William Newitt was born in Kingsey, Bucks on 29th January 1891 the youngest of five children to Henry and Anne Newitt. He was well known in the district and was at one time a member of the village cricket club and also a member of the church choir. He was employed by Mr John Young […]
Charles Roy Monckton Morris was born in Thame on the 9th October 1895 to Henry William George and Anna Morris (nee Munckton), and baptised at St Marys on 20th October 1895. His father was a pharmacist who had a chemist shop at 11 High Street, Thame. Over the next few years the family moved to Charlbury, Chipping Norton […]
Ian Malcolm Keith Miller was born in Alton, Hampshire on 4th January 1915. He was the second son of Alfred Edward and Elizabeth Florence Miller (nee Nott). Alfred was a pharmacist who worked in Ramsgate, Kent for much of his life. Ian attended Chatham House School in Ramsgate where he was captain of Cricket and […]
George Miller was born in Haddenham in summer of 1888 the second son of George and Lizzie Miller of Victoria Villas, Haddenham, Bucks. Father George was a shepherd but son George was a skilled threshing engine driver. George enlisted in the Royal Engineers at Cockspur Street, London in January 1915 and on completion of his […]
Alexander Fahey McDonald, known to his friends as “Mac” was born in Trinidad in 1920. His father was Scottish, and mother of Irish descent. He was sent to England for his education at Lord Williams School, Thame, and on leaving school he went to work for the Shipbuilding Conference in London, becoming assistant to the […]
Sidney Charles Maskell-Dicker was born on 22 July 1910 in Lambeth, the son of Sidney and Dora Maskell-Dicker. His father was killed in 1915, whilst serving with the Kings Royal Rifle Corps. Living with his mother and sister Muriel in Chinnor Road, Thame, he attended Lord Williams’s Grammar School. He obtained a B.Sc. in Education […]
Douglas John Viney Lidington was born in Thame, in 1879, youngest of six children of William and Joanna Lidington. At his baptism at St Mary’s church Thame on 21st April 1879 his parents are described as licensed victuallers and in 1881 they are at the Spread Eagle Hotel in Thame. His brothers Brighton Webster Lidington […]
Edward Aubrey Lane was born in early 1892 in Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, one of 7 children to Richard and Julie Lane. By 1901 the family had moved to Thame living in Rooks Place, and then to Lower High Street. By 1911, Edward had moved to Ealing, where he was working as a compositor, and […]
Jack Archer Keene was born in Barnsley, Gloucestershire in early 1898 . His parents Frank and Sarah Archer had married in Thame in November 1891. Jack had four sisters and six brothers all born in Thame. Two of his brothers served in the Royal Navy during the war, Percy surviving but Frederick going down with HMS Pathfinder. In […]
Peter Milton Jennings was born in Little Milton, Oxfordshire in late 1915 to parents John Thomas and Eva Hannah Milton (nee Cooke). John Thomas Jennings was a grocer in Little Milton. Later Peter attended Lord William’s School in Thame from 1927 to 1932. Peter joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as NCO Aircrew (905938) in September 1939 […]