Edward William James was born in Thame, and baptised at St Mary’s Church on 25th August 1895. He was one of seven children of William and Jane Elizabeth James (nee Hunt), living in 63 Lower High Street. By the age of 15 Edward was a gardener to a local florister. Edward enlisted into the Oxford […]
Albert Henry Green was born in Highgate, London on the 20th March 1893. His father was Albert Lorenzo Green, working in the building trade, and his mother Kate Tilley Green (nee Beecher). The family moved to Thame in the 1890’s where Albert Lorenzo joined his father’s ironmongery business in 3 High Street. Albert Henry’s mother died in 1898, and […]
Frank Leslie Soanes was the youngest of eight children of James and Maria Soanes. He was born in 1898 at 7 Wellington Street, where his father was a hurdle maker and also ran the Half Moon beer house. Frank was educated at the British School in Park Street, and was a member of the Congregational […]
Louis Herbert Plested was born in 1919, the son of Sidney William Plested and Gladys (née Honor), of Shabbington, Buckinghamshire. He had a sister Gladys born in 1928. He was very popular in the village and a good sportsman, cricket being his favourite game. Before the war he was employed by Messrs R G Holland […]
Harry Eele was born in Thame in 1883, one of the nine children of William Eele and Emma (née Dorsett) living in Aylesbury Road. He became a fellmonger dealing in sheepskins and in 1904 he married Alice Clara Attwell in Thame. They lived at 11 Wellington Street* where they had six children. It is likely […]
Peter George Campion was born in the summer of 1916 to George and Lily Campion (nee Moore) of West Ealing, Middlesex, where his father was a tailor. Peter attended Lord Williams’s Grammar School, in Thame as a boarder from 1922. Leaving in 1933 and returning to live with his parents at 24 Raymond Avenue, Ealing, Middx. At the […]
Stanley James Allen was born in Thame in 1912 the son of Thomas Charles Allen and Annie Caroline (nee Waghorn) of High Street, Thame, who later moved to 29 Horton Avenue. In 1939 Stanley married Beryl Irene Jones in Cheltenham and they lived in Little Shurdington, near Cheltenham. Stanley joined the 7th Battalion, Oxon and Bucks Light […]
Born in early 1919, the son of John Beaumont and Eva Daisy (nee Lewthwaite) Neale, Douglas Beaumont Neale was killed in Egypt when flying with No 5 Middle East Training School. Douglas’s father had emigrated to Canada where he worked as an electrical engineer, and served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during WW1. Douglas and […]
Sackwell “George” Crick was born in Moreton, Thame in 1861 the son of John and Mary Crick. He served for some years in the Royal Horse Artillery and then went to Canada where he served for nine years in the Mounted Police. He proceeded to Australia in September 1912 where he was employed at the […]
Gordon Eric Smith was born in Cowley St John, Oxford in 1922. His father Cecil Benjamin Smith was a confectioner, and his mother Lizzie Maria (nee Wallin), a dressmaker. He was born into a large family, with at least ten brothers and sisters, and attended Lord Williams Grammar School in Thame between 1934 and 1938, […]