First World War Memorial, St Margaret’s Church, Oxford

When did they die?

The worst year for St Margaret’s parish was 1916, the year conscription started. Seventeen men died that year, with three Second Lieutenants killed in action in France on the same day, 3 September 1916:

• Lionel Edens of the Royal Berkshire Regiment
• Kenneth Morland of the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
• Charles Finch Noyes of The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.

The first volunteer to die (Arthur Bradshaw) fell on 13 October 1914, while the last man to die (Charles Jones) was still in hospital in France on 27 February 1919. The numbers of identified St Margaret’s men who died each year were as follows:

1914: 3             1915: 7            1916: 17            1917: 8            1918: 9            1919: 1

The table below shows the order in which the men died, and the address which would have received the dreaded telegram. The Paynes at 78 Kingston Road lost both their sons tragically near the end of the war: on 7 and 20 October 1918.

Year	Date of death	First name(s)	Surname	Address of next of kin
1914	13 October 1914	Arthur Edwin	Bradshaw	1 Banbury Road
	24 October 1914	William Percy	Campbell	14 Rawlinson Road
	26 October 1914	Cyril Gordon	Hosking	1 Staverton Road
1915	12 March 1915	Alexander Moultrie	Wallace	16 Frenchay Road
	05 April 1915	Percival Henry	Phipps	26 Hayfield Road
	06 August 1915	Michael Ambrose	Morris	179 Woodstock Road
	09 August 1915	Herbert Augustus	Harris	170 Kingston Road
	15 September 1915	Walter	Robinson	68 Hayfield Road
	25 September 1915	John Paul Ridgway	Bridson	104 Woodstock Road
	13 October 1915	Charles Gordon	Jelf	80 Woodstock Road
1916	01 March 1916	Percy Leslie Stephen	Phipps	51 Plantation Road
	08 March 1916	Cyril Walter	Wallace	16 Frenchay Road
	04 April 1916	Charles Edward Ridgway	Bridson	194 Woodstock Road
	06 April 1916	Cyril Bryer	Lambert	16 Farndon Road
	24 May 1916	Raymond	Drew	19 Farndon Road
	29 June 1916	Leslie	Hine	59 Hayfield Road
	03 July 1916	Gilbert Sims	Gadney	199 Woodstock Road
	14 July 1916	Frederick Herbert	Emmet	161 Woodstock Road
	16 July 1916	Edward Richard Lawrence	Andrews	6 Chalfont Road
	23 July 1916	Norman	Smith	55 Kingston Road
	13 August 1916	Lewis Thierry	Seymour	251 Woodstock Road
	03 September 1916	Lionel George	Edens	81 Kingston Road
	03 September 1916	Kenneth Irvine Thomson	Morland	104 Woodstock Road
	03 September 1916	Charles William Fabin Finch	Noyes	Uncertain
	14 October 1916	Philip Spencer	Chattaway	151 Woodstock Road
	18 November 1916	Wilfred David Powell	Jones	78 Woodstock Road
	25 November 1916	Albert Frederick	Phipps	26 Hayfield Road
1917	28 February 1917	George Richard	Morris	42 Hayfield Road
	26 March 1917	Albert Edward	Colmer	64 Hayfield Road
	07 April 1917	William James	Pacey	57 Hayfield Road
	19 April 1917	Harry Olivier Sumner	Gibson	9 Lathbury Road
	07 June 1917	George Frederick	Allen	40 Hayfield Road
	21 August 1917	Arthur John	Wooldridge	37 Southmoor Road
	20 November 1917	Ernest William Noel	Thomas	89 Kingston Road
	23 December 1917	Louis Alfred	Duke	30 Southmoor Road
1918	12 March 1918	Sidney	Dunstan	76 Kingston Road
	21 March 1918	Nathaniel	Robinson	7 Hayfield Road
	25 April 1918	Arthur Hubert	Morris	70 Hayfield Road
	08 May 1918	Ronald Ernest	Bright	73 Kingston Road
	18 August 1918	Charles Victor James	Castle	23 Hayfield Road
	30 August 1918	Ronald Henry	Sampson	11 Rawlinson Road
	25 September 1918	Herbert John	Gee	3 Southmoor Road
	07 October 1918	Stuart William	Payne	78 Kingston Road
	20 October 1918	Charles Austin	Payne	78 Kingston Road
1919	27 February 1919	Charles William	Jones	46 Hayfield Road
Uncertain		Walter	Mitchell	82 Kingston Road