Stanley John Slade was born in Henley, Oxfordshire in 1920. His parents were Joseph Stanley and Winifred Mary Slade (nee Walker). Stanley attended Lord Williams’s School in Thame in the 1930s, and the CWGC records a marriage to a Mary Theresa. Stanley joined the RAF (VR) in April 1941 as NCO aircrew, service number 1443184 and was promoted […]
Alwyne Robert Peirce Shields was born in Umballa, India (now in Lahore, Pakistan) in 1922. His father Wallace John Shields from Stoke Newington in Essex was serving with the RAF, and eventually reached the rank of Group Captain during WW2. His mother was Constance Gladys Shields (nee Peirce), from Mile End in London. Alwyne was […]
John Boxell Shaw was born in Hammersmith in 1892 to parents Frederick Augustus and Susannah (nee Moreton). One of 4 children, upon the death of his mother in 1895, he and his sister Florence were fostered by the local postmistress in Cuddington, and at some time he was living in Chinnor Road, Thame, – his […]
Donald Patrick Shaw, who was born on 29th August 1888 at Melcombe Regis, was the eldest son of Dr A E Shaw, headmaster of Lord Williams’s School, Thame from 1899 to 1920. Educated at that school, where he was head boy for his last two years, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained an […]
Kenneth Sellwood was born in Thame in 1925 the son of Mr. and Mrs. William John Sellwood, of Tetsworth, Oxfordshire and he attended Lord Williams’s School, Thame. He served as a Lance Corporal, 14499730, in the 10th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry during World War Two. The HLI were part of the 15th Division […]
Arthur Rush was born in Thame in the autumn of 1880 to parents James and Jane Rush, living in North Street. Upon the death of his father in 1895, his mother married William Eggleton, and by 1911 the family had moved to Wellington Street. In December 1897, Arthur joined the 4th Battalion (Territorial Force) of […]
John Merrick Rudge was born in Dublin in 1920 where his father Captain Leonard Merrick Rudge MC, MM, was stationed with the 2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. His mother was Lilian Maud Rudge (nee King) who was born in Oxford. His grandparents, James and Martha King, lived in Thame but his parents, on his father leaving […]
Eric has been born in 1898, the eldest of three children of Alice Beatrice (nee Farmer), and William Cox Rose Esq. a dairy farmer of Moat Farm at Ford near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. He was educated at Lord Williams’s Grammar School in Thame, where he boarded from 1909 to 1914, and where reportedly, he showed great promise. As soon […]
Stephen James Roberts was born in Clerkenwell, London on 4th January 1889 the son of Charles William and Emma R Roberts. Charles was a cooper and they lived at 6 Roberts Place, Clerkenwell. In Marylebone, in late 1907, Stephen married Maud Maria Crook of Long Crendon. Stephen had joined the Royal Artillery in 1909 and […]
Albert Horace Quainton was born on 26th March 1920 in North Weston near Thame. “Tiger”, as he was known, was the youngest child of Sidney Cecil John Quainton and Edith Eliza (née Howes). He spent his childhood years in Moreton and went to school in Thame. On leaving school he went to work at the […]