George Asplin Pask was born in Thame in Spring 1878, and was baptised at St Mary’s church Thame on the 13th March 1879. He was the second child of George and Jane Pask (nee Way), and was named Asplin after his grandmother’s maiden name. Soon after his birth the family moved to Holywell Street, Oxford where his father […]
Thomas Hayward Parrott, known as Tim, was born on 26th November 1916, the son of Walter Lawrence Parrott, part of a well-known family of solicitors in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire and his wife Katherine Mary (née Seaton). He was the second of three sons and was born in Kelerberrin, Western Australia. By the 1920s the family were living at Homefield, Oxford […]
Sidney Thomas Parker was born in 1888 in Culham, Oxfordshire where his father Joseph was the Police Constable. By 1901 the family, Joseph, his wife Susan (nee Faulkner) and their four children had moved to Tetsworth. Joseph was still at the Police Station there 10 years later. On retiring from the Police it would seem that Joseph took […]
Born in Cowley, Oxford on 8th November 1866, George Bertie Parker was the only son of George Parker (1833–1900), who for many years was Clerk of the University Schools at Oxford, and Sarah Ann Parker (née Broadhurst) (1844–1934). Educated at New College School, Oxford, and later as a boarder at Lord Williams’s Grammar School, Thame, Oxfordshire, he matriculated […]
Born in 1863 in Castle Hedingham, Essex, Albert Edward Outing lived in Cornard, Suffolk, and went to the British School, in Sudbury. Leaving school, he became an apprentice blacksmith before enlisting with the 19th (Princess Alexandra’s Own Royal) Hussars in December 1882. Appointed Shoeing Smith in 1884, by 1902 he had attained the rank of […]
Lieutenant Duncan Haldane Ostrehan was the eldest son of John Elliot Duncan Ostrehan and Alice Rebecca Ostrehan of Bank House, Cornmarket, Thame where his father was the Bank Manager from 1895 to 1920. He was born on 11th March 1891 and baptised at St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Worminghall, Bucks on 12th May 1891. […]
Harry William Oliver was born in Thame in 1889 and baptised at St Mary’s church on 25th July 1889. His parents were Amos Oliver and Elizabeth (nee Joiner) Oliver who had married at St Mary’s Church in July the previous year. They had four further children, Sydney Fred, Elise Maude, Albert James, and Emily May. […]
Private 220080, John Olieff, serving with the 2nd Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) was killed in action at the Battle of Langemarke, the second allied general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres, on 16th August 1917, aged 26. He was born in Thame in 1891, the youngest of the four children […]
Herbert John Ody was born in Cricklade Wiltshire in April 1915 to parents Herbert and Mary Ody (nee Lewis). He married Margaret Jessie Ody in Watlington, Oxfordshire in 1939, aged 23. In 1940 he was living on the High Street in Watlington, Oxfordshire. Thame Gazette: 12 May 1942. “Friends of Mr J Ody, Royal Air […]
The son of James & Annie North of 11 Church Row, Thame, Frederick James North was born on 29th December 1889 and baptised at St Mary’s Church in Thame. He took early employment as a weighbridge lad on the railway and then as a dairyman, but clearly longed to go to sea and enlisted in […]