This memorial upstairs on the wall in Oxford Town Hall remembers the 22 officers of the Corporation of Oxford (Oxford City Council) who died in the Second World War.
Links below are to Commonwealth War Graves Commission basic information
1939 [City Coat of Arms] 1945 THIS TABLET |
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P. J. ANDREWS (19) of 49 Fairacres Road, Oxford D. J. BINT (20) of Kennington* C. J. E. BOUSTEAD (22) of Oxford (family at Eynsham) F. LE BRETON (34), originally of Canada C. G. CALCUTT (26) of Witney S. T. COOPER (22) of Kidmore End J. R. DEER (24) (family from Newport, Monmouthshire) B. FILMER (31) of 170 Divinity Road, Oxford*** E. A. GRIFFIN (19) of Headington* P. V. HEWITT (30) of 48 Leckford Road, Oxford NORA HOTCHKISS (27) of Hampshire/Westminster |
M. F. H. LLOYD (26), 110 London Road, Headington J. W. LYNES (28) of Oswestry Road, south Oxford J. A. PAINTING (29) of Oxford A. A. ROBIN (36), architect, of 36 Morrell Avenue, Oxford D. A. J. SMITH of 170 Divinity Road, Oxford*** Supply Assistant P. W. C. SMITH (19) of Abingdon J. T. THACKHAM (24) of Headington H. C. S. THOMAS (21) of Cowley J. S. TUBB F. WATERIDGE (27) of 34 Morrell Avenue, Oxford P. J. WITHERS (20) of Oxford |
* Andrews and Griffin are also remembered on the memorial at Oxford Crematorium.
Griffin has a third memorial at Lime Walk Methodist Church, Headington
** Calcutt is also remembered on the Witney War Memorial
*** Filmer and Smith were local government clerks living in the same house, and both joined the
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
All the above are in the Oxford City Roll of Honour book in St Michael-at-the Northgate Church, except for
F. Le Breton, S. T. Cooper, Nora Hotchkiss, and A. A. Robin, who presumably lived outside the city
