Street, Hammersmith and was […]
Albert Alexander Trinder born towards the end of 1899 in Staines, Middlesex, the youngest of seven children to William and Annie (nee Way) Trinder. Shortly afterwards, the family moved to Thame, where his mother died in 1903, and his father was manager of a boot and shoe shop in the High Street. Educated at Lord […]
Thomas John Tims was born in Bletchingley, Surrey on 20th June 1912 to Walter Sidney and Charlotte Tims, one of 6 children. His father was a sergeant in the Middlesex and Bedfordshire Regiments during WW1. By the start of WW1, the family had moved to Windsor. Thomas married Blanche Mabel Holmes at Uxbridge in 1939, […]
Albert George Tomlinson was born in Rhode Island, USA in 1914 to John William and Alice May Tomlinson (nee Scott). He had four other siblings, an elder brother, John and two younger brothers Lloyd and Gordon and a younger sister Alice Evelyn. The family moved to England in 1921, disembarking at Liverpool on 30th November. […]
Derek Edmund Teden was born on 19 Jul 1916 in Highgate, London, England, the son of Frank and Zilla Teden. He was educated at Lord Williams’s School in Thame and at Taunton School. Derek Teden played rugby for Richmond and represented England three times against Wales, Scotland and Ireland. He joined the Auxiliary RAF in […]
Noel Alexander Target was born on 23rd November 1895 at London, son of Felix Alexander Target MICE, Civil Engineer, Indian Public Works Department, of Donnington, Pinner, and his wife Nita, daughter of Harrison Chilton. He was educated at Lord Williams’s Grammar School Thame 1906-1909 and Haileybury College, Hertford and played Rugby for Clifton Rugby Club […]